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Macrospicules and blinkers as seen in Shutterless EIT 304 Å
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200600024 Bibcode: 2006A&A...452L..11M

Doyle, J. G.; Madjarska, M. S.; Hochedez, J. -F. +1 more

Aims.Small-scale transient phenomena in the solar atmosphere are believed to play a crucial role in the coronal heating and solar wind generation. This study aims at providing new observational evidence on blinkers and macrospicules appearance in imager data and in doing so, establish the long disputed relationship between these phenomena.
Met…

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 13
Effervescent heating: constraints from nearby cooling flow clusters observed with XMM-Newton
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054365 Bibcode: 2006A&A...453..423P

Kaastra, J. S.; Piffaretti, R.

Aims.We have used deprojected radial density and temperature profiles of a sample of 16 nearby CF clusters observed with XMM-Newton to test whether the effervescent heating model can satisfactorily explain the dynamics of CF clusters.
Methods.For each cluster we derived the required extra heating as a function of cluster-centric distance for va…

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 12
The weak INTEGRAL bursts GRB 040223 and GRB 040624: an emerging population of dark afterglows
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054072 Bibcode: 2006A&A...448..971F

Covino, S.; D'Avanzo, P.; Campana, S. +18 more

We report here γ-ray, X-ray and near-infrared observations of GRB 040223 along with γ-ray and optical observations of GRB 040624. GRB 040223 was detected by INTEGRAL close to the Galactic plane and GRB 040624 at high Galactic latitude. Analyses of the prompt emission detec…

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
INTEGRAL XMM-Newton 12
Short-term changes in the belt/zone structure of Saturn's Southern Hemisphere (1996-2004)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20065972 Bibcode: 2006A&A...460..641P

Sánchez-Lavega, A.; Pérez-Hoyos, S.; French, R. G.

Aims.The main goal of this paper is to study the reflectivity changes that affect Saturn's global belt/zone pattern on time-scales from weeks to a few months, and to determine their frequency and intensity, as well as the variations of the vertical cloud structure that cause such changes.
Methods: .We have used 177 images from Hubble Space Tel…

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 12
The dark clump near Abell 1942: dark matter halo or statistical fluke?
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20052733 Bibcode: 2006A&A...454...37V

Castander, F. J.; von der Linden, A.; Schneider, P. +1 more

Using HST WFPC2 mosaic imaging, deep Chandra observations, and the

original CFHT imaging, we investigate the case for the dark clump candidate originally presented by (Erben et al. 2000, A&A, 355, 23). We show that the original detection is well reproducible in the CFHT data, and can confirm the presence of an alignment signal at the dark…

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 12
EIT and TRACE responses to flare plasma
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20066481 Bibcode: 2006A&A...460L..53T

Mason, H. E.; Del Zanna, G.; Tripathi, D. +1 more

Aims.To understand the contribution of active region and flare plasmas to the λ195 channels of SOHO/EIT (Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) and TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer).
Methods: .We have analysed an M8 flare simultaneously observed by the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS), EIT, TRACE and RHESSI. We obtained synth…

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 11
First broad band study of the mysterious source 1E 1743.1-2843
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20065029 Bibcode: 2006A&A...456.1105D

Sidoli, L.; Ubertini, P.; Bazzano, A. +4 more

Context: .In the last years, the persistent source 1E 1743.1-2843 has been observed in the X-rays, but never above 20 keV. In previous works, it was stressed that a possible high energy emission could give further indications on the accreting object nature which remains still unknown.
Aims: .We present here more than two years of 1E 1743.1-284…

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
INTEGRAL XMM-Newton 11
Neoclassical bootstrap current in solar plasma loops
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054055 Bibcode: 2006A&A...453..321T

Huang, G. -L.; Tan, B. -L.

From the similarities in magnetic configurations and plasma behaviors between tokamaks and solar current-carrying plasma loops, we apply the theory of neoclassical bootstrap current in tokamaks to the solar plasma loops. We present a simplified expression of the bootstrap current in the solar plasma loops and find that there may be a considerable …

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 11
The magnetic Bp star 36 Lyncis. II. A spectroscopic analysis of its co-rotating disk
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054760 Bibcode: 2006A&A...458..581S

Smith, M. A.; Wade, G. A.; Bohlender, D. A. +1 more

We report on the physical properties of the disk-like structure of B8 IIIp star 36 Lyncis from line syntheses of phase-resolved, high resolution spectra obtained from the International Ultraviolet Explorer archives and from newly obtained ground-based spectra of the Hα absorption profile. This disk is highly inclined to the rotational axis and bet…

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
IUE 11
A prominent relativistic iron line in the Seyfert 1 MCG-02-14-009
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200500214 Bibcode: 2006A&A...445L...5P

Porquet, D.

I report the discovery of a prominent broad and asymmetrical feature near 6.4 keV in the Seyfert 1 MCG-02-14-009 (z=0.028) with XMM-Newton/EPIC. The present short X-ray observation (PN net exposure time ~5 ks) is the first one above 2 keV for MCG-02-14-009. The feature can be explained by either a relativistic iron line around e…

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 11