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The injection of ten electron/3He-rich SEP events
Krucker, Säm; Li, Gang; Mason, Glenn M. +2 more
We have derived the particle injections at the Sun for ten good electron/3He-rich solar energetic particle (SEP) events, using a 1.2 AU particle path length (suggested by analysis of the velocity dispersion). The inferred solar injections of high-energy (~10 to 300 keV) electrons and of ~MeV/nucleon ions (carbon and heavier) start with …
Height formation of bright points observed by IRIS in Mg II line wings during flux emergence
Heinzel, P.; Schmieder, B.; Berlicki, A. +3 more
Context. A flux emergence in the active region AR 111850 was observed on September 24, 2013 with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Many bright points are associated with the new emerging flux and show enhancement brightening in the UV spectra.
Aims: The aim of this work is to compute the altitude formation of the compact brigh…
Gravitational torques imply molecular gas inflow towards the nucleus of M 51
Meidt, S. E.; Schinnerer, E.; Leroy, A. K. +10 more
The transport of gas towards the centre of galaxies is critical for black hole feeding and, indirectly, it can control active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback. We have quantified the molecular gas inflow in the central R< 1 kpc of M 51 to be 1 M⊙/yr, using a new gravitational torque map and the molecular gas traced by the Plateau de B…
Discovery of a faint, star-forming, multiply lensed, Lyman-α blob
Grillo, C.; Balestra, I.; Rosati, P. +7 more
We report the discovery of a multiply lensed Lyman-α blob (LAB) behind the galaxy cluster AS1063 using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The background source is at z = 3.117 and is intrinsically faint compared to almost all previously reported LABs. We used our highly precise strong lensing model to r…
Discovery of an exceptionally bright giant arc at z = 2.369, gravitationally lensed by the Planck cluster PSZ1 G311.65-18.48
Kneissl, R.; Dahle, H.; Aghanim, N. +14 more
As part of an all-sky follow-up of the Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) cluster candidates detected in the first 14 months of data, we are observing cluster candidates in the southern sky in the optical imaging and spectroscopy through an ESO Large Programme. Inspection of ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT) R-and z-band imaging data from…
Dust emissivity in the star-forming filament OMC 2/3
Di Francesco, J.; Sadavoy, S. I.; Stutz, A. M. +3 more
We present new measurements of the dust emissivity index, β, for the high-mass, star-forming OMC 2/3 filament. We combined 160-500 µm data from Herschel with long-wavelength observations at 2 mm and fit the spectral energy distributions across a ≃2 pc long, continuous section of OMC 2/3 at 15 000 AU (0.08 pc) resolution. With these data, we …
First evidence of non-Gaussian solar flare EUV spectral line profiles and accelerated non-thermal ion motion
Fletcher, Lyndsay; Jeffrey, Natasha L. S.; Labrosse, Nicolas
Context. The properties of solar flare plasma can be determined from the observation of optically thin lines. The emitting ion distribution determines the shape of the spectral line profile, with an isothermal Maxwellian ion distribution producing a Gaussian profile. Non-Gaussian line profiles may indicate more complex ion distributions.
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Planck intermediate results. XLIII. Spectral energy distribution of dust in clusters of galaxies
Kneissl, R.; Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Planck Collaboration +179 more
Although infrared (IR) overall dust emission from clusters of galaxies has been statistically detected using data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), it has not been possible to sample the spectral energy distribution (SED) of this emission over its peak, and thus to break the degeneracy between dust temperature and mass. By complemen…
The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. IX. Populating the brown dwarf desert
Bouchy, F.; Deleuil, M.; Moutou, C. +20 more
Radial velocity planet search surveys of nearby solar-type stars have shown a strong scarcity of brown dwarf companions within ~5 AU. There is presently no comprehensive explanation for this lack of brown dwarf companions; therefore, increasing the sample of such objects is crucial to understand their formation and evolution. Based on precise radi…
Discovery of a fast, broad, transient outflow in NGC 985
Kaastra, J. S.; Kriss, G. A.; Ebrero, J. +1 more
Aims: We observed the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 985 on several occasions to search for variability in its UV and X-ray absorption features to establish their location and physical properties.
Methods: We used XMM-Newton to obtain X-ray spectra using the EPIC-pn camera, and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (H…