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A Double White-dwarf Cooling Sequence in ω Centauri
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/769/2/L32 Bibcode: 2013ApJ...769L..32B

Salaris, M.; Anderson, J.; Bergeron, P. +4 more

We have applied our empirical-point-spread-function-based photometric techniques on a large number of calibration-related WFC3/UVIS UV-B exposures of the core of ω Cen, and found a well-defined split in the bright part of the white-dwarf cooling sequence (WDCS). The redder sequence is more populated by a factor of ~2. We can explain the separation…

2013 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 42
Diagnosing the Time Dependence of Active Region Core Heating from the Emission Measure. II. Nanoflare Trains
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/764/2/193 Bibcode: 2013ApJ...764..193R

Klimchuk, J. A.; Reep, J. W.; Bradshaw, S. J.

The time dependence of heating in solar active regions can be studied by analyzing the slope of the emission measure distribution coolward of the peak. In a previous study we showed that low-frequency heating can account for 0% to 77% of active region core emission measures. We now turn our attention to heating by a finite succession of impulsive …

2013 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 42
SPT 0538-50: Physical Conditions in the Interstellar Medium of a Strongly Lensed Dusty Star-forming Galaxy at z = 2.8
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/779/1/67 Bibcode: 2013ApJ...779...67B

Bock, J. J.; Ibar, E.; Murphy, E. J. +38 more

We present observations of SPT-S J053816-5030.8, a gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxy (DSFG) at z = 2.7817 that was first discovered at millimeter wavelengths by the South Pole Telescope. SPT 0538-50 is typical of the brightest sources found by wide-field millimeter-wavelength surveys, being lensed by an intervening galaxy at moderat…

2013 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel eHST 42
The 69 µm forsterite band in spectra of protoplanetary disks. Results from the Herschel DIGIT programme
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220243 Bibcode: 2013A&A...553A...5S

Waters, L. B. F. M.; Dominik, C.; Henning, Th. +13 more

Context. We have analysed far-infrared spectra of 32 circumstellar disks around Herbig Ae/Be and T Tauri stars obtained within the Herschel key programme Dust, Ice and Gas in Time (DIGIT). The spectra were taken with the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) on board the Herschel Space Observatory. In this paper we focus on the detect…

2013 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 42
Comparison of Ground-Based and Space-Based Longitudinal Magnetograms
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-012-0138-y Bibcode: 2013SoPh..282...91P

Bertello, L.; Pevtsov, A. A.; Pietarila, A. +1 more

We compare photospheric line-of-sight magnetograms from the Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS) Vector Spectro-Magnetograph (VSM) instrument with observations from the 150-foot Solar Tower at Mt. Wilson Observatory (MWO), the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), and the Michelson …

2013 Solar Physics
SOHO 42
Very Large Array Mapping of the CO(1-0) Line in SMM J14011+0252
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/765/1/6 Bibcode: 2013ApJ...765....6S

Baker, Andrew J.; Harris, Andrew I.; Sharon, Chelsea E. +1 more

We present high-resolution CO(1-0) observations of the lensed submillimeter galaxy (SMG) SMM J14011+0252 at z = 2.6. Comparison to the previously detected CO(3-2) line gives an intensity ratio of r 3, 1 = 0.97 ± 0.16 in temperature units, larger than is typical for SMGs but within the range seen in the low-z ultraluminous infrared galax…

2013 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 42
Dynamics of the solar atmosphere above a pore with a light bridge
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322148 Bibcode: 2013A&A...560A..84S

Heinzel, P.; Jurčák, J.; Berrilli, F. +3 more

Context. Solar pores are small sunspots lacking a penumbra that have a prevailing vertical magnetic-field component. They can include light bridges at places with locally reduced magnetic field. Like sunspots, they exhibit a wide range of oscillatory phenomena.
Aims: A large isolated pore with a light bridge (NOAA 11005) is studied to obtain …

2013 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hinode 42
Homologous Flux Ropes Observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory Atmospheric Imaging Assembly
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/778/2/L29 Bibcode: 2013ApJ...778L..29L

Li, Ting; Zhang, Jun

We present the first Solar Dynamics Observatory observations of four homologous flux ropes in the active region (AR) 11745 on 2013 May 20-22. The four flux ropes are all above the neutral line of the AR, with endpoints anchoring at the same region, and have a generally similar morphology. The first three flux ropes rose with a velocity of less tha…

2013 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 42
Simulations of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 3376
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt127 Bibcode: 2013MNRAS.430.3249M

Lima Neto, Gastão B.; Machado, Rubens E. G.

Observed galaxy clusters often exhibit X-ray morphologies suggestive of recent interaction with an infalling subcluster. A3376 is a nearby (z = 0.046) massive galaxy cluster whose bullet-shaped X-ray emission indicates that it may have undergone a recent collision. It displays a pair of Mpc-scale radio relics and its brightest cluster galaxy is lo…

2013 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 42
An examination of the spectral variability in NGC 1365 with Suzaku
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sts555 Bibcode: 2013MNRAS.429.2662B

Elvis, M.; Nardini, E.; Brenneman, L. W. +1 more

We present jointly analysed data from three deep Suzaku observations of NGC 1365. These high-signal-to-noise spectra enable us to examine the nature of this variable, obscured active galactic nucleus (AGN) in unprecedented detail on time-scales ranging from hours to years. We find that in addition to the power-law continuum and absorption from ion…

2013 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Suzaku 42