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Decrease in heliospheric magnetic flux in this solar minimum: Recent Ulysses magnetic field observations
Smith, Edward J.; Balogh, Andre
The Ulysses spacecraft has traveled from the solar equator at 1.3 and 5.3 AU to above the polar caps at 2.2 AU three times during the last 17 years and has provided measurements of the solar-heliospheric magnetic field. The open magnetic flux, i.e., the radial component, BR, multiplied by the square of the radial distance, r, is indepen…
Titan's inventory of organic surface materials
Kirk, Randolph L.; Lorenz, Ralph D.; Janssen, Michael A. +13 more
Cassini RADAR observations now permit an initial assessment of the inventory of two classes, presumed to be organic, of Titan surface materials: polar lake liquids and equatorial dune sands. Several hundred lakes or seas have been observed, of which dozens are each estimated to contain more hydrocarbon liquid than the entire known oil and gas rese…
A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems
Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A.
We consider the multiplicity of stellar systems with (combined) magnitude brighter than 6.00 in Hipparcos magnitudes. We identify 4559 such bright systems (including the Sun), and the frequencies of multiplicities 1, 2,..., 7 are found to be 2718, 1437, 285, 86, 20, 11 and 2. We discuss the uncertainties, which are substantial. We also consider th…
Subaru Weak Lensing Study of Seven Merging Clusters: Distributions of Mass and Baryons
Umetsu, Keiichi; Okabe, Nobuhiro
We present and compare projected distributions of mass, galaxies, and the intracluster medium (ICM) for a sample of merging clusters of galaxies based on a joint weak-lensing, optical photometric, and X-ray analysis. Our sample comprised seven nearby Abell clusters, for which we had conducted systematic, deep imaging observations with Suprime-Cam …
The Current Sheet Associated with the 2003 November 4 Coronal Mass Ejection: Density, Temperature, Thickness, and Line Width
Raymond, J. C.; Ciaravella, A.
In the wake of the 2003 November 4 coronal mass ejection associated with the largest solar flare of the last sunspot cycle, a current sheet (CS) was observed by the Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) as a narrow bright feature in the [Fe XVIII] (106.8 K) line. This is the first UV observation in which the CS evolution is follow…
Polarized Gamma-Ray Emission from the Crab
Hill, A. B.; Bird, A. J.; Ubertini, P. +7 more
Pulsar systems accelerate particles to immense energies. The detailed functioning of these engines is still poorly understood, but polarization measurements of high-energy radiation may allow us to locate where the particles are accelerated. We have detected polarized gamma rays from the vicinity of the Crab pulsar using data from the spectrometer…
An overview of radar soundings of the martian ionosphere from the Mars Express spacecraft
Gurnett, D. A.; Persoon, A. M.; Averkamp, T. F. +10 more
The Mars Express spacecraft carries a low-frequency radar called MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) that is designed to study the subsurface and ionosphere of Mars. In this paper, we give an overview of the ionospheric sounding results after approximately one year of operation in orbit around Mars. Several types of…
An Explanation for the Observed Weak Size Evolution of Disk Galaxies
Bell, Eric F.; Somerville, Rachel S.; Wisotzki, Lutz +14 more
Surveys of distant galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope and from the ground have shown that there is only mild evolution in the relationship between radial size and stellar mass for galactic disks from z ~ 1 to the present day. Using a sample of nearby disk-dominated galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and high-redshift data from…
LoCuSS: comparison of observed X-ray and lensing galaxy cluster scaling relations with simulations
Zhang, Y. -Y.; Finoguenov, A.; Böhringer, H. +5 more
The Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS, Smith et al.) is a systematic multi-wavelength survey of more than 100 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters in the redshift range 0.14-0.3 selected from the ROSAT All Sky Survey. We used data on 37 LoCuSS clusters from the XMM-Newton archive to investigate the global scaling relations of galaxy clusters. Th…
Probing dust grain evolution in IM Lupi's circumstellar disc. Multi-wavelength observations and modelling of the dust disc
Pinte, C.; Ménard, F.; Duchêne, G. +19 more
Aims: We present a panchromatic study, involving a multiple technique approach, of the circumstellar disc surrounding the T Tauri star IM Lupi (Sz 82).
Methods: We have undertaken a comprehensive observational study of IM Lupi using photometry, spectroscopy, millimetre interferometry and multi-wavelength imaging. For the first time, the disc i…