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Dynamics of Coronal Bright Points as Seen by Sun Watcher Using Active Pixel System Detector and Image Processing (SWAP), Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI)
Banerjee, D.; Krishna Prasad, S.; Ravindra, B. +2 more
The Sun Watcher using Active Pixel system detector and Image Processing (SWAP) onboard the PRoject for OnBoard Autonomy-2 (PROBA2) spacecraft provides images of the solar corona in EUV channel centered at 174 Å. These data, together with the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard Solar Dynamics Ob…
Impact of tidal heating on the onset of convection in Enceladus’s ice shell
Čadek, Ondřej; Tobie, Gabriel; Běhounková, Marie +1 more
By performing 3D simulations of thermal convection and tidal dissipation, we investigated the effect of tidal heating on the onset of convection in Enceladus’s ice shell. We considered a composite non-Newtonian rheology including diffusion, grain-size-sensitive and dislocation creeps, and we defined an effective tidal viscosity reproducing the dis…
Links between the plasmapause and the radiation belt boundaries as observed by the instruments CIS, RAPID, and WHISPER onboard Cluster
Cabrera, J.; Lointier, G.; Pierrard, V. +5 more
In the present work, we study the relations between the position of the plasmapause and the position of the radiation belt boundaries. The Cluster mission offers the exceptional opportunity to analyze those different regions of the inner magnetosphere with identical sensors on multiple spacecraft. We compare the positions of the radiation belt edg…
Spectral Signatures of Penumbral Transients
Katsukawa, Y.; Tritschler, A.; Reardon, K.
In this work we investigate the properties of penumbral transients observed in the upper photospheric and chromospheric region above a sunspot penumbra using two-dimensional spectroscopic observations of the Ca II 854.21 nm line with a 5 s cadence. In our 30 minutes of observations, we identify several penumbral-micro jets (PMJs) with cotemporal o…
Heliolatitudinal and time variations of the solar wind mass flux: Inferences from the backscattered solar Lyman-alpha intensity maps
Quemerais, E.; Sokół, J. M.; Katushkina, O. A. +1 more
Recently Sokół et al. (2012) have presented a reconstruction of heliolatitudinal and time variations of the solar wind speed and density. Method of the reconstruction was based on the following: (i) measurements of the interplanetary scintillations, (ii) OMNI-2 solar wind data in the ecliptic plane, and (iii) Ulysses solar wind data out of the ecl…
The Snapshot Hubble U-band Cluster Survey (SHUCS). I. Survey Description and First Application to the Mixed Star Cluster Population of NGC 4041
Bastian, N.; Larsen, S. S.; Gallagher, J. S. +9 more
We present the Snapshot Hubble U-band Cluster Survey (SHUCS), a project aimed at characterizing the star cluster populations of 10 nearby galaxies (d < 23 Mpc, half within ≈12 Mpc) through new F336W (U-band equivalent) imaging from Wide Field Camera 3, and archival BVI-equivalent data with the Hubble Space Telescope. Completing the UBVI baselin…
MeV dark matter in the 3+1+1 model
Nelson, Ann E.; Huang, Jinrui
The existence of light sterile neutrinos in the eV mass range with relatively large mixing angles with the active neutrinos has been proposed for a variety of reasons, including to improve the fit to the LSND and MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation experiments, and reactor disappearance experiments. A. E. Nelson [Phys. Rev. D 84, 053001 (2011)] showed …
Discovery of Molecular Hydrogen in White Dwarf Atmospheres
Koester, D.; Zuckerman, B.; Xu, S. +2 more
With the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope, we have detected molecular hydrogen in the atmospheres of three white dwarfs with effective temperatures below 14,000 K, G29-38, GD 133, and GD 31. This discovery provides new independent constraints on the stellar temperature and surface gravity of white dwarfs.
Kinematics and excitation of the nuclear spiral in the active galaxy Arp 102B
Robinson, Andrew; Axon, David J.; Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa +3 more
We present a two-dimensional analysis of the gaseous excitation and kinematics of the inner 2.5 × 1.7 kpc2 of the low-ionization nuclear emission-line region (LINER)/Seyfert 1 galaxy Arp 102B, from optical spectra obtained with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph Integral Field Unit on the Gemini North telescope at a spatial resolution…
Mars surface phase function constrained by orbital observations
Vincendon, Mathieu
The bidirectional photometric properties of the surface of Mars describe how remote measurements of surface reflectance can be linked to hemispherical albedo used for energy balance calculations. A simple Lambert's law is frequently assumed for global data processing, even though several local studies have revealed the complexity of Mars surface p…