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Water Production Rate of C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) from SOHO/SWAN over Its Active Apparition
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/abd698 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...907L..38C

Bertaux, J. -L.; Combi, M. R.; Quémerais, E. +2 more

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was discovered in images from the Near Earth Object program of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) taken on 2020 March 27 and has become the Great Comet of 2020. The Solar Wind ANisotropies (SWAN) camera on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, located in a halo orbit around the Earth-Sun L1 La…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 5
Correlation of the Sunspot Number and the Waiting-time Distribution of Solar Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections, and Solar Wind Switchback Events Observed with the Parker Solar Probe
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abef69 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...912...94A

Dudok de Wit, Thierry; Aschwanden, Markus J.

Waiting-time distributions of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) exhibit power-law-like distribution functions with slopes in the range of ατ ≈ 1.4-3.2, as observed in annual data sets during four solar cycles (1974-2012). We find a close correlation between the waiting-time power-law slope ατ and the sunspot numb…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 5
Shock-wave Radio Probing of Solar Wind Sources in Coronal Magnetic Fields
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2f3f Bibcode: 2021ApJ...923..255K

Koval, Artem; Stanislavsky, Aleksander; Wang, Bing +3 more

The space weather effects in the near-Earth environment as well as in atmospheres of other terrestrial planets arise by corpuscular radiation from the Sun, known as the solar wind. The solar magnetic fields govern the solar corona structure. Magnetic-field strength values in the solar wind sources-key information for modeling and forecasting the s…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 5
Simultaneous Observation of an Auroral Dawn Storm With the Hubble Space Telescope and Juno
DOI: 10.1029/2020JA028717 Bibcode: 2021JGRA..12628717S

Wilson, R. J.; Kurth, W. S.; Bagenal, F. +7 more

On July 13, 2016, the Hubble Space Telescope observed the onset of a dawn storm in Jupiter's northern ultraviolet aurora, while the NASA Juno spacecraft simultaneously traversed the dawnside outer magnetosphere. This represents the first concurrent auroral and in situ magnetospheric observations of the onset of a dawn storm at Jupiter. Mapping the…

2021 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
eHST 5
New precise positions in 2013-2019 and a catalog of ground-based astrometric observations of 11 Neptunian satellites (1847-2019) based on Gaia-DR2
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038776 Bibcode: 2021A&A...645A..48Y

Ren, Shulin; Fu, Yanning; Yuan, Ye +1 more

Context. Developing high-precision ephemerides for Neptunian satellites requires not only the continuation of observing campaigns but also the collection and improvement of existing observations. So far, no complete catalogs of observations of Neptunian satellites are available.
Aims: We aim to provide new, precise positions, and to compile a…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 5
Over-expansion of a coronal mass ejection generates sub-Alfvénic plasma conditions in the solar wind at Earth
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039867 Bibcode: 2021A&A...647A.149C

Schmieder, B.; Poedts, S.; Démoulin, P. +4 more

Context. From May 24-25, 2002, four spacecraft located in the solar wind at about 1 astronomical unit (au) measured plasma densities one to two orders of magnitude lower than usual. The density was so low that the flow became sub-Alfvénic for four hours, and the Alfvén Mach number was as low as 0.4. Consequently, the Earth lost its bow shock, and …

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 5
Ultrafaint [C II] Emission in a Redshift = 2 Gravitationally Lensed Metal-poor Dwarf Galaxy
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abd946 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...909..130R

Walter, F.; van der Wel, A.; Groves, B. +13 more

Extreme emission-line galaxies (EELGs) at redshift z = 1-2 provide a unique view of metal-poor, starburst sources that are the likely drivers of the cosmic reionization at z ≥ 6. However, the molecular gas reservoirs of EELGs—the fuel for their intense star formation—remain beyond the reach of current facilities. We present ALMA [C II] and PdBI CO…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 5
Boyajian's Star B: The Co-moving Companion to KIC 8462852 A
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abdd33 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...909..216P

Huber, Daniel; Dupuy, Trent J.; Kraus, Adam L. +2 more

The light curve of KIC 8462852, aka Boyajian's Star, undergoes deep dips the origin of which remains unclear. A faint star ≈2″ to the east was discovered in Keck/NIRC2 imaging in Boyajian et al., but its status as a binary, and possible contribution to the observed variability, was unclear. Here, we use three epochs of Keck/NIRC2 imaging, spanning…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 5
Use of the DBM Model to the Predict of Arrival of Coronal Mass Ejections to the Earth
DOI: 10.1134/S001095252104002X Bibcode: 2021CosRe..59..268K

Kaportseva, K. B.; Shugay, Yu. S.

This paper analyzes the results of modeling coronal mass ejection (CME) propagation in 2010-2011 obtained using input data from different sources: CME catalogs SEEDS and CACTus, and predictions of the velocity of quasi-stationary solar wind fluxes, as an environment, through which CMEs propagate. As the model of quasi-stationary solar wind fluxes,…

2021 Cosmic Research
SOHO 5
Plasma Upflows Induced by Magnetic Reconnection Above an Eruptive Flux Rope
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-021-01849-7 Bibcode: 2021SoPh..296..103B

Long, David M.; Janvier, Miho; Brooks, David H. +6 more

One of the major discoveries of Hinode's Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) is the presence of upflows at the edges of active regions. As active regions are magnetically connected to the large-scale field of the corona, these upflows are a likely contributor to the global mass cycle in the corona. Here we examine the driving mechanism(…

2021 Solar Physics
Hinode SOHO 5