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The Third Gravitational Lensing Accuracy Testing (GREAT3) Challenge Handbook
Schrabback, Tim; Miyatake, Hironao; Leauthaud, Alexie +28 more
The GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 3 (GREAT3) challenge is the third in a series of image analysis challenges, with a goal of testing and facilitating the development of methods for analyzing astronomical images that will be used to measure weak gravitational lensing. This measurement requires extremely precise estimation of very small gal…
Effective field theory of cosmic acceleration: Constraining dark energy with CMB data
Frusciante, Noemi; Hu, Bin; Raveri, Marco +1 more
We introduce EFTCAMB/EFTCosmoMC as publicly available patches to the commonly used camb/CosmoMC codes. We briefly describe the structure of the codes, their applicability and main features. To illustrate the use of these patches, we obtain constraints on parametrized pure effective field theory and designer f(R) models, both on ΛCDM and wCDM backg…
Nuclear star clusters in 228 spiral galaxies in the HST/WFPC2 archive: catalogue and comparison to other stellar systems
Böker, Torsten; Georgiev, Iskren Y.
We present a catalogue of photometric and structural properties of 228 nuclear star clusters (NSCs) in nearby late-type disc galaxies. These new measurements are derived from a homogeneous analysis of all suitable Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) images in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive. The luminosity and size of each NSC are deriv…
Hubble Space Telescope spectra of the Type Ia supernova SN 2011fe: a tail of low-density, high-velocity material with Z < Z⊙
Gal-Yam, A.; Sullivan, M.; Nugent, P. E. +9 more
Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopic observations of the nearby Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) SN 2011fe, taken on 10 epochs from -13.1 to +40.8 d relative to B-band maximum light, and spanning the far-ultraviolet (UV) to the near-infrared (IR) are presented. This spectroscopic coverage makes SN 2011fe the best-studied local SN Ia to date. SN 2011fe is…
Star Formation Relations and CO Spectral Line Energy Distributions across the J-ladder and Redshift
Veilleux, S.; Armus, L.; Greve, T. R. +19 more
We present FIR [50-300 µm]-CO luminosity relations (i.e., log L_FIR = α log L\prime _CO + β) for the full CO rotational ladder from J = 1-0 up to J = 13-12 for a sample of 62 local (z <= 0.1) (Ultra) Luminous Infrared Galaxies (LIRGs; L IR[8-1000 µm] > 1011 L ⊙) using data from Herschel…
The magnetic field in the solar atmosphere
Solanki, Sami K.; Wiegelmann, Thomas; Thalmann, Julia K.
This publication provides an overview of magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere with the focus lying on the corona. The solar magnetic field couples the solar interior with the visible surface of the Sun and with its atmosphere. It is also responsible for all solar activity in its numerous manifestations. Thus, dynamic phenomena such as coronal m…
Constraints on 3.55 keV line emission from stacked observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Eckert, D.; Malyshev, D.; Neronov, A.
Several recent works have reported the detection of an unidentified x-ray line at 3.55 keV, which could possibly be attributed to the decay of dark matter (DM) particles in the halos of galaxy clusters and in the M31 galaxy. We analyze all publicly available XMM-Newton satellite data of dwarf spheroidal galaxies to test the possible DM origin of t…
Planck 2013 results. XVIII. The gravitational lensing-infrared background correlation
Kneissl, R.; Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Boulanger, F. +224 more
The multi-frequency capability of the Planck satellite provides information both on the integrated history of star formation (via the cosmic infrared background, or CIB) and on the distribution of dark matter (via the lensing effect on the cosmic microwave background, or CMB). The conjunction of these two unique probes allows us to measure directl…
1SXPS: A Deep Swift X-Ray Telescope Point Source Catalog with Light Curves and Spectra
Tagliaferri, G.; Gehrels, N.; Pagani, C. +9 more
We present the 1SXPS (Swift-XRT point source) catalog of 151,524 X-ray point sources detected by the Swift-XRT in 8 yr of operation. The catalog covers 1905 deg2 distributed approximately uniformly on the sky. We analyze the data in two ways. First we consider all observations individually, for which we have a typical sensitivity of ~3 …
The COS/UVES Absorption Survey of the Magellanic Stream. III. Ionization, Total Mass, and Inflow Rate onto the Milky Way
Richter, Philipp; Charlton, Jane C.; Kumari, Nimisha +14 more
Dynamic interactions between the two Magellanic Clouds have flung large quantities of gas into the halo of the Milky Way. The result is a spectacular arrangement of gaseous structures, including the Magellanic Stream, the Magellanic Bridge, and the Leading Arm (collectively referred to as the Magellanic System). In this third paper of a series stu…