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67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's dust activity from pre- to post-perihelion as detected by Rosetta/GIADA
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1464 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.496..125L

Fulle, M.; Güttler, C.; Tubiana, C. +18 more

We characterized the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's dust activity, by analysing individual dust particle velocity and momentum measurements of Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (GIADA), the dust detector onboard the ESA/Rosetta spacecraft, collecting dust from tens to hundreds of kilometres from the nucleus. Specifically, we developed a proc…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosetta 16
On the Relation between the Hard X-Ray Photon Index and Accretion Rate for Super-Eddington Accreting Quasars
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab9019 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...895..114H

Luo, Bin; Huang, Jian; Du, Pu +3 more

We investigate whether the correlation between the hard X-ray photon index ( ${\rm{\Gamma }}$ ) and accretion rate for super-Eddington accreting quasars is different from that for sub-Eddington accreting quasars. We construct a sample of 113 bright quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 14 quasar catalog, with 38 quasars as the sup…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 16
ROSINA ion zoo at Comet 67P
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936775 Bibcode: 2020A&A...642A..27B

Altwegg, K.; Balsiger, H.; Fuselier, S. A. +9 more

Context. The Rosetta spacecraft escorted Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for 2 yr along its journey through the Solar System between 3.8 and 1.24 au. Thanks to the high resolution mass spectrometer on board Rosetta, the detailed ion composition within a coma has been accurately assessed in situ for the very first time.
Aims: Previous cometary…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Rosetta 16
A broad-band X-ray spectral study of the Seyfert 1 galaxy ESO 141-G055 with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2259 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.497.4213G

Laha, Sibasish; Ghosh, Ritesh

We have extensively studied the broad--band X-ray spectra of the source ESO 141-G055 using all available XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations. We detect a prominent soft excess below $2\rm \, \, {\rm keV}$ , a narrow Fe line, and a Compton hump ( $\gt 10\rm \, \, {\rm keV}$ ). The origin of the soft excess is still debated. We used two models to des…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 16
Environmental processing in cluster core galaxies at z = 1.7
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201937155 Bibcode: 2020A&A...635L..10C

Castignani, G.; Combes, F.; Salomé, P.

Today, the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) are passive and very massive galaxies at the center of their clusters, and they still accrete mass through swallowing companions and gas from cooling flows. However their formation history is not well known. We report CO(4→3) and continuum map observations of the SpARCS1049+56 BCG at z = 1.709, one of t…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 16
Galaxy and mass assembly: luminosity and stellar mass functions in GAMA groups
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2889 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.499..631V

Wang, L.; Brough, S.; Holwerda, B. W. +14 more

How do galaxy properties (such as stellar mass, luminosity, star formation rate, and morphology) and their evolution depend on the mass of their host dark matter halo? Using the Galaxy and Mass Assembly group catalogue, we address this question by exploring the dependence on host halo mass of the luminosity function (LF) and stellar mass function …

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 15
Steady Wind-blown Cavities within Infalling Rotating Envelopes: Application to the Broad Velocity Component in Young Protostars
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aba830 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...900...15L

Johnstone, Doug; Cabrit, Sylvie; Kristensen, Lars E. +1 more

Wind-driven outflows are observed around a broad range of accreting objects throughout the universe, ranging from forming low-mass stars to supermassive black holes. We study the interaction between a central isotropic wind and an infalling, rotating envelope, which determines the steady-state cavity shape formed at their interface under the assum…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 15
A Small-scale Filament Eruption Inducing a Moreton Wave, an EUV Wave, and a Coronal Mass Ejection
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab8565 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...894...30W

Xue, Zhike; Yan, Xiaoli; Wang, Jincheng +3 more

With the launch of the Solar Dynamic Observatory, many extreme ultraviolet (EUV) waves have been observed during solar eruptions. However, joint observations of Moreton and EUV waves are still relatively rare. We present an event in active region NOAA 12740 wherein a small-scale filament eruption simultaneously results in a Moreton wave, an EUV wa…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 15
Ganymede's Far-Ultraviolet Reflectance: Constraining Impurities in the Surface Ice
DOI: 10.1029/2020JE006476 Bibcode: 2020JGRE..12506476M

Nichols, J. D.; Raut, U.; Retherford, K. D. +2 more

We present reflectance spectra of Ganymede's leading and trailing hemispheres in the wavelength range 138-215 nm, obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (HST/COS) in 2014. The most notable feature of both spectra is the absence of a sharp water absorption edge at ~165 nm, seen in laboratory measurements of ice reflectiv…

2020 Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets)
eHST 15
Cloud Atlas: High-precision HST/WFC3/IR Time-resolved Observations of Directly Imaged Exoplanet HD 106906b
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f65 Bibcode: 2020AJ....159..140Z

Schneider, Glenn; Metchev, Stanimir; Apai, Dániel +10 more

HD 106906b is an $\sim 11{M}_{\mathrm{Jup}}, ∼15 Myr old directly imaged exoplanet orbiting at an extremely large distance from its host star. The wide separation (7"11) between HD 106906b and its host star greatly reduces the difficulty in direct-imaging observations, making it one of the most favorable directly imaged exoplanets for detailed cha…

2020 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia eHST 15