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Magnetic Energy Balance in the Quiet Sun on Supergranular Spatial and Temporal Scales
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abbb36 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...904....7G

Consolini, Giuseppe; Berrilli, Francesco; Del Moro, Dario +1 more

Small-scale magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the quiet solar photosphere and may store and transfer huge amounts of energy to the upper atmospheric layers. For this reason, it is fundamental to constrain the energetics of the quiet Sun. By taking advantage of a 24 hr long magnetogram time series acquired by the Hinode mission without interruption…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 6
Hot Atmospheres of Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters of Galaxies
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38509-5_10 Bibcode: 2020rfma.book..279K

Werner, Norbert; Mernier, François

Most of the ordinary matter in the local Universe has not been converted into stars but resides in a largely unexplored diffuse, hot, X-ray emitting plasma. It pervades the gravitational potentials of massive galaxies, groups and clusters of galaxies, as well as the filaments of the cosmic web. The physics of this hot medium, such as its dynamics,…

2020 Reviews in Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics; From Space Debris to Cosmology
XMM-Newton 6
Porosity gradients as a means of driving lateral flows at cometary surfaces
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2019.104752 Bibcode: 2020P&SS..18004752C

Thomas, Nicolas; Christou, Chariton; Dadzie, S. Kokou +1 more

The Rosetta spacecraft has provided invaluable and unexpected information about cometary outgassing. The on-board instruments ROSINA, MIRO, and VIRTIS showed non-uniform outgassing of H2O over the surface of the nucleus. Rarefied gas flows display remarkable flow phenomena that may help explain diverse physical observations and models h…

2020 Planetary and Space Science
Rosetta 6
Secondary-electron radiation accompanying hadronic GeV-TeV gamma-rays from supernova remnants
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa019 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.492.4246H

Wang, Wei; Li, Zhuo; Huang, Yan +1 more

The synchrotron radiation from secondary electrons and positrons (SEPs) generated by hadronic interactions in the shock of supernova remnant (SNR) could be a distinct evidence of cosmic ray (CR) production in SNR shocks. Here, we provide a method where the observed gamma-ray flux from SNRs, created by pion decays, is directly used to derive the SE…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
INTEGRAL 6
Migration jumps of planets in transition discs
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038311 Bibcode: 2020A&A...643A..87R

Rometsch, Thomas; Rodenkirch, Peter J.; Kley, Wilhelm +1 more

Context. Transition discs form a special class of protoplanetary discs that are characterised by a deficiency of disc material close to the star. In a subgroup, inner holes in these discs can stretch out to a few tens of au while there is still mass accretion onto the central star observed at the same time.
Aims: We analyse the proposition th…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 6
A Comprehensive Study of Hα Emitters at z ∼ 0.62 in the DAWN Survey: The Need for Deep and Wide Regions
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7015 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...892...30H

Finkelstein, Steven L.; Mobasher, Bahram; Zheng, Zhen-Ya +19 more

We present new estimates of the luminosity function (LF) and star formation rate density (SFRD) for an Hα-selected sample at z ∼ 0.62 from the Deep And Wide Narrow-band (DAWN) survey. Our results are based on a new Hα sample in the extended COSMOS region (compared to Coughlin et al.) with the inclusion of flanking fields, resulting in a total area…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 6
Evolution of MAXI J1631-479 during the January 2019 outburst observed by INTEGRAL/IBIS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa068 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.492.3657F

Masetti, N.; Charles, P. A.; Bird, A. J. +8 more

We report on a recent bright outburst from the new X-ray binary transient MAXI J1631-479, observed in January 2019. In particular, we present the 30-200 keV analysis of spectral transitions observed with INTEGRAL/IBIS during its Galactic plane monitoring program. In the MAXI and BAT monitoring period, we observed two different spectral transitions…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
INTEGRAL 6
Imagery and UV Spectroscopy of the LMC Supernova Remnant N103B Using HST
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb3c7 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...902..153B

Blair, William P.; Raymond, John C.; Pirzkal, Norbert +6 more

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Wide Field Camera 3 multiband imagery of N103B, which is the remnant of a SN Ia in the Large Magellanic Cloud, as well as HST/Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) ultraviolet spectroscopy of the brightest radiatively shocked region. The images show a wide range of morphology and relative emission-line intensiti…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 6
Predicting frequency changes of global-scale solar Rossby modes due to solar cycle changes in internal rotation
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038539 Bibcode: 2020A&A...640L..10G

Birch, A. C.; Gizon, L.; Fournier, D. +1 more

Context. Large-scale equatorial Rossby modes have been observed on the Sun over the last two solar cycles.
Aims: We investigate the impact of the time-varying zonal flows on the frequencies of Rossby modes.
Methods: A first-order perturbation theory approach is used to obtain an expression for the expected shift in the mode frequencies d…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 6
Characteristics of Reconnection Sites and Fast Flow Channels in an MHD Simulation
DOI: 10.1029/2019JA027701 Bibcode: 2020JGRA..12527701M

McPherron, R. L.; El-Alaoui, M.; Walker, R. J. +1 more

We investigate an interval of moderate magnetic activity from 0-8 UT on 14 March 2008 by using a global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation with high spatial and temporal resolution. Observations show several distinct substorms during this interval. One of these with onset at 04:44 UT occurs at 04:42 UT in the simulation. The simulation shows re…

2020 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 6