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Plasma Pressures in the Heliosheath From Cassini ENA and Voyager 2 Measurements: Validation by the Voyager 2 Heliopause Crossing
DOI: 10.1029/2019GL083924 Bibcode: 2019GeoRL..46.7911D

Krimigis, Stamatios M.; Mitchell, Donald G.; Dialynas, Konstantinos +1 more

We report "ground truth," 28- to 3,500-keV in situ ion and 5.2- to 55-keV remotely sensed ENA measurements from Voyager 2/Low Energy Charged Particle detector and Cassini/Ion and Neutral Camera, respectively, that assess the components of the ion pressure in the heliosheath. In this process, we predict an interstellar neutral hydrogen density of ∼…

2019 Geophysical Research Letters
Cassini 35
OGLE-2018-BLG-1011Lb,c: Microlensing Planetary System with Two Giant Planets Orbiting a Low-mass Star
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ab2f74 Bibcode: 2019AJ....158..114H

Stassun, Keivan G.; Han, Cheongho; Udalski, Andrzej +79 more

We report a multiplanetary system found from the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-1011, for which the light curve exhibits a double-bump anomaly around the peak. We find that the anomaly cannot be fully explained by the binary-lens or binary-source interpretations and its description requires the introduction of an additional lens comp…

2019 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 35
Abundances of disk and bulge giants from high-resolution optical spectra. III. Sc, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834247 Bibcode: 2019A&A...625A.141L

Schultheis, M.; Ryde, N.; Jönsson, H. +2 more

Context. The formation and evolution of the Galactic bulge and the Milky Way is still a debated subject. Observations of the X-shaped bulge, cylindrical stellar motions, and the presumed existence of a fraction of young stars in the bulge have suggested that it formed through secular evolution of the disk and not through gas dissipation and/or mer…

2019 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 35
Constraining Lyman-alpha spatial offsets at 3 < z < 5.5 from VANDELS slit spectroscopy
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1768 Bibcode: 2019MNRAS.488..706H

Schaerer, D.; Cullen, F.; Thomas, R. +20 more

We constrain the distribution of spatially offset Lyman-alpha emission (Ly α) relative to rest-frame ultraviolet emission in ∼300 high redshift (3 < z < 5.5) Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) exhibiting Ly α emission from VANDELS, a VLT/VIMOS slit-spectroscopic survey of the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey and Chandra Deep Field South fields (≃0.2 deg

2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 34
Helios Observations of Quasiperiodic Density Structures in the Slow Solar Wind at 0.3, 0.4, and 0.6 AU
DOI: 10.1029/2018JA026182 Bibcode: 2019JGRA..124..837D

Arge, C. N.; MacNeice, P.; Di Matteo, S. +3 more

Following previous investigations of quasiperiodic plasma density structures in the solar wind at 1 AU, we show using the Helios1 and Helios2 data their first identification in situ in the inner heliosphere at 0.3, 0.4, and 0.6 AU. We present five events of quasiperiodic density structures with time scales ranging from a few minutes to a couple of…

2019 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
SolarOrbiter 34
Resolving on 100 pc scales the UV-continuum in Lyman-α emitters between redshift 2 and 3 with gravitational lensing
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2833 Bibcode: 2019MNRAS.482.4744R

Vegetti, S.; McKean, J. P.; Auger, M. W. +1 more

We present a study of 17 LAEs at redshift 2 < z < 3 gravitationally lensed by massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) at a mean redshift of approximately 0.5. Using a fully Bayesian grid-based technique, we model the gravitational lens mass distributions with elliptical power-law profiles and reconstruct the ultraviolet (UV)-continuum surface-bri…

2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 34
Hint of curvature in the orbital motion of the exoplanet 51 Eridani b using 3 yr of VLT/SPHERE monitoring
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935031 Bibcode: 2019A&A...624A.118M

Rouan, D.; Ménard, F.; Avenhaus, H. +49 more

Context. The 51 Eridani system harbors a complex architecture with its primary star forming a hierarchical system with the binary GJ 3305AB at a projected separation of 2000 au, a giant planet orbiting the primary star at 13 au, and a low-mass debris disk around the primary star with possible cold and warm components inferred from the spectral ene…

2019 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 34
The spectral energy distributions of active galactic nuclei
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2324 Bibcode: 2019MNRAS.489.3351B

Salvato, M.; Ricci, C.; Brown, M. J. I. +5 more

We present spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 41 active galactic nuclei, derived from multiwavelength photometry and archival spectroscopy. All of the SEDs span at least 0.09 to 30 µm, but in some instances wavelength coverage extends into the X-ray, far-infrared, and radio. For some active galactic nuclei (AGNs) we have fitted the meas…

2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
AKARI ISO IUE XMM-Newton eHST 34
Transient Inverse-FIP Plasma Composition Evolution within a Solar Flare
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab07c1 Bibcode: 2019ApJ...875...35B

Long, David M.; Matthews, Sarah A.; Brooks, David H. +9 more

Understanding elemental abundance variations in the solar corona provides an insight into how matter and energy flow from the chromosphere into the heliosphere. Observed variations depend on the first ionization potential (FIP) of the main elements of the Sun’s atmosphere. High-FIP elements (>10 eV) maintain photospheric abundances in the coron…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 34
The Milky Way Project second data release: bubbles and bow shocks
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1738 Bibcode: 2019MNRAS.488.1141J

Kobulnicky, Henry A.; Kendrew, Sarah; Xu, Duo +9 more

Citizen science has helped astronomers comb through large data sets to identify patterns and objects that are not easily found through automated processes. The Milky Way Project (MWP), a citizen science initiative on the Zooniverse platform, presents internet users with infrared (IR) images from Spitzer Space Telescope Galactic plane surveys. MWP …

2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia Herschel 34