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High-energy monitoring of NGC 4593 II. Broad-band spectral analysis: testing the two-corona model
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3379 Bibcode: 2019MNRAS.483.4695M

Bianchi, S.; Cappi, M.; Ponti, G. +9 more

It is widely believed that the primary X-ray emission of AGN is due to the Comptonization of optical-UV photons from a hot electron corona, while the origin of the `soft-excess' is still uncertain and matter of debate. A second Comptonization component, called warm corona, was therefore proposed to account for the soft-excess, and found in agreeme…

2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 29
Unusual Plasma and Particle Signatures at Mars and STEREO-A Related to CME-CME Interaction
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab27ca Bibcode: 2019ApJ...880...18D

Dumbović, Mateja; Temmer, Manuela; Veronig, Astrid +15 more

On 2017 July 25 a multistep Forbush decrease (FD) with a remarkable total amplitude of more than 15% was observed by Mars Science Laboratory/Radiation Assessment Detector at Mars. We find that these particle signatures are related to very pronounced plasma and magnetic field signatures detected in situ by STEREO-A on 2017 July 24, with a higher-th…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 29
HALO7D II: The Halo Velocity Ellipsoid and Velocity Anisotropy with Distant Main-sequence Stars
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab24cd Bibcode: 2019ApJ...879..120C

Anderson, Jay; van der Marel, Roeland P.; Wetzel, Andrew +7 more

The Halo Assembly in Lambda Cold Dark Matter: Observations in 7 Dimensions (HALO7D) data set consists of Keck II/DEIMOS spectroscopy and Hubble Space Telescope-measured proper motions of Milky Way halo main-sequence turnoff stars in the CANDELS fields. In this paper, the second in the HALO7D series, we present the proper motions for the HALO7D sam…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 29
Binary Red Supergiants. II. Discovering and Characterizing B-type Companions
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab1012 Bibcode: 2019ApJ...875..124N

Massey, Philip; Levesque, Emily M.; Morrell, Nidia I. +1 more

The percentage of massive main-sequence OB stars in binary systems is thought to be as high as 100%. However, very few Galactic binary red supergiants (RSGs) have been identified, despite the fact that these stars are the evolved descendants of OB stars. As shown in our recent paper, binary RSGs will likely have B-type companions, as dictated by s…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 29
Detections and constraints on white dwarf variability from time-series GALEX observations
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1116 Bibcode: 2019MNRAS.486.4574R

Hermes, J. J.; Shappee, B. J.; Tucker, M. A. +1 more

We search for photometric variability in more than 23 000 known and candidate white dwarfs (WDs), the largest ultraviolet survey compiled for a single study of WDs. We use GPHOTON, a publicly available calibration/reduction pipeline, to generate time-series photometry of WDs observed by GALEX. By implementing a system of weighted metrics, we selec…

2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 29
VLTI/PIONIER survey of disks around post-AGB binaries. Dust sublimation physics rules
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935785 Bibcode: 2019A&A...631A.108K

Min, M.; Van Winckel, H.; Kamath, D. +4 more

Context. Post-asymptotic giant branch (AGB) binaries are surrounded by circumbinary disks of gas and dust that are similar to protoplanetary disks found around young stars.
Aims: We aim to understand the structure of these disks and identify the physical phenomena at play in their very inner regions. We want to understand the disk-binary inte…

2019 Astronomy and Astrophysics
AKARI 29
Characteristics of the Flank Magnetopause: THEMIS Observations
DOI: 10.1029/2019JA026459 Bibcode: 2019JGRA..124.3421H

Haaland, S.; Runov, A.; Angelopoulos, V. +1 more

The terrestrial magnetopause is the boundary that shields the Earth's magnetosphere on one side from the shocked solar wind and its embedded interplanetary magnetic field on the other side. In this paper, we show observations from two of the Time History of Events and Macroscales Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) satellites, comparing dayside…

2019 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 29
A Simflowny-based high-performance 3D code for the generalized induction equation
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2018.11.022 Bibcode: 2019CoPhC.237..168V

Viganò, Daniele; Pons, José A.; Martínez-Gómez, David +6 more

In the interior of neutron stars, the induction equation regulates the long-term evolution of the magnetic fields by means of resistivity, Hall dynamics and ambipolar diffusion. Despite the apparent simplicity and compactness of the equation, the dynamics it describes is not trivial and its understanding relies on accurate numerical simulations. W…

2019 Computer Physics Communications
MEx 29
Linking the rotation of a cluster to the spins of its stars: the kinematics of NGC 6791 and NGC 6819 in 3D
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3144 Bibcode: 2019MNRAS.483.2197K

Balbinot, E.; Hénault-Brunet, V.; Gieles, M. +2 more

The physics governing the formation of star clusters is still not entirely understood. One open question concerns the amount of angular momentum that newly formed clusters possess after emerging from their parent gas clouds. Recent results suggest an alignment of stellar spins and binary orbital spins in star clusters, which support a scenario in …

2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 29
Dust Continuum Emission and the Upper Limit Fluxes of Submillimeter Water Lines of the Protoplanetary Disk around HD 163296 Observed by ALMA
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0ae9 Bibcode: 2019ApJ...875...96N

Walsh, Catherine; Nomura, Hideko; Tsukagoshi, Takashi +6 more

In this paper, we analyze the upper limit fluxes of submillimeter ortho-H2 16O 321 GHz, para-H2 18O 322 GHz, and HDO 335 GHz lines from the protoplanetary disk around the Herbig Ae star HD 163296, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array. These water lines are considered to be the best cand…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 29