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Venus Express radio occultation observed by PRIDE
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833160 Bibcode: 2019A&A...624A..59B

Wang, W.; Zheng, W.; Bocanegra-Bahamón, T. M. +18 more

Context. Radio occultation is a technique used to study planetary atmospheres by means of the refraction and absorption of a spacecraft carrier signal through the atmosphere of the celestial body of interest, as detected from a ground station on Earth. This technique is usually employed by the deep space tracking and communication facilities (e.g.…

2019 Astronomy and Astrophysics
VenusExpress 14
Kinematics and Energetics of the EUV Waves on 11 April 2013
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-019-1445-3 Bibcode: 2019SoPh..294...56F

Srivastava, A. K.; Chen, P. F.; Uddin, Wahab +3 more

In this study, we present the observations of extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) waves associated with an M6.5 flare on 2013 April 11. The event was observed by Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in different EUV channels. The flare was also associated with a halo CME and type II radio bursts. We observed both fast and slow components of the EUV wave. The sp…

2019 Solar Physics
SOHO 14
C IV absorbers tracing cool gas in dense galaxy group/cluster environments
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz195 Bibcode: 2019MNRAS.485...30M

Charlton, Jane C.; Muzahid, Sowgat; Narayanan, Anand +3 more

We present analysis on three intervening H I-C IV absorption systems tracing gas within galaxy group/cluster environments, identified in the HST/COS far-UV spectra of the background quasars PG 1148 + 549 (zabs = 0.003 46), SBS 1122 + 594 (zabs = 0.004 02), and RXJ 1230.8 + 0115 (zabs = 0.005 74). The ionization mod…

2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 14
Photospheric nitrogen abundances and carbon 12C/13C ratios of red giant stars
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psz104 Bibcode: 2019PASJ...71..119T

Sato, Bun'ei; Omiya, Masashi; Harakawa, Hiroki +1 more

Nitrogen abundances and carbon isotope ratios (12C/13C) in the atmospheres of red giants are known to be influenced by dredge-up of H-burning products, and serve as useful probes to study the nature of evolution-induced envelope mixing. We determined the [N/Fe] and 12C/13C ratios for 239 late-G/early-K g…

2019 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Gaia 14
An Optical and X-Ray Study of the Contact Binary, BH Cassiopeia
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ab247a Bibcode: 2019PASP..131h4202L

Zheng, Jie; Zhang, Yu; Esamdin, Ali +10 more

We present the revised and high-quality CCD time series observations in 2017 and 2018 of the W UMa-type contact binary BH Cas. The combination of our new determinations of minimum times and those collected from the literatures reveal a long-term period increase with a rate of dP/dt = +3.27 × 10-7 day yr-1, which can be accoun…

2019 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
XMM-Newton 14
A Joint NICER and XMM-Newton View of the “Magnificent” Thermally Emitting X-Ray Isolated Neutron Star RX J1605.3+3249
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2875 Bibcode: 2019ApJ...880...74M

Enoto, Teruaki; Bogdanov, Slavko; Ray, Paul S. +11 more

Thermally emitting X-ray isolated neutron stars (NSs) represent excellent targets for testing cooling surface emission and atmosphere models, which are used to infer the physical parameters of the NS. Among the seven known members of this class, RX J1605.3+3249 is the only one that still lacks confirmation of its spin period. Here we analyze NICER…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 14
Solar Active Region Heating Diagnostics from High-temperature Emission Using the MaGIXS
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab3eb4 Bibcode: 2019ApJ...884...24A

Golub, Leon; Winebarger, Amy R.; Warren, Harry P. +7 more

The relative amount of high-temperature plasma has been found to be a useful diagnostic to determine the frequency of coronal heating on sub-resolution structures. When the loops are infrequently heated, a broad emission measure (EM) over a wider range of temperatures is expected. A narrower EM is expected for high-frequency heating where the loop…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 14
Gaia DR2 orbital properties for field stars with globular cluster-like CN band strengths
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935417 Bibcode: 2019A&A...624L...9S

Posti, L.; Savino, A.

Context. Large spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way have revealed that a small population of stars in the halo have light element abundances comparable to those found in globular clusters. The favoured explanation for the peculiar abundances of these stars is that they originated inside a globular cluster and were subsequently lost.
Aims: U…

2019 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 14
Hemispheric asymmetry in meridional flow and the sunspot cycle
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2168 Bibcode: 2019MNRAS.489..714L

Antia, H. M.; Nandy, Dibyendu; Lekshmi, B.

Magnetohydrodynamic dynamo modelling shows that the large-scale solar meridional plasma flow plays an important role in governing the dynamics of the sunspot cycle. Observations indicate that meridional flow velocities at each solar latitude and depth vary over time and are asymmetric across the equator. Here, using helioseismic observations we ex…

2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
SOHO 14
Monitoring the Superorbital Period Variation and Spin Period Evolution of SMC X-1
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab48e4 Bibcode: 2019ApJ...885..123H

Enoto, Teruaki; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Hu, Chin-Ping +2 more

The X-ray pulsar SMC X-1 shows a superorbital modulation with an unstable cycle length in the X-ray band. We present its timing behaviors, including the spin, orbital, and superorbital modulations, beyond the end of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer mission. The time-frequency maps derived by the wavelet Z-transform and the Hilbert-Huang transform s…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 14