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A Chandrasekhar Mass Progenitor for the Type Ia Supernova Remnant 3C 397 from the Enhanced Abundances of Nickel and Manganese
Petre, Robert; Yamaguchi, Hiroya; Koyama, Katsuji +8 more
Despite decades of intense efforts, many fundamental aspects of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) remain elusive. One of the major open questions is whether the mass of an exploding white dwarf (WD) is close to the Chandrasekhar limit. Here, we report the detection of strong K-shell emission from stable Fe-peak elements in the Suzaku X-ray spectrum of t…
The SINFONI Nearby Elliptical Lens Locator Survey: discovery of two new low-redshift strong lenses and implications for the initial mass function in giant early-type galaxies
Conroy, Charlie; Lucey, John R.; Smith, Russell J.
We present results from a blind survey to identify strong gravitational lenses among the population of low-redshift early-type galaxies. The SINFONI Nearby Elliptical Lens Locator Survey (SNELLS) uses integral-field infrared spectroscopy to search for lensed emission line sources behind massive lens candidates at z < 0.055. From 27 galaxies obs…
ESA ExoMars program: The next step in exploring Mars
Witasse, O.; Svedhem, H.; McCoy, D. +6 more
The ExoMars program is an ESA-Roscosmos cooperation with some NASA contributions. ExoMars consists of two missions, one in 2016 and one in 2018. The 2016 mission includes an orbiting satellite dedicated to the study of atmospheric trace gases to acquire information on possible on-going geological or biological processes, and a European entry, desc…
Decaying dark matter and the tension in σ8
Takahashi, Tomo; Sekiguchi, Toyokazu; Nadathur, Seshadri +1 more
We consider decaying dark matter (DDM) as a resolution to the possible tension between cosmic microwave background (CMB) and weak lensing (WL) based determinations of the amplitude of matter fluctuations, σ8. We perform N-body simulations in a model where dark matter decays into dark radiation and develop an accurate fitting formula for…
The Sizes of z ∼ 6-8 Lensed Galaxies from the Hubble Frontier Fields Abell 2744 Data
Ouchi, Masami; Shimasaku, Kazuhiro; Oguri, Masamune +2 more
We investigate the sizes of z ∼ 6-8 dropout galaxies using the complete data of the Abell 2744 cluster and parallel fields in the Hubble Frontier Fields program. By directly fitting light profiles of observed galaxies with lensing-distorted Sérsic profiles on the image plane with the glafic software, we accurately measure intrinsic sizes of 31 z ∼…
The solar magnetic activity band interaction and instabilities that shape quasi-periodic variability
McIntosh, Scott W.; Riley, Pete; Kasper, Justin C. +10 more
Solar magnetism displays a host of variational timescales of which the enigmatic 11-year sunspot cycle is most prominent. Recent work has demonstrated that the sunspot cycle can be explained in terms of the intra- and extra-hemispheric interaction between the overlapping activity bands of the 22-year magnetic polarity cycle. Those activity bands a…
Connection between the Circumgalactic Medium and the Interstellar Medium of Galaxies: Results from the COS-GASS Survey
Heckman, Timothy; Saintonge, Amelie; Davé, Romeel +8 more
We present a study exploring the nature and properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and its connection to the atomic gas content in the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies as traced by the H i 21 cm line. Our sample includes 45 low-z (0.026-0.049) galaxies from the GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey (Galaxy Evolution Explorer/Arecibo/Sloan Digital …
GCM simulations of Titan's middle and lower atmosphere and comparison to observations
Lunine, Jonathan I.; Lora, Juan M.; Russell, Joellen L.
Simulation results are presented from a new general circulation model (GCM) of Titan, the Titan Atmospheric Model (TAM), which couples the Flexible Modeling System (FMS) spectral dynamical core to a suite of external/sub-grid-scale physics. These include a new non-gray radiative transfer module that takes advantage of recent data from Cassini-Huyg…
The XMM-Newton view of the central degrees of the Milky Way
Haberl, F.; Nandra, K.; Ponti, G. +10 more
The deepest XMM-Newton mosaic map of the central 1.5 ° of the Galaxy is presented, including a total of about 1.5 Ms of EPIC-pn cleaned exposures in the central 15 arcsec and about 200 ks outside. This compendium presents broad-band X-ray continuum maps, soft X-ray intensity maps, a decomposition into spectral components and a comparison of the X-…
The AKARI far-infrared all-sky survey maps
Nakagawa, Takao; Doi, Yasuo; Takita, Satoshi +15 more
We present a far-infrared all-sky atlas from a sensitive all-sky survey using the Japanese AKARI satellite. The survey covers > 99% of the sky in four photometric bands centred at 65 µm, 90 µm, 140 µm, and 160 µm, with spatial resolutions ranging from 1' to 1{^''.}5. These data provide crucial information on t…