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New Physical Insights about Tidal Disruption Events from a Comprehensive Observational Inventory at X-Ray Wavelengths
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa633b Bibcode: 2017ApJ...838..149A

Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico; Auchettl, Katie; Guillochon, James

We perform a comprehensive study of the X-ray emission from 70 transient sources that have been classified as tidal disruption events (TDEs) in the literature. We explore the properties of these candidates, using nearly three decades of X-ray observations to quantify their properties and characteristics. We find that the emission from X-ray TDEs i…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 227
A Herschel/PACS Far-infrared Line Emission Survey of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa81d7 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...846...32D

Sanders, D. B.; Surace, J. A.; Inami, H. +20 more

We present an analysis of [O I]63, [O III]88, [N II]122, and [C II]158 far-infrared (FIR) fine-structure line observations obtained with Herschel/PACS, for ∼240 local luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) in the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey. We find pronounced declines ("deficits") of line-to-FIR…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 224
The Frontier Fields lens modelling comparison project
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2064 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.472.3177M

Sharon, K.; Diego, J. M.; Zitrin, A. +20 more

Gravitational lensing by clusters of galaxies offers a powerful probe of their structure and mass distribution. Several research groups have developed techniques independently to achieve this goal. While these methods have all provided remarkably high-precision mass maps, particularly with exquisite imaging data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HS…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 221
Strongly baryon-dominated disk galaxies at the peak of galaxy formation ten billion years ago
DOI: 10.1038/nature21685 Bibcode: 2017Natur.543..397G

Lutz, D.; Wuyts, S.; Förster Schreiber, N. M. +28 more

In the cold dark matter cosmology, the baryonic components of galaxies—stars and gas—are thought to be mixed with and embedded in non-baryonic and non-relativistic dark matter, which dominates the total mass of the galaxy and its dark-matter halo. In the local (low-redshift) Universe, the mass of dark matter within a galactic disk increases with d…

2017 Nature
eHST 221
Lyman-α spectral properties of five newly discovered Lyman continuum emitters
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629264 Bibcode: 2017A&A...597A..13V

Schaerer, D.; Thuan, T. X.; Verhamme, A. +4 more


Aims: We have recently reported the discovery of five low redshift Lyman continuum (LyC) emitters (LCEs) with absolute escape fractions fescLyC that range from 6 to 13%, higher than previously found and that more than double the number of low redshift LCEs. We use these observations to test theoretical predictions about …

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 220
Echo of interactions in the dark sector
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.103511 Bibcode: 2017PhRvD..96j3511K

Nunes, Rafael C.; Kumar, Suresh

We investigate the observational constraints on an interacting vacuum energy scenario with two different neutrino schemes (with and without a sterile neutrino) using the most recent data from cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropy, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), type Ia supernovae from JLA sample and structu…

2017 Physical Review D
Planck 217
The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey. VIII. Extended Lyman-α haloes around high-z star-forming galaxies
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731480 Bibcode: 2017A&A...608A...8L

Bacon, Roland; Blaizot, Jérémy; Garel, Thibault +17 more

We report the detection of extended Lyα haloes around 145 individual star-forming galaxies at redshifts 3 ≤ z ≤ 6 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field observed with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at ESO-VLT. Our sample consists of continuum-faint (- 15 ≥ MUV ≥ -22) Lyα emitters (LAEs). Using a 2D, two-component (continuum-like a…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 216
The e-ASTROGAM mission. Exploring the extreme Universe with gamma rays in the MeV - GeV range
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-017-9533-6 Bibcode: 2017ExA....44...25D

Ghisellini, G.; Hanlon, L.; Mereghetti, S. +71 more

e-ASTROGAM (`enhanced ASTROGAM') is a breakthrough Observatory space mission, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an anticoincidence system, dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV - the lower energy limit can be pushed to energies as low as 150 keV, albeit w…

2017 Experimental Astronomy
INTEGRAL 213
ALMA unveils rings and gaps in the protoplanetary system HD 169142: signatures of two giant protoplanets
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629860 Bibcode: 2017A&A...600A..72F

Fedele, D.; Henning, Th.; Miotello, A. +6 more

The protoplanetary system HD 169142 is one of the few cases where a potential candidate protoplanet has recently been detected by direct imaging in the near-infrared. To study the interaction between the protoplanet and the disk itself, observations of the gas and dust surface density structure are needed. This paper reports new ALMA observations …

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 208
Cosmological constraints on exotic injection of electromagnetic energy
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/03/043 Bibcode: 2017JCAP...03..043P

Lesgourgues, Julien; Poulin, Vivian; Serpico, Pasquale D.

We compute cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy constraints on exotic forms of energy injection in electromagnetic (e.m.) channels over a large range of timescales. We show that these constraints are very powerful around or just after recombination, although CMB keeps some sensitivity e.g. to decaying species with lifetimes as long as 10

2017 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Planck 207