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Discovery of a warm, dusty giant planet around HIP 65426
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731152 Bibcode: 2017A&A...605L...9C

Moutou, C.; Rouan, D.; Augereau, J. -C. +120 more


Aims: The SHINE program is a high-contrast near-infrared survey of 600 young, nearby stars aimed at searching for and characterizing new planetary systems using VLT/SPHERE's unprecedented high-contrast and high-angular-resolution imaging capabilities. It is also intended to place statistical constraints on the rate, mass and orbital distribut…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 182
KiDS-450: the tomographic weak lensing power spectrum and constraints on cosmological parameters
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1820 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.471.4412K

Heymans, C.; Choi, A.; Hoekstra, H. +13 more

We present measurements of the weak gravitational lensing shear power spectrum based on 450 ° ^2 of imaging data from the Kilo Degree Survey. We employ a quadratic estimator in two and three redshift bins and extract band powers of redshift autocorrelation and cross-correlation spectra in the multipole range 76 ≤ ℓ ≤ 1310. The cosmological interpr…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Planck 182
KiDS-450: testing extensions to the standard cosmological model
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx998 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.471.1259J

Hoekstra, Henk; Heymans, Catherine; Kuijken, Konrad +16 more

We test extensions to the standard cosmological model with weak gravitational lensing tomography using 450 deg2 of imaging data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS). In these extended cosmologies, which include massive neutrinos, non-zero curvature, evolving dark energy, modified gravity and running of the scalar spectral index, we also e…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Planck 182
Lyα Profile, Dust, and Prediction of Lyα Escape Fraction in Green Pea Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa7d4d Bibcode: 2017ApJ...844..171Y

Leitherer, Claus; Wofford, Aida; Tilvi, V. +7 more

We studied Lyman-α (Lyα) escape in a statistical sample of 43 Green Peas with HST/COS Lyα spectra. Green Peas are nearby star-forming galaxies with strong [O III]λ5007 emission lines. Our sample is four times larger than the previous sample and covers a much more complete range of Green Pea properties. We found that about two-thirds of Green Peas …

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 182
The GALAH survey: observational overview and Gaia DR1 companion
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2835 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.465.3203M

Freeman, K. C.; Marshall, J. P.; Da Costa, G. S. +31 more

The Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) survey is a massive observational project to trace the Milky Way's history of star formation, chemical enrichment, stellar migration and minor mergers. Using high-resolution (R ≃ 28 000) spectra, taken with the High Efficiency and Resolution Multi-Element Spectrograph (HERMES) instrument at the Anglo-Au…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 181
CANDELS Multi-wavelength Catalogs: Source Identification and Photometry in the CANDELS Extended Groth Strip
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aa66cb Bibcode: 2017ApJS..229...32S

Barro, Guillermo; Castellano, Marco; Fontana, Adriano +39 more

We present a 0.4-8 µm multi-wavelength photometric catalog in the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) field. This catalog is built on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3 and ACS data from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), and it incorporates the existing HST data from the All-wavelength Extended Groth str…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
eHST 181
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: two-season ACTPol spectra and parameters
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/06/031 Bibcode: 2017JCAP...06..031L

Hilton, Matt; Hasselfield, Matthew; Battaglia, Nicholas +80 more

We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol). We analyze night-time data collected during 2013-14 using two detector arrays at 149 GHz, from 548 deg2 of sky on the celestial equator. We use these spectra, and the spectra measured with the MBAC camera o…

2017 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Planck 181
Galileon gravity in light of ISW, CMB, BAO and H0 data
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/10/020 Bibcode: 2017JCAP...10..020R

Barreira, Alexandre; Montanari, Francesco; Renk, Janina +1 more

Cosmological models with Galileon gravity are an alternative to the standard ΛCDM paradigm with testable predictions at the level of its self-accelerating solutions for the expansion history, as well as large-scale structure formation. Here, we place constraints on the full parameter space of these models using data from the cosmic microwave backg…

2017 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Planck 180
On the use of C-stat in testing models for X-ray spectra
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629319 Bibcode: 2017A&A...605A..51K

Kaastra, J. S.

Context. It has been shown that for the analysis of X-ray spectra the C-statistic, contrary to the χ2-statistic, provides unbiased estimates of the model parameters and their uncertainty ranges.
Aims: However, it is often stated that the C-statistic cannot be used to carry out statistical tests on the goodness of fit of the model, …

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 178
Carbon-rich dust in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko measured by COSIMA/Rosetta
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2640 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.469S.712B

Langevin, Yves; Fischer, Henning; Ligier, Nicolas +23 more

Cometary ices are rich in CO2, CO and organic volatile compounds, but the carbon content of cometary dust was only measured for the Oort Cloud comet 1P/Halley, during its flyby in 1986. The COmetary Secondary Ion Mass Analyzer (COSIMA)/Rosetta mass spectrometer analysed dust particles with sizes ranging from 50 to 1000 µm, collect…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosetta 178