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The Atmospheric Response to High Nonthermal Electron Beam Fluxes in Solar Flares. I. Modeling the Brightest NUV Footpoints in the X1 Solar Flare of 2014 March 29
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/836/1/12 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...836...12K

Kowalski, Adam F.; Daw, Adrian; Carlsson, Mats +2 more

The 2014 March 29 X1 solar flare (SOL20140329T17:48) produced bright continuum emission in the far- and near-ultraviolet (NUV) and highly asymmetric chromospheric emission lines, providing long-sought constraints on the heating mechanisms of the lower atmosphere in solar flares. We analyze the continuum and emission line data from the Interface Re…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
IRIS 95
Resolving the fragmentation of high line-mass filaments with ALMA: the integral shaped filament in Orion A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201628481 Bibcode: 2017A&A...600A.141K

Henning, T.; Megeath, S. T.; Beuther, H. +5 more

We study the fragmentation of the nearest high line-mass filament, the integral shaped filament (ISF, line-mass 400 M pc-1) in the Orion A molecular cloud. We have observed a 1.6 pc long section of the ISF with the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at 3 mm continuum emission, at a resolution of 3″ (1200 AU)…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 95
The XMM cluster outskirts project (X‑ COP )
DOI: 10.1002/asna.201713345 Bibcode: 2017AN....338..293E

Pointecouteau, E.; Paltani, S.; Molendi, S. +3 more

Galaxy clusters are thought to grow hierarchically through the continuous merging and accretion of smaller structures across cosmic time. In the local Universe, these phenomena are still active in the outer regions of massive clusters ($R>R_{500}$), where the matter distribution is expected to become clumpy and asymmetric because of the presenc…

2017 Astronomische Nachrichten
Planck Suzaku XMM-Newton 95
Chasing Shadows: Rotation of the Azimuthal Asymmetry in the TW Hya Disk
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/205 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...835..205D

Weinberger, Alycia J.; Debes, John H.; Roberge, Aki +8 more

We have obtained new images of the protoplanetary disk orbiting TW Hya in visible, total intensity light with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), using the newly commissioned BAR5 occulter. These HST/STIS observations achieved an inner working angle of ∼0.″2, or 11.7 au, probing the system at angula…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 94
PHAT. XIX. The Ancient Star Formation History of the M31 Disk
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa862a Bibcode: 2017ApJ...846..145W

Bell, Eric F.; Monachesi, Antonela; Dolphin, Andrew E. +7 more

We map the star formation history across M31 by fitting stellar evolution models to color-magnitude diagrams of each 83″ × 83″ (0.3 × 1.4 kpc, deprojected) region of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) survey outside of the innermost 6\prime × 12\prime portion. We find that most of the star formation occurred pr…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 94
The cool-core state of Planck SZ-selected clusters versus X-ray-selected samples: evidence for cool-core bias
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx493 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.468.1917R

Rossetti, M.; Molendi, S.; Gastaldello, F. +4 more

We characterized the population of galaxy clusters detected with the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect with Planck by measuring the cool-core state of the objects in a well-defined subsample of the Planck SZ catalogue. We used as an indicator the concentration parameter. The fraction of cool-core clusters is 29 ± 4 per cent and does not show significa…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Planck XMM-Newton 94
The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Target Selection of Nearby Stars and Galaxies
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/aa5800 Bibcode: 2017PASP..129e4501I

DeBoer, David; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Siemion, Andrew P. V. +10 more

We present the target selection for the Breakthrough Listen search for extraterrestrial intelligence during the first year of observations at the Green Bank Telescope, Parkes Telescope, and Automated Planet Finder. On the way to observing 1,000,000 nearby stars in search of technological signals, we present three main sets of objects we plan to ob…

2017 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Hipparcos 94
Testing the universality of the star-formation efficiency in dense molecular gas
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730633 Bibcode: 2017A&A...604A..74S

Braine, J.; André, Ph.; Könyves, V. +7 more

Context. Recent studies with, for example, Spitzer and Herschel have suggested that star formation in dense molecular gas may be governed by essentially the same "law" in Galactic clouds and external galaxies. This conclusion remains controversial, however, in large part because different tracers have been used to probe the mass of dense molecular…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 93
The KMOS Deep Survey (KDS) - I. Dynamical measurements of typical star-forming galaxies at z ≃ 3.5
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1366 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.471.1280T

McLure, R. J.; Dunlop, J. S.; Swinbank, A. M. +7 more

We present dynamical measurements from the KMOS (K-band multi-object spectrograph) Deep Survey (KDS), which comprises 77 typical star-forming galaxies at z ≃ 3.5 in the mass range 9.0 < log (M/M) < 10.5. These measurements constrain the internal dynamics, the intrinsic velocity dispersions (σint) and rotati…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 93
Gaia Data Release 1. Open cluster astrometry: performance, limitations, and future prospects
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730552 Bibcode: 2017A&A...601A..19G

Prusti, T.; Mazeh, T.; Zucker, S. +589 more

Context. The first Gaia Data Release contains the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS). This is a subset of about 2 million stars for which, besides the position and photometry, the proper motion and parallax are calculated using HIPPARCOS and Tycho-2 positions in 1991.25 as prior information.
Aims: We investigate the scientific potential a…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 93