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Chromosphere to 1 AU Simulation of the 2011 March 7th Event: A Comprehensive Study of Coronal Mass Ejection Propagation
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/172 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...834..172J

de Koning, C. A.; Gombosi, T. I.; Tóth, G. +5 more

We perform and analyze the results of a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the fast coronal mass ejection (CME) that occurred on 2011 March 7. The simulation is made using the newly developed Alfvén Wave Solar Model (AWSoM), which describes the background solar wind starting from the upper chromosphere and extends to 24 R. Coupli…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 85
The Greater Taurus-Auriga Ecosystem. I. There is a Distributed Older Population
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa62a0 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...838..150K

Herczeg, Gregory J.; Rizzuto, Aaron C.; Kraus, Adam L. +5 more

The census of Taurus-Auriga has been assembled over seven decades and inherited the biases and incompleteness of the input studies. The unusual shape of its inferred initial mass function (IMF) and the existence of isolated disk-bearing stars suggest that additional (likely disk-free) members remain to be discovered. We therefore have begun a glob…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 85
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project.VI. Reverberating Disk Models for NGC 5548
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/65 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...835...65S

Im, M.; Geier, S.; Zheng, W. +90 more

We conduct a multiwavelength continuum variability study of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 to investigate the temperature structure of its accretion disk. The 19 overlapping continuum light curves (1158 \mathringA to 9157 \mathringA ) combine simultaneous Hubble Space Telescope, Swift, and ground-based observations over a 180 day period from 2014 J…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 85
In-orbit Performance of UVIT and First Results
DOI: 10.1007/s12036-017-9445-x Bibcode: 2017JApA...38...28T

Stalin, C. S.; Rao, N. Kameswara; Sutaria, F. +23 more

The performance of the ultraviolet telescope (UVIT) on-board AstroSat is reported. The performance in orbit is also compared with estimates made from the calibrations done on the ground. The sensitivity is found to be within 15% of the estimates, and the spatial reso…

2017 Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
eHST 85
The PAH Emission Characteristics of the Reflection Nebula NGC 2023
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/836/2/198 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...836..198P

Wolfire, Mark G.; Peeters, Els; Tielens, Alexander G. G. M. +3 more

We present 5-20 µm spectral maps of the reflection nebula NGC 2023 obtained with the Infrared Spectrograph SL and SH modes on board the Spitzer Space Telescope, which reveal emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), C60, and H2 superposed on a dust continuum. We show that several PAH emission bands correlat…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
ISO 84
Detection of Supermassive Black Holes in Two Virgo Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6972 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...839...72A

Romanowsky, Aaron J.; Neumayer, Nadine; Strader, Jay +13 more

We present the detection of supermassive black holes (BHs) in two Virgo ultracompact dwarf galaxies (UCDs), VUCD3 and M59cO. We use adaptive optics assisted data from the Gemini/NIFS instrument to derive radial velocity dispersion profiles for both objects. Mass models for the two UCDs are created using multi-band Hubble Space Telescope imaging, i…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 84
Estimating stellar atmospheric parameters, absolute magnitudes and elemental abundances from the LAMOST spectra with Kernel-based principal component analysis
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2523 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.464.3657X

Huang, Y.; Chen, B. -Q.; Wang, C. +16 more

Accurate determination of stellar atmospheric parameters and elemental abundances is crucial for Galactic archaeology via large-scale spectroscopic surveys. In this paper, we estimate stellar atmospheric parameters - effective temperature Teff, surface gravity log g and metallicity [Fe/H], absolute magnitudes MV and MKs<…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hipparcos 84
The WISSH quasars project. III. X-ray properties of hyper-luminous quasars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731314 Bibcode: 2017A&A...608A..51M

Fiore, F.; Bianchi, S.; Martocchia, S. +14 more

We performed a survey of the X-ray properties of 41 objects from the WISE/SDSS selected hyper-luminous (WISSH) quasars sample, which includes 86 broad-line quasars with bolometric luminosity LBol ≳ 2 × 1047 erg s-1 shining at z 2-4. We used both proprietary and archival Chandra and XMM-Newton observations. Twenty-o…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 84
A Spatially Resolved Study of Cold Dust, Molecular Gas, H II Regions, and Stars in the z = 2.12 Submillimeter Galaxy ALESS67.1
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa863a Bibcode: 2017ApJ...846..108C

Ivison, R. J.; Smail, Ian; Brandt, W. N. +17 more

We present detailed studies of a z = 2.12 submillimeter galaxy, ALESS67.1, using sub-arcsecond resolution ALMA, adaptive optics-aided VLT/SINFONI, and Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/CANDELS data to investigate the kinematics and spatial distributions of dust emission (870 µm continuum), 12CO(J = 3-2), strong optical emission lines, …

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 84
The relation between the column density structures and the magnetic field orientation in the Vela C molecular complex
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730608 Bibcode: 2017A&A...603A..64S

Ade, P. A. R.; Martin, P. G.; Netterfield, C. B. +27 more

We statistically evaluated the relative orientation between gas column density structures, inferred from Herschel submillimetre observations, and the magnetic field projected on the plane of sky, inferred from polarized thermal emission of Galactic dust observed by the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimetre Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol)…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel Planck 84