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Alignment between Protostellar Outflows and Filamentary Structure
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8262 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...846...16S

Bourke, Tyler L.; Myers, Philip C.; Dunham, Michael M. +13 more

We present new Submillimeter Array (SMA) observations of CO(2-1) outflows toward young, embedded protostars in the Perseus molecular cloud as part of the Mass Assembly of Stellar Systems and their Evolution with the SMA (MASSES) survey. For 57 Perseus protostars, we characterize the orientation of the outflow angles and compare them with the orien…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 70
PSZ2LenS. Weak lensing analysis of the Planck clusters in the CFHTLenS and in the RCSLenS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2085 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.472.1946S

Izzo, Luca; Sereno, Mauro; Ettori, Stefano +3 more

The possibly unbiased selection process in surveys of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect can unveil new populations of galaxy clusters. We performed a weak lensing analysis of the PSZ2LenS sample, i.e. the PSZ2 galaxy clusters detected by the Planck mission in the sky portion covered by the lensing surveys CFHTLenS and RCSLenS. PSZ2LenS consists of 35 …

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Planck XMM-Newton 70
Origin of small-scale anisotropies in Galactic cosmic rays
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2017.01.004 Bibcode: 2017PrPNP..94..184A

Mertsch, Philipp; Ahlers, Markus

The arrival directions of Galactic cosmic rays are highly isotropic. This is expected from the presence of turbulent magnetic fields in our Galactic environment that repeatedly scatter charged cosmic rays during propagation. However, various cosmic ray observatories have identified weak anisotropies of various angular sizes and with relative inten…

2017 Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
Ulysses 70
An ALMA survey of submillimetre galaxies in the COSMOS field: Physical properties derived from energy balance spectral energy distribution modelling
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730762 Bibcode: 2017A&A...606A..17M

Magnelli, B.; Aussel, H.; Ilbert, O. +25 more

Context. Submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) represent an important source population in the origin and cosmic evolution of the most massive galaxies. Hence, it is imperative to place firm constraints on the fundamental physical properties of large samples of SMGs.
Aims: We determine the physical properties of a sample of SMGs in the COSMOS field t…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel eHST 70
Heliosheath Processes and the Structure of the Heliopause: Modeling Energetic Particles, Cosmic Rays, and Magnetic Fields
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-017-0354-8 Bibcode: 2017SSRv..212..193P

Wurz, P.; Fichtner, H.; Scherer, K. +11 more

This paper summarizes the results obtained by the team "Heliosheath Processes and the Structure of the Heliopause: Modeling Energetic Particles, Cosmic Rays, and Magnetic Fields" supported by the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland. We focus on the physical processes occurring in the outer heliosphere, especially at i…

2017 Space Science Reviews
Ulysses VenusExpress 70
Surface changes on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko suggest a more active past
DOI: 10.1126/science.aak9384 Bibcode: 2017Sci...355.1392E

Jorda, L.; Lara, L. M.; Bertaux, J. -L. +53 more

The Rosetta spacecraft spent ~2 years orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, most of it at distances that allowed surface characterization and monitoring at submeter scales. From December 2014 to June 2016, numerous localized changes were observed, which we attribute to cometary-specific weathering, erosion, and transient events driven by expos…

2017 Science
Rosetta 70
Fundamental Physics with the Hubble Frontier Fields: Constraining Dark Matter Models with the Abundance of Extremely Faint and Distant Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/836/1/61 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...836...61M

Castellano, M.; Grazian, A.; Menci, N. +4 more

We show that the measured abundance of ultra-faint lensed galaxies at z≈ 6 in the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) provides stringent constraints on the parameter space of (I) dark matter models based on keV sterile neutrinos; (II) “fuzzy” wavelike dark matter models, based on Bose-Einstein condensates of ultra-light particles. For the case of sterile…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 70
The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey. V. Spatially resolved stellar kinematics of galaxies at redshift 0.2 ≲ z ≲ 0.8
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730905 Bibcode: 2017A&A...608A...5G

Bacon, Roland; Bouché, Nicolas; Contini, Thierry +11 more

We present spatially resolved stellar kinematic maps, for the first time, for a sample of 17 intermediate redshift galaxies (0.2 ≲ z ≲ 0.8). We used deep MUSE/VLT integral field spectroscopic observations in the Hubble Deep Field South (HDFS) and Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), resulting from ≈30 h integration time per field, each covering 1' × 1'…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 70
Discovery of a low-mass companion inside the debris ring surrounding the F5V star HD 206893
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629908 Bibcode: 2017A&A...597L...2M

Pinte, C.; Dent, W. R. F.; del Burgo, C. +30 more


Aims: Uncovering the ingredients and the architecture of planetary systems is a very active field of research that has fuelled many new theories on giant planet formation, migration, composition, and interaction with the circumstellar environment. We aim at discovering and studying new such systems, to further expand our knowledge of how low-…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 70
Gaia 1 and 2. A pair of new Galactic star clusters
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1182 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.470.2702K

Belokurov, V.; Koposov, Sergey E.; Torrealba, G.

We present the results of the very first search for faint Milky Way satellites in the Gaia data. Using stellar positions only, we are able to re-discover objects detected in much deeper data as recently as the last couple of years. While we do not identify new prominent ultrafaint dwarf galaxies, we report the discovery of two new star clusters, G…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 69