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Asphericity, Interaction, and Dust in the Type II-P/II-L Supernova 2013EJ in Messier 74
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/118 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...834..118M

Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Filippenko, Alexei V.; Wang, Lifan +6 more

SN 2013ej is a well-studied core-collapse supernova (SN) that stemmed from a directly identified red supergiant (RSG) progenitor in galaxy M74. The source exhibits signs of substantial geometric asphericity, X-rays from persistent interaction with circumstellar material (CSM), thermal emission from warm dust, and a light curve that appears interme…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 67
An Optical/Near-infrared Investigation of HD 100546 b with the Gemini Planet Imager and MagAO
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aa6cae Bibcode: 2017AJ....153..244R

Esposito, Thomas M.; Oppenheimer, Rebecca; Wolff, Schuyler G. +52 more

We present H band spectroscopic and Hα photometric observations of HD 100546 obtained with the Gemini Planet Imager and the Magellan Visible AO camera. We detect H band emission at the location of the protoplanet HD 100546 b, but show that the choice of data processing parameters strongly affects the morphology of this source. It appears point-lik…

2017 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 67
The Old Host-galaxy Environment of SSS17a, the First Electromagnetic Counterpart to a Gravitational-wave Source
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa9116 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...848L..30P

Rest, A.; Foley, R. J.; Boutsia, K. +16 more

We present an analysis of the host-galaxy environment of Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the discovery of an electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave source, GW170817. SSS17a occurred 1.9 kpc (in projection; 10.″2) from the nucleus of NGC 4993, an S0 galaxy at a distance of 40 Mpc. We present a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) pre-tr…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 67
The Herschel Exploitation of Local Galaxy Andromeda (HELGA). VII. A SKIRT radiative transfer model and insights on dust heating
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629251 Bibcode: 2017A&A...599A..64V

Blommaert, J. A. D. L.; Boquien, M.; Fritz, J. +17 more

The radiation from stars heats dust grains in the diffuse interstellar medium and in star-forming regions in galaxies. Modelling this interaction provides information on dust in galaxies, a vital ingredient for their evolution. It is not straightforward to identify the stellar populations heating the dust, and to link attenuation to emission on a …

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 66
Deep LOFAR observations of the merging galaxy cluster CIZA J2242.8+5301
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1645 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.471.1107H

Brunetti, G.; White, G. J.; Shimwell, T. W. +20 more

Previous studies have shown that CIZA J2242.8+5301 (the 'Sausage' cluster, z = 0.192) is a massive merging galaxy cluster that hosts a radio halo and multiple relics. In this paper, we present deep, high-fidelity, low-frequency images made with the LOw-Frequency Array (LOFAR) between 115.5 and 179 MHz. These images, with a noise of 140 µJy b…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Suzaku 66
The Gaia-ESO Survey: double-, triple-, and quadruple-line spectroscopic binary candidates
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730442 Bibcode: 2017A&A...608A..95M

Hatzidimitriou, D.; Gilmore, G.; Bayo, A. +35 more

Context. The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a large spectroscopic survey that provides a unique opportunity to study the distribution of spectroscopic multiple systems among different populations of the Galaxy.
Aims: Our aim is to detect binarity/multiplicity for stars targeted by the GES from the analysis of the cross-correlation functions (CCFs) …

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 66
The structural and dynamical properties of compact elliptical galaxies
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx732 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.468.4216Y

Gebhardt, Karl; van de Ven, Glenn; Husemann, Bernd +5 more

Dedicated photometric and spectroscopic surveys have provided unambiguous evidence for a strong stellar mass-size evolution of galaxies within the last 10 Gyr. The likely progenitors of today's most massive galaxies are remarkably small, discy, passive and have already assembled much of their stellar mass at redshift z = 2. An in-depth analysis of…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 66
Deep CO(1-0) Observations of z = 1.62 Cluster Galaxies with Substantial Molecular Gas Reservoirs and Normal Star Formation Efficiencies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa87b2 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...849...27R

Papovich, Casey; Momcheva, Ivelina; Saintonge, Amelie +9 more

We present an extremely deep CO(1-0) observation of a confirmed z = 1.62 galaxy cluster. We detect two spectroscopically confirmed cluster members in CO(1-0) with signal-to-noise ratio > 5. Both galaxies have log({{ M }}\star /{{ M }}) > 11 and are gas rich, with {{ M }}{mol}/({{ M }}\star +{{ M …

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 66
An investigation of the rotational properties of magnetic chemically peculiar stars
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx674 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.468.2745N

Paunzen, Ernst; Hümmerich, Stefan; Bernhard, Klaus +1 more

The magnetic chemically peculiar (mCP) stars of the upper main sequence exhibit strong, globally organized magnetic fields that are inclined to the rotational axis and facilitate the development of surface abundance inhomogeneities resulting in photometric and spectroscopic variability. Therefore, mCP stars are perfectly suited for a direct measur…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia Hipparcos 65
Cosmology from large-scale galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2464 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.464.4045K

Benoit-Lévy, A.; Nichol, R. C.; D'Andrea, C. B. +81 more

We present cosmological constraints from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) using a combined analysis of angular clustering of red galaxies and their cross-correlation with weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies. We use a 139 deg2 contiguous patch of DES data from the Science Verification (SV) period of observations. Using large-sc…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Planck 65