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Microflare Heating of a Solar Active Region Observed with NuSTAR, Hinode/XRT, and SDO/AIA
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa7a59 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...844..132W

Krucker, Säm; White, Stephen M.; Grefenstette, Brian W. +7 more

NuSTAR is a highly sensitive focusing hard X-ray (HXR) telescope and has observed several small microflares in its initial solar pointings. In this paper, we present the first joint observation of a microflare with NuSTAR and Hinode/XRT on 2015 April 29 at ∼11:29 UT. This microflare shows the heating of material to several million Kelvin, observed…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 62
Solar Active Region Coronal Jets. II. Triggering and Evolution of Violent Jets
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa7945 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...844...28S

Panesar, Navdeep K.; Moore, Ronald L.; Sterling, Alphonse C. +2 more

We study a series of X-ray-bright, rapidly evolving active region coronal jets outside the leading sunspot of AR 12259, using Hinode/X-ray telescope, Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) data. The detailed evolution of such r…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode IRIS 62
GRB 161219B/SN 2016jca: A low-redshift gamma-ray burst supernova powered by radioactive heating
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731005 Bibcode: 2017A&A...605A.107C

Covino, S.; Sánchez-Ramírez, R.; D'Elia, V. +22 more

Since the first discovery of a broad-lined type Ic supernova (SN) with a long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) in 1998, fewer than fifty GRB-supernovae (SNe) have been discovered. The intermediate-luminosity Swift GRB 161219B and its associated supernova SN 2016jca, which occurred at a redshift of z = 0.1475, represents only the seventh GRB-SN to ha…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 62
First evidence of external disc photoevaporation in a low mass star forming region: the case of IM Lup
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slx037 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.468L.108H

Cleeves, L. Ilsedore; Facchini, Stefano; Clarke, Cathie J. +1 more

We model the radiatively driven flow from IM Lup - a large protoplanetary disc expected to be irradiated by only a weak external radiation field (at least 104 times lower than the ultraviolet field irradiating the Orion Nebula Cluster proplyds). We find that material at large radii (>400 au) in this disc is sufficiently weakly gravit…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 62
The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey. IV. Global properties of C III] emitters
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730985 Bibcode: 2017A&A...608A...4M

Feltre, Anna; Bacon, Roland; Inami, Hanae +12 more

The C III] λλ1907, 1909 emission doublet has been proposed as an alternative to Lyman-α in redshift confirmations of galaxies at z ≳ 6 since it is not attenuated by the largely neutral intergalactic medium at these redshifts and is believed to be strong in the young, vigorously star-forming galaxies present at these early cosmic times. We present …

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 62
Chemistry and Kinematics of the Late-forming Dwarf Irregular Galaxies Leo A, Aquarius, and Sagittarius DIG
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/834/1/9 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...834....9K

Skillman, Evan D.; Cole, Andrew A.; Held, Enrico V. +5 more

We present Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy of individual stars in the relatively isolated Local Group dwarf galaxies Leo A, Aquarius, and the Sagittarius dwarf irregular galaxy. The three galaxies—but especially Leo A and Aquarius—share in common delayed star formation histories (SFHs) relative to many other isolated dwarf galaxies. The stars in all thre…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 62
The ALMA Redshift 4 Survey (AR4S). I. The massive end of the z = 4 main sequence of galaxies
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629155 Bibcode: 2017A&A...599A.134S

Elbaz, D.; Leiton, R.; Okumura, K. +4 more

We introduce the ALMA Redshift 4 Survey (AR4S), a systematic ALMA survey of all the known galaxies with stellar mass (M) larger than 5 × 1010M at 3.5 <z< 4.7 in the GOODS-south, UDS and COSMOS CANDELS fields. The sample we have analyzed in this paper is composed of 96 galaxies observed with ALMA at 890 &mic…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel eHST 62
On the Connection between Turbulent Motions and Particle Acceleration in Galaxy Clusters
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa7c1a Bibcode: 2017ApJ...843L..29E

Paltani, S.; Gastaldello, F.; Tramacere, A. +5 more

Giant radio halos are megaparsec-scale diffuse radio sources associated with the central regions of galaxy clusters. The most promising scenario to explain the origin of these sources is that of turbulent re-acceleration, in which MeV electrons injected throughout the formation history of galaxy clusters are accelerated to higher energies by turbu…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 62
Herschel far-infrared photometry of the Swift Burst Alert Telescope active galactic nuclei sample of the local universe - III. Global star-forming properties and the lack of a connection to nuclear activity
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw3268 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.466.3161S

Mushotzky, Richard F.; Cowie, Lennox L.; Barger, Amy J. +3 more

We combine the Herschel Space Observatory PACS (Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer) and SPIRE (Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver) photometry with archival WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) photometry to construct the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for over 300 local (z < 0.05), ultrahard X-ray (14-195 keV) selec…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 62
Martian cratering 11. Utilizing decameter scale crater populations to study Martian history
DOI: 10.1111/maps.12807 Bibcode: 2017M&PS...52..493H

Daubar, I. J.; Hartmann, W. K.

New information has been obtained in recent years regarding formation rates and the production size-frequency distribution (PSFD) of decameter-scale primary Martian craters formed during recent orbiter missions. Here we compare the PSFD of the currently forming small primaries (P) with new data on the PSFD of the total small crater population that…

2017 Meteoritics and Planetary Science
MEx 62