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The Structure of Chariklo’s Rings from Stellar Occultations
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aa830d Bibcode: 2017AJ....154..144B

Colas, F.; Bérard, D.; Kervella, P. +79 more

Two narrow and dense rings (called C1R and C2R) were discovered around the Centaur object (10199) Chariklo during a stellar occultation observed on 2013 June 3. Following this discovery, we planned observations of several occultations by Chariklo’s system in order to better characterize the physical properties of the ring and main body. Here, we u…

2017 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 35
A First Comparison of Millimeter Continuum and Mg II Ultraviolet Line Emission from the Solar Chromosphere
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa844c Bibcode: 2017ApJ...845L..19B

De Pontieu, B.; Schmit, D.; Leenaarts, J. +4 more

We present joint observations of the Sun by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Both millimeter/submillimeter-λ continuum emission and ultraviolet (UV) line emission originate from the solar chromosphere and both have the potential to serve as powerful and complementary diag…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
IRIS 34
Modeling dust emission in the Magellanic Clouds with Spitzer and Herschel
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629133 Bibcode: 2017A&A...601A..55C

Gordon, Karl D.; Bot, Caroline; Chastenet, Jérémy +4 more

Context. Dust modeling is crucial to infer dust properties and budget for galaxy studies. However, there are systematic disparities between dust grain models that result in corresponding systematic differences in the inferred dust properties of galaxies. Quantifying these systematics requires a consistent fitting analysis.
Aims: We compare th…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 34
Cluster and field elliptical galaxies at z 1.3. The marginal role of the environment and the relevance of the galaxy central regions
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201628866 Bibcode: 2017A&A...597A.122S

Marchesini, D.; Gargiulo, A.; Saracco, P. +1 more


Aims: The aim of this work is twofold: first, to assess whether the population of elliptical galaxies in cluster at z 1.3 differs from the population in the field and whether their intrinsic structure depends on the environment where they belong; second, to constrain their properties 9 Gyr back in time through the study of their scaling relat…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 34
Reconstruction of constant slow-roll inflation
DOI: 10.1007/s11433-017-9065-4 Bibcode: 2017SCPMA..60i0411G

Gao, Qing

Using the relations between the slow-roll parameters and the power spectra for the single field slow-roll inflation, we derive the scalar spectral tilt n s and the tensor to scalar ratio r for the constant slow-roll inflation, and obtain the constraint on the slow-roll parameter η from the Planck 2015 results. The inflationary potenti…

2017 Science China Physics, Mechanics, and Astronomy
Planck 34
Far-infrared observations of a massive cluster forming in the Monoceros R2 filament hub
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201630039 Bibcode: 2017A&A...607A..22R

Bernard, J. -P.; Hill, T.; White, G. J. +29 more

We present far-infrared observations of Monoceros R2 (a giant molecular cloud at approximately 830 pc distance, containing several sites of active star formation), as observed at 70 µm, 160 µm, 250 µm, 350 µm, and 500 µm by the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) and Spectral and Photometric Imaging Rec…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 34
Star Formation at z = 2.481 in the Lensed Galaxy SDSS J1110 = 6459. I. Lens Modeling and Source Reconstruction
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa7756 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...843...78J

Rigby, Jane R.; Florian, Michael; Whitaker, Katherine E. +6 more

Using the combined resolving power of the Hubble Space Telescope and gravitational lensing, we resolve star-forming structures in a z∼ 2.5 galaxy on scales much smaller than the usual kiloparsec diffraction limit of HST. SGAS J111020.0+645950.8 is a clumpy, star-forming galaxy lensed by the galaxy cluster SDSS J1110+6459 at z=0.659, with a total m…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 34
The highly active Anhur-Bes regions in the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet: results from OSIRIS/ROSETTA observations
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1275 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.469S..93F

Jorda, L.; Lamy, P. L.; Bertaux, J. -L. +51 more

The Southern hemisphere of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet has become visible from Rosetta only since 2015 March. It was illuminated during the perihelion passage and therefore it contains the regions that experienced the strongest heating and erosion rates, thus exposing the sub-surface most pristine material. In this work we investigate, tha…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosetta 34
The “UV-route” to Search for Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Clusters: First Results from the HST UV Legacy Survey
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6891 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...839...64R

Dalessandro, E.; Nardiello, D.; Vesperini, E. +4 more

We used data from the Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters to select the Blue Straggler Star (BSS) population in four intermediate/high density systems (namely NGC 2808, NGC 6388, NGC 6541, and NGC 7078) through a “UV-guided search.” This procedure consists of using the F275W images in each cluster to construct the…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 34
Importance of CME Radial Expansion on the Ability of Slow CMEs to Drive Shocks
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8ef9 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...848...75L

Lugaz, Noé; Farrugia, Charles J.; Winslow, Reka M. +3 more

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) may disturb the solar wind by overtaking it or expanding into it, or both. CMEs whose front moves faster in the solar wind frame than the fast magnetosonic speed drive shocks. Such shocks are important contributors to space weather, by triggering substorms, compressing the magnetosphere, and accelerating particles. In…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 34