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Testing the Recovery of Intrinsic Galaxy Sizes and Masses of z ∼ 2 Massive Galaxies Using Cosmological Simulations
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa7d4b Bibcode: 2017ApJ...844L...6P

Barro, Guillermo; Faucher-Giguère, Claude-André; Kriek, Mariska +5 more

Accurate measurements of galaxy masses and sizes are key to tracing galaxy evolution over time. Cosmological zoom-in simulations provide an ideal test bed for assessing the recovery of galaxy properties from observations. Here, we utilize galaxies with {M}* ∼ {10}10{--}{10}11.5 {M} at z ∼ 1.7-2 from th…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 28
Recurrence rate and magma effusion rate for the latest volcanism on Arsia Mons, Mars
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.10.040 Bibcode: 2017E&PSL.458..170R

Richardson, Jacob A.; Wilson, James A.; Connor, Charles B. +2 more

Magmatism and volcanism have evolved the Martian lithosphere, surface, and climate throughout the history of Mars. Constraining the rates of magma generation and timing of volcanism on the surface clarifies the ways in which magma and volcanic activity have shaped these Martian systems. The ages of lava flows on other planets are often estimated u…

2017 Earth and Planetary Science Letters
MEx 28
The Green Bank Ammonia Survey: Observations of Hierarchical Dense Gas Structures in Cepheus-L1251
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa93ec Bibcode: 2017ApJ...850....3K

Caselli, Paola; Di Francesco, James; Rosolowsky, Erik +20 more

We use Green Bank Ammonia Survey observations of NH3 (1, 1) and (2, 2) emission with 32″ FWHM resolution from a ∼10 pc2 portion of the Cepheus-L1251 molecular cloud to identify hierarchical dense gas structures. Our dendrogram analysis of the NH3 data results in 22 top-level structures, which reside within 13 lower…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 28
Sagittarius A* High-energy X-Ray Flare Properties during NuSTAR Monitoring of the Galactic Center from 2012 to 2015
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa74e8 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...843...96Z

Hailey, Charles J.; Mori, Kaya; Zhang, Shuo +17 more

Understanding the origin of the flaring activity from the Galactic center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is a major scientific goal of the NuSTAR Galactic plane survey campaign. We report on the data obtained between 2012 July and 2015 April, including 27 observations on Sgr A*, with a total exposure of ≃ 1 Ms. We found a total of 10 X-ray…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 28
Multiband photometry and spectroscopy of an all-sky sample of bright white dwarfs
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2243 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.472.4173R

Geier, S.; Hermes, J. J.; Gänsicke, B. T. +11 more

The upcoming NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will obtain space-based uninterrupted light curves for a large sample of bright white dwarfs distributed across the entire sky, providing a very rich resource for asteroseismological studies and the search for transits from planetary debris. We have compiled an all-sky catalogue of ult…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 28
The ALMA Frontier Fields Survey. II. Multiwavelength Photometric analysis of 1.1 mm continuum sources in Abell 2744, MACSJ0416.1-2403 and MACSJ1149.5+2223
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730628 Bibcode: 2017A&A...604A.132L

Kneissl, R.; Demarco, R.; Treister, E. +32 more

Context. The Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescope surveys of the Frontier Fields provide extremely deep images around six massive, strong-lensing clusters of galaxies. The ALMA Frontier Fields survey aims to cover the same fields at 1.1 mm, with maps reaching (unlensed) sensitivities of <70 µJy, in order to explore the properties of backgro…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel eHST 28
Neutral ISM, Lyα, and Lyman-continuum in the Nearby Starburst Haro11
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa5d0a Bibcode: 2017ApJ...837...29R

Hayes, Matthew; Östlin, Göran; Rivera-Thorsen, T. Emil +1 more

Star-forming galaxies are believed to be a major source of Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation responsible for reionizing the early universe. Direct observations of escaping ionizing radiation have however been sparse and with low escape fractions. In the local universe, only 10 emitters have been observed, with typical escape fractions of a few perce…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 28
Mirror Instability in the Turbulent Solar Wind
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa67e0 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...838..158H

Franci, Luca; Landi, Simone; Hellinger, Petr +2 more

The relationship between a decaying strong turbulence and the mirror instability in a slowly expanding plasma is investigated using two-dimensional hybrid expanding box simulations. We impose an initial ambient magnetic field perpendicular to the simulation box, and we start with a spectrum of large-scale, linearly polarized, random-phase Alfvénic…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Cluster 28
Rotating Magnetic Structures Associated with a Quasi-circular Ribbon Flare
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa5eac Bibcode: 2017ApJ...836..235L

Yang, Bo; Yang, Jiayan; Bi, Yi +4 more

We present the detection of a small eruption and the associated quasi-circular ribbon flare during the emergence of a bipole occurring on 2015 February 3. Under a fan dome, a sigmoid was rooted in a single magnetic bipole, which was encircled by negative polarity. The nonlinear force-free field extrapolation shows the presence of twisted field lin…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
IRIS 28
The Frequency-dependent Damping of Slow Magnetoacoustic Waves in a Sunspot Umbral Atmosphere
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa86b5 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...847....5K

Erdélyi, R.; Christian, D. J.; Krishna Prasad, S. +5 more

High spatial and temporal resolution images of a sunspot, obtained simultaneously in multiple optical and UV wavelengths, are employed to study the propagation and damping characteristics of slow magnetoacoustic waves up to transition region heights. Power spectra are generated from intensity oscillations in sunspot umbra, across multiple atmosphe…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
IRIS 28