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Probing the Hot X-Ray Gas in the Narrow-line Region of Mrk 3
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8c76 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...848...61B

Andrade-Santos, Felipe; Kraft, Ralph P.; Forman, William R. +2 more

We study the prototypical Seyfert 2 galaxy, Markarian 3, based on imaging and high-resolution spectroscopy observations taken by Chandra. We construct a deconvolved X-ray image, which reveals the S-shaped morphology of the hot gas in the narrow-line region (NLR). While this morphology is similar to the radio and [O III] emission, the distribution …

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 20
Direct Measurement of Anisotropic and Asymmetric Wave Vector Spectrum in Ion-scale Solar Wind Turbulence
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa9bf3 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...851L..11R

Escoubet, C. P.; Narita, Y.; Roberts, O. W.

This analysis represents the first time that a simultaneous measurement of parallel and perpendicular spectral indices at both inertial and kinetic scales has been made directly in wave vector space, using a single interval of solar wind plasma. An interferometric wave vector analysis method is applied to four-point magnetometer data from the Clus…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Cluster 20
Vertical magnetic field gradient in the photospheric layers of sunspots
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527060 Bibcode: 2017A&A...599A..35J

Joshi, Jayant; Lagg, Andreas; Hirzberger, Johann +2 more


Aims: We investigate the vertical gradient of the magnetic field of sunspots in the photospheric layer.
Methods: Independent observations were obtained with the Solar Optical Telescope/Spectropolarimeter (SOT/SP) on board the Hinode spacecraft and with the Tenrife Infrared Polarimeter-2 (TIP-2) mounted at the German Vacuum Tower Telescop…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hinode 20
Searching for Fossil Evidence of AGN Feedback in WISE-selected Stripe-82 Galaxies by Measuring the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/102 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...834..102S

Cohen, Seth; Joshi, Bhavin; Scannapieco, Evan +2 more

We directly measure the thermal energy of the gas surrounding galaxies through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (tSZ) effect. We perform a stacking analysis of microwave background images from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, around 1179 massive quiescent elliptical galaxies at 0.5 ≤ z ≤ 1.0 (“low-z”) and 3274 galaxies at 1.0 ≤ z ≤ 1.5 (“high-z”), s…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Planck eHST 20
Plateaus and sinuous ridges as the fingerprints of lava flow inflation in the Eastern Tharsis Plains of Mars
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.03.025 Bibcode: 2017JVGR..342...29B

Williams, David A.; Bleacher, Jacob E.; Crumpler, Larry S. +5 more

The Tharsis Montes rift aprons are composed of outpourings of lava from chaotic terrains to the northeast and southwest flank of each volcano. Sinuous and branching channel networks that are present on the rift aprons suggest the possibility of fluvial processes in their development, or erosion by rapidly emplaced lavas, but the style of lava flow…

2017 Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
MEx 20
A Challenging View of the 2015 Summer V404 Cyg Outburst at High Energy with INTEGRAL/SPI: The Finale
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/130 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...834..130J

Jourdain, Elisabeth; Roques, Jean-Pierre; Rodi, James

During its strong outburst of 2015 June/July, the X-ray transient V404 Cygni (=GS2023+338) was observed up to a level of 50 Crab in the hard X-ray domain. We focus here on a particularly intense episode preceeding a definitive decline of the source activity. We benefit from large signal-to-noise ratios to investigate the source spectral variabilit…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
INTEGRAL 20
Sulphur isotope mass-independent fractionation observed in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by Rosetta/ROSINA
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2534 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.469S.787C

Altwegg, K.; Balsiger, H.; Fuselier, S. A. +12 more

The knowledge about sulphur isotopic fractionation in volatile cometary species is limited as only measurements in five comets have been done and only for 34S/32S. The lack of information about the fractionation of 33S/32S makes it impossible to compare them with what is known from refractories. We prese…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosetta 20
CONSERT constrains the internal structure of 67P at a few metres size scale
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3132 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.469S.805C

Plettemeier, Dirk; Kofman, Wlodek; Herique, Alain +6 more

The internal properties of cometary nuclei are the best clues to the size distribution and properties of the early planetesimals that formed the planets during the early Solar system nebula processes. The CONSERT radar was designed to probe the interior of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with a wavelength of about 3 m. It was successfully operated…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosetta 20
Global permittivity mapping of the Martian surface from SHARAD
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.01.012 Bibcode: 2017E&PSL.462...55C

Mège, Daniel; Gurgurewicz, Joanna; Castaldo, Luigi +2 more

SHARAD is a subsurface sounding radar aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, capable of detecting dielectric discontinuities in the subsurface caused by compositional and/or structural changes. Echoes coming from the surface contain information on geometric properties at metre scale and on the permittivity of the upper layers of the Martian cr…

2017 Earth and Planetary Science Letters
MEx 20
A Controlled Study of Cold Dust Content in Galaxies from z = 0-2
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa76dc Bibcode: 2017ApJ...843...71K

Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.; Kirkpatrick, Allison; Kocevski, Dale D. +12 more

At z=1{--}3, the formation of new stars is dominated by dusty galaxies whose far-IR emission indicates they contain colder dust than local galaxies of a similar luminosity. We explore the reasons for the evolving IR emission of similar galaxies over cosmic time using (1) local galaxies from GOALS ({L}{IR}={10}11{--}{10}1…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel eHST 20