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HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG. VI. GJ 3942 b behind dominant activity signals
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731307 Bibcode: 2017A&A...608A..63P

Rebolo, R.; Ribas, I.; Morales, J. C. +29 more

Context. Short- to mid-term magnetic phenomena on the stellar surface of M-type stars can resemble the effects of planets in radial velocity data, and may also hide them.
Aims: We analyze 145 spectroscopic HARPS-N observations of GJ 3942 taken over the past five years and additional photometry in order to disentangle stellar activity effects …

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 19
XMM-Newton observation of MV Lyr and the sandwiched model confirmation
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx513 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.468.1183D

Ness, J. -U.; Dobrotka, A.; Nucita, A. A. +1 more

We present spectral and timing analyses of simultaneous X-ray and UV observations of the VY Scl system MV Lyr taken by XMM-Newton, containing the longest continuous X-ray + UV light curve and highest signal-to-noise X-ray (EPIC) spectrum to date. The RGS spectrum displays emission lines plus continuum, confirming model approaches to be based on th…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 19
HD 164492C: a rapidly rotating, Hα-bright, magnetic early B star associated with a 12.5 d spectroscopic binary
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2799 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.465.2517W

Rivinius, Th.; Wade, G. A.; Alecian, E. +6 more

We employ high-resolution spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry to derive the physical properties and magnetic characteristics of the multiple system HD 164492C, located in the young open cluster M20. The spectrum reveals evidence of three components: a broad-lined early B star (HD 164492C1), a narrow-lined early B star (HD 164492C2) and a late B st…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 19
D/H Ratios on Saturn and Jupiter from Cassini CIRS
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aa899d Bibcode: 2017AJ....154..178P

Fletcher, L. N.; Lellouch, E.; Irwin, P. G. J. +7 more

We present new measurements of the deuterium abundance on Jupiter and Saturn, showing evidence that Saturn's atmosphere contains less deuterium than Jupiter's. We analyzed far-infrared spectra from the Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer to measure the abundance of HD on both giant planets. Our estimate of the Jovian D/H = (2.95 ± 0.55) × 10

2017 The Astronomical Journal
ISO 19
Search for Hydrogenated C60 (Fulleranes) in Circumstellar Envelopes
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa71ac Bibcode: 2017ApJ...845...76Z

Zhang, Yong; Kwok, Sun; Sadjadi, SeyedAbdolreza +1 more

The recent detection of fullerene (C60) in space and the positive assignment of five diffuse interstellar bands to {{{C}}}60+ reinforce the notion that fullerene-related compounds can be efficiently formed in circumstellar envelopes and be present in significant quantities in the interstellar medium. Experimental s…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
ISO 19
The Relation Between Magnetic Fields and X-ray Emission for Solar Microflares and Active Regions
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-017-1146-8 Bibcode: 2017SoPh..292..120K

Kirichenko, A. S.; Bogachev, S. A.

We present the result of a comparison between magnetic field parameters and the intensity of X-ray emission for solar microflares with Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) classes from A0.02 to B5.1. For our study, we used the monochromatic MgXII Imaging Spectroheliometer (MISH), the Full-disk EUV Telescope (FET), and the Sol…

2017 Solar Physics
SOHO 19
Proper Motions of Jets on the Kiloparsec Scale: New Results with HST
DOI: 10.3390/galaxies5010008 Bibcode: 2017Galax...5....8M

Anderson, Jay; Sparks, William B.; Georganopoulos, Markos +7 more

The Hubble Space Telescope recently celebrated 25 years of operation. Some of the first images of extragalactic optical jets were taken by HST in the mid-1990s; with time baselines on the order of 20 years and state-of-the-art astrometry techniques, we are now able to reach accuracies in proper-motion measurements on the order of a tenth of a mill…

2017 Galaxies
eHST 19
The Radial Distributions of the Two Main-sequence Components in the Young Massive Star Cluster NGC 1856
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/156 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...834..156L

Milone, Antonino P.; Deng, Licai; de Grijs, Richard +1 more

The recent discovery of double main sequences in the young, massive star cluster NGC 1856 has caught significant attention. The observations can be explained by invoking two stellar generations with different ages and metallicities or by a single generation of stars composed of two populations characterized by different rotation rates. We analyzed…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 19
Background derivation and image flattening: getimages
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730925 Bibcode: 2017A&A...607A..64M

Men'shchikov, A.

Modern high-resolution images obtained with space observatories display extremely strong intensity variations across images on all spatial scales. Source extraction in such images with methods based on global thresholding may bring unacceptably large numbers of spurious sources in bright areas while failing to detect sources in low-background or l…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 19
Nitric oxide nightglow and Martian mesospheric circulation from MAVEN/IUVS observations and LMD-MGCM predictions
DOI: 10.1002/2016JA023523 Bibcode: 2017JGRA..122.5782S

Forget, F.; Montmessin, F.; González-Galindo, F. +19 more

We report results from a study of nitric oxide nightglow over the northern hemisphere of Mars during winter, the southern hemisphere during fall equinox, and equatorial latitudes during summer in the northern hemisphere based on observations of the δ and γ bands between 190 and 270 nm by the Imaging UltraViolet Spectrograph (IUVS) on the Mars Atmo…

2017 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
MEx 19