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The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XII. Three giant planets suitable for astrometric mass determination with Gaia
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201630089 Bibcode: 2017A&A...601A...9R

Bouchy, F.; Deleuil, M.; Moutou, C. +22 more

We present new radial velocity measurements for three low-metallicity solar-like stars observed with the SOPHIE spectrograph and its predecessor ELODIE, both installed at the 193 cm telescope of the Haute-Provence Observatory, allowing the detection and characterization of three new giant extrasolar planets in intermediate periods of 1.7 to 3.7 yr…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 13
A Complete Census of Hα Emitters in NGC 6397
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa7ca6 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...845....4P

Pallanca, Cristina; Mucciarelli, Alessio; Ferraro, Francesco R. +3 more

We used a data set of archival Hubble Space Telescope images obtained through the F555W, F814W, and F656N filters to perform a complete search for objects showing {{H}}α emission in the globular cluster NGC 6397. As a photometric diagnostic, we used the {(V-{{H}}α )}0 color excess in the {(V-{{H}}α )}0-{(V-I)}0 col…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 13
Near-periodical spin period evolution in the binary system LMC X-4
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2429 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.464.2039M

Tsygankov, S.; Lutovinov, A.; Molkov, S. +2 more

In this paper, we investigated the long-term evolution of the pulse period in the high-mass X-ray binary LMC X-4 by taking advantage of more than 43 yr of measurements in the X-ray domain. Our analysis revealed for the first time that the source is displaying near-periodical variations of its spin period on a time-scale of roughly 6.8 yr, making L…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 13
Minimal Magnetic States of the Sun and the Solar Wind: Implications for the Origin of the Slow Solar Wind
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-015-0224-1 Bibcode: 2017SSRv..210..227C

von Steiger, R.; Cliver, E. W.

During the last decade it has been proposed that both the Sun and the solar wind have minimum magnetic states, lowest order levels of magnetism that underlie the 11-yr cycle as well as longer-term variability. Here we review the literature on basal magnetic states at the Sun and in the heliosphere and draw a connection between the two based on the…

2017 Space Science Reviews
SOHO 13
SHARDS Frontier Fields: Physical Properties of a Low-mass Lyα Emitter at z = 5.75
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa917f Bibcode: 2017ApJ...849...82H

Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Richard, Johan; Conselice, Christopher J. +20 more

We analyze the properties of a multiply imaged Lyα (Lyα) emitter at z = 5.75 identified through SHARDS Frontier Fields intermediate-band imaging of the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) cluster Abell 370. The source, A370-L57, has low intrinsic luminosity (M UV ∼ -16.5), steep UV spectral index (β = -2.4 ± 0.1), and extreme rest-frame equiva…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 13
Growth rate measurement of ULF waves in the ion foreshock
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL072692 Bibcode: 2017GeoRL..44.2120D

Hietala, H.; Angelopoulos, V.; Dorfman, S. +1 more

We report the first satellite measurement of the ultralow frequency (ULF) wave growth rate in the upstream region of the Earth's bow shock. We employ the two identical ARTEMIS spacecraft orbiting the Moon to characterize crescent-shaped reflected ion beams and relatively monochromatic ULF waves. The event presented here features spacecraft separat…

2017 Geophysical Research Letters
Cluster 12
Characterizing dw1335-29, a recently discovered dwarf satellite of M83
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw3025 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.465.5026C

Bell, Eric F.; Monachesi, Antonela; Bailin, Jeremy +4 more

The number, distribution and properties of dwarf satellites are crucial probes of the physics of galaxy formation at low masses and the response of satellite galaxies to the tidal and gas dynamical effects of their more massive parent. To make progress, it is necessary to augment and solidify the census of dwarf satellites of galaxies outside the …

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 12
Gaia eclipsing binary and multiple systems. Supervised classification and self-organizing maps
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629710 Bibcode: 2017A&A...603A.117S

Rimoldini, L.; Holl, B.; Mowlavi, N. +6 more

Context. Large surveys producing tera- and petabyte-scale databases require machine-learning and knowledge discovery methods to deal with the overwhelming quantity of data and the difficulties of extracting concise, meaningful information with reliable assessment of its uncertainty. This study investigates the potential of a few machine-learning m…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia Hipparcos 12
Calibrating the Planck Cluster Mass Scale with Cluster Velocity Dispersions
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa7063 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...844..101A

Chary, Ranga-Ram; Stern, Daniel; Shim, Hyunjin +7 more

We measure the Planck cluster mass bias using dynamical mass measurements based on velocity dispersions of a subsample of 17 Planck-detected clusters. The velocity dispersions were calculated using redshifts determined from spectra that were obtained at the Gemini observatory with the GMOS multi-object spectrograph. We correct our estimates for ef…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Planck 12
Pushing the limits: detecting H2 emission from faint bipolar planetary nebulae in the IPHAS sample
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1519 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.470.3707R

Guerrero, M. A.; Santamaría, E.; Ramos-Larios, G. +1 more

We have obtained deep narrowband images in the near-infrared H2 λ2.122 µm emission line for a sample of 15 faint Isaac Newton Telescope Photometric H α Survey (IPHAS) bipolar planetary nebulae (PNe) to search for molecular material. H2 emission is found in most of them (14 out of 15), mostly associated with rings at the…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 12