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Spectral moments for the analysis of frequency shift, broadening, and wavevector anisotropy in a turbulent flow
DOI: 10.1186/s40623-017-0658-7 Bibcode: 2017EP&S...69...73N

Narita, Y.

Turbulence represents essentially random fluctuations that evolve both spatially and temporally, and appear in various geophysical and space science applications. A spectral moment method is proposed to characterize the turbulence energy spectra in the wavevector and frequency domain in the lowest-order sense. The frequency shift velocity and the …

2017 Earth, Planets and Space
Cluster 7
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: A First Look at SCUBA-2 Observations of the Lupus I Molecular Cloud
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx042 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.467..812M

White, G. J.; Di Francesco, J.; Marsh, K. +50 more

This paper presents observations of the Lupus I molecular cloud at 450 and 850 µm with Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA-2) as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Gould Belt Survey (JCMT GBS). Nine compact sources, assumed to be the discs of young stellar objects (YSOs), 12 extended protostellar, pre-stellar and starless…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 7
On the ancient field blue straggler HR 5455
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1784 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.471.1888F

Fuhrmann, Klaus; Chini, Rolf

We report the discovery of HR 5455 as an ancient field blue straggler that upon Roche lobe overflow from its evolved companion, now a white dwarf, has been rejuvenated to a MBS = 1.32 ± 0.05 M bright F6V source with a purported age of τ ≃ 1.7 Gyr. The unequivocal evidence for HR 5455 being instead a τ ≃ 12 Gyr old Population…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hipparcos 7
The nearby spiral density-wave structure of the Galaxy
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx610 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.468.3361G

Hou, Li-Gang; Jiang, Ing-Guey; Griv, Evgeny

Accurate measurements of distances and line-of-sight velocities of 19291 intermediate-old giant stars in the near-infrared with typical uncertainties in the distances and velocities of 5 per cent and 0.1 km s-1 have recently been carried out to examine the Galactic disc with the APOGEE survey. In the framework of the Lin-Shu density-wav…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 7
Chandra Observations of the Field Containing HESS J1616-508
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6f07 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...841...81H

Pavlov, George G.; Kargaltsev, Oleg; Hare, Jeremy +2 more

We report the results of three Chandra observations covering most of the extent of the TeV γ-ray source HESS J1616-508 and a search for a lower-energy counterpart to this source. We detect 56 X-ray sources, 37 of which have counterparts at lower frequencies, including a young massive star cluster, but none of them appear to be a particularly promi…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
INTEGRAL 7
First detection of a THz water maser in NGC 7538-IRS1 with SOFIA and new 22 GHz e-MERLIN maps
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731056 Bibcode: 2017A&A...606A..52H

Menten, K. M.; Schneider, N.; Bontemps, S. +7 more

Context. The formation of massive stars (M> 10M, L > 103L) is still not well understood. Accumulating a large amount of mass infalling within a single entity in spite of radiation pressure is possible if, in addition to several other conditions, enough thermal energy is released. Despite numerous water line…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 7
Search for Exoplanets around Northern Circumpolar Stars. II. The Detection of Radial Velocity Variations in M Giant Stars HD 36384, HD 52030, and HD 208742
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa7577 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...844...36L

Lee, Byeong-Cheol; Park, Myeong-Gu; Han, Inwoo +8 more

We present the detection of long-period RV variations in HD 36384, HD 52030, and HD 208742 by using the high-resolution, fiber-fed Bohyunsan Observatory Echelle Spectrograph (BOES) for the precise radial velocity (RV) survey of about 200 northern circumpolar stars. Analyses of RV data, chromospheric activity indicators, and bisector variations spa…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 7
FUSE Spectroscopy of the Accreting Hot Components in Symbiotic Variables
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aa62a9 Bibcode: 2017AJ....153..160S

Sion, Edward M.; Godon, Patrick; Mikolajewska, Joanna +2 more

We have conducted a spectroscopic analysis of the far-ultraviolet archival spectra of four symbiotic variables, EG And, AE Ara, CQ Dra, and RW Hya. RW Hya and EG And have never had a recorded outburst, while CQ Dra and AE Ara have outburst histories. We analyze these systems while they are in quiescence in order to help reveal the physical propert…

2017 The Astronomical Journal
IUE eHST 7
Ages and structural and dynamical parameters of two globular clusters in the M81 group
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx761 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.468.4513M

Zou, Hu; Nie, Jundan; Yuan, Qirong +10 more

GC-1 and GC-2 are two globular clusters (GCs) in the remote halo of M81 and M82 in the M81 group discovered by Jang et al. using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images. These two GCs were observed as part of the Beijing-Arizona-Taiwan-Connecticut (BATC) Multicolor Sky Survey using 14 intermediate-band filters covering a wavelength range of 4000-1…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 7
Pinnacles on the 67P comet nucleus: Evidence for large scale erosion and hierarchical agglomeration of the nucleus
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2016.11.005 Bibcode: 2017P&SS..140...80B

Keller, H. U.; Mall, U.; Basilevsky, A. T. +3 more

2017 Planetary and Space Science
Rosetta 7