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General circulation of Venus from a long-term synoptic study of tropospheric CO by Venus Express/VIRTIS
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.02.018 Bibcode: 2017Icar..289..173T

Tsang, Constantine C. C.; McGouldrick, Kevin

The understanding of spatial and temporal variations in tropospheric abundances of the trace gas carbon monoxide (CO) is key to understanding the deep atmospheric circulation on Venus. CO is entrained in the global circulation, as well as being key ingredients in the multi-reaction chemical cycle that creates and destroys the sulfuric acid that is…

2017 Icarus
VenusExpress 5
Inferring Compton-thick AGN candidates at z > 2 with Chandra using the >8 keV rest-frame spectral curvature
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1561 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.471..364B

Treister, E.; Salvato, M.; Comastri, A. +10 more

To fully understand cosmic black hole growth, we need to constrain the population of heavily obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at the peak of cosmic black hole growth (z ∼1-3). Sources with obscuring column densities higher than 1024 atoms cm-2, called Compton-thick (CT) AGNs, can be identified by excess X-ray emission a…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 5
Regional surface morphology of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from Rosetta/OSIRIS images: The southern hemisphere (Corrigendum)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201628634e Bibcode: 2017A&A...598C...2E

Jorda, L.; Lamy, P. L.; Lara, L. M. +49 more

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Rosetta 5
CARMA observations of massive Planck -discovered cluster candidates at z ≳ 0.5 associated with WISE overdensities: breaking the size-flux degeneracy
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2392 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.464.2378R

Shimwell, T.; Melin, J. -B.; Feroz, F. +4 more

We use a Bayesian software package to analyse CARMA-8 data towards 19 unconfirmed Planck Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-cluster candidates from Rodríguez-Gonzálvez et al. that are associated with significant overdensities in WISE. We use two cluster parameterizations, one based on a (fixed shape) generalized-NFW (gNFW) pressure profile and another on a β gas …

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Planck 5
The Evolution of Bulge-dominated Field Galaxies from z ≈ 1 to the Present
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8871 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...847...20W

Jørgensen, Inger; Woodrum, Charity; Demarco, Ricardo +4 more

We analyze the stellar populations and evolutionary history of bulge-dominated field galaxies at redshifts 0.3< z< 1.2 as part of the Gemini/Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Galaxy Cluster Project (GCP). High signal-to-noise optical spectroscopy from the Gemini Observatory and imaging from the HST are used to analyze a total of 43 galaxies, focu…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 5
Upper limit of helium-4 in the sunlit lunar exosphere during magnetotail passage under low solar wind condition: Result from CHACE aboard MIP in Chandrayaan-1
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.07.001 Bibcode: 2017Icar..297..189D

Bhardwaj, Anil; Sridharan, R.; Dhanya, M. B. +3 more

The outcome of efforts to detect He-4 in the sunlit lunar exosphere as evinced by the CHACE mass spectrometer aboard the Moon Impact Probe in Chandrayaan-1 is reported. The in situ observations by CHACE were carried out in the lunar dayside, covering a broad range of lunar latitudes, when the Moon was on the verge of exiting the Earth's magnetotai…

2017 Icarus
Chandrayaan-1 5
A jet-dominated model for a broad-band spectral energy distribution of the nearby low-luminosity active galactic nucleus in M94
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx514 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.468..435V

Connors, Riley; McHardy, Ian; Markoff, Sera +4 more

We have compiled a new multiwavelength spectral energy distribution (SED) for the closest obscured low-ionization emission-line region active galactic nucleus (AGN), NGC 4736, also known as M94. The SED comprises mainly high-resolution (mostly sub-arcsecond, or, at the distance to M94, ≲23 pc from the nucleus) observations from the literature, arc…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 5
Spectroscopic classification of X-ray sources in the Galactic Bulge Survey
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1303 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.470.4512W

Maccarone, T. J.; Udalski, A.; Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Z. +14 more

We present the classification of 26 optical counterparts to X-ray sources discovered in the Galactic Bulge Survey. We use (time-resolved) photometric and spectroscopic observations to classify the X-ray sources based on their multiwavelength properties. We find a variety of source classes, spanning different phases of stellar/binary evolution. We …

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 5
Local properties of the large-scale peaks of the CMB temperature
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/05/023 Bibcode: 2017JCAP...05..023M

Martínez-González, E.; Vielva, P.; Marcos-Caballero, A.

In the present work, we study the largest structures of the CMB temperature measured by Planck in terms of the most prominent peaks on the sky, which, in particular, are located in the southern galactic hemisphere. Besides these large-scale features, the well-known Cold Spot anomaly is included in the analysis. All these peaks would contribute sig…

2017 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Planck 5
The active nucleus of the ULIRG IRAS F00183-7111 viewed by NuSTAR
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730950 Bibcode: 2017A&A...606A.117I

Vignali, C.; Gilli, R.; Piconcelli, E. +6 more

We present an X-ray study of the ultra-luminous infrared galaxy IRAS F00183-7111 (z = 0.327), using data obtained from NuSTAR, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Suzaku and XMM-Newton. The Chandra imaging shows that a point-like X-ray source is located at the nucleus of the galaxy at energies above 2 keV. However, the point source resolves into diffuse em…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Suzaku XMM-Newton 5