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Structure and variability in the corona of the ultrafast rotator LO Pegasi
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629482 Bibcode: 2017A&A...602A..26L

Schmitt, J. H. M. M.; Singh, K. P.; Lalitha, S.

Context. Low-mass ultrafast rotators show the typical signatures of magnetic activity and are known to produce flares, probably as a result of magnetic reconnection. As a consequence, the coronae of these stars exhibit very large X-ray luminosities and high plasma temperatures, as well as a pronounced inverse FIP effect.
Aims: To probe the re…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 3
Young, active radio stars in the AB Doradus moving group
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629899 Bibcode: 2017A&A...602A..57A

Ros, E.; Hormuth, F.; Ortiz, J. L. +5 more

Context. Precise determination of stellar masses is necessary to test the validity of pre-main-sequence (PMS) stellar evolutionary models, whose predictions are in disagreement with measurements for masses below 1.2 M. To improve such a test, and based on our previous studies, we selected the AB Doradus moving group (AB Dor-MG) as the …

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 3
Gaia and VLT astrometry of faint stars: Precision of Gaia DR1 positions and updated VLT parallaxes of ultracool dwarfs
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731544 Bibcode: 2017A&A...606A..90L

Sahlmann, J.; Lazorenko, P. F.


Aims: We compared positions of the Gaia first data release (DR1) secondary data set at its faint limit with CCD positions of stars in 20 fields observed with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) FORS2. We aim at an independent verification of the DR1 astrometric precision taking advantage of the FORS2 position uncertainties which are smaller than o…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 3
Reconstructing the cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens using the singular perturbative approach.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx085 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.467.1997A

Alard, C.

The reconstruction of the cosmic horseshoe gravitational lens using the perturbative method reveals the presence of significant third-order terms. The presence of these higher order terms is apparent in the numerical expansion of the perturbative fields in Fourier series. The expansion of the fields at order 2 produces a higher value of the chi-sq…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 3
Formation of Radio Type II Bursts During a Multiple Coronal Mass Ejection Event
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-017-1208-y Bibcode: 2017SoPh..292..183A

Valtonen, Eino; Pohjolainen, Silja; Al-Hamadani, Firas

We study the solar event on 27 September 2001 that consisted of three consecutive coronal mass ejections (CMEs) originating from the same active region, which were associated with several periods of radio type II burst emission at decameter-hectometer (DH) wavelengths. Our analysis shows that the first radio burst originated from a low-density env…

2017 Solar Physics
SOHO 3
Photometric and spectroscopic variability of the B5IIIe star HD 171219
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629177 Bibcode: 2017A&A...603A..41A

Poretti, E.; Rainer, M.; Uytterhoeven, K. +11 more

We analyzed the star HD 171219, one of the relatively bright Be stars observed in the seismo field of the CoRoT satellite, in order to determine its physical and pulsation characteristics. Classical Be stars are main-sequence objects of mainly B-type, whose spectra show, or have shown at some epoch, Balmer lines in emission and an infrared excess.…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
CoRoT 3
Statistical survey of day-side magnetospheric current flow using Cluster observations: magnetopause
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-35-645-2017 Bibcode: 2017AnGeo..35..645L

Fornaçon, Karl-Heinz; Glassmeier, Karl-Heinz; Liebert, Evelyn +2 more

We present a statistical survey of current structures observed by the Cluster spacecraft at high-latitude day-side magnetopause encounters in the close vicinity of the polar cusps. Making use of the curlometer technique and the fluxgate magnetometer data, we calculate the 3-D current densities and investigate the magnetopause current direction, lo…

2017 Annales Geophysicae
Cluster 3
Dual E × B flow responses in the dayside ionosphere to a sudden IMF By rotation
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL073374 Bibcode: 2017GeoRL..44.6525E

Trattner, K. J.; Eriksson, S.; Baker, J. B. H. +3 more

We report for the first time a dual transition state in the dayside ionosphere following a sudden rotation of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) in the upstream magnetosheath from IMF <fi>B</fi><fi>y</fi> < 0 to <fi>B</fi><fi>y</fi> > 0 during <fi>B</fi>

2017 Geophysical Research Letters
Cluster 3
The dusty silhouette jet HH 1019 in the Carina Nebula
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx386 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.467.4441R

Smith, Nathan; Bally, John; Reiter, Megan +1 more

We report the discovery in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of the new Herbig-Haro jet, HH 1019, located near the Tr 14 cluster in the Carina Nebula. Like other HH jets in the region, this bipolar collimated flow emerges from the head of a dark dust pillar. However, HH 1019 is unique because - unlike all other HH jets known to date - it is iden…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 3
A deep staring campaign in the σ Orionis cluster. Variability in substellar members
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730973 Bibcode: 2017A&A...608A..66E

Eislöffel, J.; Scholz, A.; Jayawardhana, R. +2 more

Context. The young star cluster near σ Orionis is one of the primary environments to study the properties of young brown dwarfs down to masses comparable to those of giant planets.
Aims: Deep optical imaging is used to study time-domain properties of young brown dwarfs over typical rotational timescales and to search for new substellar and pl…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 3