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Cosmic microwave background science at commercial airline altitudes
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slx040 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.469L...6F

Peiris, Hiranya V.; Verde, Licia; Feeney, Stephen M. +2 more

Obtaining high-sensitivity measurements of degree-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is the most direct path to detecting primordial gravitational waves. Robustly recovering any primordial signal from the dominant foreground emission will require high-fidelity observations at multiple frequencies, with excellent control of system…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Planck 1
Accurate Orbital Solution for the New and Metal-poor Eclipsing Binary Tycho 5227-1023-1
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6985 Bibcode: 2017ApJ...839...52T

Munari, U.; Zwitter, T.; Traven, G. +1 more

The orbit and physical parameters of the previously unsolved double-lined eclipsing binary Tyc 5227-1023-1, discovered during the search for RR Lyr variable candidate members of the Aquarius stream, are derived using high-resolution échelle spectroscopy and V,{I}\prime photometry. A synthetic spectral analysis of both components has be…

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia Hipparcos 1
Evidence for coherent spicule oscillations from correcting Hinode/SOT Ca II H in the south-east limb of the Sun
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx300 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.467.3393A

Ahangarzadeh Maralani, A. R.; Tavabi, E.; Ajabshirizadeh, A.

Wave theories of heating of the chromosphere, corona and solar wind due to photospheric fluctuations are strengthened by the existence of the wave coherency observed up to the transition region. The coherency of intensity oscillations of solar spicules was explored using the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on the Hinode spacecraft with increasing he…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hinode 1
Probing the nature of dark matter with deep XMM-Newton observations of the dwarf spheroidal galaxies
DOI: 10.1002/asna.201713344 Bibcode: 2017AN....338..287B

Boyarsky, A.; Ruchayskiy, O.

We report the results of the very large program with XMM-Newton (AO-14) devoted to deep observation of Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. The p-n junction (PN) camera shows a positive spectral feature at E = 3.54 ± 0.06 with a 2.3σ significance. The two Metal Oxide Semi-conductor (MOS) cameras show less-significant or no positive deviations, consisten…

2017 Astronomische Nachrichten
XMM-Newton 1
Estimating the chromospheric magnetic field from a revised NLTE modelling: the case of HR 7428
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx613 Bibcode: 2017MNRAS.468.3557B

Giarrusso, M.; Leone, F.; Frasca, A. +6 more

In this work, we use the semi-empirical atmospheric modelling method to obtain the chromospheric temperature, pressure, density and magnetic field distribution versus height in the K2 primary component of the RS CVn binary system HR 7428. While temperature, pressure and density are the standard output of the semi-empirical modelling technique, the…

2017 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IUE 1
Constraining galaxy cluster velocity field with the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich cross-bispectrum
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629687 Bibcode: 2017A&A...604A..93H

Hurier, G.

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects are produced by the interaction of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons with the ionized and diffuse gas of electrons inside galaxy clusters integrated along the line of sight. The two main effects are the thermal SZ (tSZ) produced by thermal pressure inside galaxy clusters and the kinematic SZ (kSZ) produc…

2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 1
Erratum: “On the Existence of the Kolmogorov Inertial Range in the Terrestrial Magnetosheath Turbulence” (2017, ApJL, 836, L10)
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa633c Bibcode: 2017ApJ...837L..31H

Sahraoui, F.; Deng, X. H.; Huang, S. Y. +2 more

2017 The Astrophysical Journal
Cluster 1
Spectroscopic studies of yellow supergiants in the Cepheid instability strip
DOI: 10.1134/S1063773717040090 Bibcode: 2017AstL...43..265U

Usenko, I. A.

High-resolution spectra of nine yellow nonvariable supergiants (NVSs) located within the canonical Cepheid instability strip from Sandage and Tammann (1969) ( α Aqr, ɛ Leo, µ Per, ω Gem, BD+60 2532, HD 172365, HD 187299, HD 190113, and HD 200102) were taken with the 1-m Zeiss and 6-m BTA telescopes at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of…

2017 Astronomy Letters
Hipparcos 1
Study of BL Lac objects in far infrared and submillimetre region
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-017-3114-z Bibcode: 2017Ap&SS.362..133S

Seal Braun, P.

Here 35 BL Lac objects are studied from far infrared to submillimetre region (60 µm–850 µm) using the observational data from IRAS, ISO and SCUBA. Twelve Fanaroff–Riley radio galaxies are also studied for comparison. Using the flux densities at the far infrared and submillimetre bands, the luminosities, dust temperatures and dust masse…

2017 Astrophysics and Space Science
ISO 1
ESASky: The whole of space Astronomy at your fingertips
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1610.09826 Bibcode: 2017hsa9.conf..660L

Giordano, F.; de Teodoro, P.; Baines, D. +11 more

ESASky is a new science-driven discovery portal for all ESA astronomical missions that gives users worldwide a simplified access to high-level science-ready products from ESA and other data providers. The tool features a sky exploration interface and a single/multiple target interface, and it requires no prior knowledge of specific details of each…

2017 Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics IX
XMM-Newton 1