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Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. III. Optical Continuum Emission and Broadband Time Delays in NGC 5548
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/821/1/56 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...821...56F

Im, M.; Geier, S.; Brandt, W. N. +94 more

We present ground-based optical photometric monitoring data for NGC 5548, part of an extended multiwavelength reverberation mapping campaign. The light curves have nearly daily cadence from 2014 January to July in nine filters (BVRI and ugriz). Combined with ultraviolet data from the Hubble Space Telescope and Swift, we confirm significant time de…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 267
Planck 2015 results. IX. Diffuse component separation: CMB maps
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525936 Bibcode: 2016A&A...594A...9P

Kneissl, R.; Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Boulanger, F. +237 more

We present foreground-reduced cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps derived from the full Planck data set in both temperature and polarization. Compared to the corresponding Planck 2013 temperature sky maps, the total data volume is larger by a factor of 3.2 for frequencies between 30 and 70 GHz, and by 1.9 for frequencies between 100 and 857 GHz…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 263
Eight per cent leakage of Lyman continuum photons from a compact, star-forming dwarf galaxy
DOI: 10.1038/nature16456 Bibcode: 2016Natur.529..178I

Schaerer, D.; Thuan, T. X.; Izotov, Y. I. +4 more

One of the key questions in observational cosmology is the identification of the sources responsible for ionization of the Universe after the cosmic ‘Dark Ages’, when the baryonic matter was neutral. The currently identified distant galaxies are insufficient to fully reionize the Universe by redshift z ≈ 6 (refs 1, 2, 3), but low-mass, star-formin…

2016 Nature
eHST 262
A homogeneous nucleus for comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from its gravity field
DOI: 10.1038/nature16535 Bibcode: 2016Natur.530...63P

Jorda, L.; Pätzold, M.; Sierks, H. +13 more

Cometary nuclei consist mostly of dust and water ice. Previous observations have found nuclei to be low-density and highly porous bodies, but have only moderately constrained the range of allowed densities because of the measurement uncertainties. Here we report the precise mass, bulk density, porosity and internal structure of the nucleus of come…

2016 Nature
Rosetta 261
Hi-GAL, the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey: photometric maps and compact source catalogues. First data release for the inner Milky Way: +68° ≥ l ≥ -70°
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526380 Bibcode: 2016A&A...591A.149M

Bernard, J. -P.; Martin, P. G.; Natoli, P. +61 more


Aims: We present the first public release of high-quality data products (DR1) from Hi-GAL, the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey. Hi-GAL is the keystone of a suite of continuum Galactic plane surveys from the near-IR to the radio and covers five wavebands at 70, 160, 250, 350 and 500 µm, encompassing the peak of the spectral energ…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel Planck 259
Kiloparsec-scale Dust Disks in High-redshift Luminous Submillimeter Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/103 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...833..103H

Smail, I.; Ivison, R. J.; Menten, K. M. +22 more

We present high-resolution (0.″16) 870 µm Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaging of 16 luminous ({L}{IR}∼ 4× {10}12 {L}) submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) from the ALESS survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South. This dust imaging traces the dust-obscured star formation in these z∼ 2.…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 258
The XXL Survey. I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526766 Bibcode: 2016A&A...592A...1P

Smith, G. P.; Chiappetti, L.; Altieri, B. +89 more

Context. The quest for the cosmological parameters that describe our universe continues to motivate the scientific community to undertake very large survey initiatives across the electromagnetic spectrum. Over the past two decades, the Chandra and XMM-Newton observatories have supported numerous studies of X-ray-selected clusters of galaxies, acti…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 253
On Galactic Density Modeling in the Presence of Dust Extinction
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/818/2/130 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...818..130B

Bovy, Jo; Rix, Hans-Walter; Finkbeiner, Douglas P. +2 more

Inferences about the spatial density or phase-space structure of stellar populations in the Milky Way require a precise determination of the effective survey volume. The volume observed by surveys such as Gaia or near-infrared spectroscopic surveys, which have good coverage of the Galactic midplane region, is highly complex because of the abundant…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 246
z ≳ 7 Galaxies with Red Spitzer/IRAC [3.6]-[4.5] Colors in the Full CANDELS Data Set: The Brightest-Known Galaxies at z ~ 7-9 and a Probable Spectroscopic Confirmation at z = 7.48
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/823/2/143 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...823..143R

Oesch, P. A.; van Dokkum, P.; Bouwens, R. J. +9 more

We identify four unusually bright (H {}160,{AB} < 25.5) galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Spitzer CANDELS data with probable redshifts z ∼ 7-9. These identifications include the brightest-known galaxies to date at z ≳ 7.5. As Y-band observations are not available over the full CANDELS program to perform a standard Lyman-…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 245
AIRUSE-LIFE+: a harmonized PM speciation and source apportionment in five southern European cities
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-3289-2016 Bibcode: 2016ACP....16.3289A

Amato, Fulvio; Alastuey, Andrés; Karanasiou, Angeliki +21 more

The AIRUSE-LIFE+ project aims at characterizing similarities and heterogeneities in particulate matter (PM) sources and contributions in urban areas from southern Europe. Once the main PMx sources are identified, AIRUSE aims at developing and testing the efficiency of specific and non-specific measures to improve urban air quality. This article re…

2016 Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics
VenusExpress 240