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Probing for Evidence of Plumes on Europa with HST/STIS
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/829/2/121 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...829..121S

Deustua, S. E.; Sparks, W. B.; Hand, K. P. +3 more

Roth et al. (2014a) reported evidence for plumes of water venting from a southern high latitude region on Europa: spectroscopic detection of off-limb line emission from the dissociation products of water. Here, we present Hubble Space Telescope direct images of Europa in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) as it transited the smooth face of Jupiter to measu…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 174
Sulphur-bearing species in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2601 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.462S.253C

Altwegg, K.; Balsiger, H.; Berthelier, J. J. +15 more

Several sulphur-bearing species have already been observed in different families of comets. However, the knowledge on the minor sulphur species is still limited. The comet's sulphur inventory is closely linked to the pre-solar cloud and holds important clues to the degree of reprocessing of the material in the solar nebula and during comet accreti…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosetta 174
Evolution of the Dust Size Distribution of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from 2.2 au to Perihelion
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/821/1/19 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...821...19F

Jorda, L.; Lamy, P. L.; Bertaux, J. -L. +74 more

The Rosetta probe, orbiting Jupiter-family comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has been detecting individual dust particles of mass larger than 10-10 kg by means of the GIADA dust collector and the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera and Narrow Angle Camera since 2014 August and will continue until 2016 September. Detections of single dust particles …

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Rosetta 174
Planck 2015 results. XXVIII. The Planck Catalogue of Galactic cold clumps
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525819 Bibcode: 2016A&A...594A..28P

Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Boulanger, F.; Bernard, J. -P. +220 more

We present the Planck Catalogue of Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCC), an all-sky catalogue of Galactic cold clump candidates detected by Planck. This catalogue is the full version of the Early Cold Core (ECC) catalogue, which was made available in 2011 with the Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC) and which contained 915 high signal-to-noise s…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 172
Planck 2015 results. XXI. The integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525831 Bibcode: 2016A&A...594A..21P

Kneissl, R.; Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Bernard, J. -P. +229 more

This paper presents a study of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect from the Planck 2015 temperature and polarization data release. This secondary cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy caused by the large-scale time-evolving gravitational potential is probed from different perspectives. The CMB is cross-correlated with different large-sc…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 171
A combined transmission spectrum of the Earth-sized exoplanets TRAPPIST-1 b and c
DOI: 10.1038/nature18641 Bibcode: 2016Natur.537...69D

Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.; Valenti, Jeff A.; Wakeford, Hannah R. +11 more

Three Earth-sized exoplanets were recently discovered close to the habitable zone of the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 (ref. 3). The nature of these planets has yet to be determined, as their masses remain unmeasured and no observational constraint is available for the planetary population surrounding ultracool dwarfs, of which the TRAPPI…

2016 Nature
VenusExpress eHST 171
The VLT LEGA-C Spectroscopic Survey: The Physics of Galaxies at a Lookback Time of 7 Gyr
DOI: 10.3847/0067-0049/223/2/29 Bibcode: 2016ApJS..223...29V

Wolf, C.; Brammer, G.; Rix, H. -W. +17 more

The Large Early Galaxy Census (LEGA-C) is a Public Spectroscopic Survey of ∼3200 K-band selected galaxies at redshifts z = 0.6 - 1.0 with stellar masses {M}*\gt {10}10\quad {M}, conducted with VIMOS on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The survey is embedded in the COSMOS field (R.A. = 10h00; {decl}. = +2 {deg}). The 2…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
eHST 169
The Swift GRB Host Galaxy Legacy Survey. II. Rest-frame Near-IR Luminosity Distribution and Evidence for a Near-solar Metallicity Threshold
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/817/1/8 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...817....8P

Berger, E.; Chary, R.; Fynbo, J. P. U. +9 more

We present rest-frame near-IR (NIR) luminosities and stellar masses for a large and uniformly selected population of gamma-ray burst (GRB) host galaxies using deep Spitzer Space Telescope imaging of 119 targets from the Swift GRB Host Galaxy Legacy Survey spanning 0.03 < z < 6.3, and we determine the effects of galaxy evolution and chemical …

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 168
Improvement of cosmological neutrino mass bounds
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.083522 Bibcode: 2016PhRvD..94h3522G

Ho, Shirley; Mena, Olga; Gerbino, Martina +3 more

The most recent measurements of the temperature and low-multipole polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background from the Planck satellite, when combined with galaxy clustering data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey in the form of the full shape of the power spectrum, and with baryon acoustic oscillation measurements, …

2016 Physical Review D
Planck 168
Oblique Whistler-Mode Waves in the Earth's Inner Magnetosphere: Energy Distribution, Origins, and Role in Radiation Belt Dynamics
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-016-0252-5 Bibcode: 2016SSRv..200..261A

Agapitov, Oleksiy; Krasnoselskikh, Vladimir; Artemyev, Anton +3 more

In this paper we review recent spacecraft observations of oblique whistler-mode waves in the Earth's inner magnetosphere as well as the various consequences of the presence of such waves for electron scattering and acceleration. In particular, we survey the statistics of occurrences and intensity of oblique chorus waves in the region of the outer …

2016 Space Science Reviews
Cluster 167