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The physical and chemical structure of Sagittarius B2. I. Three-dimensional thermal dust and free-free continuum modeling on 100 au to 45 pc scales
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527311 Bibcode: 2016A&A...588A.143S

Csengeri, T.; Comito, C.; Schilke, P. +8 more

Context. We model the dust and free-free continuum emission in the high-mass star-forming region Sagittarius B2.
Aims: We want to reconstruct the 3D density and dust temperature distribution, as a crucial input to follow-up studies of the gas velocity field and molecular abundances.
Methods: We employ the 3D radiative transfer program RA…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 122
Planck intermediate results. XXXVII. Evidence of unbound gas from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526328 Bibcode: 2016A&A...586A.140P

Kneissl, R.; Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Wang, W. +189 more

By looking at the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (kSZ) in Planck nominal mission data, we present a significant detection of baryons participating in large-scale bulk flows around central galaxies (CGs) at redshift z ≈ 0.1. We estimate the pairwise momentum of the kSZ temperature fluctuations at the positions of the Central Galaxy Catalogue (CGC…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 122
The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS). Mrk 1018 returns to the shadows after 30 years as a Seyfert 1
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629102 Bibcode: 2016A&A...593L...8M

Combes, F.; Scharwächter, J.; Eckart, A. +10 more

We report the discovery that the known "changing look" AGN Mrk 1018 has changed spectral type for a second time. New VLT-MUSE data taken in 2015 as part of the Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS) shows that the AGN has returned to its original Seyfert 1.9 classification. The CARS sample is selected to contain only bright type 1 AGN, but Mrk 1018's b…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 121
Summer fireworks on comet 67P
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2409 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.462S.184V

Jorda, L.; Lamy, P. L.; Lara, L. M. +52 more

During its 2 yr mission around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft had the unique opportunity to follow closely a comet in the most active part of its orbit. Many studies have presented the typical features associated with the activity of the nucleus, such as localized dust and gas jets. Here, we report on series of more ener…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosetta 121
The Dragonfly Nearby Galaxies Survey. II. Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies near the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 5485
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/168 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...833..168M

van Dokkum, Pieter; Abraham, Roberto; Danieli, Shany +4 more

We present the unexpected discovery of four ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in a group environment. We recently identified seven extremely low surface brightness galaxies in the vicinity of the spiral galaxy M101, using data from the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. The galaxies have effective radii of 10″-38″ and central surface brightnesses of 25.6-27.7…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 121
Neutrino mass limits: Robust information from the power spectrum of galaxy surveys
DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2016.04.005 Bibcode: 2016PDU....13...77C

Verde, Licia; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Niro, Viviana

We present cosmological upper limits on the sum of active neutrino masses using large-scale power spectrum data from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey and from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - Data Release 7 (SDSS-DR7) sample of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRG). Combining measurements on the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarisation anisotrop…

2016 Physics of the Dark Universe
Planck 121
Filamentary structure and magnetic field orientation in Musca
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527068 Bibcode: 2016A&A...590A.110C

Prusti, T.; Pilbratt, G. L.; André, Ph. +17 more

Herschel has shown that filamentary structures are ubiquitous in star-forming regions, in particular in nearby molecular clouds associated with Gould's Belt. High dynamic range far-infrared imaging of the Musca cloud with SPIRE and PACS reveals at least two types of filamentary structures: (1) the main ~10-pc scale high column-density linear filam…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 120
Evolution of Stellar-to-Halo Mass Ratio at z = 0 - 7 Identified by Clustering Analysis with the Hubble Legacy Imaging and Early Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey Data
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/821/2/123 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...821..123H

Ono, Yoshiaki; Ouchi, Masami; Harikane, Yuichi +15 more

We present clustering analysis results from 10,381 Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at z ∼ 4-7, identified in the Hubble legacy deep imaging and new complimentary large-area Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam data. We measure the angular correlation functions of these LBGs at z ∼ 4, 5, 6, and 7 and fit these measurements using halo occupation distribution (HOD) …

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 120
Resolving the Discrepancy of Galaxy Merger Fraction Measurements at z ∼ 0-3
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/830/2/89 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...830...89M

Zirm, Andrew W.; Toft, Sune; Man, Allison W. S.

We measure the merger fraction of massive galaxies using the UltraVISTA/COSMOS catalog, complemented with the deeper, higher resolution 3DHST+CANDELS catalog, presenting the largest mass-complete photometric merger sample up to z∼ 3. We find that the variation in the mass ratio probe can explain the discrepant redshift evolution of the merger frac…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 120
History and development of coronal mass ejections as a key player in solar terrestrial relationship
DOI: 10.1186/s40562-016-0039-2 Bibcode: 2016GSL.....3....8G

Gopalswamy, N.

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are relatively a recently discovered phenomenon—in 1971, some 15 years into the Space Era. It took another two decades to realize that CMEs are the most important players in solar terrestrial relationship as the root cause of severe weather in Earth's space environment. CMEs are now counted among the major natural haz…

2016 Geoscience Letters
SOHO 119