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Ionospheric plasma of comet 67P probed by Rosetta at 3 au from the Sun
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2891 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.462S.331G

Wurz, P.; Altwegg, K.; Glassmeier, K. -H. +23 more

We propose to identify the main sources of ionization of the plasma in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at different locations in the coma and to quantify their relative importance, for the first time, for close cometocentric distances (<20 km) and large heliocentric distances (>3 au). The ionospheric model proposed is used as an …

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosetta 82
The Age of the Young Bulge-like Population in the Stellar System Terzan 5: Linking the Galactic Bulge to the High-z Universe
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/828/2/75 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...828...75F

Dalessandro, E.; Massari, D.; Rich, R. M. +4 more

The Galactic bulge is dominated by an old, metal-rich stellar population. The possible presence and the amount of a young (a few gigayears old) minor component is one of the major issues debated in the literature. Recently, the bulge stellar system Terzan 5 was found to harbor three sub-populations with iron content varying by more than one order …

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 82
The Distance to M51
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/21 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...826...21M

Dolphin, Andrew E.; Skillman, Evan D.; Berg, Danielle +2 more

Great investments of observing time have been dedicated to the study of nearby spiral galaxies with diverse goals ranging from understanding the star formation process to characterizing their dark matter distributions. Accurate distances are fundamental to interpreting observations of these galaxies, yet many of the best studied nearby galaxies ha…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 81
Far-infrared Line Spectra of Active Galaxies from the Herschel/PACS Spectrometer: The Complete Database
DOI: 10.3847/0067-0049/226/2/19 Bibcode: 2016ApJS..226...19F

Spinoglio, Luigi; Fernández-Ontiveros, Juan Antonio; Malkan, Matthew A. +3 more

We present a coherent database of spectroscopic observations of far-IR fine-structure lines from the Herschel/Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer archive for a sample of 170 local active galactic nuclei (AGNs), plus a comparison sample of 20 starburst galaxies and 43 dwarf galaxies. Published Spitzer/IRS and Herschel/SPIRE line fluxes are…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Herschel ISO 81
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: extraplanar gas, galactic winds and their association with star formation history
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw017 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.457.1257H

Kewley, Lisa J.; Kobayashi, Chiaki; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss +23 more

We investigate a sample of 40 local, main-sequence, edge-on disc galaxies using integral field spectroscopy with the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey to understand the link between properties of the extraplanar gas and their host galaxies. The kinematics properties of the extraplanar gas, including velocity …

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 81
BAHAMAS: New Analysis of Type Ia Supernovae Reveals Inconsistencies with Standard Cosmology
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/1 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...827....1S

van Dyk, David A.; Shariff, Hikmatali; Jiao, Xiyun +1 more

We present results obtained by applying our BAyesian HierArchical Modeling for the Analysis of Supernova cosmology (BAHAMAS) software package to the 740 spectroscopically confirmed supernovae of type Ia (SNe Ia) from the “Joint Light-curve Analysis” (JLA) data set. We simultaneously determine cosmological parameters and standardization parameters,…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Planck 81
An Iron K Component to the Ultrafast Outflow in NGC 1313 X-1
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/826/2/L26 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...826L..26W

Harrison, F. A.; Stern, D.; Fabian, A. C. +8 more

We present the detection of an absorption feature at E={8.77}-0.06+0.05 keV in the combined X-ray spectrum of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-1 observed with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, significant at the 3σ level. If associated with blueshifted ionized iron, the implied outflow velocity is ∼0.2c for Fe xxvi, or ∼0.25c f…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 81
Structure and evolution of the diamagnetic cavity at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw3148 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.462S.459G

Nilsson, H.; Eriksson, A.; Sierks, H. +13 more

The long duration of the Rosetta mission allows us to study the evolution of the diamagnetic cavity at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in detail. From 2015 April to 2016 February 665 intervals could be identified where Rosetta was located in a zero-magnetic-field region. We study the temporal and spatial distribution of this cavity and its boundar…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosetta 81
ALMA observations of cold molecular gas filaments trailing rising radio bubbles in PKS 0745-191
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw409 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.458.3134R

O'Connell, R. W.; Fabian, A. C.; Combes, F. +16 more

We present ALMA observations of the CO(1-0) and CO(3-2) line emission tracing filaments of cold molecular gas in the central galaxy of the cluster PKS 0745-191. The total molecular gas mass of 4.6± 0.3× 109 M_{⊙}, assuming a Galactic XCO factor, is divided roughly equally between three filaments each extending radially 3-5 kp…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 81
The MOSDEF Survey: Dynamical and Baryonic Masses and Kinematic Structures of Star-forming Galaxies at 1.4 ≤ z ≤ 2.6
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/819/1/80 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...819...80P

Barro, Guillermo; Siana, Brian; Shapley, Alice E. +11 more

We present {{H}}α gas kinematics for 178 star-forming galaxies at z∼ 2 from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field survey. We have developed models to interpret the kinematic measurements from fixed-angle multi-object spectroscopy, using structural parameters derived from Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey Hubble Space Telesc…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 81