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A solar-like magnetic cycle on the mature K-dwarf 61 Cygni A (HD 201091)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201628262 Bibcode: 2016A&A...594A..29B

Reiners, A.; Donati, J. -F.; Petit, P. +9 more

Context. The long-term monitoring of magnetic cycles in cool stars is a key diagnostic in understanding how dynamo generation and amplification of magnetic fields occur in stars similar in structure to the Sun.
Aims: We investigated the temporal evolution of a possible magnetic cycle of 61 Cyg A. The magnetic cycle is determined from 61 Cyg A…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 78
HerMES: a search for high-redshift dusty galaxies in the HerMES Large Mode Survey - catalogue, number counts and early results
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1769 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.462.1989A

Pérez-Fournon, I.; Ivison, R. J.; Clements, D. L. +25 more

Selecting sources with rising flux densities towards longer wavelengths from Herschel/Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) maps is an efficient way to produce a catalogue rich in high-redshift (z > 4) dusty star-forming galaxies. The effectiveness of this approach has already been confirmed by spectroscopic follow-up observations, …

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 78
Azimuthal asymmetries in the debris disk around HD 61005. A massive collision of planetesimals?
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201628196 Bibcode: 2016A&A...591A.108O

Rouan, D.; Pinte, C.; Quanz, S. P. +30 more

Context. Debris disks offer valuable insights into the latest stages of circumstellar disk evolution, and can possibly help us to trace the outcomes of planetary formation processes. In the age range 10 to 100 Myr, most of the gas is expected to have been removed from the system, giant planets (if any) must have already been formed, and the format…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 78
Solar Cycle 25: Another Moderate Cycle?
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/823/2/L22 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...823L..22C

Schüssler, M.; Jiang, J.; Cameron, R. H.

Surface flux transport simulations for the descending phase of Cycle 24 using random sources (emerging bipolar magnetic regions) with empirically determined scatter of their properties provide a prediction of the axial dipole moment during the upcoming activity minimum together with a realistic uncertainty range. The expectation value for the dipo…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 78
Cold Milky Way HI Gas in Filaments
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/821/2/117 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...821..117K

Kerp, J.; Winkel, B.; Lenz, D. +4 more

We investigate data from the Galactic Effelsberg-Bonn H I Survey, supplemented with data from the third release of the Galactic All Sky Survey (GASS III) observed at Parkes. We explore the all-sky distribution of the local Galactic H I gas with | {v}{{LSR}}| \lt 25 km s-1 on angular scales of 11‧-16‧. Unsharp masking is appli…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Planck 78
Repetitive patterns in rapid optical variations in the nearby black-hole binary V404 Cygni
DOI: 10.1038/nature16452 Bibcode: 2016Natur.529...54K

Ruiz, Javier; Enoto, Teruaki; Nogami, Daisaku +65 more

How black holes accrete surrounding matter is a fundamental yet unsolved question in astrophysics. It is generally believed that matter is absorbed into black holes via accretion disks, the state of which depends primarily on the mass-accretion rate. When this rate approaches the critical rate (the Eddington limit), thermal instability is supposed…

2016 Nature
INTEGRAL 77
Cosmological hints of modified gravity?
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.023513 Bibcode: 2016PhRvD..93b3513D

Di Valentino, Eleonora; Melchiorri, Alessandro; Silk, Joseph

The recent measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies made by the Planck satellite have provided impressive confirmation of the Λ CDM cosmological model. However interesting hints of slight deviations from Λ CDM have been found, including a 95% C.L. preference for a "modified gravity" (MG) structure…

2016 Physical Review D
Planck 77
Shining a light on galactic outflows: photoionized outflows
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw178 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.457.3133C

Chisholm, John; Leitherer, Claus; Chen, Yanmei +2 more

We study the ionization structure of galactic outflows in 37 nearby, star-forming galaxies with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. We use the O I, Si II, Si III, and Si IV ultraviolet absorption lines to characterize the different ionization states of outflowing gas. We measure the equivalent widths, line widths, and ou…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 77
A narrow, edge-on disk resolved around HD 106906 with SPHERE
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527264 Bibcode: 2016A&A...586L...8L

Henning, T.; Brandner, W.; Milli, J. +39 more

Context. HD 106906AB is the only young binary system so far around which a planet has been imaged and a debris disk has been shown to exist, thanks to a strong IR excess. As such, it represents a unique opportunity for studying the dynamics of young planetary systems.
Aims: We aim at further investigating the close (tens of au scales) environ…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 77
Hooked Flare Ribbons and Flux-rope-related QSL Footprints
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/823/1/62 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...823...62Z

Li, Hui; Aulanier, Guillaume; Schmieder, Brigitte +3 more

We studied the magnetic topology of active region 12158 on 2014 September 10 and compared it with the observations before and early in the flare that begins at 17:21 UT (SOL2014-09-10T17:45:00). Our results show that the sigmoidal structure and flare ribbons of this active region observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assem…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 77