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The 2012 July 23 Backside Eruption: An Extreme Energetic Particle Event?
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/216 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...833..216G

Gopalswamy, N.; Yashiro, S.; Mäkelä, P. +3 more

The backside coronal mass ejection (CME) of 2012 July 23 had a short Sun-to-Earth shock transit time (18.5 hr). The associated solar energetic particle (SEP) event had a >10 MeV proton flux peaking at ∼5000 pfu, and the energetic storm particle event was an order of magnitude larger, making it the most intense event in the space era at these en…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
PROBA-2 SOHO 58
Planck 2015 results. V. LFI calibration
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526632 Bibcode: 2016A&A...594A...5P

Bernard, J. -P.; Planck Collaboration; Ade, P. A. R. +206 more

We present a description of the pipeline used to calibrate the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) timelines into thermodynamic temperatures for the Planck 2015 data release, covering four years of uninterrupted operations. As in the 2013 data release, our calibrator is provided by the spin-synchronous modulation of the cosmic microwave backgrou…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 58
Exploring the mass assembly of the early-type disc galaxy NGC 3115 with MUSE
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201628743 Bibcode: 2016A&A...591A.143G

Krajnović, D.; Guérou, A.; Emsellem, E. +3 more

We present MUSE integral field spectroscopic data of the S0 galaxy NGC 3115 obtained during the instrument commissioning at the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT). We analyse the galaxy stellar kinematics and stellar populations and present two-dimensional maps of their associated quantities. We thus illustrate the capacity of MUSE to map extra-galact…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 58
Mars Express 10 years at Mars: Observations by the Mars Express Radio Science Experiment (MaRS)
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2016.02.013 Bibcode: 2016P&SS..127...44P

Pätzold, M.; Hahn, M.; Rosenblatt, P. +17 more

The Mars Express spacecraft is operating in Mars orbit since early 2004. The Mars Express Radio Science Experiment (MaRS) employs the spacecraft and ground station radio systems (i) to conduct radio occultations of the atmosphere and ionosphere to obtain vertical profiles of temperature, pressure, neutral number densities and electron density, (ii…

2016 Planetary and Space Science
MEx VenusExpress 58
Demonstration of Cosmic Microwave Background Delensing Using the Cosmic Infrared Background
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151102 Bibcode: 2016PhRvL.117o1102L

Sherwin, Blake D.; Challinor, Anthony; Larsen, Patricia +1 more

Delensing is an increasingly important technique to reverse the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and thus reveal primordial signals the lensing may obscure. We present a first demonstration of delensing on Planck temperature maps using the cosmic infrared background (CIB). Reversing the lensing deflections in Planck C…

2016 Physical Review Letters
Planck 58
Cosmological constraints on coupled dark energy
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/10/007 Bibcode: 2016JCAP...10..007Y

Yang, Weiqiang; Wu, Yabo; Lu, Jianbo +1 more

The coupled dark energy model provides a possible approach to mitigate the coincidence problem of cosmological standard model. Here, the coupling term is assumed as bar Q = 3Hξxbar rhox, which is related to the interaction rate and energy density of dark energy. We derive the background and perturbation evolution equations fo…

2016 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Planck 58
Young Galaxy Candidates in the Hubble Frontier Fields. III. MACS J0717.5+3745
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/820/2/98 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...820...98L

Pérez-Fournon, I.; Marques-Chaves, R.; Shu, X. +16 more

In this paper we present the results of our search for and study of z≳ 6 galaxy candidates behind the third Frontier Fields (FFs) cluster, MACS J0717.5+3745, and its parallel field, combining data from Hubble and Spitzer. We select 39 candidates using the Lyman break technique, for which the clear non-detection in optical make the extreme mid-z in…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 58
The First Low-mass Black Hole X-Ray Binary Identified in Quiescence Outside of a Globular Cluster
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/825/1/10 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...825...10T

Maccarone, T. J.; Heinke, C. O.; Miller-Jones, J. C. A. +9 more

The observed relation between the X-ray and radio properties of low-luminosity accreting black holes (BHs) has enabled the identification of multiple candidate black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) in globular clusters (GCs). Here, we report an identification of the radio source VLA J213002.08+120904 (aka M15 S2), recently reported in Kirsten et al., …

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 58
Keck/MOSFIRE Spectroscopy of z = 7-8 Galaxies: Lyα Emission from a Galaxy at z = 7.66
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/826/2/113 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...826..113S

Finkelstein, Steven L.; Dickinson, Mark; Fontana, Adriano +3 more

We report the results from some of the deepest Keck/Multi-Object Spectrometer For Infra-Red Exploration data yet obtained for candidate z ≳ 7 galaxies. Our data show one significant line detection with 6.5σ significance in our combined 10 hr of integration which is independently detected on more than one night, thus ruling out the possibility that…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 58
SHARP - II. Mass structure in strong lenses is not necessarily dark matter substructure: a flux ratio anomaly from an edge-on disc in B1555+375
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slw146 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.463L..51H

Vegetti, S.; McKean, J. P.; Auger, M. W. +5 more

Gravitational lens flux-ratio anomalies provide a powerful technique for measuring dark matter substructure in distant galaxies. However, before using these flux-ratio anomalies to test galaxy formation models, it is imperative to ascertain that the given anomalies are indeed due to the presence of dark matter substructure and not due to some othe…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 58