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Tracing the Lowest Propeller Line in Magellanic High-mass X-Ray Binaries
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/829/1/30 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...829...30C

Laycock, Silas G. T.; Christodoulou, Dimitris M.; Yang, Jun +1 more

We have combined the published observations of high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) pulsars in the Magellanic Clouds with a new processing of the complete archival data sets from the XMM-Newton and Chandra observatories in an attempt to trace the lowest propeller line below which accretion to polar caps is inhibited by the centrifugal force and the pulsa…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 32
Transition Region and Chromospheric Signatures of Impulsive Heating Events. II. Modeling
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/827/2/145 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...827..145R

Warren, Harry P.; Crump, Nicholas A.; Reep, Jeffrey W. +1 more

Results from the Solar Maximum Mission showed a close connection between the hard X-ray (HXR) and transition region (TR) emission in solar flares. Analogously, the modern combination of RHESSI and IRIS data can inform the details of heating processes in ways that were never before possible. We study a small event that was observed with RHESSI, IRI…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
IRIS 32
A Cold Flare with Delayed Heating
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/822/2/71 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...822...71F

Fleishman, Gregory D.; Lysenko, Alexandra L.; Pal'shin, Valentin D. +3 more

Recently, a number of peculiar flares have been reported that demonstrate significant nonthermal particle signatures with low, if any, thermal emission, which implies a close association of the observed emission with the primary energy release/electron acceleration region. This paper presents a flare that appears “cold” at the impulsive phase, whi…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 32
Water in star-forming regions with Herschel (WISH). VI. Constraints on UV and X-ray irradiation from a survey of hydrides in low- to high-mass young stellar objects
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525835 Bibcode: 2016A&A...590A.105B

Liseau, R.; van Dishoeck, E. F.; Lis, D. C. +18 more

Context. Hydrides are simple compounds containing one or a few hydrogen atoms bonded to a heavier atom. They are fundamental precursor molecules in cosmic chemistry and many hydride ions have become observable in high quality for the first time thanks to the Herschel Space Observatory. Ionized hydrides such as CH+ and OH+ (an…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 32
Origin of the Galactic Diffuse X-Ray Emission: Iron K-shell Line Diagnostics
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/268 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...833..268N

Koyama, Katsuji; Nobukawa, Masayoshi; Uchiyama, Hideki +2 more

This paper reports detailed K-shell line profiles of iron (Fe) and nickel (Ni) of the Galactic Center X-ray Emission (GCXE), Galactic Bulge X-ray Emission (GBXE), Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission (GRXE), magnetic Cataclysmic Variables (mCVs), non-magnetic Cataclysmic Variables (non-mCVs), and coronally Active Binaries (ABs). For the study of the orig…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Suzaku 32
Propagation of small size magnetic holes in the magnetospheric plasma sheet
DOI: 10.1002/2016JA022741 Bibcode: 2016JGRA..121.5510Y

Zhang, H.; Hamrin, M.; Rème, H. +19 more

Magnetic holes (MHs), characteristic structures where the magnetic field magnitude decreases significantly, have been frequently observed in space plasmas. Particularly, small size magnetic holes (SSMHs) which the scale is less than or close to the proton gyroradius are recently detected in the magnetospheric plasma sheet. In this study of Cluster…

2016 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 31
UV to IR Luminosities and Dust Attenuation Determined from ~4000 K-selected Galaxies at 1 < z < 3 in the ZFOURGE Survey
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/818/2/L26 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...818L..26F

Papovich, Casey; Dickinson, Mark; Inami, Hanae +22 more

We build a set of composite galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) by de-redshifting and scaling multi-wavelength photometry from galaxies in the ZFOURGE survey, covering the CDFS, COSMOS, and UDS fields. From a sample of ∼4000 Ks-band selected galaxies, we define 38 composite galaxy SEDs that yield continuous low-resolution spectr…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 31
The Roll-over of Heliospheric Neutral Hydrogen below 100 eV: Observations and Implications
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/821/2/107 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...821..107G

Wurz, P.; McComas, D. J.; Fuselier, S. A. +8 more

We present an improved analysis of the energy spectrum of energetic neutral hydrogen from the heliosheath observed with the IBEX-Lo sensor on the Interstellar Boundary EXplorer from the years 2009 to 2012. This analysis allows us to study the lowest energies between 10 and 100 eV although various background sources are more intense than the target…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
VenusExpress 31
Leveraging 3D-HST Grism Redshifts to Quantify Photometric Redshift Performance
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/822/1/30 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...822...30B

Weiner, Benjamin J.; van Dokkum, Pieter G.; Franx, Marijn +10 more

We present a study of photometric redshift accuracy in the 3D-HST photometric catalogs, using 3D-HST grism redshifts to quantify and dissect trends in redshift accuracy for galaxies brighter than JH IR > 24 with an unprecedented and representative high-redshift galaxy sample. We find an average scatter of 0.0197 ± 0.0003(1 + z) in th…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 31
Topographic measurements of slope streaks on Mars
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.06.005 Bibcode: 2016Icar..278...52B

Head, James W.; Brusnikin, Eugene S.; Kreslavsky, Mikhail A. +4 more

Slope streaks are enigmatic, actively forming albedo features occurring on slopes in high-albedo, low-thermal-inertia, dust-rich equatorial regions on Mars. They are a specifically martian phenomenon with no direct analogs on the Earth. Their morphology suggests that the streaks are initiated at their upslope tips and propagate down to their termi…

2016 Icarus
MEx 31