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Estimating sizes of faint, distant galaxies in the submillimetre regime
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1628 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.462.1192L

Karim, A.; Hodge, J. A.; Coppin, K. +8 more

We measure the sizes of redshift ∼2 star-forming galaxies by stacking data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). We use a uv-stacking algorithm in combination with model fitting in the uv-domain and show that this allows for robust measures of the sizes of marginally resolved sources. The analysis is primarily based on the …

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 17
GAMA/H-ATLAS: common star formation rate indicators and their dependence on galaxy physical parameters
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1450 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.461.1898W

Wang, L.; Cooray, A.; Ibar, E. +30 more

We compare common star formation rate (SFR) indicators in the local Universe in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) equatorial fields (∼160 deg2), using ultraviolet (UV) photometry from GALEX, far-infrared and sub-millimetre (sub-mm) photometry from Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey, and Hα spectroscopy from the GAMA su…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 17
The Binary Black Hole Model for Mrk 231 Bites the Dust
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/829/1/4 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...829....4L

Gallagher, Sarah C.; Terndrup, Donald M.; Leighly, Karen M. +1 more

Mrk 231 is a nearby quasar with an unusually red near-UV-to-optical continuum, generally explained as heavy reddening by dust. Yan et al. proposed that Mrk 231 is a milliparsec black hole binary with little intrinsic reddening. We show that if the observed FUV continuum is intrinsic, as assumed by Yan et al., it fails by a factor of about 100 in p…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 17
Eta Carinae's Thermal X-Ray Tail Measured with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/817/1/23 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...817...23H

Hamaguchi, Kenji; Corcoran, Michael F.; Russell, Christopher M. P. +12 more

The evolved, massive highly eccentric binary system, η Car, underwent a periastron passage in the summer of 2014. We obtained two coordinated X-ray observations with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR during the elevated X-ray flux state and just before the X-ray minimum flux state around this passage. These NuSTAR observations clearly detected X-ray emission …

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
INTEGRAL Suzaku XMM-Newton 17
Starbursts and dusty tori in distant 3CR radio galaxies
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1946 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.462.4183P

Barthel, Peter; Drouart, Guillaume; Podigachoski, Pece +2 more

We present a study of the complete ultraviolet to submillimetre spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 12 3CR radio galaxy hosts in the redshift range 1.0 < z < 2.5, which were all detected in the far-infrared by the Herschel Space Observatory. The study employs the new spectro-chemical evolutionary code PÉGASE.3, in combination with recent…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel eHST 17
The Tale of the Two Tails of the Oldish PSR J2055+2539
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/819/1/40 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...819...40M

De Luca, Andrea; Caraveo, Patrizia; Marelli, Martino +3 more

We analyzed a deep XMM-Newton observation of the radio-quiet γ-ray PSR J2055+2539. The spectrum of the X-ray counterpart is nonthermal, with a photon index of Γ = 2.36 ± 0.14 (1σ confidence). We detected X-ray pulsations with a pulsed fraction of 25% ± 3% and a sinusoidal shape. Taking into account considerations on the γ-ray efficiency of the pul…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 17
Genesis of Interplanetary Intermittent Turbulence: A Case Study of Rope&enrope Magnetic Reconnection
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/179 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...832..179C

Miranda, Rodrigo A.; Chian, Abraham C. -L.; Muñoz, Pablo R. +5 more

In a recent paper, the relation between current sheet, magnetic reconnection, and turbulence at the leading edge of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection was studied. We report here the observation of magnetic reconnection at the interface region of two interplanetary magnetic flux ropes. The front and rear boundary layers of three interplanetar…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Cluster 17
Dipole modulation of cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/046 Bibcode: 2016JCAP...01..046G

Ghosh, Shamik; Kothari, Rahul; Jain, Pankaj +1 more

We propose a dipole modulation model for the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) polarization field. We show that the model leads to correlations between l and l+1 multipoles, exactly as in the case of temperature. We obtain results for the case of TE, EE and BB correlations. An anisotropic or inhomogeneous model of primordial power spect…

2016 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Planck 17
Searching for filaments and large-scale structure around DAFT/FADA clusters
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527655 Bibcode: 2016A&A...588A..69D

Adami, C.; Martinet, N.; Durret, F. +6 more

Context. Clusters of galaxies are located at the intersection of cosmic filaments and are still accreting galaxies and groups along these preferential directions. However, because of their relatively low contrast on the sky, filaments are difficult to detect (unless a large amount of spectroscopic data are available), and unambiguous detections ha…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 17
The First High-phase Observations of a KBO: New Horizons Imaging of (15810) 1994 JR1 from the Kuiper Belt
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/828/2/L15 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...828L..15P

Olkin, Cathy B.; Stern, S. Alan; Young, Leslie A. +12 more

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft observed (15810) 1994 JR1, a 3:2 resonant Kuiper belt object (KBO), using the LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on 2015 November 2 from a distance of 1.85 au and again on 2016 April 7 from a distance of 0.71 au. These were the first close observations of any KBO other than Pluto. Combining ground-ba…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 16