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Andromeda IV, a solitary gas-rich dwarf galaxy
DOI: 10.1002/asna.201512354 Bibcode: 2016AN....337..306K

Rizzi, L.; Sharina, M. E.; Karachentsev, I. D. +4 more

Observations are presented of the isolated dwarf irregular galaxy And IV made with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in the 21 cm H I line. We determine the galaxy distance of 7.17{±}0.31 Mpc using the Tip of Red Giant Branch method. The galaxy has a total blue absolute magnitude of -12.…

2016 Astronomische Nachrichten
eHST 10
A global look at X-ray time lags in Seyfert galaxies
DOI: 10.1002/asna.201612332 Bibcode: 2016AN....337..473K

Kara, E.; Fabian, A.; Alston, W.

X-ray reverberation, where light-travel time delays map out the compact geometry around the inner accretion flow in supermassive black holes, has been discovered in several of the brightest, most variable and well-known bare Seyfert galaxies. In this work, we expand the study of X-ray time lags to all Seyfert galaxies in the XMM-Newton archive abo…

2016 Astronomische Nachrichten
XMM-Newton 10
Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Solar Magnetic Flux Ropes Using Iron Forbidden Line
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/823/1/L4 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...823L...4C

Cheng, X.; Ding, M. D.

In this Letter, we present Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph Fe xxi 1354.08 Å forbidden line emission of two magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) that caused two fast coronal mass ejections with velocities of ≥1000 km s-1 and strong flares (X1.6 and M6.5) on 2014 September 10 and 2015 June 22, respectively. The extreme-ultraviolet images at t…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
IRIS 10
Hot gas and magnetic arms of NGC 6946: Indications for reconnection heating?
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526833 Bibcode: 2016A&A...585A...3W

Ehle, M.; Weżgowiec, M.; Beck, R.

Context. The grand-design face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6946 is remarkable because of its high star formation activity, the massive northern spiral arm, and the magnetic arms, which are observed in polarized radio synchrotron emission and are located between the optical arms and possibly are magnetic reconnection regions.
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2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 10
Probing the Dragonfish star-forming complex: the ionizing population of the young massive cluster Mercer 30
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201528004 Bibcode: 2016A&A...589A..69D

Herrero, A.; Urbaneja, M. A.; Najarro, F. +11 more

It has recently been claimed that the nebula, Dragonfish, is powered by a superluminous but elusive OB association. However, systematic searches in near-infrared photometric surveys have found many other cluster candidates in this region of the sky. Among these, the first confirmed young massive cluster was Mercer 30, where Wolf-Rayet stars were f…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 10
New Constraints on the Molecular Gas in the Prototypical HyLIRGs BRI1202-0725 and BRI1335-0417
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/830/2/63 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...830...63J

Momjian, E.; Walter, F.; Riechers, D. A. +6 more

We present Karl G Jansky Very Large Array observations of CO(J=2\to 1) line emission and rest-frame 250 GHz continuum emission of the Hyper-Luminous IR Galaxies (HyLIRGs) BRI 1202-0725 (z = 4.69) and BRI 1335-0417 (z = 4.41), with an angular resolution as high as 0.″15. Our low-order CO observations delineate the cool molecular gas, the fuel for s…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 10
A new approach to the infrared photometric study of Be stars
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1757 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.463.1162C

Chen, P. S.; Liu, J. Y.; Shan, H. G.

In this paper, we have collected data for almost all Be stars known so far (1991 sources in total) and photometrically study their infrared properties. 2MASS, WISE, IRAS and Akari data are analysed. It is shown from several two-colour diagrams that from 1 to 60 µm, infrared excesses for the majority of Be stars are mainly due to the free-fre…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
AKARI ISO 10
Photochemistry of forbidden oxygen lines in the inner coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
DOI: 10.1002/2015JA022013 Bibcode: 2016JGRA..121..804C

Gunell, H.; Altwegg, K.; Fuselier, S. A. +19 more

Observations of the green and red-doublet emission lines have previously been realized for several comets. We present here a chemistry-emission coupled model to study the production and loss mechanisms of the O(1S) and O(1D) states, which are responsible for the emission lines of interest for comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. …

2016 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Rosetta 10
Major-Merger Galaxy Pairs at Z = 0: Dust Properties and Companion Morphology
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/829/2/78 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...829...78D

Domingue, Donovan L.; Cao, Chen; Xu, C. Kevin +4 more

We present an analysis of dust properties of a sample of close major-merger galaxy pairs selected by K s magnitude and redshift. The pairs represent the two populations of spiral-spiral (S+S) and mixed morphology spiral-elliptical (S+E). The Code Investigating GALaxy Emission software is used to fit dust models to the Two Micron All S…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 10
Interacting parametrized post-Friedmann method
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-016-2035-4 Bibcode: 2016GReGr..48...39R

Xu, Lixin; Richarte, Martín G.

We apply the interacting parametrized post-Friedmann (IPPF) method to coupled dark energy models where the interaction is proportional to dark matter density at background level. In the first case, the dark components are treated as fluids and the growth of dark matter perturbations only feel the interaction via the modification of background quan…

2016 General Relativity and Gravitation
Planck 10