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Atomic scattering factor of the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) SXT reflector around the gold's L edges
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.025548 Bibcode: 2016OExpr..2425548K

Maeda, Yoshitomo; Ishida, Manabu; Okajima, Takashi +14 more

2016 Optics Express
Hitomi 6
Potential role of kinetic Alfvén waves and whistler waves in solar wind plasmas
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-016-2824-y Bibcode: 2016Ap&SS.361..239N

Goldstein, M. L.; Sharma, R. P.; Nandal, P. +1 more

Spacecraft observations indicate the signatures of highly oblique kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs) and whistler waves in the solar wind plasma. In the present work, we explore the possible role of KAWs and whistler waves in the observed solar wind magnetic turbulent spectrum. The nonlinear spatial evolution of KAW is studied including the effects of th…

2016 Astrophysics and Space Science
Cluster 6
The thin and medium filters of the EPIC camera on-board XMM-Newton: measured performance after more than 15 years of operation
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-016-9505-2 Bibcode: 2016ExA....42..179B

Tiengo, Andrea; Barbera, Marco; Gastaldello, Fabio +9 more

After more than 15 years of operation of the EPIC camera on board the XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, we have reviewed the status of its Thin and Medium filters. We have selected a set of Thin and Medium back-up filters among those still available in the EPIC consortium and have started a program to investigate their status by different laboratory m…

2016 Experimental Astronomy
XMM-Newton 6
Discovery of an X-Ray-emitting Contact Binary System 2MASS J11201034-2201340
DOI: 10.3847/0004-6256/151/6/170 Bibcode: 2016AJ....151..170H

Chen, W. P.; Kong, Albert K. H.; Ip, Wing-Huen +10 more

We report the detection of orbital modulation, a model solution, and the X-ray properties of a newly discovered contact binary, Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) J11201034-2201340. We serendipitously found this X-ray point source outside the error ellipse when searching for possible X-ray counterparts of γ-ray millisecond pulsars among the unident…

2016 The Astronomical Journal
XMM-Newton 6
Exploring Damped Lyα System Host Galaxies Using Gamma-Ray Bursts
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/175 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...832..175T

Cenko, S. Bradley; Rafelski, Marc; Veilleux, Sylvain +6 more

We present a sample of 45 Damped Lyα system (DLA; {N}{{H}{{I}}} ≥slant 2× {10}20 {{cm}}-2) counterparts (33 detections, 12 upper limits) which host gamma-ray bursts (GRB-DLAs) in order to investigate star formation and metallicity within galaxies hosting DLAs. Our sample spans z∼ 2{--}6 and is nearly three times la…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 6
Diagnosing the Source Region of a Solar Burst on 26 September 2011 by Using Microwave Type-III Pairs
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-016-0986-y Bibcode: 2016SoPh..291.2407T

Huang, J.; Yan, Y.; Karlický, M. +4 more

We report a peculiar and interesting train of microwave Type-III pair bursts in the impulsive rising phase of a solar flare on 26 September 2011. The observations include radio spectrometers at frequencies of 0.80 - 2.00 GHz from the Ondřejov radiospectrograph in the Czech Republic (ORSC), hard X-ray from the Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic…

2016 Solar Physics
PROBA-2 6
Spectroscopy of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies in Distant Clusters. II. Physical Properties of dE Progenitor Candidates
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/817/2/87 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...817...87C

Randriamampandry, S. M.; Wirth, Gregory D.; Bershady, M. A. +1 more

Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs) are an extreme star-bursting population of galaxies that were far more common at earlier epochs than today. Based on spectroscopic and photometric measurements of LCBGs in massive (M > 1015 M), intermediate redshift (0.5 < z < 0.9) galaxy clusters, we present their rest-frame p…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 6
The Young Stellar Population of Lynds 1340. An Infrared View
DOI: 10.3847/0067-0049/224/2/22 Bibcode: 2016ApJS..224...22K

Apai, D.; Balog, Z.; Kun, M. +4 more

We present results of an infrared study of the molecular cloud Lynds 1340, forming three groups of low- and intermediate-mass stars. Our goals are to identify and characterize the young stellar population of the cloud, study the relationships between the properties of the cloud and the emergent stellar groups, and integrate L1340 into the picture …

2016 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
AKARI Herschel 6
The role of deviation of magnetic field direction on the beaming angle: Extending of beaming angle theory
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2016.02.021 Bibcode: 2016JASTP.142...35K

Katoh, Yuto; Kalaee, Mohammad Javad

In the beaming angle theory, the magnetic field direction is assumed perpendicular to the normal boundary, and the prediction of this theory, from beaming angle is base on the Jones' formula. We investigate the effect of deviation the magnetic field direction respect to normal boundary direction. In this study, we present new conditions that under…

2016 Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
Cluster 6
Potential vorticity of the south polar vortex of Venus
DOI: 10.1002/2015JE004885 Bibcode: 2016JGRE..121..574G

Hueso, R.; Sánchez-Lavega, A.; García Muñoz, A. +1 more

Venus' atmosphere shows highly variable warm vortices over both of the planet's poles. The nature of the mechanism behind their formation and properties is still unknown. Potential vorticity is a conserved quantity when advective processes dominate over friction and diabatic heating and is a quantity frequently used to model balanced flows. As a s…

2016 Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets)
VenusExpress 6