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On the Chemistry of Hydrides of N Atoms and O+ Ions
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/826/2/207 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...826..207A

Viti, Serena; Williams, David A.; Awad, Zainab

Previous work by various authors has suggested that the detection by Herschel/HIFI of nitrogen hydrides along the low-density lines of sight toward G10.6-0.4 (W31C) cannot be accounted for by gas-phase chemical models. In this paper we investigate the role of surface reactions on dust grains in diffuse regions, and we find that formation of the hy…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 3
Cluster observation of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the plasma sheet boundary layer
DOI: 10.1186/s40623-016-0442-0 Bibcode: 2016EP&S...68...69N

Narita, Y.

Measurement of turbulent magnetic field is presented from the Earth magnetotail crossing of the Cluster spacecraft on August 25, 2006, as an ideal case study of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the plasma sheet boundary layer on a spatial scale of about 10,000 km. The fluctuation energy of the magnetic field is evaluated in both the frequency and…

2016 Earth, Planets and Space
Cluster 3
Measurements of the Soft Gamma-Ray Emission from SN2014J with Suzaku
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/823/1/43 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...823...43T

Fukazawa, Y.; Takahashi, T.; Diehl, R. +9 more

The hard X-ray detector (HXD) on board Suzaku measured soft γ-rays from the SN Ia SN2014J at 77 ± 2 days after the explosion. Although the confidence level of the signal is about 90% (I.e., 2σ), the 3σ upper limit has been derived at <2.2 × 10-4 ph s-1 cm-2 in the 170-250 keV band as the first independent measur…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
INTEGRAL Suzaku 3
X-Ray Spectral and Temporal Analysis of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy Was 61
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/819/2/167 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...819..167D

Yuan, Weimin; Zhou, Hongyan; Wang, Ting-Gui +3 more

We present an analysis of spectrum and variability of the bright reddened narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy Was 61 using 90 ks archival XMM-Newton data. The X-ray spectrum in 0.2-10 keV can be characterized by an absorbed power-law plus soft excess and an Fe Kα emission line. The power-law spectral index remains constant during the flux variation. The …

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 3
Buoyancy-driven inflow to a relic cold core: the gas belt in radio galaxy 3C 386
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw944 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.459.4508D

Birkinshaw, M.; Worrall, D. M.; Kraft, R. P. +1 more

We report measurements from an XMM-Newton observation of the low-excitation radio galaxy 3C 386. The study focusses on an X-ray-emitting gas belt, which lies between and orthogonal to the radio lobes of 3C 386 and has a mean temperature of 0.94 ± 0.05 keV, cooler than the extended group atmosphere. The gas in the belt shows temperature structure w…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 3
Ducted electromagnetic waves in the Martian ionosphere detected by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding radar
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069591 Bibcode: 2016GeoRL..43.7381Z

Huang, Qian; Zhang, Jie; Orosei, Roberto +1 more

In the data of the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding on board the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Mars Express (MEX), a distinctive type of signals (called the "epsilon signature"), which is similar to that previously detected during radio sounding of the terrestrial F region ionosphere, is found. The signature is inte…

2016 Geophysical Research Letters
MEx 3
The complex high-mass star-forming region IRAS 15507-5359
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw741 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.459.1946P

Roth, M.; Elia, D.; Persi, P. +2 more

The far-infrared IRAS 15507-5359 source is known to be a medium-mass star-forming region associated with a compact H II region and a near-infrared embedded cluster. We present a survey of infrared-calibrated images ranging from 1.2 to 500 µm obtained with the Baade telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, and the Herschel space telescope with …

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 3
Classification of CMEs Based on Their Dynamics
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-016-0903-4 Bibcode: 2016SoPh..291.1417N

Michalek, G.; Nicewicz, J.

A large set of coronal mass ejections CMEs (6621) has been selected to study their dynamics seen with the Large Angle and Spectroscopic Coronagraph (LASCO) onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) field of view (LFOV). These events were selected based on having at least six height-time measurements so that their dynamic properties, in…

2016 Solar Physics
SOHO 3
Variations of the X-ray INTEGRAL spectrum of the active galactic nucleus of NGC 4945
DOI: 10.3103/S0884591316040036 Bibcode: 2016KPCB...32..172F

Fedorova, E. V.; Zhdanov, V. I.

Results of 11-year-long X-ray INTEGRAL observations of the nucleus of Seyfert galaxy NGC 4945 in the 3–500 keV range were processed. A two-component spectrum model, which includes strong radiation absorption in the Compton-thick torus around the AGN "central engine" and secondary radiation reflected from the torus walls, was used in the analysis. …

2016 Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies
INTEGRAL 3
Transient X-Ray Source Population in the Magellanic-type Galaxy NGC 55
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/821/1/24 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...821...24J

Jithesh, V.; Wang, Zhongxiang

We present the spectral and temporal properties of 15 candidate transient X-ray sources detected in archival XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of the nearby Magellanic-type, SB(s)m galaxy NGC 55. Based on an X-ray color classification scheme, the majority of the sources may be identified as X-ray binaries (XRBs), and six sources are soft, includ…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton eHST 3