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The bandmerged Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue: probing sub-structure in the molecular gas at high Galactic latitude
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw479 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.458.3619C

Helou, G.; McGehee, P.; Pearson, T. J. +3 more

The Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC) includes nine lists of highly reliable sources, individually extracted at each of the nine Planck frequency channels. To facilitate the study of the Planck sources, especially their spectral behaviour across the radio/infrared frequencies, we provide a `bandmerged' catalogue of the ERCSC so…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Planck 3
Results of a hubble space telescope search for natural satellites of dwarf planet 1 ceres
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.07.005 Bibcode: 2016Icar..280..308D

Russell, Christopher T.; Li, Jian-Yang; Schmidt, Britney E. +4 more

In order to prepare for the arrival of the Dawn spacecraft at Ceres, a search for satellites was undertaken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to enhance the mission science return and to ensure spacecraft safety. Previous satellite searches from ground-based telescopes have detected no satellites within Ceres' Hill sphere down to a size of 3 km …

2016 Icarus
eHST 3
The classification of cislunar trajectories and its applications in the Earth–Moon system
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-015-2577-z Bibcode: 2016Ap&SS.361....5L

Xu, Ming; Xu, Shijie; Liang, Yuying

This paper considers the evolvement of cislunar transfers and addresses two distinct types, i.e., direct and low-energy transfers based on Apollo and SMART-1 missions. Both direct and low-energy trajectories are discussed systematically in the context of restricted three-body dynamics in this paper. The differences between them are assessed by con…

2016 Astrophysics and Space Science
SMART-1 3
Image stacking analysis of SDSS galaxies with AKARI Far-Infrared Surveyor maps at 65 µm, 90 µm, and 140 µm
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psv132 Bibcode: 2016PASJ...68...17O

Doi, Yasuo; Takita, Satoshi; Ootsubo, Takafumi +4 more

We perform image stacking analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric galaxies over the AKARI Far-Infrared Surveyor maps at 65 µm, 90 µm, and 140 µm. The resulting image profiles are decomposed into the central galaxy component (single term) and the nearby galaxy component (clustering term), as a function of the r-ban…

2016 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
AKARI 3
Inferring the Coronal Density Irregularity from EUV Spectra
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/829/1/42 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...829...42H

Hahn, M.; Savin, D. W.

Understanding the density structure of the solar corona is important for modeling both coronal heating and the solar wind. Direct measurements are difficult because of line-of-sight integration and possible unresolved structures. We present a new method for quantifying such structures using density-sensitive extreme ultraviolet line intensities to…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 3
Cosmic ray dose monitoring using RadFET sensors of the Rosetta instruments SESAME and COSIMA
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2016.03.001 Bibcode: 2016AcAau.125...22F

Fischer, Henning; Koch, Andreas; Seidensticker, Klaus J. +5 more

On its more than 10 years journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Rosetta carried RadFET ionising dose monitors in the central electronics of the orbiter instrument COSIMA and the lander instrument SESAME. The readings of the dosimeters were corrected for the temperature of the devices during measurements. Because the sensitivity of RadFETs de…

2016 Acta Astronautica
Rosetta 3
Abundance analysis of the supergiant stars HD 80057 and HD 80404 based on their UVES Spectra
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2016.02.006 Bibcode: 2016NewA...47...46T

Baştürk, Ö.; Tanrıverdi, T.

This study presents elemental abundances of the early A-type supergiant HD 80057 and the late A-type supergiant HD 80404. High resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio spectra published by the UVES Paranal Observatory Project (Bagnulo et al., 2003) were analyzed to compute their elemental abundances using ATLAS9 (Kurucz, 1993; 2005; Sbordone et a…

2016 New Astronomy
IUE 3
Fine structures at pore boundary
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slw130 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.462L..93B

Bharti, L.; Quintero Noda, C.; Joshi, C. +2 more

We present high resolution observations of fine structures at pore boundaries. The inner part of granules towards umbra show dark striations which evolve into a filamentary structure with dark core and `Y' shape at the head of the filaments. These filaments migrate into the umbra similar to penumbral filaments. These filaments show higher temperat…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hinode 3
Command and data management system (CDMS) of the Philae lander
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2015.12.013 Bibcode: 2016AcAau.125..105B

Schmidt, W.; Balázs, A.; Baksa, A. +9 more

The paper covers the principal requirements, design concepts and implementation of the hardware and software for the central on-board computer (CDMS) of the Philae lander in the context of the ESA Rosetta space mission, including some technical details. The focus is on the implementation of fault tolerance, autonomous operation and operational fle…

2016 Acta Astronautica
Rosetta 3
Radial velocity dispersions of star groups in M 67
DOI: 10.1515/astro-2017-0263 Bibcode: 2016BaltA..25..432V

Vereshchagin, S. V.; Chupina, N. V.

High-precision measurements of radial velocities of the M 67 cluster members are used to calculate the radial-velocity dispersions in the stellar groups found earlier in the cluster's corona. The previously detected feature in one of the groups (Group 60) consisting of stars with almost identical space velocities was confirmed. The possibility of …

2016 Baltic Astronomy
Gaia 3