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Excess B-modes extracted from the Planck polarization maps
DOI: 10.1002/asna.201512351 Bibcode: 2016AN....337..662N

Nørgaard-Nielsen, H. U.

One of the main obstacles for extracting the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from mm/submm observations is the pollution from the main Galactic components: synchrotron, free-free and thermal dust emission. The feasibility of using simple neural networks to extract CMB has been demonstrated on both temperature and polarization data obtained by th…

2016 Astronomische Nachrichten
Planck 2
Temporal Offsets Between Maximum CME Speed Index and Solar, Geomagnetic, and Interplanetary Indicators During Solar Cycle 23 and the Ascending Phase of Cycle 24
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-016-0909-y Bibcode: 2016SoPh..291.1533O

Özgüç, A.; Kilcik, A.; Georgieva, K. +1 more

On the basis of a morphological analysis of yearly values of the maximum coronal mass ejection (CME) speed index, the sunspot number and total sunspot area, sunspot magnetic field, and solar flare index, the solar wind speed and interplanetary magnetic field strength, and the geomagnetic Ap and Dst indices, we point out the p…

2016 Solar Physics
SOHO 2
A fast Stokes inversion technique based on quadratic regression
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4527/16/5/071 Bibcode: 2016RAA....16...71T

Teng, Fei; Deng, Yuan-Yong

Stokes inversion calculation is a key process in resolving polarization information on radiation from the Sun and obtaining the associated vector magnetic fields. Even in the cases of simple local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) and where the Milne-Eddington approximation is valid, the inversion problem may not be easy to solve. The initial values…

2016 Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hinode 2
Planetary heat flow from shallow subsurface measurements: Mars
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2016.07.001 Bibcode: 2016P&SS..131...46C

Hagermann, Axel; Cornwall, Marc

Planetary heat flow probes measure heat flow (depth-resolved temperature and thermal conductivity) to provide insight into the internal state of a planet. The probes have been utilized extensively on Earth, twice on the Moon, and once on the Surface of comet 67P-CG. Mars is an important target for heat flow measurement as heat flow is a critical p…

2016 Planetary and Space Science
Rosetta 2
Multi-satellite observations of energy transport during an intense geomagnetic storm
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-016-2745-9 Bibcode: 2016Ap&SS.361..168Y

Dunlop, M. W.; Duan, Aiying; Ma, Yuduan +1 more

Energy transport during a geomagnetic substorm is a very important process for solar wind-magnetosphere energy coupling and the energy cycle in the magnetotail. In this paper, we use magnetotail data from the five THEMIS probes and two Cluster satellites on the dayside to investigate the energy transport of one intense storm during the period from…

2016 Astrophysics and Space Science
Cluster 2
Coronal Dynamic Activities in the Declining Phase of a Solar Cycle
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/833/1/L11 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...833L..11J

Choe, G. S.; Woods, T. N.; Jang, Minhwan +1 more

It has been known that some solar activity indicators show a double-peak feature in their evolution through a solar cycle, which is not conspicuous in sunspot number. In this Letter, we investigate the high solar dynamic activity in the declining phase of the sunspot cycle by examining the evolution of polar and low-latitude coronal hole (CH) area…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 2
A Robust Measure of Dark Matter Halo Ellipticities
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/826/2/L23 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...826L..23E

Evslin, Jarah

In simulations of the standard cosmological model (ΛCDM), dark matter halos are aspherical. However, so far the asphericity of an individual galaxy’s halo has never been robustly established. We use the Jeans equations to define a quantity that robustly characterizes a deviation from rotational symmetry. This quantity is essentially the gravitatio…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 2
K band SINFONI spectra of two z ~ 5 submillimeter galaxy systems: upper limits to the unobscured star formation from [O II] optical emission line searches
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201628952 Bibcode: 2016A&A...594A..74C

Arribas, Santiago; Colina, Luis; Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa +2 more

We present deep SINFONI K-band integral field spectra of two submillimeter galaxy systems (SMG): BR 1202-0725 and J1000+0234, at z = 4.69 and 4.55, respectively. Spectra extracted for each object in the two systems do not show any signature of the [O II]λλ3726, 29 Å emission-lines, placing upper flux limits of 3.9 and 2.5 × 10-18erg s

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 2
Observations of the planetary nebula RWT 152 with OSIRIS/GTC
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1916 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.462.3945A

Solano, E.; Ulla, A.; Miranda, L. F. +2 more

RWT 152 is one of the few known planetary nebulae with an sdO central star. We present subarcsecond red tunable filter Hα imaging and intermediate-resolution, long-slit spectroscopy of RWT 152 obtained with OSIRIS/GTC (Optical System for Imaging and low-Intermediate-Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy/Gran Telescopio Canarias) with the goal of anal…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IUE 2
From Exoplanets to Quasars: Detection of Potential Damped Lyα Absorbing Galaxies Using Angular Differential Imaging
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/831/1/49 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...831...49J

Ellison, Sara L.; Johnson-Groh, Mara; Marois, Christian

The advantages of angular differential imaging (ADI) have been previously untested in imaging the host galaxies of damped Lyα (DLA) systems. In this pilot study, we present the first application of ADI to directly image the host galaxy of the DLA seen toward the quasar J1431+3952. K-band imaging of the field surrounding J1431+3952 was obtained on …

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 2