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The Rosetta Ion and Electron Sensor (IES) measurement of the development of pickup ions from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063939 Bibcode: 2015GeoRL..42.3093G

Goldstein, R.; Mokashi, P.; Clark, G. +9 more

The Rosetta Ion and Electron Sensor (IES) has been measuring solar wind ions intermittently since exiting from hibernation in May 2014. On 19 August, when Rosetta was ~80 km from the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which was ~3.5 AU from the Sun, IES began to see ions at its lowest energy range, ~4-10 eV. We identify these as ions created from ne…

2015 Geophysical Research Letters
Rosetta 46
Stellar models of multiple populations in globular clusters - I. The main sequence of NGC 6752
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu2170 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.446.1641D

Conroy, Charlie; Dotter, Aaron; Milone, A. P. +3 more

We present stellar atmosphere and evolution models of main-sequence stars in two stellar populations of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6752. These populations represent the two extremes of light-element abundance variations in the cluster. NGC 6752 is a benchmark cluster in the study of multiple stellar populations because of the rich array of …

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 46
IRIS and SDO Observations of Recurrent Explosive Events
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/82 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...809...82G

Gupta, G. R.; Tripathi, Durgesh

Observations of recurrent explosive events (EEs) with timescales of 3-5 minutes are reported. These EEs have been observed with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and have a spatial dimension of ∼ 1\buildrel{\prime\prime}\over{.} 5 along the slit. The spectral line profiles of C ii 1335/1336 Å and Si iv 1394/1403 Å become highly broa…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
IRIS 46
The most powerful flaring activity from the NLSy1 PMN J0948+0022
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu2251 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.446.2456D

Larsson, J.; Fortin, P.; Benbow, W. +73 more

We report on multifrequency observations performed during 2012 December-2013 August of the first narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy detected in γ-rays, PMN J0948+0022 (z = 0.5846). A γ-ray flare was observed by the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi during 2012 December-2013 January, reaching a daily peak flux in the 0.1-100 GeV energy range of (155 ± …

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 46
Herschel Far-infrared Spectral-mapping of Orion BN/KL Outflows: Spatial Distribution of Excited CO, H2O, OH, O, and C+ in Shocked Gas
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/799/1/102 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...799..102G

Cernicharo, José; Bergin, Edwin A.; Encrenaz, Pierre +8 more

We present ~2' × 2' spectral-maps of Orion Becklin-Neugebauer/Kleinmann-Low (BN/KL) outflows taken with Herschel at ~12'' resolution. For the first time in the far-IR domain, we spatially resolve the emission associated with the bright H2 shocked regions "Peak 1" and "Peak 2" from that of the hot core and ambient cloud. We analyze the ~…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 46
Predicting the Redshift 2 Hα Luminosity Function Using [OIII] Emission Line Galaxies
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/811/2/141 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...811..141M

Teplitz, Harry I.; Scarlata, Claudia; Henry, Alaina +12 more

Upcoming space-based surveys such as Euclid and WFIRST-AFTA plan to measure baryonic acoustic oscillations in order to study dark energy. These surveys will use IR slitless grism spectroscopy to measure redshifts of a large number of galaxies over a significant redshift range. In this paper, we use the Wide Field Camera 3 Infrared Spectroscopic Pa…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 46
Probing the Physics of Narrow-line Regions in Active Galaxies. III. Accretion and Cocoon Shocks in the LINER NGC 1052
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/801/1/42 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...801...42D

Jose, Jessy; Juneau, Stéphanie; Dopita, Michael A. +16 more

We present Wide Field Spectrograph integral field spectroscopy and Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph spectroscopy for the low-ionization nuclear emission line region (LINER) galaxy NGC 1052. We infer the presence of a turbulent accretion flow forming a small-scale accretion disk. We find a large-scale outflow and ionization cone alo…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 46
Multiple Stellar Populations of Globular Clusters from Homogeneous Ca by Photometry. I. M22 (NGC 6656)
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/219/1/7 Bibcode: 2015ApJS..219....7L

Lee, Jae-Woo

We investigate the multiple stellar populations in one of the peculiar globular clusters (GCs), M22, using new ground-based wide-field Ca by and Hubble Space Telescope Wide-Field Camera 3 photometry with equivalent passbands, confirming our previous result that M22 has a distinctive red giant branch (RGB) split mainly due to the difference in meta…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
eHST 46
Revisiting INTEGRAL/SPI observations of 44Ti from Cassiopeia A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525877 Bibcode: 2015A&A...579A.124S

Diehl, Roland; Greiner, Jochen; Siegert, Thomas +1 more

Context. The 340-yr old supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, located at 3.4 kpc distance, is the best-studied young core-collapse supernova remnant. Nucleosynthesis yields in radioactive isotopes have been studied with different methods, in particular for production and ejection of 44Ti and 56Ni, which originate in the innermost r…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
INTEGRAL 45
Solar Wind and Internally Driven Dynamics: Influences on Magnetodiscs and Auroral Responses
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-014-0075-1 Bibcode: 2015SSRv..187...51D

Paranicas, C.; Jia, X.; Delamere, P. A. +7 more

The dynamics of the giant planet magnetodiscs are strongly influenced by planetary rotation. Yet the solar wind must ultimately remove plasma from these rapidly rotating magnetodiscs at the same rate that plasma is transported radially outward from the source regions: the Io and Enceladus plasma tori. It is not clear how the solar wind influences …

2015 Space Science Reviews
Cluster 45