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Deep NuSTAR and Swift Monitoring Observations of the Magnetar 1E 1841-045
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/807/1/93 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...807...93A

An, Hongjun; Hailey, Charles J.; Kaspi, Victoria M. +15 more

We report on a 350 ks NuSTAR observation of the magnetar 1E 1841-045 taken in 2013 September. During the observation, NuSTAR detected six bursts of short duration, with T90 ≲ 1 s. An elevated level of emission tail is detected after the brightest burst, persisting for ∼1 ks. The emission showed a power-law decay with a temporal index of…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 42
ALMA observations of α Centauri. First detection of main-sequence stars at 3 mm wavelength
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425189 Bibcode: 2015A&A...573L...4L

Olofsson, G.; Eiroa, C.; Marshall, J. P. +19 more

Context. The precise mechanisms that provide the non-radiative energy for heating the chromosphere and the corona of the Sun and those of other stars constitute an active field of research. By studying stellar chromospheres one aims at identifying the relevant physical processes. Defining the permittable extent of the parameter space can also serv…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 42
Debris Distribution in HD 95086—A Young Analog of HR 8799
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/799/2/146 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...799..146S

Rieke, George H.; Su, Kate Y. L.; Malhotra, Renu +3 more

HD 95086 is a young early-type star that hosts (1) a 5 MJ planet at the projected distance of 56 AU revealed by direct imaging, and (2) a prominent debris disk. Here we report the detection of 69 µm crystalline olivine feature from the disk using the Spitzer/MIPS-SED data covering 55-95 µm. Due to the low resolution of the M…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 42
Revealing δ Cephei's Secret Companion and Intriguing Past
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/804/2/144 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...804..144A

Holl, B.; Mowlavi, N.; Roelens, M. +5 more

Classical Cepheid variable stars are crucial calibrators of the cosmic distance scale thanks to a relation between their pulsation periods and luminosities. Their archetype, δ Cephei, is an important calibrator for this relation. In this paper, we show that δ Cephei is a spectroscopic binary based on newly obtained high-precision radial velocities…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
Hipparcos 42
ALMA Observations of the Submillimeter Dense Molecular Gas Tracers in the Luminous Type-1 Active Nucleus of NGC 7469
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/811/1/39 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...811...39I

Meier, David S.; Turner, Jean L.; Imanishi, Masatoshi +30 more

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 1 observations of the central kiloparsec region of the luminous type 1 Seyfert galaxy NGC 7469 with unprecedented high resolution (0.″5 ×0.″4 = 165 × 132 pc) at submillimeter wavelengths. Utilizing the wide bandwidth of ALMA, we simultaneously obtained HCN(4-3), HCO+(4…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 42
The Spatial Clustering of ROSAT All-Sky Survey Active Galactic Nuclei. IV. More Massive Black Holes Reside in More Massive Dark Matter Halos
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/815/1/21 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...815...21K

Coil, Alison L.; Husemann, Bernd; Krumpe, Mirko +3 more

This is the fourth paper in a series that reports on our investigation of the clustering properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) identified in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In this paper we investigate the cause of the X-ray luminosity dependence of the clustering of broad-line, luminous AGNs at 0.16\lt z\lt 0.3…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 42
Close encounters of the stellar kind
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425221 Bibcode: 2015A&A...575A..35B

Bailer-Jones, C. A. L.

Stars which pass close to the Sun can perturb the Oort cloud, injecting comets into the inner solar system where they may collide with the Earth. Using van Leeuwen's re-reduction of the Hipparcos data complemented by the original Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues, along with recent radial velocity surveys, I integrate the orbits of over 50 000 star…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hipparcos 42
Depth-dependent global properties of a sunspot observed by Hinode using the Solar Optical Telescope/Spectropolarimeter
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526224 Bibcode: 2015A&A...583A.119T

Lagg, Andreas; Solanki, Sami K.; Tiwari, Sanjiv K. +1 more

Context. For the past two decades, the three-dimensional structure of sunspots has been studied extensively. A recent improvement in the Stokes inversion technique prompts us to revisit the depth-dependent properties of sunspots.
Aims: In the present work, we aim to investigate the global depth-dependent thermal, velocity, and magnetic proper…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hinode 42
Aeolus: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Code for Mapping Ultracool Atmospheres. An Application on Jupiter and Brown Dwarf HST Light Curves
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/814/1/65 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...814...65K

Schneider, Glenn; Apai, Dániel; Karalidi, Theodora +2 more

Deducing the cloud cover and its temporal evolution from the observed planetary spectra and phase curves can give us major insight into the atmospheric dynamics. In this paper, we present Aeolus, a Markov chain Monte Carlo code that maps the structure of brown dwarf and other ultracool atmospheres. We validated Aeolus on a set of unique Jupiter Hu…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 42
Linking radio and gamma-ray emission in Ap Librae
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425330 Bibcode: 2015A&A...578A..69H

Hervet, O.; Boisson, C.; Sol, H.

Ap Lib is one of the rare low-synchrotron-peaked blazars detected so far at TeV energies. This type of source is not properly modelled by standard one-zone leptonic synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission scenarios. The aim of this paper is to study the relevance of additional components that should naturally occur in an SSC scenario for a better …

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 42