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J021659-044920: a relic giant radio galaxy at z ∼ 1.3
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1768 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.453.2438T

Beelen, A.; Singh, V.; Ishwara-Chandra, C. H. +4 more

We report the discovery of a relic Giant Radio Galaxy (GRG) J021659-044920 at redshift z ∼ 1.3 that exhibits large-scale extended, nearly co-spatial, radio and X-ray emission from radio lobes, but no detection of Active Galactic Nuclei core, jets and hotspots. The total angular extent of the GRG at the observed frame 0.325 GHz, using Giant Metrewa…

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 31
Extensive Middle Amazonian mantling of debris aprons and plains in Deuteronilus Mensae, Mars: Implications for the record of mid-latitude glaciation
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2015.06.036 Bibcode: 2015Icar..260..269B

Head, James W.; Baker, David M. H.

The mid-latitudes of Mars are host to a record of recent episodes of accumulations of ice-rich materials. The record includes debris aprons, interpreted to be debris-covered glaciers, that may represent the preserved remnants of a much more extensive ice sheet. We assessed the possibility of former glacial extents by examining debris aprons and th…

2015 Icarus
MEx 31
Constraining star formation rates in cool-core brightest cluster galaxies
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv754 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.450.2564M

Combes, Françoise; Mittal, Rupal; Whelan, John T.

We used broad-band imaging data for 10 cool-core brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) and conducted a Bayesian analysis using stellar population synthesis to determine the likely properties of the constituent stellar populations. Determination of ongoing star formation rates (SFRs), in particular, has a direct impact on our understanding of the cooli…

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 31
Pits Formation from Volatile Outgassing on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/814/1/L5 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...814L...5M

Jorda, L.; Lamy, P.; Sierks, H. +8 more

We investigate the thermal evolution of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s subsurface in the Seth_01 region, where active pits have been observed by the ESA/Rosetta mission. Our simulations show that clathrate destabilization and amorphous ice crystallization can occur at depths corresponding to those of the observed pits in a timescale shorter tha…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
Rosetta 31
Searching for features of a string-inspired inflationary model with cosmological observations
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.121303 Bibcode: 2015PhRvD..92l1303C

Hu, Bin; Cai, Yi-Fu; Ferreira, Elisa G. M. +1 more

The latest Planck results show a power deficit in the temperature anisotropies near ℓ≈20 in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This observation can hardly be explained within the standard inflationary Λ -cold-dark-matter (Λ CDM ) scenario. In this paper we consider a string theory inspired inflationary model (axion monodromy inflation) with a …

2015 Physical Review D
Planck 31
Visual and ultraviolet flux variability of the bright CP star θ Aurigae
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425097 Bibcode: 2015A&A...576A..82K

Krtička, J.; Lüftinger, T.; Mikulášek, Z. +1 more

Context. Chemically peculiar stars of the upper part of the main sequence show periodical variability in line intensities and continua, modulated by the stellar rotation, which is attributed to the existence of chemical spots on the surface of these stars. The flux variability is caused by the changing redistribution rate of the radiative flux pre…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
IUE 31
Hubble Space Telescope Emission-line Galaxies at z ~ 2: The Mystery of Neon
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/798/1/29 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...798...29Z

Trump, Jonathan R.; Schneider, Donald P.; Gronwall, Caryl +6 more

We use near-infrared grism spectroscopy from the Hubble Space Telescope to examine the strength of [Ne III] λ3869 relative to Hβ, [O II] λ3727, and [O III] λ5007 in 236 low-mass (7.5 <~ log (M */M ) <~ 10.5) star-forming galaxies in the redshift range 1.90 < z < 2.35. By stacking the data by stellar mass, we show…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 31
The 2D Distribution of Iron-rich Ejecta in the Remnant of SN 1885 in M31
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/804/2/140 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...804..140F

Fesen, Robert A.; Hamilton, Andrew J. S.; Höflich, Peter A.

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ultraviolet Fe i and Fe ii images of the remnant of Supernova 1885 (S And) which is observed in absorption against the bulge of the Andromeda galaxy, M31. We compare these Fe i and Fe ii absorption line images to previous HST absorption images of S And, of which the highest quality and theoretically cleanest…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 31
X-ray spectral and variability properties of low-mass active galactic nuclei
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu2618 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.447.2112L

Fabian, A. C.; Miniutti, G.; Cackett, E. M. +3 more

We study the X-ray properties of a sample of 14 optically selected low-mass active galactic nuclei (AGN) whose masses lie within the range 105-2 × 106 M with XMM-Newton. Only six of these low-mass AGN have previously been studied with sufficient quality X-ray data, thus, we have more than double the number of low-…

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 31
The surface magnetic field and chemical abundance distributions of the B2V helium-strong star HD 184927
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu2401 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.447.1418Y

Marcolino, W.; Kochukhov, O.; Bohlender, D. +8 more

A new time series of high-resolution Stokes I and V spectra of the magnetic B2V star HD 184927 has been obtained in the context of the Magnetism in Massive Stars Large Program with an Echelle SpectroPolarimetric Device for the Observation of Stars (ESPaDOnS) spectropolarimeter at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and dimaPol liquid crystal spectr…

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IUE 31