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The Arches Cluster: Extended Structure and Tidal Radius
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/813/1/27 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...813...27H

Hosek, Matthew W., Jr.; Lu, Jessica R.; Clarkson, William I. +3 more

At a projected distance of ∼26 pc from Sgr A*, the Arches cluster provides insight into star formation in the extreme Galactic center (GC) environment. Despite its importance, many key properties, such as the cluster’s internal structure and orbital history, are not well known. We present an astrometric and photometric study of the outer region of…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 30
Slow electron holes in multicomponent plasmas
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065390 Bibcode: 2015GeoRL..42.7264N

André, M.; Vaivads, A.; Khotyaintsev, Yu. V. +2 more

Electrostatic solitary waves (ESWs), often interpreted as electron phase space holes, are commonly observed in plasmas and are manifestations of strongly nonlinear processes. Often slow ESWs are observed, suggesting generation by the Buneman instability. The instability criteria, however, are generally not satisfied. We show how slow electron hole…

2015 Geophysical Research Letters
Cluster 30
O2 Emission toward Orion H2 Peak 1 and the Role of FUV-illuminated C-shocks
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/806/2/227 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...806..227M

Kaufman, Michael J.; Melnick, Gary J.

Molecular oxygen (O2) has been the target of ground-based and space-borne searches for decades. Of the thousands of lines of sight surveyed, only those toward Rho Ophiuchus and Orion H2 Peak 1 have yielded detections of any statistical significance. The detection of the O2 NJ = 33-12

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 30
Spatial deconvolution of spectropolarimetric data: an application to quiet Sun magnetic elements
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425414 Bibcode: 2015A&A...579A...3Q

Ruiz Cobo, B.; Quintero Noda, C.; Orozco Suárez, D. +1 more

Context. One of the difficulties in extracting reliable information about the thermodynamical and magnetic properties of solar plasmas from spectropolarimetric observations is the presence of light dispersed inside the instruments, known as stray light.
Aims: We aim to analyze quiet Sun observations after the spatial deconvolution of the data…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hinode 30
Unusual A2142 supercluster with a collapsing core: distribution of light and mass
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526399 Bibcode: 2015A&A...580A..69E

Park, Changbom; Nevalainen, Jukka; Tempel, Elmo +6 more

Context. Superclusters of galaxies can be used to test cosmological models of the formation and evolution of the largest structures in the cosmic web, and of galaxy and cluster evolution in superclusters.
Aims: We study the distribution, masses, and dynamical properties of galaxy groups in the A2142 supercluster.
Methods: We analyse the …

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 30
First New Solar Models with OPAS Opacity Tables
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/813/2/L42 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...813L..42L

Salmon, S.; Turck-Chièze, S.; Le Pennec, M. +4 more

Stellar seismology appears more and more as a powerful tool for a better determination of the fundamental properties of solar-type stars. However, the particular case of the Sun is still challenging. For about a decade now, the helioseismic sound-speed determination has continued to disagree with the standard solar model (SSM) prediction, question…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 30
Non-local bias in the halo bispectrum with primordial non-Gaussianity
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/07/004 Bibcode: 2015JCAP...07..004T

Ross, Ashley J.; Tasinato, Gianmassimo; Wands, David +1 more

Primordial non-Gaussianity can lead to a scale-dependent bias in the density of collapsed halos relative to the underlying matter density. The galaxy power spectrum already provides constraints on local-type primordial non-Gaussianity complementary those from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), while the bispectrum contains additional shape inf…

2015 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Planck 30
Band-9 ALMA Observations of the [N II] 122 µm Line and FIR Continuum in Two High-z galaxies.
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/806/2/260 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...806..260F

Sheth, Kartik; Falgarone, Edith; Nikola, Thomas +4 more

We present Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of two high-redshift systems (SMMJ02399-0136 at z 1 ∼ 2.8 and the Cloverleaf QSO at z 1 ∼ 2.5) in their rest-frame 122 µm continuum (ν sky ∼ 650 GHz, λ sky ∼ 450 µm) and [N ii] 122 µm line emission. The continuum observations…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 30
X-ray time lags and non-linear variability in the ultraluminous X-ray sources NGC 5408 X-1 and NGC 6946 X-1
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1830 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.453.2877H

Vaughan, S.; Roberts, T. P.; Middleton, M. +1 more

We present our analysis of the X-ray variability of two ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) based on multiple XMM-Newton observations. We show that the linear rms-flux relation is present in eight observations of NGC 5408 X-1 and also in three observations of NGC 6946 X-1, but data from other ULXs are generally not sufficient to constrain any rms-f…

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 30
Characterizing extragalactic anomalous microwave emission in NGC 6946 with CARMA
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv287 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.449..809H

Hensley, Brandon; Murphy, Eric; Staguhn, Johannes

Using 1 cm and 3 mm observations from the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy and 2 mm observations from the Goddard IRAM Superconducting 2 Millimeter Observer observations, we follow up the first extragalactic detection of anomalous microwave emission (AME) reported by Murphy et al. in an extranuclear region (Enuc. 4) of the …

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Planck 30