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CoRoT space photometry of seven Cepheids
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1899 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.454..849P

Poretti, E.; Rainer, M.; Baglin, A. +4 more

A few Galactic classical Cepheids were observed in the programmes of space missions as Coriolis, MOST, and Kepler. An appealing opportunity was to detect additional non-radial modes, thus opening the possibility to perform asteroseismic studies and making the pulsational content of Galactic Cepheids more similar to that of Magellanic Clouds ones. …

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
CoRoT 29
The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey: MOO J1142+1527, a 1015 M Galaxy Cluster at z = 1.19
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/812/2/L40 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...812L..40G

Eisenhardt, Peter R. M.; Gonzalez, Anthony H.; Marrone, Daniel P. +19 more

We present confirmation of the cluster MOO J1142+1527, a massive galaxy cluster discovered as part of the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. The cluster is confirmed to lie at z = 1.19, and using the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy we robustly detect the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) decrement at 13.2σ. The SZ data imp…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
Planck 29
Galaxy Evolution in the Mid-infrared Green Valley: A Case of the A2199 Supercluster
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/800/2/80 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...800...80L

Diaferio, Antonaldo; Lee, Myung Gyoon; Hwang, Ho Seong +4 more

We study the mid-infrared (MIR) properties of the galaxies in the A2199 supercluster at z = 0.03 to understand the star formation activity of galaxy groups and clusters in the supercluster environment. Using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer data, we find no dependence of mass-normalized integrated star formation rates of galaxy groups/clust…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
AKARI 29
Anatomy of the AGN in NGC 5548. IV. The short-term variability of the outflows
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525934 Bibcode: 2015A&A...579A..42D

Kaastra, J. S.; Kriss, G. A.; Bianchi, S. +16 more

During an extensive multiwavelength campaign that we performed in 2013-2014, we found the prototypical Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 in an unusual condition of heavy and persistent obscuration. The newly discovered "obscurer" absorbs most of the soft X-ray continuum along our line of sight and lowers the ionizing luminosity received by the classical w…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 29
Coronal Sources and In Situ Properties of the Solar Winds Sampled by ACE During 1999 - 2008
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-015-0689-9 Bibcode: 2015SoPh..290.1399F

Li, Xing; Fu, Hui; Li, Bo +4 more

We identify the coronal sources of the solar winds sampled by the ACE spacecraft during 1999 - 2008 and examine the in situ solar wind properties as a function of wind sources. The standard two-step mapping technique is adopted to establish the photospheric footpoints of the magnetic flux tubes along which the ACE winds flow. The footpoints are th…

2015 Solar Physics
SOHO 28
Molecular ions in the O-rich evolved star OH231.8+4.2: HCO+, H13CO+ and first detection of SO+, N2H+, and H3O+
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525652 Bibcode: 2015A&A...577A..52S

Menten, K. M.; Sánchez Contreras, C.; Alcolea, J. +8 more

OH 231.8+4.2, a bipolar outflow around a Mira-type variable star, displays a unique molecular richness amongst circumstellar envelopes (CSEs) around O-rich AGB and post-AGB stars. We report line observations of the HCO+ and H13CO+ molecular ions and the first detection of SO+, N2H+,…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 28
The first pre-supersoft X-ray binary
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1395 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.452.1754P

Bayo, A.; Gänsicke, B. T.; Pala, A. F. +8 more

We report the discovery of an extremely close white dwarf plus F dwarf main-sequence star in a 12 h binary identified by combining data from the Radial Velocity Experiment survey and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer survey. A combination of spectral energy distribution fitting and optical and Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet spectroscopy allowed us…

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 28
Evidence of Twisted Flux-Tube Emergence in Active Regions
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-014-0633-4 Bibcode: 2015SoPh..290..727P

Mandrini, C. H.; Démoulin, P.; López Fuentes, M. +1 more

Elongated magnetic polarities are observed during the emergence phase of bipolar active regions (ARs). These extended features, called magnetic tongues, are interpreted as a consequence of the azimuthal component of the magnetic flux in the toroidal flux-tubes that form ARs. We develop a new systematic and user-independent method to identify AR to…

2015 Solar Physics
SOHO 28
Optical Identification of He White Dwarfs Orbiting Four Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/812/1/63 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...812...63C

Dalessandro, E.; Salaris, M.; Ferraro, F. R. +4 more

We used ultra-deep UV observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope to search for optical companions to binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. We identified four new counterparts (to MSPs 47TucQ, 47TucS, 47TucT, and 47TucY) and confirmed those already known (to MSPs 47TucU and 47TucW). In the color-magnitude …

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 28
Equatorial noise emissions with quasiperiodic modulation of wave intensity
DOI: 10.1002/2014JA020816 Bibcode: 2015JGRA..120.2649N

Pickett, J. S.; Santolík, O.; Němec, F. +2 more

Equatorial noise (EN) emissions are electromagnetic wave events at frequencies between the proton cyclotron frequency and the lower hybrid frequency observed in the equatorial region of the inner magnetosphere. They propagate nearly perpendicular to the ambient magnetic field, and they exhibit a harmonic line structure characteristic of the proton…

2015 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 28