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The Dustiest Post-Main Sequence Stars in the Magellanic Clouds
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/811/2/145 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...811..145J

Boyer, Martha L.; Meixner, Margaret; Roman-Duval, Julia +4 more

Using observations from the Herschel Inventory of The Agents of Galaxy Evolution (HERITAGE) survey of the Magellanic Clouds (MC), we have found 35 evolved stars and stellar end products that are bright in the far-infrared. These 28 (LMC) and 7 (SMC) sources were selected from the 529 evolved star candidates in the HERITAGE far-infrared point sourc…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 25
SCORPIO: a deep survey of radio emission from the stellar life-cycle
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1976 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.454..902U

Umana, G.; Agliozzo, C.; Trigilio, C. +7 more

Radio emission has been detected in a broad variety of stellar objects from all stages of stellar evolution. However, most of our knowledge originates from targeted observations of small samples, which are strongly biased to sources which are peculiar at other wavelengths. In order to tackle this problem we have conducted a deep 1.4 GHz survey by …

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
AKARI 25
Spectral and timing analysis of the mHz QPOs in the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1971 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.454..541L

Méndez, Mariano; Keek, L.; Zhang, Guobao +1 more

We investigate the spectral and timing properties of the millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations (mHz QPOs) in neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53 using XMM-Newton and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations. The mHz QPOs in the XMM-Newton/RXTE observations show significant frequency variation and disappear right before type I X-r…

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 25
Theoretical basis for operational ensemble forecasting of coronal mass ejections
DOI: 10.1002/2015SW001221 Bibcode: 2015SpWea..13..676P

Odstrcil, D.; Biesecker, D. A.; Millward, G. +5 more

We lay out the theoretical underpinnings for the application of the Wang-Sheeley-Arge-Enlil modeling system to ensemble forecasting of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in an operational environment. In such models, there is no magnetic cloud component, so our results pertain only to CME front properties, such as transit time to Earth. Within this fra…

2015 Space Weather
SOHO 25
Measuring the Largest Angular Scale CMB B-mode Polarization with Galactic Foregrounds on a Cut Sky
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/814/2/103 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...814..103W

Marriage, Tobias A.; Wollack, Edward J.; Watts, Duncan J. +9 more

We consider the effectiveness of foreground cleaning in the recovery of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization sourced by gravitational waves for tensor-to-scalar ratios in the range 0\lt r\lt 0.1. Using the planned survey area, frequency bands, and sensitivity of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS), we simulate maps of Stok…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
Planck 25
Continuous Mid-Infrared Star Formation Rate Indicators: Diagnostics for 0 < z < 3 Star-Forming Galaxies
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/800/2/143 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...800..143B

Elbaz, D.; Calzetti, D.; Johnson, B. D. +1 more

We present continuous, monochromatic star formation rate (SFR) indicators over the mid-infrared wavelength range of 6-70 µm. We use a sample of 58 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) in the Spitzer-SDSS-GALEX Spectroscopic Survey at z < 0.2, for which there is a rich suite of multi-wavelength photometry and spectroscopy from the ultraviolet thro…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 25
Generalized self-similarity of intermittent plasma turbulence in space and laboratory plasmas
DOI: 10.1017/S0022377815001099 Bibcode: 2015JPlPh..81f3902B

Zelenyi, L. M.; Savin, S. P.; Budaev, V. P.

> Statistical characteristics of plasma fluctuations in the solar wind (SW), the Earth's magnetosphere and fusion devices are reviewed. The turbulence in all these media has a complicated multiscale structure and exhibits a generalized self-similarity in an extended scale range. The anomalous transport of mass and momentum is intermittent and i…

2015 Journal of Plasma Physics
Cluster 25
Variability of Disk Emission in Pre-main Sequence and Related Stars. III. Exploring Structural Changes in the Pre-transitional Disk in HD 169142
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/798/2/94 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...798...94W

Inoue, Akio K.; Brown, Alexander; Russell, Ray W. +17 more

We present near-IR (NIR) and far-UV observations of the pre-transitional (gapped) disk in HD 169142 using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility and Hubble Space Telescope. The combination of our data along with existing data sets into the broadband spectral energy distribution reveals variability of up to 45% between ~1.5-10 µm over a maximum t…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
AKARI ISO IUE eHST 25
The role of massive halos in the star formation history of the Universe
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201424715 Bibcode: 2015A&A...579A.132P

Finoguenov, A.; Berta, S.; Magnelli, B. +21 more

Context. The most striking feature of the cosmic star formation history (CSFH) of the Universe is a dramatic drop in the star formation (SF) activity after z ~ 1.
Aims: In this work we investigate whether the very same process of assembly and growth of structures is one of the major drivers of the observed decline in the Universe's SF activit…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 25
A census of variability in globular cluster M 68 (NGC 4590)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201424600 Bibcode: 2015A&A...578A.128K

Surdej, J.; Arellano Ferro, A.; Steele, I. A. +34 more


Aims: We analyse 20 nights of CCD observations in the V and I bands of the globular cluster M 68 (NGC 4590) and use them to detect variable objects. We also obtained electron-multiplying CCD (EMCCD) observations for this cluster in order to explore its core with unprecedented spatial resolution from the ground.
Methods: We reduced our da…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 25