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A Measurement of Diffusion in 47 Tucanae
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/804/1/53 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...804...53H

Richer, Harvey B.; Heyl, Jeremy; Kalirai, Jason +4 more

Using images from the Hubble Space Telescope Wide-Field Camera 3, we measure the rate of diffusion of stars through the core of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) using a sample of young white dwarfs that were identified in these observations. This is the first direct measurement of diffusion due to gravitational relaxation. We find that the…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 20
Limits on the fluctuating part of y-type distortion monopole from Planck and SPT results
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/08/013 Bibcode: 2015JCAP...08..013K

Khatri, Rishi; Sunyaev, Rashid

We use the published Planck and SPT cluster catalogs [1,2] and recently published y-distortion maps [3] to put strong observational limits on the contribution of the fluctuating part of the y-type distortions to the y-distortion monopole. Our bounds are 5.4× 10-8 < ⟨ y⟩ < 2.2× 10-6. Our upper bound is a factor of 6.8 st…

2015 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Planck 20
A GALEX-based Search for the Sparse Young Stellar Population in the Taurus-Aurigae Star Forming Region
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/216/2/26 Bibcode: 2015ApJS..216...26G

Gómez de Castro, Ana I.; López-Martínez, Fatima; Sánchez, Néstor +5 more

In this work, we identify 63 bona fide new candidates to T Tauri stars (TTSs) in the Taurus-Auriga region, using its ultraviolet excess as our baseline. The initial data set was defined from the GALEX all sky survey (AIS). The GALEX satellite obtained images in the near-ultraviolet (NUV) and far-ultraviolet (FUV) bands where TTSs show a prominent …

2015 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
IUE eHST 20
A blind CO detection of a distant red galaxy in the HS1700+64 protocluster.
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slv010 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.449L..68C

Smail, I.; Ivison, R. J.; Gurwell, M. +7 more

We report the blind detection of 12CO emission from a distant red galaxy, HS1700.DRG55. We have used the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer WideX, with its 3.6 GHz of instantaneous dual-polarization bandwidth, to target 12CO(3-2) from galaxies lying in the protocluster at z = 2.300 in the field HS1700+64. If indeed this line…

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 20
A divergence-free parametrization for dynamical dark energy
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/06/049 Bibcode: 2015JCAP...06..049A

Akarsu, Özgür; Dereli, Tekin; Vazquez, J. Alberto

We introduce a new parametrization for the dark energy, led by the same idea to the linear expansion of the equation of state in scale factor a and in redshift z, which diverges neither in the past nor future and contains the same number of degrees of freedom with the former two. We present constraints of the cosmological parameters using the most…

2015 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Planck 20
Co-evolution of black hole growth and star formation from a cross-correlation analysis between quasars and the cosmic infrared background
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv559 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.449.4476W

Ross, Nicholas P.; Wang, Wenting; Han, Jiaxin +19 more

We present the first cross-correlation measurement between Sloan Digital Sky Survey type 1 quasars and the cosmic infrared background (CIB) measured by Herschel. The quasars cover the redshift range 0.15 < z < 3.5 where most of the CIB originates. We detect the sub-millimetre emission of the quasars, which dominates on small scales, and corr…

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 20
HH 666: different kinematics from H α and [Fe II] emission provide a missing link between jets and outflows
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv634 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.450..564R

Smith, Nathan; Bally, John; Reiter, Megan +1 more

HH 666 is an externally irradiated protostellar outflow in the Carina nebula for which we present new near-IR [Fe II] spectra obtained with the Folded-Port Infrared Echellette spectrograph at Magellan Observatory. Earlier H α and near-IR [Fe II] imaging revealed that the two emission lines trace substantially different morphologies in the inner ∼4…

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 20
On the Enhanced Coronal Mass Ejection Detection Rate since the Solar Cycle 23 Polar Field Reversal
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/812/1/74 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...812...74P

Petrie, G. J. D.

Compared to cycle 23, coronal mass ejections (CMEs) with angular widths >30° have been observed to occur at a higher rate during solar cycle 24, per sunspot number. This result is supported by data from three independent databases constructed using Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment coronagraph images, two employing automated …

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 20
Smoke in the Pipe Nebula: dust emission and grain growth in the starless core FeSt 1-457
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425375 Bibcode: 2015A&A...580A.114F

Alves, João; Forbrich, Jan; Lada, Charles J. +2 more

Context. The availability of submillimeter dust emission data in an unprecedented number of bands provides us with new opportunities to investigate the properties of interstellar dust in nearby clouds.
Aims: The nearby Pipe Nebula is an ideal laboratory to study starless cores. We here aim to characterize the dust properties of the FeSt 1-457…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel Planck 20
XMMFITCAT: The XMM-Newton spectral-fit database
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425124 Bibcode: 2015A&A...576A..61C

Georgantopoulos, I.; Watson, M. G.; Webb, N. A. +3 more

The XMM-Newton spectral-fit database (XMMFITCAT) is a catalogue of spectral fitting results for the source detections within the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue with more than 50 net (background-subtracted) counts per detector in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. Its most recent version, constructed from the latest version of the XMM-Newton ca…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 20