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What is the Physical Origin of Strong Lyα Emission? II. Gas Kinematics and Distribution of Lyα Emitters
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/788/1/74 Bibcode: 2014ApJ...788...74S

Ono, Yoshiaki; Ouchi, Masami; Shibuya, Takatoshi +8 more

We present a statistical study of velocities of Lyα, interstellar (IS) absorption, and nebular lines and gas covering fraction for Lyα emitters (LAEs) at z ~= 2. We make a sample of 22 LAEs with a large Lyα equivalent width (EW) of >~ 50 Å based on our deep Keck/Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS) observations, in conjunction with spectr…

2014 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 138
Circulation of Heavy Ions and Their Dynamical Effects in the Magnetosphere: Recent Observations and Models
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-014-0104-0 Bibcode: 2014SSRv..184..173K

Dandouras, Iannis; Malova, Helmi V.; Grigorenko, Elena E. +13 more

Knowledge of the ion composition in the near-Earth's magnetosphere and plasma sheet is essential for the understanding of magnetospheric processes and instabilities. The presence of heavy ions of ionospheric origin in the magnetosphere, in particular oxygen (O+), influences the plasma sheet bulk properties, current sheet (CS) thickness …

2014 Space Science Reviews
Cluster 137
X-ray emission from star-forming galaxies - III. Calibration of the LX-SFR relation up to redshift z ≈ 1.3
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt1999 Bibcode: 2014MNRAS.437.1698M

Sunyaev, R.; Lehmer, B. D.; Morrison, G. E. +2 more

We investigate the relation between total X-ray emission from star-forming galaxies and their star formation activity. Using nearby late-type galaxies and ultraluminous infrared galaxies from Paper I and star-forming galaxies from Chandra Deep Fields (CDFs), we construct a sample of 66 galaxies spanning the redshift range z ≈ 0-1.3 and the star fo…

2014 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 136
Evidence of nonthermal particles in coronal loops heated impulsively by nanoflares
DOI: 10.1126/science.1255724 Bibcode: 2014Sci...346B.315T

Golub, L.; Tian, H.; De Pontieu, B. +21 more

The physical processes causing energy exchange between the Sun’s hot corona and its cool lower atmosphere remain poorly understood. The chromosphere and transition region (TR) form an interface region between the surface and the corona that is highly sensitive to the coronal heating mechanism. High-resolution observations with the Interface Region…

2014 Science
IRIS 135
An Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph First View on Solar Spicules
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/792/1/L15 Bibcode: 2014ApJ...792L..15P

Golub, L.; Tian, H.; De Pontieu, B. +17 more

Solar spicules have eluded modelers and observers for decades. Since the discovery of the more energetic type II, spicules have become a heated topic but their contribution to the energy balance of the low solar atmosphere remains unknown. Here we give a first glimpse of what quiet-Sun spicules look like when observed with NASA's recently launched…

2014 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode IRIS 135
CANDELS/GOODS-S, CDFS, and ECDFS: Photometric Redshifts for Normal and X-Ray-Detected Galaxies
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/796/1/60 Bibcode: 2014ApJ...796...60H

Barro, Guillermo; Ferguson, Henry C.; Grazian, Andrea +29 more

We present photometric redshifts and associated probability distributions for all detected sources in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS). This work makes use of the most up-to-date data from the Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Legacy Survey (CANDELS) and the Taiwan ECDFS Near-Infrared Survey (TENIS) in addition to other data. We also revis…

2014 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 135
Anomalous expansion of coronal mass ejections during solar cycle 24 and its space weather implications
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059858 Bibcode: 2014GeoRL..41.2673G

Gopalswamy, Nat; Akiyama, Sachiko; Yashiro, Seiji +3 more

The familiar correlation between the speed and angular width of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is also found in solar cycle 24, but the regression line has a larger slope: for a given CME speed, cycle 24 CMEs are significantly wider than those in cycle 23. The slope change indicates a significant change in the physical state of the heliosphere, due…

2014 Geophysical Research Letters
SOHO 134
Strongest model-independent bound on the lifetime of Dark Matter
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/12/028 Bibcode: 2014JCAP...12..028A

Tram, Thomas; Lesgourgues, Julien; Mangano, Gianpiero +2 more

Dark Matter is essential for structure formation in the late Universe so it must be stable on cosmological time scales. But how stable exactly? Only assuming decays into relativistic particles, we report an otherwise model independent bound on the lifetime of Dark Matter using current cosmological data. Since these decays affect only the low ℓ mul…

2014 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Planck 134
The evolution of massive stars and their spectra. I. A non-rotating 60 M star from the zero-age main sequence to the pre-supernova stage
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322573 Bibcode: 2014A&A...564A..30G

Meynet, Georges; Groh, Jose H.; Ekström, Sylvia +1 more

For the first time, the interior and spectroscopic evolution of a massive star is analyzed from the zero-age main sequence (ZAMS) to the pre-supernova (SN) stage. For this purpose, we combined stellar evolution models using the Geneva code and stellar atmospheric/wind models using CMFGEN. With our approach, we were able to produce observables, suc…

2014 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 134
A library of near-infrared integral field spectra of young M-L dwarfs
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118270 Bibcode: 2014A&A...562A.127B

Pinte, C.; Homeier, D.; Lagrange, A. -M. +5 more

Context. At young ages, low surface gravity affects the atmospheric properties of ultracool dwarfs. The impact on medium-resolution near-infrared (NIR) spectra has only been slightly investigated at the M-L transition so far.
Aims: We present a library of NIR (1.1-2.45 µm) medium-resolution (R ~ 1500-2000) integral field spectra of 15 y…

2014 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 134