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Three-fluid, Three-dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Solar Wind Model with Eddy Viscosity and Turbulent Resistivity
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/788/1/43 Bibcode: 2014ApJ...788...43U

Matthaeus, William H.; Goldstein, Melvyn L.; Usmanov, Arcadi V.

We have developed a three-fluid, three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic solar wind model that incorporates turbulence transport, eddy viscosity, turbulent resistivity, and turbulent heating. The solar wind plasma is described as a system of co-moving solar wind protons, electrons, and interstellar pickup protons, with separate energy equations for …

2014 The Astrophysical Journal
Ulysses 102
Structures of Interplanetary Magnetic Flux Ropes and Comparison with Their Solar Sources
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/793/1/53 Bibcode: 2014ApJ...793...53H

Qiu, Jiong; Hu, Qiang; Dasgupta, B. +2 more

Whether a magnetic flux rope is pre-existing or formed in situ in the Sun's atmosphere, there is little doubt that magnetic reconnection is essential to release the flux rope during its ejection. During this process, the question remains: how does magnetic reconnection change the flux-rope structure? In this work, we continue with the original stu…

2014 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 102
Modeling the Formation of Globular Cluster Systems in the Virgo Cluster
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/796/1/10 Bibcode: 2014ApJ...796...10L

Li, Hui; Gnedin, Oleg Y.

The mass distribution and chemical composition of globular cluster (GC) systems preserve fossil record of the early stages of galaxy formation. The observed distribution of GC colors within massive early-type galaxies in the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey (ACSVCS) reveals a multi-modal shape, which likely corresponds to a multi-modal metallicity distrib…

2014 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 102
On the prevalence of small-scale twist in the solar chromosphere and transition region
DOI: 10.1126/science.1255732 Bibcode: 2014Sci...346D.315D

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

The solar chromosphere and transition region (TR) form an interface between the Sun’s surface and its hot outer atmosphere. There, most of the nonthermal energy that powers the solar atmosphere is transformed into heat, although the detailed mechanism remains elusive. High-resolution (0.33-arc second) observations with NASA’s Interface Region Imag…

2014 Science
IRIS 102
PACS photometry of the Herschel Reference Survey - far-infrared/submillimetre colours as tracers of dust properties in nearby galaxies
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu175 Bibcode: 2014MNRAS.440..942C

Ciesla, L.; Buat, V.; Boquien, M. +26 more

We present Herschel/PACS 100 and 160 µm integrated photometry for the 323 galaxies in the Herschel Reference Survey (HRS), a K-band, volume-limited sample of galaxies in the local Universe. Once combined with the Herschel/SPIRE observations already available, these data make the HRS the largest representative sample of nearby galaxies with h…

2014 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 102
The evolution of dust-obscured star formation activity in galaxy clusters relative to the field over the last 9 billion years
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt1897 Bibcode: 2014MNRAS.437..437A

Weiner, Benjamin J.; Moustakas, John; Dey, Arjun +14 more

We compare the star formation (SF) activity in cluster galaxies to the field from z = 0.3 to 1.5 using Herschel Spectral and Photometric Imaging REceiver 250 µm imaging and utilizing 274 clusters from the IRAC Shallow Cluster Survey (ISCS). These clusters were selected as rest-frame near-infrared overdensities over the 9 square degree Boötes…

2014 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 102
Computing the reconnection rate in turbulent kinetic layers by using electron mixing to identify topology
DOI: 10.1063/1.4875730 Bibcode: 2014PhPl...21e2307D

Daughton, W.; Nakamura, T. K. M.; Karimabadi, H. +2 more

Three-dimensional kinetic simulations of magnetic reconnection for parameter regimes relevant to the magnetopause current layer feature the development of turbulence, driven by the magnetic and velocity shear, and dominated by coherent structures including flux ropes, current sheets, and flow vortices. Here, we propose a new approach for computing…

2014 Physics of Plasmas
Cluster 101
Planck 2013 results. VII. HFI time response and beams
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201321535 Bibcode: 2014A&A...571A...7P

Kneissl, R.; Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Bernard, J. -P. +220 more

This paper characterizes the effective beams, the effective beam window functions and the associated errors for the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) detectors. The effective beam is theangular response including the effect of the optics, detectors, data processing and the scan strategy. The window function is the representation of this beam …

2014 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 101
A volume-limited sample of X-ray galaxy groups and clusters - I. Radial entropy and cooling time profiles
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt2349 Bibcode: 2014MNRAS.438.2341P

Fabian, A. C.; Sanders, J. S.; Panagoulia, E. K.

We present the first results of our study of a sample of 101 X-ray galaxy groups and clusters, which is volume-limited in each of three X-ray luminosity bins. The aim of this work is to study the properties of the innermost ICM in the cores of our groups and clusters, and to determine the effect of non-gravitational processes, such as active galac…

2014 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 101
The mass-metallicity-star formation rate relation at z ≳ 2 with 3D Hubble Space Telescope
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu443 Bibcode: 2014MNRAS.440.2300C

Bowler, R. A. A.; Cullen, F.; McLure, R. J. +2 more

We present new accurate measurements of the mass, metallicity and star-formation rate of a statistically significant sample of 93 galaxies at z ≳ 2 using near-infrared spectroscopy taken as part of the 3D-Hubble Space Telescope survey. We derive a mass-metallicity relation (MZR) for our sample with metallicities based on the oxygen and Hβ nebular …

2014 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 101