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Cassini multi-instrument assessment of Saturn's polar cap boundary
DOI: 10.1002/2014JA020367 Bibcode: 2014JGRA..119.8161J

Gurnett, D. A.; Krupp, N.; Dougherty, M. K. +10 more

We present the first systematic investigation of the polar cap boundary in Saturn's high-latitude magnetosphere through a multi-instrument assessment of various Cassini in situ data sets gathered between 2006 and 2009. We identify 48 polar cap crossings where the polar cap boundary can be clearly observed in the step in upper cutoff of auroral his…

2014 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cassini 27
The ALHAMBRA survey: evolution of galaxy clustering since z ∼ 1
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu681 Bibcode: 2014MNRAS.441.1783A

Cepa, J.; Infante, L.; Molino, A. +29 more

We study the clustering of galaxies as function of luminosity and redshift in the range 0.35 < z < 1.25 using data from the Advanced Large Homogeneous Area Medium-Band Redshift Astronomical (ALHAMBRA) survey. The ALHAMBRA data used in this work cover 2.38 deg2 in seven independent fields, after applying a detailed angular selectio…

2014 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ISO 27
On the fine structure of dipolarization fronts
DOI: 10.1002/2014JA019908 Bibcode: 2014JGRA..119.6367B

Dandouras, I.; Walker, S. N.; Runov, A. +4 more

Measurements from the closely spaced Cluster spacecraft are used to study the structure of the magnetic and electric fields within the magnetic ramp of dipolarization fronts (DF) observed close to the neutral sheet and the midnight meridian (YGSM<3RE). The spacecraft separation was small enough (<300 km) to treat the ma…

2014 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 27
Coronal Inflows during the Interval 1996-2014
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/797/1/10 Bibcode: 2014ApJ...797...10S

Sheeley, N. R., Jr.; Wang, Y. -M.

We extend our previous counts of coronal inflows from the 5 yr interval 1996-2001 to the 18 yr interval 1996-2014. By comparing stackplots of these counts with similar stackplots of the source-surface magnetic field and its longitudinal gradient, we find that the inflows occur in long-lived streams with counting rates in excess of 18 inflows per d…

2014 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 27
Constraints on a decomposed dark fluid with constant adiabatic sound speed by jointing the geometry test and growth rate after Planck data
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.043511 Bibcode: 2014PhRvD..89d3511Y

Yang, Weiqiang; Xu, Lixin; Wang, Yuting +1 more

In this paper, a unified dark fluid with constant adiabatic sound speed is decomposed into cold dark matter interacting with vacuum energy. Based on a Markov-chain Monte Carlo method, we constrain this model by jointing the geometry and dynamical measurement. The geometry test includes cosmic microwave background radiation from Planck, baryon acou…

2014 Physical Review D
Planck 27
The UV Continuum of z > 1 Star-forming Galaxies in the Hubble Ultraviolet UltraDeep Field
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/793/1/L5 Bibcode: 2014ApJ...793L...5K

Finkelstein, Steven L.; Grogin, Norman A.; Koekemoer, Anton M. +11 more

We estimate the UV continuum slope, β, for 923 galaxies in the range 1 < z < 8 in the Hubble Ultradeep Field (HUDF). These data include 460 galaxies at 1 < z < 2 down to an absolute magnitude M_UV= -14(∼ 0.006 L^*z=1; 0.02 L^*z=0), comparable to dwarf galaxies in the local universe. We combine deep HST/UVIS photom…

2014 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 27
The structure of strongly tilted current sheets in the Earth magnetotail
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-32-133-2014 Bibcode: 2014AnGeo..32..133V

Petrukovich, A. A.; Zelenyi, L. M.; Nakamura, R. +2 more

We investigate strongly tilted (in the y-z GSM plane) current sheets (CSs) in the Earth magnetotail using data from the Cluster mission. We analyze 29 CS crossings observed in 2001-2004. The characteristic current density, magnetic field at the CS boundary and the CS thickness of strongly tilted CSs are similar to those reported previously for hor…

2014 Annales Geophysicae
Cluster 27
The distant galaxy cluster XLSSJ022403.9-041328 on the LX–TX–M scaling relations using Chandra and XMM–Newton observations
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-014-2057-x Bibcode: 2014Ap&SS.353..613B

Babyk, I.; Vavilova, I.

We present a very detailed analysis of Chandra and XMM–Newton observations of XLSSJ022403.9-041328 galaxy cluster of z=1, which was detected during the XMM-Newton Large Scale Structure survey. To define the "luminosity-temperature-mass", LX–TX–M, scaling relations we built temperature, surface brightness, density, and mass pr…

2014 Astrophysics and Space Science
XMM-Newton 27
Testing linear theory of EMIC waves in the inner magnetosphere: Cluster observations
DOI: 10.1002/2013JA019541 Bibcode: 2014JGRA..119.1004L

Sauvaud, J. -A.; Klecker, B.; Kistler, L. M. +8 more

In this paper, we test whether time periods with hot proton temperature anisotropy are associated with electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves and whether the plasma conditions during the observed waves satisfy the linear theory threshold condition. We identify 865 events observed by the Composition Distribution Function instrument onboard Clus…

2014 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 27
Hubble Space Telescope Pre-perihelion ACS/WFC Imaging Polarimetry of Comet Ison (c/2012 s1) at 3.81 AU
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/780/2/L32 Bibcode: 2014ApJ...780L..32H

Mutchler, Max; Muinonen, Karri; Hines, Dean C. +9 more

We present polarization images of Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) on UTC 2013 May 8 (r h = 3.81 AU, Δ = 4.34 AU), when the phase angle was α ≈ 12.°16. This phase angle is approximately centered in the negative polarization branch for cometary dust. The region beyond 1000 km (~0.32 arcsec ≈ 6 pixels) fr…

2014 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 27