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Chandra High-resolution observations of CID-42, a Candidate Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/49 Bibcode: 2012ApJ...752...49C

Salvato, M.; Vignali, C.; Gilli, R. +15 more

We present Chandra High Resolution Camera observations of CID-42, a candidate recoiling supermassive black hole (SMBH) at z = 0.359 in the COSMOS survey. CID-42 shows two optical compact sources resolved in the HST/ACS image embedded in the same galaxy structure and a velocity offset of ~1300 km s-1 between the Hβ broad and narrow emiss…

2012 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 62
Automatic Detection and Tracking of Coronal Mass Ejections. II. Multiscale Filtering of Coronagraph Images
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/752/2/145 Bibcode: 2012ApJ...752..145B

Morgan, Huw; Gallagher, Peter T.; Habbal, Shadia R. +1 more

Studying coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in coronagraph data can be challenging due to their diffuse structure and transient nature, and user-specific biases may be introduced through visual inspection of the images. The large amount of data available from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO…

2012 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 61
X-Ray Observations of the Supernova Remnant W28 with Suzaku. I. Spectral Study of the Recombining Plasma
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/64.4.81 Bibcode: 2012PASJ...64...81S

Koyama, Katsuji; Sawada, Makoto

We present Suzaku results of the mixed-morphology supernova remnant W 28. The X-ray spectra of the central region of W 28 exhibit many bright emission lines from highly ionized atoms. An optically thin thermal plasma in collisional ionization equilibrium, either of single temperature or multi temperatures, failed to reproduce the data with line-li…

2012 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Suzaku 61
Herschel far-infrared observations of the Carina Nebula complex. I. Introduction and global cloud structure
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201218851 Bibcode: 2012A&A...541A.132P

Preibisch, T.; Roccatagliata, V.; Gaczkowski, B. +1 more

Context. The Carina Nebula represents one of the most massive star forming regions known in our Galaxy and displays a high level of feedback from the large number of very massive stars. While the stellar content is now well known from recent deep X-ray and near-infrared surveys, the properties of the clouds remained rather poorly studied until tod…

2012 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 61
Radiation-driven winds of hot luminous stars XVI. Expanding atmospheres of massive and very massive stars and the evolution of dense stellar clusters
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117621 Bibcode: 2012A&A...538A..75P

Pauldrach, A. W. A.; Hoffmann, T. L.; Vanbeveren, D.

Context. Starbursts play an essential role in the evolution of galaxies. In these environments, massive stars, with their short lifetimes, are of particular importance. The stellar winds of massive stars significantly influence not only on their surroundings, but the associated mass loss also profoundly affects the evolution of the stars themselve…

2012 Astronomy and Astrophysics
IUE eHST 61
Spitzer- and Herschel-based Spectral Energy Distributions of 24 µm Bright z ~ 0.3-3.0 Starbursts and Obscured Quasars
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/757/1/13 Bibcode: 2012ApJ...757...13S

Fadda, Dario; Yan, Lin; Sajina, Anna +2 more

In this paper, we characterize the infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of mid-IR-selected z ~ 0.3-3.0 and L IR ~ 1011-1013 L galaxies, and study how their SEDs differ from those of local and high-z analogs. Infrared SEDs depend both on the power source (AGN or star formation) and the dust dis…

2012 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 61
Rogue wave in Titan's atmosphere
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-011-0923-3 Bibcode: 2012Ap&SS.338....3E

Moslem, W. M.; El-Labany, S. K.; El-Bedwehy, N. A. +2 more

Rogue wave in a collisionless, unmagnetized electronegative plasma is investigated. For this purpose, the basic set of fluid equations is reduced to the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. However, when the frequency of the carrier wave is much smaller than the ion plasma frequency then the KdV equation is also used to study the nonlinear evolution …

2012 Astrophysics and Space Science
Cassini 61
Tidally-induced melting events as the origin of south-pole activity on Enceladus
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.03.024 Bibcode: 2012Icar..219..655B

Čadek, Ondřej; Tobie, Gabriel; Běhounková, Marie +1 more

The intense activity at the south pole of Enceladus hints at an internal water reservoir. However, there is no direct evidence of liquid water at present and its long-term stability in the interior remains problematic. By modeling heat production and transfer in the ice shell in a spherical geometry, we show that tidal heating naturally leads to a…

2012 Icarus
Cassini 61
Low-altitude Reconnection Inflow-Outflow Observations during a 2010 November 3 Solar Eruption
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/754/1/13 Bibcode: 2012ApJ...754...13S

Reeves, Katharine K.; Savage, Sabrina L.; McKenzie, David E. +3 more

For a solar flare occurring on 2010 November 3, we present observations using several SDO/AIA extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) passbands of an erupting flux rope followed by inflows sweeping into a current sheet region. The inflows are soon followed by outflows appearing to originate from near the termination point of the inflowing motion—an observation …

2012 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 61
Distinguishing between HII regions and planetary nebulae with Hi-GAL, WISE, MIPSGAL, and GLIMPSE
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117640 Bibcode: 2012A&A...537A...1A

García-Lario, P.; Zavagno, A.; Barlow, M. J. +2 more

Context. H II regions and planetary nebulae (PNe) both emit at radio and infrared (IR) wavelengths, and angularly small H II regions can be mistaken for PNe. This problem of classification is most severe for H II regions in an early evolutionary stage, those that are extremely distant, or those that are both young and distant. Previous work has sh…

2012 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 61