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A Study of Heating and Cooling of the ISM in NGC 1097 with Herschel-PACS and Spitzer-IRS
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/751/2/144 Bibcode: 2012ApJ...751..144B

Helou, G.; Roussel, H.; Murphy, E. J. +38 more

NGC 1097 is a nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy with a bright circumnuclear starburst ring, a strong large-scale bar, and an active nucleus. We present a detailed study of the spatial variation of the far-infrared (FIR) [C II]158 µm and [O I]63 µm lines and mid-infrared H2 emission lines as tracers of gas cooling, and of the polycycli…

2012 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 41
An insight in the surroundings of HR 4796
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219187 Bibcode: 2012A&A...546A..38L

Ehrenreich, D.; Milli, J.; Lacour, S. +8 more

Context. HR 4796 is a young, early A-type star harboring a well structured debris disk, shaped as a ring with sharp inner edges. The inner edge might be shaped by a yet unseen planet inside the ring; the outer one is not well understood. The star forms together with the M-type star HR 4796B, a binary system, with a projected separation of ≃ 560 AU…

2012 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 40
Detection of Flux Emergence, Splitting, Merging, and Cancellation of Network Field. I. Splitting and Merging
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/752/2/149 Bibcode: 2012ApJ...752..149I

Hagenaar, H. J.; Iida, Y.; Yokoyama, T.

Frequencies of magnetic patch processes on the supergranule boundary, namely, flux emergence, splitting, merging, and cancellation, are investigated through automatic detection. We use a set of line-of-sight magnetograms taken by the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board the Hinode satellite. We found 1636 positive patches and 1637 negative patch…

2012 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 40
Spitzer Search for Dust Disks around Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/200/1/3 Bibcode: 2012ApJS..200....3B

De Marco, Orsola; Chu, You-Hua; Bilíková, Jana +2 more

Two types of dust disks have been discovered around white dwarfs (WDs): small dust disks within the Roche limits of their WDs and large dust disks around hot WDs extending to radial distances of 10-102 AU. The majority of the latter WDs are central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPNs). We have therefore used archival Spitzer Infrared Arra…

2012 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
eHST 40
AKARI Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Luminous Infrared Galaxies
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/756/1/95 Bibcode: 2012ApJ...756...95L

Lee, Myung Gyoon; Lee, Jong Chul; Hwang, Ho Seong +2 more

We present the AKARI near-infrared (NIR; 2.5-5 µm) spectroscopic study of 36 (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies ((U)LIRGs) at z = 0.01-0.4. We measure the NIR spectral features including the strengths of 3.3 µm polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission and hydrogen recombination lines (Brα and Brβ), optical depths at 3.1 and 3.4 µm…

2012 The Astrophysical Journal
AKARI 40
Constraints on the Faint End of the Quasar Luminosity Function at z ~ 5 in the COSMOS Field
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/756/2/160 Bibcode: 2012ApJ...756..160I

Taniguchi, Y.; Salvato, M.; Morokuma, T. +12 more

We present the result of our low-luminosity quasar survey in the redshift range of 4.5 <~ z <~ 5.5 in the COSMOS field. Using the COSMOS photometric catalog, we selected 15 quasar candidates with 22 < i' < 24 at z ~ 5 that are ~3 mag fainter than the Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasars in the same redshift range. We obtained optical spect…

2012 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 40
The ElIXr Galaxy Survey. II. Baryons and Dark Matter in an Isolated Elliptical Galaxy
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/755/2/166 Bibcode: 2012ApJ...755..166H

Humphrey, Philip J.; Buote, David A.; Ponman, Trevor J. +1 more

The Elliptical Isolated X-ray (ElIXr) Galaxy Survey is a volume-limited (<110 Mpc) study of optically selected, isolated, L * elliptical galaxies to provide an X-ray census of galaxy-scale (virial mass, M vir <~ 1013 M ) objects and identify candidates for detailed hydrostatic mass modeling. In th…

2012 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 40
Coronal hole boundaries evolution at small scales. III. EIS and SUMER views
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219516 Bibcode: 2012A&A...545A..67M

Doyle, J. G.; Madjarska, M. S.; Huang, Z. +1 more

Context. We report on the plasma properties of small-scale transient events identified in the quiet Sun, coronal holes and their boundaries.
Aims: We aim at deriving the physical characteristics of events that were identified as small-scale transient brightenings in XRT images.
Methods: We used spectroscopic co-observations from SUMER/So…

2012 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hinode SOHO 40
Far-IR/Submillimeter Spectroscopic Cosmological Surveys: Predictions of Infrared Line Luminosity Functions for z < 4 Galaxies
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/745/2/171 Bibcode: 2012ApJ...745..171S

Spinoglio, Luigi; Franceschini, Alberto; Gruppioni, Carlotta +3 more

Star formation and accretion onto supermassive black holes in the nuclei of galaxies are the two most energetic processes in the universe, producing the bulk of the observed emission throughout its history. We simulated the luminosity functions of star-forming and active galaxies for spectral lines that are thought to be good spectroscopic tracers…

2012 The Astrophysical Journal
ISO 40
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at Saturn's magnetopause: Cassini ion data analysis
DOI: 10.1029/2011JA016723 Bibcode: 2012JGRA..117.3212W

Wilson, R. J.; Delamere, P. A.; Bagenal, F. +1 more

On 13 December 2004 Cassini, on approach to Saturn from the dawn flank, crossed the magnetopause multiple times. During these events the plasma spectrometer had a good field of view of both the magnetospheric and magnetosheath plasmas that often flow in nearly opposite directions (compared with more typical orientations that only allow one regime …

2012 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cassini 40