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Magnetic Field Strength in the Upper Solar Corona Using White-light Shock Structures Surrounding Coronal Mass Ejections
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/746/2/118 Bibcode: 2012ApJ...746..118K

Cho, K. -S.; Moon, Y. -J.; Gopalswamy, N. +2 more

To measure the magnetic field strength in the solar corona, we examined 10 fast (>=1000 km s-1) limb coronal mass ejections(CMEs) that show clear shock structures in Solar and Heliospheric Observatory/Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph images. By applying the piston-shock relationship to the observed CME's standoff distance an…

2012 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 40
Fermi-LAT Observations and a Broadband Study of Supernova Remnant CTB 109
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/756/1/88 Bibcode: 2012ApJ...756...88C

Slane, Patrick; Castro, Daniel; Ellison, Donald C. +1 more

CTB 109 (G109.1-1.0) is a Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) with a hemispherical shell morphology in X-rays and in the radio band. In this work, we report the detection of γ-ray emission coincident with CTB 109, using 37 months of data from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. We study the broadband characteristics…

2012 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 40
Survival of flux transfer event (FTE) flux ropes far along the tail magnetopause
DOI: 10.1029/2012JA017722 Bibcode: 2012JGRA..117.8222E

Eastwood, J. P.; Fear, R. C.; Phan, T. D. +4 more

During intervals of southward IMF, magnetic reconnection can result in the formation of flux transfer events (FTEs) on the dayside magnetopause which travel along the magnetopause in the anti-sunward direction. Of particular interest is their fate and the role they play transporting solar wind plasma into the magnetosphere. We present the discover…

2012 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 40
Nonstorm time scattering of ring current protons by electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves
DOI: 10.1029/2012JA017922 Bibcode: 2012JGRA..117.8204X

Xiao, Fuliang; Yang, Chang; Zhou, Qinghua +4 more

We report correlated observation of enhanced electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves and dynamic evolution of ring current proton flux collected by Cluster satellite near the location L = 4.5 during March 26-27, 2003, a nonstorm period (Dst> -10). Energetic (5-30 keV) proton fluxes are found to drop rapidly (e.g., a half hour) at …

2012 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 39
The radio-X-ray relation as a star formation indicator: results from the Very Large Array-Extended Chandra Deep Field-South
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.20185.x Bibcode: 2012MNRAS.420.2190V

Brandt, W. N.; Tozzi, P.; Xue, Y. Q. +10 more

In order to trace the instantaneous star formation rate (SFR) at high redshift, and thus help in understanding the relation between the different emission mechanisms related to star formation, we combine the recent 4-Ms Chandra X-ray data and the deep Very Large Array radio data in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South region. We find 268 sources …

2012 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 39
The interplanetary magnetic structure that guides solar relativistic particles
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118145 Bibcode: 2012A&A...538A..32M

Klein, K. -L.; Démoulin, P.; Dasso, S. +1 more

Context. Relating in-situ measurements of relativistic solar particles to their parent activity in the corona requires understanding the magnetic structures that guide them from their acceleration site to the Earth. Relativistic particle events are observed at times of high solar activity, when transient magnetic structures such as interplanetary …

2012 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 39
Enhanced atmospheric oxygen outflow on Earth and Mars driven by a corotating interaction region
DOI: 10.1029/2011JA017340 Bibcode: 2012JGRA..117.3208W

Barabash, S.; Lundin, R.; Woch, J. +10 more

Solar wind controls nonthermal escape of planetary atmospheric volatiles, regardless of the strength of planetary magnetic fields. For both Earth with a strong dipole and Mars with weak remnant fields, the oxygen ion (O+) outflow has been separately found to be enhanced during corotating interaction region (CIR) passage. Here we compare…

2012 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster MEx 39
Kinetic simulations of finite gyroradius effects in the lunar plasma environment on global, meso, and microscales
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2012.09.012 Bibcode: 2012P&SS...74..146K

Barabash, Stas; Jarvinen, Riku; Kallio, Esa +12 more

The recent in situ particle measurements near the Moon by Chandrayaan-1 and Kaguya missions as well as the earlier observation by the Lunar Prospector have shown that the Moon-solar wind interaction is more complicated than believed earlier. The new observations have arisen the need for a detailed modelling of the near surface plasma-surface proce…

2012 Planetary and Space Science
Chandrayaan-1 39
AKARI Infrared Camera Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud. I. Point-source Catalog
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/144/6/179 Bibcode: 2012AJ....144..179K

Onaka, Takashi; Tanabé, Toshihiko; Ita, Yoshifusa +10 more

We present a near- to mid-infrared point-source catalog of five photometric bands at 3.2, 7, 11, 15, and 24 µm for a 10 deg2 area of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) obtained with the Infrared Camera on board the AKARI satellite. To cover the survey area the observations were carried out at three separate seasons from 2006 May to …

2012 The Astronomical Journal
AKARI 39
Central kinematics of the globular cluster NGC 2808: upper limit on the mass of an intermediate-mass black hole
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219375 Bibcode: 2012A&A...542A.129L

Kissler-Patig, M.; de Zeeuw, P. T.; Neumayer, N. +5 more

Context. Globular clusters are an excellent laboratory for stellar population and dynamical research. Recent studies have shown that these stellar systems are not as simple as previously assumed. With multiple stellar populations as well as outer rotation and mass segregation they turn out to exhibit high complexity. This includes intermediate-mas…

2012 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 39