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Unresolved emission and ionized gas in the bulge of M31
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13391.x Bibcode: 2008MNRAS.388...56B

Bogdán, Á.; Gilfanov, M.

We study the origin of unresolved X-ray emission from the bulge of M31 based on archival Chandra and XMM-Newton observations. We demonstrate that three different components are present. (i) Broad-band emission from a large number of faint sources - mainly accreting white dwarfs and active binaries, associated with the old stellar population, simil…

2008 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 63
Magnetic fields and gas in the cluster-influenced spiral galaxy NGC 4254. II. Structures of magnetic fields
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20078688 Bibcode: 2008A&A...482..755C

Chyży, K. T.

Aims: The origin of asymmetric radio polarized emission in the Virgo Cluster spiral NGC 4254 is investigated and the influence of cluster environment on the properties of magnetic fields is explored.
Methods: Structures of magnetic fields are analyzed with the concept of “magnetic maps”, presenting distributions of different magnetic field com…

2008 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 63
Hard X-ray emission from η Carinae
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20078981 Bibcode: 2008A&A...477L..29L

Walter, R.; Rauw, G.; Leyder, J. -C.

Context: If relativistic particle acceleration takes place in colliding-wind binaries, hard X-rays and γ-rays are expected through inverse Compton emission, but to date these have never been unambiguously detected.
Aims: To detect this emission, observations of η Carinae were performed with INTEGRAL, leveraging its high spat…

2008 Astronomy and Astrophysics
INTEGRAL 63
Cluster observations of the Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock
DOI: 10.1029/2007JA012756 Bibcode: 2008JGRA..113.7S02L

Dandouras, I.; RèMe, H.; Horbury, T. S. +1 more

Cluster observations of the Earth's quasi-parallel shock are used to investigate properties of the transition and the role of magnetic pulsations in the shock process. We use crossings at small spacecraft separations to show that pulsations grow in only a few seconds. We then use an example when the spacecraft were only a few thousand kilometers a…

2008 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 63
A new view of quiet-Sun topology from Hinode/SOT
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200809826 Bibcode: 2008A&A...484L..47R

Régnier, S.; Parnell, C. E.; Haynes, A. L.

Context: With the recent launch of the Hinode satellite our view of the nature and evolution of quiet-Sun regions has been improved. In light of the new high resolution observations, we revisit the study of the quiet Sun's topological nature.
Aims: Topology is a tool to explain the complexity of the magnetic field, the occurrence of reconnecti…

2008 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hinode 63
High-resolution optical spectroscopy of Plaskett's star
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200810003 Bibcode: 2008A&A...489..713L

Martins, F.; Gosset, E.; Rauw, G. +3 more

Context: Plaskett's star (HD 47 129) is a very massive O + O binary that belongs to the Mon OB2 association. Previous work suggests that this system displays the Struve-Sahade effect although the measurements of the secondary radial velocities are very difficult and give controversial results. Both components have powerful stell…

2008 Astronomy and Astrophysics
IUE 63
Characteristics of middle- to low-latitude Pi2 excited by bursty bulk flows
DOI: 10.1029/2007JA012629 Bibcode: 2008JGRA..113.7S15C

Zong, Qiugang; Lucek, E.; Zhang, Tielong +13 more

This paper, by using the data of Cluster, TC-1, GOES, and eight ground stations on 22 October 2004, studied the characteristics of low-latitude Pi2s generated by an earthward bursty bulk flow (BBF) in the near-Earth tail plasma sheet. The BBF excited simultaneously two distinct classes of Pi2s: one is long-period Pi2 (90-130 s) and the other is sh…

2008 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster DoubleStar 63
Suzaku Discovery of Hard X-Ray Pulsations from a Rotating Magnetized White Dwarf, AEAquarii
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/60.2.387 Bibcode: 2008PASJ...60..387T

Dotani, Tadayasu; Ishida, Manabu; Hayashi, Takayuki +7 more

A fast rotating magnetized white dwarf, AEAquarii, was observed with Suzaku, in 2005 October-November and 2006 October with exposures of 53.1 and 42.4ks, respectively. In addition to clear spin modulation in the 0.5-10keV band of the XIS data at the barycentric period of 33.0769±0.0001s, the 10-30keV HXD data in the second half of the 2005 observa…

2008 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Suzaku 63
Initial Venus Express magnetic field observations of the magnetic barrier at solar minimum
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2007.10.013 Bibcode: 2008P&SS...56..790Z

Barabash, S.; Russell, C. T.; Zhang, T. L. +8 more

Although there is no intrinsic magnetic field at Venus, the convected interplanetary magnetic field piles up to form a magnetic barrier in the dayside inner magnetosheath. In analogy to the Earth's magnetosphere, the magnetic barrier acts as an induced magnetosphere on the dayside and hence as the obstacle to the solar wind. It consists of regions…

2008 Planetary and Space Science
VenusExpress 62
Validation of a synoptic solar wind model
DOI: 10.1029/2007JA012797 Bibcode: 2008JGRA..113.3104C

Gombosi, T. I.; Roussev, I. I.; Cohen, O. +1 more

We present a validation of a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic model for the solar corona and the inner heliosphere. We compare the results of the model with long-term satellite data at 1 AU for a 1 year period during solar minimum and another year period of solar maximum. Overall, the model predicts rather well the magnitude of the magnetohyd…

2008 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
SOHO 62