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The basic characteristics of EUV post-eruptive arcades and their role as tracers of coronal mass ejection source regions
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20035815 Bibcode: 2004A&A...422..337T

Bothmer, V.; Tripathi, D.; Cremades, H.

The Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft provides unique observations of dynamic processes in the low corona. The EIT 195 Å data taken from 1997 to the end of 2002 were investigated to study the basic physical properties of post-eruptive arcades (PEAs) and their relationship …

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 121
Metallicity in the Galactic Center: The Arches Cluster
DOI: 10.1086/423955 Bibcode: 2004ApJ...611L.105N

Hillier, D. John; Figer, Donald F.; Kudritzki, Rolf P. +1 more

We present a quantitative spectral analysis of five very massive stars in the Arches cluster, located near the Galactic center, to determine stellar parameters, stellar wind properties, and, most importantly, metallicity content. The analysis uses a new technique, presented here for the first time, and uses line-blanketed non-LTE wind/atmosphere m…

2004 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 121
Average Ultraviolet Quasar Spectra in the Context of Eigenvector 1: A Baldwin Effect Governed by the Eddington Ratio?
DOI: 10.1086/425210 Bibcode: 2004ApJ...617..171B

Marziani, P.; Zamanov, R.; Bachev, R. +3 more

We present composite UV spectra for low-redshift type 1 active galactic nuclei binned to exploit the information content of the eigenvector 1 (E1) parameter space. Composite spectra show high enough S/N and spectral resolution to permit a decomposition of the C IV λ1549 line profile: one of the strongest high-ionization lines (HILs), and fundament…

2004 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 120
The Coronal Heating Mechanism as Identified by Full-Sun Visualizations
DOI: 10.1086/424028 Bibcode: 2004ApJ...615..512S

Aschwanden, Markus J.; Schrijver, Carolus J.; De Rosa, Marc L. +1 more

We constrain the properties of the mechanism(s) responsible for the bulk of the heating of the corona of the Sun by simulating, for the first time, the appearance of the entire solar corona. Starting from full-sphere magnetic field maps for 2000 December 1 and 8, when the Sun was moderately active, we populate nearly 50,000 coronal field lines wit…

2004 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 120
Observations of the helium focusing cone with pickup ions
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20035768 Bibcode: 2004A&A...426..845G

Geiss, J.; Möbius, E.; Noda, H. +12 more

The helium gravitational focusing cone has been observed using pickup He+, first during the solar minimum in 1984-1985 with the AMPTE/IRM spacecraft, and again in more detail from 1998 to 2002 with ACE and in 2000 with Nozomi. Five traversals of the cone allow us to obtain an accurate determination of the ecliptic longitude of the inter…

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Ulysses 119
Deep Hubble Space Telescope ACS Observations of I Zw 18: a Young Galaxy in Formation
DOI: 10.1086/424990 Bibcode: 2004ApJ...616..768I

Thuan, Trinh X.; Izotov, Yuri I.

We present V and I photometry of the resolved stars in the most metal-deficient blue compact dwarf galaxy known, I Zw 18 (Zsolar/50), using Hubble Space Telescope/ACS images, the deepest ones ever obtained for this galaxy. The resulting I versus V-I color-magnitude diagram (CMD) reaches limiting magnitudes V=I=29 mag. It reveals a young…

2004 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 119
Exploring the X-ray sky with the XMM-Newton bright serendipitous survey
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20040252 Bibcode: 2004A&A...428..383D

Page, M. J.; Barcons, X.; Carrera, F. J. +11 more

We present here ``The XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey'', composed of two flux-limited samples: the XMM-Newton Bright Source Sample (BSS, hereafter) and the XMM-Newton ``Hard'' Bright Source Sample (HBSS, hereafter) having a flux limit of f_x≃ 7 × 10-14 erg cm-2 s-1 in the 0.5-4.5 keV and 4.5-7.5 keV energy b…

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 119
Contribution of the disk emission to the broad emission lines in AGNs: Two-component model
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20034431 Bibcode: 2004A&A...423..909P

Bon, E.; Popović, L. Č.; Ilić, D. +1 more

We present an investigation of the structure of the emission line region in a sample of 12 single-peaked Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). Using the high resolution Hβ and Hα line profiles observed with the Isaac Newton Telescope (La Palma) we study the substructure in the lines (such as shoulders or bumps) which can indicate a disk or disk-like emis…

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 118
On the sizes of stellar X-ray coronae
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20040504 Bibcode: 2004A&A...427..667N

Schmitt, J. H. M. M.; Audard, M.; Güdel, M. +2 more

Spatial information from stellar X-ray coronae cannot be assessed directly, but scaling laws from the solar corona make it possible to estimate sizes of stellar coronae from the physical parameters temperature and density. While coronal plasma temperatures have long been available, we concentrate on the newly available density measurements from li…

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 118
Systematic analysis of equatorial noise below the lower hybrid frequency
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-2587-2004 Bibcode: 2004AnGeo..22.2587S

Santolík, O.; Cornilleau-Wehrlin, N.; Macúšová, E. +3 more

Available from http://www.copernicus.org/site/EGU/annales/22/7/2587.htm?FrameEngine=false;

2004 Annales Geophysicae
Cluster 118