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Forward Modeling of Solar Coronal Magnetic Field Measurements Based on a Magnetic-field-induced Transition in Fe X: It was recently proposed that the intensity ratios of several extreme ultraviolet spectral lines from the Fe X ion can be used to measure the solar coronal magnetic field based on the magnetic-field-ind...
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Microlensing by gas filaments: Gas in the interstellar matter is generally organized in filamentary structures, which may be also relevant for a complementary explanation of the dark matter in the Galactic halo. We examine the possibility that such structures may act as gravitational microlenses on background sources. ...
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Shock formation around planets orbiting M-dwarf stars: Bow shocks can be formed around planets due to their interaction with the coronal medium of the host stars. The net velocity of the particles impacting on the planet determines the orientation of the shock. At the Earth's orbit, the (mainly radial) solar wind is pr...
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Performance and energy footprint assessment of FPGAs and GPUs on HPC systems using Astrophysics application: New challenges in Astronomy and Astrophysics (AA) are urging the need for a large number of exceptionally computationally intensive simulations. "Exascale" (and beyond) computational facilities are mandatory t...
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Investigating the damping rate of phase-mixed Alfven waves: Context: This paper investigates the effectiveness of phase mixing as a coronal heating mechanism. A key quantity is the wave damping rate, $\gamma$, defined as the ratio of the heating rate to the wave energy. Aims: We investigate whether or not laminar pha...
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K2 Ultracool Dwarfs Survey. V. High superflare rates on rapidly rotating late-M dwarfs: We observed strong superflares (defined as flares with energy in excess of 10^33 erg) on three late-M dwarfs: 2MASS J08315742+2042213 (hereafter 2M0831+2042; M7 V), 2MASS J08371832+2050349 (hereafter 2M0837+2050; M8 V) and 2MASS J...
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The Decrease of Specific Angular Momentum and the Hot Toroid Formation: The Massive Clump G10.6-0.4: This is the first paper of our series of high resolution (1") studies of the massive star forming region G10.6--0.4. We present the emission line observations of the hot core type tracers (O$^{13}$CS, OCS, SO$_{2}$) w...
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2D and 3D Core-Collapse Supernovae Simulation Results Obtained with the CHIMERA Code: Much progress in realistic modeling of core-collapse supernovae has occurred recently through the availability of multi-teraflop machines and the increasing sophistication of supernova codes. These improvements are enabling simulati...
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Large-Scale Structure and Future Surveys: As the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey move toward completion, it is time to ask what the next generation of survey of large-scale structure should be. I discuss some of the cosmological justifications for such surveys and conclude that surveys at z=3 of...
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The X-ray Flux Distribution of Sagittarius A* as Seen by Chandra: We present a statistical analysis of the X-ray flux distribution of Sgr A* from the Chandra X-ray Observatory's 3 Ms Sgr A* X-ray Visionary Project (XVP) in 2012. Our analysis indicates that the observed X-ray flux distribution can be decomposed into a s...
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Systematic bias in the estimate of cluster mass and the fluctuation amplitude from cluster abundance statistics: We revisit the estimate of the mass fluctuation amplitude, sigma_8, from the observational X-ray cluster abundance. In particular, we examine the effect of the systematic difference between the cluster vir...
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Tracing the Physical Conditions in Active Galactic Nuclei with Time-Dependent Chemistry: We present an extension of the code ProDiMo that allows for a modeling of processes pertinent to active galactic nuclei and to an ambient chemistry that is time dependent. We present a proof-of-concept and focus on a few astrophy...
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Cosmological model: from initial conditions to structure formation: Observational cosmology is on the verge of new discoveries that will change the essence of our world-view. The matter concerns origin of initial conditions and physics of dark matter.
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Multiple Populations and a CH Star Found in the 300S Globular Cluster Stellar Stream: Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) display chemical enrichment in a phenomenon called multiple stellar populations (MSPs). While the enrichment mechanism is not fully understood, there is a correlation between a cluster's mass and th...
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No self-shadowing instability in 2D radiation-hydrodynamical models of irradiated protoplanetary disks: Theoretical models of protoplanetary disks including stellar irradiation often show a spontaneous amplification of scale height perturbations, produced by the enhanced absorption of starlight in enlarged regions. I...
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The Structure of HE 1104-1805 from Infrared to X-Ray: The gravitationally lensed quasar HE 1104-1805 has been observed at a variety of wavelengths ranging from the mid-infrared to X-ray for nearly 20 years. We combine flux ratios from the literature, including recent Chandra data, with new observations from the SMARTS ...
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The Quark-Hadron Phase Transition, QCD Lattice Calculations and Inhomogeneous Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis: We review recent lattice QCD results for the surface tension at the finite temperature quark-hadron phase transition and discuss their implications on the possible scale of inhomogeneities. In the quenched approxim...
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Modeling the flyby anomalies with dark matter scattering: update with additional data and further predictions: We continue our exploration of whether the flyby anomalies can be explained by scattering of spacecraft nucleons from dark matter gravitationally bound to the earth, with the addition of data from five new f...
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Ionizing photon production of Population III stars: effects of rotation, convection, and initial mass function: The first stars are thought to be one of the dominant sources of hydrogen reionization in the early Universe, with their high luminosities and surface temperatures expected to drive high ionizing photon pro...
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Reverberation measurement of the inner radius of the dust torus in NGC 4151 during 2008-2013: We investigate the correlation between infrared (JHKL) and optical (B) fluxes of the variable nucleus of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151 using partially published data for the last 6 years (2008-2013.). Here we are using the sam...
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Global 21-cm signal extraction from foreground and instrumental effects I: Pattern recognition framework for separation using training sets: The sky-averaged (global) highly redshifted 21-cm spectrum from neutral hydrogen is expected to appear in the VHF range of $\sim20-200$ MHz and its spectral shape and strength a...
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The iron and oxygen content of LMC Classical Cepheids and its implications for the Extragalactic Distance Scale and Hubble constant: Classical Cepheids are primary distance indicators and a crucial stepping stone to determining the present-day Hubble constant Ho to the precision and accuracy required to constrain app...
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Dwarf pulses of 10 pulsars detected by FAST: How pulsars radiate is a long-standing problem. Detailed polarization measurements of individual pulses shed light on currently unknown emission processes. Recently, based on supersensitive observations, dwarf pulses have been recognized as weak narrow pulses often appearing...
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Sunward propagating whistler waves collocated with localized magnetic field holes in the solar wind: Parker Solar Probe observations at 35.7 Sun radii: Observations by the Parker Solar Probe mission of the solar wind at about 35.7 solar radii reveal the existence of whistler wave packets with frequencies below 0.1 ...
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Probing the Galactic Bulge with deep Adaptive Optics imaging: the age of NGC 6440: We present first results of a pilot project aimed at exploiting the potentiality of ground based adaptive optics imaging in the near infrared to determine the age of stellar clusters in the Galactic Bulge. We have used a combination of...
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Dark Energy Probes in Light of the CMB: CMB observables have largely fixed the expansion history of the universe in the deceleration regime and provided two self-calibrated absolute standards for dark energy studies: the sound horizon at recombination as a standard ruler and the amplitude of initial density fluctuation...
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X-ray and radio studies of SNR CTB 37B hosting the magnetar CXOU J171405.7-381031: We present a Chandra and XMM-Newton study of the SNR CTB 37B, along with archival radio observations. In radio wavelengths, CTB 37B is an incomplete shell showing bright emission from the eastern side while the X-ray morphology shows d...
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Concentration, Ellipsoidal Collapse, and the Densest Dark Matter haloes: The smallest dark matter haloes are the first objects to form in the hierarchical structure formation of cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology and are expected to be the densest and most fundamental building blocks of CDM structures in our universe. Ne...
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Resurrecting Quartic and Quadratic inflaton potentials in two-field inflationary model: After the release of the PLANCK data, it is evident that inflationary paradigm has stood the test of time. Even though, it is difficult to realise inflationary paradigm in a particle physics model as the present observations have ...
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A "metric" semi-Lagrangian Vlasov-Poisson solver: We propose a new semi-Lagrangian Vlasov-Poisson solver. It employs elements of metric to follow locally the flow and its deformation, allowing one to find quickly and accurately the initial phase-space position $Q(P)$ of any test particle $P$, by expanding at second ord...
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The sigma - L correlation in Nearby Early-Type Galaxies: Early-type galaxy velocity dispersions and luminosities are correlated. The correlation estimated in local samples (< 100 Mpc) differs from that measured more recently in the SDSS. This is true even when systematics in the SDSS photometric and spectroscopic param...
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On the methanol masers in G9.62+0.20E and G188.95+0.89: A comparison between the observed light curves of periodic masers in G9.62+0.20E and G188.95+0.89 and the results of a simple colliding-wind binary model is made to establish whether the flaring and other time-dependent behaviour of the masers in these two star fo...
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On the phase-space structure of the Milky Way dark-matter halo: We analyse a high resolution simulation of the formation of a cluster's dark-matter halo in a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology (Springel et al. 2001). The resolution achieved allows us to map the phase-space structure in detail, and characterize its evolution and de...
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Viscosity driven instability in rotating relativistic stars: We investigate the viscosity driven instability in rotating relativistic stars by means of an iterative approach. We focus on polytropic rotating equilibrium stars and impose an m=2 perturbationin the lapse. We vary both the stiffness of the equation of state...
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A Further Study of the Luminosity-Dependent Cyclotron Resonance Energies of the Binary X-ray Pulsar 4U0115+63 with RXTE: The present paper reports on the RXTE observations of the binary X-ray pulsar 4U0115+63, covering an outburst in 1999 March-April with 44 pointings. The 3-30 keV PCA spectra and the 15-50 keV HEXTE...
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Astrometric asteroid masses: a simultaneous determination: Using over 89 million astrometric observations of 349,737 numbered minor planets, an attempt was made to determine the masses of 230 of them by simultaneously solving for corrections to all orbital elements and the masses. For 132 minor planets an acceptable re...
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Evidence Against a Redshift z>6 for the Galaxy STIS 123627+621755: The identification of galaxies at extreme distances provides our most direct information on the earliest phases of galaxy formation. The distance implied by redshifts z > 5 makes this a challenging endeavor for even the most luminous sources; interpreta...
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BeppoSAX observations of the nearby low-mass X-ray binary and fast transient SAX J1819.3-2525: SAX J1819.3-2525 is a nearby X-ray transient which exhibited a fast and large X-ray outburst on Sep. 15, 1999 (Smith et al. 1999). The Wide Field Cameras and the Narrow Field Instruments (NFI) on board BeppoSAX observed SAX...
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Optical-to-Near-Infrared Simultaneous Observations for the Hot Uranus GJ3470b: A Hint for Cloud-free Atmosphere: We present optical (g', R_c, and I_c) to near-infrared (J) simultaneous photometric observations for a primary transit of GJ3470b, a Uranus-mass transiting planet around a nearby M dwarf, by using the 50-c...
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Exploring the Variable Sky with LINEAR. I. Photometric Recalibration with SDSS: We describe photometric recalibration of data obtained by the asteroid survey LINEAR. Although LINEAR was designed for astrometric discovery of moving objects, the dataset described here contains over 5 billion photometric measurements fo...
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Quantifying Intrinsic Variability of Sagittarius A* using Closure Phase Measurements of the Event Horizon Telescope: General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of accretion disks and jets associated with supermassive black holes show variability on a wide range of timescales. On timescales comparabl...
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Characterisation of pulsed Carbon fiber illuminators for FIR instrument calibration: We manufactured pulsed illuminators emitting in the far infrared for the Planck-HFI bolometric instrument ground calibrations. Specific measurements have been conducted on these light sources, based on Carbon fibers, to understand an...
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Inside-out or Outside-in: The topology of reionization in the photon-starved regime suggested by Lyman-alpha forest data: We use a set of semi-numerical simulations based on Zel'dovich approximation, friends-of-friends algorithm and excursion set formalism to generate reionization maps of high dynamic range with a ra...
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The ALMA Survey of 70 μm Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). X: Hot Gas Reveals Deeply Embedded Star Formation: Massive infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are considered to host the earliest stages of high-mass star formation. In particular, 70 $\mu$m dark IRDCs are the colder and more quiescent clouds. At a sca...
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X-Rays Beware: The Deepest Chandra Catalogue of Point Sources in M31: This study represents the most sensitive Chandra X-ray point source catalogue of M31. Using 133 publicly available Chandra ACIS-I/S observations totalling ~1 Ms, we detected 795 X-ray sources in the bulge, northeast, and southwest fields of M31, cove...
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Window function dependence of the novel mass function of primordial black holes: We investigate the ambiguity of the novel mass function of primordial black holes, which has succeeded in identifying the black hole mass in a given configuration of fluctuations, due to the choice of window function of smoothed density ...
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Toward a global model of the interactions in low-lying states of methyl cyanide: rotational and rovibrational spectroscopy of the $v_4 = 1$ state and tentative interstellar detection of the $v_4 = v_8 = 1$ state in Sgr B2(N): New and existing rotational spectra of methyl cyanide were analyzed to extend the global m...
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Matching Radio Catalogs with Realistic Geometry: Application to SWIRE and ATLAS: Crossmatching catalogs at different wavelengths is a difficult problem in astronomy, especially when the objects are not point-like. At radio wavelengths an object can have several components corresponding, for example, to a core and lob...
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ALMA observations of cold molecular gas filaments trailing rising radio bubbles in PKS0745-191: We present ALMA observations of the CO(1-0) and CO(3-2) line emission tracing filaments of cold molecular gas in the central galaxy of the cluster PKS0745-191. The total molecular gas mass of 4.6 +/- 0.3 x 10^9 solar masse...
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Statistical Analysis of Filament Features Based on the Hα Solar Images from 1988 to 2013 by Computer Automated Detection Method: We improve our filament automated detection method which was proposed in our previous works. It is then applied to process the full disk H$\alpha$ data mainly obtained by Big Bear Solar Obs...
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New Insights: the Accretion Process and Variable Wind from TW Hya: For the first time in a classical T Tauri star, we are able to trace an accretion event signaled by an hour-long enhancement of X-rays from the accretion shock and revealed through substantial sequential changes in optical emission line profiles. Downfl...
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Origin and Dynamical Evolution of Neptune Trojans - II: Long Term Evolution: We present results examining the fate of the Trojan clouds produced in our previous work. We find that the stability of Neptunian Trojans seems to be strongly correlated to their initial post-migration orbital elements, with those objects th...
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Accurate mass estimates from the proper motions of dispersion-supported galaxies: Starting with the spherical Jeans equation, we show that there exists a radius where the mass enclosed depends only on the projected tangential velocity dispersion, assuming that the anisotropy profile slowly varies. This is well-approx...
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Inferring the magnetic field vector in the quiet Sun. III. Disk variation of the Stokes profiles and isotropism of the magnetic field: We have studied the angular distribution of the magnetic field vector in the solar internetwork employing high-quality data (noise level $\sigma \approx 3\times 10^{-4}$ in units of t...
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On the description of the GCR intensity in the last three solar minima: We discuss the main characteristic features in the heliospheric parameters important for the GCR intensity modulation for the last three solar minima (1986--1987, 1996--1997 and 2008--2009). The model for the GCR intensity modulation is considered ...
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The supercluster-void network V. Alternative evidence for its regularity: The distribution of Abell clusters of galaxies is analysed to study the regularity of the supercluster-void network. A new geometric method sensitive to the regularity of the location of clusters is applied. We find that the supercluster-void net...
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Detection of heavy-metal lines in the spectrum of the circumstellar envelope of a post-AGB star: Splitting of the strongest absorption lines with a lower-level excitation potential $\chi<$1eV has been detected for the first time in the optical spectra of the post-AGB star V354Lac obtained with a spectral resolution R...
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Study of muons from ultra-high energy cosmic ray air showers measured with the Telescope Array experiment: One of the uncertainties in interpretation of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) data comes from the hadronic interaction models used for air shower Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. The number of muons observed a...
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When does an old nova become a dwarf nova? Kinematics and age of the nova shell of the dwarf nova AT Cnc: The Z Cam-type dwarf nova AT Cnc displays a classical nova (CN) shell, demonstrating that mass transfer in cataclysmic binaries decreases substantially after a CN eruption. The hibernation scenario of cataclysmic...
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An updated catalogue of giant radio sources: We present a catalogue of 349 giant radio sources (GRSs including both galaxies and quasars). The database contains all giants known to date from the literature. These GRSs cover the redshift range of 0.016$<$z$<$3.22 and include radio sources of projected linear sizes large...
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Features of the inflaton potential and the power spectrum of cosmological perturbations: We discuss features of the inflaton potential that can lead to a strong enhancement of the power spectrum of curvature perturbations. We show that a steep decrease of the potential induces an enhancement of the spectrum by severa...
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X Ray Precursors in SGRs: Precessing Gamma Jet Tails: Weak isolated X-ray precursor events before the main Gamma Ray Burst, GRB, and also rare Soft Gamma Repeaters, SGR, events are in complete disagreement with any Fireball, or Magnetar, one-shoot explosive scenarios. Fireball model in last two years has been deeply mo...
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A Critical Look at the Mass-Metallicity-SFR Relation in the Local Universe. I. An Improved Analysis Framework and Confounding Systematics: It has been proposed that the mass-metallicity relation of galaxies exhibits a secondary dependence on star formation rate (SFR), and that the resulting M-Z-SFR relation may be re...
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Massive Star Evolution and Nucleosynthesis -Lower End of Fe-Core Collapse Supernova Progenitors and Remnant Neutron Star Mass Distribution-: In order to explore various aspects of stellar evolution, supernovae, gamma ray bursts and nucleosynthesis, we have developed a new efficient stellar evolution code. In this pap...
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Impact of Scale Dependent Bias and Nonlinear Structure Growth on the ISW Effect: Angular Power Spectra: We investigate the impact of nonlinear evolution of the gravitational potentials in the LCDM model on the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) contribution to the CMB temperature power spectrum, and on the cross-power spec...
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3D Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Models of Betelgeuse's Bow Shock: Betelgeuse, the bright red supergiant (RSG) in Orion, is a runaway star. Its supersonic motion through the interstellar medium has resulted in the formation of a bow shock, a cometary structure pointing in the direction of motion. We present the first...
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Temperature-dependent oscillation modes in rotating superfluid neutron stars: We calculate the spectrum of inertial oscillation modes in a slowly rotating superfluid neutron star, including, for the first time, both the effects of finite temperatures and entrainment between superfluid neutrons and protons. We work in...
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Chromaticity in all-reflective telescopes for astrometry: Chromatic effects are usually associated with refractive optics, so reflective telescopes are assumed to be free from them. We show that all-reflective optics still bears significant levels of such perturbations, which is especially critical to modern micro-arcs...
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Confirmation of double peaked Lyman-alpha emission at z=6.593: Witnessing a galaxy directly contributing to the reionisation of the Universe: Distant luminous Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) are excellent targets for spectroscopic observations of galaxies in the epoch of reionisation (EoR). We present deep high-resolutio...
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Instability of a stalled accretion shock: evidence for the advective-acoustic cycle: We analyze the linear stability of a stalled accretion shock in a perfect gas with a parametrized cooling function L ~ rho^{beta-alpha} P^alpha. The instability is dominated by the l=1 mode if the shock radius exceeds 2-3 times the a...
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The orbital period of the recurrent X-ray transient in Terzan 6: Four or five new outbursts were detected of the bright X-ray transient GRS 1747-312 in the globular cluster Terzan 6 between 1996 and 1999, through monitoring campaigns with the Wide Field Cameras (WFCs) on BeppoSAX and the Proportional Counter Array (PCA...
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Diagnostics for specific PAHs in the far-IR: searching neutral naphthalene and anthracene in the Red Rectangle: Context. In the framework of the interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) hypothesis, far-IR skeletal bands are expected to be a fingerprint of single species in this class. Aims. We address the...
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On mass distribution of coalescing black holes: Available data on the chirp mass distribution of the coalescing black hole binaries in O1-O3 LIGO/Virgo runs are analyzed and compared statistically with the distribution calculated under the assumption that these black holes are primordial with a log-normal mass spectrum...
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A New Numerical Method for Solving Radiation Driven Winds from Hot Stars: We present a general method for solving the non--linear differential equation of monotonically increasing steady--state radiation driven winds. We graphically identify all the singular points before transforming the momentum equation to a system ...
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A Large Scale, Low Frequency Murchison Widefield Array Survey of Galactic HII regions between 260< l <\340: We have compiled a catalogue of HII regions detected with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) between 72 and 231MHz. The multiple frequency bands provided by the MWA allow us identify the characteristic spectru...
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Mass-sheet degeneracy, power-law models and external convergence: Impact on the determination of the Hubble constant from gravitational lensing: The light travel time differences in strong gravitational lensing systems allows an independent determination of the Hubble constant. This method has been successfully appli...
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Luminosity versus Rotation in a Supermassive Star: We determine the effect of rotation on the luminosity of supermassive stars. We apply the Roche model to calculate analytically the emitted radiation from a uniformly rotating, radiation-dominated supermassive configuration. We find that the luminosity at maximum rotat...
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The Li dip : a probe of angular momentum transport in low mass stars: We use the measures of Li and rotational velocities in F Hyades stars to assess the role of the wind-driven meridian circulation and of shear turbulence in the transport of angular momentum in stars of different masses. Our models include both elemen...
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Synchrotron Outbursts in Galactic and Extra-galactic Jets, Any Difference?: We discuss differences and similarities between jets powered by super-massive black holes in quasars and by stellar-mass black holes in microquasars. The comparison is based on multi-wavelength radio-to-infrared observations of the two active...
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Parallel Programming with MatlabMPI: MatlabMPI is a Matlab implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard and allows any Matlab program to exploit multiple processors. MatlabMPI currently implements the basic six functions that are the core of the MPI point-to-point communications standard. The key tech...
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Hunting for anti-solar differentially rotating stars using the Rossby number -- An application to the Kepler field: Anti-solar differential rotation profiles have been found for decades in numerical simulations of convective envelopes of solar-type stars. These profiles are characterized by a slow equator and fast po...
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Probing the reach of the Intermediate Polar Cataclysmic Variable Population with Swift J183920.1-045350: We report on the Swift/XRT Deep Galactic Plane Survey discovery and multi-wavelength follow-up observations of a new intermediate polar Cataclysmic Variable, Swift J183920.1-045350. A 449.7 s spin period is found ...
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The dual origin of the nitrogen deficiency in comets: selective volatile trapping in the nebula and postaccretion radiogenic heating: We propose a scenario that explains the apparent nitrogen deficiency in comets in a way consistent with the fact that the surfaces of Pluto and Triton are dominated by nitrogen-rich ic...
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Statistics of Photospheric Supergranular Cells Observed by SDO/HMI: Aims: The statistics of the photospheric granulation pattern are investigated using continuum images observed by Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO)/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) taken at 6713~\AA. Methods: The supergranular boundaries can be ex...
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A search for technosignatures from 14 planetary systems in the Kepler field with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15-1.73 GHz: Analysis of Kepler mission data suggests that the Milky Way includes billions of Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of their host star. Current technology enables the detection of technosi...
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Determination of electron density and filling factor for soft X-ray flare kernels: In a standard method of determining electron density for soft X-ray (SXR) flare kernels it is necessary to assume what is the extension of a kernel along the line of sight. This is a source of significant uncertainty of the obtained de...
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Radio AGN in nearby dwarf galaxies: the important role of AGN in dwarf-galaxy evolution: We combine deep optical and radio data, from the Hyper Suprime-Cam and the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) respectively, to study 78 radio AGN in nearby (z<0.5) dwarf galaxies. Comparison to a control sample, matched in stellar mass ...
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Statistical characterization of polychromatic absolute and differential squared visibilities obtained from AMBER/VLTI instrument: In optical interferometry, the visibility squared modulus are generally assumed to follow a Gaussian distribution and to be independent of each other. A quantitative analysis of the releva...
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Gipsy 3D: Analysis, Visualization and Vo-Tools: The scientific goals of the AMIGA project are based on the analysis of a significant amount of spectroscopic 3D data. In order to perform this work we present an initiative to develop a new VO compliant package, including present core applications and tasks offered by the...
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Multi-wavelength analysis of the dust emission in the Small Magellanic Cloud: We present an analysis of dust grain emission in the diffuse interstellar medium of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). This study is motivated by the availability of 170 microns ISOPHOT data covering a large part of the SMC, with a resolutio...
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The 2-10 keV emission properties of PSR B1937+21: We present the results of a BeppoSAX observation of the fastest pulsar known: PSR B1937+21. The ~ 200 ks observation (78.5 (34) ks MECS (LECS) exposure times) allowed us to investigate with high statistical significance both the spectral properties and the pulse profile...
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WALLABY Pilot Survey: Public release of HI kinematic models for more than 100 galaxies from phase 1 of ASKAP pilot observations: We present the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY (WALLABY) Pilot Phase I HI kinematic models. This first data release consists of HI observations of three fields in the dir...
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BLR Modeling: A New Approach: We present a new scheme for modeling the broad line region in active galactic nuclei. It involves photoionization calculations applied to a number of variable emission lines at {\it all times}. We demonstrate how fitting all lines simultaneously provide strong constraints on several of the...
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Grantecan spectroscopic observations and confirmations of Planetary Nebulae candidates in the Northern Galactic Plane: We present Grantecan 10 m telescope (GTC) spectroscopic confirmations of 55 faint Planetary Nebulae (PNe) candidates discovered largely in the INT Photometric H$_\alpha$ Survey of the Northern Galact...
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The chemical composition of the stellar cluster Gaia1: no surprise behind Sirius: We observed 6 He-clump stars of the intermediate-age stellar cluster Gaia1 with the MIKE/MAGELLAN spectrograph. A possible extra-galactic origin of this cluster, recently discovered thanks to the first data release of the ESA Gaia missi...
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Space density of optically-selected type 2 quasars: Type 2 quasars are luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) whose central regions are obscured by large amounts of gas and dust. In this paper, we present a catalog of type 2 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), selected based on their optical emission lines...
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An Extended FUSE Survey of Diffuse O VI Emission in the Interstellar Medium: We present a survey of diffuse O VI emission in the interstellar medium obtained with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE). Spanning 5.5 years of FUSE observations, from launch through 2004 December, our data set consists of 292...
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H$_2$O$_2$-induced Greenhouse Warming on Oxidized Early Mars: The existence of liquid water within an oxidized environment on early Mars has been inferred by the Mn-rich rocks found during recent explorations on Mars. The oxidized atmosphere implied by the Mn-rich rocks would basically be comprised of CO$_2$ and H$_2$O...
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Search for dormant black holes in the OGLE data: Light curves of ellipsoidal variables collected by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) were analyzed, in order to search for dormant black hole candidates. After the preselection based on the amplitude of ellipsoidal modulation, each object was investigat...
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Collisional Ionization Equilibrium for Optically Thin Plasmas. I. Updated Recombination Rate Coefficients for Bare though Sodium-like Ions: Reliably interpreting spectra from electron-ionized cosmic plasmas requires accurate ionization balance calculations for the plasma in question. However, much of the atomic data ...
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