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astro-ph.EP2014★ 5 cited

Production of N2 Vegard-Kaplan and Lyman-Birge-Hopfield emissions on Pluto

Sonal Kumar Jain, Anil Bhardwaj

We have developed a model to calculate the emission intensities of various vibrational transitions of N triplet band and Lyman-Birge-Hopfield (LBH) band emissions in the dayglo…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 30 cited

Spatially resolved physical conditions of molecular gas and potential star formation tracers in M83, revealed by the Herschel SPIRE FTS

Ronin Wu, Suzanne Madden, Frédéric Galliano +19

Since the launch of the Herschel Space Observatory, our understanding about the photo-dissociation regions (PDR) has taken a step forward. In the bandwidth of the Fourier Transform…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 93 cited

The Role of Turbulence in Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Expansion

S. R. Cranmer, M. Asgari-Targhi, M. P. Miralles +4

Plasma in the Sun's hot corona expands into the heliosphere as a supersonic and highly magnetized solar wind. This paper provides an overview of our current understanding of how th…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 10 cited

Collisionally excited filaments in HST H and H images of HH~1/2

A. C. Raga, B. Reipurth, A. Castellanos-Ramírez +2

We present new H and H images of the HH~1/2 system, and we find that the H/H ratio has high values in ridges along the leading edges of the HH~1 bow shock and of the br…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 7 cited

Hydraulic effects in a radiative atmosphere with ionization

Pallavi Bhat, Axel Brandenburg

In a paper of 1978, Eugene Parker postulated the need for hydraulic downward motion to explain magnetic flux concentrations at the solar surface. A similar process has recently als…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 8 cited

Development and characterization of the readout system for POLARBEAR-2

D. Barron, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +69

POLARBEAR-2 is a next-generation receiver for precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)). Scheduled to deploy…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 66 cited

Towards Understanding Stellar Radial Velocity Jitter as a Function of Wavelength: The Sun as a Proxy

Robert C. Marchwinski, Suvrath Mahadevan, Paul Robertson +2

Using solar spectral irradiance measurements from the SORCE spacecraft and the F/F' technique, we have estimated the radial velocity (RV) scatter induced on the Sun by stellar acti…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 33 cited

Conduction in low Mach number flows: Part I Linear & weakly nonlinear regimes

Daniel Lecoanet, Benjamin P. Brown, Ellen G. Zweibel +3

Thermal conduction is an important energy transfer and damping mechanism in astrophysical flows. Fourier's law - the heat flux is proportional to the negative temperature gradient,…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 164 cited

Are Dusty Galaxies Blue? Insights on UV Attenuation from Dust-Selected Galaxies

C. M. Casey, N. Z. Scoville, D. B. Sanders +12

Galaxies' rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) properties are often used to directly infer the degree to which dust obscuration affects the measurement of star formation rates. While much r…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 75 cited

A Survey of the Molecular ISM Properties of Nearby Galaxies using the Herschel FTS

J. Kamenetzky, N. Rangwala, J. Glenn +2

The 12CO J=4-3 to J=13-12 lines of the interstellar medium from nearby galaxies, newly observable with the Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS), offer an opportunity…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 128 cited

Angular Momentum Transport via Internal Gravity Waves in Evolving Stars

Jim Fuller, Daniel Lecoanet, Matteo Cantiello +1

Recent asteroseismic advances have allowed for direct measurements of the internal rotation rates of many sub-giant and red giant stars. Unlike the nearly rigidly rotating Sun, the…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 23 cited

Outflows, Dusty Cores, and a Burst of Star Formation in the North America and Pelican Nebulae

John Bally, Adam Ginsburg, Ron Probst +3

We present observations of near-infrared 2.12 micro-meter molecular hydrogen outflows emerging from 1.1 mm dust continuum clumps in the North America and Pelican Nebula (NAP) compl…

physics.flu-dyn2014★ 70 cited

Evidence for Bolgiano-Obukhov scaling in rotating stratified turbulence using high-resolution direct numerical simulations

D. Rosenberg, A. Pouquet, R. Marino +1

We report results on rotating stratified turbulence in the absence of forcing, with large-scale isotropic initial conditions, using direct numerical simulations computed on grids o…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 17 cited

Molecular absorption in transition region spectral lines

Donald Schmit, Davina Innes, Thomas Ayres +3

Aims: We present observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) of absorption features from a multitude of cool atomic and molecular lines within the profiles o…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 115 cited

Turbulence sets the initial conditions for star formation in high-pressure environments

J. M. Rathborne, S. N. Longmore, J. M. Jackson +9

Despite the simplicity of theoretical models of supersonically turbulent, isothermal media, their predictions successfully match the observed gas structure and star formation activ…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 56 cited

CO/H2 Abundance Ratio ~ 10^{-4} in a Protoplanetary Disk

Kevin France, Gregory J. Herczeg, Matthew McJunkin +1

The relative abundances of atomic and molecular species in planet-forming disks around young stars provide important constraints on photochemical disk models and provide a baseline…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 16 cited

From the ashes: JVLA observations of water fountain nebula candidates show the rebirth of IRAS 18455+0448

W. H. T. Vlemmings, N. Amiri, H. J. van Langevelde +1

[abridged] The class of water fountain nebulae is thought to represent the stage of the earliest onset of collimated bipolar outflows during the post-Asymptotic Giant Branch phase.…

physics.flu-dyn2014★ 53 cited

Large-scale anisotropy in stably stratified rotating flows

R. Marino, P. D. Mininni, D. L. Rosenberg +1

We present results from direct numerical simulations of the Boussinesq equations in the presence of rotation and/or stratification, both in the vertical direction. The runs are for…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 58 cited

The Role of Subsurface Flows in Solar Surface Convection: Modeling the Spectrum of Supergranular and Larger Scale Flows

J. W. Lord, R. H. Cameron, M. P. Rast +2

We model the solar horizontal velocity power spectrum at scales larger than granulation using a two-component approximation to the mass continuity equation. The model takes four ti…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 153 cited

Fueling AGN II: Spatially Resolved Molecular Inflows and Outflows

R. I. Davies, W. Maciejewski, E. K. S. Hicks +11

We analyse the 2-dimensional distribution and kinematics of the stars as well as molecular and ionised gas in the central few hundred parsecs of 5 active and 5 matched inactive gal…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 82 cited

Initial LOFAR observations of Epoch of Reionization windows: II. Diffuse polarized emission in the ELAIS-N1 field

V. Jelic, A. G. de Bruyn, M. Mevius +106

This study aims to characterise the polarized foreground emission in the ELAIS-N1 field and to address its possible implications for the extraction of the cosmological 21-cm signal…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 45 cited

Herschel-ATLAS and ALMA: HATLAS J142935.3-002836, a lensed major merger at redshift 1.027

Hugo Messias, Simon Dye, Neil Nagar +29

[Abridged] Aims: This work focuses on one lensed system, HATLAS J142935.3-002836 (H1429-0028), selected in the Herschel-ATLAS field. Gathering a rich, multi-wavelength dataset, we…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 25 cited

The Inside-out Growth of the Most Massive Galaxies at 0.3<z<0.9

Lei Bai, H. K. C. Yee, Renbin Yan +7

We study the surface brightness profiles of a sample of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) with 0.3<z<0.9. The BCGs are selected from the first Red-sequence Cluster Survey and an X-…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 68 cited

Extreme dust disks in Arp 220 as revealed by ALMA

C. D. Wilson, N. Rangwala, J. Glenn +3

We present new images of Arp 220 from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array with the highest combination of frequency (691 GHz) and resolution ($0.36 \times 0.20^{\prime…