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hep-ph2015★ 9 cited

Thermalization of mini-jets in a quark-gluon plasma

Edmond Iancu, Bin Wu

We present the complete physical picture for the evolution of a high-energy jet propagating through a weakly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by analytical and numerical investigat…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 3 cited

MUSE-ings on AM1354-250: Collisions, Shocks and Rings

Blair C. Conn, L. M. R. Fogarty, Rory Smith +1

We present MUSE observations of AM1354-250, confirming its status as a collisional ring galaxy which has recently undergone an interaction, creating its distinctive shape. We analy…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 88 cited

Antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in the half-Heusler semimetal HoPdBi

Orest Pavlosiuk, Dariusz Kaczorowski, Xavier Fabreges +2

We observed the coexistence of superconductivity and antiferromagnetic order in the single-crystalline ternary pnictide HoPdBi, a plausible topological semimetal. The compound orde…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 2 cited

Keck/ESI Long-slit Spectroscopy of SBS 1421+511: A Recoiling Quasar Nucleus in An Active Galaxy Pair?

Luming Sun, Hongyan Zhou, Lei Hao +6

We present Keck/ESI long-slit spectroscopy of SBS 1421+511, a system consisting of a quasar at z = 0.276 and an extended source 3" northern to the quasar. The quasar shows a blue-s…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 17 cited

The XXL Survey X: K-band luminosity - weak-lensing mass relation for groups and clusters of galaxies

F. Ziparo, G. P. Smith, S. L. Mulroy +15

We present the K-band luminosity-halo mass relation, , for a subsample of 20 of the 100 brightest clusters in the XXL Survey observed with WIRCam at the Canad…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 23 cited

The XXL survey XIV. AAOmega redshifts for the southern XXL field

C. Lidman, F. Ardila, M. Owers +15

We present a catalogue containing the redshifts of 3,660 X-ray selected targets in the XXL southern field. The redshifts were obtained with the AAOmega spectrograph and 2dF fibre p…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 36 cited

Origin of the Metallicity Distribution in the Thick Disc

Maider S. Miranda, Kate Pilkington, Brad K. Gibson +9

Aims. Using a suite of cosmological chemodynamical disc galaxy simulations, we assess how (a) radial metallicity gradients evolve with scaleheight; (b) the vertical metallicity gra…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 147 cited

CLASH-VLT: A Highly Precise Strong Lensing Model of the Galaxy Cluster RXC J2248.7-4431 (Abell S1063) and Prospects for Cosmography

G. B. Caminha, C. Grillo, P. Rosati +32

We perform a comprehensive study of the total mass distribution of the galaxy cluster RXCJ2248 () with a set of high-precision strong lensing models, which take advantage…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 22 cited

Rossby Wave Instability and Long-Term Evolution of Dead Zones in Protoplanetary Discs

Ryan Miranda, Dong Lai, Heloise Meheut

The physical mechanism of angular momentum transport in poorly ionized regions of protoplanetary discs, the dead zones (DZs), is not understood. The presence of a DZ naturally lead…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 23 cited

The XXL Survey VII: A supercluster of galaxies at z=0.43

E. Pompei, C. Adami, D. Eckert +15

The XXL Survey is the largest homogeneous and contiguous survey carried out with XMM-Newton. Covering an area of 50 square degrees distributed over two fields, it primarily investi…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 13 cited

The XXL Survey XI: ATCA 2.1 GHz continuum observations

Vernesa Smolcic, Jacinta Delhaize, Minh Huynh +16

We present 2.1 GHz imaging with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) of a 6.5 deg^2 region within the XXM-Newton XXL South field using a band of 1.1-3.1 GHz. We achieve an…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 272 cited

The XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme

M. Pierre, F. Pacaud, C. Adami +89

We present the XXL Survey, the largest XMM programme totaling some 6.9 Ms to date and involving an international consortium of roughly 100 members. The XXL Survey covers two extrag…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 143 cited

The XXL Survey. II. The bright cluster sample: catalogue and luminosity function

F. Pacaud, N. Clerc, P. A. Giles +40

Context. The XXL Survey is the largest survey carried out by the XMM-Newton satellite and covers a total area of 50 square degrees distributed over two fields. It primarily aims at…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 1 cited

H2 distribution during 2-phase Molecular Cloud Formation

V. Valdivia, P. Hennebelle, M. Gerin +1

We performed high-resolution, 3D MHD simulations and we compared to observations of translucent molecular clouds. We show that the observed populations of rotational levels of H2 c…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 89 cited

The XXL Survey IV. Mass-temperature relation of the bright cluster sample

Maggie Lieu, Graham P. Smith, Paul A. Giles +18

The XXL survey is the largest survey carried out by XMM-Newton. Covering an area of 50deg, the survey contains galaxy clusters out to a redshift 2 and to an X-r…

physics.ins-det2015★ 14 cited

Energy calibration via correlation

Daniel Maier, Olivier Limousin

The main task of an energy calibration is to find a relation between pulse-height values and the corresponding energies. Doing this for each pulse-height channel individually requi…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 102 cited

The XXL Survey III. Luminosity-temperature relation of the Bright Cluster Sample

P. A. Giles, B. J. Maughan, F. Pacaud +13

The XXL Survey is the largest homogeneous survey carried out with XMM-Newton. Covering an area of 50 deg, the survey contains several hundred galaxy clusters out to a redshif…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 116 cited

The XXL Survey. XIII. Baryon content of the bright cluster sample

D. Eckert, S. Ettori, J. Coupon +20

Traditionally, galaxy clusters have been expected to retain all the material accreted since their formation epoch. For this reason, their matter content should be representative of…

physics.ins-det2015★ 3 cited

Sealed operation, and circulation and purification of gas in the HARPO TPC

M. Frotin, P. Gros, D. Attié +9

HARPO is a time projection chamber (TPC) demonstrator of a gamma-ray telescope and polarimeter in the MeV-GeV range, for a future space mission. We present the evolution of the TPC…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 99 cited

Infrared color selection of massive galaxies at z > 3

T. Wang, D. Elbaz, C. Schreiber +29

We introduce a new color-selection technique to identify high-redshift, massive galaxies that are systematically missed by Lyman-break selection. The new selection is based on the…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 143 cited

Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013

M. Baloković, D. Paneque, G. Madejski +305

We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the bright, nearby BL Lac object Mrk 421 taken in 2013 January-March, involving GASP-WEBT, Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, V…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 8 cited

The XMM spectral catalog of SDSS optically selected Seyfert 2 galaxies

E. Koulouridis, I. Georgantopoulos, G. Loukaidou +6

We present an X-ray spectroscopic study of optically selected (SDSS) Seyfert 2 (Sy2) galaxies. The goal is to study the obscuration of Sy2 galaxies beyond the local universe, using…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 21 cited

Prospects for high-z cluster detections with Planck, based on a follow-up of 28 candidates using MegaCam@CFHT

R. F. J. van der Burg, H. Aussel, G. W. Pratt +13

The Planck catalogue of SZ sources limits itself to a significance threshold of 4.5 to ensure a low contamination rate by false cluster candidates. This means that only the most ma…

hep-th2015★ 50 cited

Inflatino-less Cosmology

John Joseph M. Carrasco, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde

We construct inflationary models in the context of supergravity with orthogonal nilpotent superfields [1]. When local supersymmetry is gauge-fixed in the unitary gauge, these model…