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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph.SR2014★ 11 cited

Examining the Infrared Variable Star Population Discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud Using the SAGE-SMC Survey

Elizabeth Polsdofer, Jonathan Seale, Marta Sewilo +4

We present our study on the infrared variability of point sources in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We use the data from the Spitzer Space Telescope Legacy Program "Surveying th…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 47 cited

Frontier Fields : Combining HST, VLT and Spitzer data to explore the 8 Universe behind the lensing cluster MACS04162403

N. Laporte, A. Streblyanska, S. Kim +7

(Abridged) The HST Frontier Fields project started at the end of 2013 with the aim of providing extremely deep images of 6 massive galaxy clusters. One of the main goals of this pr…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 133 cited

Unprecedented study of the broadband emission of Mrk 421 during flaring activity in March 2010

The MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi +251

A flare from the TeV blazar Mrk 421, occurring in March 2010, was observed for 13 consecutive days from radio to very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays with MAGIC, VERITAS,…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 29 cited

Models of Diffuse Hα in the Interstellar Medium: The Relative Contributions from In Situ Ionisation and Dust Scattering

Joanna E. Barnes, Kenneth Wood, Alex S. Hill +1

Using three dimensional Monte Carlo radiation transfer models of photoionisation and dust scattering, we explore different components of the widespread diffuse H emission observ…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 35 cited

The Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 2110: hard X-ray emission observed by NuSTAR and variability of the iron K line

A. Marinucci, G. Matt, S. Bianchi +16

We present NuSTAR observations of the bright Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 2110 obtained in 2012, when the source was at the highest flux level ever observed, and in 2013, when the source w…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 8 cited

Extended, Dusty Star Formation Fueled by a Residual Cooling Flow in the Cluster of Galaxies Sersic 159-03

M. McDonald, N. Werner, J. B. R. Oonk +1

While the cooling of the hot intra-cluster medium (ICM) in the cores of galaxy clusters is mostly counteracted by heating from the central active galactic nucleus (AGN), the balanc…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 119 cited

Asteroseismic inference on rotation, gyrochronology and planetary system dynamics of 16 Cygni

G. R. Davies, W. J. Chaplin, W. M. Farr +13

The solar analogs 16 Cyg A and 16 Cyg B are excellent asteroseismic targets in the \Kepler field of view and together with a red dwarf and a Jovian planet form an interesting syste…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 3 cited

Extracting surface rotation periods of solar-like Kepler targets

T. Ceillier, R. A. Garcia, D. Salabert +1

We use various method to extract surface rotation periods of Kepler targets exhibiting solar-like oscillations and compare their results.

astro-ph.HE2014★ 154 cited

NuSTAR Spectroscopy of Multi-Component X-ray Reflection from NGC 1068

Franz E. Bauer, Patricia Arevalo, Dominic J. Walton +26

We report on observations of NGC1068 with NuSTAR, which provide the best constraints to date on its ~keV spectral shape. We find no strong variability over the past two decade…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 361 cited

PESSTO : survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects

S. J. Smartt, S. Valenti, M. Fraser +99

The Public European Southern Observatory Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects (PESSTO) began as a public spectroscopic survey in April 2012. We describe the data reduction str…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 34 cited

Photometric Redshifts in the Hawaii-Hubble Deep Field-North (H-HDF-N)

G. Yang, Y. Q. Xue, B. Luo +11

We derive photometric redshifts (\zp) for sources in the entire ( deg) Hawaii-Hubble Deep Field-North (\hdfn) field with the EAzY code, based on point spread function-…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 116 cited

Gap interpolation by inpainting methods : Application to Ground and Space-based Asteroseismic data

Sandrine Pires, Savita Mathur, Rafael A. Garcia +3

In asteroseismology, the observed time series often suffers from incomplete time coverage due to gaps. The presence of periodic gaps may generate spurious peaks in the power spectr…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 70 cited

Near-infrared Thermal Emission Detections of a number of hot Jupiters and the Systematics of Ground-based Near-infrared Photometry

Bryce Croll, Loic Albert, Ray Jayawardhana +7

We present detections of the near-infrared thermal emission of three hot Jupiters and one brown-dwarf using the Wide-field Infrared Camera (WIRCam) on the Canada-France-Hawaii Tele…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 344 cited

The APOKASC Catalog: An Asteroseismic and Spectroscopic Joint Survey of Targets in the Kepler Fields

Marc H. Pinsonneault, Yvonne Elsworth, Courtney Epstein +42

We present the first APOKASC catalog of spectroscopic and asteroseismic properties of 1916 red giants observed in the Kepler fields. The spectroscopic parameters provided from the…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 190 cited

Bayesian distances and extinctions for giants observed by Kepler and APOGEE

Thaíse S. Rodrigues, Léo Girardi, Andrea Miglio +30

We present a first determination of distances and extinctions for individual stars in the first release of the APOKASC catalogue, built from the joint efforts of the Apache Point O…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 83 cited

Storm in a "Teacup": a radio-quiet quasar with ~10kpc radio-emitting bubbles and extreme gas kinematics

C. M. Harrison, A. P. Thomson, D. M. Alexander +5

We present multi-frequency (1-8 GHz) VLA data, combined with VIMOS IFU data and HST imaging, of a z=0.085 radio-quiet type 2 quasar (with L(1.4GHz)~5e23 W/Hz and L(AGN)~2e45 erg/s)…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 17 cited

The Norma Arm Region Chandra Survey: X-ray Populations in the Spiral Arms

Francesca M. Fornasini, John A. Tomsick, Arash Bodaghee +6

We present a catalog of 1415 X-ray sources identified in the Norma arm region Chandra survey (NARCS), which covers a 2 deg x 0.8 deg region in the direction of the Norma spiral arm…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 22 cited

A resolved, au-scale gas disk around the B[e] star HD 50138

L. E. Ellerbroek, M. Benisty, S. Kraus +14

HD 50138 is a B[e] star surrounded by a large amount of circumstellar gas and dust. Its spectrum shows characteristics which may indicate either a pre- or a post-main-sequence syst…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 18 cited

The evolution of star formation activity in galaxy groups

G. Erfanianfar, P. Popesso, A. Finoguenov +30

We study the evolution of the total star formation (SF) activity, total stellar mass and halo occupation distribution in massive halos by using one of the largest X-ray selected sa…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 74 cited

The host galaxies of X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei to z=2.5: Structure, star-formation and their relationships from CANDELS and Herschel/PACS

D. J. Rosario, D. H. McIntosh, A. van der Wel +60

We study the relationship between the structure and star-formation rate (SFR) of X-ray selected low and moderate luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the two Chandra Deep Fi…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 492 cited

Eight-year Climatology of Dust Optical Depth on Mars

L. Montabone, F. Forget, E. Millour +8

We have produced a multiannual climatology of airborne dust from Martian year 24 to 31 using multiple datasets of retrieved or estimated column optical depths. The datasets are bas…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 225 cited

Spectroscopy of superluminous supernova host galaxies. A preference of hydrogen-poor events for extreme emission line galaxies

G. Leloudas, S. Schulze, T. Kruehler +16

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are very bright explosions that were only discovered recently and that show a preference for occurring in faint dwarf galaxies. Understanding why s…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 52 cited

Evidence for Large Grains in the Star-forming Filament OMC-2/3

Scott Schnee, Brian Mason, James Di Francesco +4

We present a new 3.3 mm continuum map of the OMC-2/3 region. When paired with previously published maps of 1.2mm continuum and NH3-derived temperature, we derive the emissivity spe…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 112 cited

The NuSTAR View of Nearby Compton-thick AGN: The Cases of NGC 424, NGC 1320 and IC 2560

M. Baloković, A. Comastri, F. A. Harrison +25

We present X-ray spectral analyses for three Seyfert 2 active galactic nuclei, NGC 424, NGC 1320, and IC 2560, observed by NuSTAR in the 3-79 keV band. The high quality hard X-ray…