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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.EP2018★ 7 cited

ROSETTA/OSIRIS observations of the 67P nucleus during the April 2016 flyby: high-resolution spectrophotometry

C. Feller, S. Fornasier, S. Ferrari +35

In April 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft performed a low-altitude low-phase-angle flyby over the Imhotep-Khepry transition of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's nucleus. The OSIRIS/Narrow-An…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 24 cited

Isochronal age-mass discrepancy of young stars: SCExAO/CHARIS integral field spectroscopy of the HIP 79124 triple system

Ruben Asensio-Torres, Thayne Currie, Markus Janson +24

We present SCExAO/CHARIS 1.1--2.4 micron integral field direct spectroscopy of the young HIP 79124 triple system. HIP 79124 is a member of the Scorpius-Centaurus association, consi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 28 cited

Constraining the Magnetic Field of the Smith High Velocity Cloud using Faraday rotation

S. K. Betti, Alex S. Hill, S. A. Mao +4

The Smith Cloud is a high velocity cloud (HVC) with an orbit suggesting it has made at least one passage through the Milky Way disk. A magnetic field found around this cloud has be…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 46 cited

The Galactic Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey: Moments of the Faraday Spectra

John M. Dickey, T. L. Landecker, A. J. M. Thomson +11

Faraday rotation occurs along every line of sight in the Galaxy; Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis allows a three-dimensional representation of the interstellar magnetic field. This…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 7 cited

Wavelet Methods for Studying the Onset of Strong Plasma Turbulence

Ari Le, Vadim Roytershteyn, Homa Karimabadi +3

Wavelet basis functions are a natural tool for analyzing turbulent flows containing localized coherent structures of different spatial scales. Here, wavelets are used to study the…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 43 cited

Understanding the Limitations of Gyrochronology for Old Field Stars

Travis S. Metcalfe, Ricky Egeland

Nearly half a century has passed since the initial indications that stellar rotation slows while chromospheric activity weakens with a power-law dependence on age, the so-called Sk…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 22 cited

Identifying Young Stellar Objects in the Outer Galaxy: l = 224 deg Region in Canis Major

Marta Sewiło, Barbara A. Whitney, Bosco H. K. Yung +14

We study a very young star-forming region in the outer Galaxy that is the most concentrated source of outflows in the Spitzer Space Telescope GLIMPSE360 survey. This region, dubbed…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 9 cited

Is there a polarization horizon?

A. S. Hill

Modern radio spectrometers make measurement of polarized intensity as a function of Faraday depth possible. I investigate the effect of depolarization along a model line of sight.…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 11 cited

Imaging the disc rim and a moving close-in companion candidate in the pre-transitional disc of V1247 Orionis

Matthew Willson, Stefan Kraus, Jacques Kluska +17

V1247 Orionis harbours a pre-transitional disc with a partially cleared gap. Earlier interferometric and polarimetric observations revealed strong asymmetries both in the gap regio…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 27 cited

Probing the Inner Disk Emission of the Herbig Ae Stars HD 163296 and HD 190073

Benjamin R. Setterholm, John D. Monnier, Claire L. Davies +16

The physical processes occurring within the inner few astronomical units of proto-planetary disks surrounding Herbig Ae stars are crucial to setting the environment in which the ou…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 105 cited

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey - XI. The Covering Factor of Dust and Gas in Swift/BAT Active Galactic Nuclei

Kohei Ichikawa, Claudio Ricci, Yoshihiro Ueda +10

We quantify the luminosity contribution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to the 12 m, mid-infrared (MIR; 5-38 m), and the total IR (5-1000 m) emission in the local AGN dete…

physics.space-ph2018★ 46 cited

Electron Strahl and Halo Formation in the Solar Wind

Konstantinos Horaites, Stanislav Boldyrev, Mikhail V. Medvedev

We propose a kinetic model describing the formation of the strahl and halo electron populations in the solar wind. We demonstrate that the suprathermal electrons propagating from t…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 39 cited

Multi-epoch Direct Imaging and Time-Variable Scattered Light Morphology of the HD 163296 Protoplanetary Disk

Evan A. Rich, John P. Wisniewski, Thayne Currie +58

We present H-band polarized scattered light imagery and JHK high-contrast spectroscopy of the protoplanetary disk around HD 163296 observed with the HiCIAO and SCExAO/CHARIS instru…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 17 cited

Investigating the Covering Fraction Distribution of Swift/BAT AGN with X-ray and IR Observations

Lauranne Lanz, Ryan C. Hickox, Mislav Baloković +12

We present an analysis of a sample of 69 local obscured Swift/Burst Alert Telescope active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with X-ray spectra from NuSTAR and infrared (IR) spectral energy d…

physics.plasm-ph2018

Inertial Kinetic-Alfvén Turbulence

Vadim Roytershteyn, Stanislav Boldyrev, Gian Luca Delzanno +3

Recent observational and analytical studies suggested that a new regime of kinetic turbulence may exist in plasma environments with low electron beta (Chen and Boldyrev, 2017). Suc…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 63 cited

SCExAO/CHARIS Near-Infrared Direct Imaging, Spectroscopy, and Forward-Modeling of kappa And b: A Likely Young, Low-Gravity Superjovian Companion

Thayne Currie, Timothy D. Brandt, Taichi Uyama +30

We present SCExAO/CHARIS high-contrast imaging/ integral field spectroscopy of And b, a directly-imaged low-mass companion orbiting a nearby B9V star. We detect And b…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 7 cited

VALES V: A kinematic analysis of the molecular gas content in -ATLAS galaxies at using ALMA

J. Molina, Edo Ibar, V. Villanueva +19

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) resolved observations of molecular gas in galaxies up to to characterise the role of global galactic dynamic…

astro-ph.GA2018

A Serendipitous Hard X-ray Detection of the Blazar LBQS 1319+0039

G. C. Privon, C. Ricci, F. E. Bauer +4

We report a serendipitous hard X-ray (3-24 keV) detection of the blazar LBQS 1319+0039. The X-ray spectrum is consistent with powerlaw emission with a photon index of . Th…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 29 cited

New closures for more precise modeling of Landau damping in the fluid framework

P. Hunana, G. P. Zank, M. Laurenza +5

Incorporation of kinetic effects such as Landau damping into a fluid framework was pioneered by Hammett and Perkins PRL 1990, by obtaining closures of the fluid hierarchy, where th…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 35 cited

FliPer: A global measure of power density to estimate surface gravities of main-sequence Solar-like stars and red giants

L. Bugnet, R. A. García, G. R. Davies +4

Asteroseismology provides global stellar parameters such as masses, radii or surface gravities using the mean global seismic parameters as well as the effective temperature for tho…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 148 cited

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey -- XII. The relation between coronal properties of Active Galactic Nuclei and the Eddington ratio

C. Ricci, L. C. Ho, A. C. Fabian +12

The bulk of the X-ray emission in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is produced very close to the accreting supermassive black hole (SMBH), in a corona of hot electrons which up scatter…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 2 cited

Evidence for Very Early Migration of the Solar System Planets from the Patroclus-Menoetius binary Jupiter Trojan

David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky, William F. Bottke +1

The orbital distribution of trans-Neptunian objects provides strong evidence for the radial migration of Neptune. The outer planets' orbits are thought to have become unstable duri…

physics.space-ph2018★ 24 cited

Kinetic range spectral features of cross-helicity using MMS

Tulasi N. Parashar, Alexandros Chasapis, Riddhi Bandyopadhyay +13

We study spectral features of ion velocity and magnetic field correlations in the solar wind and in the magnetosheath using data from the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) spacecraf…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 14 cited

Calculations in the theory of tearing instability

Stanislav Boldyrev, Nuno F. Loureiro

Recent studies have suggested that the tearing instability may play a significant role in magnetic turbulence. In this work, we review the theory of the magnetohydrodynamic tearing…