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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.EP2019★ 68 cited

Strong variability of Martian water ice clouds during dust storms revealed from ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter/NOMAD

Giuliano Liuzzi, Geronimo L. Villanueva, Matteo M. J. Crismani +12

Observations of water ice clouds and aerosols on Mars can provide important insights into the complexity of the water cycle. Recent observations have indicated an important link be…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 8 cited

SUBARU Near-Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of Misaligned Disks Around The SR24 Hierarchical Triple System

Satoshi Mayama, Sebastián Pérez, Nobuhiko Kusakabe +65

The SR24 multi-star system hosts both circumprimary and circumsecondary disks, which are strongly misaligned from each other. The circumsecondary disk is circumbinary in nature. In…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 11 cited

The ALMA Frontier Fields survey V: ALMA Stacking of Lyman-Break Galaxies in Abell 2744, Abell 370, Abell S1063, MACSJ0416.1-2403 and MACSJ1149.5+2223

R. Carvajal, F. E. Bauer, R. J. Bouwens +15

The Hubble Frontier Fields offer an exceptionally deep window into the high-redshift universe, covering a substantially larger area than the Hubble Ultra-Deep field at low magnific…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 23 cited

LBT/PEPSI Spectropolarimetry of a Magnetic Morphology Shift in Old Solar-type Stars

Travis S. Metcalfe, Oleg Kochukhov, Ilya V. Ilyin +3

Solar-type stars are born with relatively rapid rotation and strong magnetic fields. Through a process known as magnetic braking, the rotation slows over time as stellar winds grad…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 33 cited

Spectral Classification and Ionized Gas Outflows in WISE-Selected Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies

Hyunsung D. Jun, Roberto J. Assef, Franz E. Bauer +7

We present VLT/XSHOOTER rest-frame UV-optical spectra of 10 Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies (Hot DOGs) at to investigate AGN diagnostics and to assess the presence and effect o…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 45 cited

Martian water ice clouds during the 2018 global dust storm as observed by the ACS-MIR channel onboard the Trace Gas Orbiter

Aurélien Stcherbinine, Mathieu Vincendon, Franck Montmessin +8

The Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) instrument onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) ESA-Roscosmos mission began science operations in March 2018. ACS Mid InfraRed (MIR) ch…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 15 cited

The turbulent stress spectrum in the inertial and subinertial ranges

Axel Brandenburg, Stanislav Boldyrev

For velocity and magnetic fields, the turbulent pressure and, more generally, the squared fields such as the components of the turbulent stress tensor, play important roles in astr…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 49 cited

An ALMA CO(2-1) Survey of Nearby Palomar-Green Quasars

Jinyi Shangguan, Luis C. Ho, Franz E. Bauer +2

The properties of the molecular gas can shed light on the physical conditions of quasar host galaxies and the effect of feedback from accreting supermassive black holes. We present…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 15 cited

The detection of dust gap-ring structure in the outer region of the CR Cha protoplanetary disk

Seongjoong Kim, Sanemichi Takahashi, Hideko Nomura +13

We observe the dust continuum at 225 GHz and CO isotopologue (12CO, 13CO, and C18O) J=2-1 emission lines toward the CR Cha protoplanetary disk using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Su…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 43 cited

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey -- XIX: Type 1 versus Type 2 AGN dichotomy from the point of view of ionized outflows

A. F. Rojas, E. Sani, I. Gavignaud +18

We present a detailed study of ionized outflows in a large sample of ~650 hard X-ray detected AGN. Using optical spectroscopy from the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) we are ab…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 14 cited

The Diffuse Ionized Gas Halo of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Brianna M Smart, Lawrence M Haffner, Kat Barger +2

Observations with the Wisconsin H-alpha Mapper (WHAM) reveal a large, diffuse ionized halo that surrounds the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We present the first kinematic H-alpha s…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 60 cited

Chemical Evolution in the Milky Way: Rotation-based ages for APOGEE-Kepler cool dwarf stars

Zachary R. Claytor, Jennifer L. van Saders, Angela R. G. Santos +5

We use models of stellar angular momentum evolution to determine ages for stars in the APOGEE-\textit{Kepler} Cool Dwarfs sample. We focus on lower main-sequence stars, w…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 40 cited

Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-79b from 0.6 to 5.0 m

Kristin S. Sotzen, Kevin B. Stevenson, David K. Sing +18

As part of the PanCET program, we have conducted a spectroscopic study of WASP-79b, an inflated hot Jupiter orbiting an F-type star in Eridanus with a period of 3.66 days. Building…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 26 cited

Core-Envelope Coupling in Intermediate-Mass Core-Helium Burning Stars

Jamie Tayar, Paul G. Beck, Marc H. Pinsonneault +2

Stars between two and three solar masses rotate rapidly on the main sequence, and the detection of slow core and surface rotation in the core-helium burning phase for these stars p…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 1 cited

Upper Limits for Emissions in the Coma of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Near Perihelion as Measured by Rosetta's Alice Far-Ultraviolet Spectrograph

B. A. Keeney, S. A. Stern, R. J. Vervack +13

The Alice far-UV imaging spectrograph (700-2050 A) acquired over 70,000 spectral images during Rosetta's 2-year escort mission, including over 20,000 in the months surrounding peri…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 12 cited

Tearing instability in Alfvén and kinetic-Alfvén turbulence

Stanislav Boldyrev, Nuno F. Loureiro

Recently, it has been realized that magnetic plasma turbulence and magnetic field reconnection are inherently related phenomena. Turbulent fluctuations generate regions of a sheare…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 24 cited

Local regimes of turbulence in 3D magnetic reconnection

G. Lapenta, F. Pucci, M. V. Goldman +1

The process of magnetic reconnection when studied in Nature or when modeled in 3D simulations differs in one key way from the standard 2D paradigmatic cartoon: it is accompanied by…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 285 cited

An Analysis of the Shapes of Interstellar Extinction Curves. VII. Milky Way Spectrophotometric Optical-through-Ultraviolet Extinction and Its R-Dependence

Edward L. Fitzpatrick, Derck Massa, Karl D. Gordon +2

We produce a set of 72 NIR through UV extinction curves by combining new HST/STIS optical spectrophotometry with existing IUE spectrophotometry (yielding gapless coverage from 1150…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 9 cited

Asteroid Discovery and Light Curve Extraction Using the Hough Transform -- A Rotation Period Study for Sub-Kilometer Main-Belt Asteroids

Kai-Jie Lo, Chan-Kao Chang, Hsing-Wen Lin +8

The intra-night trajectories of asteroids can be approximated by straight lines, and so are their intra-night detections. Therefore, the Hough transform, a line detecting algorithm…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 13 cited

The Exceptional X-ray Evolution of SN1996cr in High Resolution

J. Quirola-Vasquez, F. E. Bauer, V. V. Dwarkadas +4

We present X-ray spectra spanning 18 years of evolution for SN\,1996cr, one of the five nearest SNe detected in the modern era. {\it Chandra} HETG exposures in 2000, 2004, and 2009…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 4 cited

The Micro Solar Flare Apparutus (MiSolFA) Instrument Concept

Erica Lastufka, Diego Casadei, Gordon Hurford +3

The Micro Solar-Flare Apparatus (MiSolFA) is a compact X-ray imaging spectrometer designed for a small 6U micro-satellite. As a relatively inexpensive yet capable Earth-orbiting in…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 15 cited

Visibility and Line-Of-Sight Extinction Estimates in Gale Crater during the 2018/MY34 Global Dust Storm

Christina L. Smith, John E. Moores, Mark Lemmon +4

Northern line-of-sight extinction within Gale Crater during the 2018 global dust storm was monitored daily using MSL's Navcam. Additional observations with Mastcam (north) and Navc…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 41 cited

Characterization of the Nucleus, Morphology and Activity of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov by Optical and Near-Infrared GROWTH, Apache Point, IRTF, ZTF and Keck Observations

Bryce T. Bolin, Carey M. Lisse, Mansi M. Kasliwal +52

We present visible and near-infrared photometric and spectroscopic observations of interstellar object 2I/Borisov taken from 2019 September 10 to 2019 November 29 using the GROWTH,…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 10 cited

A Correlation in the Waiting-time Distributions of Solar Flares

Hugh S. Hudson

In isolated solar active regions, we find that the waiting times between flares correlate with flare magnitudes as determined by the GOES soft X-ray fluxes. A "build-up and release…