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astro-ph.EP2015★ 4 cited

Monitoring Observations of the Jupiter-Family Comet 17P/Holmes during 2014 Perihelion Passage

Yuna Grace Kwon, Masateru Ishiguro, Hidekazu Hanayama +15

We performed a monitoring observation of a Jupiter-Family comet, 17P/Holmes, during its 2014 perihelion passage to investigate its secular change in activity. The comet has drawn t…

astro-ph.SR2015

Exploring the crowded central region of 10 Galactic globular clusters using EMCCDs. Variable star searches and new discoveries

R. Figuera Jaimes, D. M. Bramich, J. Skottfelt +31

Obtain time-series photometry of the very crowded central regions of Galactic globular clusters with better angular resolution than previously achieved with conventional CCDs on gr…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 34 cited

Planck cold clumps in the Orionis complex: I. Discovery of an extremely young Class 0 protostellar object and a proto-brown dwarf candidate in a bright rimmed clump PGCC G192.32-11.88

Tie Liu, Qizhou Zhang, Kee-Tae Kim +37

We are performing a series of observations with ground-based telescopes toward Planck Galactic cold clumps (PGCCs) in the Orionis complex in order to systematically investigate…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 199 cited

A multi-wavelength analysis for interferometric (sub-)mm observations of protoplanetary disks: radial constraints on the dust properties and the disk structure

M. Tazzari, L. Testi, B. Ercolano +20

Theoretical models of grain growth predict dust properties to change as a function of protoplanetary disk radius, mass, age and other physical conditions. We lay down the methodolo…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 173 cited

High-Sensitivity 86GHz (3.5mm) VLBI Observations of M87: Deep Imaging of the Jet Base at a 10 Schwarzschild-Radius Resolution

Kazuhiro Hada, Motoki Kino, Akihiro Doi +9

We report on results from new high-sensitivity, high-resolution 86GHz (3.5 millimeter) observations of the jet base in the nearby radio galaxy M87, obtained by the Very Long Baseli…

astro-ph.IM2015

The East-Asian VLBI Network

Kiyoaki Wajima, Yoshiaki Hagiwara, Tao An +14

The East-Asian VLBI Network (EAVN) is the international VLBI facility in East Asia and is conducted in collaboration with China, Japan, and Korea. The EAVN consists of VLBI arrays…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 5 cited

Near-Infrared Polarization Source Catalog of the Northeastern Regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Jaeyeong Kim, Woong-Seob Jeong, Soojong Pak +2

We present a near-infrared band-merged photometric and polarimetric catalog for the 39$\arcmin$ 69$\arcmin$ fields on the northeastern part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 19 cited

Observations of a Series of Flares and Associated Jet-like Eruptions Driven by the Emergence of Twisted Magnetic Fields

Eun-Kyung Lim, Vasyl Yurchyshyn, Sung-Hong Park +8

We studied temporal changes of morphological and magnetic properties of a succession of four confined flares followed by an eruptive flare using the high-resolution New Solar Teles…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 8 cited

Globular Cluster Populations: Results Including SG Late-Type Galaxies

Dennis Zaritsky, Kelsey McCabe, Manuel Aravena +18

Using 3.6 and 4.5m images of 73 late-type, edge-on galaxies from the SG survey, we compare the richness of the globular cluster populations of these galaxies to those of ear…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 73 cited

Campaign 9 of the Mission: Observational Parameters, Scientific Drivers, and Community Involvement for a Simultaneous Space- and Ground-based Microlensing Survey

Calen B. Henderson, Radosław Poleski, Matthew Penny +118

's Campaign 9 (C9) will conduct a 3.7 deg survey toward the Galactic bulge from 7/April through 1/July of 2016 that will leverage the spatial separation between…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 19 cited

Direct search for features in the primordial bispectrum

Stephen Appleby, Jinn-Ouk Gong, Dhiraj Kumar Hazra +2

We study features in the bispectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation correlated with the reconstructed primordial power spectrum from the observed cosmic microwave backgrou…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 23 cited

Spitzer Microlensing Program as a Probe for Globular Cluster Planets. Analysis of OGLE-2015-BLG-0448

Radosław Poleski, Wei Zhu, Grant W. Christie +83

The microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0448 was observed by Spitzer and lay within the tidal radius of the globular cluster NGC 6558. The event had moderate magnification and was int…

hep-ph2015★ 49 cited

Classically Scale Invariant Inflation, Supermassive WIMPs, and Adimensional Gravity

Arsham Farzinnia, Seyen Kouwn

We introduce a minimal and yet comprehensive framework with - and classical scale-symmetries, in order to simultaneously address the hierarchy problem, neutrino masses, dark ma…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 29 cited

High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing. VIII. WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55

John Southworth, J. Tregloan-Reed, M. I. Andersen +47

We present 13 high-precision and four additional light curves of four bright southern-hemisphere transiting planetary systems: WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55. In the cases o…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 47 cited

Massive Photon and Dark Energy

Seyen Kouwn, Phillial Oh, Chan-Gyung Park

We investigate cosmology of massive electrodynamics and explore the possibility whether massive photon could provide an explanation of the dark energy. The action is given by the s…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 127 cited

Kepler-1647b: the largest and longest-period Kepler transiting circumbinary planet

Veselin B. Kostov, Jerome A. Orosz, William F. Welsh +28

We report the discovery of a new Kepler transiting circumbinary planet (CBP). This latest addition to the still-small family of CBPs defies the current trend of known short-period…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 56 cited

The First Neptune Analog or Super-Earth with Neptune-like Orbit: MOA-2013-BLG-605Lb

T. Sumi, A. Udalski, D. P. Bennett +46

We present the discovery of the first Neptune analog exoplanet or super-Earth with Neptune-like orbit, MOA-2013-BLG-605Lb. This planet has a mass similar to that of Neptune or a su…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 27 cited

SMA observations of the W3(OH) complex: Dynamical differentiation between W3(HO) and W3(OH)

Sheng-Li Qin, Peter Schilke, Jingwen Wu +4

We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) observations of the HCN\,(3--2) and HCO\,(3--2) molecular lines toward the W3(HO) and W3(OH) star-forming complexes. Infall and outflow…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 24 cited

Physical properties of the planetary systems WASP-45 and WASP-46 from simultaneous multi-band photometry

S. Ciceri, L. Mancini, J. Southworth +45

Accurate measurements of the physical characteristics of a large number of exoplanets are useful to strongly constrain theoretical models of planet formation and evolution, which l…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 3 cited

Bright stars observed by FIMS/SPEAR

Young-Soo Jo, Kwang-Il Seon, Kyoung-Wook Min +5

In this paper, we present a catalogue of the spectra of bright stars observed during the sky survey using the Far-Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (FIMS), which was designed primar…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 20 cited

Ultraviolet Radiative Transfer Modeling of Nearby Galaxies with Extraplanar Dusts

Jong-Ho Shinn, Kwang-Il Seon

In order to examine their relation to the host galaxy, the extraplanar dust of six nearby galaxies are modeled, employing a three dimensional Monte Carlo radiative transfer code. T…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 21 cited

KIC 4739791: A New R CMa-type Eclipsing Binary with a Pulsating Component

Jae Woo Lee, Seung-Lee Kim, Kyeongsoo Hong +3

The {\it Kepler} light curve of KIC 4739791 exhibits partial eclipses, inverse O'Connell effect, and multiperiodic pulsations. Including a starspot on either of the binary componen…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 1 cited

Demonstration of KVN phase referencing capability

Evangelia Tremou, Taehyun Jung, Aeree Chung +1

We present the results of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations using the phase reference technique to detect weak Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) cores in the Virgo c…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 4 cited

Fossil shell emission in dying radio loud AGNs

M. Kino, H. Ito, N. Kawakatu +4

We investigate shell emission associated with dying radio loud AGNs. First, based on our recent work by Ito et al. (2015), we describe the dynamical and spectral evolutions of shel…