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astro-ph.SR2016★ 19 cited

KIC 11401845: An Eclipsing Binary with Multiperiodic Pulsations and Light Travel Time

Jae Woo Lee, Kyeongsoo Hong, Seung-Lee Kim +1

We report the photometry of KIC 11401845 displaying multiperiodic pulsations, superimposed on binary effects. Light-curve synthesis represents that the binary star i…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 50 cited

Massive Galaxies are Larger in Dense Environments: Environmental Dependence of Mass-Size Relation of Early-Type Galaxies

Yongmin Yoon, Myungshin Im, Jae-Woo Kim

Under the cold dark matter (CDM) cosmological models, massive galaxies are expected to be larger in denser environments through frequent hierarchical mergers with other gala…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 8 cited

Optical and Near-IR study of nova V2676 Oph 2012

A. Raj, R. K. Das, F. M. Walter

We present optical spectrophotometric and near-infrared (NIR) photometric observations of the nova V2676 Oph covering the period from 2012 March 29 through 2015 May 8. The optical…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 13 cited

Polarization of Rayleigh scattered Lyα in active galactic nuclei

Seok-Jun Chang, Hee-Won Lee, Yujin Yang

The unification scheme of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) invokes an optically thick molecular torus component hiding the broad emission line region. Assuming the presence of a thick…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 4 cited

Pre-eruption Oscillations in Thin and Long Features in a Quiescent Filament

Anand D. Joshi, Yoichiro Hanaoka, Yoshinori Suematsu +3

We investigate the eruption of a quiescent filament located close to an active region. Large-scale activation was observed in only half of the filament in the form of pre-eruption…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 29 cited

To the Edge of M87 and Beyond: Spectroscopy of Intracluster Globular Clusters and Ultra Compact Dwarfs in the Virgo Cluster

Youkyung Ko, Ho Seong Hwang, Myung Gyoon Lee +6

We present the results from a wide-field spectroscopic survey of globular clusters (GCs) in the Virgo Cluster. We obtain spectra for 201 GCs and 55 ultracompact dwarfs (UCDs) using…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 236 cited

The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290

DESI (Dark Energy Spectropic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of structure through redshift…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 1.3k cited

The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290

DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure through…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 31 cited

Angular Momentum of Dwarf Galaxies

Kirsty M. Butler, Danail Obreschkow, Se-Heon Oh

We present measurements of baryonic mass Mb and specific angular momentum (sAM) jb in 14 rotating dwarf Irregular (dIrr) galaxies from the LITTLE THINGS sample. These measurements,…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 6 cited

Faint source star planetary microlensing: the discovery of the cold gas giant planet OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb

N. J. Rattenbury, D. P. Bennett, T. Sumi +85

We report the discovery of a planet --- OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb --- via gravitational microlensing. Observations for the lensing event were made by the MOA, OGLE, Wise, RoboNET/LCOGT,…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 46 cited

Astrochemical Properties of Planck Cold Clumps

Ken'ichi Tatematsu, Tie Liu, Satoshi Ohashi +25

We observed thirteen Planck cold clumps with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope/SCUBA-2 and with the Nobeyama 45 m radio telescope. The NH distribution obtained with the Nob…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 24 cited

Metal-Rich SX Phe stars in the Kepler Field

James M. Nemec, Luis A. Balona, Simon J. Murphy +2

A spectroscopic and photometric analysis has been carried out for thirty-two candidate SX_Phe variable blue straggler stars in the Kepler-field (Balona & Nemec 2012). Radial veloci…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 104 cited

Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project VI: reverberating Disk Models for NGC 5548

D. Starkey, Keith Horne, M. M. Fausnaugh +90

We conduct a multiwavelength continuum variability study of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 to investigate the temperature structure of its accretion disk. The 19 overlapping continu…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 8 cited

Differences between radio-loud and radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars as revealed by Fermi

C. Y. Hui, Jongsu Lee, J. Takata +2

By comparing the properties of non-recycled radio-loud ray pulsars and radio-quiet ray pulsars, we have searched for the differences between these two populations. We found…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 163 cited

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Revisiting Galaxy Classification Through High-Order Stellar Kinematics

Jesse van de Sande, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Lisa M. R. Fogarty +36

Recent cosmological hydrodynamical simulations suggest that integral field spectroscopy can connect the high-order stellar kinematic moments h3 (~skewness) and h4 (~kurtosis) in ga…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 15 cited

Discovery of five low luminosity active galactic nuclei at the centre of the Perseus cluster

Songyoun Park, Jun Yang, J. B. Raymond Oonk +1

According to optical stellar kinematics observations, an over-massive black hole candidate has been reported by van den Bosch et al. (2012) in the normal early-type galaxy NGC 1277…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 95 cited

Hayabusa-2 Mission Target Asteroid 162173 Ryugu (1999 JU3): Searching for the Object's Spin-Axis Orientation

T. G. Müller, J. Ďurech, M. Ishiguro +27

The JAXA Hayabusa-2 mission was approved in 2010 and launched on December 3, 2014. The spacecraft will arrive at the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in 2018 where it will perform…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 14 cited

Mapping the Polarization of the Radio-Loud Ly Nebula B3 J2330+3927

Chang You, Ann Zabludoff, Paul Smith +6

Lya nebulae, or "Lya blobs", are extended (up to ~100 kpc), bright (L[Lya] > 10^43 erg/s) clouds of Lya emitting gas that tend to lie in overdense regions at z ~ 2--5. The origin o…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 66 cited

Bright Metal-Poor Stars from the Hamburg/ESO Survey. II. A Chemodynamical Analysis

Timothy C. Beers, Vinicius M. Placco, Daniela Carollo +6

We obtain estimates of stellar atmospheric parameters for a previously published sample of 1777 relatively bright (9 < B < 14) metal-poor candidates from the Hamburg/ESO Survey. Th…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 31 cited

Resolving the Geometry of the Innermost Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei

Juan-Carlos Algaba, Masanori Nakamura, Keiichi Asada +1

In the current paradigm, it is believed that the compact VLBI radio core of radio-loud AGNs represents the innermost upstream regions of relativistic outflows. These regions of AGN…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 28 cited

Pre-flare coronal jet and evolutionary phases of a solar eruptive prominence associated with M1.8 flare: SDO and RHESSI observations

Bhuwan Joshi, Upendra Kushwaha, Astrid Veronig +1

We investigate triggering, activation, and ejection of a solar eruptive prominence that occurred in a multi-polar flux system of active region NOAA 11548 on 2012 August 18 by analy…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 3 cited

SDSS J122958.84+000138.0: A Compact, Optically red galaxy

Sanjaya Paudel, Thorsten Lisker, Avon P. Huxor +1

We report a new compact galaxy, SDSS J122958.84+000138.0 (SDSS J1229+0001), which has unique morphological and stellar population properties that are rare in observations of the ne…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 34 cited

THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY. XIV. Shell feature early-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster

Sanjaya Paudel, Rory Smith, Pierre-Alain Duc +15

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey is a deep (with a detection limit = 29~mag~arcsec in the band) optical panchromatic survey targeting the Virgo cluste…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 23 cited

Magnetic field structure of IC 63 and IC 59 associated to H II region - Sh 185

A. Soam, G. Maheswar, Chang Won Lee +2

Bright-rimmed clouds (BRCs) are formed at the periphery of HII regions as the radiation from the central star interacts with dense gas. The ionization and resulting compression…