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astro-ph.IM2016★ 32 cited

Performance Verification of the FlashCam Prototype Camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

F. Werner, C. Bauer, S. Bernhard +32

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future gamma-ray observatory that is planned to significantly improve upon the sensitivity and precision of the current generation of Chere…

hep-th2016★ 56 cited

How Gaussian can our Universe be?

Giovanni Cabass, Enrico Pajer, Fabian Schmidt

Gravity is a non-linear theory, and hence, barring cancellations, the initial super-horizon perturbations produced by inflation must contain some minimum amount of mode coupling, o…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 13 cited

Additional spectroscopic redshift measurements for galaxy clusters from the First Planck Catalogue

V. S. Vorobyev, R. A. Burenin, I. F. Bikmaev +10

We present the results of spectroscopic redshift measurements for the galaxy clusters from the first all-sky Planck catalogue of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources, that have been mostl…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 57 cited

Deep Chandra observations of NGC 1404: cluster plasma physics revealed by an infalling early-type galaxy

Yuanyuan Su, Ralph P. Kraft, Elke Roediger +6

The intracluster medium (ICM), as a magnetized and highly ionized fluid, provides an ideal laboratory to study plasma physics under extreme conditions that cannot yet be achieved o…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 23 cited

Capturing the 3D Motion of an Infalling Galaxy via Fluid Dynamics

Yuanyuan Su, Ralph P. Kraft, Paul E. J. Nulsen +6

The Fornax Cluster is the nearest galaxy cluster in the southern sky. NGC 1404 is a bright elliptical galaxy falling through the intracluster medium of the Fornax Cluster. The shar…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 102 cited

Pressure of the hot gas in simulations of galaxy clusters

S. Planelles, D. Fabjan, S. Borgani +11

We analyze the radial pressure profiles, the ICM clumping factor and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) scaling relations of a sample of simulated galaxy clusters and groups identified in…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 35 cited

Planck intermediate results. LII. Planet flux densities

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown +147

Measurements of flux density are described for five planets, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, across the six Planck High Frequency Instrument frequency bands (100-857 GH…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 5 cited

A metric space for type Ia supernova spectra: a new method to assess explosion scenarios

Michele Sasdelli, W. Hillebrandt, M. Kromer +4

Over the past years type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have become a major tool to determine the expansion history of the Universe, and considerable attention has been given to, both, obs…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 38 cited

Search for transitions between states in redbacks and black widows using seven years of Fermi-LAT observations

Diego F. Torres, Long Ji, Jian Li +4

Considering about seven years of Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) data, we present a systematic search for variability possibly related to transitions between states in redbacks an…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 82 cited

The environmental dependence of gas accretion onto galaxies: quenching satellites through starvation

Freeke van de Voort, Yannick M. Bahé, Richard G. Bower +4

Galaxies that have fallen into massive haloes may no longer be able to accrete gas from their surroundings, a process referred to as 'starvation' or 'strangulation' of satellites.…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 721 cited

Theoretical Challenges in Galaxy Formation

Thorsten Naab, Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Numerical simulations have become a major tool for understanding galaxy formation and evolution. Over the decades the field has made significant progress. It is now possible to sim…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 73 cited

SZE Observables, Pressure Profiles and Center Offsets in Magneticum Simulation Galaxy Clusters

Nikhel Gupta, Alex Saro, Joe Mohr +2

We present a detailed study of the galaxy cluster thermal \ac{sze} signal and pressure profiles using {\it Magneticum} Pathfinder hydrodynamical simulations. With a sample of 5…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 83 cited

The Size Evolution of Star-forming Galaxies Since z~7 Using ZFOURGE

Rebecca J. Allen, Glenn G. Kacprzak, Karl Glazebrook +10

For the first time, we present the size evolution of a mass-complete (log(M*/Msol)>10) sample of star-forming galaxies over redshifts z=1-7, selected from the FourStar Galaxy Evolu…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 21 cited

Period spacing of gravity modes strongly affected by rotation. Going beyond the traditional approximation

Vincent Prat, Stéphane Mathis, François Lignières +2

Context. As of today, asteroseismology mainly allows us to probe the internal rotation of stars when modes are only weakly affected by rotation using perturbative methods. Such met…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 40 cited

SDSS IV MaNGA: Deep observations of extra-planar, diffuse ionized gas around late-type galaxies from stacked IFU spectra

A. Jones, G. Kauffmann, R. D'Souza +16

We have conducted a study of extra-planar diffuse ionized gas using the first year data from the MaNGA IFU survey. We have stacked spectra from 49 edge-on, late-type galaxies as a…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 8 cited

Optical photometry and spectroscopy of the low-luminosity, broad-lined Ic supernova iPTF15dld

E. Pian, L. Tomasella, E. Cappellaro +37

Core-collapse stripped-envelope supernova (SN) explosions reflect the diversity of physical parameters and evolutionary paths of their massive star progenitors. We have observed th…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 86 cited

Light-curve and spectral properties of ultra-stripped core-collapse supernovae leading to binary neutron stars

Takashi J. Moriya, Paolo A. Mazzali, Nozomu Tominaga +7

We investigate light-curve and spectral properties of ultra-stripped core-collapse supernovae. Ultra-stripped supernovae are the explosions of heavily stripped massive stars which…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 39 cited

PTF1 J082340.04+081936.5: A hot subdwarf B star with a low mass white dwarf companion in an 87 minute orbit

Thomas Kupfer, Jan van Roestel, Jared Brooks +19

We present the discovery of the hot subdwarf B star (sdB) binary PTF1 J082340.04+081936.5. The system has an orbital period P min (0.060761584(10) days), ma…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 34 cited

A Black Hole Mass Determination for the Compact Galaxy Mrk 1216

Jonelle L. Walsh, Remco C. E. van den Bosch, Karl Gebhardt +4

Mrk 1216 is a nearby, early-type galaxy with a small effective radius of 2.8 kpc and a large stellar velocity dispersion of 308 km/s for its K-band luminosity of 1.4x10^11 L_sun. U…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 10 cited

Preheating of the early Universe by radiation from high-mass X-ray binaries

Sergey Sazonov, Ildar Khabibullin

Using a reliably measured intrinsic (i.e. corrected for absorption effects) present-day luminosity function of high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) in the 0.25-2 keV energy band per un…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 33 cited

Bright end of the luminosity function of high-mass X-ray binaries: contributions of hard, soft and supersoft sources

Sergey Sazonov, Ildar Khabibullin

Using a spectral analysis of bright Chandra X-ray sources located in 27 nearby galaxies and maps of star-formation rate (SFR) and ISM surface densities for these galaxies, we const…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 90 cited

Faraday tomography of the local interstellar medium with LOFAR: Galactic foregrounds towards IC342

C. L. Van Eck, M. Haverkorn, M. I. R. Alves +18

The new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, such as the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR: a Square Kilometre Array-low pathfinder), provides advancements in our capability of p…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 66 cited

Large-scale assembly bias of dark matter halos

Titouan Lazeyras, Marcello Musso, Fabian Schmidt

We present precise measurements of the assembly bias of dark matter halos, i.e. the dependence of halo bias on other properties than the mass, using curved "separate universe" N-bo…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 40 cited

Polarization and long-term variability of Sgr A* X-ray echo

E. Churazov, I. Khabibullin, G. Ponti +1

We use a model of the molecular gas distribution within ~100 pc from the center of the Milky Way (Kruijssen, Dale & Longmore) to simulate time evolution and polarization properties…