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most citedSDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

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astro-ph.SR2014★ 37 cited

Constraints on single-degenerate Chandrasekhar mass progenitors of Type Iax supernovae

Zheng-Wei Liu, Takashi J. Moriya, Richard J. Stancliffe +1

SNe Iax are proposed as one new sub-class of SNe Ia. SNe Iax have been estimated to account for ~5-30% of the total SN Ia rate, and most SNe Iax have been discovered in late-type g…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 21 cited

White-dwarf+main-sequence binaries identified from the tenth data release of Solan Digital Sky Survey

Lifang Li, Xiaobo Gong, Fenghui Zhang +2

We have presented 309 new white-dwarf (WD) + main-sequence (MS) star binaries identified from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Tenth Data Release (DR10). The majority of them co…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 86 cited

Magnetic reconnection between small-scale loops observed with the New Vacuum Solar Telescope

Shuhong Yang, Jun Zhang, Yongyuan Xiang

Using the high tempo-spatial resolution H images observed with the New Vacuum Solar Telescope, we report the solid observational evidence of magnetic reconnection between two se…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 4 cited

Revisiting Correlations Between Broad-Line and Jet Emission Variations for AGNs: 3C 120 and 3C 273

H. T. Liu, J. M. Bai, H. C. Feng +1

We restudy the issue of cross-correlations between broad-line and jet emission variations, and aim to locate the position of radio (and gamma-ray) emitting region in jet of active…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 14 cited

Doppler images of the eclipsing binary ER Vulpeculae

Yue Xiang, Shenghong Gu, A. Collier Cameron +1

We present Doppler images of both components of the eclipsing binary system ER Vul, based on the spectra obtained in 2004 November, 2006 September and 2008 November. The least-squa…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 2 cited

AstroCloud, a Cyber-Infrastructure for Astronomy Research: Data Archiving and Quality Control

Boliang He, Chenzhou Cui, Dongwei Fan +10

AstroCloud is a cyber-Infrastructure for Astronomy Research initiated by Chinese Virtual Observatory (China-VO) under funding support from NDRC (National Development and Reform com…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 19 cited

The THU-NAOC Transient Survey: the Performance and the First-year Result

Tianmeng Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Junchen Chen +18

The Tsinghua University-National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) Transient Survey (TNTS) is an automatic survey for a systematic exploration of optical transients (OTs),…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 22 cited

A pair of CO + He white dwarfs as the progenitor of 2005E-like supernovae?

Xiangcun Meng, Zhanwen Han

Ca-rich transients (CRTs, 2005E-like supernovae) exhibit unusually strong Ca features during their nebular phase, and their distribution in their host galaxies indicates that they…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 13 cited

Radiation fields by intermediate-age stellar populations with binaries as ionizing sources of H II regions

F. Zhang, L. Li, L. Cheng +4

Radiation fields emitted by O, B-type stars or young stellar populations (SPs) are generally considered as significant central ionizing sources (CISs) of classic H II regions. In o…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 31 cited

SDSS J013127.34032100.1: A newly discovered radio-loud quasar at with extremely high luminosity

Wei-Min Yi, Feige Wang, Xue-Bing Wu +18

Only very few z>5 quasars discovered to date are radio-loud, with a radio-to-optical flux ratio (radio-loudness parameter) higher than 10. Here we report the discovery of an optica…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 50 cited

Unwinding motion of a twisted active-region filament

X. L. Yan, Z. K. Xue, J. H. Liu +2

To better understand the structures of active-region filaments and the eruption process, we study an active-region filament eruption in active region NOAA 11082 in detail on June 2…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 29 cited

Searching for variable stars in the cores of five metal rich globular clusters using EMCCD observations

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

In this paper, we present the analysis of time-series observations from 2013 and 2014 of five metal rich ([Fe/H] -1) globular clusters: NGC~6388, NGC~6441, NGC~6528, NGC~6638,…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 7 cited

The structure of TeV-bright shell-type supernova remnants

Chuyuan Yang, Siming Liu, Jun Fang +1

Aims. Two-dimensional MHD simulations are used to model the emission properties of TeV-bright shell-type supernova remnants (SNRs) and to explore their nature. Methods. In the lept…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 45 cited

The hybrid CONe WD + He star scenario for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae

Bo Wang, Xiangcun Meng, Dongdong Liu +2

The hybrid CONe white dwarfs (WDs) have been suggested to be possible progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In this article, we systematically studied the hybrid CONe WD + He…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 299 cited

A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo

F. Braga-Ribas, B. Sicardy, J. L. Ortiz +61

Until now, rings have been detected in the Solar System exclusively around the four giant planets. Here we report the discovery of the first minor-body ring system around the Centa…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 38 cited

Optical and Ultraviolet Observations of A Low-Velocity Type II-Plateau Supernova 2013am in M65

Jujia Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Paolo A. Mazzali +16

Optical and ultraviolet observations for the nearby type II-plateau supernova (SN IIP) 2013am in the nearby spiral galaxy M65 are presented in this paper. The early spectra are cha…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 17 cited

Magnetar Giant Flares in Multipolar Magnetic Fields --- II. Flux Rope Eruptions With Current Sheets

Lei Huang, Cong Yu

We propose a physical mechanism to explain giant flares and radio afterglows in terms of a magnetospheric model containing both a helically twisted flux rope and a current sheet (C…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 41 cited

On the evolution of rotating accreting white dwarfs and type Ia supernovae

Bo Wang, Stephen Justham, Zhengwei Liu +3

The potential importance of the angular momentum which is gained by accreting white dwarfs (WDs) has been increasingly recognized in the context of type Ia supernova (SN Ia) single…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 103 cited

Simultaneous Transverse Oscillations of a Prominence and a Filament and Longitudinal Oscillation of another Filament Induced by a Single Shock Wave

Yuandeng Shen, Ying D. Liu, P. F. Chen +1

We present the first stereoscopic and Doppler observations of simultaneous transverse oscillations of a prominence and a filament and longitudinal oscillation of another filament l…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 48 cited

Fine Structures and Overlying Loops of Confined Solar Flares

Shuhong Yang, Jun Zhang, Yongyuan Xiang

Using the H observations from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope at Fuxian Solar Observatory, we focus on the fine structures of three confined flares and the issue why all the thre…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 61 cited

BayeSED: A General Approach to Fitting the Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies

Yunkun Han, Zhanwen Han

We present a newly developed version of BayeSED, a general Bayesian approach to the spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting of galaxies. The new BayeSED code has been systematic…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 73 cited

Post-merger evolution of carbon-oxygen + helium white dwarf binaries and the origin of R Coronae Borealis and extreme helium stars

Xianfei Zhang, C. Simon Jeffery, Xuefei Chen +1

Orbital decay by gravitational-wave radiation will cause some close-binary white dwarfs (WDs) to merge within a Hubble time. The results from previous hydrodynamical WD-merger simu…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 36 cited

A New Approach to Constrain Black Hole Spins in Active Galaxies Using Optical Reverberation Mapping

Jian-Min Wang, Pu Du, Yan-Rong Li +3

A tight relation between the size of the broad-line region (BLR) and optical luminosity has been established in about 50 active galactic nuclei studied through reverberation mappin…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 140 cited

Supermassive black holes with high accretion rates in active galactic nuclei: II. the most luminous standard candles in the Universe

Jian-Min Wang, Pu Du, Chen Hu +7

This is the second in a series of papers reporting on a large reverberation mapping (RM) campaign to measure black hole (BH) mass in high accretion rate active galactic nuclei (AGN…