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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.HE2015★ 27 cited

Multi-color optical monitoring of Mrk 501 from 2010 to 2015

Dingrong Xiong, Xiong Zhang, Tingfeng Yi +5

We have monitored the BL Lac object Mrk 501 in optical , and bands from 2010 to 2015. For Mrk 501, the presence of strong host galaxy component can affect the results of…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 22 cited

Numerical experiments on the detailed energy conversion and spectrum studies in a corona current sheet

Lei Ni, Jun Lin, Zhixing Mei +1

In this paper, we study the energy conversion and spectra in a corona current sheet by 2.5-dimensional MHD numerical simulations. Numerical results show that many Petschek-like fin…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 11 cited

Multi-Wavelength Observations of GRB 111228A and Implications for the Fireball and its environment

Li-Ping Xin, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Ting-Ting Lin +10

Observations of very early multi-wavelength afterglows are critical to reveal the properties of the radiating fireball and its environment as well as the central engine of gamma-ra…

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.SR2015★ 315 cited

Structure, Stability, and Evolution of Magnetic Flux Ropes from the Perspective of Magnetic Twist

Rui Liu, Bernhard Kliem, Viacheslav S. Titov +6

We investigate the evolution of NOAA Active Region 11817 during 2013 August 10--12, when it developed a complex field configuration and produced four confined, followed by two erup…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 46 cited

The influence of the Extreme Ultraviolet spectral energy distribution on the structure and composition of the upper atmosphere of exoplanets

J. H. Guo, Lotfi Ben-Jaffel

By varying the profiles of stellar extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectral energy distribution (SED), we tested the influences of stellar EUV SEDs on the physical and chemical propertie…

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…

hep-th2015★ 2 cited

Tachyon field theory description of (thermo)dynamics in dS space

Huiquan Li, J. X. Lu

In this work, we present a few pieces of evidence in support of a possible connection of the gravitational theory in dS space to the worldvolume theory of unstable D-branes. We sho…

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.SR2015★ 17 cited

Investigation of intergranular bright points from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope

Kai-Fan Ji, Jian-ping Xiong, Yong-yuan Xiang +4

Six high-resolution TiO-band image sequences from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) are used to investigate the properties of intergranular bright points (igBPs). We detect the…

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…

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.GA2015★ 27 cited

A new method to measure the virial factors in the reverberation mapping of AGNs

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

Based on the gravitational redshift, one prediction of Einstein's general relativity theory, of broad optical emission lines in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), a new method is propo…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 3 cited

Discovery of two broad absorption line quasars at redshift about 4.75 using the Lijiang 2.4m telescope

WeiMin Yi, XueBing Wu, FeiGe Wang +3

The ultraviolet broad absorption lines have been seen in the spectra of quasars at high redshift, and are generally considered to be caused by outflows with velocities from thousan…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 17 cited

Analytic properties of force-free jets in the Kerr spacetime -- II

Zhen Pan, Cong Yu

We reinvestigate the structure of a steady axisymmetic force-free magnetosphere around a Kerr black hole (BH). The BH magnetosphere structure is governed by a second-order differen…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 266 cited

The 1st Fermi Lat Supernova Remnant Catalog

Fabio Acero, Markus Ackermann, Marco Ajello +156

To uniformly determine the properties of supernova remnants (SNRs) at high energies, we have developed the first systematic survey at energies from 1 to 100 GeV using data from the…

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.SR2015

Fine Magnetic Structure and Origin of Counter-Streaming Mass Flows in a Quiescent Solar Prominence

Yuandeng Shen, Yu Liu, Ying D. Liu +4

We present high-resolution observations of a quiescent solar prominence which was consisted of a vertical and a horizontal foot encircled by an overlying spine, and counter-streami…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 11 cited

The first Doppler images of the eclipsing binary SZ Piscium

Yue Xiang, Shenghong Gu, A. Collier Cameron +2

We present the first Doppler images of the active eclipsing binary system SZ Psc, based on the high-resolution spectral data sets obtained in 2004 November and 2006 September--Dece…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 35 cited

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope Quasar Survey: Quasar Properties from First Data Release

Y. L. Ai, Xue-Bing Wu, Jinyi Yang +20

We present preliminary results of the quasar survey in Large Sky Area Multi- Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) first data release (DR1), which includes pilot survey and…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 16 cited

Multi-frequency Radio Profiles of PSR B1133+16: radiation location and particle energy

Ji-Guang Lu, Yuan-Jie Du, Long-Fei Hao +9

The pulse profile of PSR B1133+16 is usually regarded as a conal-double structure. However, its multifrequency profiles cannot simply be fitted with two Gaussian functions, and a t…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 14 cited

A method to constrain mass and spin of GRB black hole within the NDAF model

Tong Liu, Li Xue, Xiao-Hong Zhao +2

Black holes (BHs) hide themselves behind various astronomical phenomena, and their properties, i.e., mass and spin, are usually difficult to constrain. One leading candidate for th…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 12 cited

Red noise versus planetary interpretations in the microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-446

E. Bachelet, D. M. Bramich, C. Han +98

For all exoplanet candidates, the reliability of a claimed detection needs to be assessed through a careful study of systematic errors in the data to minimize the false positives r…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 14 cited

Rotation periods and astrometric motions of the Luhman 16AB brown dwarfs by high-resolution lucky-imaging monitoring

L. Mancini, P. Giacobbe, S. P. Littlefair +33

Context. Photometric monitoring of the variability of brown dwarfs can provide useful information about the structure of clouds in their cold atmospheres. The brown-dwarf binary sy…