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astro-ph.SR2017★ 146 cited

The genealogical tree of ethanol: gas-phase formation of glycolaldehyde, acetic acid and formic acid

Dimitrios Skouteris, Nadia Balucani, Cecilia Ceccarelli +5

Despite the harsh conditions of the interstellar medium, chemistry thrives in it, especially in star forming regions where several interstellar complex organic molecules (iCOMs) ha…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 27 cited

Anatomy of the AGN in NGC 5548 IX. Photoionized emission features in the soft X-ray spectra

Junjie Mao, J. S. Kaastra, M. Mehdipour +10

The X-ray narrow emission line region (NELR) of the archetypal Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC\,5548 has been interpreted as a single-phase photoionized plasma that is absorbed by some of the…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 41 cited

The Taurus Boundary of Stellar/Substellar (TBOSS) Survey II. Disk Masses from ALMA Continuum Observations

K. Ward-Duong, J. Patience, J. Bulger +9

We report 885m ALMA continuum flux densities for 24 Taurus members spanning the stellar/substellar boundary, with spectral types from M4 to M7.75. Of the 24 systems, 22 are dete…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 18 cited

New spectro-photometric characterization of the substellar object HR 2562 B using SPHERE

D. Mesa, J. -L. Baudino, B. Charnay +32

HR2562 is an F5V star located at ~33 pc from the Sun hosting a substellar companion that was discovered using the GPI instrument. The main objective of the present paper is to prov…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 15 cited

Predictions of planet detections with near infrared radial velocities in the up-coming SPIRou Legacy Survey-Planet Search

Ryan Cloutier, Étienne Artigau, Xavier Delfosse +8

The SPIRou near infrared spectro-polarimeter is destined to begin science operations at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in mid-2018. One of the instrument's primary science goal…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 151 cited

Orbital misalignment of the Neptune-mass exoplanet GJ 436b with the spin of its cool star

Vincent Bourrier, Christophe Lovis, Hervé Beust +12

The angle between the spin of a star and its planets' orbital planes traces the history of the planetary system. Exoplanets orbiting close to cool stars are expected to be on circu…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 92 cited

The lithium-rotation connection in the 125 Myr-old Pleiades cluster

J. Bouvier, D. Barrado, E. Moraux +9

The evolution of lithium abundance over a star's lifetime is indicative of transport processes operating in the stellar interior. We revisit the relationship between lithium conten…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 12 cited

A search for pre- and proto-brown dwarfs in the dark cloud Barnard 30 with ALMA

N. Huélamo, I. de Gregorio-Monsalvo, A. Palau +8

In this work we present ALMA continuum observations at 880 m of 30 sub-mm cores previously identified with APEX/LABOCA at 870m in the Barnard 30 cloud. The main goal is to ch…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 62 cited

Direct imaging of an ultracool substellar companion to the exoplanet host star HD 4113A

A. Cheetham, D. Ségransan, S. Peretti +7

Using high-contrast imaging with the SPHERE instrument at the VLT, we report the first images of a cold brown dwarf companion to the exoplanet host star HD4113A. The brown dwarf HD…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 82 cited

SPIRou Input Catalogue: Global properties of 440 M dwarfs observed with ESPaDOnS at CFHT

Pascal Fouqué, Claire Moutou, Lison Malo +13

Present and future high-precision radial-velocity spectrometers dedicated to the discovery of low-mass planets orbiting low-mass dwarfs need to focus on the best selected stars to…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 26 cited

Nitrogen oxide in protostellar envelopes and shocks: the ASAI survey

C. Codella, S. Viti, B. Lefloch +8

The high-sensitivity of the IRAM 30-m ASAI unbiased spectral survey in the mm-window allows us to detect NO emission towards both the Class I object SVS13-A and the protostellar ou…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 34 cited

HD 156324: a tidally locked magnetic triple spectroscopic binary with a disrupted magnetosphere

M. Shultz, Th. Rivinius, G. A. Wade +3

HD 156324 is an SB3 (B2V/B5V/B5V) system in the Sco OB4 association. The He-strong primary possesses both a strong magnetic field, and H emission believed to originate in its Ce…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 40 cited

Supervised detection of exoplanets in high-contrast imaging sequences

Carlos Alberto Gomez Gonzalez, Olivier Absil, Marc van Droogenbroeck

Post-processing algorithms play a key role in pushing the detection limits of high-contrast imaging (HCI) instruments. State-of-the-art image processing approaches for HCI enable t…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 74 cited

Simultaneous, Multi-Wavelength Variability Characterization of the Free-Floating Planetary Mass Object PSO J318.5-22

Beth Biller, Johanna Vos, Esther Buenzli +15

We present simultaneous HST WFC3 + Spitzer IRAC variability monitoring for the highly-variable young (20 Myr) planetary-mass object PSO J318.5-22. Our simultaneous HST + Spit…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 20 cited

An H-band Vector Vortex Coronagraph for the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme-Adaptive Optics System

Jonas Kühn, Eugene Serabyn, Julien Lozi +11

The vector vortex is a coronagraphic imaging mode of the recently commissioned Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme-Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) platform on the 8-m Subaru Telescope. This mult…

astro-ph.GA2017

Cosmic Dust IX

Hiroshi Kimura, Ludmilla Kolokolova, Aigen Li +3

This is an editorial to the special issue on Cosmic Dust IX.

astro-ph.CO2017★ 23 cited

Sub-structure and merger detection in resolved NIKA Sunyaev-Zel'dovich images of distant clusters

R. Adam, O. Hahn, F. Ruppin +48

Sub-structures in the hot gas of galaxy clusters are related to their formation history and to the astrophysical processes at play in the intracluster medium (ICM). The thermal Sun…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 31 cited

First measurement of the 14N/15N ratio in the analogue of the Sun progenitor OMC-2 FIR4

Claudine Kahane, Ali Jaber Al-Edhari, Cecilia Ceccarelli +3

We present a complete census of the 14N/15N isotopic ratio in the most abundant N-bearing molecules towards the cold envelope of the protocluster OMC-2 FIR4, the best known Sun pro…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 36 cited

Laboratory measurements and astronomical search for cyanomethanimine

Mattia Melosso, Alessio Melli, Cristina Puzzarini +9

C-cyanomethanimine (HNCHCN), existing in the two and isomeric forms, is a key prebiotic molecule, but, so far, only the isomer has been detected toward the massive star…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 35 cited

Far-infrared observations of a massive cluster forming in the Monoceros R2 filament hub

T. S. M. Rayner, M. J. Griffin, N. Schneider +29

We present far-infrared observations of Monoceros R2 (a giant molecular cloud at approximately 830 pc distance, containing several sites of active star formation), as observed at 7…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 71 cited

First Sunyaev-Zel'dovich mapping with the NIKA2 camera: Implication of cluster substructures for the pressure profile and mass estimate

F. Ruppin, F. Mayet, G. W. Pratt +37

The complete characterization of the pressure profile of high-redshift galaxy clusters, from their core to their outskirts, is a major issue for the study of the formation of large…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 109 cited

The complex morphology of the young disk MWC 758: Spirals and dust clumps around a large cavity

Y. Boehler, L. Ricci, E. Weaver +7

We present Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observations at an angular resolution of 0.1-0.2" of the disk surrounding the young Herbig Ae star MWC 758. The data consist of ima…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 12 cited

The NIKA2 instrument at 30-m IRAM telescope: performance and results

A. Catalano, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +84

The New IRAM KID Arrays 2 (NIKA2) consortium has just finished installing and commissioning a millimetre camera on the IRAM 30 m telescope. It is a dual-band camera operating with…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 178 cited

A self-consistent cloud model for brown dwarfs and young giant exoplanets: comparison with photometric and spectroscopic observations

Benjamin Charnay, Bruno Bézard, Jean-Loup Baudino +3

We developed a simple, physical and self-consistent cloud model for brown dwarfs and young giant exoplanets. We compared different parametrisations for the cloud particle size, by…