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astro-ph.SR2012★ 85 cited

Linking two consecutive nonmerging magnetic clouds with their solar sources

S. Dasso, C. H. Mandrini, B. Schmieder +10

On 15 May 2005, a huge interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) was observed near Earth. It triggered one of the most intense geomagnetic storms of solar cycle 23 (Dst peak = -2…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 45 cited

Large-scale environments of binary AGB stars probed by Herschel - I. Morphology statistics and case studies of R Aquarii and W Aquilae

A. Mayer, A. Jorissen, F. Kerschbaum +14

The Mass loss of Evolved StarS (MESS) sample offers a selection of 78 Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars and Red Supergiants (RSGs) observed with the PACS photometer on-board Hers…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 98 cited

The enigmatic nature of the circumstellar envelope and bow shock surrounding Betelgeuse as revealed by Herschel. I. Evidence of clumps, multiple arcs, and a linear bar-like structure

L. Decin, N. L. J. Cox, P. Royer +13

Context. The interaction between stellar winds and the interstellar medium (ISM) can create complex bow shocks. The photometers on board the Herschel Space Observatory are ideally…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 22 cited

Late Stages of Stellar Evolution - Herschel's contributions

Leen Decin

Cool objects glow in the infrared. The gas and solid-state species that escape the stellar gravitational attraction of evolved late-type stars in the form of a stellar wind are coo…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 2 cited

Internal rotation of red giants by asteroseismology

M. P. Di Mauro, D. Cardini, R. Ventura +12

We present an asteroseismic approach to study the dynamics of the stellar interior in red-giant stars by asteroseismic inversion of the splittings induced by the stellar rotation o…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 573 cited

The rotation rates of massive stars: the role of binary interaction through tides, mass transfer and mergers

S. E. de Mink, N. Langer, R. G. Izzard +2

Rotation is thought to be a major factor in the evolution of massive stars, especially at low metallicity, with consequences for their chemical yields, ionizing flux and final fate…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 88 cited

The outflow history of two Herbig-Haro jets in RCW 36: HH 1042 and HH 1043

L. E. Ellerbroek, L. Podio, L. Kaper +4

Jets around low- and intermediate-mass young stellar objects (YSOs) contain a fossil record of the recent accretion and outflow activity of their parent star-forming systems. We ai…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 19 cited

Remarkable spectral variability on the spin period of the accreting white dwarf in V455 And

S. Bloemen, D. Steeghs, K. De Smedt +4

We present spin-resolved spectroscopy of the accreting white dwarf binary V455 And. With a suggested spin period of only 67s, it has one of the fastest spinning white dwarfs known.…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 18 cited

High-precision CoRoT space photometry and fundamental parameter determination of the B2.5V star HD 48977

Anne Thoul, Pieter Degroote, Claude Catala +10

We present the CoRoT light curve of the bright B2.5V star HD 48977 observed during a short run of the mission in 2008, as well as a high-resolution spectrum gathered with the HERME…

astro-ph.SR2012

Summary of IAU GA SpS5 - III. Matter ejection and feedback

Yael Naze, Xiao Che, Nick L. J. Cox +8

The last part of SpS5 dealt with the circumstellar environment. Structures are indeed found around several types of massive stars, such as blue and red supergiants, as well as WRs…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 76 cited

A search for the hidden population of AM CVn binaries in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

P. J. Carter, T. R. Marsh, D. Steeghs +7

We present the latest results from a spectroscopic survey designed to uncover the hidden population of AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) binaries in the photometric database of the Slo…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 23 cited

The Pulsation Mode of the Cepheid Polaris

David G. Turner, V. V. Kovtyukh, Igor Usenko +1

A previously-derived photometric parallax of 10.10+-0.20 mas, d=99+-2 pc, is confirmed for Polaris by a spectroscopic parallax derived using line ratios in high dispersion spectra…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 4 cited

Self-heating in kinematically complex magnetohydrodynamic flows

Zaza Osmanov, Andria Rogava, Stefaan Poedts

The non-modal self-heating mechanism driven by the velocity shear in kinematically complex magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma flows is considered. The study is based on the full set…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 69 cited

Multi-height observations of magnetoacoustic cut-off frequency in a sunspot atmosphere

Ding Yuan, R. Sych, V. E. Reznikova +1

We used the Pixelised Wavelet Filtering (PWF) method to compute narrow-band power maps of SDO/AIA imaging datasets in the 1700 Å, 1600 Å and 304 Å bandpasses that correspond to dif…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 12 cited

Constraining the core-rotation rate in red-giant stars from Kepler space photometry

P. G. Beck, J. De Ridder, C. Aerts +5

Rotation plays a key role in stellar structure and its evolution. Through transport processes which induce rotational mixing of chemical species and the redistribution of angular m…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 17 cited

Low-frequency variations of unknown origin in the Kepler Delta Scuti star KIC 5988140 = HD 188774

P. Lampens, A. Tkachenko, H. Lehmann +9

We used high-quality Kepler photometry and spectroscopic data to investigate the Kepler binary candidate KIC 5988140. Using the spectrum synthesis method, we derived the fundamenta…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 60 cited

Transverse kink oscillations in the presence of twist

J. Terradas, M. Goossens

Magnetic twist is thought to play an important role in coronal loops. The effects of magnetic twist on stable magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves is poorly understood because they are…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 9 cited

A new Herschel view of the young star T54: not a transitional disk?

L. Matrà, B. Merín, C. Alves de Oliveira +10

Context: Observations of transitional disks give us an understanding of the formation of planets and planetary systems such as our own. But care must be taken in the identification…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 1 cited

Late-time evolution of ultracompact X-ray binaries

L. M. van Haaften, G. Nelemans, R. Voss

Ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) have orbital periods shorter than about 80 minutes and typically consist of a neutron star that accretes hydrogen-poor matter from a white dwarf…

astro-ph.SR2012

Formation of the planet orbiting the millisecond pulsar J1719-1438

L. M. van Haaften, G. Nelemans, R. Voss +1

In 2011, Bailes et al. reported on the discovery of a detached companion in a 131 minute orbit around PSR J1719-1438, a 173 Hz millisecond pulsar. The combination of the very low m…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 105 cited

Photometrically derived masses and radii of the planet and star in the TrES-2 system

Thomas Barclay, Daniel Huber, Jason F. Rowe +16

We measure the mass and radius of the star and planet in the TrES-2 system using 2.7 years of observations by the Kepler spacecraft. The light curve shows evidence for ellipsoidal…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 49 cited

Discovery of multiple dust shells beyond 1 arcmin in the circumstellar envelope of IRC+10216 using Herschel/PACS

L. Decin, P. Royer, N. L. J. Cox +9

We present new Herschel/PACS images at 70, 100, and 160 micron of the well-known, nearby, carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch star IRC+10216 revealing multiple dust shells in its c…

astro-ph.SR2012

An abundance study of the red giants in the seismology fields of the CoRoT satellite

T. Morel, A. Miglio, N. Lagarde +11

A precise characterisation of the red giants in the seismology fields of the CoRoT satellite is a prerequisite for further in-depth seismic modelling. The optical spectra obtained…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 22 cited

Analytic approximate seismology of propagating MHD waves in the solar corona

M. Goossens, R. Soler, I. Arregui +1

Observations show that propagating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. The technique of MHD seismology uses the wave observations combined with…