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most citedMeasurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

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astro-ph.HE2014★ 154 cited

NuSTAR Spectroscopy of Multi-Component X-ray Reflection from NGC 1068

Franz E. Bauer, Patricia Arevalo, Dominic J. Walton +26

We report on observations of NGC1068 with NuSTAR, which provide the best constraints to date on its ~keV spectral shape. We find no strong variability over the past two decade…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 111 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXXIII. Signature of the magnetic field geometry of interstellar filaments in dust polarization maps

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +187

Planck observations at 353GHz provide the first fully-sampled maps of the polarized dust emission towards interstellar filaments and their backgrounds. The polarization data provid…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 34 cited

Reconnection Properties of Large-Scale Current Sheets During Coronal Mass Ejection Eruptions

B. J. Lynch, J. K. Edmondson, M. D. Kazachenko +1

We present a detailed analysis of the properties of magnetic reconnection at large-scale current sheets in a high cadence version of the Lynch & Edmondson (2013) 2.5D MHD simulatio…

physics.plasm-ph2014★ 31 cited

Proton temperature-anisotropy-driven instabilities in weakly collisional plasmas: Hybrid simulations

Petr Hellinger, Pavel M. Travnicek

Kinetic instabilities in weakly collisional, high beta plasmas are investigated using two-dimensional hybrid expanding box simulations with Coulomb collisions modeled through the L…

physics.space-ph2014★ 57 cited

Sun-to-Earth Characteristics of Two Coronal Mass Ejections Interacting near 1 AU: Formation of a Complex Ejecta and Generation of a Two-Step Geomagnetic Storm

Ying D. Liu, Zhongwei Yang, Rui Wang +3

On 2012 September 30 - October 1 the Earth underwent a two-step geomagnetic storm. We examine the Sun-to-Earth characteristics of the coronal mass ejections (CMEs) responsible for…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 222 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +230

The polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust is the main foreground present in measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at frequencies above 1…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 154 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXIX. All-sky dust modelling with Planck, IRAS, and WISE observations

Plank Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +195

We present all-sky modelling of the high resolution Planck, IRAS, and WISE infrared (IR) observations using the physical dust model presented by Draine and Li in 2007 (DL). We stud…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 57 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXVI. Optical identification and redshifts of Planck clusters with the RTT150 telescope

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +194

We present the results of approximately three years of observations of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources with the Russian-Turkish 1.5-m telescope (RTT150), as a part of the opt…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 46 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXV. The Andromeda Galaxy as seen by Planck

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +202

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is one of a few galaxies that has sufficient angular size on the sky to be resolved by the Planck satellite. Planck has detected M31 in all of its freque…

physics.ins-det2014★ 11 cited

Detection of non-classical space-time correlations with a novel type of single-photon camera

Felix Just, Mykhaylo Filipenko, Andrea Cavanna +9

During the last decades, multi-pixel detectors have been developed capable of registering single photons. The newly developed Hybrid Photon Detector camera has a remarkable propert…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 46 cited

NuSTAR Discovery of a cyclotron line in KS 1947+300

Felix Fuerst, Katja Pottschmidt, Joern Wilms +39

We present a spectral analysis of three simultaneous NuSTAR and Swift/XRT observations of the transient Be-neutron star binary KS 1947+300 taken during its outburst in 2013/2014. T…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 298 cited

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales with POLARBEAR

The POLARBEAR Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +71

We report a measurement of the B-mode polarization power spectrum in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the POLARBEAR experiment in Chile. The faint B-mode polarization si…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 100 cited

Simultaneous NuSTAR and XMM-Newton 0.5-80 keV spectroscopy of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy SWIFT J2127.4+5654

A. Marinucci, G. Matt, E. Kara +20

We present a broad band spectral analysis of the joint XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observational campaign of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 SWIFT J2127.4+5654, consisting of 300 ks performed…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 25 cited

Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager observations of linear polarization from a loop prominence system

Pascal Saint-Hilaire, Jesper Schou, Juan-Carlos Martínez Oliveros +4

White-light observations by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager of a loop-prominence system occurring in the aftermath of an X-class flare on 2013 May…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 23 cited

X-ray Spectral Components in the Afterglow of GRB 130925A

Eric C. Bellm, Nicolas M. Barriere, Varun Bhalerao +19

We have identified spectral features in the late-time X-ray afterglow of the unusually long, slow-decaying GRB 130925A using NuSTAR, Swift-XRT, and Chandra. A spectral component in…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 17 cited

The Atmospheric Monitoring system of the JEM-EUSO telescope

S. Toscano, A. Neronov, M. D. Rodríguez Frías +1

The JEM-EUSO observatory on board of the International Space Station (ISS) is a proposed pioneering space mission devoted to the investigation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHE…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 101 cited

{\it NuSTAR} Reveals an Intrinsically X-ray Weak Broad Absorption Line Quasar in the Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy Markarian 231

Stacy H. Teng, W. N. Brandt, F. A. Harrison +24

We present high-energy (3--30 keV) {\it NuSTAR} observations of the nearest quasar, the ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) Markarian 231 (Mrk 231), supplemented with new and sim…

physics.space-ph2014★ 47 cited

Solar wind protons at 1 AU: trends and bounds, constraints and correlations

Petr Hellinger, Pavel M. Travnicek

The proton temperature anisotropy in the solar wind exhibits apparent bounds which are compatible with the theoretical constraints imposed by temperature-anisotropy driven kinetic…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 80 cited

Long term variability of Cygnus X-1: VI. Energy-resolved X-ray variability 1999-2011

V. Grinberg, K. Pottschmidt, M. Böck +11

We present the most extensive analysis of Fourier-based X-ray timing properties of the black hole binary Cygnus X-1 to date, based on 12 years of bi-weekly monitoring with RXTE fro…

astro-ph.IM2014

A Scalable Hybrid FPGA/GPU FX Correlator

J. Kocz, L. J. Greenhill, B. R. Barsdell +8

Radio astronomical imaging arrays comprising large numbers of antennas, O(10^2-10^3) have posed a signal processing challenge because of the required O(N^2) cross correlation of si…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 69 cited

NuSTAR Observations of Heavily Obscured Quasars at z ~ 0.5

G. B. Lansbury, D. M. Alexander, A. Del Moro +23

We present NuSTAR hard X-ray (3-79 keV) observations of three Type 2 quasars at z ~ 0.4-0.5, optically selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Although the quasars show…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 5 cited

NuSTAR results and future plans for magnetar and rotation-powered pulsar observations

Hongjun An, Victoria M. Kaspi, Robert Archibald +27

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is the first focusing hard X-ray mission in orbit and operates in the 3-79 keV range. NuSTAR's sensitivity is roughly two orders…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 15 cited

Short-duration Radio Bursts with Apparent Extragalactic Dispersion

Pascal Saint-Hilaire, Arnold O. Benz, Christian Monstein

We present the results of the longest yet undertaken search for apparently extragalactic radio bursts at the Bleien Radio Observatory covering 21000 hours (898 days). The data were…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 38 cited

Giving Cosmic Redshift Drift a Whirl

Alex G. Kim, Eric V. Linder, Jerry Edelstein +1

Redshift drift provides a direct kinematic measurement of cosmic acceleration but it occurs with a characteristic time scale of a Hubble time. Thus redshift observations with a cha…