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astro-ph.SR2015★ 58 cited

On Sun-to-Earth Propagation of Coronal Mass Ejections: 2. Slow Events and Comparison with Others

Ying D. Liu, Huidong Hu, Chi Wang +4

As a follow-up study on Sun-to-Earth propagation of fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs), we examine the Sun-to-Earth characteristics of slow CMEs combining heliospheric imaging and…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 37 cited

Spectral and Imaging Observations of a White-light Flare in the Mid-Infrared

M Penn, S Krucker, H Hudson +4

We report high-resolution observations at mid-infrared wavelengths of a minor solar flare, SOL2014-09-24T17T17:50 (C7.0), using Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) cameras a…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 27 cited

Spectral and timing evolution of the bright failed outburst of the transient black hole Swift J174510.8-262411

M. Del Santo, T. M. Belloni, J. A. Tomsick +13

We studied time variability and spectral evolution of the Galactic black hole transient Swift J174510.8-262411 during the first phase of its outburst. INTEGRAL and Swift observatio…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 143 cited

Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013

M. Baloković, D. Paneque, G. Madejski +305

We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the bright, nearby BL Lac object Mrk 421 taken in 2013 January-March, involving GASP-WEBT, Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, V…

physics.space-ph2015★ 2 cited

Wave-particle interactions in the outer radiation belts

O. V. Agapitov, F. S. Mozer, A. V. Artemyev +2

Data from the Van Allen Probes have provided the first extensive evidence of non-linear (as opposed to quasi-linear) wave-particle interactions in space with the associated rapid (…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 35 cited

The NuSTAR view of the non-thermal emission from PSR J0437-4715

Sebastien Guillot, Victoria M. Kaspi, Robert F. Archibald +11

We present a hard X-ray NuSTAR observation of PSR J0437-4715, the nearest millisecond pulsar. The known pulsations at the apparent pulse period ~5.76 ms are detected at energies up…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 10 cited

Investigation of Primordial Black Hole Bursts using Interplanetary Network Gamma-ray Bursts

T. N. Ukwatta, K. Hurley, J. H MacGibbon +22

The detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) in the solar neighborhood would have very important implications for GRB phenomenology. The leading theories for cosmological GRBs would no…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 20 cited

Chandra Observations of Eight Sources Discovered by INTEGRAL

John A. Tomsick, Roman Krivonos, Qinan Wang +5

We report on 0.3-10 keV observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of eight hard X-ray sources discovered within 8 degrees of the Galactic plane by the INTEGRAL satellite. The…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 73 cited

Correlation of hard X-ray and white light emission in solar flares

Matej Kuhar, Säm Krucker, Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros +4

A statistical study of the correlation between hard X-ray and white light emission in solar flares is performed in order to search for a link between flare-accelerated electrons an…

physics.space-ph2015★ 56 cited

A new view on the solar wind interaction with the Moon

Anil Bhardwaj, M B Dhanya, Abhinaw Alok +9

Characterised by a surface bound exosphere and localised crustal magnetic fields, the Moon was considered as a passive object when solar wind interacts with it. However, the neutra…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 38 cited

Planck intermediate results. XL. The Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal from the Virgo cluster

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

The Virgo cluster is the largest Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) source in the sky, both in terms of angular size and total integrated flux. Planck's wide angular scale and frequency covera…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 3 cited

Bright stars observed by FIMS/SPEAR

Young-Soo Jo, Kwang-Il Seon, Kyoung-Wook Min +5

In this paper, we present a catalogue of the spectra of bright stars observed during the sky survey using the Far-Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (FIMS), which was designed primar…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 47 cited

The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: Initial Results and Catalog from the Extended Chandra Deep Field South

J. R. Mullaney, A. Del-Moro, J. Aird +33

We present initial results and the source catalog from the NuSTAR survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (hereafter, ECDFS) - currently the deepest contiguous component of…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 74 cited

The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: Overview and Catalog from the COSMOS Field

F. Civano, R. C. Hickox, S. Puccetti +28

To provide the census of the sources contributing to the X-ray background peak above 10 keV, NuSTAR is performing extragalactic surveys using a three-tier "wedding cake" approach.…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 58 cited

The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: First Direct Measurements of the >10 keV X-Ray Luminosity Function for Active Galactic Nuclei at z>0.1

J. Aird, D. M. Alexander, D. R. Ballantyne +34

We present the first direct measurements of the rest-frame 10-40 keV X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) based on a sample of 94 sources at 0.1 < z <3,…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 103 cited

Continuum Enhancements in the Ultraviolet, the Visible and the Infrared during the X1 flare on 2014 March 29

Lucia Kleint, Petr Heinzel, Phil Judge +1

Enhanced continuum brightness is observed in many flares (''white light flares''), yet it is still unclear which processes contribute to the emission. To understand the transport o…

physics.flu-dyn2015★ 37 cited

Interplay of waves and eddies in rotating stratified turbulence and the link with kinetic-potential energy partition

Raffaele Marino, Duane Rosenberg, Corentin Herbert +1

The interplay between waves and eddies in stably stratified rotating flows is investigated by means of world-class direct numerical simulations using up to grid points. St…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 58 cited

The NuSTAR view of reflection and absorption in NGC 7582

E. Rivers, M. Baloković, P. Arévalo +14

NGC 7582 is a well-studied X-ray bright Seyfert 2 with moderately heavy (~cm), highly variable absorption and strong reflection spectral fea…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 33 cited

Combining galaxy and 21cm surveys

J. D. Cohn, Martin White, Tzu-Ching Chang +3

Acoustic waves traveling through the early Universe imprint a characteristic scale in the clustering of galaxies, QSOs and inter-galactic gas. This scale can be used as a standard…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 81 cited

The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: The Number Counts of Active Galactic Nuclei and the Resolved Fraction of the Cosmic X-ray Background

F. A. Harrison, J. Aird, F. Civano +41

We present the 3-8 keV and 8-24 keV number counts of active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified in the NuSTAR extragalactic surveys. NuSTAR has now resolved 33-39% of the X-ray backgr…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 49 cited

NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Observations of the Hard X-Ray Spectrum of Centaurus A

F. Fuerst, C. Mueller, K. K. Madsen +28

We present simultaneous XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations spanning 3-78 keV of the nearest radio galaxy, Centaurus A (Cen A). The accretion geometry around the central engine in C…

physics.space-ph2015★ 19 cited

Hemispheric Differences in the Response of the Upper Atmosphere to the August 2011 Geomagnetic Storm: A Simulation Study

Erdal Yiğit, Harald U. Frey, Mark B. Moldwin +2

Using a three-dimensional nonhydrostatic general circulation model, we investigate the response of the thermosphere-ionosphere system to the 5-6 August 2011 major geomagnetic storm…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 2 cited

NuSTAR Hard X-ray Survey of the Galactic Center Region I: Hard X-ray Morphology and Spectroscopy of the Diffuse Emission

Kaya Mori, Charles J. Hailey, Roman Krivonos +35

We present the first sub-arcminute images of the Galactic Center above 10 keV, obtained with NuSTAR. NuSTAR resolves the hard X-ray source IGR J17456-2901 into non-thermal X-ray fi…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 52 cited

The hard X-ray emission of the luminous infrared galaxy NGC 6240 as observed by NuSTAR

S. Puccetti, A. Comastri, F. E. Bauer +23

We present a broad-band (~0.3-70 keV) spectral and temporal analysis of NuSTAR observations of the luminous infrared galaxy NGC 6240, combined with archival Chandra, XMM-Newton and…