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nlin.CD2017★ 12 cited

Coexistence of weak and strong wave turbulence in incompressible Hall magnetohydrodynamics

Romain Meyrand, Khurom H. Kiyani, Ozgur D. Gurcan +1

We report a numerical investigation of three dimensional, incompressible, Hall magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with a relatively strong mean magnetic field. Using helicity decomposi…

physics.space-ph2017★ 116 cited

Magnetospheric Multiscale Dayside Reconnection Electron Diffusion Region Events

J. M. Webster, J. L. Burch, P. H. Reiff +21

We have used the high-resolution data of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission dayside phase to identify twenty-one previously unreported encounters with the electron diffusi…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 33 cited

Measurements of Forbush decreases at Mars: both by MSL on ground and by MAVEN in orbit

Jingnan Guo, Robert Lillis, Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber +13

The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD), on board Mars Science Laboratory's (MSL) Curiosity rover, has been measuring ground level particle fluxes along with the radiation dose rat…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 38 cited

Glimpses of the past activity of Sgr A* inferred from X-ray echoes in Sgr C

Dimitri Chuard, Régis Terrier, Andrea Goldwurm +6

For a decade now, evidence has accumulated that giant molecular clouds located within the central molecular zone of our Galaxy reflect X-rays coming from past outbursts of the supe…

physics.space-ph2017★ 42 cited

Density Fluctuations in the Solar Wind Driven by Alfvén Wave Parametric Decay

Trevor A. Bowen, Samuel Badman, Petr Hellinger +1

Measurements and simulations of inertial compressive turbulence in the solar wind are characterized by anti-correlated magnetic fluctuations parallel to the mean field and density…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 69 cited

GW170817 Most Likely Made a Black Hole

David Pooley, Pawan Kumar, J. Craig Wheeler +1

There are two outstanding issues regarding the neutron-star merger event GW170817: the nature of the compact remnant and the interstellar shock. The mass of the remnant of GW170817…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 13 cited

The Relationship between Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Flares and Solar Cosmic Rays

Hugh S. Hudson

A characteristic pattern of solar hard X-ray emission, first identified in SOL1969-03-30 by Frost & Dennis (1971), turns out to have a close association with the prolonged high-ene…

physics.space-ph2017★ 36 cited

Localized and intense energy conversion in the diffusion region of asymmetric magnetic reconnection

M. Swisdak, J. F. Drake, L. Price +3

We analyze a high-resolution simulation of magnetopause reconnection observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission and explain the occurrence of strongly localized dissip…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 70 cited

Structured Slow Solar Wind Variability: Streamer-blob Flux Ropes and Torsional Alfvén Waves

Aleida K. Higginson, Benjamin J. Lynch

The slow solar wind exhibits strong variability on timescales from minutes to days, likely related to magnetic reconnection processes in the extended solar corona. Higginson2017b p…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 141 cited

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: 1.1-1.9 GHz observations of 692 Nearby Stars

J. Emilio Enriquez, Andrew Siemion, Griffin Foster +10

We report on a search for engineered signals from a sample of 692 nearby stars using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, undertaken as part of the $Breakthrough~Listen~Initiat…

physics.ins-det2017★ 40 cited

Bragg-Edge Elastic Strain Tomography for in situ Systems from Energy-Resolved Neutron Transmission Imaging

J. N. Hendriks, A. W. T. Gregg, C. M. Wensrich +6

Technological developments in high resolution time-of-flight neutron detectors have raised the prospect of tomographic reconstruction of elastic strain fields from Bragg-edge strai…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 74 cited

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A Wideband Data Recorder System for the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope

David H. E. MacMahon, Danny C. Price, Matthew Lebofsky +18

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative is undertaking a comprehensive search for radio and optical signatures from extraterrestrial civilizations. An integral component of the project…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 19 cited

Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: mitigation of systematic effects

P. Natoli, M. Ashdown, R. Banerji +123

We present an analysis of the main systematic effects that could impact the measurement of CMB polarization with the proposed CORE space mission. We employ timeline-to-map simulati…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 124 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Survey requirements and mission design

J. Delabrouille, P. de Bernardis, F. R. Bouchet +200

Future observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation have the potential to answer some of the most fundamental questions of modern physics and cosmology. In this p…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 43 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: The Instrument

P. de Bernardis, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. A. Baselmans +126

We describe a space-borne, multi-band, multi-beam polarimeter aiming at a precise and accurate measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The instrument is…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 26 cited

First ALMA Observation of a Solar Plasmoid Ejection from an X-ray Bright Point

M. Shimojo, H. S. Hudson, S. M. White +2

Eruptive phenomena such as plasmoid ejections or jets are an important feature of solar activity with the potential for improving our understanding of the dynamics of the solar atm…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 127 cited

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background -Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales from 2 years of POLARBEAR Data

The POLARBEAR Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, M. Aguilar +79

We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) -mode polarization power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment at 150 GHz. By adding new data collect…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 17 cited

A Combined Compton and Coded-aperture Telescope for Medium-energy Gamma-ray Astrophysics

Michelle Galloway, Andreas Zoglauer, Steven E. Boggs +1

A future mission in medium-energy gamma-ray astrophysics would allow for many scientific advancements, e.g. a possible explanation for the excess positron emission from the Galacti…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 83 cited

Observing the Sun with Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA): High Resolution Interferometric Imaging

M. Shimojo, T. S. Bastian, A. S. Hales +25

Observations of the Sun at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths offer a unique probe into the structure, dynamics, and heating of the chromosphere; the structure of sunspots; t…

physics.ins-det2017★ 46 cited

Time-of-Flight Three Dimensional Neutron Diffraction in Transmission Mode for Mapping Crystal Grain Structures

Alberto Cereser, Markus Strobl, Stephen Hall +17

The physical properties of polycrystalline materials depend on their microstructure, which is the nano-to-centimeter-scale arrangement of phases and defects in their interior. Such…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 20 cited

The X-ray reflection spectrum of the radio-loud quasar 4C 74.26

Anne Lohfink, Andrew Fabian, David Ballantyne +11

The relativistic jets created by some active galactic nuclei are important agents of AGN feedback. In spite of this, our understanding of what produces these jets is still incomple…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 63 cited

Measurement of the Cosmic Optical Background using the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager on New Horizons

Michael Zemcov, Poppy Immel, Chi Nguyen +3

The cosmic optical background is an important observable that constrains energy production in stars and more exotic physical processes in the universe, and provides a crucial cosmo…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 19 cited

The Future of Stardust Science

A. J. Westphal, J. C. Bridges, D. E. Brownlee +13

Recent observations indicate that >99% of the small bodies in the Solar System reside in its outer reaches --- in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Kuiper Belt bodies are probably th…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 24 cited

Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: effects of observer peculiar motion

C. Burigana, C. S. Carvalho, T. Trombetti +116

We discuss the effects on the CMB, CIB, and thermal SZ effect due to the peculiar motion of an observer with respect to the CMB rest frame, which induces boosting effects. We inves…