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physics.space-ph2018★ 78 cited

On the Spatial Coherence of Magnetic Ejecta: Measurements of Coronal Mass Ejections by Multiple Spacecraft Longitudinally Separated by 0.01 AU

N. Lugaz, C. J. Farrugia, R. M. Winslow +5

Measurements of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) by multiple spacecraft at small radial separations but larger longitudinal separations is one of the ways to learn about the three-dim…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 25 cited

Joint X-ray, EUV and UV Observations of a Small Microflare

Iain G. Hannah, Lucia Kleint, Säm Krucker +5

We present the first joint observation of a small microflare in X-rays with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR), UV with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (I…

physics.space-ph2018★ 40 cited

Alpha particle thermodynamics in the inner heliosphere fast solar wind

D. Stansby, D. Perrone, L. Matteini +2

Plasma processes occurring in the corona and solar wind can be probed by studying the thermodynamic properties of different ion species. However, most in-situ observations of posit…

physics.space-ph2018★ 38 cited

On the generation of probabilistic forecasts from deterministic models

Enrico Camporeale, Xiangning Chu, Oleksiy Agapitov +1

Most of the methods that produce space weather forecasts are based on deterministic models. In order to generate a probabilistic forecast, a model needs to be run several times sam…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 314 cited

FRB 121102 Bursts Show Complex Time-Frequency Structure

J. W. T. Hessels, L. G. Spitler, A. D. Seymour +23

FRB 121102 is the only known repeating fast radio burst source. Here we analyze a wide-frequency-range (1-8 GHz) sample of high-signal-to-noise, coherently dedispersed bursts detec…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 36 cited

Stochastic proton heating by kinetic-Alfvén-wave turbulence in moderately high- plasmas

Ian W. Hoppock, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Kristopher G. Klein +2

Stochastic heating refers to an increase in the average magnetic moment of charged particles interacting with electromagnetic fluctuations whose frequencies are smaller than the pa…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 4 cited

Chandra Observations of NuSTAR Serendipitous Sources near the Galactic Plane

John A. Tomsick, George B. Lansbury, Farid Rahoui +8

The NuSTAR serendipitous survey has already uncovered a large number of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), providing new information about the composition of the Cosmic X-ray Background…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 88 cited

The Origin of Major Solar Activity - Collisional Shearing Between Nonconjugated Polarities of Multiple Bipoles Emerging Within Active Regions

Georgios Chintzoglou, Jie Zhang, Mark C. M. Cheung +1

Active Regions (ARs) that exhibit compact Polarity Inversion Lines (PILs) are known to be very flare-productive. However, the physical mechanisms behind this statistical inference…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 267 cited

An embedded X-ray source shines through the aspherical AT2018cow: revealing the inner workings of the most luminous fast-evolving optical transients

Raffaella Margutti, B. D. Metzger, R. Chornock +41

We present the first extensive radio to gamma-ray observations of a fast-rising blue optical transient (FBOT), AT2018cow, over its first ~100 days. AT2018cow rose over a few days t…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 13 cited

The Curious Case of Swift J1753.5-0127: A Black Hole Low-mass X-ray Binary Analogue to Z Cam Type Dwarf Novae

A. W. Shaw, B. E. Tetarenko, G. Dubus +5

Swift J1753.5-0127 (J1753) is a candidate black hole low-mass X-ray binary (BH-LMXB) that was discovered in outburst in May 2005. It remained in outburst for years, exhibi…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 28 cited

First high-resolution look at the quiet Sun with ALMA at 3 mm

A. Nindos, C. E. Alissandrakis, T. S. Bastian +9

We present an overview of high resolution quiet Sun observations, from disk center to the limb, obtained with the Atacama Large mm and sub-mm Array (ALMA) at 3 mm. Seven quiet Sun…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 3 cited

Explaining the asymmetric line profile in Cepheus X-4 with spectral variation across pulse phase

Yash Bhargava, Varun Bhalerao, Ralf Ballhausen +4

The high mass X-ray binary Cep X-4, during its 2014 outburst, showed evidence for an asymmetric cyclotron line in its hard X-ray spectrum. The 2014 spectrum provides one of the cle…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 55 cited

NuSTAR reveals the hidden nature of SS433

M. J. Middleton, D. J. Walton, W. Alston +25

SS433 is the only Galactic binary system known to persistently accrete at highly super-critical (or hyper-critical) rates, similar to those in tidal disruption events, and likely n…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 176 cited

Strange messenger: A new history of hydrogen on Earth, as told by Xenon

Kevin J. Zahnle, Marko Gacesa, David C. Catling

Atmospheric xenon is strongly mass fractionated, the result of a process that apparently continued through the Archean and perhaps beyond. Previous models that explain Xe fractiona…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 20 cited

Measurements of tropospheric ice clouds with a ground-based CMB polarization experiment, POLARBEAR

Satoru Takakura, Mario A. O. Aguilar-Faúndez, Yoshiki Akiba +45

The polarization of the atmosphere has been a long-standing concern for ground-based experiments targeting cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. Ice crystals in upper tro…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 37 cited

Multiple cyclotron line-forming regions in GX 301-2

F. Fuerst, S. Falkner, D. Marcu-Cheatham +6

We present two observations of the high-mass X-ray binary GX 301-2 with NuSTAR, taken at different orbital phases and different luminosities. We find that the continuum is well des…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 23 cited

Magnetic Clouds: Solar Cycle Dependence, Sources, and Geomagnetic Impacts

Y. Li, J. G. Luhmann, B. J. Lynch

Magnetic clouds (MCs) are transient magnetic structures giving the strongest southward magnetic field (Bz south) in the solar wind. The sheath regions of MCs may also carry southwa…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 190 cited

Fast Radio Burst 121102 Pulse Detection and Periodicity: A Machine Learning Approach

Yunfan Gerry Zhang, Vishal Gajjar, Griffin Foster +4

We report the detection of 72 new pulses from the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102 in Breakthrough Listen C-band (4-8 GHz) observations at the Green Bank Telescope. The new pu…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 6 cited

The association of the Hale Sector Boundary with RHESSI solar flares and active longitudes

K. Loumou, I. G. Hannah, H. S. Hudson

The heliospheric magnetic field (HMF) is structured into large sectors of positive and negative polarity. The parts of the boundary between these sectors where the change in polari…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 18 cited

Spectroscopic identification of INTEGRAL high-energy sources with VLT/ISAAC

Francis Fortin, Sylvain Chaty, Alexis Coleiro +2

The INTEGRAL satellite has been observing the gamma-ray sky for 15 years and has detected over 900 X-ray sources of various nature. However, more than 200 of these sources still la…

physics.app-ph2018★ 35 cited

Tomographic Reconstruction of Two-Dimensional Residual Strain Fields from Bragg-Edge Neutron Imaging

Alexander Gregg, Johannes Hendriks, Christopher Wensrich +7

Bragg-edge strain imaging from energy-resolved neutron transmission measurements poses an interesting tomography problem. The solution to this problem will allow the reconstruction…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 12 cited

Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: prototype design and testing

Maren Cosens, Jérôme Maire, Shelley A. Wright +12

The Pulsed All-sky Near-infrared Optical Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (PANOSETI) is an instrument program that aims to search for fast transient signals (nano-second to…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 24 cited

Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: overall specifications and science program

Shelley A. Wright, Paul Horowitz, Jérôme Maire +13

We present overall specifications and science goals for a new optical and near-infrared (350 - 1650 nm) instrument designed to greatly enlarge the current Search for Extraterrestri…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 60 cited

Fluidization of collisionless plasma turbulence

Romain Meyrand, Anjor Kanekar, William Dorland +1

In a collisionless, magnetized plasma, particles may stream freely along magnetic-field lines, leading to phase "mixing" of their distribution function and consequently to smoothin…