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astro-ph.EP2016★ 29 cited

Mysterious eclipses in the light-curve of KIC8462852: a possible explanation

L. Neslusan, J. Budaj

Apart from thousands of `regular' exoplanet candidates, Kepler satellite has discovered a few stars exhibiting peculiar eclipse-like events. They are most probably caused by disint…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 41 cited

Simultaneous X-ray and radio observations of the radio-mode switching pulsar PSR B1822-09

W. Hermsen, L. Kuiper, J. W. T. Hessels +7

We report on simultaneous X-ray and radio observations of the radio-mode-switching pulsar PSR B1822-09 with ESA's XMM-Newton and the WSRT, GMRT and Lovell radio telescopes. PSR B18…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 10 cited

Radiation Pattern of Radio and Optical Components of Extended Radio Sources

V. R. Amirkhanyan

The relation between parameters the D/sqrt(I) and Ic/Isum and radiation patterns of the optical and radio components of an extended radio source is analyzed, where D and I are the…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 14 cited

Transition from Fireball to Poynting-flux-dominated Outflow in Three-Episode GRB 160625B

B. -B. Zhang, B. Zhang, A. J. Castro-Tirado +51

The ejecta composition is an open question in gamma-ray bursts (GRB) physics. Some GRBs possess a quasi-thermal spectral component in the time-resolved spectral analysis, suggestin…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 13 cited

Constraining models of twin peak quasi-periodic oscillations with realistic neutron star equations of state

Gabriel Török, Kateřina Goluchová, Martin Urbanec +8

Twin-peak quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in the X-ray power-density spectra of several accreting low-mass neutron star (NS) binaries. In our previous work we have…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 16 cited

Oscillation Maps in the Broadband Radio Spectrum of the 1 August 2010 Event

M. Karlicky, J. Rybak

We search for indications of waves in the 25-2000 MHz radio spectrum of the 1 August 2010 event (SOL2010-08-01T08:57:00L075C013), where fast propagating waves in the solar corona w…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 27 cited

The accretion rate dependence of burst oscillation amplitude

Laura S. Ootes, Anna L. Watts, Duncan K. Galloway +1

Neutron stars in low mass X-ray binaries exhibit oscillations during thermonuclear bursts, attributed to asymmetric brightness patterns on the burning surfaces. All models that hav…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 31 cited

BONNSAI: correlated stellar observables in Bayesian methods

F. R. N. Schneider, N. Castro, L. Fossati +2

In an era of large spectroscopic surveys of stars and big data, sophisticated statistical methods become more and more important in order to infer fundamental stellar parameters su…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 18 cited

On the Connection of Gamma-Ray Bursts and X-Ray Flashes in the BATSE and RHESSI Databases

Jakub Řípa, Attila Mészáros

Classification of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) into groups has been intensively studied by various statistical tests in previous years. It has been suggested that there was a distinct g…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 50 cited

Two Groups of Red Giants with Distinct Chemical Abundances in the Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6553 Through the Eyes of APOGEE

Baitian Tang, Roger E. Cohen, Doug Geisler +18

Multiple populations revealed in globular clusters (GCs) are important windows to the formation and evolution of these stellar systems. The metal-rich GCs in the Galactic bulge are…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 11 cited

Superoutburst of WZ Sge-type Dwarf Nova Below the Period Minimum: ASASSN-15po

Kosuke Namekata, Keisuke Isogai, Taichi Kato +38

We report on a superoutburst of a WZ Sge-type dwarf nova (DN), ASASSN-15po. The light curve showed the main superoutburst and multiple rebrightenings. In this outburst, we observed…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 10 cited

RZ Leonis Minoris Bridging between ER Ursae Majoris-Type Dwarf Nova and Novalike System

Taichi Kato, Ryoko Ishioka, Keisuke Isogai +64

We observed RZ LMi, which is renowned for the extremely (~19d) short supercycle and is a member of a small, unusual class of cataclysmic variables called ER UMa-type dwarf novae, i…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 130 cited

SDSS IV MaNGA: The global and local stellar mass assemby histories of galaxies

Héctor J. Ibarra-Medel, Sebastián F. Sánchez, Vladimir Avila-Reese +10

By means of the fossil record method implemented through Pipe3D, we reconstruct the global and radial stellar mass growth histories (MGHs) of an unprecedentedly large sample of gal…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 9 cited

Broadband microwave sub-second pulsations in an expanding coronal loop of the 2011 August 10 flare

Hana Meszarosova, Jan Rybak, Larisa Kashapova +3

We studied the characteristic physical properties and behavior of broadband microwave sub-second pulsations observed in an expanding coronal loop during the GOES C2.4 solar flare o…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 7 cited

Stellar nuclei and inner polar disks in lenticular galaxies

Olga K. Sil'chenko

I analyze statistics of the stellar population properties for stellar nuclei and bulges of nearby lenticular galaxies in different environments by using panoramic spectral data of…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 10 cited

Proton heating by pick-up ion driven cyclotron waves in the outer heliosphere: Hybrid expanding box simulations

Petr Hellinger, Pavel M. Travnicek

Using one-dimensional hybrid expanding box model we investigate properties of the solar wind in the outer heliosphere. We assume a proton-electron plasma with a strictly transverse…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 15 cited

Spectropolarimetric observations of an arch filament system with the GREGOR solar telescope

H. Balthasar, P. Gömöry, S. J. González Manrique +27

Arch filament systems occur in active sunspot groups, where a fibril structure connects areas of opposite magnetic polarity, in contrast to active region filaments that follow the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 40 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Faint quenched galaxies I- Sample selection and evidence for environmental quenching

Samantha J. Penny, Karen L. Masters, Anne-Marie Weijmans +21

Using kinematic maps from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, we reveal that the majority of low-mass quenched g…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 464 cited

An accreting pulsar with extreme properties drives an ultraluminous x-ray source in NGC 5907

G. L. Israel, A. Belfiore, L. Stella +20

Ultraluminous x-ray sources (ULXs) in nearby galaxies shine brighter than any X-ray source in our Galaxy. ULXs are usually modeled as stellar-mass black holes (BHs) accreting at ve…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 445 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: twelfth data release

Isabelle Pâris, Patrick Petitjean, Nicholas P. Ross +43

We present the Data Release 12 Quasar catalog (DR12Q) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the SDSS-III. This catalog includes all SDSS-III/BOSS objects that…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 49 cited

The Remote Observatories of the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA)

William C. Keel, Terry Oswalt, Peter Mack +11

We describe the remote facilities operated by the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA), a consortium of colleges and universities in the US partnered with Lowe…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 98 cited

Magnetar-like activity from the central compact object in the SNR RCW103

Nanda Rea, Alice Borghese, Paolo Esposito +4

The 6.67 hr periodicity and the variable X-ray flux of the central compact object (CCO) at the center of the SNR RCW 103, named 1E 161348-5055, have been always difficult to interp…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 11 cited

Flares on A-type stars: Evidence for heating of solar corona by nanoflares?

M. Svanda, M. Karlicky

We analyzed the occurrence rates of flares on stars of spectral types K, G, F, and A, observed by Kepler. We found that the histogram of occurrence frequencies of stellar flares is…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 7 cited

Optical flare activity in the low-mass eclipsing binary GJ~3236

S. Parimucha, P. Dubovsky, M. Vanko +1

We present our observations of the low-mass eclipsing binary GJ~3236. We have analyzed a phased light-curve and confirmed previously determined fundamental parameters of the…