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most citedGravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

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astro-ph.GA2016★ 48 cited

Star formation towards the Galactic HII region RCW120

M. Figueira, A. Zavagno, L. Deharveng +16

The expansion of HII regions can trigger the formation of stars. An overdensity of young stellar objects (YSOs) is observed at the edges of HII regions but the mechanisms that give…

physics.space-ph2016★ 23 cited

Linking Fluid and Kinetic Scales in Solar Wind Turbulence

D. Telloni, R. Bruno

We investigate possible links between the large-scale and small-scale features of solar wind fluctuations across the frequency break separating fluid and kinetic regimes. The aim i…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 10 cited

Multiband Observations of the Quasar PKS 2326-502 during Active and Quiescent Gamma-Ray States in 2010-2012

Michael S. Dutka, Bryce D. Carpenter, Roopesh Ojha +12

Quasi-simultaneous observations of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar PKS 2326-502 were carried out in the gamma-ray, X-ray, UV, optical, near-infrared, and radio bands. Thanks to thes…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 29 cited

Multiwavelength variability study and search for periodicity of PKS 1510-089

G. Castignani, E. Pian, T. M. Belloni +14

Blazars are the most luminous and variable AGNs, and thus excellent probes of accretion and emission processes close to the central engine. We focus on PKS 1510-089 (), one…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 13 cited

Exploring the multifaceted circumstellar environment of the Luminous Blue Variable HR Carinae

C. S. Buemi, C. Trigilio, P. Leto +9

We present a multi-wavelength study of the Galactic Luminous Blue Variable HR Carinae, based on new high resolution mid-infrared (IR) and radio images obtained with the Very Large…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 21 cited

C3, A Command-line Catalogue Cross-match tool for large astrophysical catalogues

Giuseppe Riccio, Massimo Brescia, Stefano Cavuoti +3

Modern Astrophysics is based on multi-wavelength data organized into large and heterogeneous catalogues. Hence, the need for efficient, reliable and scalable catalogue cross-matchi…

physics.space-ph2016★ 70 cited

Differential kinetic dynamics and heating of ions in the turbulent solar wind

F. Valentini, D. Perrone, S. Stabile +14

The solar wind plasma is a fully ionized and turbulent gas ejected by the outer layers of the solar corona at very high speed, mainly composed by protons and electrons, with a smal…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 18 cited

The nova-like nebular optical spectrum of V404 Cygni at the beginning of the 2015 outburst decay

F. Rahoui, J. A. Tomsick, P. Gandhi +7

We report on FORS2 optical spectroscopy of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni, performed at the very beginning of its 2015 outburst decay, complemented by quasi-simultaneous $S…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 8 cited

Source clustering in the Hi-GAL survey determined using a minimum spanning tree method

Maxime Beuret, Nicolas Billot, Laurent Cambrésy +5

The aims are to investigate the clustering of the far-infrared sources from the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey (Hi-GAL) in the Galactic longitude range of -71 to 67 deg. T…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 1 cited

Unveiling multiple AGN activity in galaxy mergers

A. De Rosa, S. Bianchi, T. Bogdanovic +13

In this paper we present an overview of the MAGNA (Multiple AGN Activity) project aiming at a comprehensive study of multiple supemassive black hole systems. With the main goal to…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 236 cited

The e-ASTROGAM mission (exploring the extreme Universe with gamma rays in the MeV-GeV range)

Alessandro De Angelis, Vincent Tatischeff, Marco Tavani +71

e-ASTROGAM (`enhanced ASTROGAM') is a breakthrough Observatory mission dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV. The miss…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 80 cited

The Herschel Exploitation of Local Galaxy Andromeda (HELGA) VII: A SKIRT radiative transfer model and insights on dust heating

S. Viaene, M. Baes, A. Tamm +17

The radiation of stars heats dust grains in the diffuse interstellar medium and in star-forming regions in galaxies. Modelling this interaction provides information on dust in gala…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 88 cited

Evolution of CO, CH, and OCS abundances relative to HO in the coma of comet 67P around perihelion from Rosetta/VIRTIS-H observations

D. Bockelée-Morvan, J. Crovisier, S. Erard +19

Infrared observations of the coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were carried out from July to September 2015, i.e., around perihelion (13 August 2015), with the high-resolution chan…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 45 cited

Detection of exposed HO ice on the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

M. A. Barucci, G. Filacchione, S. Fornasier +42

Since the orbital insertion of the Rosetta spacecraft, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G) has been mapped by OSIRIS camera and VIRTIS spectro-imager, producing a huge quanti…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 92 cited

Living on a Flare: Relativistic Reflection in V404 Cyg Observed by NuSTAR During its Summer 2015 Outburst

D. J. Walton, K. Mooley, A. L. King +19

We present first results from a series of observations of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cyg obtained during its summer 2015 outburst, primarily focusing on observations…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 55 cited

VIS: the visible imager for Euclid

Mark Cropper, S. Pottinger, S. Niemi +33

Euclid-VIS is the large format visible imager for the ESA Euclid space mission in their Cosmic Vision program, scheduled for launch in 2020. Together with the near infrared imaging…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 123 cited

The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU)

Didier Barret, Thien Lam Trong, Jan-Willem den Herder +88

The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) on board the Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics (Athena) will provide spatially resolved high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy from…

physics.space-ph2016★ 25 cited

Evolution of Intermittency in the Slow and Fast Solar Wind Beyond the Ecliptic Plane

Anna Wawrzaszek, Marius Echim, Wiesław M. Macek +1

We study intermittency as a departure from self-similarity of the solar wind magnetic turbulence and investigate the evolution with the heliocentric distance and latitude. We use d…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 26 cited

Looking for blazars in a sample of unidentified high-energy emitting Fermi sources

E. J. Marchesini, N. Masetti, V. Chavushyan +12

Context. Based on their overwhelming dominance among associated Fermi gamma ray catalogue sources, it is expected that a large fraction of the unidentified Fermi objects are blazar…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 13 cited

The segregation of starless and protostellar clumps in the Hi-GAL l=224deg region

L. Olmi, M. Cunningham, D. Elia +1

Stars form in dense, dusty structures, which are embedded in larger clumps of molecular clouds often showing a clear filamentary structure on large scales (> 1pc). One of the best-…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 6 cited

VIALACTEA knowledge base homogenizing access to Milky Way data

Marco Molinaro, Robert Butora, Marilena Bandieramonte +16

The VIALACTEA project has a work package dedicated to Tools and Infrastructure and, inside it, a task for the Database and Virtual Observatory Infrastructure. This task aims at pro…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 46 cited

High-energy monitoring of NGC 4593 with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR. X-ray spectral analysis

F. Ursini, P. -O. Petrucci, G. Matt +8

We present results from a joint Xmm-Newton/NuSTAR monitoring of the Seyfert 1 NGC 4593, consisting of 5x20 ks simultaneous observations spaced by two days, performed in January 201…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 53 cited

H2S in the L1157-B1 Bow shock

Jonathan Holdship, Serena Viti, Izaskun Jimenez-Serra +8

Sulfur-bearing molecules are highly reactive in the gas phase of the ISM. However, the form in which most of the sulfur is locked onto interstellar dust grains is unknown. By takin…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 176 cited

eXTP -- enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry Mission

S. N. Zhang, M. Feroci, A. Santangelo +181

eXTP is a science mission designed to study the state of matter under extreme conditions of density, gravity and magnetism. Primary targets include isolated and binary neutron star…