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astro-ph.EP2017★ 56 cited

Tensile Strength of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Nucleus Material from Overhangs

N. Attree, O. Groussin, L. Jorda +52

We directly measure twenty overhanging cliffs on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko extracted from the latest shape model and estimate the minimum tensile strengths nee…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 18 cited

New spectro-photometric characterization of the substellar object HR 2562 B using SPHERE

D. Mesa, J. -L. Baudino, B. Charnay +32

HR2562 is an F5V star located at ~33 pc from the Sun hosting a substellar companion that was discovered using the GPI instrument. The main objective of the present paper is to prov…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 15 cited

Predictions of planet detections with near infrared radial velocities in the up-coming SPIRou Legacy Survey-Planet Search

Ryan Cloutier, Étienne Artigau, Xavier Delfosse +8

The SPIRou near infrared spectro-polarimeter is destined to begin science operations at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in mid-2018. One of the instrument's primary science goal…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 32 cited

Thermal fracturing on comets. Applications to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

N. Attree, O. Groussin, L. Jorda +12

We simulate the stresses induced by temperature changes in a putative hard layer near the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov--Gerasimenko with a thermo-viscoelastic model. Such a layer…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 22 cited

Dust concentration and emission in protoplanetary disks vortices

Anibal Sierra, Susana Lizano, Pierre Barge

We study the dust concentration and emission in protoplanetary disks vortices. We extend the Lyra-Lin solution for the dust concentration of a single grain size to a power-law dist…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 63 cited

Evidence of sub-surface energy storage in comet 67P from the outburst of 2016 July 3

J. Agarwal, V. Della Corte, P. D. Feldman +67

On 3 July 2016, several instruments on board ESA's Rosetta spacecraft detected signs of an outburst event on comet 67P, at a heliocentric distance of 3.32 AU from the sun, outbound…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 93 cited

The circumstellar disk HD169142: gas, dust and planets acting in concert?

A. Pohl, M. Benisty, P. Pinilla +33

HD169142 is an excellent target to investigate signs of planet-disk interaction due to the previous evidence of gap structures. We performed J-band (~1.2μm) polarized intensity…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 55 cited

The discovery of WASP-151b, WASP-153b, WASP-156b: Insights on giant planet migration and the upper boundary of the Neptunian desert

Olivier. D. S. Demangeon, F. Faedi, G. Hébrard +31

To investigate the origin of the features discovered in the exoplanet population, the knowledge of exoplanets' mass and radius with a good precision is essential. In this paper, we…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 23 cited

Dynamical models to explain observations with SPHERE in planetary systems with double debris belts

C. Lazzoni, S. Desidera, F. Marzari +66

A large number of systems harboring a debris disk show evidence for a double belt architecture. One hypothesis for explaining the gap between the belts is the presence of one or mo…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 45 cited

The HIP 79977 debris disk in polarized light

N. Engler, H. M. Schmid, Ch. Thalmann +40

We present observations of the known edge-on debris disk around HIP 79977 (HD 146897, F star in Upper Sco, 123 pc), taken with the ZIMPOL differential polarimeter of the SPHERE ins…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 23 cited

Detection of a repeated transit signature in the light curve of the enigma star KIC 8462852: a 928-day period?

Flavien Kiefer, Alain Lecavelier des Etangs, Alfred Vidal-Madjar +3

As revealed by its peculiar Kepler light curve, the enigmatic star KIC 8462852 undergoes short and deep flux dimmings at a priori unrelated epochs. It presents nonetheless all othe…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 35 cited

Precise masses for the transiting planetary system HD 106315 with HARPS

S. C. C. Barros, H. Gosselin, J. Lillo-Box +45

The multi-planetary system HD 106315 was recently found in K2 data . The planets have periods of and days, and radii of a…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 140 cited

Seeds of Life in Space (SOLIS) III. Formamide in protostellar shocks: evidence for gas-phase formation

C. Codella, C. Ceccarelli, P. Caselli +47

Context: Modern versions of the Miller-Urey experiment claim that formamide (NHCHO) could be the starting point for the formation of metabolic and genetic macromolecules. Intri…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 100 cited

Scientific rationale for Uranus and Neptune in situ explorations

O. Mousis, D. H. Atkinson, T. Cavalié +53

The ice giants Uranus and Neptune are the least understood class of planets in our solar system but the most frequently observed type of exoplanets. Presumed to have a small rocky…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 44 cited

Constraints on cometary surface evolution derived from a statistical analysis of 67P's topography

J. -B. Vincent, S. F. Hviid, S. Mottola +51

We present a statistical analysis of the distribution of large scale topographic features on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. We observe that the cumulative cliff height distributi…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 137 cited

Seasonal Mass Transfer on the Nucleus of Comet 67P/Chuyumov-Gerasimenko

H. U. Keller, S. Mottola, S. F. Hviid +47

We collect observational evidence that supports the scheme of mass transfer on the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The obliquity of the rotation axis of 67P causes stro…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 19 cited

Orbiting a binary: SPHERE characterisation of the HD 284149 system

Mariangela Bonavita, V. D'Orazi, D. Mesa +52

In this paper we present the results of the SPHERE observation of the HD 284149 system, aimed at a more detailed characterisation of both the primary and its brown dwarf companion.…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 40 cited

Spin states of asteroids in the Eos collisional family

J. Hanuš, M. Delbo', V. Alí-Lagoa +33

Eos family was created during a catastrophic impact about 1.3 Gyr ago. Rotation states of individual family members contain information about the history of the whole population. W…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 40 cited

The highly active Anhur-Bes regions in the 67P/Churyumov - Gerasimenko comet: results from OSIRIS/ROSETTA observations

S. Fornasier, C. Feller, J. C. Lee +51

The Southern hemisphere of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet has become visible from Rosetta only since March 2015. It was illuminated during the perihelion passage and therefore…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 37 cited

Understanding stellar activity-induced radial velocity jitter using simultaneous K2 photometry and HARPS RV measurements

M. Oshagh, N. C. Santos, P. Figueira +15

One of the best ways to improve our understanding of the stellar activity-induced signal in radial velocity (RV) measurements is through simultaneous high-precision photometric and…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 205 cited

Discovery of a warm, dusty giant planet around HIP65426

G. Chauvin, S. Desidera, A. -M. Lagrange +120

The SHINE program is a large high-contrast near-infrared survey of 600 young, nearby stars. It is aimed at searching for and characterizing new planetary systems using VLT/SPHERE's…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 100 cited

Exploring dust around HD142527 down to 0.025" / 4au using SPHERE/ZIMPOL

H. Avenhaus, S. P. Quanz, H. M. Schmid +25

We have observed the protoplanetary disk of the well-known young Herbig star HD 142527 using ZIMPOL Polarimetric Differential Imaging with the VBB (Very Broad Band, ~600-900nm) fil…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 27 cited

Gap and rings carved by vortices in protoplanetary dust

P. Barge, L. Ricci, C. L. Carilli +1

Large-scale vortices in protoplanetary disks are thought to form and survive for long periods of time. Hence, they can significantly change the global disk evolution and particular…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 30 cited

The First Scattered Light Image of the Debris Disk around the Sco-Cen target HD 129590

Elisabeth Matthews, Sasha Hinkley, Arthur Vigan +7

We present the first scattered light image of the debris disk around HD 129590, a ~1.3 M G1V member of the Scorpius Centaurus association with age ~10-16 Myr. The debris di…