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astro-ph.SR2017★ 7 cited

New Open Cluster Candidates Discovered in the XSTPS-GAC Survey

Jincheng Guo, Huawei Zhang, Huihua Zhang +11

The Xuyi Schmidt Telescope Photometric Survey of the Galactic Anti-center (XSTPS-GAC) is a photometric sky survey that covers nearly 6 000 deg^2 towards Galactic anti-center in g r…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 51 cited

Enormous Li-enhancement preceding red giant phases in low-mass stars in the Milky Way halo

Haining Li, Wako Aoki, Tadafumi Matsuno +4

Li abundances in the bulk of low-mass metal-poor stars are well reproduced by stellar evolution models adopting a constant initial abundance. However, a small number of stars have…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 52 cited

Mass and Age of Red Giant Branch Stars Observed with LAMOST and \emph{Kepler}

Yaqian Wu, Maosheng Xiang, Shaolan Bi +13

Obtaining accurate and precise masses and ages for large numbers of giant stars is of great importance for unraveling the assemblage history of the Galaxy. In this paper, we estima…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 32 cited

Herschel and SCUBA-2 observations of dust emission in a sample of Planck cold clumps

Mika Juvela, Jinhua He, Katherine Pattle +26

Analysis of all-sky Planck submillimetre observations and the IRAS 100um data has led to the detection of a population of Galactic cold clumps. The clumps can be used to study star…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 22 cited

Evolution of Relative Magnetic Helicity: New Boundary Conditions for the Vector Potential

Shangbin Yang, Joerg Buechner, Jan Skala +1

We recently proposed a method to calculate the relative magnetic helicity in a finite volume for a given magnetic field which however required the flux to be balanced separately on…

gr-qc2017★ 11 cited

Different ways to estimate graviton mass

Alexander F. Zakharov, Predrag Jovanovic, Dusko Borka +1

An experimental detection of graviton is extremely hard problem, however, there are different ways to evaluate a graviton mass if it is non-vanishing. Theories of massive gravity o…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 14 cited

Flux and Spectral Variation Characteristics of 3C 454.3 at the GeV Band

Hai-Ming Zhang, Jin Zhang, Rui-Jing Lu +3

We analyze the long-term lightcurve of 3C 454.3 observed with Fermi/LAT and investigate its relation to the flux in the radio, optical, and X-ray bands. By fitting the 1-day binned…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 160 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at redshift of 0.72 with the DR14 Luminous Red Galaxy Sample

Julian E. Bautista, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Kyle S. Dawson +16

The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 sample includes 80,118 Luminous Red Galaxies. By combining these galaxies with the high-redshift tail o…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 29 cited

Imaging the Molecular Outflows of the Prototypical ULIRG NGC 6240 with ALMA

T. Saito, D. Iono, J. Ueda +12

We present 0".97 0".53 (470 pc 250 pc) resolution CO ( = 2-1) observations toward the nearby luminous merging galaxy NGC 6240 with the Atacama Large Millimeter…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 2 cited

Proper motion of the radio pulsar B1727-47 and its association with the supernova remnant RCW 114

P. Shternin, M. Yu, A. Kirichenko +4

We report preliminary results of the analysis of the proper motion of the bright radio pulsar B172747. Using archival Parkes timing data, as well as original and archival ATCA i…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 12 cited

GPU-Based High-Performance Imaging for Mingantu Spectral RadioHeliograph

Ying Mei, Feng Wang, Wei Wang +6

As a dedicated solar radio interferometer, the MingantU SpEctral RadioHeliograph (MUSER) generates massive observational data in the frequency range of 400 MHz -- 15 GHz. High-perf…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 69 cited

The TOP-SCOPE survey of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps: Survey overview and results of an exemplar source, PGCC G26.53+0.17

Tie Liu, Kee-Tae Kim, Mika Juvela +11

The low dust temperatures (<14 K) of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) make them ideal targets to probe the initial conditions and very early phase of star formation. TOP-SCOPE i…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 14 cited

Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). III. On the Relocation of the Kepler-9~b Transit

Songhu Wang, Dong-Hong Wu, Brett C. Addison +24

The Kepler-9 system harbors three known transiting planets. The system holds significant interest for several reasons. First, the outer two planets exhibit a period ratio that is c…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 45 cited

The Near-infrared Optimal Distances Method Applied to Galactic Classical Cepheids Tightly Constrains Mid-infrared Period--Luminosity Relations

Shu Wang, Xiaodian Chen, Richard de Grijs +1

Classical Cepheids are well-known and widely used distance indicators. As distance and extinction are usually degenerate, it is important to develop suitable methods to robustly an…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 16 cited

Searching for the Transit of the Earth--mass exoplanet Proxima~Centauri~b in Antarctica: Preliminary Result

Hui-Gen Liu, Peng Jiang, Xingxing Huang +21

Proxima Centauri is known as the closest star from the Sun. Recently, radial velocity observations revealed the existence of an Earth-mass planet around it. With an orbital period…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 10 cited

VALES: IV. Exploring the transition of star formation efficiencies between normal and starburst galaxies using APEX/SEPIA Band-5 and ALMA at low redshift

C. Cheng, E. Ibar, T. M. Hughes +12

In this work we present new APEX/SEPIA Band-5 observations targeting the CO () emission line of 24 Herschel-detected galaxies at . Combining this sample {w…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 24 cited

Diffuse X-ray-emitting Gas in Major Mergers

Beverly J. Smith, Kristen Campbell, Curtis Struck +5

Using archived data from the Chandra X-ray telescope, we have extracted the diffuse X-ray emission from 49 equal-mass interacting/merging galaxy pairs in a merger sequence, from wi…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 9 cited

The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS): testing a new approach to measure the evolution of the structure growth

Rossana Ruggeri, Will J. Percival, Eva-Maria Mueller +4

The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is one of the first of a new generation of galaxy redshift surveys that will cover a large range in redshift with suffi…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 5 cited

Rediscovering the Galactic outer disk with LAMOST data

Chao Liu, Yan Xu, Haifeng Wang +1

From the derived stellar density profile using LAMOST giant stars, we find that the Galactic disk does not show truncation or break, but smoothly transit to the halo from 19 kpc. T…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 86 cited

The age-velocity dispersion relation of the Galactic discs from LAMOST-Gaia data

Jincheng Yu, Chao Liu

We present the age-velocity dispersion relation (AVR) in three dimensions in the solar neighbourhood using 3,564 commonly observed sub-giant/red-giant branch stars selected from LA…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 7 cited

Probing satellite galaxies in the Local Group by using FAST

Jing Li, Yougang Wang, Minzhi Kong +3

The abundance of neutral hydrogen (HI) in satellite galaxies in the Local Group is important for studying the formation history of our Local Group. In this work, we generated mock…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 12 cited

Interaction of the accretion flows in corona and disk near the black hole in AGN

E. Meyer-Hofmeister, B. F. Liu, E. Qiao

Accretion flows toward black holes can be of a quite different nature, described as an optically thick cool gas flow in a disk for high accretion rates or as a hot coronal opticall…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 129 cited

Pulsar Rotation Measures and Large-scale Magnetic Field Reversals in the Galactic Disk

J. L. Han, R. N. Manchester, W. van Straten +1

We present the measurements of Faraday rotation for 477 pulsars observed by the Parkes 64-m radio telescope and the Green Bank 100-m radio telescope. Using these results along with…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 69 cited

Modelling Kepler Red Giants in Eclipsing Binaries:Calibrating the Mixing Length Parameter with Asteroseismology

Tanda Li, Timothy R. Bedding, Daniel Huber +4

Stellar models rely on a number of free parameters. High-quality observations of eclipsing binary stars observed by Kepler offer a great opportunity to calibrate model parameters f…