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astro-ph.SR2018★ 94 cited

A homogeneous analysis of globular clusters from the APOGEE survey with the BACCHUS code. I. The Northern clusters

T. Masseron, D. A. García-Hernández, Sz. Mészáros +12

We analyze a large sample of 885 GCs giants from the APOGEE survey. We used the Cannon results to separate the red giant branch and the asymptotic giant branch stars, not only allo…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 37 cited

MARVEL Analysis of the Measured High-Resolution Rovibronic Spectra of 90Zr16O

Laura K McKemmish, Jasmin Borsovszky, Katie L Goodhew +8

Zirconium oxide(ZrO) is an important astrophysical molecule that defines the S-star classification class for cool giant stars. Accurate, empirical rovibronic energy levels, with as…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 46 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: All-sky classification of high-amplitude pulsating stars

L. Rimoldini, B. Holl, M. Audard +23

More than half a million of the 1.69 billion sources in Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) are published with photometric time series that exhibit light variations during the 22 months of o…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 30 cited

Propagating Spectropolarimetric Disturbances in a Large Sunspot

M. Stangalini, S. Jafarzadeh, I. Ermolli +7

We present results derived from the analysis of spectropolarimetric measurements of active region AR12546, which represents one of the largest sunspots to have emerged onto the sol…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 9 cited

Wandering near the red edge: photometric observations of three cool ZZ Ceti stars

Zs. Bognár, M. Paparó, Á. Sódor +11

We summarize our findings on three cool ZZ Ceti type pulsating white dwarfs. We determined eight independent modes in HS 0733+4119, of which seven are new findings. For GD 154, we…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 11 cited

Dispersive shock waves in partially ionised plasmas

I. Ballai, E. Forgacs-Dajka, A. Marcu

Compressional waves propagating in the partially ionised solar lower atmospheric plasmas can easily steepen into nonlinear waves, including shocks. Here we investigate the effect o…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 14 cited

Chaotic dynamics in the pulsation of DF Cygni, as observed by Kepler

E. Plachy, A. Bódi, Z. Kolláth

Pulsations of RV Tauri-type variable stars can be governed by chaotic dynamics. However, observational evidence for this happening is usually hard to come by. Here we use the conti…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 34 cited

The NANOGrav 11-year Data Set: Solar Wind Sounding Through Pulsar Timing

D. R. Madison, J. M. Cordes, Z. Arzoumanian +28

The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has observed dozens of millisecond pulsars for over a decade. We have accrued a large collection of disp…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 6 cited

Varying Driver Velocity Fields in Photospheric MHD Wave Simulations

A. J. Leonard, S. J. Mumford, V. Fedun +1

Torsional motions are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. In this work, we perform 3D numerical simulations which mimic a vortex-type photospheric driver with a Gaussian spatial pr…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 160 cited

APOGEE Data Releases 13 and 14: Stellar Parameter and Abundance Comparisons With Independent Analyses

Henrik Jönsson, Carlos Allende Prieto, Jon A. Holtzman +18

Data from the SDSS-IV / Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2) have been released as part of SDSS Data Releases 13 (DR13) and 14 (DR14). These include hi…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 49 cited

Observing Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in solar blowout jet

Xiaohong Li, Jun Zhang, Shuhong Yang +2

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is a basic physical process in fluids and magnetized plasmas, with applications successfully modelling e.g. exponentially growing instabilities o…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 10 cited

Searching for new white dwarf pulsators for TESS observations at Konkoly Observatory

Zs. Bognár, Cs. Kalup, Á. Sódor +2

We present the results of our survey searching for new white dwarf pulsators for observations by the TESS space telescope. We collected photometric time-series data on 14 white dwa…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 2 cited

Global Oscillation Pattern in Succeeding Solar Flares

N. Gyenge, R. Erdélyi

The temporal recurrence of micro-flare events is studied in a time interval before and after of major solar flares. Our sample is based on the x-ray flare observations by the Geost…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 29 cited

Automated Swirl Detection Algorithm (ASDA) and Its Application to Simulation and Observational Data

Jiajia Liu, Chris J. Nelson, Robert Erdélyi

Swirling motions in the solar atmosphere have been widely observed in recent years and suggested to play a key role in channeling energy from the photosphere into the corona. Here,…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 9 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Validation of the classification of RR Lyrae and Cepheid variables with the Kepler and K2 missions

László Molnár, Emese Plachy, Áron L. Juhász +1

The second data release of the Gaia mission includes an advance catalog of variable stars. The classification of these stars are based on sparse photometry from the first 22 months…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 16 cited

Applying the weighted horizontal magnetic gradient method to a simulated flaring Active Region

M. B. Korsos, Piyali Chatterjee, R. Erdelyi

Here, we test the weighted horizontal magnetic gradient () as a flare precursor, introduced by Korsos et. al. (2015, ApJ, 802, L21), by applying it to a magneto-hydrodynamic…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 305 cited

The Second APOKASC Catalog: The Empirical Approach

Marc H. Pinsonneault, Yvonne P. Elsworth, Jamie Tayar +33

We present a catalog of stellar properties for a large sample of 6676 evolved stars with APOGEE spectroscopic parameters and \textit{Kepler} asteroseismic data analyzed using five…

astro-ph.SR2018

All-sky RR Lyrae Stars in the Gaia Data

Lorenzo Rimoldini, Laurent Eyer, Nami Mowlavi +22

The second Gaia data release is expected to contain data products from about 22 months of observation. Based on these data, we aim to provide an advance publication of a full-sky G…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 4 cited

Rogue active regions and the inherent unpredictability of the solar dynamo

K. Petrovay, M. Nagy

New developments in surface flux transport modeling and theory of flux transport dynamos have given rise to the notion that certain large active regions with anomalous properties (…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 7 cited

The Delta Scuti star 38 Eri from the ground and from space

M. Paparo, Z. Kollath, R. R. Shobbrook +17

We present and discuss the pulsational characteristics of the Delta Scuti star 38 Eri from photometric data obtained at two widely spaced epochs, partly from the ground (1998) and…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 14 cited

On Quasi-biennial oscillations in chromospheric macrospicules and their potential relation to global solar magnetic field

T. S. Kiss, R. Erdelyi

This study aims to provide further evidence for the potential influence of the global solar magnetic field on localised chromospheric jets, the macrospicules (MS). To find a connec…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 135 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Variable stars in the colour-absolute magnitude diagram

Gaia Collaboration, L. Eyer, L. Rimoldini +14

The ESA Gaia mission provides a unique time-domain survey for more than 1.6 billion sources with G ~ 21 mag. We showcase stellar variability across the Galactic colour-absolute mag…

astro-ph.SR2018

Period Increase and Amplitude Distribution of Kink Oscillation of Coronal Loop

W. Su, Y. Guo, R. Erdélyi +4

Coronal loops exist ubiquitously in the solar atmosphere. These loops puzzle astronomers over half a century. Solar magneto-seismology (SMS) provides a unique way to constrain the…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 24 cited

Magnetic shocks and substructures excited by torsional Alfvén wave interactions in merging expanding flux tubes

B. Snow, V. Fedun, F. A. Gent +2

Vortex motions are frequently observed on the solar photosphere. These motions may play a key role in the transport of energy and momentum from the lower atmosphere into the upper…