We present observations of escaping Lyman Continuum (LyC) radiation from 34 massive star-forming galaxies (SFGs) and 12 weak AGN with reliably measured spectroscopic redshifts at $z\simeq 2.3\mbox{--}4.1$. We analyzed ...

Small bipolar magnetic features are observed to appear in the interior of individual granules in the quiet Sun, signaling the emergence of tiny magnetic loops from the solar interior. We study the origin of those features ...

The role of type II spicules in the corona has been a much debated topic in recent years. This paper aims to shed light on the impact of type II spicules in the corona using novel 2.5D radiative MHD simulations, including ...

Reduced relativistic gas (RRG) is a useful approach to describe the warm dark matter (WDM) or the warmness of baryonic matter in the approximation when the interaction between the particles is irrelevant. The use of Maxwell ...

Context: Various solar features can be seen in emission or absorption on maps of the Sun in the millimetre and submillimetre wavelength range. The recently installed Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) is ...

In addition to their jet-like dynamic behavior, spicules usually exhibit strong transverse speeds, multi-stranded structure, and heating from chromospheric to transition region temperatures. In this work we first analyze ...

We summarize panchromatic Extragalactic Background Light data to place upper limits on the integrated near-infrared surface brightness (SB) that may come from Population III stars and possible accretion disks around their ...

The Fe i 6173 Å line is widely used in the measurements of vector magnetic fields by instruments including the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI). We perform non-local thermodynamic equilibrium calculations of this ...

We study the M1.9-class solar flare SOL2015-09-27T10:40 UT using high-resolution full Stokes imaging spectropolarimetry of the Ca ii 8542 Å line obtained with the CRISP imaging spectropolarimeter at the Swedish 1-m Solar ...

Recent detections of Lyman alpha (Lyα) emission from z > 7.5 galaxies were somewhat unexpected given a dearth of previous non-detections in this era when the intergalactic medium (IGM) is still highly neutral. But these ...

We present a new flexible Bayesian framework for directly inferring the fraction of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR, z ~ 6–10) from detections and non-detections of ...

A massive and luminous perturber moving across an opaque gas is subjected to a force different from the gravitational friction that it would experience if it were cold. The heat released by the perturber diffuses in the ...

We demonstrate that, for the baseline design of the CORE satellite mission, the polarized foregrounds can be controlled at the level required to allow the detection of the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode ...

We have identified new clusters and characterized previously unknown Planck Sunyaev–Zeldovich (SZ) sources from the first Planck catalogue of SZ sources (PSZ1). The results presented here correspond to an optical follow-up ...

We present results from an observing campaign in support of the VAULT2.0 sounding rocket launch on 2014 September 30. VAULT2.0 is a Lyα (1216 Å) spectroheliograph capable of providing spectroheliograms at high cadence. Lyα ...

We present the results of 1D hydrodynamic simulations of coronal loops that are subject to nanoflares, caused by either in situ thermal heating or nonthermal electron (NTE) beams. The synthesized intensity and Doppler ...

We introduce Project MegaSaura: the Magellan Evolution of Galaxies Spectroscopic and Ultraviolet Reference Atlas. MegaSaura comprises medium-resolution, rest-frame ultraviolet spectroscopy of N = 15 bright gravitationally ...

In order to determine the observable signatures of modified gravity theories, it is important to consider the effect of baryonic physics. We used a modified version of the ISIS code to run cosmological hydrodynamic simulations ...

Solar flares play a key role in the dynamics of the solar atmosphere. They occur with a wide range of energies, from the largest X-class flares representing some of the most violent releases of energy in the solar system, ...

The ''theory of dark matter superfluidity'' \cite{berezhiani2015theory} is reproduced in SI units with the inclusion of intermediate, and precise, steps in the calculations. By use of another measure of the mean interparticle ...

We report on the discovery of periodic coronal rain in an off-limb sequence of Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly images. The showers are co-spatial and in phase with periodic (6.6 hr) intensity ...

The solar mean magnetic field (SMMF) is referred to as the disk-averaged line-of-sight (LOS) magnetic field that also reflects the polarity imbalance of the magnetic field on the Sun. The origin of the SMMF has been debated ...

Long-period EUV pulsations, recently discovered to be common in active regions, are understood to be the coronal manifestation of thermal nonequilibrium (TNE). The active regions previously studied with EIT/Solar and ...

The Planck satellite has provided a multitude of data images of the full microwave sky, or sky maps, since it saw first light in 2009. Its observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data has been paramount in ...

Analysing the state of the art, zoom-in simulation "Eris", we study the distribution, origins and kinematics of O~VI gas around star forming L* galaxies. A detailed comparison to observations from the COS-halo survey is ...

The nuclide 187Re beta-decays to 187Os with a half-life of approximately 41.6 Gyr. The long half-life and simple relation between 187Re and 187Os makes the ratio a good candidate for a cosmic clock. In order to "use the ...

We analyze the metal accumulation in dwarf and spiral galaxies by following the history of metal enrichment and outflows in a suite of 20 high-resolution simulated galaxies. These simulations agree with the observed stellar ...

We study the abundance of star-forming and quiescent galaxies in a sample of 21 clusters at 0.5 <  z <  0.7, detected with the Planck satellite. Thanks to the large volume probed by Planck, these systems are extremely ...

Context: CHROMIS, a new imaging spectrometer at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST), can observe the chromosphere in the H and K lines of Ca II at high spatial and spectral resolution. Accurate modeling as well as an ...

We stack the rest-frame ultraviolet spectra of N = 14 highly magnified gravitationally lensed galaxies at redshifts $1.6\lt z\lt 3.6$. The resulting new composite spans $900\lt {\lambda }_{\mathrm{rest}}\lt 3000$ Å, with ...

Lyα is a powerful astrophysical probe. Not only is it ubiquitous at high redshifts, it is also a resonant line, making Lyα photons scatter. This scattering process depends on the physical conditions of the gas through which ...

We use Hα imaging spectroscopy taken via the Swedish 1 m Solar Telescope to investigate the occurrence of fan-shaped jets at the solar limb. We show evidence for near-simultaneous photospheric reconnection at a sunspot ...

Context: We introduce a model for including accelerated particles in pure magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of the solar atmosphere. Aims: We show that the method is viable and produces results that enhance the realism ...

The z abs = 2.504 Lyman Limit absorption system (LLS) towards Q1009+2956 has previously been used to estimate the primordial deuterium abundance. Since the initial measurement by Burles & Tytler [1], this quasar has been ...

The baryonic content and physical properties of the warm and hot (105 lesssim T lesssim 107 K) phases of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) are poorly constrained owing to the lack of observables probing the requisite range ...

Multiple modifications of general relativity (GR) have been proposed in the literature in order to understand the nature of the accelerated expansion of the Universe. However, thus far all the predictions of GR have been ...

The spectrum of the zem = 2.63 quasar Q1009+2956 has been observed extensively on the Keck telescope. The Lyman limit absorption system zabs = 2.504 was previously used to measure D/H by Burles & Tytler using a spectrum ...

The bias factor of damped Ly α (DLAs) systems, derived from the cross-correlation with the Ly α forest in absorption spectra of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III, has been used to infer the characteristic ...

It has been proposed that close interactions with satellite galaxies can significantly perturb the morphology of the main galaxy. However, the dynamics of an already formed bar following the interaction with the external ...

We investigate the effects of a disformal coupling between dark energy and dark matter in the predictions of the spherical collapse and its signatures in galaxy cluster number counts. We find that the disformal coupling ...

Context: One candidate model for heating the solar corona is magnetic reconnection that embodies Ohmic dissipation of current sheets. When numerous small-scale magnetic reconnection events occur, then it is possible to ...

We measure the cosmological bias factor of damped Ly α absorbers (DLAs) from their crosscorrelation with the Ly α forest absorption, as a function of the DLA metal strength, defined from an average of equivalent widths of ...

Low-lying loops have been discovered at the solar limb in transition region temperatures by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). They do not appear to reach coronal temperatures, and it has been suggested that ...

In the 2015 Planck Isotropy and Statistics article, the dipolar asymmetry previously found in the WMAP data (Hansen et al. 2009) was found to extend to the smallest scales. While the statistical significance of this anomaly ...

We present a new perturbative approach to ‘constrained Ly α radiative transfer’ (RT) through the circum- and intergalactic medium (CGM and IGM). We constrain the H I content and kinematics of the CGM and IGM in a physically ...

Context: Umbral flashes (UF) and running penumbral waves (RPWs) in sunspot chromospheres leave a dramatic imprint in the intensity profile of the Ca II 8542 Å line. Recent studies have focussed on also explaining the ...

We investigate the effects of radiative energy transfer on a series of nested-grid, high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of gas and particle dynamics in the vicinity of an Earth-mass planetary embryo. We include heating ...

We present the first paper of the series Origin of Metals around Galaxies, which aims to explore the origin of the metals observed in the circumgalactic and intergalactic media. In this work we extract and build catalogs ...

This paper presents the Planck Multi-frequency Catalogue of Non-thermal (i.e. synchrotron-dominated) Sources (PCNT) observed between 30 and 857 GHz by the ESA Planck mission. This catalogue was constructed by selecting ...

We present a detailed study of an unusually bright, lensed galaxy at z = 5.424 discovered within the CFHTLS imaging survey. With an observed flux ofiAB =23.0, J141446.82+544631.9 is one of the brightest galaxies known at ...

The term “ultraviolet (UV) burst” is introduced to describe small, intense, transient brightenings in ultraviolet images of solar active regions. We inventorize their properties and provide a definition based on image ...

The fraction of ionizing photons that escape high-redshift galaxies sensitively determines whether galaxies reionized the early Universe. However, this escape fraction cannot be measured from high-redshift galaxies because ...

During its four years of photometric observations, the Kepler space telescope detected thousands of exoplanets and exoplanet candidates. One of Kepler’s greatest heritages has been the confirmation and characterization of ...

Context: The measured average velocities in solar and stellar spectral lines formed at transition region temperatures have been difficult to interpret. The dominant redshifts observed in the lower transition region naturally ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory opens a new window onto the Universe. The ability to perform continuum imaging and spectroscopy of astrophysical phenomena at millimetre and submillimetre ...

We study a novel interacting dark energy − dark matter scenario where the anisotropic stress of the large-scale inhomogeneities is considered. The dark energy has a constant equation of state and the interaction model ...

The Vainshtein mechanism, present in many models of gravity, is very effective at screening dark matter haloes such that the fifth force is negligible and general relativity is recovered within their Vainshtein radii. ...

Context: The Kepler Object of Interest Network (KOINet) is a multi-site network of telescopes around the globe organised to follow up transiting planet-candidate Kepler objects of interest (KOIs) with large transit timing ...

A recent study using Hinode (Solar Optical Telescope/Filtergraph [SOT/FG]) data of a sunspot revealed some unusually large penumbral jets that often repeatedly occurred at the same locations in the penumbra, namely, at the ...

We present, for the first time, numerical simulations of young tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs), including a self-consistent treatment of the tidal arm in which they are embedded. Thereby, we do not rely on idealized initial ...

We present the Feedback Acting on Baryons in Large-scale Environments suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies, groups, and clusters. The simulations use the AREPO moving-mesh code with a set of physical ...

We present detailed characteristics of linear polarization features (LPFs) in the quiet-Sun photosphere from high-resolution observations obtained with SUNRISE/IMaX. We explore differently treated data with various noise ...

We use high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky-Way-sized galaxies with varying supernova feedback strengths and merger histories to investigate the formation of their gaseous halos and especially ...

The next generation of solar observatories aim to understand the magnetism of the solar chromosphere. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the polarimetric signatures of chromospheric spectral lines. For this purpose, ...

Recent observations show that the buildup and triggering of minifilament eruptions that drive coronal jets result from magnetic flux cancelation at the neutral line between merging majority- and minority-polarity magnetic ...

We present nested-grid, high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of gas and particle dynamics in the vicinity of Mars- to Earth-mass planetary embryos. The simulations extend from the surface of the embryos to a few vertical ...

We investigate the efficiency of screening mechanisms in the hybrid metric-Palatini gravity. The value of the field is computed around spherical bodies embedded in a background of constant density. We find a thin shell ...

While feedback from massive stars exploding as supernovae (SNe) is thought to be one of the key ingredients regulating galaxy formation, theoretically it is still unclear how the available energy couples to the interstellar ...

The most common statistic used to analyse large-scale structure surveys is the correlation function, or power spectrum. Here, we show how ‘slicing’ the correlation function on local density brings sensitivity to interesting ...

Context: The radiative losses in the solar chromosphere vary from 4 kW m−2 in the quiet Sun, to 20 kW m−2 in active regions. The mechanisms that transport non-thermal energy to and deposit it in the chromosphere are still ...

LiteBIRD is a candidate for JAXA’s strategic large mission to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization over the full sky at large angular scales. It is planned to be launched in the 2020s with an H3 launch ...

The heating of the solar chromosphere remains one of the most important questions in solar physics. Our current understanding is that small-scale internetwork (IN) magnetic fields play an important role as a heating agent. ...

Euclid is a European Space Agency medium-class mission selected for launch in 2020 within the cosmic vision 2015–2025 program. The main goal of Euclid is to understand the origin of the accelerated expansion of the universe. ...

The identification of small-scale 3-D heating events in numerical simulations brought us a step closer to solve one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics. The identification of small scale 3-D heating events in the ...

We present the detection and detailed analysis of a diffuse molecular cloud at zabs = 2.4636 towards the quasar SDSS J 1513+0352 (zem ≃ 2.68) observed with the X-shooter spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope. We measured ...

Using the Planck full-mission data, we present a detection of the temperature (and therefore velocity) dispersion due to the kinetic SunyaevZeldovich (kSZ) effect from clusters of galaxies. To suppress the primary CMB and ...

We use 3D magnetohydrodynamic CO5BOLD model atmospheres to study the interplay between magnetic fields and convection in the atmospheres of red giant stars. We find that vortex-like structures occur prominently in stars ...

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a NASA small explorer mission that provides high-resolution spectra and images of the Sun in the 133 – 141 nm and 278 – 283 nm wavelength bands. The IRIS data are archived ...

We present an overview of high-resolution quiet Sun observations, from disk center to the limb, obtained with the Atacama Large millimeter and sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) at 3 mm. Seven quiet-Sun regions were observed at ...

The Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP) is a suborbital rocket experiment that on 2015 September 3 measured the linear polarization produced by scattering processes in the hydrogen Lyα line of the solar ...

On 2015 September 3, the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter (CLASP) successfully measured the linear polarization produced by scattering processes in the hydrogen Lyα line of the solar disk radiation, revealing ...

The dynamics of globular clusters has been studied in great detail in the context of general relativity as well as with modifications of gravity that strongly depart from the standard paradigm such as Modified Newtonian ...

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 solar surface over the last 20 years. The ...

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Solar Physics. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11207-017-1095-2

We perform an investigation of quadru- and octopolar asymmetry in the CMB data by expanding the on the study of alignment and angular clustering of the dipole components of the CMB power distribution across multipoles l = ...

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Consistency relations of large-scale structures provide exact nonperturbative results for cross-correlations of cosmic fields in the squeezed limit. They only depend on the equivalence principle and the assumption of ...

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vom Marttens, R. F., et al. "Does a generalized Chaplygin gas correctly describe the cosmological dark sector?." Physics of the Dark Universe 15 (2017): 114-124. © 2017. This manuscript version is made available under the ...

We study the mean absorption spectrum of the Damped Lyα (DLA) population at z ~ 2.6 by stacking normalized, rest-frame-shifted spectra of ~27,000 DLA systems from the DR12 of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey ...

The primordial deuterium abundance probes fundamental physics during the big bang nucleosynthesis and can be used to infer cosmological parameters. Observationally, the abundance can be measured using absorbing clouds along ...

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We investigate the compatibility of the Symmetron with dark energy by introducing a non-minimal kinetic term associated with the Symmetron. In this new model, the effect of the friction term appearing in the equation of ...

An interaction between dark matter and dark energy, proportional to the product of their energy densities, results in a scaling behavior of the ratio of these densities with respect to the scale factor of the Robertson-Walker ...

We characterize the K i D1 & D2 lines in order to determine whether they could complement the 850 nm window, containing the Ca ii infrared triplet lines and several Zeeman sensitive photospheric lines, that was studied ...

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are brightenings in the Hα line wings that are believed to be caused by magnetic reconnection in the lower atmosphere. To study the response and evolution of the chromospheric line profiles, we perform ...