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1. Orbital and atmospheric characterization of the planet within the gap of the PDS 70 transition disk

Author: Anne-Lise Maire, Hervé Beust, Th. Henning, Daniel Rouan, Anthony Boccaletti, Alice Zurlo, Jean-Loup Baudino, Janis Hagelberg, Francois Menard, N. Pawellek, Benjamin Charnay, Karan Molaverdikhani, P. Mollière, Faustine Cantalloube, Maud Langlois, Gael Chauvin, L. Weber, Myriam Benisty, Zahed Wahhaj, Eric Stadler, E. Sissa, Anthony Cheetham, Michael Meyer, Matthias Samland, M. Feldt, André Müller, R. van Boekel, Miriam Keppler, Z. C. Long, Dino Mesa, M. Bonnefoy, R. Ligi, Christoph Mordasini, C. Lazzoni, Joany Andreina Manjarres Ramos, R. G. Gratton, Julien Girard, Thierry Fusco, Arthur Vigan, A. Pavlov, Sascha P. Quanz, Anne-Marie Lagrange, Thibaut Moulin, M. Gennaro, Silvano Desidera, Markus Janson, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Universidad de Santiago de Chile [Santiago] (USACH), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Oxford [Oxford], Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genève (ObsGE), Université de Genève (UNIGE), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (OAPD), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), DOTA, ONERA, Université Paris Saclay (COmUE) [Châtillon], ONERA-Université Paris Saclay (COmUE), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics [ETH Zürich] (IPA), Department of Physics [ETH Zürich] (D-PHYS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Stockholm University, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Instituto de Astronomia y ciencias Planetarias de Atacama (INCT), Universidad de Atacama, University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System, Leiden Observatory [Leiden], Universiteit Leiden [Leiden], Universität Bern [Bern], Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences [Budapest], Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), European Southern Observatory [Santiago] (ESO), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Universidad Diego Portales [Santiago] (UDP), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DOTA, ONERA, Université Paris Saclay [Châtillon], ONERA-Université Paris-Saclay, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)-Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Pawellek, Nicole [0000-0002-9385-9820], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, University of Oxford, Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Universiteit Leiden, Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), ANR-16-CE31-0013,PLANET-FORMING-DISKS,De meilleurs modèles pour de meilleures données(2016), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France, Laboratoire Franco-Chilien d'Astronomie, UMI 3386, Pôle Planétologie du LESIA, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva, Chemin des Mailettes 51, 1290, Versoix, Switzerland, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, ONERA, Institute for Astronomy, Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (INAF-OAB), Leiden Observatory, Physikalisches Institut, Universitat Bern, Gesellschaftsstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland, European Southern Observatory, and Nucleo de Astronomia, Facultad de Ingenieria y Ciencias, Universidad Diego Portales, Av. Ejercito 441, Santiago, Chile
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Planet, 0103 physical sciences, planets and satellites: individual: PDS 70, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Circular orbit, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, planets and satellites: atmospheres, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Atmospheric models, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrometry, Orbit, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Orbital motion, Spectral energy distribution, astrometry, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, methods: observational, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], techniques: spectroscopic, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: Aims: We aim to characterize the orbital and atmospheric properties of PDS 70 b, which was first identified on May 2015 in the course of the SHINE survey with SPHERE, the extreme adaptive-optics instrument at the VLT. Methods: We obtained new deep SPHERE/IRDIS imaging and SPHERE/IFS spectroscopic observations of PDS 70 b. The astrometric baseline now covers 6 years which allows us to perform an orbital analysis. For the first time, we present spectrophotometry of the young planet which covers almost the entire near-infrared range (0.96 to 3.8 micrometer). We use different atmospheric models covering a large parameter space in temperature, log(g), chemical composition, and cloud properties to characterize the properties of the atmosphere of PDS 70 b. Results: PDS 70 b is most likely orbiting the star on a circular and disk coplanar orbit at ~22 au inside the gap of the disk. We find a range of models that can describe the spectrophotometric data reasonably well in the temperature range between 1000-1600 K and log(g) no larger than 3.5 dex. The planet radius covers a relatively large range between 1.4 and 3.7 R_jupiter with the larger radii being higher than expected from planet evolution models for the age of the planet of 5.4 Myr. Conclusions: This study provides a comprehensive dataset on the orbital motion of PDS 70 b, indicating a circular orbit and a motion coplanar with the disk. The first detailed spectral energy distribution of PDS 70 b indicates a temperature typical for young giant planets. The detailed atmospheric analysis indicates that a circumplanetary disk may contribute to the total planet flux., Comment: accepted for publication in A&A (10 pages, 8 figures)
Published: 2018
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2. Astrochemistry as a Tool To Follow Protostellar Evolution: The Class I Stage

Author: C. Codella, Cécile Favre, J. Enrique-Romero, Bertrand Lefloch, Cecilia Ceccarelli, E. Bianchi, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Entrepôts, Représentation et Ingénierie des Connaissances (ERIC), Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon
Subjects: Atmospheric Science, Astrochemistry, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Computer science, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Geochemistry and Petrology, Stage (stratigraphy), low-mass protostars, 0103 physical sciences, protostellar evolution, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, deuteration, Class (computer programming), Star formation, Astronomy, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Class I protostars, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, inter- stellar complex organic molecules, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA]
Abstract: The latest developments in astrochemistry have shown how some molecular species can be used as a tool to study the early stages of the solar-type star formation process. Among them, the more relevant species are the interstellar complex organic molecules (iCOMs) and the deuterated molecules. Their analysis give us information on the present and past history of protostellar objects. Among the protostellar evolutionary stages, Class I protostars represent a perfect laboratory in which to study the initial conditions for the planet formation process. Indeed, from a physical point of view, the Class I stage is the bridge between the Class 0 phase, dominated by the accretion process, and the protoplanetary disk phase, when planets form. Despite their importance, few observations of Class I protostars exist and very little is known about their chemical content. In this paper we review the (few) existing observations of iCOMs and deuterated species in Class I protostars. In addition, we present new observations of deuterated cyanoacetylene and thioformaldehyde towards the Class I protostar SVS13-A. These new observations allow us to better understand the physical and chemical structure of SVS13-A and compare the cyanoacetylene and thioformaldehyde deuteration with other sources in different evolutionary phases., 51 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2019

3. H$_2$ mass-velocity relationship from 3D numerical simulations of jet-driven molecular outflows

Author: Adriano H. Cerqueira, C. Codella, Bertrand Lefloch, Alejandro Esquivel, P. R. Rivera-Ortiz, Cecilia Ceccarelli, Linda Podio, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), and INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA)
Subjects: Physics, Work (thermodynamics), Jet (fluid), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Molecular cloud, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 01 natural sciences, Power law, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, Outflow, [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], Spatial dependence, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Mixing (physics), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Abstract: Previous numerical studies have shown that in protostellar outflows, the mass-velocity distribution $m(v)$ can be well described by a broken power law $\propto v^{- \gamma}$. On the other hand, recent observations of a sample of outflows show that the CO intensity-velocity distribution, closely related to $m(v)$, follows an exponential law $\propto \exp(-v/v_0)$. In the present work, we revisit the physical origin of the mass-velocity relationship $m(v)$ in jet-driven protostellar outflows. We investigate the respective contributions of the different regions of the outflow, from the swept-up ambient gas to the jet. We performed 3D numerical simulations of a protostellar jet propagating into a molecular cloud using the hydrodynamical code Yguazu-a. The code takes into account atomic and ionic species and was modified to include the H$_2$ gas. We find that by excluding the jet contribution, $m(v)$ is satisfyingly fitted with a single exponential law, with $v_0$ well in the range of observational values. The jet contribution results in additional components in the mass-velocity relationship. This empirical mass-velocity relationship is found to be valid locally in the outflow. The exponent $v_0$ is almost constant in time and for a given level of mixing between the ambient medium and the jet material. In general, $v_0$ displays only a weak spatial dependence. A simple modeling of the L1157 outflow successfully reproduces the various components of the observed CO intensity-velocity relationship. Our simulations indicate that these components trace the outflow cavity of swept-up gas and the material entrained along the jet, respectively. The CO intensity-velocity exponential law is naturally explained by the jet-driven outflow model. The entrained material plays an important role in shaping the mass-velocity profile., Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. The abstract has been abridged due to the limitations on arXiv. The title has been corrected
Published: 2020
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4. Accretion in strong field gravity with eXTP

Author: De Rosa, Alessandra, Uttley, Phil, Gou, Lijun, Liu, Yuan, Bambi, Cosimo, Barret, Didier, Belloni, Tomaso, Berti, Emanuele, Bianchi, Stefano, Caiazzo, Ilaria, Casella, Piergiorgio, Feroci, Marco, Ferrari, Valeria, Gualtieri, Leonardo, Heyl, Jeremy, Ingram, Adam, Karas, Vladimir, Lu, Fangjun, Luo, Bin, Matt, Giorgio, Motta, Sara, Neilsen, Joseph, Pani, Paolo, Santangelo, Andrea, Shu, Xinwen, Wang, Junfeng, Wang, Jian-Min, Xue, Yongquan, Xu, Yupeng, Yuan, Weimin, Yuan, Yefei, Zhang, Shuang-Nan, Zhang, Shu, Agudo, Ivan, Amati, Lorenzo, Andersson, Nils, Baglio, Cristina, Bakala, Pavel, Baykal, Altan, Bhattacharyya, Sudip, Bombaci, Ignazio, Bucciantini, Niccolò, Capitanio, Fiamma, Ciolfi, Riccardo, Cui, Wei K., D'Ammando, Filippo, Dauser, Thomas, Del Santo, Melania, De Marco, Barbara, Di Salvo, Tiziana, Done, Chris, Dovčiak, Michal, Fabian, Andrew C., Falanga, Maurizio, Gambino, Angelo Francesco, Gendre, Bruce, Grinberg, Victoria, Heger, Alexander, Homan, Jeroen, Iaria, Rosario, Jiang, Jiachen, Jin, Chichuan, Koerding, Elmar, Linares, Manu, Liu, Zhu, Maccarone, Thomas J., Malzac, Julien, Manousakis, Antonios, Marin, Frédéric, Marinucci, Andrea, Mehdipour, Missagh, Méndez, Mariano, Migliari, Simone, Miller, Cole, Miniutti, Giovanni, Nardini, Emanuele, O'Brien, Paul T., Osborne, Julian P., Petrucci, Pierre Olivier, Possenti, Andrea, Riggio, Alessandro, Rodriguez, Jerome, Sanna, Andrea, Shao, Lijing, Sobolewska, Malgosia, Sramkova, Eva, Stevens, Abigail L., Stiele, Holger, Stratta, Giulia, Stuchlik, Zdenek, Svoboda, Jiri, Tamburini, Fabrizio, Tauris, Thomas M., Tombesi, Francesco, Török, Gabriel, Urbanec, Martin, Vincent, Frederic, Wu, Qingwen, Yuan, Feng, in't Zand, Jean J. M., Zdziarski, Andrzej A., Zhou, Xinlin, Rosa, Alessandra De, Cui, Wei, D’Ammando, Filippo, Fabian, Andrew, Maccarone, Thomas, O’Brien, Paul, Osborne, Julian, Stevens, Abigail, Tauris, Thomas, in’ t Zand, Jean, Zdziarski, Andrzej, School of Physics and Astronomy [Southampton], University of Southampton, Sécurité des Données et des Systèmes (SDS), Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Centre Val de Loire (INSA CVL), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Centre Val de Loire (INSA CVL), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Fudan University [Shanghai], Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Department of Physics and Astronomy [U Mississippi], The University of Mississippi [Oxford], IASF, Area di Ricerca di Tor Vergata, Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (ASCR), Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Dipartimento de Fisica Roma Tre (DF-Roma3), Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Sichuan University, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Medical School (University of Nanjing), Nanjing University (NJU), Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Instituto di Astrofisica (IASF), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Radioastronomia (IRA), Department of Physics, Durham University, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071 China, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Wuhan Branch], Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CAMK), Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Biogéosciences [UMR 6282] [Dijon] (BGS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), European Space Agency (ESA), Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (OAC), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Ethoikos, Radicondoli, ASI Science Data Center (ASDC), Italian Space Agency, Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174) (FEMTO-ST), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM)-Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University [Hong Kong] (POLYU), Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIFR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg (ObAS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - 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CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen = Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Biogéosciences [UMR 6282] (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), De Rosa, Alessandra, Uttley, Phil, Gou, LiJun, Liu, Yuan, Bambi, Cosimo, Barret, Didier, Belloni, Tomaso, Berti, Emanuele, Bianchi, Stefano, Caiazzo, Ilaria, Casella, Piergiorgio, Feroci, Marco, Ferrari, Valeria, Gualtieri, Leonardo, Heyl, Jeremy, Ingram, Adam, Karas, Vladimir, Lu, FangJun, Luo, Bin, Matt, Giorgio, Motta, Sara, Neilsen, Joseph, Pani, Paolo, Santangelo, Andrea, Shu, XinWen, Wang, JunFeng, Wang, Jian-Min, Xue, YongQuan, Xu, YuPeng, Yuan, WeiMin, Yuan, YeFei, Zhang, Shuang-Nan, Zhang, Shu, Agudo, Ivan, Amati, Lorenzo, Andersson, Nil, Baglio, Cristina, Bakala, Pavel, Baykal, Altan, Bhattacharyya, Sudip, Bombaci, Ignazio, Bucciantini, Niccoló, Capitanio, Fiamma, Ciolfi, Riccardo, Cui, Wei K., D’Ammando, Filippo, Dauser, Thoma, Del Santo, Melania, De Marco, Barbara, Di Salvo, Tiziana, Done, Chri, Dovčiak, Michal, Fabian, Andrew C., Falanga, Maurizio, Gambino, Angelo Francesco, Gendre, Bruce, Grinberg, Victoria, Heger, Alexander, Homan, Jeroen, Iaria, Rosario, Jiang, JiaChen, Jin, ChiChuan, Koerding, Elmar, Linares, Manu, Liu, Zhu, Maccarone, Thomas J., Malzac, Julien, Manousakis, Antonio, Marin, Frédéric, Marinucci, Andrea, Mehdipour, Missagh, Méndez, Mariano, Migliari, Simone, Miller, Cole, Miniutti, Giovanni, Nardini, Emanuele, O’Brien, Paul T., Osborne, Julian P., Petrucci, Pierre Olivier, Possenti, Andrea, Riggio, Alessandro, Rodriguez, Jerome, Sanna, Andrea, Shao, LiJing, Sobolewska, Malgosia, Sramkova, Eva, Stevens, Abigail L., Stiele, Holger, Stratta, Giulia, Stuchlik, Zdenek, Svoboda, Jiri, Tamburini, Fabrizio, Tauris, Thomas M., Tombesi, Francesco, Torok, Gabriel, Urbanec, Martin, Vincent, Frederic, Wu, QingWen, Yuan, Feng, in’ t Zand, Jean J. M., Zdziarski, Andrzej A., Zhou, XinLin, ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astronomy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), National Science Centre, Poland (NCN), High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI), Rosa, Alessandra De, Gou, Lijun, Lu, Fangjun, Shu, Xinwen, Wang, Junfeng, Xue, Yongquan, Xu, Yupeng, Yuan, Weimin, Yuan, Yefei, Jiang, Jiachen, Jin, Chichuan, Shao, Lijing, Wu, Qingwen, and Zhou, Xinlin
Subjects: ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, Accretion, accretion, black holes physics, X-ray, Physics and Astronomy (all), black holes physic, Astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Black holes physics, Polarimetry, FOS: Physical sciences, BLACK-HOLE SPIN, General Physics and Astronomy, Strong field, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSION, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), XMM-NEWTON, Physics, LENS-THIRRING PRECESSION, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], QUASI-PERIODIC OSCILLATIONS, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], IRON K, Accretion (astrophysics), X ray, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], ULTRA-FAST OUTFLOWS, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, SPECTRAL FEATURES, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], X-RAY BINARIES
Abstract: In this paper we describe the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for studies related to accretion flows in the strong field gravity regime around both stellar-mass and supermassive black-holes. eXTP has the unique capability of using advanced 'spectral-timing-polarimetry' techniques to analyze the rapid variations with three orthogonal diagnostics of the flow and its geometry, yielding unprecedented insight into the inner accreting regions, the effects of strong field gravity on the material within them and the powerful outflows which are driven by the accretion process., Accepted for publication on Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. (2019)
Published: 2019
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5. A Cloud-Based architecture for the Cherenkov Telescope Array observation simulations

Author: Landoni, Marco, Romano, P., Vercellone, S., Knodlseder, J., Bianco, A., Tavecchio, F., Corina, A., INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Palermo (IASF-Pa), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand (ICCF), SIGMA Clermont (SIGMA Clermont)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: CTA, Zenodo collection agn_13, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], 0103 physical sciences, Active Galactic Nuclei, HTC, AGN, Cloud Computing, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM]
Abstract: International audience; Simulating and analyzing detailed observations of astrophysical sources for very high energy (VHE) experiments, like the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), can be a demanding task especially in terms of CPU consumption and required storage. We propose an innovative cloud computing architecture based on Amazon Web Services (AWS) aiming to decrease the amount of time required to simulate and analyze a given field by distributing the workload.
Published: 2018
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6. Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies and the Cherenkov Telescope Array: simulations and perspectives

Author: Romano, Patrizia, Foschini, L., Tavecchio, F., Vercellone, S., Landoni, M., Knodlseder, J., For The CTA Consortium, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Palermo (IASF-Pa), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), and Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Zenodo collection agn_13, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies:jets, Active Galactic Nuclei, AGN, galaxies: Seyfert, gammarays: galaxies
Abstract: International audience; In the last decade, narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies have been discovered to be gamma-ray emitting sources, with extreme properties of flux and spectral variability in the gamma-ray energy band. This points toward a jetted, blazar-like nature. These same properties, therefore, can be investigated with the the next-generation ground- based gamma-ray observatory, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), which will potentially be about two orders of magnitude more sensitive with respect to Fermi-LAT at the overlapping energy of 25 GeV for transients/flaring events (time-scales of 1 day or shorter). We present the results of our simulations of all currently known gamma-ray emitting NLS1s, performed using the CTA public ctools software and the public instrument response files. We investigate their possible detection and spectral properties, taking into account both the effect of the extra-galactic background light in the propagation of gamma-rays and intrinsic absorption components.
Published: 2018
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7. First Detection of the Simplest Organic Acid in a Protoplanetary Disk

Author: Davide Fedele, Franck Hersant, Edwige Chapillon, Leonardo Testi, Cécile Favre, Chunhua Qi, Vianney Taquet, Geoffrey A. Blake, L. Ilsedore Cleeves, Dmitry Semenov, Edwin A. Bergin, Cecilia Ceccarelli, Kamber R. Schwarz, Claudio Codella, Bertrand Lefloch, Francesco Fontani, Sergey Parfenov, Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Harvard University [Cambridge]-Smithsonian Institution, AMOR 2018, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), ECLIPSE 2018, Universiteit Leiden [Leiden], A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), and Smithsonian Institution-Harvard University [Cambridge]
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Formic acid, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Protoplanetary disk, 01 natural sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, Planet, 0103 physical sciences, TW Hydrae, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Star formation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Planetary system, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 3. Good health, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, chemistry, Space and Planetary Science, Asteroid, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
Abstract: The formation of asteroids, comets and planets occurs in the interior of protoplanetary disks during the early phase of star formation. Consequently, the chemical composition of the disk might shape the properties of the emerging planetary system. In this context, it is crucial to understand whether and what organic molecules are synthesized in the disk. In this Letter, we report the first detection of formic acid (HCOOH) towards the TW Hydrae protoplanetary disk. The observations of the trans-HCOOH 6$_{(1,6)-5(1,5)}$ transition were carried out at 129~GHz with ALMA. We measured a disk-averaged gas-phase t-HCOOH column density of $\sim$ (2-4)$\times$10$^{12}$~cm$^{-2}$, namely as large as that of methanol. HCOOH is the first organic molecules containing two oxygen atoms detected in a protoplanetary disk, a proof that organic chemistry is very active even though difficult to observe in these objects. Specifically, this simplest acid stands as the basis for synthesis of more complex carboxylic acids used by life on Earth., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, published online in ApJL on 16th July 2018
Published: 2018
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8. Non-thermal pressure support in X-COP galaxy clusters

Author: Mariachiara Rossetti, S. De Grandi, Simona Ghizzardi, Silvano Molendi, Stefano Ettori, Etienne Pointecouteau, Dominique Eckert, V. Ghirardini, Franco Vazza, Veronica Biffi, Massimo Gaspari, Hervé Bourdin, Mauro Roncarelli, Fabio Gastaldello, Elena Rasia, C. Tchernin, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie ( IRAP ), Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées ( OMP ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), INAF-IASF Milano, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Centre d'étude spatiale des rayonnements (CESR), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Eckert, D., Ghirardini, V., Ettori, S., Rasia, E., Biffi, V., Pointecouteau, E., Rossetti, M., Molendi, S., Vazza, F., Gastaldello, F., Gaspari, M., De Grandi, S., Ghizzardi, S., Bourdin, H., Tchernin, C., and Roncarelli, M.
Subjects: galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium, Structure formation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Virial theorem, Cosmology, law.invention, symbols.namesake, law, 0103 physical sciences, Planck, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Settore FIS/05, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Computer Science::Information Retrieval, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, X-rays: galaxies: clusters, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: clusters: general, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), symbols, Halo, Hydrostatic equilibrium, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], X-rays: galaxies: clusters - Galaxies: clusters: general - Galaxies: groups: general - Galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium - cosmology: large-scale structure, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Galaxy clusters are the endpoints of structure formation and are continuously growing through the merging and accretion of smaller structures. Numerical simulations predict that a fraction of their energy content is not yet thermalized, mainly in the form of kinetic motions (turbulence, bulk motions). Measuring the level of non-thermal pressure support is necessary to understand the processes leading to the virialization of the gas within the potential well of the main halo and to calibrate the biases in hydrostatic mass estimates. We present high-quality measurements of hydrostatic masses and intracluster gas fraction out to the virial radius for a sample of 12 nearby clusters with available XMM-Newton and Planck data. We compare our hydrostatic gas fractions with the expected universal gas fraction to constrain the level of non-thermal pressure support. We find that hydrostatic masses require little correction and infer a median non-thermal pressure fraction of $\sim6\%$ and $\sim10\%$ at $R_{500}$ and $R_{200}$, respectively. Our values are lower than the expectations of hydrodynamical simulations, possibly implying a faster thermalization of the gas. If instead we use the mass calibration adopted by the Planck team, we find that the gas fraction of massive local systems implies a mass bias $1-b=0.85\pm0.05$ for SZ-derived masses, with some evidence for a mass-dependent bias. Conversely, the high bias required to match Planck CMB and cluster count cosmology is excluded by the data at high significance, unless the most massive halos are missing a substantial fraction of their baryons., Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, A&A in press. This is one of three companion papers (including Ghirardini et al. and Ettori et al.) on the X-COP sample. X-COP data products are available for download on https://www.astro.unige.ch/xcop
Published: 2018
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9. A one meter class eye for the PLAnetary Transit and Oscillation spacecraft

Author: Patrick Levacher, Jacopo Farinato, Valentina Viotto, C. Catala, Francesco Borsa, Stefano Basso, Giampaolo Piotto, Ana M. Heras, Mauro Ghigo, P. Bodin, Gisbert Peter, Roberto Ragazzoni, Daniele Piazza, Marco Dima, Maria Bergomi, Matteo Munari, Demetrio Magrin, Daniele Spiga, Isabella Pagano, Valerio Nascimbeni, Heike Rauer, Philippe Gondoin, Luca Marafatto, DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), ITA, FRA, DEU, and CHE
Subjects: Physics, 020301 aerospace & aeronautics, Spacecraft, Payload, Aperture, business.industry, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy, Field of view, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 02 engineering and technology, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Exoplanet, Interstellar travel, Stars, 0203 mechanical engineering, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Transit (astronomy), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: International audience; PLATO stands for PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations and it is the forthcoming third Medium sized mission of ESA, planned to be launched in 2024. Its optical payload is an ensemble of 34 small telescopes that mimic a single one meter class aperture with a huge Field of View of more than 50 degrees in size. Aiming to find exoplanets around bright nearby stars it is designed to discover a significant number of relatively nearby Earth-like worlds. A description of the optomechanical adopted solution and a speculative scenario to further explore such alien worlds is briefly given. (C) 2015 IAA. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Published: 2015

10. Mass and metallicity scaling relations of high-redshift star-forming galaxies selected by GRBs

Author: Martin Zwaan, A. de Ugarte Postigo, Andrew J. Levan, Pall Jakobsson, A. Gomboc, Wolfram Freudling, Nial R. Tanvir, Kasper E. Heintz, S. D. Vergani, M. Arabsalmani, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Valerio D'Elia, Martin Sparre, Zach Cano, Palle Møller, E. Le Floc'h, Steve Schulze, P. Goldoni, Lise Christensen, Daniel A. Perley, D. Malesani, Stefano Covino, Sorbonne Université, European Research Council, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission, Fundación BBVA, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de pharmacologie et de biologie structurale (IPBS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Dark Cosmology Centre (DARK), Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics [Ljubljana] (FMF), University of Ljubljana, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, University of Nova Gorica, ANR-16-CE31-0003,BEaPro,Using the most powerful explosion as probes of the high-redshift Universe(2016), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: Stellar mass, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Metallicity, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, star formation [Galaxies], high-redshift [Galaxies], Error bar, 0103 physical sciences, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Scaling, QC, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], education.field_of_study, ISM- galaxies: kinematics and dynamics [Galaxies], Galaxies: star formation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: high-redshift, Astronomy, Galaxies: evolution, Gamma-ray burst: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, evolution [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, general [Gamma-ray burst], Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Galaxies: ISM- galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, Gamma-ray burst, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], galaxies: ISM
Abstract: We present a comprehensive study of the relations between gas kinematics, metallicity, and stellar mass in a sample of 82 GRB-selected galaxies using absorption and emission methods. We find the velocity widths of both emission and absorption profiles to be a proxy of stellar mass. We also investigate the velocity-metallicity correlation and its evolution with redshift and find the correlation derived from emission lines to have a significantly smaller scatter compared to that found using absorption lines. Using 33 GRB hosts with measured stellar mass and metallicitiy, we study the mass-metallicity relation for GRB host galaxies in a stellar mass range of $10^{8.2} M_{\odot}$ to $10^{11.1} M_{\odot}$ and a redshift range of $ z\sim 0.3-3.4$. The GRB-selected galaxies appear to track the mass-metallicity relation of star forming galaxies but with an offset of 0.15 towards lower metallicities. This offset is comparable with the average error-bar on the metallicity measurements of the GRB sample and also the scatter on the MZ relation of the general population. It is hard to decide whether this relatively small offset is due to systematic effects or the intrinsic nature of GRB hosts. We also investigate the possibility of using absorption-line metallicity measurements of GRB hosts to study the mass-metallicity relation at high redshifts. Our analysis shows that the metallicity measurements from absorption methods can significantly differ from emission metallicities and assuming identical measurements from the two methods may result in erroneous conclusions., Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2017
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11. Engulfing a radio pulsar: the case of PSR J1023+0038

Author: P. Goldoni, T. Munoz-Darias, H. Otí-Floranes, F. G. Ramón-Fox, N. Masetti, Rob Fender, P. D'Avanzo, Sergio Campana, Eliana Palazzi, Stefano Covino, E. Jimenez Bailon, F. Coti Zelati, Maria Cristina Baglio, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), School of Physics and Astronomy [Southampton], University of Southampton, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Radio spectrum, Binary pulsar, law.invention, Telescope, Pulsar, law, Millisecond pulsar, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), [PHYS]Physics [physics], Physics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Neutron star, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, X-ray pulsar
Abstract: The binary millisecond radio pulsar PSR J1023+0038 has been recently the subject of multiwavelength monitoring campaigns which revealed that an accretion disc has formed around the neutron star (since 2013 June). We present here the results of X-ray and UV observations carried out by the Swift satellite between 2013 October and 2014 May, and of optical and NIR observations performed with the REM telescope, the Liverpool Telescope, the 2.1-m telescope at the San Pedro M\'artir Observatory and the 1.52-m telescope at the Loiano observing station. The X-ray spectrum is well described by an absorbed power law, which is softer than the previous quiescent epoch (up to 2013 June). The strong correlation between the X-ray and the UV emissions indicates that the same mechanism should be responsible for part of the emission in these bands. Optical and infrared photometric observations show that the companion star is strongly irradiated. Double-peaked emission lines in the optical spectra provide compelling evidence for the presence of an outer accretion disc too. The spectral energy distribution from IR to X-rays is well modelled if the contributions from the companion, the disc and the intra-binary shock emission are all considered. Our extensive data set can be interpreted in terms of an engulfed radio pulsar: the radio pulsar is still active, but undetectable in the radio band due to a large amount of ionized material surrounding the compact object. X-rays and gamma-rays are produced in an intra-binary shock front between the relativistic pulsar wind and matter from the companion and an outer accretion disc. The intense spin-down power irradiates the disc and the companion star, accounting for the UV and optical emissions., Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables; accepted for publication on MNRAS
Published: 2014

12. Universal thermodynamic properties of the intracluster medium over two decades in radius in the X-COP sample

Author: Mauro Roncarelli, Mariachiara Rossetti, Stefano Ettori, Etienne Pointecouteau, Dominique Eckert, Silvano Molendi, Massimo Gaspari, S. De Grandi, Pasquale Mazzotta, V. Ghirardini, Franco Vazza, Elena Rasia, Hervé Bourdin, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF-IASF Milano, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Centre d'étude spatiale des rayonnements (CESR), Department of Astronomy, University of Rome, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, V. Ghirardini, D. Eckert, S. Ettori, E. Pointecouteau, S. Molendi, M. Gaspari, M. Rossetti, S. De Grandi, M. Roncarelli, H. Bourdin, P. Mazzotta, E. Rasia, and F. Vazza
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium, Dark matter, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, dark matter, Virial theorem, symbols.namesake, Intracluster medium, 0103 physical sciences, Gravitational collapse, Planck, Adiabatic process, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Physics, education.field_of_study, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Settore FIS/05, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Thermodynamical quantities, Astronomy and Astrophysics, X-rays: galaxies: clusters, galaxies: clusters: general, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, astro-ph.CO, symbols, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The hot plasma in galaxy clusters is expected to be heated to high temperatures through shocks and adiabatic compression. The thermodynamical properties of the gas encode information on the processes leading to the thermalization of the gas in the cluster's potential well as well as non-gravitational processes such as gas cooling, AGN feedback and kinetic energy. In this work we present the radial profiles of the thermodynamic properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) out to the virial radius for a sample of 12 galaxy clusters selected from the Planck all-sky survey. We determine the universal profiles of gas density, temperature, pressure, and entropy over more than two decades in radius. We exploit jointly X-ray information from XMM and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich constraints from Planck to recover thermodynamic properties out to 2 R500. We provide average functional forms for the radial dependence of the main quantities and quantify the slope and intrinsic scatter of the population as a function of radius. We find that gas density and pressure profiles steepen steadily with radius, in excellent agreement with previous observational results. Entropy profiles beyond R500 closely follow the predictions for the gravitational collapse of structures. The scatter in all thermodynamical quantities reaches a minimum in the range [0.2-0.8] R500 and increases outwards. Somewhat surprisingly, we find that pressure is substantially more scattered than temperature and density. Our results indicate that once accreting substructures are properly excised, the properties of the ICM beyond the cooling region R > 0.3 R500) follow remarkably well the predictions of simple gravitational collapse and require little non-gravitational corrections., 30 pages, 17 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication by A&A. This is one of the three companion papers ( including Ettori et al. 2018 and Eckert et al. 2018 ) on the X-COP sample. X-COP data products are available for download on https://www.astro.unige.ch/xcop
Published: 2019

13. Radio afterglows of a complete sample of bright Swift GRBs: predictions from present days to the SKA era

Author: V. D'Elia, D. Burlon, P. D'Avanzo, Stefano Covino, G. Tagliaferri, Sergio Campana, Isabella Prandoni, A. Melandri, Anna Wolter, Ruben Salvaterra, S. D. Vergani, Lorenzo Sironi, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Lara Nava, M. G. Bernardini, Gabriele Ghisellini, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF- Milano, Racah Institute of Physics (Racah Institute of Physics), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ)-Racah Institute of Physics, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris
Subjects: Swift, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, radio continuum: general, FOS: Physical sciences, radiation mechanisms: non thermal, Sample (statistics), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, computer.programming_language, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, education.field_of_study, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Afterglow, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science, Frequency domain, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, computer
Abstract: Radio observations of Gamma Ray Bursts afterglows are fundamental in providing insights into their physics and environment, and in constraining the true energetics of these sources. Nonetheless, radio observations of GRB afterglows are presently sparse in the time/frequency domain. Starting from a complete sample of 58 bright Swift long bursts (BAT6), we constructed a homogeneous sub-sample of 38 radio detections/upper limits which preserves all the properties of the parent sample. One half of the bursts have detections between 1 and 5 days after the explosion with typical fluxes F>100 muJy at 8.4 GHz. Through a Population SYnthesis Code coupled with the standard afterglow Hydrodynamical Emission model (PSYCHE) we reproduce the radio flux distribution of the radio sub-sample. Based on these results we study the detectability in the time/frequency domain of the entire long GRB population by present and future radio facilities. We find that the GRBs that typically trigger Swift can be detected at 8.4 GHz by JVLA within few days with modest exposures even at high redshifts. The final SKA can potentially observe the whole GRB population provided that there will be a dedicated GRB gamma-ray detector more sensitive than Swift. For a sizable fraction (50%) of these bursts, SKA will allow us to perform radio-calorimetry, after the trans-relativistic transition (occurring ~100 d), providing an estimate of the true (collimation corrected) energetics of GRBs., 9 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. To appear in MNRAS
Published: 2013

14. Prototyping the graphical user interface for the operator of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Author: Joseph Schwarz, Iftach Sadeh, Igor Oya, Emmanuel Pietriga, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron [Zeuthen] (DESY), Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Université Paris-Saclay, Inria Chile, Universidad Diego Portales [Santiago] (UDP)-Universidad de la frontera [Chile]-Universidad de Concepción [Chile]-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV)-Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez [Santiago]-Universidad de Valparaiso [Chile]-Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria [Valparaiso] (UTFSM), Interacting with Large Data (ILDA), Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-CentraleSupélec-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-CentraleSupélec-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Inria Saclay - Ile de France, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), Universidad de Valparaiso [Chile]-Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria [Valparaiso] (UTFSM)-Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez [Santiago]-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)-Universidad de Concepción [Chile]-Universidad de la frontera [Chile]-Universidad Diego Portales [Santiago] (UDP), CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Inria Saclay - Ile de France, and Universidad Diego Portales [Santiago] (UDP)-Universidad de la frontera [Chile]-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV)-Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez [Santiago]-Universidad de Valparaiso [Chile]-Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria [Valparaiso] (UTFSM)-Universidad de Concepción - University of Concepcion [Chile]
Subjects: Web server, Computer science, FOS: Physical sciences, IACT, JavaScript library, computer.software_genre, 01 natural sciences, 010309 optics, Observatory, Computer graphics (images), 0103 physical sciences, [INFO.INFO-HC]Computer Science [cs]/Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC], Graphics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, Graphical user interface, computer.programming_language, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Web technology, business.industry, [INFO.INFO-WB]Computer Science [cs]/Web, Python (programming language), Cherenkov Telescope Array, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Visualization, Graphical User Interface, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, business, computer, The Cherenkov Telescope Array
Abstract: International audience; The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a planned gamma-ray observatory. CTA willincorporate about 100 imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) at a Southernsite, and about 20 in the North. Previous IACT experiments have used up to five telescopes.Subsequently, the design of a graphical user interface (GUI) for the operator of CTAinvolves new challenges. We present a GUI prototype, the concept for which is beingdeveloped in collaboration with experts from the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).The prototype is based on Web technology; it incorporates a Python web server,Web Sockets and graphics generated with the d3.js Javascript library.
Published: 2016

15. Mass, Radius, and Composition of the Transiting Planet 55 Cnc e: Using Interferometry and Correlations—A Quick Update

Author: F. Borsa, Yveline Lebreton, Roxanne Ligi, Aurélien Crida, Caroline Dorn, Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Institute of Geophysics, Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL), Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and University of Zurich
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), [PHYS]Physics [physics], Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, 530 Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, General Medicine, Astrophysics, Radius, Composition (combinatorics), 01 natural sciences, Exoplanet, Interferometry, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 13. Climate action, Planet, 10231 Institute for Computational Science, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: In a recent paper (Crida et al. 2018, accepted on April 19), we presented a method to derive the mass and radius of a transiting exoplanet and their intrinsic correlation, that we applied to 55 Cnc e. We wrote: "More precise observations of the transit would be very useful in this particular case and would allow to increase significantly the gain on the planetary density precision." Three months later, Bourrier et al. (2018) published new observations of the system. Additionally, Gaia's DR2 was released on April 25, 2018. The purpose of this research note is solely to implement these precise new data in our pipeline to provide an up-to-date result of our model. We find $R_p = 1.947\pm 0.038\,R_\oplus$ and $M_p = 8.59\pm 0.43\,M_\oplus$. We also double the precision on the planetary density ($\rho_p = 1.164\pm 0.062\,\rho_\oplus$), which allows us to refine the estimates for all interior parameters of interest. In particular, we now find that the radius of the gaseous envelope is $0.03\pm 0.02\,R_p$., Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure, published in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
Published: 2018

16. THE 10k zCOSMOS: MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF GALAXIES IN THE GROUP ENVIRONMENT SINCEz∼1

Author: E. Ricciardelli, A. Cappi, Lucia Pozzetti, Micol Bolzonella, Daniela Vergani, Thierry Contini, C. M. Carollo, Alvio Renzini, Laurence Tresse, Y. Peng, A. Iovino, Luigi Guzzo, Angela Bongiorno, John D. Silverman, V. Mainieri, E. Zucca, J. F. Le Borgne, Alexis Finoguenov, Graziano Coppa, Claudia Scarlata, V. Le Brun, Paolo Cassata, P. Oesch, Anton M. Koekemoer, Mark Sargent, L. de Ravel, F. Lamareille, Lidia Tasca, S. Bardelli, P. Memeo, S. J. Lilly, P. Kampczyk, Bianca Garilli, N. Z. Scoville, C. Knobel, Jean-Paul Kneib, Ummi Abbas, O. Le Fèvre, D. Maccagni, R. Pello, Karina Caputi, D. Bottini, G. Zamorani, H. J. McCracken, M. Scodeggio, P. Franzetti, Olga Cucciati, Alessandro Cimatti, Masayuki Tanaka, B. Meneux, E. Perez Montero, S. de la Torre, M. Mignoli, Christian Maier, Christian Marinoni, M. Fumana, Cristiano Porciani, Alexie Leauthaud, Roberto Scaramella, K. Kovac, AUTRES, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), University of Chicago, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), INAF- Milano, Institute of Astronomy [ETH Zürich], Department of Physics [ETH Zürich] (D-PHYS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Glycosciences Laboratory, Imperial College School of Medicine, Tokai University, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), K. Kovac, S. J. Lilly, C. Knobel, M.Bolzonella, A. Iovino, C.M. Carollo, C. Scarlata, M. Sargent, O. Cucciati, G. Zamorani, L. Pozzetti, L.A.M. Tasca, M. Scodeggio, P. Kampczyk, Y. Peng, P. Oesch, E. Zucca, A. Finoguenov, T. Contini, J.-P. Kneib, O. Le Fevre, V. Mainieri, A. Renzini, S. Bardelli, A. Bongiorno, K. Caputi, G. Coppa, S. de la Torre, L. de Ravel, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, F. Lamareille, J.-F. Le Borgne, V. Le Brun, C. Maier, M. Mignoli, R. Pello, E. Perez Montero, E. Ricciardelli, J.D. Silverman, M. Tanaka, L. Tresse, D. Vergani, U. Abba, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, P. Cassata, A. Cimatti, M. Fumana, L. Guzzo, A.M. Koekemoer, A. Leauthaud, D. Maccagni, C. Marinoni, H. J. McCracken, P. Memeo, B. Meneux, C. Porciani, R. Scaramella, N.Z. Scoville, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Astronomy
Subjects: Galaxies: Structure, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Stellar mass, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Galaxies: Evolution, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, education.field_of_study, COSMIC cancer database, Group (mathematics), Star formation, Galaxies: High-redshift, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift survey, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Mass function, Galaxies: Clusters: General, Galaxies: Luminosity function, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We study the evolution of galaxies inside and outside of the group environment since z=1 using a large well defined set of groups and galaxies from the zCOSMOS-bright redshift survey in the COSMOS field. The fraction of galaxies with early-type morphologies increases monotonically with M_B luminosity and stellar mass and with cosmic epoch. It is higher in the groups than elsewhere, especially at later epochs. The emerging environmental effect is superposed on a strong global mass-driven evolution, and at z~0.5 and log(M*/Msol)~10.2, the "effect" of group environment is equivalent to (only) about 0.2 dex in stellar mass or 2 Gyr in time. The stellar mass function of galaxies in groups is enriched in massive galaxies. We directly determine the transformation rates from late to early morphologies, and for transformations involving colour and star formation indicators. The transformation rates are systematically about twice as high in the groups as outside, or up to 3-4 times higher correcting for infall and the appearance of new groups. The rates reach values, for masses around the crossing mass 10^10.5 Msol, as high as (0.3-0.7)/Gyr in the groups, implying transformation timescales of 1.4-3 Gyr, compared with less than 0.2/Gyr, i.e. timescales >5 Gyr, outside of groups. All three transformation rates decrease at higher stellar masses, and must decrease also at the lower masses below 10^10 Msol which we cannot well probe. The rates involving colour and star formation are consistently higher than those for morphology, by a factor of about 50%. Our conclusion is that the transformations which drive the evolution of the overall galaxy population since z~1 must occur at a rate 2-4 times higher in groups than outside of them., 21 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ
Published: 2010

17. The pulsations of the B5IVe star HD 181231 observed with CoRoT and ground-based spectroscopy

Author: Monica Rainer, C. Buil, A. L. Huat, R. Samadi, Coralie Neiner, C. Catala, J. Suso, Juan Gutiérrez-Soto, Frédéric Baudin, Anne-Marie Hubert, A. Baglin, B. de Batz, Y. Frémat, T. Semaan, F. Espinosa Lara, Ennio Poretti, Fabien Carrier, Eduardo Janot-Pacheco, L. Andrade, P. D. Diago, Christophe Martayan, O. Thizy, Eric Michel, Marcelo Emilio, Michele Floquet, Juan Fabregat, B. Leroy, J Ribeiro, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Physique stellaire et galactique, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Observatoire Royal de Belgique (ORB), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Observatori Astronòmic, Universitat de València, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (INAF-OAB), Institute of Astronomy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Shelyak Instruments, Observatoire de Castanet-Tolosan, Obervatorio do Instituto Geografico do Exercito, Universidade de São Paulo, and Obervatório Astronômico, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa
Subjects: Physics, Photosphere, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Star (graph theory), Light curve, Magnetic field, Stars, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Emission spectrum, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Spectroscopy
Abstract: International audience; Context: HD 181231 is a B5IVe star, which has been observed with the CoRoT satellite during ~5 consecutive months and simultaneously from the ground in spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry. Aims: By analysing these data, we aim to detect and characterize as many pulsation frequencies as possible, to search for the presence of beating effects possibly at the origin of the Be phenomenon. Our results will also provide a basis for seismic modelling. Methods: The fundamental parameters of the star are determined from spectral fitting and from the study of the circumstellar emission. The CoRoT photometric data and ground-based spectroscopy are analysed using several Fourier techniques: Clean-ng, Pasper, and Tisaft, as well as a time-frequency technique. A search for a magnetic field is performed by applying the LSD technique to the spectropolarimetric data. Results: We find that HD 181231 is a B5IVe star seen with an inclination of ~45 degrees. No magnetic field is detected in its photosphere. We detect at least 10 independent significant frequencies of variations among the 54 detected frequencies, interpreted in terms of non-radial pulsation modes and rotation. Two longer-term variations are also detected: one at ~14 days resulting from a beating effect between the two main frequencies of short-term variations, the other at ~116 days due either to a beating of frequencies or to a zonal pulsation mode. Conclusions: Our analysis of the CoRoT light curve and ground-based spectroscopic data of HD 181231 has led to the determination of the fundamental and pulsational parameters of the star, including beating effects. This will allow a precise seismic modelling of this star.
Published: 2009

18. UVES/VLT high resolution absorption spectroscopy of the GRB 080330 afterglow: a study of the GRB host galaxy and intervening absorbers

Author: Fabrizio Fiore, L. Norci, E. J. A. Meurs, Yair Krongold, Stefano Covino, C. Guidorzi, Sergio Campana, S. Piranomonte, P. Goldoni, D. Fugazza, P. Ward, S. D. Vergani, V. D'Elia, G. Tagliaferri, Rosalba Perna, P. D'Avanzo, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (INAF-OAR), University of Colorado, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonomica de Mexico, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (INAF-OAB), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Cosmic Physics, School of Physical Sciences and NCPST, Dublin City University, and Dunsink Observatory - DIAS
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Absorption spectroscopy, gamma rays: bursts, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, cosmology: observations, galaxies: abundances, ISM: general, Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, Afterglow, Interstellar medium, Space and Planetary Science, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, Equivalent width, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We study the Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) environment and intervening absorbers by analyzing the optical absorption features produced by gas surrounding the GRB or along its line of sight. We analyzed high resolution spectroscopic observations (R=40000, S/N=3 - 6) of the optical afterglow of GRB080330, taken with UVES at the VLT ~ 1.5 hours after the GRB trigger. The spectrum illustrates the complexity of the ISM of the GRB host galaxy at z = 1.51 which has at least four components in the main absorption system. We detect strong FeII, SiII, and NiII excited absorption lines associated with the bluemost component only. In addition to the host galaxy, at least two more absorbers lying along the line of sight to the afterglow have been detected in the redshift range 0.8 < z < 1.1, each exhibiting MgII absorption. For the bluemost component in the host galaxy, we derive information about its distance from the site of the GRB explosion. We do so by assuming that the excited absorption lines are produced by indirect UV pumping, and compare the data with a time dependent photo-excitation code. The distance of this component is found to be 280+40-50 pc, which is lower than found for other GRBs (1 - 6 kpc). We identify two additional MgII absorbers, one of them with a rest frame equivalent width larger than 1A. The distance between the GRB and the absorber measured in this paper confirms that the power of the GRB radiation can influence the conditions of the interstellar medium up to a distance of at least several hundred pc. For the intervening absorbers, we confirm the trend that on average one strong intervening system is found per afterglow, as has been noted in studies exhibiting an excess of strong MgII absorbers along GRB sightlines compared to quasars., 8 Pages, 7 ps figures, A&A in press
Published: 2009

19. HD 50844: a new look atδScuti stars from CoRoT space photometry

Author: L. Mantegazza, K. Uytterhoeven, Eric Michel, M. Auvergne, Frédéric Baudin, C. Catala, E. Rodriguez, Ennio Poretti, R. Samadi, Juan Carlos Suárez, Susana Martín-Ruiz, Monica Rainer, M. Alvarez, Annie Baglin, Laure Lefèvre, Emese Plachy, R. Garrido, Péter Pápics, Philippe Mathias, M. Paparó, E. Niemczura, W. Zima, A. Moya, Pedro J. Amado, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (INAF-OAB), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC (IAA), Astronomical Institute, University of Wroclaw, Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Laboratoire Hippolyte Fizeau (FIZEAU), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Konkoly Observatory, Research Center for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
Subjects: Physics, Frequency analysis, Flux, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Light curve, Spectral line, law.invention, Photometry (optics), Stars, Amplitude, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science, law, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: International audience; Context: Aims: This work presents the results obtained by CoRoT on HD 50844, the only delta Sct star observed in the CoRoT initial run (57.6 d). The aim of these CoRoT observations was to investigate and characterize for the first time the pulsational behaviour of a delta Sct star, when observed at a level of precision and with a much better duty cycle than from the ground. Methods: The 140 016 datapoints were analysed using independent approaches (SigSpec software and different iterative sine-wave fittings) and several checks performed (splitting of the timeseries in different subsets, investigation of the residual light curves and spectra). A level of 10-5 mag was reached in the amplitude spectra of the CoRoT timeseries. The space monitoring was complemented by ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy, which allowed the mode identification of 30 terms. Results: The frequency analysis of the CoRoT timeseries revealed hundreds of terms in the frequency range 0-30 d-1. All the cross-checks confirmed this new result. The initial guess that delta Sct stars have a very rich frequency content is confirmed. The spectroscopic mode identification gives theoretical support since very high-degree modes (up to l=14) are identified. We also prove that cancellation effects are not sufficient in removing the flux variations associated to these modes at the noise level of the CoRoT measurements. The ground-based observations indicate that HD 50844 is an evolved star that is slightly underabundant in heavy elements, located on the Terminal Age Main Sequence. Probably due to this unfavourable evolutionary status, no clear regular distribution is observed in the frequency set. The predominant term (f_1=6.92 d-1) has been identified as the fundamental radial mode combining ground-based photometric and spectroscopic data. Conclusions
Published: 2009

20. Speckle observations with PISCO in Merate – V. Astrometric measurements of visual binaries in 2006

Author: Mauro Ghigo, M. Sala, Jean-Louis Prieur, Eric Aristidi, Luigi Pansecchi, Marco Scardia, L. Koechlin, Robert Argyle, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Laboratoire Universitaire d'Astrophysique de Nice (LUAN), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS)
Subjects: Physics, binaries: close, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, stars: individual: ADS 277, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrometry, Astrophysics, Position angle, binaries: visual, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Telescope, Speckle pattern, Interferometry, techniques: interferometric, Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, astrometry, Speckle imaging, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Coronagraph
Abstract: International audience; We present relative astrometric measurements of visual binaries made during the first semester of 2006, with the Pupil Interferometry Speckle camera and COronagraph at the 102-cm Zeiss telescope of the Brera Astronomical Observatory, in Merate. Our sample contains orbital couples as well as binaries whose motion is still uncertain. We obtained 217 new measurements of 194 objects, with angular separations in the range 0.1-4.2arcsec, and an average accuracy of 0.01arcsec. The mean error on the position angles is 0.5°. About half of those angles could be determined without the usual 180° ambiguity by the application of triple-correlation techniques. We also present a revised orbit for ADS 277 for which the previously published orbit resulted in a large residual from our measurements.
Published: 2008

21. VVDS-SWIRE

Author: S. Temporin, D. Maccagni, F. Lamareille, Duncan Farrah, Alain Mazure, C. J. Walcher, Paolo Ciliegi, Christian Marinoni, B. Garilli, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, D. Vergani, J. P. Picat, Fan Fang, L. Tresse, T. Contini, Angela Bongiorno, Jarle Brinchmann, E. Zucca, P. Franzetti, S. Paltani, Roberto Scaramella, R. Merighi, Stephane Arnouts, R. Pello, O. Le Fevre, Lucia Pozzetti, G. Zamorani, A. Zanichelli, Stéphane Charlot, M. Bondi, Mario Radovich, S. J. Oliver, H. J. McCracken, David L. Shupe, O. Cucciati, Carol J. Lonsdale, S. de la Torre, Yannick Mellier, D. Bottini, Bruno Marano, C. Adami, A. Pollo, I. Gavignaud, S. Bardelli, Paola Merluzzi, Luigi Guzzo, M. Bolzonella, I. Waddington, Marco Scodeggio, G. Vettolani, A. Iovino, Sylvie Foucaud, Jason Surace, B. Meneux, A. Cappi, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Infrared Processing Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology (IPAC), University of Sussex, Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genève, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (IASF-Milano), Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology (SSC), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), IRA-INAF, Bologna, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP), Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (INAF-OAC), and Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP)
Subjects: Physics, Star formation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Correlation function (astronomy), Galaxy, Redshift, Luminosity, Photometry (optics), Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Cluster analysis, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: International audience; Aims:By combining data from the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) with the Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic survey (SWIRE), we have built the currently largest spectroscopic sample of high redshift galaxies selected in the rest-frame near-infrared. We have obtained 2040 spectroscopic redshifts of galaxies with (m3.6)_AB < 21.5 at 3.6 mu m, and 1255 spectroscopic redshifts of galaxies with (m4.5)_AB < 21. These allow us to investigate the clustering evolution of galaxies selected via their rest-frame near-infrared luminosity in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 2.1. Methods: We use the projected two-point correlation function w_p(r_p) to study the three dimensional clustering properties of galaxies detected at 3.6 mu m and 4.5 mu m with the InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC) in the SWIRE survey with measured spectroscopic redshifts from the first epoch VVDS. We compare these properties to those of a larger sample of 16672 SWIRE galaxies for which we have accurate photometric redshifts in the same field. Results: We find that in the 3.6 mu m and 4.5 mu m flux limited samples, the apparent correlation length does not change from redshift ~2 to the present. The measured correlation lengths have a mean value of r0 ~= 3.9±0.5 h-1 Mpc for the galaxies selected at 3.6 mu m and a mean value of r0 ~= 4.4±0.5 h-1 Mpc for the galaxies selected at 4.5 mu m, across the whole redshift range explored. These values are larger than those typicaly found for I-band selected galaxies at I_AB < 24, for which r0 varies from 2.69 h-1 Mpc to 3.63 h-1 Mpc between z = 0.5 to z = 2.1. We find that the difference in correlation length between I-band and 3.6-4.5 mum selected samples decreases with increasing redshift, becoming comparable at z ~= 1.5. We interpret this as evidence that galaxies with older stellar populations and galaxies actively forming stars reside in comparably over-dense environments at epochs earlier than z ~= 1.5, supporting the recently reported flattening of the color-density relation at high redshift. The increasing difference in correlation length with cosmic time observed between rest-frame UV-optical and near-infrared selected samples could then be an indication that star formation is gradually shifting to lower density regions with decreasing redshift, while the older, passively evolving galaxies remain in the most over-dense peaks.
Published: 2007

22. The VIMOS-VLT deep survey

Author: J. P. Picat, Stéphane Charlot, O. Cucciati, C. Adami, T. Contini, M. Bolzonella, Jarle Brinchmann, D. Bottini, Luigi Guzzo, C. J. Walcher, A. Pollo, I. Gavignaud, E. Zucca, A. Iovino, B. Meneux, S. Bardelli, Sylvie Foucaud, P. Franzetti, A. Zanichelli, Paolo Ciliegi, Marco Scodeggio, H. J. McCracken, A. Cappi, O. Le Fevre, G. Zamorani, F. Lamareille, R. Pello, D. Maccagni, Roberto Scaramella, Stéphane Paltani, A. Mazure, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, R. Merighi, Mario Radovich, Bruno Marano, Stephane Arnouts, B. Garilli, Lucia Pozzetti, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, M. Arnaboldi, Christian Marinoni, D. Vergani, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (IASF-Milano), INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (INAF-OAC), Authors: Franzetti P., Scodeggio M., Garilli B., Vergani D., Maccagni D., Guzzo L., Tresse L., Ilbert O., Lamareille F., Contini T., Le Fèvre O., Zamorani G., Brinchmann J., Charlot S., Bottini D., Le Brun V., Picat J. P., Scaramella R., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Arnouts S., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Cappi A., Ciliegi P., Foucaud S., Gavignaud I., Iovino A., McCracken H. J., Marano B., Marinoni C., Mazure A., Meneux B., Merighi R., Paltani S., Pellò R., Pollo A., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Zucca E., Cucciati O., and Walcher C. J.
Subjects: GALAXIES: EVOLUTION, Physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), COSMOLOGY: OBSERVATIONS, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Rest frame, Stellar classification, Redshift, Galaxy, Bimodality, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Emission spectrum, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey, Equivalent width, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: In this paper we discuss the mix of star-forming and passive galaxies up to z~2, based on the first epoch VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) data.In agreement with previous works we find that the galaxy rest-frame color distribution follows a bimodal distribution at z, 15 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, revised version accepted for publication on A&A
Published: 2007

23. The frequency ratio method and the new multiperiodicγ Doradus star HD 218427

Author: E. Rodríguez, M. J. Lopez-Gonzalez, Pedro J. Amado, E. Poretti, A. Grigahcène, Andrés Moya, V. Costa, J. C. Suárez, M. A. Dupret, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC (IAA), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Pôle Astronomie du LESIA, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (INAF-OAB), and Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Géophysique - Observatoire d'Alger (CRAAG)
Subjects: Physics, Frequency analysis, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Star (graph theory), Lambda, Quantum number, Instability, law.invention, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, law, Excited state, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Multiplet, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: International audience; Oscillations of gamma Dor-type were discovered in the star HD 218427 through simultaneous uvby photometric observations carried out in the year 2003. A few Hbeta-Crawford measurements were also collected for calibration purposes and they locate this star well inside the gamma Dor instability region. We find HD 218427 to be deficient in metals, similar to other well-defined gamma Dor stars, and discuss the possibility that it has a lambda Boo nature. We carried out frequency analysis for different filters, including the combined "vby" filter, and five frequencies were found as significant with periods ranging between 0.3 and 0.8 days. The recently-developed frequency ratio method is used in order to identify the excited modes. The results are consistent with an l=2 identification for all the modes and with high radial quantum numbers (n˜40) for the three main observed periodicities. The possibility of multiplet structures is also discussed. However, no consistency is found when using the time-dependent convection treatment to discriminate modes. This disagreement can be due to the large rotation velocity taking place in HD 218427 and, consequently, the significant coupling between the modes.
Published: 2006

24. The XMM/BeppoSAX observation of Mkn 841

Author: C. Cabanac, Gilles Henri, A.-M. Dumont, P. O. Petrucci, S. Collin, Francesco Haardt, Laura Maraschi, Giorgio Matt, P. Ferrando, Martine Mouchet, C. Perola, L. Koch-Miramond, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (LAOG), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma 3, Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH (UMR_8102)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universitá degli Studi dell’Insubria = University of Insubria [Varese] (Uninsubria), Petrucci, Po, Cabanac, C, Henri, G, Maraschi, L, Ferrando, P, Matt, Giorgio, Mouchet, M, Perola, C, Collin, S, Dumont, Am, Haardt, F, and Koch Miramond, L.
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Slab geometry, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Continuum (design consultancy), FOS: Physical sciences, Broad band, Astrophysics, EPIC, Corona, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Line (formation)
Abstract: Mkn 841 has been observed simultaneously by XMM and BeppoSAX in January 2001. Due to operational contingency, the 30ks XMM observation was split into two parts, separated by about 15 hours. We first report the presence of a narrow iron line which appears to be rapidly variable between the two pointings, requiring a non-standard interpretation. We then focus on the analysis of the broad band (0.3-200 keV) continuum using the XMM/EPIC, RGS and SAX/PDS data. The Mkn 841 spectrum is well fitted by a comptonization model in a geometry more photon-fed than a simple slab geometry above a passive disk. It presents a relatively large reflection (R>2) which does not agree with an apparently weak iron line. It also show the presence of a strong soft excess wellfitted by a comptonized spectrum in a cool plasma, suggesting the presence of a multi-temperature corona., 4 pages, 5 figures. Proc. of the meeting: "The Restless High-Energy Universe" (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), E.P.J. van den Heuvel, J.J.M. in 't Zand, and R.A.M.J. Wijers Eds
Published: 2004

25. Optical and X-ray Rest-frame Light Curves of the BAT6 sample

Author: Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Sergio Campana, Valerio D'Elia, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Stefano Covino, Lara Nava, P. D'Avanzo, Gabriele Ghisellini, Ruben Salvaterra, Dino Fugazza, Maria Grazia Bernardini, S. D. Vergani, A. Melandri, B. Sbarufatti, D. Rogantini, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), education.field_of_study, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, gamma-ray burst: general, X-ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, gamma rays: general, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Rest frame, Light curve, X-rays: general, Redshift, Afterglow, Space and Planetary Science, Optical emission spectroscopy, Gamma-ray burst, education, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the rest-frame light curves in the optical and X-ray bands of an unbiased and complete sample of Swift long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), namely the BAT6 sample. The unbiased BAT6 sample (consisting of 58 events) has the highest level of completeness in redshift ($\sim$ 95%), allowing us to compute the rest-frame X-ray and optical light curves for 55 and 47 objects, respectively. We compute the X-ray and optical luminosities accounting for any possible source of absorption (Galactic and intrinsic) that could affect the observed fluxes in these two bands. We compare the behaviour observed in the X-ray and in the optical bands to assess the relative contribution of the emission during the prompt and afterglow phases. We unarguably demonstrate that the GRBs rest-frame optical luminosity distribution is not bimodal, being rather clustered around the mean value Log(L$_{R}$) = 29.9 $\pm$ 0.8 when estimated at a rest frame time of 12 hr. This is in contrast with what found in previous works and confirms that the GRB population has an intrinsic unimodal luminosity distribution. For more than 70% of the events the rest-frame light curves in the X-ray and optical bands have a different evolution, indicating distinct emitting regions and/or mechanisms. The X-ray light curves normalised to the GRB isotropic energy (E$_{\rm iso}$), provide evidence for X-ray emission still powered by the prompt emission until late times ($\sim$ hours after the burst event). On the other hand, the same test performed for the E$_{\rm iso}$-normalised optical light curves shows that the optical emission is a better proxy of the afterglow emission from early to late times., Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A: 10 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2014
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26. A complete sample of bright Swift short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Author: B. Sbarufatti, M. G. Bernardini, Gabriele Ghisellini, Stefano Covino, Ruben Salvaterra, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Sergio Campana, G. Tagliaferri, V. D'Elia, S. D. Vergani, Lara Nava, P. D'Avanzo, A. Melandri, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF-IASF Milano, Racah Institute of Physics (Racah Institute of Physics), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ)-Racah Institute of Physics, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, law.invention, Telescope, law, education, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), education.field_of_study, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Rest frame, Redshift survey, Redshift, Afterglow, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present a carefully selected sample of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) observed by the Swift satellite up to June 2013. Inspired by the criteria we used to build a similar sample of bright long GRBs (the BAT6 sample), we selected SGRBs with favorable observing conditions for the redshift determination on ground, ending up with a sample of 36 events, almost half of which with a redshift measure. The redshift completeness increases up to about 70% (with an average redshift value of z = 0.85) by restricting to those events that are bright in the 15-150 keV Swift Burst Alert Telescope energy band. Such flux-limited sample minimizes any redshift-related selection effects, and can provide a robust base for the study of the energetics, redshift distribution and environment of the Swift bright population of SGRBs. For all the events of the sample we derived the prompt and afterglow emission in both the observer and (when possible) rest frame and tested the consistency with the correlations valid for long GRBs. The redshift and intrinsic X-ray absorbing column density distributions we obtain are consistent with the scenario of SGRBs originated by the coalescence of compact objects in primordial binaries, with a possible minor contribution (~10%-25%) of binaries formed by dynamical capture (or experiencing large natal kicks). This sample is expected to significantly increase with further years of Swift activity., Comment: 17 pages, 8 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2014
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27. Effective absorbing column density in the gamma-ray burst afterglow X-ray spectra

Author: V. Braito, Sergio Campana, A. Melandri, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, V. D'Elia, Ruben Salvaterra, S. D. Vergani, G. Tagliaferri, Giancarlo Cusumano, P. D'Avanzo, M. G. Bernardini, Gabriele Ghisellini, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), INAF-IASF Milano, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Power law, Redshift, Spectral line, Afterglow, Space and Planetary Science, Spectral resolution, Gamma-ray burst, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Scaling, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: We investigate the scaling relation between the observed amount of absorption in the X-ray spectra of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows and the absorber redshift. Through dedicated numerical simulations of an ideal instrument, we establish that this dependence has a power law shape with index 2.4. However, for real instruments, this value depends on their low energy cut-off, spectral resolution and on the detector spectral response in general. We thus provide appropriate scaling laws for specific instruments. Finally, we discuss the possibility to measure the absorber redshift from X-ray data alone. We find that 10^5-10^6 counts in the 0.3-10 keV band are needed to constrain the redshift with 10% accuracy. As a test case we discuss the XMM-Newton observation of GRB 090618 at z=0.54. We are able to recover the correct redshift of this burst with the expected accuracy., Comment: MNRAS accepted. 6 figures. 3 tables
Published: 2014
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28. Orbital elements of six visual binary stars

Author: Laurent Koechlin, Marco Scardia, Jean-Louis Prieur, Eric Aristidi, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Laboratoire Universitaire d'Astrophysique de Nice (LUAN), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)
Subjects: Physics, Orbital elements, visual binaries: orbits – stellar masses – dynamical parallaxes, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR.SR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], 10. No inequality, Visual binary
Abstract: International audience; Revised orbital elements of the visual binary stars STT 515, BU 4 AB, STF 183 AB, A 207, STT 43 and A 2413 are given.Dynamical parallaxes and total masses of the systems have been calculated.
Published: 2001

29. Speckle Observations of Double Stars with PISCO at Pic du Midi: Measurements in 1998

Author: Marco Scardia, Eric Aristidi, Laurent Koechlin, Jean-Louis Prieur, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Universitaire d'Astrophysique de Nice (LUAN), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Subjects: Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, MIDI, [SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], Angular distance, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrometry, computer.file_format, 01 natural sciences, Speckle pattern, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Binary star, 10. No inequality, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, computer, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: We present astrometric measurements of binary stars based on speckle observations of 164 independent sequences of observations (~104 frames each) made with the PISCO speckle camera at Pic du Midi. These measurements concern 147 objects, of which 134 were found to be double with a separation in the range 01-10. These objects were mainly selected among grade 3 orbits to improve the accuracy of their orbits and to constrain their masses. We discovered the binarity of 59 Aql with an angular separation of 009 ± 001.
Published: 2000

30. HD 172189, a Cluster Member Binary System with a δ Scuti Component in the Field of View of COROT

Author: Juan Carlos Suárez, Ennio Poretti, Andrés Moya, Ignasi Ribas, Pedro J. Amado, Armando Arellano Ferro, Susana Martín-Ruiz, European Southern Observatory (ESO), Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC (IAA), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonomica de Mexico, Institut dEstudis Espacials de Catalunya/CSIC, and INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (INAF-OAB)
Subjects: Physics, Frequency analysis, Field (physics), Astronomy, Binary number, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Light curve, Spectral line, law.invention, Space and Planetary Science, law, Cluster (physics), Binary system, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Open cluster
Abstract: International audience; Photometric and spectroscopic results for the star HD 172189, member of the open cluster IC 4756 in the summer field of the space mission COROT, are presented. From photometric observations in the Strömgren system carried out at various epochs, its binary nature as well as the presence of a delta Scuti-type pulsating component have been discovered. The frequency analysis of the whole dataset confirms a dominant frequency of 19.5974 c d-1 with a maximum amplitude near 0.02 mag plus other frequencies in the range 18 20 c d-1. A preliminary orbital solution from the light curve and from four FEROS spectra reveals two similar components of around 1.5 M &sun; orbiting with a period of 5.702 d.
Published: 2006

31. Abundance study of the two solar-analogue CoRoT targets HD 42618 and HD 43587 from HARPS spectroscopy

Author: Monica Rainer, Patrick Boumier, Ennio Poretti, C. Barban, Thierry Morel, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES)
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Effective temperature, Surface gravity, 01 natural sciences, Asteroseismology, Stars, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Abundance (ecology), Error bar, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite, Spectroscopy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: We present a detailed abundance study based on spectroscopic data obtained with HARPS of two solar-analogue main targets for the asteroseismology programme of the CoRoT satellite: HD 42618 and HD 43587. The atmospheric parameters and chemical composition are accurately determined through a fully differential analysis with respect to the Sun observed with the same instrumental set-up. Several sources of systematic errors largely cancel out with this approach, which allows us to narrow down the 1-sigma error bars to typically 20 K in effective temperature, 0.04 dex in surface gravity, and less than 0.05 dex in the elemental abundances. Although HD 42618 fulfils many requirements for being classified as a solar twin, its slight deficiency in metals and its possibly younger age indicate that, strictly speaking, it does not belong to this class of objects. On the other hand, HD 43587 is slightly more massive and evolved. In addition, marked differences are found in the amount of lithium present in the photospheres of these two stars, which might reveal different mixing properties in their interiors. These results will put tight constraints on the forthcoming theoretical modelling of their solar-like oscillations and contribute to increase our knowledge of the fundamental parameters and internal structure of stars similar to our Sun., Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A, 10 pages, 7 colour figures (revised version after language editing)
Published: 2013
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32. Rapid and multi-band variability of the TeV-bright active nucleus of the galaxy IC 310

Author: Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, I. Lozano, D. Dominis Prester, Takashi Saito, S. Rügamer, Juan Abel Barrio, R. Zanin, D. Borla Tridon, A. Saggion, Adrian Biland, J. Becerra González, Francisco Prada, Reiko Orito, M. Salvati, A. Sillanpää, J. Rico, I. Snidaric, Mario Meucci, Masahiro Teshima, Daniela Dorner, Stefano Covino, Christian Fruck, M. L. Knoetig, T. Krähenbühl, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, S. Wilbert, Kari Nilsson, Daniel Ferenc, Abelardo Moralejo, M. V. Fonseca, Tomislav Terzić, A. De Angelis, K. Berger, S. Spiro, E. Lorenz, D. Tescaro, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, Nijil Mankuzhiyil, E. Prandini, P. Munar-Adrover, Silvia Preziuso, J. Moldón, A. Boller, L. Cossio, M. Gaug, Ignasi Reichardt, Giacomo Bonnoli, M. Palatiello, J. Kushida, Q. Weitzel, Tihomir Surić, Aldo Treves, Artemio Herrero, M. Doert, Jose Luis Contreras, D. Carreto Fidalgo, Juan Cortina, P. Temnikov, Marc Ribó, Patrick Vogler, K. Saito, B. Steinke, G. Maneva, Elisa Bernardini, Riccardo Paoletti, L. Font, V. Kadenius, Fabio Zandanel, Shan Sun, S. Paiano, L. Maraschi, Karl Mannheim, Felix Spanier, G. De Caneva, Ivica Puljak, Gianluca Giavitto, L. A. Antonelli, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, D. Garrido Terrats, Natalia Lewandowska, J. Masbou, Pierre Colin, Jörn Wilms, P. Fortin, Thomas Bretz, S. N. Shore, M. I. Martínez, Francesco Dazzi, A. González Muñoz, Saverio Lombardi, S. Bonnefoy, A. La Barbera, Konstancja Satalecka, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Hajime Takami, V. Scalzotto, Michele Doro, Diego F. Torres, Julia Thaele, M. Uellenbeck, Fabrizio Tavecchio, D. Häfner, R. Mirzoyan, R. Reinthal, Dominik Elsaesser, S. Partini, Wolfgang Rhode, D. Eisenacher, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, J. Krause, Ana Babić, Emanuele Paolo Farina, B. De Lotto, Aaron Dominguez, C. Delgado Mendez, S. R. Gozzini, Dorota Sobczyńska, T. Dauser, A. Hadamek, Matthias Kadler, W. Idec, J. Storz, E. Carmona, Markus Garczarczyk, Martin Makariev, Nina Nowak, F. Krauß, E. Colombo, P. Antoranz, Oscar Blanch, P. G. Prada Moroni, Ralph Bock, L. O. Takalo, O. Tibolla, Robert Wagner, C. Schultz, V. Scapin, T. Schweizer, Jelena Aleksić, A. López-Oramas, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, Ruben Lopez-Coto, D. Nakajima, A. Niedzwiecki, Jose Miguel Miranda, F. Borracci, David Paneque, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, Massimo Persic, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, Daniela Hadasch, T. Toyama, P. Da Vela, Victor Stamatescu, Institut de Física d’Altes Energies [Barcelone] (IFAE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Universitat de València (UV), Politecnico di Milano [Milan] (POLIMI), Universitá degli Studi dell’Insubria, Technische Universität Dortmund [Dortmund] (TU), IEEC-CSIC, Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología, Universidad de Murcia, Laboratoire d'études dynamiques et structurales de la sélectivité (LEDSS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia [Barcelona] (DAM), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Universita degli Studi di Padova, Universidad de Cantabria [Santander], Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova (INFN, Sezione di Padova), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (MPI-P), Instituto de Biotecnología, Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, UNAM, Institute for Physical Research (IPR), National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia [Yerevan] (NAS RA), Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC (IFT), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Dept. of Physics, Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos (ICCUB), Kao Group, Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales (CERMAV), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF), Optoelectronic Research Centre, University of Southampton, Department of Chemistry, Oulu, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg - Erlangen, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Universitá degli Studi dell’Insubria = University of Insubria [Varese] (Uninsubria), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Universitat de Barcelona
Subjects: Astrofísica, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Photon, Spectral shape analysis, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Radio galaxy, Raigs còsmics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], X-ray astronomy, Galaxies: individual: IC 310, galaxies active, galaxies individual, IC 310, gamma rays galaxies, X-rays galaxies, Gamma ray astronomy, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Galaxies: active, Gamma rays: galaxies, X-rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomia de raigs gamma, Blazar, Cosmic rays, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, astro-ph.HE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Light curve, Galaxy, Astronomia de raigs X, [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], Galàxies actives, Active galaxies, ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Schwarzschild radius, Order of magnitude
Abstract: Context. The radio galaxy IC 310 has recently been identified as a gamma-ray emitter based on observations at GeV energies with Fermi-LAT and at very high energies (VHE, E>100GeV) with the MAGIC telescopes. Originally classified as a head-tail radio galaxy, the nature of this object is subject of controversy since its nucleus shows blazar-like behavior. Aims. In order to understand the nature of IC 310 and the origin of the VHE emission we studied the spectral and flux variability of IC 310 from the X-ray band to the VHE gamma-ray regime. Methods. The light curve of IC 310 above 300GeV has been measured with the MAGIC telescopes from Oct. 2009 to Feb. 2010. Fermi-LAT data (2008-2011) in the 10-500GeV energy range were also analyzed. In X-ray, archival observations from 2003 to 2007 with XMM, Chandra, and Swift-XRT in the 0.5-10keV band were studied. Results. The VHE light curve reveals several high-amplitude and short-duration flares. Day-to-day flux variability is clearly present. The photon index between 120GeV and 8TeV remains at the value $\Gamma\sim2.0$ during both low and high flux states. The VHE spectral shape does not show significant variability, whereas the flux at 1TeV changes by a factor of $\sim7$. Fermi-LAT detected only eight gamma-ray events in the energy range 10GeV-500GeV in three years of observation. The measured photon index of $\Gamma=1.3\pm0.5$ in the Fermi-LAT range is very hard. The X-ray measurements show strong variability in flux and photon index. The latter varied from $1.76\pm0.07$ to $2.55\pm0.07$. Conclusion. The rapid variability measured confirms the blazar-like behavior of IC 310. The TeV emission seems to originate from scales of less than 80 Schwarzschild radii within the compact core of its FRI radio jet with orientation angle 10deg-38deg. The SED resembles that of an extreme blazar, albeit the luminosity is more than two orders of magnitude lower., Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2013
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33. Water and acetaldehyde in HH212: The first hot corino in Orion

Author: S. Cabrit, Francesco Fontani, Cecilia Ceccarelli, C. Codella, Linda Podio, Mario Tafalla, Bertrand Lefloch, Rafael Bachiller, Silvia Leurini, Frédéric Gueth, Antoine Gusdorf, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIFR), foreign laboratories (FL), CERN [Genève], and École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, FOS: Physical sciences, High resolution, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Central region, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0103 physical sciences, Protostar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Line (formation), Physics, Acetaldehyde, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Circumstellar disk, 3. Good health, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, chemistry, Deuterium, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA]
Abstract: Aims: Using the unprecedented combination of high resolution and sensitivity offered by ALMA, we aim to investigate whether and how hot corinos, circumstellar disks, and ejected gas are related in young solar-mass protostars. Methods: We observed CH$_3$CHO and deuterated water (HDO) high-excitation ($E_{\rm u}$ up to 335 K) lines towards the Sun-like protostar HH212--MM1. Results: For the first time, we have obtained images of CH$_3$CHO and HDO emission in the inner $\simeq$ 100 AU of HH212. The multifrequency line analysis allows us to contrain the density ($\geq$ 10$^{7}$ cm$^{-3}$), temperature ($\simeq$ 100 K), and CH$_3$CHO abundance ($\simeq$ 0.2--2 $\times$ 10$^{-9}$) of the emitting region. The HDO profile is asymmetric at low velocities ($\leq$ 2 km s$^{-1}$ from $V_{\rm sys}$). If the HDO line is optically thick, this points to an extremely small ($\sim$ 20--40 AU) and dense ($\ge$ 10$^{9}$ cm$^{-3}$) emitting region. Conclusions: We report the first detection of a hot corino in Orion. The HDO asymmetric profile indicates a contribution of outflowing gas from the compact central region, possibly associated with a dense disk wind., Astronomy & Astrophysics Letter, in press
Published: 2016

34. The faster the narrower: characteristic bulk velocities and jet opening angles of Gamma Ray Bursts

Author: G. Tagliaferri, P. D'Avanzo, D. Burlon, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Ruben Salvaterra, A. Melandri, Sergio Campana, Gabriele Ghisellini, Lara Nava, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF- Milano, Racah Institute of Physics (Racah Institute of Physics), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ)-Racah Institute of Physics, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Jet (fluid), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Isotropy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Light curve, Afterglow, Lorentz factor, Space and Planetary Science, symbols, Hypernova, business, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: The jet opening angle theta_jet and the bulk Lorentz factor Gamma_0 are crucial parameters for the computation of the energetics of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). From the ~30 GRBs with measured theta_jet or Gamma_0 it is known that: (i) the real energetic E_gamma, obtained by correcting the isotropic equivalent energy E_iso for the collimation factor ~theta_jet^2, is clustered around 10^50-10^51 erg and it is correlated with the peak energy E_p of the prompt emission and (ii) the comoving frame E'_p and E'_gamma are clustered around typical values. Current estimates of Gamma_0 and theta_jet are based on incomplete data samples and their observed distributions could be subject to biases. Through a population synthesis code we investigate whether different assumed intrinsic distributions of Gamma_0 and theta_jet can reproduce a set of observational constraints. Assuming that all bursts have the same E'_p and E'_gamma in the comoving frame, we find that Gamma_0 and theta_jet cannot be distributed as single power-laws. The best agreement between our simulation and the available data is obtained assuming (a) log-normal distributions for theta_jet and Gamma_0 and (b) an intrinsic relation between the peak values of their distributions, i.e theta_jet^2.5*Gamma_0=const. On average, larger values of Gamma_0 (i.e. the "faster" bursts) correspond to smaller values of theta_jet (i.e. the "narrower"). We predict that ~6% of the bursts that point to us should not show any jet break in their afterglow light curve since they have sin(theta_jet), 15 pages, 8 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2012
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35. The CoRoT B-type binary HD 50230: a prototypical hybrid pulsator with g-mode period and p-mode frequency spacings⋆⋆⋆

Author: M. Auvergne, T. Morel, P. Mathias, E. Michel, C. Catala, Maryline Briquet, A. Baglin, F. Baudin, Conny Aerts, E. Poretti, M. Rainer, Michel Hillen, Péter Pápics, Pedro J. Amado, Robin Lombaert, P. Degroote, R. Samadi, Instituut voor Sterrenkunde [Leuven], Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Hippolyte Fizeau (FIZEAU), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Université de Liège, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information (CEA-LETI), Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)
Subjects: Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, Astronomy, Binary number, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Rotation, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Light curve, Stars, Fourier transform, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Fourier analysis, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, symbols, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: B-type stars are promising targets for asteroseismic modelling, since their frequency spectrum is relatively simple. We deduce and summarise observational constraints for the hybrid pulsator, HD50230, earlier reported to have deviations from a uniform period spacing of its gravity modes. The combination of spectra and a high-quality light curve measured by the CoRoT satellite allow a combined approach to fix the position of HD50230 in the HR diagram. To describe the observed pulsations, classical Fourier analysis was combined with short-time Fourier transformations and frequency spacing analysis techniques. Visual spectra were used to constrain the projected rotation rate of the star and the fundamental parameters of the target. In a first approximation, the combined information was used to interpret multiplets and spacings to infer the true surface rotation rate and a rough estimate of the inclination angle. We identify HD50230 as a spectroscopic binary and characterise the two components. We detect the simultaneous presence of high-order g modes and low-order p and g-modes in the CoRoT light curve, but were unable to link them to line profile variations in the spectroscopic time series. We extract the relevant information from the frequency spectrum, which can be used for seismic modelling, and explore possible interpretations of the pressure mode spectrum., Comment: 26 pages, 12+6 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2012

36. The evolution of the mass-size relation for early type galaxies from z~1 to the present: dependence on environment, mass-range and detailed morphology

Author: Lauriane Delaye, Giovanni Covone, Marc Huertas-Company, Jean-Paul Kneib, Anand Raichoor, Alexis Finoguenov, Olivier Le Fevre, Francesco Shankar, Simona Mei, Mirjana Pović, M., Huertas Company, S., Mei, F., Shankar, L., Delaye, A., Raichoor, Covone, Giovanni, A., Finoguenov, J. P., Kneib, F. O., Le, M., Povic, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche [Naples], University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Department of Physics [Helsinki], Falculty of Science [Helsinki], Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique [Bruxelles] (IAA), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, University of Helsinki-University of Helsinki, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Morphology (linguistics), Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, galaxies: elliptical and lenticular cD, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Space and Planetary Science, Chemical physics, galaxies: evolution, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: [abridged] We study the dependence of the galaxy size evolution on morphology, stellar mass and large scale environment for a sample of 298 group and 384 field quiescent early-type galaxies from the COSMOS survey, selected from z~1 to the present, and with masses $log(M/M_\odot)>10.5$. The galaxy size growth depends on galaxy mass and early-type galaxy morphology, e.g., elliptical galaxies evolve differently than lenticular galaxies. At the low mass end -$10.511.2$- approximately doubled their size. Interestingly, lenticular galaxies display different behavior: they appear more compact on average and they do show a size growth of \sim60% since z=1 independent of stellar mass. We compare our results with state-of-the art semi-analytic models. While major and minor mergers can account for most of the galaxy size growth, we find that with present data and the theoretical uncertainties in the modeling we cannot state clear evidence favoring either merger or mass loss via quasar and/or stellar winds as the primary mechanism driving the evolution. The galaxy mass--size relation and the size growth do not depend on environment in the halo mass range explored in this work (field to group mass $log(M_h/M_\odot)11.2$., Comment: MNRAS in press, updated version after revision
Published: 2012
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37. The impact of selection biases on the Ep-Liso correlation of Gamma Ray Bursts

Author: Ghirlanda, G., Ghisellini, G., Nava, L., Salvaterra, R., Tagliaferri, G., Campana, S., Covino, S., D'Avanzo, P., Fugazza, D., Melandri, A., Vergani, S. D., INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), APC - Astrophysique des Hautes Energies (APC - AHE), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)-Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), INAF-IASF Milano, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)
Subjects: [PHYS]Physics [physics], High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, gamma-ray burst: general, FOS: Physical sciences, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: We study the possible effects of selection biases on the Ep-Liso correlation caused by the unavoidable presence of flux-limits in the existing samples of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). We consider a well defined complete sample of Swift GRBs and perform Monte Carlo simulations of the GRB population under different assumptions for their luminosity functions. If we assume that there is no correlation between the peak energy Ep and the isotropic luminosity Liso, we are unable to reproduce it as due to the flux limit threshold of the Swift complete sample. We can reject the null hypothesis that there is no intrinsic correlation between Ep and Liso at more than 2.7 sigma level of confidence. This result is robust against the assumptions of our simulations and it is confirmed if we consider, instead of Swift, the trigger threshold of the Batse instrument. Therefore, there must be a physical relation between these two quantities. Our simulations seem to exclude, at a lower confidence level of 1.6 sigma, the possibility that the observed Ep-Liso correlation among different bursts is caused by a boundary, i.e. such that for any given Ep, we see only the largest Liso, which has a flux above the threshold of the current instruments., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication by MNRAS
Published: 2012
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38. Constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation using integral/IBIS observations of GRB041219A

Author: D. Gotz, Stefano Covino, Philippe Laurent, Alberto Fernández-Soto, Pierre Binétruy, APC - Astrophysique des Hautes Energies (APC - AHE), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)-Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), APC - THEORIE, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut für theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg (UHH)-Universität Hamburg (UHH), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), INTEGRAL, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut für theoretische Physik, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)-Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut für theoretische Physik, and Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB)
Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Nuclear and High Energy Physics, CPT symmetry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Measure (physics), FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Lorentz and Poincare invariance, Lorentz covariance, 01 natural sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, symbols.namesake, Quantum mechanics, 0103 physical sciences, Photon polarization, Relativity and gravitation, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, gamma-ray sources, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], gamma-ray bursts, Helicity, X- and gamma-ray telescopes and instrumentation, Lorentz factor, Orders of magnitude (time), Quantum electrodynamics, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], symbols, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst
Abstract: PACS:98.70.Rz, 11.30.Cp, 95.30.Sf, 95.55.Ka, One of the experimental tests of Lorentz invariance violation is to measure the helicity dependence of the propagation velocity of photons originating in distant cosmological obejcts. Using a recent determination of the distance of the gamma-ray burst GRB 041219A, for which a high degree of polarization is observed in the prompt emission, we are able to improve by four orders of magnitude the existing constraint on Lorentz invariance violation, arising from the phenomenon of vacuum birefringence.
Published: 2011

39. The Dark Bursts population in a complete sample of bright Swift Long Gamma-Ray Bursts

Author: Melandri, A., Sbarufatti, B., D'Avanzo, P., Salvaterra, R., Campana, S., Covino, S., Vergani, S. D., Nava, L., Ghisellini, G., Ghirlanda, G., Fugazza, D., Mangano, V., Capalbi, M., Tagliaferri, G., INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF-IASF Milano, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Racah Institute of Physics (Racah Institute of Physics), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ)-Racah Institute of Physics, Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Subjects: [PHYS]Physics [physics], High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), genetic structures, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, sense organs, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: We study the properties of the population of optically dark events present in a carefully selected complete sample of bright Swift long gamma-ray bursts. The high level of completeness in redshift of our sample (52 objects out of 58) allow us to establish the existence of a genuine dark population and we are able to estimate the maximum fraction of dark burst events (~30%) expected for the whole class of long gamma-ray burst. The redshift distribution of this population of dark bursts is similar to the one of the whole sample. Interestingly, the rest-frame X-ray luminosity (and the de-absorbed X-ray flux) of the sub-class of dark bursts is slightly higher than the average luminosity of the non-dark events. At the same time the prompt properties do not differ and the optical flux of dark events is at the lower tail of the optical flux distribution, corrected for Galactic absorption. All these properties suggest that dark bursts events generate in much denser environments with respect to normal bright events. We can therefore exclude the high-z and the low-density scenarios and conclude that the major cause of the origin of optically dark events is the dust extinction., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. This version matches the published version in MNRAS
Published: 2011
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40. CoRoT photometry and high-resolution spectroscopy of the interacting eclipsing binary AU Monocerotis

Author: P. Mathias, M. Rainer, C. Neiner, M. Desmet, Carla Maceroni, Maryline Briquet, F. Baudin, Conny Aerts, E. Poretti, Patricia Lampens, Yves Fremat, Petr Harmanec, J. C. Valtier, E. Janot Pacheco, P. Degroote, K. Uytterhoeven, Andrej Prsa, Pedro J. Amado, Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Observatoire Royal de Belgique (ORB), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Astronomical Institute, Charles University, Departamento de Astronomia Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Laboratoire Hippolyte Fizeau (FIZEAU), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (INAF-OAB), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC (IAA), Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Villanova University, and INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (INAF-OAR)
Subjects: Physics, Brightness, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Mass ratio, Light curve, 01 natural sciences, Photometry (optics), Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Orbital motion, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, Roche lobe, Circumbinary planet, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Spectroscopy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Abstract: Analyses of very accurate CoRoT space photometry, past Johnson V photoelectric photometry and high-resolution \'echelle spectra led to the determination of improved and consistent fundamental stellar properties of both components of AU Mon. We derived new, accurate ephemerides for both the orbital motion (with a period of 11.113d) and the long-term, overall brightness variation (with a period of 416.9d) of this strongly interacting Be + G semi-detached binary. It is shown that this long-term variation must be due to attenuation of the total light by some variable circumbinary material. We derived the binary mass ratio $M_{\rm G}/M_{\rm B}$ = 0.17\p0.03 based on the assumption that the G-type secondary fills its Roche lobe and rotates synchronously. Using this value of the mass ratio as well as the radial velocities of the G-star, we obtained a consistent light curve model and improved estimates of the stellar masses, radii, luminosities and effective temperatures. We demonstrate that the observed lines of the B-type primary may not be of photospheric origin. We also discover rapid and periodic light changes visible in the high-quality residual CoRoT light curves. AU Mon is put into perspective by a comparison with known binaries exhibiting long-term cyclic light changes., Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2010

41. HD172189: another step in furnishing one of the best laboratories known for asteroseismic studies

Author: H. VanWinckel, J. C. Suárez, F. J. Aceituno, Damian Fabbian, L. Le Guillou, Gert Raskin, E. Broeders, E. Rodríguez, Susana Martín-Ruiz, P. Mathias, Pere L. Palle, M. Rainer, A. Arellano Ferro, E. Niemczura, K. Uytterhoeven, Florian Rodler, V. Casanova, Giuseppe Cutispoto, O. L. Creevey, Cristina Rodríguez-López, A. Rolland, E. Poretti, Petr Hadrava, A. Moya, L. Decin, Pedro J. Amado, R. E. Molina, R. Garrido, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Hippolyte Fizeau (FIZEAU), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituut voor Sterrenkunde [Leuven], Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva (ICBiBE), Universitat de València (UV), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: stars: abundances, media_common.quotation_subject, Binary number, FOS: Physical sciences, Solar radius, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy: open clusters and associations: individual: IC 4756, Spectral line, masses, colours, 0103 physical sciences, luminosities, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, (Stars:) binaries: spectroscopic, Binary system, Eccentricity (behavior), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), media_common, Physics, Solar mass, stars: binaries: spectroscopic, Stars: abundances (Galaxy:) open clusters and associations: individual: IC 4756, etc, Stars: oscillations (including pulsations) (Stars: variables:) δ Sct, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], Astronomy and Astrophysics, Orbital period, [PHYS.ASTR.SR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], radii, Stars: fundamental parameters (classification, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, temperatures, stars: oscillations, stars: fundamental parameters, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, stars: variables: δ Sct, Open cluster
Abstract: HD172189 is a spectroscopic eclipsing binary system with a rapidly-rotating pulsating delta Scuti component. It is also a member of the open cluster IC4756. These combined characteristics make it an excellent laboratory for asteroseismic studies. To date, HD172189 has been analysed in detail photometrically but not spectroscopically. For this reason we have compiled a set of spectroscopic data to determine the absolute and atmospheric parameters of the components. We determined the radial velocities (RV) of both components using four different techniques. We disentangled the binary spectra using KOREL, and performed the first abundance analysis on both disentangled spectra. By combining the spectroscopic results and the photometric data, we obtained the component masses, 1.8 and 1.7 solar masses, and radii, 4.0 and 2.4 solar radii, for inclination i = 73.2 degrees, eccentricity e = 0.28, and orbital period 5.70198 days. Effective temperatures of 7600 K and 8100 K were also determined. The measured vsini are 78 and 74 km/s, respectively, giving rotational periods of 2.50 and 1.55 days for the components. The abundance analysis shows [Fe/H] = -0.28 for the primary (pulsating) star, consistent with observations of IC4756. We also present an assessment of the different analysis techniques used to obtain the RVs and the global parameters., Comment: accepted by AA
Published: 2009
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42. The zCOSMOS Redshift Survey: the role of environment and stellar mass in shaping the rise of the morphology-density relation from z~1

Author: Tasca L. A. M., Kneib J. P., Iovino A., Le Fèvre O., Kova, #269, Bolzonella M., Lilly S. J., Abraham R. G., Cassata P., Guzzo L., Tresse L., Zamorani G., Capak P., Garilli B., Scodeggio M., Sheth K., Zucca E., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Bardelli S., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., de La Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Koekemoer A. M., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J. F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Mignoli M., Pello R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Vergani D., Tanaka M., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Ilbert O., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Oesch P., Porciani C., Pozzetti L., Scaramella R., Scarlata C., CUCCIATI, OLGA, CIMATTI, ANDREA, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), AUTRES, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Mathématiques - Analyse, Probabilités, Modélisation - Orléans (MAPMO), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF- Milano, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, University of Chicago, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Institute of Astronomy [ETH Zürich], Department of Physics [ETH Zürich] (D-PHYS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales [Sydney] (UNSW), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Tasca L. A. M., Kneib J.-P., Iovino A., Le Fèvre O., Kova&#269, K., Bolzonella M., Lilly S. J., Abraham R. G., Cassata P., Cucciati O., Guzzo L., Tresse L., Zamorani G., Capak P., Garilli B., Scodeggio M., Sheth K., Zucca E., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Bardelli S., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., de La Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Koekemoer A. M., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Mignoli M., Pello R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Vergani D., Tanaka M., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cimatti A., Ilbert O., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Oesch P., Porciani C., Pozzetti L., Scaramella R., and Scarlata C.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, Galaxy:formation, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Galaxies:structure, Galaxy group, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmology:large-scale structure of universe, Galaxies:distances and redshifts, Galaxies:evolution, Galaxies:fundamental parameters, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Surface brightness, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Redshift survey, Galaxy, Universe, Redshift, 13. Climate action, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: For more than two decades we have known that galaxy morphological segregation is present in the Local Universe. It is important to see how this relation evolves with cosmic time. To investigate how galaxy assembly took place with cosmic time, we explore the evolution of the morphology-density relation up to redshift z~1 using about 10000 galaxies drawn from the zCOSMOS Galaxy Redshift Survey. Taking advantage of accurate HST/ACS morphologies from the COSMOS survey, of the well-characterised zCOSMOS 3D environment, and of a large sample of galaxies with spectroscopic redshift, we want to study here the evolution of the morphology-density relation up to z~1 and its dependence on galaxy luminosity and stellar mass. The multi-wavelength coverage of the field also allows a first study of the galaxy morphological segregation dependence on colour. We further attempt to disentangle between processes that occurred early in the history of the Universe or late in the life of galaxies. The zCOSMOS field benefits of high-resolution imaging in the F814W filter from the Advanced Camera for Survey (ACS). We use standard morphology classifiers, optimised for being robust against band-shifting and surface brightness dimming, and a new, objective, and automated method to convert morphological parameters into early, spiral, and irregular types. We use about 10000 galaxies down to I_AB=22.5 with a spectroscopic sampling rate of 33% to characterise the environment of galaxies up to z~1 from the 100 kpc scales of galaxy groups up to the 100 Mpc scales of the cosmic web. ABRIDGED, Comment: 23 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2009
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43. Weighing the black holes in ultraluminous X-ray sources through timing

Author: Alessandro Patruno, Piergiorgio Casella, Gabriele Ponti, Tomaso Belloni, Luca Zampieri, Giovanni Miniutti, High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), APC - Astrophysique des Hautes Energies (APC - AHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)-Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)-Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)
Subjects: Active galactic nucleus, X-rays: individual: M82 X-1, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, black hole physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Parameter space, 01 natural sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Accretion rate, X-rays: binaries, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, accretion, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, X-rays: individual: NGC 5408 X-1, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), X-ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, accretion discs, Black hole, Space and Planetary Science
Abstract: We describe a new method to estimate the mass of black holes in Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULXs). The method is based on the recently discovered ``variability plane'', populated by Galactic stellar-mass black-hole candidates (BHCs) and supermassive active galactic nuclei (AGNs), in the parameter space defined by the black-hole mass, accretion rate and characteristic frequency. We apply this method to the two ULXs from which low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations have been discovered, M82 X-1 and NGC 5408 X-1. For both sources we obtain a black-hole mass in the range 100~1300 Msun, thus providing evidence for these two sources to host an intermediate-mass black hole., Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, Accepted by MNRAS
Published: 2008
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44. Precision photometric redshift calibration for galaxy–galaxy weak lensing

Author: Jeffrey A. Newman, M. Carollo, M. Scodeggio, O. Le Fèvre, J.-F. Leborgne, Simon J. Lilly, Thierry Contini, P. Kampczyk, V. Mainieri, E. Ricciardelli, Christian Maier, Lidia Tasca, Rachel Mandelbaum, M. Mignoli, Bianca Garilli, Carlos Cunha, F. Lamareille, Angela Bongiorno, Jean-Paul Kneib, C. Knobel, Pascal Oesch, Christopher M. Hirata, M. Bolzonella, Uroš Seljak, John D. Silverman, S. Bardelli, Enrique Pérez-Montero, A. Iovino, David C. Koo, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), AUTRES, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano (IASF-MI), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Services communs OMP (UMS 831), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de Paris - Site de Paris (OP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Psychiatry [Pittsburgh], University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)-Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE), Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Zurich, and Mandelbaum, R
Subjects: 530 Physics, media_common.quotation_subject, Gaussian, gravitational lensing, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], symbols.namesake, 1912 Space and Planetary Science, galaxies : distances and redshifts, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, distances and redshifts [gravitational lensing, galaxies], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Weak gravitational lensing, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Photometric redshift, media_common, Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, Weighting, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 10231 Institute for Computational Science, symbols, 3103 Astronomy and Astrophysics, galaxies: distances and redshifts, Caltech Library Services
Abstract: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 386 (2), ISSN:0035-8711, ISSN:1365-2966, ISSN:1365-8711
Published: 2008
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45. A test of the nature of cosmic acceleration using galaxy redshift distortions

Author: Sylvie Foucaud, F. Lamareille, E. Zucca, Alain Mazure, A. Pollo, M. Pierleoni, V. Le Brun, L. Tresse, O. Ilbert, S. Bardelli, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, Marco Scodeggio, C. Adami, M. Bolzonella, G. De Lucia, G. Zamorani, J. P. Picat, D. Bottini, Klaus Dolag, P. Memeo, A. Iovino, Enrique Perez-Montero, Gianpaolo Vettolani, Roberto Scaramella, B. Meneux, H. J. McCracken, R. Merighi, Thierry Contini, Lauro Moscardini, J. Blaizot, B. Garilli, I. Gavignaud, Bruno Marano, D. Maccagni, Stéphane Paltani, Stephane Charlot, A. Zanichelli, Luigi Guzzo, R. Pello, Enzo Branchini, A. Cappi, Angela Bongiorno, Mario Radovich, Christian Marinoni, D. Vergani, Stephane Arnouts, Lucia Pozzetti, Paolo Ciliegi, P. Franzetti, O. Le Fevre, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), AUTRES, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano (IASF-MI), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), Service de Physique Théorique (SPhT), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Oxford, Services communs OMP (UMS 831), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (OAR), Istituto di Radioastronomia [Bologna] (IRA), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), European Southern Observatory (ESO), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OAB), Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège], Université de Liège, Observatoire de Paris - Site de Paris (OP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital (KCH), Guzzo, L., Pierleoni, M., Meneux, B., Branchini, E, Le Fèvre, O., Marinoni, C., Garilli, B., Blaizot, J., De Lucia, G., Pollo, A., Mccracken, H. J., Bottini, D., Le Brun, V., Maccagni, D., Picat, J. P., Scaramella, R., Scodeggio, M., Tresse, L., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Cappi, A., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., Dolag, K., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Gavignaud, I., Ilbert, O., Iovino, A., Lamareille, F., Marano, B., Mazure, A., Memeo, P., Merighi, R., Moscardini, L., Paltani, S., Pellò, R., Perez-Montero, E., Pozzetti, L., Radovich, M., Vergani, D., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), University of Oxford [Oxford], Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), Guzzo L., Pierleoni M., Meneux B., Branchini E., Le Fevre O., Marinoni C., Garilli B., Blaizot J., De Lucia G., Pollo A., McCracken H.J., Bottini D., Le Brun V., Maccagni D., Picat J.-P., Scaramella R., Scodeggio M., Tresse L., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Arnouts S., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Bongiorno A., Cappi A., Charlot S., Ciliegi P., Contini T., Cucciati O., de La Torre S., Dolag K., Foucaud S., Franzetti P., Gavignaud I., Ilbert O., Iovino A., Lamareille F., Marano B., Mazure A., Memeo P., Merighi R., Moscardini L., Paltani S., Pello' R., Perez-Montero E., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Vergani D., Zamorani G., and Zucca E.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Cosmological constant, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Cosmology, Metric expansion of space, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Redshift-space distortions, galaxies, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, Multidisciplinary, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Redshift survey, Redshift, Galaxy, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], Dark energy
Abstract: Observations of distant supernovae indicate that the Universe is now in a phase of accelerated expansion the physical cause of which is a mystery. Formally, this requires the inclusion of a term acting as a negative pressure in the equations of cosmic expansion, accounting for about 75 per cent of the total energy density in the Universe. The simplest option for this "dark energy" corresponds to a cosmological constant, perhaps related to the quantum vacuum energy. Physically viable alternatives invoke either the presence of a scalar field with an evolving equation of state, or extensions of general relativity involving higher-order curvature terms or extra dimensions. Although they produce similar expansion rates, different models predict measurable differences in the growth rate of large-scale structure with cosmic time. A fingerprint of this growth is provided by coherent galaxy motions, which introduce a radial anisotropy in the clustering pattern reconstructed by galaxy redshift surveys. Here we report a measurement of this effect at a redshift of 0.8. Using a new survey of more than 10,000 faint galaxies, we measure the anisotropy parameter b = 0.70 +/- 0.26, which corresponds to a growth rate of structure at that time of f = 0.91 +/- 0.36. This is consistent with the standard cosmological-constant model with low matter density and flat geometry, although the error bars are still too large to distinguish among alternative origins for the accelerated expansion. This could be achieved with a further factor-of-ten increase in the sampled volume at similar redshift., One PDF file including both main paper and Supplementary Information (28 pages, 3+2 figures). Published version available at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7178/abs/nature06555.html
Published: 2007

46. The XMM-LSS survey: the Class 1 cluster sample over the initial 5 square degrees and its cosmological modelling

Author: Pacaud, F., Pierre, M., Adami, C., Altieri, B., Andreon, S., Chiappetti, L., Detal, A., Duc, P. -A., Galaz, G., Gueguen, A., Fèvre, J. -P. Le, Hertling, G., Libbrecht, C., Melin, J. -B., Ponman, T. J., Quintana, H., Refregier, A., Sprimont, P. -G., Surdej, J., Valtchanov, I., Willis, J. P., Alloin, D., Birkinshaw, M., Bremer, M. N., Garcet, O., Jean, C., Jones, L. R., Fèvre, O. Le, Maccagni, D., Mazure, A., Proust, D., Röttgering, H. J. A., Trinchieri, G., Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège], Université de Liège, Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica [Santiago], Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)
Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a sample of 29 galaxy clusters from the XMM-LSS survey over an area of some 5deg2 out to a redshift of z=1.05. The sample clusters, which represent about half of the X-ray clusters identified in the region, follow well defined X-ray selection criteria and are all spectroscopically confirmed. For all clusters, we provide X-ray luminosities and temperatures as well as masses. The cluster distribution peaks around z=0.3 and T =1.5 keV, half of the objects being groups with a temperature below 2 keV. Our L-T(z) relation points toward self-similar evolution, but does not exclude other physically plausible models. Assuming that cluster scaling laws follow self-similar evolution, our number density estimates up to z=1 are compatible with the predictions of the concordance cosmology and with the findings of previous ROSAT surveys. Our well monitored selection function allowed us to demonstrate that the inclusion of selection effects is essential for the correct determination of the evolution of the L-T relation, which may explain the contradictory results from previous studies. Extensive simulations show that extending the survey area to 10deg2 has the potential to exclude the non-evolution hypothesis, but that constraints on more refined ICM models will probably be limited by the large intrinsic dispersion of the L-T relation. We further demonstrate that increasing the dispersion in the scaling laws increases the number of detectable clusters, hence generating further degeneracy [in addition to sigma8, Omega_m, L(M,z) and T(M,z)] in the cosmological interpretation of the cluster number counts. We provide useful empirical formulae for the cluster mass-flux and mass-count-rate relations as well as a comparison between the XMM-LSS mass sensitivity and that of forthcoming SZ surveys., Comment: Accepted for publication by MNRAS. Full resolution images as well as additional cluster data are available through a dedicated database at http://l3sdb.in2p3.fr:8080/l3sdb/
Published: 2007
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47. Relativistic Iron K Emission and absorption in the Seyfert 1.9 galaxy MCG-5-23-16

Author: Andrew Ptak, T. J. Turner, Gulab C. Dewangan, James Reeves, D. Porquet, Richard E. Griffiths, Kirpal Nandra, Tahir Yaqoob, Ian M. George, Alex Markowitz, V. Braito, Kimberly A. Weaver, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg (ObAS), and Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)
Subjects: Galaxies: Individual: Alphanumeric: MCG -5-23-16, Galaxies: Seyfert, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, L-shell, X-Rays: Galaxies, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Emission spectrum, Forbidden mechanism, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Plasma, Galaxies: Active, Galaxy, Full width at half maximum, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]
Abstract: We present the results of the simultaneous deep XMM and Chandra observations of the bright Seyfert 1.9 galaxy MCG-5-23-16, which is thought to have one of the best known examples of a relativistically broadened iron K-alpha line. The time averaged spectral analysis shows that the iron K-shell complex is best modeled with an unresolved narrow emission component (FWHM < 5000 km/s, EW ~ 60 eV) plus a broad component. This latter component has FWHM ~ 44000 km/s and EW ~ 50 eV. Its profile is well described by an emission line originating from an accretion disk viewed with an inclination angle ~ 40^\circ and with the emission arising from within a few tens of gravitational radii of the central black hole. The time-resolved spectral analysis of the XMM EPIC-pn spectrum shows that both the narrow and broad components of the Fe K emission line appear to be constant in time within the errors. We detected a narrow sporadic absorption line at 7.7 keV which appears to be variable on a time-scale of 20 ksec. If associated with Fe XXVI Ly-alpha this absorption is indicative of a possibly variable, high ionization, high velocity outflow. The variability of this absorption feature appears to rule out a local (z=0) origin. The analysis of the XMM RGS spectrum reveals that the soft X-ray emission of MCG-5-23-16 is likely dominated by several emission lines superimposed on an unabsorbed scattered power-law continuum. The lack of strong Fe L shell emission together with the detection of a strong forbidden line in the O VII triplet is consistent with a scenario where the soft X-ray emission lines are produced in a plasma photoionized by the nuclear emission., 45 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2007
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48. The XMM large scale structure survey: optical vs. X-ray classifications of active galactic nuclei and the unified scheme

Author: Eric Gosset, W. Borczyk, Jean Surdej, Simon Rosen, Florian Pacaud, Jonathan Tedds, Poshak Gandhi, L. Chiappetti, Marguerite Pierre, O. Le Fèvre, Thierry Contini, P. G. Sprimont, Axel Schwope, I. Gavignaud, Carol J. Lonsdale, Silvia Mateos, M. Tajer, P. Vaisanen, Francisco J. Carrera, O. Garcet, Amalia Corral, M. J. Page, Jacobo Ebrero, M. G. Watson, Mirko Krumpe, V. Borkowski, Maria del Carmen Polletta, D. Maccagni, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (España), German Centre for Air and Space Travel, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, European Space Agency, Belgian Science Policy Office, Royal Astronomical Society, Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège], Université de Liège, CEA/DCC/DRRV/SCD, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Marcoule, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA), PaleoEnvironnements et PaleobioSphere (PEPS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Faculté de Médecine, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre [Lille]-Université de Lille, Clinique de Pédiatrie, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano (IASF-MI), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), AUTRES, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California-University of California, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Services communs OMP (UMS 831), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Faculté de Médecine Henri Warembourg - Université de Lille, University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and UCL
Subjects: Active galactic nucleus, active [Galaxies], [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, galaxies: quasars: emission lines, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], surveys, 0103 physical sciences, Scale structure, Emission spectrum, quasars : emission lines [galaxies], X-ray: galaxies, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, quasars: emission lines [Galaxies], [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), X-ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies [X-ray]
Abstract: [Aims]: Our goal is to characterize AGN populations by comparing their X-ray and optical classifications within the framework of the standard orientation-based unified scheme. [Methods]: We present a sample of 99 spectroscopically identified (R ≤ 22 mag) X-ray selected point sources in the XMM-LSS survey which are significantly detected (≥3σ) in the [2-10] keV band with fluxes between 8 × 10-15 and 8 × 10 -14 erg s-1 cm-2, and which have more than 80 counts. We have compared their X-ray and optical classifications. To this end, we performed an X-ray spectral analysis for all of these 99 X-ray sources in order to assess whether they are intrinsically absorbed or not. The X-ray classification is based on the measured intrinsic column density. The optical classification is based on the measured FWHM of the permitted emission lines, the absence of broad lines being due to obscuration within the framework of the standard AGN unified scheme. [Results]: Introducing the fourfold point correlation coefficient r, we find a mild correlation between the X-ray and the optical classifications (r = 0.28), as up to 32 X-ray sources out of 99 have differing X-ray and optical classifications: on one hand, 10% of the type 1 sources (7/32) present broad emission lines in their optical spectra and strong absorption (NH int ≥ 1022 cm-2) in the X-rays. These objects are highly luminous AGN lying at high redshift and thus dilution effects by the host galaxy light are totally ruled out, their discrepant nature being an intrinsic property instead. Their X-ray luminosities and redshifts distributions are consistent with those of the unabsorbed X-ray sources with broad emission lines (L2-10 ∼ 4 × 10 44 erg s-1; z ∼ 1.9). On the other hand, 25/32 are moderate luminosity (L2-10 ≤ 5 × 1043 erg s -1) AGN, which are both unabsorbed in the X-rays and only present narrow emission lines in their optical spectra. Based on their line ratios in the optical, the majority of them have an optical spectrum which is more representative of the host galaxy rather than of a reddened AGN. We finally infer that dilution of the AGN by the host galaxy seems to account for their nature. 5/25 have been defined as Seyfert 2 based on their optical spectra. In conclusion, most of these 32 discrepant cases can be accounted for by the standard AGN unified scheme, as its predictions are not met for only 12% of the 99 X-ray sources., OG, EG, PGS, VB, and JS acknowledge support from the ESA PRODEX Programme “XMM-LSS”, and from the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office for their support. LC, DM, MT acknowledge financial contribution from contract ASI-INAF I/023/05/0. PG is a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. MK acknowledges the German DLR under grant 50OR0404. ACR, JEC and FJC acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, under projects ESP2003-00812 and ESP2006-13608-C02-01. JAT, SM, SR and MW acknowledge support from the UK PPARC research council.
Published: 2007

49. The high-redshift gamma-ray burst GRB 140515A

Author: Lara Nava, P. D'Avanzo, Dong Xu, S. R. Oates, A. de Ugarte Postigo, Stefano Covino, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, P. Goldoni, E. Gafton, A. Melandri, J. Gorosabel, J. Japelj, Valerio D'Elia, D. Malesani, Sergio Campana, S. D. Vergani, Christina C. Thöne, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, F. Nappo, Nickolay Y. Gnedin, G. Tagliaferri, Ruben Salvaterra, M. G. Bernardini, Gabriele Ghisellini, Tine Libbrecht, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Dark Cosmology Centre (DARK), Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, ITA, USA, FRA, ESP, DNK, ISR, CHN, SVN, and SWE
Subjects: Physics, gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 140515A, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, media_common.quotation_subject, gamma-ray burst: general, Extinction (astronomy), X-ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Light curve, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Galaxy, Universe, Redshift, galaxies: high-redshift, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, intergalactic medium, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Gamma-ray burst, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Event (particle physics), media_common
Abstract: High-redshift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offer several advantages when studying the distant Universe, providing unique information about the structure and properties of the galaxies in which they exploded. Spectroscopic identification with large ground-based telescopes has improved our knowledge of this kind of distant events. We present the multi-wavelength analysis of the high-zSwift GRB GRB 140515A (z = 6.327). The best estimate of the neutral hydrogen fraction of the intergalactic medium towards the burst is xHI ≤ 0.002. The spectral absorption lines detected for this event are the weakest lines ever observed in GRB afterglows, suggesting that GRB 140515A exploded in a very low-density environment. Its circum-burst medium is characterised by an average extinction (AV ~ 0.1) that seems to be typical of z ≥ 6 events. The observed multi-band light curves are explained either with a very hard injected spectrum (p = 1.7) or with a multi-component emission (p = 2.1). In the second case a long-lasting central engine activity is needed in order to explain the late time X-ray emission. The possible origin of GRB 140515A in a Pop III (or in a Pop II star with a local environment enriched by Pop III) massive star is unlikely. Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, ESO, the VLT/Kueyen telescope, Paranal, Chile (proposal code: 093.A-0069), on observations made with the Nordic Optical Telescope, operated by the Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Association at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (programme 49-008), and on observations made with the Italian 3.6-m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), operated by the Fundación Galileo Galilei of the INAF (Instituto Nazionale di Astrofisica) at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (programme A26TAC_63).Appendix A is available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
Published: 2015

50. The Canada-France Deep Fields Survey. III. Photometric Redshift Distribution to IAB = 24

Author: M. Brodwin, S. J. Lilly, H. J. McCracken, O. Le Fevre, Yannick Mellier, Sylvie Foucaud, D. Crampton, Cristiano Porciani, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano (IASF-MI), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Monte Carlo method, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Photometry (optics), Methods: Statistical, Galaxies: Distances and Redshifts, Methods: Data Analysis, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxies: Photometry, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Photometric redshift, Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics (astro-ph), Sigma, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift survey, Redshift, Distribution (mathematics), Space and Planetary Science, Magnitude (astronomy)
Abstract: We compute accurate redshift distributions to I(AB) = 24 and R(AB) = 24.5 using photometric redshifts estimated from six-band UBVRIZ photometry in the Canada-France Deep Fields-Photometric Redshift Survey (CFDF-PRS). Our photometric redshift algorithm is calibrated using hundreds of CFRS spectroscopic redshifts in the same fields. The dispersion in redshift is \sigma/(1+z) \la 0.04 to the CFRS depth of I(AB) = 22.5, rising to \sigma/(1+z) \la 0.06 at our nominal magnitude and redshift limits of I(AB) = 24 and z \le 1.3, respectively. We describe a new method to compute N(z) that incorporates the full redshift likelihood functions in a Bayesian iterative analysis and we demonstrate in extensive Monte Carlo simulations that it is superior to distributions calculated using simple maximum likelihood redshifts. The field-to-field differences in the redshift distributions, while not unexpected theoretically, are substantial even on 30' scales. We provide I(AB) and R(AB) redshift distributions, median redshifts, and parametrized fits of our results in various magnitude ranges, accounting for both random and systematic errors in the analysis., Comment: 19 Pages, 8 Tables, 13 Figures. Replaced to match published version. Main results unchanged
Published: 2006

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