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Energetic particle fluxes in the outer magnetosphere present a significant challenge to modelling efforts as they can vary by orders of magnitude in response to solar wind driving conditions. In this article, we demonstrate the ability to…

The absolute flux calibration of the Mid-Infrared Instrument Imaging and Coronagraphy is based on observations of multiple stars taken during the first 2.5 years of JWST operations. The observations were designed to ensure that the flux…

We study the contradictory magnetic field strength distributions retrieved from independent analyses of spectropolarimetric observations in the near-infrared (1.56 micron) and in the visible (630 nm) at internetwork regions. In order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Martinez Gonzalez , M. Collados , B. Ruiz Cobo , C. Beck

We have observed six high-mass star-forming regions in the 2 Pi 3/2, J = 7/2 lines of OH using the GBT in order to investigate whether the magnetic field, and hence the density, measured in absorption differs from that implied by maser…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vincent L. Fish , Mark J. Reid , Karl M. Menten

When observed in quiet regions close to the solar limb, many strong resonance lines show conspicuous linear polarization signals, produced by scattering processes, with extended wing lobes. Recent studies indicate that, contrary to what was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Emilia Capozzi , Ernest Alsina Ballester , Luca Belluzzi , Javier Trujillo Bueno

We investigated a volume-limited sample of LAMOST main-sequence stars with masses from 0.25 to 1 $M_{\odot}$ and distances of 150-350 pc to explore how the stellar initial mass function (IMF) varies with metallicity. We corrected the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Dan Qiu , Chao Liu , Jennifer A. Johnson , Jiadong Li , Bo Zhang

The magnetic field strength to gas density relation in the interstellar medium is of fundamental importance. We present and compare Bayesian analyses of the B-n relation for two comprehensive observational data sets: a Zeeman data set and…

We present a prescription to correct large-scale intensity variations affecting imaging data taken with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at the MPG/ESO 2.2 m telescope at the European Southern Observatory at La Silla in Chile. Such smoothly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Koch , M. Odenkirchen , E. K. Grebel , J. A. R. Caldwell

Flux transfer events (FTEs) are a type of magnetospheric phenomena that exhibit distinctive observational signatures from the in-situ spacecraft measurements across the Earth's magnetopause. They are generally believed to possess a magnetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Shuo Wang , Ying Zou , Qiang Hu , Xueling Shi , Hiroshi Hasegawa

Umbral flashes (UF) and running penumbral waves (RPWs) in sunspot chromospheres leave a dramatic imprint in the intensity profile of the Ca II 854.2 nm line. Recent studies have focussed on also explaining the observed polarization…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Jayant Joshi , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez

We use, for the first time, the Detrend Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) to study the correlation properties of the transmitted flux fluctuations, in the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) Forest along the lines of sight (LOS) to QSOs, at different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-23 R. N. Guimarães , P. Petitjean , E. Rollinde , S. G. Djorgovski , M. S. da Silva , M. A Moret

We present constraints on the stellar initial mass function (IMF) in two ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies, Hercules and Leo IV, based on deep HST/ACS imaging. The Hercules and Leo IV galaxies are extremely low luminosity (M_V = -6.2, -5.5),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Geha , T. M. Brown , J. Tumlinson , J. Kalirai , J. D. Simon , E. Kirby , D. VandenBerg , R. M. Munoz , R. Avila , P. Guhathakurta , H. Ferguson

We investigate the characteristics of FIR brightness fluctuations at 90 micron and 170 micron in the Lockman Hole, which were surveyed with ISOPHOT aboard the Infrared Space Observatory(ISO). We first calculated the angular correlation…

Using photometry from the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) and photometry and spectroscopy from three ground-based optical datasets we have analyzed the stellar content of OB associations and field areas in and around the regions N 79, N…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Joel Wm. Parker , Dennis Zaritsky , Theodore P. Stecher , Jason Harris , Phil Massey

The sources which reionized the Intergalactic Medium by redshift ~6 are still unknown. A severe constraint on the ionization process is the low emissivity required to maintain the ionization in the Lyman-{\alpha} forest.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sirichai Chongchitnan , Avery Meiksin

Strong surface magnetic fields are ubiquitously found in M-dwarfs with mean intensities on the order of few thousand Gauss-three orders of magnitude higher than the mean surface magnetic field of the Sun. These fields and their interaction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-08 D. Shulyak , A. Reiners , S. Wende , O. Kochukhov , N. Piskunov , A. Seifahrt

Context. High resolution magnetic field measurements are routinely done only in the solar photosphere. Higher layers like the chromosphere and corona can be modeled by extrapolating the photospheric magnetic field upward. In the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Thomas Wiegelmann , Sami Solanki

Polarity imbalance of the photospheric magnetic field was studied using synoptic maps of NSO Kitt Peak (1976-2016). Imbalance of positive and negative fluxes was considered for the fields with strength B>50 G in the sunspot zone (5 deg - 40…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 E. S. Vernova , M. I. Tyasto , D. G. Baranov , O. A. Danilova

Besides their own intrinsic interest, correct interpretation of solar surface magnetic field observations is crucial to our ability to describe the global magnetic structure of the solar atmosphere. Photospheric magnetograms are often used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-29 Gordon J. D. Petrie , Irina Patrikeeva

It is known that the magnetic field of the Earth's closed magnetosphere can be highly displaced from the quiet-day configuration when interacting with the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), an asymmetry largely controlled by the dawn-dusk…