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FK Baganoff (Fkb [AT] Space.Mit.Edu) February 2020 ACIS/MIT Science Publication Report SAO contract SV2-82023 under NASA contract NAS8-03060 From: F. K. Baganoff (fkb [AT] space.mit.edu) The following report describes ACIS Team science publication activity at MIT through 29 February 2020. The contents are as follows: I . Sgr A* / Galactic Center II . Strong Gravitational Lenses III . Dark Matter Halos and Galaxy Clusters IV . Stars and Compact Objects V . Solar System Objects VI . Gamma-ray Bursts VII . Instrumentation A1 . Appendix 1: Cumulative bibliography, 2000-present A2 . Appendix 2: Cumulative list of GTO observations 1 I. Sgr A* / Galactic Center Papers in Refereed Journals: • The Chandra High Resolution X-Ray Spectrum of Quiescent Emission from Sgr A* Corrales, L., Baganoff, F.K., Principe, D., et al. 2020, ApJ, submitted (arXiv:2002.07198) Talks & Conference Proceedings: II. Dark Matter Halos and Galaxy Clusters Papers in Refereed Journals: • An X-ray Detection of Star Formation in a Highly Magnified Giant Arc Bayliss, M.B., McDonald, M., et al. 2020, NatAs, 4, 159 Talks & Conference Proceedings: • Complementarity of SZ and X-ray observations in light of the NIKA2 SZ Large Program Ruppin, F. Invited Talk High angular resolution SZ observations with NIKA2 Rome/Paris/Grenoble Teleconference 2020 February III. Solar System Objects Papers in Refereed Journals: Talks & Conference Proceedings: 2 A1. Cumulative Bibliography 246. An X-ray Detection of Star Formation in a Highly Magnified Giant Arc Bayliss, M.B., McDonald, M., et al. 2020, NatAs, 4, 159 245. Chandra Spectral and Timing Analysis of Sgr A*'s Brightest X-Ray Flares Haggard, D., Nynka, M., Baganoff, F. et al. 2019, ApJ, 886, 96 244. Discovery of a Powerful > 1061 erg AGN Outburst in the Distant Galaxy Cluster SPT-CLJ0528−5300 Calzadilla, M.S., McDonald, M., Bayliss, M., et al. 2019, ApJ, 887, L17 243. NuSTAR and Chandra Observations of New X-Ray Transients in the Central Parsec of the Galaxy Mori, K., Baganoff, F.K., Nynka, M., et al. 2019, ApJ, 885, 142 242. Anatomy of a Cooling Flow: The Feedback Response to Pure Cooling in the Core of the Phoenix Cluster McDonald, M., Garmire, G.P., Somboonpanyakul, T., et al. 2019, ApJ, 885, 63 241. No Sign of G2's Encounter Affecting Sgr A*'s X-Ray Flaring Rate from Chandra Observations Bouffard, E,´ Baganoff, F.K., et al. 2019, ApJ, 884, 148 240. Impact of the Mean Pressure Profile of Galaxy Clusters on the Cosmological Constraints from the Planck tSZ Power Spectrum Ruppin, F., et al. 2019, MNRAS, 490, 784 239. Cluster Cosmology Constraints from the 2500 deg2 SPT-SZ Survey: Inclusion of Weak Gravitational Lensing Data from Magellan and the Hubble Space Telescope Bocquet, S., Bautz, M., Garmire, G.P., McDonald, M., et al. 2019, ApJ, 878, 55 238. Impact of ICM Disturbances on the Mean Pressure Profile of Galaxy Clusters: A Prospective Study of the NIKA2 SZ Large Program with MUSIC Synthetic Clusters Ruppin, F., et al. 2019, A&A, 631, A21 3 237. First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Physical Origin of the Asymmetric Ring Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Baganoff, F.K., Zhang, S., et al. 2019, ApJ, 875, L5 236. First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Baganoff, F.K., Zhang, S., et al. 2019, ApJ, 875, L1 235. A Deep Chandra View of a Candidate Parsec-Scale Jet from the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole Zhu, Z., Zhang, S., et al. 2019, ApJ, 875, 44 234. Investigating the Origin of the Faint Non-thermal Emission of the Arches Cluster using the 2015{2016 NuSTAR and XMM-Newton X-ray Observations Kuznetsova, E., Zhang, S., et al. 2019, MNRAS, 484, 1627 233. Revealing a Highly-Dynamic Cluster Core in Abell 1664 with Chandra Calzadilla, M.S., McDonald, M., et al. 2019, ApJ, 875, 65 232. The Fraction of Active Galactic Nuclei in the USS 1558−003 Protocluster at z = 2:53 Macuga, M., Miller, E., et al. 2019, ApJ, 874, 54 231. Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and X-ray Scaling Relations from Weak Lensing Mass Calibration of 32 South Pole Telescope Selected Galaxy Clusters Dietrich, J.P., Bulbul, E., McDonald, M., et al. 2019, MNRAS, 483, 2871 230. A Remarkably Loud Quasi-Periodicity after a Star is Disrupted by a Massive Black Hole Pasham, D.R., Baganoff, F.K., et al. 2019, Science, 363, 531 229. Simultaneous X-ray and Infrared Observations of Sagittarius A*'s Variability Boyce, H., Baganoff, F., et al. 2019, ApJ, 871, 161 228. Observatory Science with eXTP in 't Zand, J.J.M., Zhang, S., et al. 2019, SCPMA, 62, 29506 227. Astrophysics with the Spatially and Spectrally Resolved Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effects: A Millimetre/Submillimetre Probe of the Warm and Hot Universe Mroczkowski, T., Ruppin, F., et al. 2019, SSRv, 215, 17 4 226. X-ray Properties of SPT Selected Galaxy Clusters at 0:2 < z < 1:5 Observed with XMM-Newton Bulbul, E., McDonald, M., Bautz, M.W., Bayliss, M., Miller, E.D., et al. 2019, ApJ, 871, 50 225. Galaxy Kinematics and Mass Calibration in Massive SZE-selected Galaxy Clusters to z = 1:3 Capasso, R., Bayliss, M.B., Bulbul, E., McDonald, M., et al. 2019, MNRAS, 482, 1043 224. A Detailed Study of the Most Relaxed SPT-Selected Galaxy Clusters: Properties of the Cool Core and Central Galaxy McDonald, M., Bayliss, M.B., Garmire, G.P., et al. 2019, ApJ, 870, 85 223. Spectroscopic Confirmation of Five Galaxy Clusters at z > 1:25 in the 2500 sq. deg. SPT-SZ Survey Khullar, G., Bayliss, M.B., McDonald, M., Bulbul, E., et al. 2019, ApJ, 870, 7 222. Assessing Quasi-Periodicities in Jovian X-Ray Emissions: Techniques and Heritage Survey Jackman, C.M., Ford, P., et al. 2018, JGRA, 123, 9204 221. Stripping of the Hot Gas Halos in Member Galaxies of Abell 1795 Wagner, C.R., McDonald, M., & Courteau, S. 2018, ApJ, 867, 14 220. Multiwavelength Light Curves of Two Remarkable Sagittarius A* Flares Fazio, G.G., Baganoff, F., et al. 2018, ApJ, 864, 58 219. Variability Timescale and Spectral Index of Sgr A* in the Near Infrared: Approximate Bayesian Computation Analysis of the Variability of the Closest Supermassive Black Hole Witzel, G., Baganoff, F., et al. 2018, ApJ, 863, 15 218. Baryon Content in a Sample of 91 Galaxy Clusters Selected by the South Pole Telescope at 0:2 < z < 1:25 Chiu, I., McDonald, M., Bulbul, E., Garmire, G., et al. 2018, MNRAS, 478, 3072 217. The Clusters Hiding in Plain Sight (CHiPS) Survey: A First Discovery of a Massive Nearby Cluster around PKS 1353?341 Somboonpanyakul, T., McDonald, M., et al. 2018, ApJ, 863, 122 5 216. NuSTAR Detection of a Hard X-ray Source in the Supernova Remnant | Molecular Cloud Interaction Site of IC 443 Zhang, S., Baganoff, F.K., et al. 2018, ApJ, 859, 141 215. Searching for the 3.5 keV Line in the Deep Fields with Chandra: the 10 Ms Observations Cappelluti, N., Bulbul, E., Bautz, M.W., Miller, E., et al. 2018, ApJ, 854, 179 214. Cluster Mass Calibration at High Redshift: HST Weak Lensing Analysis of 13 Distant Galaxy Clusters from the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Survey Schrabback, T., McDonald, M., et al. 2018, MNRAS, 474, 2635 213. The Independent Pulsations of Jupiter's Northern and Southern X-ray Auroras Dunn, W.R., Ford, P.G., et al. 2017, NatAs, 1, 758 212. Chandra Monitoring of the Galactic Centre Magnetar SGR J1745−2900 During the Initial 3.5 Years of Outburst Decay Coti Zelati, F., Baganoff, F.K., et al. 2017, MNRAS, 471, 1819 211. NuSTAR Hard X-Ray Observation of the Gamma-Ray Binary Candidate HESS J1832−093 Mori, K., Zhang, S., et al. 2017, ApJ, 848, 80 210. Simultaneous Monitoring of X-ray and Radio Variability in Sagittarius A* Capellupo, D.M., Baganoff, F., et al. 2017, ApJ, 845, 35 209. Sagittarius A* High-Energy X-Ray Flare Properties during NuSTAR Monitoring of the Galactic Center from 2012 to 2015 Zhang, S., Baganoff, F.K., Neilsen, J., Nowak, M.A., et al. 2017, ApJ, 843, 96 208. The Remarkable Similarity of Massive Galaxy Clusters from z ∼ 0 to z ∼ 1:9 McDonald, M., Bulbul, E., Garmire, G.P., et al. 2017, ApJ, 843, 28 207. A Powerful Flare from Sgr A* Confirms the Synchrotron Nature of the X-ray Emission G. Ponti, Zhang, S., et al. 2017, MNRAS, 468, 2447 206. Sagittarius A* High-Energy X-Ray Flare Properties during NuSTAR Monitoring of the Galactic Center from 2012 to 2015 Zhang, S., Baganoff, F.K., Neilsen, J., Nowak, M.A., et al. 6 2017, ApJ, 843, 96 205. Testing for X-ray-SZ Differences and Redshift Evolution in the X-ray Morphology of Galaxy Clusters Nurgaliev, D., McDonald, M., Garmire, G.P., et al. 2017, ApJ, 841, 5 204. High-Frequency Cluster Radio Galaxies: Luminosity Functions and Implications for SZE Selected Cluster Samples Gupta, N., McDonald, M., et al. 2017, MNRAS, 467, 3737 g 203. The Chandra Dust-Scattering Halo of Galactic Center Transient Swift J174540.7−290015 Corrales, L.R., Baganoff, F.K., Garmire, G., et al. 2017, ApJ, 839, 76 202. Identification of the Hard X-Ray Source Dominating the E > 25 keV Emission of the Nearby Galaxy M31 Yukita, M., Baganoff, F., et al. 2017, ApJ, 838, 47 201. Constraints on the Optical Depth of Galaxy Groups and Clusters Flender, S., Nagar, D., & McDonald, M. 2017, ApJ, 837, 124 200. Hitomi Constraints on the 3.5 keV Line in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster Aharonian, F.A., Bautz, M.W., Bulbul, E., Miller, E.D., et al.
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