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Straight outta photosphere: Open solar flux without coronal modeling
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451267 Bibcode: 2024A&A...688L..32T

Tähtinen, Ismo; Asikainen, Timo; Mursula, Kalevi

Context. The open solar flux, that is, the total magnetic flux escaping the Sun, is one of the most important parameters connecting solar activity to the Earth. The open solar flux is commonly estimated from photospheric magnetic field measurements by making model assumptions about the solar corona. However, the question in which way the open sola…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 2
Once in a blue stream. Detection of recent star formation in the NGC 7241 stellar stream with MEGARA
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244350 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A.157M

Leaman, Ryan; Erkal, Denis; Voggel, Karina T. +23 more


Aims: In this work we study the striking case of a narrow blue stream with a possible globular cluster-like progenitor around the NGC 7241 galaxy and its foreground dwarf companion. We want to figure out if the stream was generated by tidal interaction with NGC 7241 or if it first interacted with the foreground dwarf companion and later both …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 2
Asteroid spin and shape properties from Gaia DR3 photometry
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449297 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A.277C

Mignard, F.; Tanga, P.; Cellino, A. +1 more

Context. The third data release of Gaia, in June 2022, included the first large sample of sparse photometric data for more than 150 000 Solar System objects (SSOs), mainly asteroids.
Aims: The SSO photometric data can be processed to derive information on the physical properties for a large number of objects, including spin properties, surfac…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 2
Yellow hypergiant V509 Cas: Stable in the `yellow void'
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348775 Bibcode: 2024A&A...686A.270K

Kolka, I.; Kasikov, A.; Aret, A. +2 more

Context. The yellow hypergiant star V509 Cas is currently undergoing an extreme phase of evolution. Having experienced eruptive mass-loss outbursts in the 20th century, the star's effective temperature reached record high values in the early 2000s. However, since then, the star's behaviour has displayed an unprecedented level of…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 2
Sublimation of volatiles from H2O:CO2 bulk ices in the context of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. II. Noble gases
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449554 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A..78L

Wurz, P.; Altwegg, K.; Rubin, M. +6 more

Context. The ROSINA instrument on board the Rosetta spacecraft measured, among others, the outgassing of noble gases from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The interpretation of this dataset and unravelling underlying desorption mechanisms requires detailed laboratory studies.
Aims: We aim to improve our understanding of the desorption pattern…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Rosetta 2
A star under multiple influences. Magnetic activity in V815 Her, a compact 2+2 hierarchical system
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348324 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A..94K

Strassmeier, K. G.; Weber, M.; Granzer, T. +7 more

Context. Close binaries with magnetically active components are astrophysical laboratories for studying the effects of binarity on activity. Of particular interest are binary and multiple star systems that contain a solar-type active component with an internal structure similar to the Sun, allowing us to study how the dynamo of a solar-type star w…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 2
A study of two young multipolar planetary nebulae: Hen 2-73 and Hen 2-96
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449751 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A..99W

Wen, Shibo; Wang, Yong-Zhi; Hsia, Chih-Hao +4 more

We perform an infrared (IR) spectral and visible morphological study of two young planetary nebulae (YPNe) Hen 2-73 and Hen 2-96 using archival Spitzer Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations to understand their dust properties and nebular structures. High-resolution HST images of these nebulae show several bipolar lobes and …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
AKARI Gaia Herschel eHST 2
The miniJPAS survey. Optical detection of galaxy clusters with PZWav
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202349019 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A..98D

Finoguenov, A.; Hernán-Caballero, A.; Mendes de Oliveira, C. +21 more

Context. Galaxy clusters are an essential tool to understand and constrain the cosmological parameters of our universe. Thanks to its multi-band design, J-PAS offers a unique group and cluster detection window using precise photometric redshifts and sufficient depths.
Aims: We produced galaxy cluster catalogues from miniJPAS, which is a pathf…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 2
The giant outburst of EXO 2030+375. II. Broadband spectroscopy and evolution
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348595 Bibcode: 2024A&A...688A.214B

Wolff, M. T.; Wilms, J.; Pottschmidt, K. +13 more

In 2021, the high-mass X-ray binary EXO 2030+375 underwent a giant X-ray outburst, the first since 2006, that reached a peak flux of ∼600 mCrab (3-50 keV). The goal of this work is to study the spectral evolution over the course of the outburst, search for possible cyclotron resonance scattering features (CRSFs), and to associate spectral componen…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
INTEGRAL 2
Impact of α enhancement on the asteroseismic age determination of field stars. Application to the APO-K2 catalogue
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348930 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A.150V

Valle, G.; Dell'Omodarme, M.; Prada Moroni, P. G. +1 more


Aims: We investigated the theoretical biases affecting the asteroseismic grid-based estimates of stellar mass, radius, and age in the presence of a mismatch between the heavy element mixture of observed stars and stellar models.
Methods: We performed a controlled simulation adopting a stellar effective temperature, [Fe/H], an average lar…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 2