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HR 6819 is a binary system with no black hole. Revisiting the source with infrared interferometry and optical integral field spectroscopy
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202143004 Bibcode: 2022A&A...659L...3F

Rivinius, Th.; Baade, D.; Shenar, T. +16 more

Context. Two scenarios have been proposed to match the existing observational constraints of the object HR 6819. The system could consist of a close inner B-type giant plus a black hole (BH) binary with an additional Be companion in a wide orbit. Alternatively, it could be a binary composed of a stripped B star and a Be star in a close orbit. Eith…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 30
LoTSS jellyfish galaxies. III. The first identification of jellyfish galaxies in the Perseus cluster
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142294 Bibcode: 2022A&A...658A..44R

Botteon, A.; van Weeren, R. J.; Ignesti, A. +4 more

In this paper we report the first identification of jellyfish galaxies in the Perseus cluster (Abell 426). We identified four jellyfish galaxies (LEDA 2191078, MCG +07-07-070, UGC 2654, UGC 2665) within the central 2° ×2° (2.6 Mpc × 2.6 Mpc) of Perseus based on the presence of one-sided radio continuum tails that were detected at 144 MHz by the LO…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 29
Non-LTE abundance corrections for late-type stars from 2000 Å to 3 µm. I. Na, Mg, and Al
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142195 Bibcode: 2022A&A...665A..33L

Sneden, C.; Lind, K.; Barklem, P. S. +6 more

Context. It is well known that cool star atmospheres depart from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). Making an accurate abundance determination requires taking those effects into account, but the necessary non-LTE (hereafter NLTE) calculations are often lacking.
Aims: Our goal is to provide detailed estimates of NLTE effects for FGK type s…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 29
Survey of Orion Disks with ALMA (SODA). I. Cloud-level demographics of 873 protoplanetary disks
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141913 Bibcode: 2022A&A...661A..53V

van Dishoeck, E. F.; Portegies Zwart, S.; Hacar, A. +2 more

Context. Surveys of protoplanetary disks in nearby star-forming regions (SFRs) have provided important information on their demographics. However, due to their sample sizes, these surveys cannot be used to study how disk properties vary with the environment.
Aims: We conduct a survey of the unresolved millimeter continuum emission of 873 prot…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia Herschel 29
The XXL survey. XLVI. Forward cosmological analysis of the C1 cluster sample
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141204 Bibcode: 2022A&A...663A...3G

Umetsu, Keiichi; Gastaldello, Fabio; Sereno, Mauro +15 more

Context. We present the forward cosmological analysis of an XMM-selected sample of galaxy clusters out to a redshift of unity. We derive mass-observable relations in a self-consistent manner using the sample alone. Special care is given to the modelling of selection effects.
Aims: Following our previous 2018 study based on the dn/dz quantity …

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 29
The Sagittarius stream in Gaia Early Data Release 3 and the origin of the bifurcations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142830 Bibcode: 2022A&A...666A..64R

Antoja, T.; Ramos, P.; Arentsen, A. +6 more

Context. The Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal (Sgr) is a dissolving galaxy being tidally disrupted by the Milky Way (MW). Its stellar stream still poses serious modelling challenges, which hinders our ability to use it effectively as a prospective probe of the MW gravitational potential at large radii.
Aims: Our goal is to construct the largest a…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 29
Lithium depletion boundary, stellar associations, and Gaia
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141114 Bibcode: 2022A&A...664A..70G

Montesinos, B.; Bayo, A.; Huélamo, N. +9 more

Context. Stellar ages are key to improving our understanding of different astrophysical phenomena. However, many techniques to estimate stellar ages are highly model-dependent. The lithium depletion boundary (LDB), based on the presence or absence of lithium in low-mass stars, can be used to derive ages in stellar associations of between 20 and 50…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST 29
The magnetic drivers of campfires seen by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on Solar Orbiter
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142873 Bibcode: 2022A&A...660A.143K

Schmidt, W.; Woch, J.; Peter, H. +56 more

Context. The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on board the Solar Orbiter (SO) spacecraft observed small extreme ultraviolet (EUV) bursts, termed campfires, that have been proposed to be brightenings near the apexes of low-lying loops in the quiet-Sun atmosphere. The underlying magnetic processes driving these campfires are not understood.
Aim…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SolarOrbiter 29
Warm molecular and ionized gas kinematics in the type-2 quasar J0945+1737
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243585 Bibcode: 2022A&A...665A..55S

Alexander, D. M.; Lapi, A.; Brusa, M. +11 more

We analyse Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) observations of the type-2 quasar (QSO2) SDSS J094521.33+173753.2 to investigate its warm molecular and ionized gas kinematics. This QSO2 has a bolometric luminosity of 1045.7 erg s−1 and a redshift of z = 0.128. The K-band spectra provided by NIFS cover a range of 1…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 28
Kinematic properties of white dwarfs. Galactic orbital parameters and age-velocity dispersion relation
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141837 Bibcode: 2022A&A...658A..22R

Rebassa-Mansergas, Alberto; Raddi, Roberto; Torres, Santiago +9 more

Context. Kinematic and chemical tagging of stellar populations have both revealed much information on the past and recent history of the Milky Way, including its formation history, merger events, and mixing of populations across the Galactic disk and halo.
Aims: We present the first detailed 3D kinematic analysis of a sample of 3133 white dwa…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 28