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Full orbital solution for the binary system in the northern Galactic disc microlensing event Gaia16aye
Reichart, D. E.; Harrison, D. L.; Hanlon, L. +182 more
Gaia16aye was a binary microlensing event discovered in the direction towards the northern Galactic disc and was one of the first microlensing events detected and alerted to by the Gaia space mission. Its light curve exhibited five distinct brightening episodes, reaching up to I = 12 mag, and it was covered in great detail with almost 25 000 data …
A HARPS RV search for planets around young nearby stars
Meunier, N.; Messina, S.; Keppler, M. +11 more
Context. Young nearby stars are good candidates in the search for planets with both radial velocity (RV) and direct imaging techniques. This, in turn, allows for the computation of the giant planet occurrence rates at all separations. The RV search around young stars is a challenge as they are generally faster rotators than older stars of similar …
Ellerman bombs and UV bursts: reconnection at different atmospheric layers
Nóbrega-Siverio, Daniel; Ortiz, Ada; Hansteen, Viggo H. +1 more
The emergence of magnetic flux through the photosphere and into the outer solar atmosphere produces, amongst other dynamical phenomena, Ellerman bombs (EBs), which are observed in the wings of Hα and are due to magnetic reconnection in the photosphere below the chromospheric canopy. Signs of magnetic reconnection are also observed in other spectra…
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Characterization of the nearby ultra-compact multiplanetary system YZ Ceti
Amado, P. J.; Bauer, F. F.; Caballero, J. A. +38 more
Context. The nearby ultra-compact multiplanetary system YZ Ceti consists of at least three planets, and a fourth tentative signal. The orbital period of each planet is the subject of discussion in the literature due to strong aliasing in the radial velocity data. The stellar activity of this M dwarf also hampers significantly the derivation of the…
Coordination within the remote sensing payload on the Solar Orbiter mission
Williams, D.; Woch, J.; Peter, H. +71 more
Context. To meet the scientific objectives of the mission, the Solar Orbiter spacecraft carries a suite of in-situ (IS) and remote sensing (RS) instruments designed for joint operations with inter-instrument communication capabilities. Indeed, previous missions have shown that the Sun (imaged by the RS instruments) and the heliosphere (mainly samp…
The Gaia-ESO Survey: Calibrating the lithium-age relation with open clusters and associations. I. Cluster age range and initial membership selections
Baratella, M.; Gilmore, G.; Bayo, A. +33 more
Context. Previous studies of open clusters have shown that lithium depletion is not only strongly age dependent but also shows a complex pattern with other parameters that is not yet understood. For pre- and main-sequence late-type stars, these parameters include metallicity, mixing mechanisms, convection structure, rotation, and magnetic activity…
Impact of polarised extragalactic sources on the measurement of CMB B-mode anisotropies
Lagache, G.; Montier, L.; Tucci, M. +2 more
One of the main goals of cosmology is to search for the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the polarisation filed of the cosmic microwave background to probe inflation theories. One of the obstacles in detecting the primordial signal is that the cosmic microwave background B-mode polarisation must be extracted from among astrophysical co…
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. LP 714-47 b (TOI 442.01): populating the Neptune desert
Barbieri, M.; Amado, P. J.; Bauer, F. F. +118 more
We report the discovery of a Neptune-like planet (LP 714-47 b, P = 4.05204 d, mb = 30.8 ± 1.5M⊕, Rb = 4.7 ± 0.3 R⊕) located in the "hot Neptune desert". Confirmation of the TESS Object of Interest (TOI 442.01) was achieved with radial-velocity follow-up using CARMENES, ESPRESSO, HIRES, iSHELL, and PFS, a…
The multi-thermal chromosphere. Inversions of ALMA and IRIS data
De Pontieu, B.; Leenaarts, J.; da Silva Santos, J. M. +4 more
Context. Numerical simulations of the solar chromosphere predict a diverse thermal structure with both hot and cool regions. Observations of plage regions in particular typically feature broader and brighter chromospheric lines, which suggests that they are formed in hotter and denser conditions than in the quiet Sun, but also implies a nonthermal…
The single star path to Be stars
Langer, Norbert; Hastings, Ben; Wang, Chen
Context. Be stars are rapidly rotating B main sequence stars that show line emission due to an outflowing disc. By studying the evolution of rotating single star models, we can assess their contribution to the observed Be star populations.
Aims: We identify the main effects that cause single stars to approach critical rotation as functions of…