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A deeper solution to the actual geometry of CCD mosaic chips
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141725 Bibcode: 2022A&A...661A..75Z

Vienne, A.; Lin, F. R.; Peng, Q. Y. +2 more

Context. For charge-coupled device (CCD) mosaic chips in the focal plane of a large telescope, the unification for all the measurements of each chip is vital to some scientific projects, such as deep astrometric standards or construction for deeper images that can also seamlessly cover a larger area of the sky. A key part of the reduction involves…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 4
Cloud motion and magnetic fields: Four clouds in the Cepheus Flare region
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140495 Bibcode: 2022A&A...658A..55S

Maheswar, G.; Dib, S.; Sharma, E.

Context. The Cepheus Flare region consists of a group of dark cloud complexes that are currently active in star formation.
Aims: The aim of this work is to estimate the motions of four clouds, namely L1147/1158, L1172/1174, L1228, and L1251, located at relatively high Galactic latitude (b > 14°) in the Cepheus Flare region. We study the re…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia Herschel 4
Rapid early gas accretion for the inner Galactic disc. A case for a short accretion timescale
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039526 Bibcode: 2022A&A...659A..64S

Khoperskov, Sergey; Di Matteo, Paola; Katz, David +3 more

Context. Recent observations of the Milky Way and galaxies at high redshifts suggest that galaxy discs were already in place soon after the Big Bang. While the gas infall history of the Milky Way in the inner disc has long been assumed to be characterised by a short accretion timescale, this has not been directly constrained using observations.

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 4
High-resolution images of two wiggling stellar jets, MHO 1502 and MHO 2147, obtained with GSAOI+GeMS
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142421 Bibcode: 2022A&A...657A.110F

Gómez, M.; Saldaño, H. P.; Kalari, V. M. +3 more


Aims: We investigated the possible cause-effect relation between the wiggling shape of two stellar jets, MHO 1502 and MHO 2147, and the potential binarity of the respective driving stars.
Methods: We present high-angular-resolution H2 (2.122 µm) and K-band images obtained with the Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSA…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 4
Cloud-cloud collision and star formation in G323.18+0.15
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243317 Bibcode: 2022A&A...663A..97M

Li, Dalei; Tang, Xindi; Zhou, Jianjun +8 more

We studied the cloud-cloud collision candidate G323.18+0.15 based on signatures of induced filaments, clumps, and star formation. We used archival molecular spectrum line data from the SEDIGISM 13CO (J = 2−1) survey, from the Mopra southern Galactic plane CO survey, and infrared to radio data from the GLIMPSE, MIPS, Hi-GAL, and SGPS sur…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 3
Pre-main sequence stars in LH 91
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243118 Bibcode: 2022A&A...663A..74C

Panagia, N.; Beccari, G.; De Marchi, G. +3 more


Aims: We study the accretion properties of pre-main sequence (PMS) low-mass stars in the LH 91 association within the Large Magellanic Clouds.
Methods: Using optical multiband photometry obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope, we identify 75 candidates showing Hα excess emission above the 3σ level with equivalent width EWHα

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 3
Reconstructing AGN X-ray spectral parameter distributions with Bayesian methods. II. Population inference
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142780 Bibcode: 2022A&A...667A.153G

Paltani, Stéphane; Salvato, Mara; Eckert, Dominique +1 more

We present a new Bayesian method for reconstructing the parent distributions of X-ray spectral parameters of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in large surveys. The method uses the probability distribution function (PDF) of posteriors obtained by fitting a consistent physical model to each object with a Bayesian method. The PDFs are often broadly distr…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 3
What is the origin of the stacked radio emission in radio-undetected quasars?. Insights from a radio-infrared image stacking analysis
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039750 Bibcode: 2022A&A...663A.153R

Retana-Montenegro, E.

Radio emission in the brightest radio quasars can be attributed to processes inherent to active galactic nuclei (AGN) powered by super massive black holes (SMBHs), while the physical origins of the radio fluxes in quasars without radio detections have not been established with full certainly. Deep radio surveys carried out with the Low Frequency A…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 3
The dynamical state of RXCJ1230.7+3439: A multi-substructured merging galaxy cluster
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243418 Bibcode: 2022A&A...663A..78B

Böhringer, H.; Chon, G.; Barrena, R.

We analyse the kinematical and dynamical state of the galaxy cluster RXCJ1230.7+3439 (RXCJ1230), at z = 0.332 using 93 new spectroscopic redshifts of galaxies acquired at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and from SDSS DR16 public data. We study the density galaxy distribution retrieved from photometric SDSS multiband data and find that RXCJ1230 ap…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 3
The nature of the X-ray sources constituting the 6.7 keV Galactic ridge emission
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142876 Bibcode: 2022A&A...661A..88S

Schmitt, J. H. M. M.; Czesla, S.; Robrade, J. +2 more

We reanalyze the deep Chandra X-ray observations near the Galactic center and show that reliable identifications of X-ray sources can be obtained with the Gaia EDR3 data to investigate which types of stellar sources are responsible for the X-ray emission observed from the Galactic ridge (GRXE). In the central 3 arcmin region 318 X-ray sources are …

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 3