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JWST imaging of the closest globular clusters: IV. Chemistry, luminosity, and mass functions of the lowest-mass members in the NIRISS parallel fields
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451295 Bibcode: 2024A&A...690A.371L

Salaris, M.; Apai, D.; Anderson, J. +9 more

We present observations of the two closest globular clusters, NGC 6121 and NGC 6397, taken with the NIRISS detector of JWST. The combination of our new JWST data with archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images allows us to compute proper motions, disentangle cluster members from field objects, and probe the main sequence (MS) of the clusters dow…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST JWST 3
The Galactic bulge exploration. II. Line-of-sight velocity templates for single-mode RR Lyrae stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347340 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A.153P

Smolec, R.; Prudil, Z.; Kunder, A. +2 more

We present a new set of tools to derive systemic velocities for single-mode RR Lyrae stars from visual and near-infrared spectra. We derived scaling relations and line-of-sight velocity templates using both APOGEE and Gaia spectroscopic products combined with photometric G-band amplitudes. We provide a means to estimate systemic velocities for the…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 3
A global view on star formation: The GLOSTAR Galactic plane survey: XI. Radio source catalog IV: 2° < ℓ < 28°, 36° < ℓ < 60° and |b| < 1°
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449885 Bibcode: 2024A&A...689A.196M

Menten, K. M.; Khan, S.; Csengeri, T. +17 more

Context. The GLObal view on STAR formation in the Milky Way (GLOSTAR) survey studies star formation with the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Effelsberg 100 meter radio telescope in the Galactic plane between ‑2° < ℓ < 60° and |b| < 1°, and the Cygnus X region (76° < ℓ < 83° and ‑1° < b < 2°), with unprecedented sensitivity in b…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 3
Dynamics and potential origins of decimeter-sized particles around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346380 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A.136P

Agarwal, Jessica; Grieger, Björn; Marschall, Raphael +2 more

Context. One of the primary goals of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was to investigate the mechanisms responsible for cometary activity.
Aims: Our aim is to learn more about the ejection process of large refractory material by studying the dynamics of decimeter-sized dust particles in the coma o…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Rosetta 3
Using autoencoders and deep transfer learning to determine the stellar parameters of 286 CARMENES M dwarfs
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449865 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A.205M

Caballero, J. A.; Montes, D.; Passegger, V. M. +9 more

Context. Deep learning (DL) techniques are a promising approach among the set of methods used in the ever-challenging determination of stellar parameters in M dwarfs. In this context, transfer learning could play an important role in mitigating uncertainties in the results due to the synthetic gap (i.e. difference in feature distributions between …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 3
Phobos photometric properties from Mars Express HRSC observations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449220 Bibcode: 2024A&A...686A.203F

Barucci, M. A.; Fornasier, S.; Matz, K. -D. +5 more


Aims: This study aims to analyze Phobos' photometric properties using Mars Express mission observations to support the Martian Moons exploration mission (MMX) devoted to the investigation of the Martian system and to the return of Phobos samples.
Methods: We analyzed resolved images of Phobos acquired between 2004 and 2022 by the High Re…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
MEx 3
The galactic acceleration scale is imprinted on globular cluster systems of early-type galaxies of most masses and on red and blue globular cluster subpopulations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244093 Bibcode: 2024A&A...682A.111B

Hilker, Michael; Richtler, Tom; Renaud, Florent +3 more

Context. Globular clusters (GCs) carry information about the formation histories and gravitational fields of their host galaxies. It was found before that the radial profiles of the volume number density of GCs in GC systems (GCSs) follow broken power laws, while the breaks occur approximately at the a0 radii. These are the radii at whi…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 3
Mind the gap between A2061 and A2067: Unveiling new diffuse, large-scale radio emission
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451529 Bibcode: 2024A&A...691A..99P

Brunetti, G.; Balboni, M.; Venturi, T. +11 more

Aims. The clusters Abell 2061 and Abell 2067 in the Corona Borealis supercluster have been studied at different radio frequencies and are both known to host diffuse radio emission. The aim of this work is to investigate the radio emission between them, whose presence is suggested by low-resolution observations. Methods. We analysed deep LOw Freque…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 3
Probing the filamentary nature of star formation in the California giant molecular cloud
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449853 Bibcode: 2024A&A...689A...3Z

André, Philippe; Zhang, Guo-Yin; Li, Jin-Zeng +1 more

Context. Recent studies suggest that filamentary structures are representative of the initial conditions of star formation in molecular clouds and support a filament paradigm for star formation, potentially accounting for the origin of the stellar initial mass function (IMF). The detailed, local physical properties of molecular filaments remain po…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 3
Imprint of the magnetic activity cycle on solar asteroseismic characterisation based on 26 years of GOLF and BiSON data
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451365 Bibcode: 2024A&A...688L..17B

Bétrisey, J.; Farnir, M.; García, R. A. +4 more

Context. Asteroseismic modelling will play a key role in future space-based missions, such as PLATO, CubeSpec, and Roman. Despite remarkable achievements, asteroseismology has revealed significant discrepancies between observations and theoretical predictions of the physics used in stellar models, which have the potential to bias stellar character…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 3