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A Low-mass Stellar-debris Stream Associated with a Globular Cluster Pair in the Halo
Huang, Yang; Beers, Timothy C.; Chang, Jiang +1 more
There are expected to be physical relationships between the globular clusters (GCs) and stellar substructures in the Milky Way, not all of which have yet been found. We search for such substructures from a combined halo sample of SDSS blue horizontal-branch and SDSS+LAMOST RR Lyrae stars, cross-matched with astrometric information from Gaia DR2. T…
Superflares on Solar-type Stars from the First Year Observation of TESS
Yang, Ming; Tu, Zuo-Lin; Wang, F. Y. +1 more
Superflares, which are strong explosions on stars, have been well studied with the progress of spacetime-domain astronomy. In this work, we present the study of superflares on solar-type stars using Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) data. Thirteen sectors of observations during the first year of the TESS mission covered the southern hem…
Revisiting the Distance, Environment, and Supernova Properties of SNR G57.2+0.8 that Hosts SGR 1935+2154
Vink, Jacco; Zhou, Ping; Zhou, Xin +3 more
We have performed a multiwavelength study of supernova remnant (SNR) G57.2+0.8 and its environment. The SNR hosts the magnetar SGR 1935+2154, which emitted an extremely bright millisecond-duration radio burst on 2020 April 28. We used the 12CO and 13CO J = 1-0 data from the Milky Way Image Scroll Painting CO line survey to se…
The Ups and Downs of Accreting X-Ray Pulsars: Decade-long Observations with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
Wilson-Hodge, C. A.; Roberts, O. J.; Malacaria, C. +4 more
We review more than 10 yr of continuous monitoring of accreting X-ray pulsars with the all-sky Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Our work includes data from the start of GBM operations in 2008 August, through to 2019 November. Pulsations from 39 accreting pulsars are observed over an energy range of 10-50 ke…
Evidence for He I 10830 Å Absorption during the Transit of a Warm Neptune around the M-dwarf GJ 3470 with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
Endl, Michael; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Terrien, Ryan +21 more
Understanding the dynamics and kinematics of outflowing atmospheres of hot and warm exoplanets is crucial to understanding the origins and evolutionary history of the exoplanets near the evaporation desert. Recently, ground-based measurements of the meta-stable helium atom's resonant absorption at 10830 Å has become a powerful probe of the base en…
Early Low-mass Galaxies and Star-cluster Candidates at z ∼ 6-9 Identified by the Gravitational-lensing Technique and Deep Optical/Near-infrared Imaging
Ono, Yoshiaki; Ouchi, Masami; Charlot, Stéphane +7 more
We present very faint dropout galaxies at z ∼ 6-9 with a stellar mass M⋆ down to ${M}_{\star }\sim {10}^{6}\,{M}_{\odot }$ that are found in deep optical/near-infrared (NIR) images of the full data sets of the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) program in conjunction with deep ground-based and Spitzer images and gravitational-lensing magnific…
A Multifrequency ALMA Characterization of Substructures in the GM Aur Protoplanetary Disk
Wilner, David J.; Andrews, Sean M.; Huang, Jane +12 more
The protoplanetary disk around the T Tauri star GM Aur was one of the first hypothesized to be in the midst of being cleared out by a forming planet. As a result, GM Aur has had an outsized influence on our understanding of disk structure and evolution. We present 1.1 and 2.1 mm ALMA continuum observations of the GM Aur disk at a resolution of ∼50…
COLDz: A High Space Density of Massive Dusty Starburst Galaxies ∼1 Billion Years after the Big Bang
Dickinson, Mark; Smail, Ian; Daddi, Emanuele +15 more
We report the detection of CO(J = 2 → 1) emission from three massive dusty starburst galaxies at z > 5 through molecular line scans in the NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) CO Luminosity Density at High Redshift (COLDz) survey. Redshifts for two of the sources, HDF 850.1 (z = 5.183) and AzTEC-3 (z = 5.298), were previously known. We r…
Two Ultra-faint Milky Way Stellar Systems Discovered in Early Data from the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey
Bechtol, K.; Zenteno, A.; Allam, S. +56 more
We report the discovery of two ultra-faint stellar systems found in early data from the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE). The first system, Centaurus I (DELVE J1238-4054), is identified as a resolved overdensity of old and metal-poor stars with a heliocentric distance of ${\text{}}{D}_{\odot }={116.3}_{-0.6}^{+0.6}\,\mathrm{kpc}$ , a …
Project AMIGA: The Circumgalactic Medium of Andromeda
Brown, Thomas M.; Faucher-Giguère, Claude-André; Hafen, Zachary +22 more
Project AMIGA (Absorption Maps In the Gas of Andromeda) is a survey of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of Andromeda (M31, ${R}_{\mathrm{vir}}$ ≃ 300 kpc) along 43 QSO sightlines at impact parameters 25 ≤ R ≤ 569 kpc (25 at R ≲ ${R}_{\mathrm{vir}}$). We use ultraviolet absorption measurements of Si II, Si III, Si IV, C II, and C IV from the Hubble …