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The NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database: The Laboratory Spectra
Boersma, C.; Allamandola, L. J.; Peeters, E. +7 more
The astronomical emission features, formerly known as the unidentified infrared bands, are now commonly ascribed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The laboratory experiments and computational modeling performed at NASA Ames Research Center generated a collection of PAH IR spectra that have been used to test and refine the PAH model. Thes…
Relating Streamer Flows to Density and Magnetic Structures at the Parker Solar Probe
Vourlidas, Angelos; Lavraud, Benoit; Poirier, Nicolas +34 more
The physical mechanisms that produce the slow solar wind are still highly debated. Parker Solar Probe's (PSP's) second solar encounter provided a new opportunity to relate in situ measurements of the nascent slow solar wind with white-light images of streamer flows. We exploit data taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, the Solar TErrest…
Exploring Solar Wind Origins and Connecting Plasma Flows from the Parker Solar Probe to 1 au: Nonspherical Source Surface and Alfvénic Fluctuations
D'Amicis, Raffaella; Réville, Victor; Velli, Marco +18 more
The magnetic field measurements of the FIELDS instrument on the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) have shown intensities, throughout its first solar encounter, that require a very low source surface (SS) height ( ${R}_{\mathrm{SS}}\leqslant 1.8\,{R}_{\odot }$ ) to be reconciled with magnetic field measurements at the Sun via potential field extrapolation (…
Phase II of the LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Survey. I. Time Series of Medium-resolution Spectroscopic Observations
Tian, Hao; Shi, Jianrong; Zhang, Yong +20 more
Phase II of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST)-Kepler/K2 survey (LK-MRS), initiated in 2018, aims at collecting medium-resolution spectra (R ∼ 7500; hereafter MRS) for more than 50,000 stars with multiple visits (∼60 epochs) over a period of 5 yr (2018 September to 2023 June). We selected 20 footprints distribut…
CMZoom: Survey Overview and First Data Release
Ho, Luis C.; Ott, Jürgen; Lu, Xing +19 more
We present an overview of the CMZoom survey and its first data release. CMZoom is the first blind, high-resolution survey of the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ; the inner 500 pc of the Milky Way) at wavelengths sensitive to the pre-cursors of high-mass stars. CMZoom is a 550 hr Large Program on the Submillimeter Array that mapped at 1.3 mm all of the…
Physical Parameters of Late-type Contact Binaries in the Northern Catalina Sky Survey
Deng, Licai; de Grijs, Richard; Chen, Xiaodian +1 more
We present the physical parameters of 2335 late-type contact binary (CB) systems extracted from the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS). Our sample was selected from the CSS Data Release 1 by strictly limiting the prevailing temperature uncertainties and light-curve fitting residuals, allowing us to almost eliminate any possible contaminants. We developed a…
Mapping the Galactic Disk with the LAMOST and Gaia Red Clump Sample. I. Precise Distances, Masses, Ages, and 3D Velocities of ∼140,000 Red Clump Stars
Wu, Yaqian; Xiang, Maosheng; Huang, Yang +10 more
We present a sample of ∼140,000 primary red clump (RC) stars of spectral signal-to-noise ratios higher than 20 from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Galactic spectroscopic surveys, selected based on their positions in the metallicity-dependent effective temperature-surface gravity and color-metallicity diagram…
High-resolution UV/Optical/IR Imaging of Jupiter in 2016-2019
de Pater, Imke; Wong, Michael H.; Fletcher, Leigh N. +13 more
Imaging observations of Jupiter with high spatial resolution were acquired beginning in 2016, with a cadence of 53 days to coincide with atmospheric observations of the Juno spacecraft during each perijove pass. The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) collected Jupiter images from 236 to 925 nm in 14 filters. The Nea…
WISPR Imaging of a Pristine CME
Kouloumvakos, Athanasios; Rouillard, Alexis P.; Stenborg, Guillermo +6 more
The Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) on board the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observed a coronal mass ejection (CME) on 2018 November 1, the first day of the initial PSP encounter. The speed of the CME, approximately 200-300 km s-1 in the WISPR field of view, is typical of slow, streamer blowout CMEs. This event was also observed …
ALMA Survey of Orion Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (ALMASOP). II. Survey Overview: A First Look at 1.3 mm Continuum Maps and Molecular Outflows
Sanhueza, Patricio; Ward-Thompson, Derek; Kwon, Woojin +32 more
Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) are considered to be the ideal targets to probe the early phases of star formation. We have conducted a survey of 72 young dense cores inside PGCCs in the Orion complex with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at 1.3 mm (band 6) using three different configurations (resolutions ∼0"35, 1"0, an…