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The Structure of the Global Heliosphere as Seen by In-Situ Ions from the Voyagers and Remotely Sensed ENAs from Cassini
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-022-00889-0 Bibcode: 2022SSRv..218...21D

Krimigis, Stamatios M.; Mitchell, Donald G.; Hilchenbach, Martin +5 more

The exploration of interplanetary space and our solar bubble, the heliosphere, has made a big leap over the past two decades, due to the path-breaking observations of the two Voyager spacecraft, launched more than 44 years ago. Their in-situ particle and fields measurements were complemented by remote observations of 5.2 to 55 keV Energetic Neutra…

2022 Space Science Reviews
Cassini SOHO 23
Turbulence in Milky Way Star-forming Regions Traced by Young Stars and Gas
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac76bf Bibcode: 2022ApJ...934....7H

Kounkel, Marina; Li, Hui; Zheng, Yong +3 more

The interstellar medium (ISM) is turbulent over vast scales and in various phases. In this paper, we study turbulence with different tracers in four nearby star-forming regions: Orion, Ophiuchus, Perseus, and Taurus. We combine the APOGEE-2 and Gaia surveys to obtain the full six-dimensional measurements of positions and velocities of young stars …

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 23
The evolution of ultra-massive carbon-oxygen white dwarfs
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac348 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.511.5198C

Córsico, Alejandro H.; Althaus, Leandro G.; Torres, Santiago +3 more

Ultra-massive white dwarfs ($\rm \mathit{M}_{WD} \gtrsim 1.05\, {\rm M}_{\odot }$) are considered powerful tools to study Type Ia supernovae explosions, merger events, the occurrence of physical processes in the superasymptotic giant branch phase, and the existence of high magnetic fields. Traditionally, ultra-massive white dwarfs are expected to …

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 23
The UV 2175Å attenuation bump and its correlation with PAH emission at z 2
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1313 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.514.1886S

Brinchmann, Jarle; Nanayakkara, Themiya; Shivaei, Irene +10 more

The UV bump is a broad absorption feature centred at 2175 Å that is seen in the attenuation/extinction curve of some galaxies, but its origin is not well known. Here, we use a sample of 86 star-forming galaxies at z = 1.7-2.7 with deep rest-frame UV spectroscopy from the MUSE HUDF Survey to study the connection between the strength of the observed…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel eHST 23
Residual Abundances in GALAH DR3: Implications for Nucleosynthesis and Identification of Unique Stellar Populations
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5826 Bibcode: 2022ApJ...931...23G

Buder, Sven; Weinberg, David H.; Johnson, Jennifer A. +3 more

We investigate the [X/Mg] abundances of 16 elements for 82,910 Galactic disk stars from GALAH+ DR3. We fit the median trends of low-Ia and high-Ia populations with a two-process model, which describes stellar abundances in terms of a prompt core-collapse and delayed Type-Ia supernova component. For each sample star, we fit the amplitudes of these …

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 23
The local hole: a galaxy underdensity covering 90 per cent of sky to ≈200 Mpc
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac396 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.511.5742W

Metcalfe, N.; Shanks, T.; Whitbourn, J. R. +1 more

We investigate the 'Local Hole', an anomalous underdensity in the local galaxy environment, by extending our previous galaxy K-band number-redshift and number-magnitude counts to ≈90 per cent of the sky. Our redshift samples are taken from the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) and the 2M++ catalogues, limited to K < 11.5. We find that both surveys a…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 23
LAMOST meets Gaia: The Galactic open clusters
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243590 Bibcode: 2022A&A...668A...4F

Fu, Xiaoting; Xu, Yan; Chang, Jiang +14 more

Open clusters (OCs) are born and evolve along the Milky Way (MW) plane. On them is imprinted the history of the Galactic disc, including its chemical and dynamical evolution. Chemical and dynamical properties of OCs can be derived from photometric, spectroscopic, and astrometric data of their member stars. Based on the photometric and astrometric …

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 23
Causes and Consequences of Magnetic Complexity Changes within Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections: A Statistical Study
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3e60 Bibcode: 2022ApJ...927..102S

Lugaz, Noé; Scolini, Camilla; Winslow, Réka M. +3 more

We present the first statistical analysis of complexity changes affecting the magnetic structure of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), with the aim of answering the questions: How frequently do ICMEs undergo magnetic complexity changes during propagation? What are the causes of such changes? Do the in situ properties of ICMEs differ de…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
VenusExpress 23
Solar-to-supersolar sodium and oxygen absolute abundances for a 'hot Saturn' orbiting a metal-rich star
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1530 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.515.3037N

Deming, Drake; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Smalley, Barry +10 more

We present new analysis of infrared transmission spectroscopy of the cloud-free hot-Saturn WASP-96b performed with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes (HST and Spitzer). The WASP-96b spectrum exhibits the absorption feature from water in excellent agreement with synthetic spectra computed assuming a cloud-free atmosphere. The HST-Spitzer spect…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 23
Red supergiant stars in binary systems. I. Identification and characterization in the small magellanic cloud from the UVIT ultraviolet imaging survey
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1139 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.513.5847P

Lennon, D. J.; Bianchi, L.; Negueruela, I. +5 more

We aim to identify and characterize binary systems containing red supergiant (RSG) stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using a newly available ultraviolet (UV) point source catalogue obtained using the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board AstroSat. We select a sample of 560 SMC RSGs based on photometric and spectroscopic observation…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 23