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Minute-cadence observations of the LAMOST fields with the TMTS: I. Methodology of detecting short-period variables and results from the first-year survey
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2812 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.509.2362L

Shi, Jianrong; Zhang, Xiaobin; Wang, Xiaofeng +18 more

Tsinghua University-Ma Huateng Telescopes for Survey (TMTS), located at Xinglong Station of NAOC, has a field of view up to 18 deg2. The TMTS has started to monitor the LAMOST sky areas since 2020, with the uninterrupted observations lasting for about 6 h on average for each sky area and a cadence of about 1 min. Here, we introduce the …

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 21
ShapePipe: A new shape measurement pipeline and weak-lensing application to UNIONS/CFIS data
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141847 Bibcode: 2022A&A...666A.162G

Mellier, Yannick; Van Waerbeke, Ludovic; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles +17 more

Context. The Ultraviolet Near-Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS) is an ongoing collaboration that will provide the largest deep photometric survey of the northern sky in four optical bands to date. As part of this collaboration, the Canada-France Imaging Survey (CFIS) is observing r-band data with an average seeing of 0.65 arcsec, which is …

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 21
Chemical Evolution of R-process Elements in Stars (CERES). I. Stellar parameters and chemical abundances from Na to Zr
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243932 Bibcode: 2022A&A...665A..10L

Hanke, Michael; Bonifacio, Piercarlo; Caffau, Elisabetta +10 more


Aims: The Chemical Evolution of R-process Elements in Stars (CERES) project aims to provide a homogeneous analysis of a sample of metal-poor stars ([Fe/H] < -1.5). We present the stellar parameters and the chemical abundances of elements up to Zr for a sample of 52 giant stars.
Methods: We relied on a sample of high signal-to-noise UV…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 21
Hidden in the haystack: low-luminosity globular clusters towards the Milky Way bulge
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2463 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.509.4962G

Rejkuba, M.; Zoccali, M.; Rojas-Arriagada, A. +8 more

Recent wide-area surveys have enabled us to study the Milky Way with unprecedented detail. Its inner regions, hidden behind dust and gas, have been partially unveiled with the arrival of near-infrared (IR) photometric and spectroscopic data sets. Among recent discoveries, there is a population of low-mass globular clusters, known to be missing, es…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 21
The white dwarf binary pathways survey - VI. Two close post-common envelope binaries with TESS light curves
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac604 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.512.1843H

Gänsicke, B. T.; Rebassa-Mansergas, A.; Raddi, R. +9 more

Establishing a large sample of post-common-envelope binaries (PCEBs) that consist of a white dwarf plus an intermediate mass companion star of spectral type AFGK, offers the potential to provide new constraints on theoretical models of white dwarf binary formation and evolution. Here, we present a detailed analysis of two new systems, TYC 110-755-…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia eHST 21
Kepler and the Behemoth: Three Mini-Neptunes in a 40 Million Year Old Association
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac93ff Bibcode: 2022AJ....164..215B

Bouma, L. G.; Bieryla, A.; Latham, D. W. +8 more

Stellar positions and velocities from Gaia are yielding a new view of open cluster dispersal. Here we present an analysis of a group of stars spanning Cepheus (l = 100°) to Hercules (l = 40°), hereafter the Cep-Her complex. The group includes four Kepler objects of interest: Kepler-1643 b (R p = 2.32 ± 0.13 R , P = 5.3 days)…

2022 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 21
Asteroseismology of RR Lyrae stars with non-radial modes
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1793 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.515.3439N

Smolec, Radosław; Netzel, Henryka

The additional signals observed in the frequency spectra of the first-overtone RR Lyrae stars, which form a period ratio around 0.61 with the period of the first overtone, are a common phenomenon for RRc and RRd stars, as well as for first-overtone classical Cepheids. The recently proposed model explains these signals as harmonics of non-radial mo…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 20
The Mantis Network II: examining the 3D high-resolution observable properties of the UHJs WASP-121b and WASP-189b through GCM modelling
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2246 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.517..240L

Lee, Elspeth K. H.; Heng, Kevin; Tsai, Shang-Min +4 more

The atmospheres of ultra hot Jupiters (UHJs) are prime targets for the detection of molecules and atoms at both low and high spectral resolution. We study the atmospheres of the UHJs WASP-121b and WASP-189b by performing 3D general circulation models (GCMs) of these planets using high temperature correlated-k opacity schemes with ultra-violet (UV)…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 20
Forward fitting STIX visibilities
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243907 Bibcode: 2022A&A...668A.145V

Volpara, Anna; Massa, Paolo; Krucker, Säm +6 more


Aims: We seek to determine to what extent the problem of forward fitting visibilities measured by the Spectrometer/Telescope Imaging X-rays (STIX) on board Solar Orbiter becomes more challenging with respect to the same problem in the case of previous hard X-ray solar imaging missions. In addition, we aim to identify an effective optimization…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SolarOrbiter 20
Lyα Escape from Low-mass, Compact, High-redshift Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac83a9 Bibcode: 2022AJ....164..159P

Reddy, Naveen A.; Shivaei, Irene; Dey, Arjun +5 more

We investigate the effects of stellar populations and sizes on Lyα escape in 27 spectroscopically confirmed and 35 photometric Lyα emitters (LAEs) at z ≈ 2.65 in seven fields of the Boötes region of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey. We use deep HST/WFC3 imaging to supplement ground-based observations and infer key galaxy properties. Compared to typ…

2022 The Astronomical Journal
eHST 20