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A Zwicky Transient Facility Look at Optical Variability of Young Stellar Objects in the North America and Pelican Nebulae Complex
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac62d8 Bibcode: 2022AJ....163..263H

Hillenbrand, Lynne A.; Rebull, Luisa M.; Kuhn, Michael A. +4 more

We present a study of 323 photometrically variable young stellar objects that are likely members of the North America and Pelican nebulae star-forming region. To do so, we utilize over two years of data in the g and r photometric bands from the Zwicky Transient Facility. We first investigate periodic variability, finding 46 objects (~15% of the sa…

2022 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 19
CRIRES high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy of diffuse interstellar band profiles. Detection of 12 new DIBs in the YJ band and the introduction of a combined ISM sight line and stellar analysis approach
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142990 Bibcode: 2022A&A...662A..81E

Butler, K.; Weßmayer, D.; Przybilla, N. +7 more


Aims: A high spectral resolution investigation of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in the near-infrared (YJ band) is conducted to test new methods, to confirm and improve existing parameters, and to search for new DIBs.
Methods: The CRyogenic high-resolution InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph (CRIRES) on the European Southern Observatory's V…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia IUE 19
Another Look at Erupting Minifilaments at the Base of Solar X-Ray Polar Coronal "Standard" and "Blowout" Jets
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac473f Bibcode: 2022ApJ...927..127S

Panesar, Navdeep K.; Moore, Ronald L.; Sterling, Alphonse C.

We examine 21 solar polar coronal jets that we identify in soft X-ray images obtained from the Hinode/X-ray telescope (XRT). We identify 11 of these as blowout jets and four as standard jets (with six uncertain), based on their X-ray-spire widths being respectively wide or narrow (compared to the jet's base) in the XRT images. From corresponding e…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 19
Constraining the initial conditions of NGC 2264 using ejected stars found in Gaia DR2
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3529 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.510.3178S

Parker, Richard J.; Schoettler, Christina; de Bruijne, Jos

Fast, ejected stars have been found around several young star-forming regions, such as the Orion Nebula Cluster. These ejected stars can be used to constrain the initial density, spatial and kinematic substructure when compared to predictions from N-body simulations. We search for runaway and slower walkaway stars using Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) w…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 19
Revisiting WASP-47 with ESPRESSO and TESS
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac58ff Bibcode: 2022AJ....163..197B

Bayliss, Daniel; Bryant, Edward M.

WASP-47 hosts a remarkable planetary system containing a hot Jupiter (WASP-47 b; P = 4.159 days) with an inner super-Earth (WASP-47 e; P = 0.7896 days), a close-orbiting outer Neptune (WASP-47 d; P = 9.031 days), and a long-period giant planet (WASP-47 c; P = 588.4 days). We use the new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) photometry to re…

2022 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 19
Magnetic Field Intermittency in the Solar Wind: Parker Solar Probe and SolO Observations Ranging from the Alfvén Region up to 1 AU
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7aa2 Bibcode: 2022ApJ...934..143S

Fedorov, A.; Louarn, P.; Velli, Marco +19 more

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and SolO data are utilized to investigate magnetic field intermittency in the solar wind (SW). Small-scale intermittency (20-100 d i ) is observed to radially strengthen when methods relying on higher-order moments are considered (SF q ; SDK), but no clear trend is observed at larger scales. However,…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
SolarOrbiter 19
A tale of caution: the tails of NGC 752 are much longer than claimed
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1567 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.514.3579B

Wang, Long; Boffin, Henri M. J.; Jerabkova, Tereza +1 more

Understanding the exact extent and content of tidal tails of open clusters provides useful clues on how field stars populate the Milky Way. We reanalyse, using Gaia EDR3 data, the tails around the open cluster NGC 752. Compared to previous analyses, we look at a much wider region around the cluster and use first the convergent point method, couple…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 19
SKYSURF: Constraints on Zodiacal Light and Extragalactic Background Light through Panchromatic HST All-sky Surface-brightness Measurements. I. Survey Overview and Methods
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac82af Bibcode: 2022AJ....164..141W

Pirzkal, Nor; Casertano, Stefano; Driver, Simon P. +35 more

We give an overview and describe the rationale, methods, and testing of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Archival Legacy project "SKYSURF." SKYSURF uses HST's unique capability as an absolute photometer to measure the ~0.2-1.7 µm sky-surface brightness (sky-SB) from 249,861 WFPC2, ACS, and WFC3 exposures in ~1400 independent HST fields. SKYS…

2022 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia eHST 19
Properties of the interstellar medium in star-forming galaxies at redshifts 2 ≤ z ≤ 5 from the VANDELS survey
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244364 Bibcode: 2022A&A...667A.117C

Schaerer, D.; Castellano, M.; Pentericci, L. +16 more

Gaseous flows inside and outside galaxies are key to understanding galaxy evolution, as they regulate their star formation activity and chemical enrichment across cosmic time. We study the interstellar medium (ISM) kinematics of a sample of 330 galaxies with C III] or He II emission using far-ultraviolet (far-UV) ISM absorption lines detected in t…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 19
Supernova Remnants in M83 as Observed with MUSE
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5aa3 Bibcode: 2022ApJ...929..144L

Della Bruna, Lorenza; Blair, William P.; Adamo, Angela +4 more

Here we describe a new study of the supernova remnants (SNRs) and SNR candidates in nearby face-on spiral galaxy M83, based primarily on MUSE integral field spectroscopy. Our revised catalog of SNR candidates in M83 has 366 objects, 81 of which are reported here for the first time. Of these, 229 lie within the MUSE observation region, 160 of which…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 19