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Ground Validation Experiment and Spectral Detection Capability Evaluation of Mars Mineralogical Spectrometer (MMS) Aboard HX-1 Orbiter
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-021-00858-z Bibcode: 2022SSRv..218....1L

Zhang, Qing; Liu, Bin; Liu, Jianjun +8 more

As a hyperspectral imager aboard the orbiter "HX-1" of China's first Mars mission, the Mars Mineralogical Spectrometer (MMS) is designed with hyperspectral and multispectral operation modes to survey the mineral types and their distribution on the surface of Mars, and to study the overall chemical composition and evolution history of Mars. The mul…

2022 Space Science Reviews
MEx 17
SFR estimations from z = 0 to z = 0.9. A comparison of SFR calibrators for star-forming galaxies
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141701 Bibcode: 2022A&A...667A..29F

Buat, V.; Boquien, M.; Małek, K. +7 more

Context. The star formation rate (SFR) is a key ingredient for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies. Being able to obtain accurate estimations of the SFR, for a wide range of redshifts, is crucial for building and studying galaxy evolution paths over cosmic time.
Aims: Based on a statistical sample of galaxies, the aim of this pap…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 17
Universal Scaling Laws for Solar and Stellar Atmospheric Heating: Catalog of Power-law Index between Solar Activity Proxies and Various Spectral Irradiances
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac8b15 Bibcode: 2022ApJS..262...46T

Notsu, Yuta; Namekata, Kosuke; Toriumi, Shin +1 more

The formation of extremely hot outer atmospheres is one of the most prominent manifestations of magnetic activity common to late-type dwarf stars, including the Sun. It is widely believed that these atmospheric layers, the corona, transition region, and chromosphere, are heated by the dissipation of energy transported upwards from the stellar surf…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Hinode 17
Binary open clusters in the Gaia data
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243524 Bibcode: 2022A&A...666A..75S

Hu, Qingshun; Esamdin, Ali; Song, Fangfang +1 more

Context. Observations indicate that the fraction of potential binary star clusters in the Milky Way is either the same or lower than that of the Magellanic Clouds. The unprecedented precision in the parallax measurements by Gaia has allowed for the discovery of a growing number of new binary open clusters (OCs).
Aims: We aim to survey the can…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 17
COSMOS2020: Manifold learning to estimate physical parameters in large galaxy surveys
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243249 Bibcode: 2022A&A...665A..34D

Sanders, D. B.; Ilbert, O.; Moneti, A. +16 more

We present a novel method for estimating galaxy physical properties from spectral energy distributions (SEDs) as an alternative to template fitting techniques and based on self-organizing maps (SOMs) to learn the high-dimensional manifold of a photometric galaxy catalog. The method has previously been tested with hydrodynamical simulations in Davi…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 17
Spatially resolved star-formation relations of dense molecular gas in NGC 1068
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142396 Bibcode: 2022A&A...660A..83S

Colina, L.; García-Burillo, S.; Fuente, A. +5 more

Context. According to the current understanding of star formation (SF), the regulation of this phenomenon in galaxy disks reflects a complex balance between processes that operate in molecular gas on local cloud scales as well as on global disk scales.
Aims: We analyse the influence of the dynamical environment on the SF relations of the dens…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 17
ESPRESSO observations of HE 0107−5240 and other CEMP-no stars with [Fe/H] ≤ -4.5
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244627 Bibcode: 2022A&A...668A..86A

Rebolo, R.; Zapatero Osorio, M. R.; Allende Prieto, C. +22 more

Context. HE 0107−5240 is a hyper metal-poor star with [Fe/H] = −5.39, one of the lowest-metallicity stars known. Its stellar atmosphere is enhanced in carbon, with [C/Fe] = +4.0, without a detectable presence of neutron-capture elements. Therefore, it belongs to the carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP−no) group, along with the majority of the most me…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 17
Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet Host Star HR 8799
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac3bb5 Bibcode: 2022AJ....163...52S

Bowler, Brendan P.; Sepulveda, Aldo G.

HR 8799 is a young A5/F0 star hosting four directly imaged giant planets at wide separations (~16-78 au), which are undergoing orbital motion and have been continuously monitored with adaptive optics imaging since their discovery over a decade ago. We present a dynamical mass of HR 8799 using 130 epochs of relative astrometry of its planets, which…

2022 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia eHST 17
Large-amplitude periodic outbursts and long-period variables in the VVV VIRAC2-β data base
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac768 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.513.1015G

Minniti, D.; Bayo, A.; Catelan, M. +13 more

The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey obtained near-infrared photometry towards the Galactic bulge and the southern disc plane for a decade (2010-2019). We designed a modified Lomb-Scargle method to search for large-amplitude ($\Delta K_{s, 2-98{{\ \rm per\ cent}}}$ > 1.5 mag) mid to long-term periodic variables (P> 10 d) in the…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 17
Extreme Variation in Star Formation Efficiency across a Compact, Starburst Disk Galaxy
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac51c8 Bibcode: 2022ApJ...928..169F

Bolatto, A. D.; Fisher, D. B.; Glazebrook, K. +4 more

We report on the internal distribution of star formation efficiency in IRAS 08339+6517 (hereafter IRAS08), using ~200 pc resolution CO(2 - 1) observations from NOEMA. The molecular gas depletion time changes by 2 orders-of-magnitude from disk-like values in the outer parts to less than 108 yr inside the half-light radius. This translate…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 17