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The Origin of the Doppler Flip in HD 100546: A Large-scale Spiral Arm Generated by an Inner Binary Companion
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac85ed Bibcode: 2022ApJ...936L...4N

Ginski, Christian; Pinte, Christophe; Rosotti, Giovanni +9 more

Companions at subarcsecond separation from young stars are difficult to image. However, their presence can be inferred from the perturbations they create in the dust and gas of protoplanetary disks. Here we present a new interpretation of SPHERE polarized observations that reveal the previously detected inner spiral in the disk of HD 100546. The s…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
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Linking Small-scale Solar Wind Properties with Large-scale Coronal Source Regions through Joint Parker Solar Probe-Metis/Solar Orbiter Observations
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac8103 Bibcode: 2022ApJ...935..112T

Telloni, Daniele; Zank, Gary P.; Adhikari, Laxman +92 more

The solar wind measured in situ by Parker Solar Probe in the very inner heliosphere is studied in combination with the remote-sensing observation of the coronal source region provided by the METIS coronagraph aboard Solar Orbiter. The coronal outflows observed near the ecliptic by Metis on 2021 January 17 at 16:30 UT, between 3.5 and 6.3 R ⊙<…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
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KELT-9 as an Eclipsing Double-lined Spectroscopic Binary: A Unique and Self-consistent Solution to the System
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac32c7 Bibcode: 2022AJ....163...40P

Gaudi, B. Scott; Eastman, Jason D.; Wang, Ji +5 more

Transiting hot Jupiters present a unique opportunity to measure absolute planetary masses due to the magnitude of their radial velocity signals and known orbital inclination. Measuring planet mass is critical to understanding atmospheric dynamics and escape under extreme stellar irradiation. Here we present the ultrahot Jupiter system KELT-9 as a …

2022 The Astronomical Journal
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Using MARSIS signal attenuation to assess the presence of South Polar Layered Deposit subglacial brines
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33389-4 Bibcode: 2022NatCo..13.5686L

Orosei, Roberto; Caprarelli, Graziella; Pettinelli, Elena +7 more

Knowledge of the physical and thermal properties of the South Polar Layer Deposits (SPLD) is key to constrain the source of bright basal reflections at Ultimi Scopuli detected by the MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) radar sounder. Here we present a detailed analysis of attenuation, based on data acquired by MARSI…

2022 Nature Communications
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The Influence Of Individual Stars On The long-Term Dynamics Of Comets C/2014 UN271 And C/2017 K2
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202143018 Bibcode: 2022A&A...660A.100D

Dybczyński, Piotr A.; Królikowska, Małgorzata

Context. In June 2021, the discovery of an unusual comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) was announced. Its cometary activity beyond the orbit of Uranus has also refreshed interest in similar objects, including C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS). Another peculiarity of these objects is the long interval of positional data, taken at large heli…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
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PASSAGES: the Large Millimeter Telescope and ALMA observations of extremely luminous high-redshift galaxies identified by the Planck
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1494 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.515.3911B

Frye, B. L.; Terlevich, E.; Terlevich, R. +20 more

The Planck All-Sky Survey to Analyze Gravitationally-lensed Extreme Starbursts project aims to identify a population of extremely luminous galaxies using the Planck all-sky survey and to explore the nature of their gas fuelling, induced starburst, and the resulting feedback that shape their evolution. Here, we report the identification of 22 high-…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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A Method of Improving Standard Stellar Luminosities with Multiband Standard Bolometric Corrections
DOI: 10.32023/0001-5237/72.3.4 Bibcode: 2022AcA....72..195B

Bakış, V.; Eker, Z.

Standard luminosity (L) of 406 main-sequence stars with the most accurate astrophysical parameters are calculated from their absolute magnitudes and bolometric corrections at Johnson BV, and Gaia EDR3 G, GBP, GRP filters. Required multiband BC and BC-Teff relations are obtained first from the parameters of 209 Doub…

2022 Acta Astronomica
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SDSS-IV MaStar: theoretical atmospheric parameters for the MaNGA stellar library
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3263 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.509.4308H

Merrifield, Michael; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Law, David R. +16 more

We calculate the fundamental stellar parameters effective temperature, surface gravity, and iron abundance - Teff, log g, [Fe/H] - for the final release of the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) Stellar Library (MaStar), containing 59 266 per-visit-spectra for 24 290 unique stars at intermediate resolution (R ~ 1800) and high S/N (m…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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A Case for Electron-Astrophysics
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-021-09761-5 Bibcode: 2022ExA....54..473V

Verscharen, Daniel; D'Amicis, Raffaella; Bruno, Roberto +27 more

The smallest characteristic scales, at which electron dynamics determines the plasma behaviour, are the next frontier in space and astrophysical plasma research. The analysis of astrophysical processes at these scales lies at the heart of the research theme of electron-astrophysics. Electron scales are the ultimate bottleneck for dissipation of pl…

2022 Experimental Astronomy
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Disconnecting the Dots: Re-examining the Nature of Stellar "Strings" in the Milky Way
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac898c Bibcode: 2022ApJ...936..160Z

Peek, J. E. G.; Zucker, Catherine; Loebman, Sarah

Recent analyses of Gaia data have resulted in the identification of new stellar structures, including a new class of extended stellar filaments called stellar "strings," first proposed by Kounkel & Covey. We explore the spatial, kinematic, and chemical composition of strings to demonstrate that these newfound structures are largely inconsisten…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
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