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A Study of 90 GHz Dust Emissivity on Molecular Cloud and Filament Scales
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5d4f Bibcode: 2022ApJ...929..102L

Hensley, Brandon; Friesen, Rachel; Sadavoy, Sarah +19 more

Recent observations from the MUSTANG2 instrument on the Green Bank Telescope have revealed evidence of enhanced long-wavelength emission in the dust spectral energy distribution (SED) in the Orion Molecular Cloud (OMC) 2/3 filament on 25″ (0.1 pc) scales. Here we present a measurement of the SED on larger spatial scales (map size 0.°5-3° or 3-20 p…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 5
New constraints on the minimum mass for thermonuclear lithium burning in brown dwarfs
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2969 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.510.2841M

del Burgo, C.; Martín, E. L.; Lodieu, N.

The theory of substellar evolution predicts that there is a sharp mass boundary between lithium and non-lithium brown dwarfs, not far below the substellar-mass limit. The imprint of thermonuclear burning is carved on the surface lithium abundance of substellar-mass objects during the first few hundred million years of their evolution, leading to a…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 5
Anomalous Orbital Characteristics of the AQ Col (EC 05217-3914) System
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3a72 Bibcode: 2022ApJ...926...17O

von Hippel, T.; Silvotti, R.; Kilkenny, D. +6 more

AQ Col (EC 05217-3914) is one of the first detected pulsating subdwarf B (sdB) stars and has been considered to be a single star. Photometric monitoring of AQ Col reveals a pulsation timing variation with a period of 486 days, interpreted as time delay due to reflex motion in a wide binary formed with an unseen companion with expected mass larger …

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 5
Multiple sites of recent wet-based glaciation identified from eskers in western Tempe Terra, Mars
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115147 Bibcode: 2022Icar..38615147W

Fawdon, Peter; Davis, Joel M.; Woodley, Savana Z. +4 more

Precipitation in Mars' mid-latitudes formed Viscous Flow Features (VFFs), landforms analogous to terrestrial debris-covered glaciers, in the last 1 Gyr. Until recently, the prevailing view was that the Amazonian environment was not conducive to basal melting of VFFs. However, recent identification of VFF-linked eskers (sedimentary ridges deposited…

2022 Icarus
MEx 5
The soft X-ray background with Suzaku. I. Milky Way halo
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psac077 Bibcode: 2022PASJ...74.1396U

Sato, Kosuke; Yamasaki, Noriko Y.; Matsushita, Kyoko +4 more

We present measurements of the soft X-ray background emission for 130 Suzaku observations at 75° < l < 285° and |b| > 15° obtained from 2005 to 2015, covering nearly one solar cycle. In addition to the standard soft X-ray background model consisting of the local hot bubble and the Milky Way Halo (MWH), we include a hot collisional-ionizat…

2022 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Suzaku 5
X-ray selected narrow-line active galactic nuclei in the COSMOS field: Nature of optically dull active galactic nuclei
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psac029 Bibcode: 2022PASJ...74..689F

Murayama, Takashi; Fitriana, Itsna K.

X-ray emission detection in a galaxy is one of the efficient tools for selecting active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, many X-ray-selected AGNs are not easily selected as AGNs by their optical emission. These galaxies, so-called optically dull (OD) AGNs, are fascinating since their X-ray emission is bright even though the AGN signature in the op…

2022 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
eHST 5
Catalog of spiral arm tangents (Galactic longitudes) in the Milky Way, and the age gradient based on various arm tracers
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2022.101896 Bibcode: 2022NewA...9701896V

Vallée, Jacques P.

An updated catalog of 205 observed tangents to the spiral arms (in Galactic longitudes) since 1980 is presented. This represents an addition of 80 arm tangents in 6 years (since 2016). Most arm tangents are observed at telescopes in the radio régime.

In this study, the separation of each arm tracer from the dust lane is analysed to obtain the…

2022 New Astronomy
Gaia 5
Radio observations of massive stars in the Galactic centre: The Quintuplet cluster
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141895 Bibcode: 2022A&A...664A..49G

Alberdi, A.; Najarro, F.; Yusef-Zadeh, F. +4 more

We present high-angular-resolution radio continuum observations of the Quintuplet cluster, one of the most emblematic massive clusters in the Galactic centre. Data were acquired in two epochs and at 6 and 10 GHz with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. With this work we have quadrupled the number of known radio stars in the cluster. Even though t…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 5
Fundamental stellar parameters of benchmark stars from CHARA interferometry. III. Giant and subgiant stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142100 Bibcode: 2022A&A...658A..48K

White, T. R.; Casagrande, L.; Nordlander, T. +3 more

Context. Large spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way must be calibrated against a sample of benchmark stars to ensure the reliable determination of atmospheric parameters.
Aims: Here, we present new fundamental stellar parameters of seven giant and subgiant stars that will serve as benchmark stars for large surveys. The aim is to reach a pre…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 5
Radio detection of chemically peculiar stars with LOFAR
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243784 Bibcode: 2022A&A...665A.152H

White, Glenn J.; Haverkorn, Marijke; Vedantham, Harish +5 more

Context. Chemically peculiar stars are upper main sequence stars that show anomalies in their optical spectra. These anomalies suggest peculiar chemical abundances of certain elements. Some chemically peculiar stars possess strong magnetic fields. Electrons originating from the ionising stellar wind travel in the magnetosphere of the star and beco…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 5