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Refining the Transit-timing and Photometric Analysis of TRAPPIST-1: Masses, Radii, Densities, Dynamics, and Ephemerides
DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/abd022 Bibcode: 2021PSJ.....2....1A

Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.; Foreman-Mackey, Daniel; Meadows, Victoria S. +32 more

We have collected transit times for the TRAPPIST-1 system with the Spitzer Space Telescope over four years. We add to these ground-based, HST, and K2 transit-time measurements, and revisit an N-body dynamical analysis of the seven-planet system using our complete set of times from which we refine the mass ratios of the planets to the star. We next…

2021 The Planetary Science Journal
eHST 263
A catalogue of white dwarfs in Gaia EDR3
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2672 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.508.3877G

Gänsicke, B. T.; Jordan, S.; Tremblay, P. -E. +7 more

We present a catalogue of white dwarf candidates selected from Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3). We applied several selection criteria in absolute magnitude, colour, and Gaia quality flags to remove objects with unreliable measurements while preserving most stars compatible with the white dwarf locus in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. We then use…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 245
A tidal disruption event coincident with a high-energy neutrino
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-01295-8 Bibcode: 2021NatAs...5..510S

Kilpatrick, Charles D.; Foley, Ryan J.; Cenko, S. Bradley +55 more

Cosmic neutrinos provide a unique window into the otherwise hidden mechanism of particle acceleration in astrophysical objects. The IceCube Collaboration recently reported the likely association of one high-energy neutrino with a flare from the relativistic jet of an active galaxy pointed towards the Earth. However a combined analysis of many simi…

2021 Nature Astronomy
Gaia XMM-Newton 241
The MOSDEF Survey: The Evolution of the Mass-Metallicity Relation from z = 0 to z 3.3
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abf4c1 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...914...19S

Barro, Guillermo; Siana, Brian; Shapley, Alice E. +15 more

We investigate the evolution of galaxy gas-phase metallicity (O/H) over the range z = 0-3.3 using samples of ~300 galaxies at z ~ 2.3 and ~150 galaxies at z ~ 3.3 from the MOSDEF survey. This analysis crucially utilizes different metallicity calibrations at z ~ 0 and z > 1 to account for evolving interstellar medium (ISM) conditions. We find si…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 233
A Test of the Cosmological Principle with Quasars
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/abdd40 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...908L..51S

Secrest, Nathan J.; Sarkar, Subir; Mohayaee, Roya +3 more

We study the large-scale anisotropy of the universe by measuring the dipole in the angular distribution of a flux-limited, all-sky sample of 1.36 million quasars observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). This sample is derived from the new CatWISE2020 catalog, which contains deep photometric measurements at 3.4 and 4.6 µm f…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 230
The Hipparcos-Gaia Catalog of Accelerations: Gaia EDR3 Edition
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/abf93c Bibcode: 2021ApJS..254...42B

Brandt, Timothy D.

We present a cross-calibration of Hipparcos and Gaia EDR3 intended to identify astrometrically accelerating stars and to fit orbits to stars with faint, massive companions. The resulting catalog, the EDR3 edition of the Hipparcos-Gaia Catalog of Accelerations (HGCA), provides three proper motions with calibrated uncertainties on the EDR3 reference…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia Hipparcos 228
Parallax Systematics and Photocenter Motions of Benchmark Eclipsing Binaries in Gaia EDR3
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/abdaad Bibcode: 2021ApJ...907L..33S

Torres, Guillermo; Stassun, Keivan G.

Previous analyses of various standard candles observed by the Gaia satellite have reported statistically significant systematics in the parallaxes that have improved from ∼250 µas in the first data release (DR1) to 50-80 µas in the second data release (DR2). Here we examine the parallaxes newly reported in the Gaia early third data rel…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 225
Compact steep-spectrum and peaked-spectrum radio sources
DOI: 10.1007/s00159-021-00131-w Bibcode: 2021A&ARv..29....3O

O'Dea, Christopher P.; Saikia, D. J.

Compact steep-spectrum (CSS) and peaked-spectrum (PS) radio sources are compact, powerful radio sources. The multi-frequency observational properties and current theories are reviewed with emphasis on developments since the earlier review of O'Dea (PASP 110:493-532, https://doi.org/10.1086/316162, 1998). There are three main hypotheses for the nat…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics Review
Herschel 222
The California Legacy Survey. I. A Catalog of 178 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars over Three Decades
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/abe23c Bibcode: 2021ApJS..255....8R

Henry, Gregory W.; Knutson, Heather A.; Kane, Stephen R. +20 more

We present a high-precision radial velocity (RV) survey of 719 FGKM stars, which host 164 known exoplanets and 14 newly discovered or revised exoplanets and substellar companions. This catalog updated the orbital parameters of known exoplanets and long-period candidates, some of which have decades-longer observational baselines than they did upon …

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia 222
The CatWISE2020 Catalog
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/abd805 Bibcode: 2021ApJS..253....8M

Teplitz, Harry I.; Schlegel, David J.; Mobasher, Bahram +20 more

The CatWISE2020 Catalog consists of 1,890,715,640 sources over the entire sky selected from Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and NEOWISE survey data at 3.4 and 4.6 µm (W1 and W2) collected from 2010 January 7 to 2018 December 13. This data set adds two years to that used for the CatWISE Preliminary Catalog, bringing the total to si…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia 221