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Exploring the early Universe with Gaia and Theia
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/12/023 Bibcode: 2021JCAP...12..023G

Garcia-Bellido, Juan; Murayama, Hitoshi; White, Graham

It has recently been pointed out that Gaia is capable of detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background in the sensitivity band between the frequency of pulsar timing arrays and LISA. We argue that Gaia and Theia have great potential for early universe cosmology, since such a frequency range is ideal for probing phase transitions in asymmetr…

2021 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Gaia 99
Gaia Early Data Release 3. Acceleration of the Solar System from Gaia astrometry
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039734 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A...9G

Prusti, T.; Mazeh, T.; Zucker, S. +414 more

Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which have the best-quality five-parameter astrometric solutions.
Aims: The proper motions of QSO-like sources are used to reveal a systematic pattern due to the acceleration of the solar s…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 99
The Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA) - III. The evolution of substructures in massive discs at 3-5 au resolution
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3787 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.501.2934C

Flock, Mario; Pinilla, Paola; Hales, Antonio S. +15 more

We present 1.3 mm continuum ALMA long-baseline observations at 3-5 au resolution of 10 of the brightest discs from the Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA) project. We identify a total of 26 narrow rings and gaps distributed in 8 sources and 3 discs with small dust cavities (r <10 au). We find that two discs around embedded protostars …

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia Herschel 98
I Spy Transits and Pulsations: Empirical Variability in White Dwarfs Using Gaia and the Zwicky Transient Facility
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abee68 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...912..125G

Hermes, J. J.; Bell, Keaton J.; Montgomery, M. H. +13 more

We present a novel method to detect variable astrophysical objects and transient phenomena using anomalous excess scatter in repeated measurements from public catalogs of Gaia DR2 and Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) DR3 photometry. We first provide a generalized, all-sky proxy for variability using only Gaia DR2 photometry, calibrated to white dwa…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 98
On the Diversity of Asymmetries in Gapped Protoplanetary Disks
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abc3ba Bibcode: 2021AJ....161...33V

Dong, Ruobing; Garufi, Antonio; Sallum, Steph +7 more

Protoplanetary disks with large inner dust cavities are thought to host massive planetary or substellar companions. These disks show asymmetries and rings in the millimeter continuum caused by dust trapping in pressure bumps and potentially vortices or horseshoes. The origin of the asymmetries and their diversity remains unclear. We present a comp…

2021 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 97
AGN STORM 2. I. First results: A Change in the Weather of Mrk 817
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2159 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...922..151K

Gorjian, Varoujan; Treu, Tommaso; Kaspi, Shai +71 more

We present the first results from the ongoing, intensive, multiwavelength monitoring program of the luminous Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 817. While this active galactic nucleus was, in part, selected for its historically unobscured nature, we discovered that the X-ray spectrum is highly absorbed, and there are new blueshifted, broad, and narrow UV absorp…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton eHST 97
Observation and modelling of solar jets
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0217 Bibcode: 2021RSPSA.47700217S

Shen, Yuandeng

The solar atmosphere is full of complicated transients manifesting the reconfiguration of the solar magnetic field and plasma. Solar jets represent collimated, beam-like plasma ejections; they are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and important for our understanding of solar activities at different scales, the magnetic reconnection process, parti…

2021 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A
IRIS 97
The LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey: Deep Fields Data Release 1. III. Host-galaxy identifications and value added catalogues
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038813 Bibcode: 2021A&A...648A...3K

Bondi, M.; Prandoni, I.; Bowler, R. A. A. +40 more

We present the source associations, cross-identifications, and multi-wavelength properties of the faint radio source population detected in the deep tier of the LOFAR Two Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS): the LoTSS Deep Fields. The first LoTSS Deep Fields data release consists of deep radio imaging at 150 MHz of the ELAIS-N1, Lockman Hole, and Boötes fiel…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia Herschel 96
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) Survey Design, Reductions, and Detections
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2e03 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...923..217G

Ono, Yoshiaki; Ouchi, Masami; Papovich, Casey +60 more

We describe the survey design, calibration, commissioning, and emission-line detection algorithms for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). The goal of HETDEX is to measure the redshifts of over a million Lyα emitting galaxies between 1.88 < z < 3.52, in a 540 deg2 area encompassing a comoving volume of 10.9 …

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 96
An observational determination of the evolving extragalactic background light from the multiwavelength HST/CANDELS survey in the Fermi and CTA era
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2393 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.507.5144S

Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Saldana-Lopez, Alberto; Primack, Joel R. +5 more

The diffuse extragalactic background light (EBL) is formed by ultraviolet (UV), optical, and infrared (IR) photons mainly produced by star formation processes over the history of the Universe and contains essential information about galaxy evolution and cosmology. Here, we present a new determination of the evolving EBL spectral energy distributio…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel eHST 96