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A New Window into Planet Formation and Migration: Refractory-to-Volatile Elemental Ratios in Ultra-hot Jupiters
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abf8a9 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...914...12L

Gibson, Neale P.; Sing, David K.; Wilson, Jamie +3 more

A primary goal of exoplanet characterization is to use a planet's current composition to understand how that planet formed. For example, the C/O ratio has long been recognized as carrying important information on the chemistry of volatile species. Refractory elements, like Fe, Mg, and Si, are usually not considered in this conversation because the…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 71
Transient small-scale brightenings in the quiet solar corona: A model for campfires observed with Solar Orbiter
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140638 Bibcode: 2021A&A...656L...7C

Berghmans, D.; Auchère, F.; Chen, Yajie +3 more

Context. Recent observations by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on board Solar Orbiter have characterized prevalent small-scale transient brightenings in the corona above the quiet Sun termed campfires.
Aims: In this study we search for comparable brightenings in a numerical model and then investigate their relation to the magnetic field…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SolarOrbiter 71
Dust polarized emission observations of NGC 6334. BISTRO reveals the details of the complex but organized magnetic field structure of the high-mass star-forming hub-filament network
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038624 Bibcode: 2021A&A...647A..78A

Kim, J.; Tamura, M.; Savini, G. +146 more

Context. Molecular filaments and hubs have received special attention recently thanks to new studies showing their key role in star formation. While the (column) density and velocity structures of both filaments and hubs have been carefully studied, their magnetic field (B-field) properties have yet to be characterized. Consequently, the role of B…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 70
Mapping Obscuration to Reionization with ALMA (MORA): 2 mm Efficiently Selects the Highest-redshift Obscured Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2eb4 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...923..215C

Finkelstein, Steven L.; Casey, Caitlin M.; Long, Arianna S. +24 more

We present the characteristics of 2 mm selected sources from the largest Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) blank-field contiguous survey conducted to date, the Mapping Obscuration to Reionization with ALMA (MORA) survey covering 184 arcmin2 at 2 mm. Twelve of 13 detections above 5σ are attributed to emission from galax…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 70
Gaia Early Data Release 3. Building the Gaia DR3 source list - Cross-match of Gaia observations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039637 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A..10T

Biermann, M.; Lindegren, L.; Bastian, U. +12 more

Context. The Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results derived from 78 billion individual field-of-view transits of 2.5 billion sources collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia mission during its first 34 months of continuous scanning of the sky.
Aims: We describe the input data, which have the form of onboard detections, an…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 70
Reconnection nanojets in the solar corona
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-1199-8 Bibcode: 2021NatAs...5...54A

Antolin, Patrick; Pagano, Paolo; Testa, Paola +2 more

The solar corona is shaped and mysteriously heated to millions of degrees by the Sun's magnetic field. It has long been hypothesized that the heating results from a myriad of tiny magnetic energy outbursts called nanoflares, driven by the fundamental process of magnetic reconnection. Misaligned magnetic field lines can break and reconnect, produci…

2021 Nature Astronomy
Hinode IRIS 70
Cloud busting: enstatite and quartz clouds in the atmosphere of 2M2224-0158
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1361 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.506.1944B

Gonzales, Eileen C.; Marley, Mark S.; Faherty, Jacqueline K. +7 more

We present the most detailed data-driven exploration of cloud opacity in a substellar object to-date. We have tested over 60 combinations of cloud composition and structure, particle-size distribution, scattering model, and gas phase composition assumptions against archival 1-15 µm spectroscopy for the unusually red L4.5 dwarf 2MASSW J222443…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 70
Kiloparsec view of a typical star-forming galaxy when the Universe was ∼1 Gyr old. I. Properties of outflow, halo, and interstellar medium
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039704 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A..31H

Lutz, D.; Genzel, R.; Förster Schreiber, N. +9 more

We present new Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array observations of the [C II] 158 µm transition and the dust continuum in HZ4, a typical star-forming galaxy when the Universe was only ∼1 Gyr old (z ≈ 5.5). Our high ≈0.3″ spatial resolution allows us to study the relationships between [C II] line emission, star formation rate, and fa…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST 70
SWEET-Cat 2.0: The Cat just got SWEETer. Higher quality spectra and precise parallaxes from Gaia eDR3
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141584 Bibcode: 2021A&A...656A..53S

Adibekyan, V.; Hoyer, S.; Sousa, S. G. +13 more


Aims: The catalog of Stars With ExoplanETs (SWEET-Cat) was originally introduced in 2013. Since then many more exoplanets have been confirmed, increasing significantly the number of host stars listed there. A crucial step toward a comprehensive understanding of these new worlds is the precise and homogeneous characterization of their host sta…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 69
A Family Tree of Optical Transients from Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac110f Bibcode: 2021ApJ...920...56F

Duev, Dmitry A.; Rusholme, Ben; Stern, Daniel +18 more

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has discovered five events (0.01 < z < 0.4) belonging to an emerging class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) undergoing smooth, large-amplitude, and rapidly rising flares. This sample consists of several transients initially classified as supernovae with narrow spectral lines. However, upon closer inspectio…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 69