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The Gravity Collective: A Search for the Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger GW190814
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac23c6 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...923..258K

Conselice, Christopher J.; Filippenko, Alexei V.; Kilpatrick, Charles D. +80 more

We present optical follow-up imaging obtained with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Nickel Telescope, Swope Telescope, and Thacher Telescope of the LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) signal from the neutron star-black hole (NSBH) merger GW190814. We searched the GW190814 localization region…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 30
Extreme ultra-soft X-ray variability in an eROSITA observation of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0707-495
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039316 Bibcode: 2021A&A...647A...6B

Buchner, J.; Nandra, K.; Merloni, A. +9 more

The ultra-soft narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0707-495 is a well-known and highly variable active galactic nucleus (AGN), with a complex, steep X-ray spectrum, and has been studied extensively with XMM-Newton. 1H 0707-495 was observed with the extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array (eROSITA) aboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (S…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
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The intracluster magnetic field in the double relic galaxy cluster Abell 2345
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab218 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.502.2518S

Lovisari, L.; Vazza, F.; van Weeren, R. J. +5 more

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in galaxy clusters, yet their radial profile, power spectrum, and connection to host cluster properties are poorly known. Merging galaxy clusters hosting diffuse polarized emission in the form of radio relics offer a unique possibility to study the magnetic fields in these complex systems. In this paper, we investiga…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Anisotropies in Compressible MHD Turbulence: Probing Magnetic Fields and Measuring Magnetization
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abea18 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...911...37H

Lazarian, A.; Hu, Yue; Xu, Siyao

Probing magnetic fields in the interstellar medium (ISM) is notoriously challenging. Motivated by the modern theories of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and turbulence anisotropy, we introduce the Structure Function Analysis (SFA) as a new approach to measure the magnetic-field orientation and estimate the magnetization. We analyze the statis…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 30
Low-frequency integrated radio spectra of diffuse, steep-spectrum sources in galaxy clusters: palaeontology with the MWA and ASKAP
DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2021.45 Bibcode: 2021PASA...38...53D

Bartalucci, I.; Johnston-Hollitt, M.; Duchesne, S. W.

Galaxy clusters have been found to host a range of diffuse, non-thermal emission components, generally with steep, power law spectra. In this work we report on the detection and follow-up of radio halos, relics, remnant radio galaxies, and other fossil radio plasmas in Southern Sky galaxy clusters using the Murchison Widefield Array and the Austra…

2021 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
XMM-Newton 30
Looking for Obscured Young Star Clusters in NGC 1313
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abe0b5 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...909..121M

Smith, Linda J.; Calzetti, Daniela; Lin, Zesen +7 more

Using recently acquired Hubble Space Telescope NIR observations (J, Paβ, and H bands) of the nearby galaxy NGC 1313, we investigate the timescales required by a young star cluster to emerge from its natal cloud. We search for extincted star clusters, potentially embedded in their natal cloud as either (1) compact sources in regions with high Hα/Pa…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 30
BEAST begins: sample characteristics and survey performance of the B-star Exoplanet Abundance Study
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039683 Bibcode: 2021A&A...646A.164J

Henning, Thomas; Reffert, Sabine; Langlois, Maud +20 more

While the occurrence rate of wide giant planets appears to increase with stellar mass at least up through the A-type regime, B-type stars have not been systematically studied in large-scale surveys so far. It therefore remains unclear up to what stellar mass this occurrence trend continues. The B-star Exoplanet Abundance Study (BEAST) is a direct …

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 30
Strong MARSIS Radar Reflections From the Base of Martian South Polar Cap May Be Due to Conductive Ice or Minerals
DOI: 10.1029/2021GL093880 Bibcode: 2021GeoRL..4893880B

Putzig, N. E.; Bierson, C. J.; Tulaczyk, S. +1 more

Recent results from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument have been interpreted as evidence of subsurface brine pooled beneath 1.3 km-thick South Polar Layered Deposit (SPLD). This interpretation is based on the assumption that the regionally high strength of MARSIS radar reflections from the base of th…

2021 Geophysical Research Letters
MEx 30
C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein): The Nearly Spherical Cow of Comets
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac32d3 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...921L..37B

Smith, M.; Allam, S.; Annis, J. +65 more

Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), incoming from the Oort cloud, is remarkable in having the brightest (and presumably largest) nucleus of any well-measured comet and having been discovered at the heliocentric distance rh ≈ 29 au, farther than any Oort cloud comet. In this work, we describe the discovery process an…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 30
A Uniform Search for Nearby Planetary Companions to Hot Jupiters in TESS Data Reveals Hot Jupiters Are Still Lonely
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac2602 Bibcode: 2021AJ....162..263H

Barclay, Thomas; Wohler, Bill; Ricker, George R. +12 more

We present the results of a uniform search for additional planets around all stars with confirmed hot Jupiters observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in its Cycle 1 survey of the southern ecliptic hemisphere. Our search comprises 184 total planetary systems with confirmed hot Jupiters with R p > 8 R

2021 The Astronomical Journal
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