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Studying the ISM at ∼10 pc scale in NGC 7793 with MUSE. II. Constraints on the oxygen abundance and ionising radiation escape
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039402 Bibcode: 2021A&A...650A.103D

Della Bruna, Lorenza; Östlin, Göran; Smith, Linda J. +11 more

Context. Feedback from massive stars affects the interstellar medium (ISM) from the immediate surroundings of the stars (parsec scales) to galactic (kiloparsec) scales. High-spatial resolution studies of H II regions are critical to investigate how this mechanism operates.
Aims: We study the ionised ISM in NGC 7793 with the MUSE instrument at…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 26
Millimeter-sized Dust Grains Surviving the Water-sublimating Temperature in the Inner 10 au of the FU Ori Disk
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac31b9 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...923..270L

Chen, Wen Ping; Liu, Sheng-Yuan; Takami, Michihiro +11 more

Previous observations have shown that the ≲10 au, ≳400 K hot inner disk of the archetypal accretion outburst young stellar object, FU Ori, is dominated by viscous heating. To constrain dust properties in this region, we have performed radio observations toward this disk using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in 2020 June-July, September, and No…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia Herschel 26
SCExAO/MEC and CHARIS Discovery of a Low-mass, 6 au Separation Companion to HIP 109427 Using Stochastic Speckle Discrimination and High-contrast Spectroscopy
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac02cc Bibcode: 2021AJ....162...44S

Currie, Thayne; Tamura, Motohide; Bailey, John I., III +29 more

We report the direct imaging discovery of a low-mass companion to the nearby accelerating A star, HIP 109427, with the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument coupled with the Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Exoplanet Camera (MEC) and CHARIS integral field spectrograph. CHARIS data reduced with reference star point s…

2021 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia Hipparcos 26
High-resolution synthetic UV-submm images for simulated Milky Way-type galaxies from the Auriga project
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2043 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.506.5703K

van der Wel, Arjen; De Looze, Ilse; Baes, Maarten +6 more

We present redshift-zero synthetic observational data considering dust attenuation and dust emission for the 30 galaxies of the Auriga project, calculated with the SKIRT radiative transfer code. The post-processing procedure includes components for star-forming regions, stellar sources, and diffuse dust taking into account stochastic heating of du…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 26
Hinode/EIS Coronal Magnetic Field Measurements at the Onset of a C2 Flare
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abf6d1 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...913....1L

Landi, E.; Li, W.; Hutton, R. +1 more

We study Hinode/EIS observations of an active region taken before, during, and after a small C2.0 flare in order to monitor the evolution of the magnetic field and its relation to the flare event. We find that while the flare left the active region itself unaltered, the event included a large magnetic field enhancement (MFE), which consisted of a …

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 26
The kinematics and dark matter fractions of TNG50 galaxies at z = 2 from an observational perspective
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3464 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.500.4597U

Übler, Hannah; Price, Sedona H.; Genel, Shy +13 more

We contrast the gas kinematics and dark matter contents of z = 2 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) from state-of-the-art cosmological simulations within the ΛCDM framework to observations. To this end, we create realistic mock observations of massive SFGs ( $M_*\gt 4\times 10^{10} \, \mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ , SFR >50 M yr-1) from …

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 26
Kiloparsec-scale AGN outflows and feedback in merger-free galaxies
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2340 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.507.3985S

Simmons, B. D.; Smethurst, R. J.; Coil, A. +7 more

Recent observations and simulations have challenged the long-held paradigm that mergers are the dominant mechanism driving the growth of both galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBH), in favour of non-merger (secular) processes. In this pilot study of merger-free SMBH and galaxy growth, we use Keck Cosmic Web Imager spectral observations to ex…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 26
Global Distribution of the Solar Wind Speed Reconstructed from Improved Tomographic Analysis of Interplanetary Scintillation Observations between 1985 and 2019
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac1862 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...922...73T

Kojima, Masayoshi; Tokumaru, Munetoshi; Fujiki, Ken'ichi +1 more

Computer-assisted tomography (CAT) for interplanetary scintillation (IPS) observations enables the determination of the global distribution of solar wind speed. We compared solar wind speeds derived from the CAT analysis of IPS observations between 1985 and 2019 with in situ observations conducted by the near-Earth and Ulysses spacecraft. From thi…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Ulysses 26
Host Star Metallicity of Directly Imaged Wide-orbit Planets: Implications for Planet Formation
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abd802 Bibcode: 2021AJ....161..114S

Manoj, P.; Narang, Mayank; Swastik, C. +4 more

Directly imaged planets (DIPs) are self-luminous companions of pre-main-sequence and young main-sequence stars. They reside in wider orbits (∼tens to thousands of astronomical units) and generally are more massive compared to the close-in (≲10 au) planets. Determining the host star properties of these outstretched planetary systems is important to…

2021 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 26
Spectroscopy and Photometry of the Least Massive Type II Globular Clusters: NGC 1261 and NGC 6934
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac282c Bibcode: 2021ApJ...923...22M

Da Costa, G. S.; Milone, A. P.; Cordoni, G. +10 more

Recent work has revealed two classes of globular clusters (GCs), dubbed Type I and Type II. Type II GCs are characterized by both a blue and a red red giant branch composed of stars with different metallicities, often coupled with distinct abundances in the slow neutron-capture elements (s-elements). Here we continue the chemical tagging of Type I…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 26