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The Anatomy of an Unusual Edge-on Protoplanetary Disk. II. Gas Temperature and a Warm Outer Region
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abeb1e Bibcode: 2021AJ....161..239F

Pinte, C.; Ménard, F.; Duchêne, G. +9 more

We present high-resolution 12CO and 13CO 2-1 ALMA observations, as well as optical and near-infrared spectroscopy, of the highly inclined protoplanetary disk around SSTC2D J163131.2-242627. The spectral type we derive for the source is consistent with a 1.2 M star inferred from the ALMA observations. Despite its m…

2021 The Astronomical Journal
eHST 21
Data-driven Spectroscopic Estimates of Absolute Magnitude, Distance, and Binarity: Method and Catalog of 16,002 O- and B-type Stars from LAMOST
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/abd6ba Bibcode: 2021ApJS..253...22X

Yuan, Hai-Bo; Xiang, Maosheng; Ting, Yuan-Sen +4 more

We present a data-driven method to estimate absolute magnitudes for O- and B-type stars from the LAMOST spectra, which we combine with Gaia DR2 parallaxes to infer distance and binarity. The method applies a neural network model trained on stars with precise Gaia parallax to the spectra and predicts Ks-band absolute magnitudes ${M}_{K{\…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia 21
Iron and nickel atoms in cometary atmospheres even far from the Sun
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03435-0 Bibcode: 2021Natur.593..372M

Jehin, E.; Manfroid, J.; Hutsemékers, D.

In comets, iron and nickel are found in refractory dust particles or in metallic and sulfide grains1. So far, no iron- or nickel-bearing molecules have been observed in the gaseous coma of comets2. Iron and a few other heavy atoms, such as copper and cobalt, have been observed only in two exceptional objects: the Great Comet …

2021 Nature
Rosetta 21
The Aeolian Environment of the Landing Site for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover in Oxia Planum, Mars
DOI: 10.1029/2020JE006723 Bibcode: 2021JGRE..126.6723F

Fawdon, P.; Balme, M. R.; Grindrod, P. M. +4 more

Aeolian features at Oxia Planum—the 2023 landing site for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover (ERFR)—are important for Mars exploration because they record information about past and current wind regimes, sand transport vectors, and lend insight to the abrasion, deposition, and transport of granular material. To characterize the wind regime and er…

2021 Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets)
MEx 21
Evolutionary stages and triggering process of a complex eruptive flare with circular and parallel ribbons
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3480 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.501.4703J

Joshi, Bhuwan; Joshi, Navin Chandra; Mitra, Prabir K.

We report multiwavelength study of a complex M-class solar eruptive flare that consists of three different sets of flare ribbons, viz. circular, parallel, and remote ribbons. Magnetic field modelling of source active region NOAA 12242 exhibits the presence of 3D null-point magnetic topology that encompasses an inner bipolar region. The event initi…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
SOHO 21
Energetic Proton Propagation and Acceleration Simulated for the Bastille Day Event of 2000 July 14
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abdf5f Bibcode: 2021ApJ...909..160Y

Downs, Cooper; Riley, Pete; Schwadron, Nathan A. +9 more

This work presents results from simulations of the 2000 July 14 ("Bastille Day") solar proton event. We used the Energetic Particle Radiation Environment Model (EPREM) and the CORona-HELiosphere (CORHEL) software suite within the SPE Threat Assessment Tool (STAT) framework to model proton acceleration to GeV energies due to the passage of a CME th…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 21
Potential origin of the state-dependent high-energy tail in the black hole microquasar Cygnus X-1 as seen with INTEGRAL
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038604 Bibcode: 2021A&A...650A..93C

Rodriguez, J.; Siegert, T.; Wilms, J. +8 more

Context. 0.1-10 MeV observations of the black hole microquasar Cygnus X-1 have shown the presence of a spectral feature in the form of a power law in addition to the standard black body (0.1-10 keV) and Comptonization (10-200 keV) components observed by INTEGRAL in several black-hole X-ray binaries. This so-called "high-energy tail" was recently s…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
INTEGRAL 21
Total mass density slopes of early-type galaxies using Jeans dynamical modelling at redshifts 0.29 < z < 0.55
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1996 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.506.3691D

Emsellem, Eric; Jørgensen, Inger; McDermid, Richard M. +3 more

The change of the total mass density slope, γ, of early-type galaxies through cosmic time is a probe of evolutionary pathways. Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations show that at high redshifts density profiles of early-type galaxies were on average steep (γ ~ -3). As redshift approaches zero, gas-poor mergers progressively cause the total mass d…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 21
Revisiting the gas kinematics in SSA22 Lyman-α Blob 1 with radiative transfer modelling in a multiphase, clumpy medium
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3951 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.502.2389L

Steidel, Charles C.; Gronke, Max; Li, Zhihui +1 more

We present new observations of Lyman-α (Lyα) Blob 1 (LAB1) in the SSA22 protocluster region (z = 3.09) using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager and Keck Multi-object Spectrometer for Infrared Exploration. We have created a narrow-band Lyα image and identified several prominent features. By comparing the spatial distributions and intensities of Lyα and Hβ,…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 21
J-PLUS: Systematic impact of metallicity on photometric calibration with the stellar locus
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140444 Bibcode: 2021A&A...654A..61L

Hernández-Monteagudo, C.; Hernán-Caballero, A.; Tremblay, P. -E. +19 more


Aims: We present the photometric calibration of the twelve optical passbands for the Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS) second data release (DR2), comprising 1088 pointings of two square degrees, and study the systematic impact of metallicity on the stellar locus technique.
Methods: The [Fe/H] metallicity from the Larg…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 21