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Discovery of Four New Clusters in the Cygnus Cloud
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4527/21/2/45 Bibcode: 2021RAA....21...45Q

Chen, Li; Zhong, Jing; Li, Jing +1 more

We report the discovery of four new open clusters (named QC 1, QC 2, QC 3 and QC 4) in the direction of Cygnus Cloud and select their members based on five astrometric parameters (l, b, ϖ, ${\mu }_{\alpha }^{* }$ , µδ) of Gaia DR2. We also derive their astrophysical parameters for each new cluster. Structure parameters are generat…

2021 Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 20
3He-rich solar energetic particle events observed on the first perihelion pass of Solar Orbiter
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039752 Bibcode: 2021A&A...656L...1M

Lario, D.; Rodríguez-Pacheco, J.; Wimmer-Schweingruber, R. F. +19 more

We report observations of five impulsive solar energetic particle (SEP) events observed inside 1 au during the first perihelion pass of the Solar Orbiter mission, which was launched in February 2020. These small events were all reasonably associated with active regions observed from Earth but which had rotated out of view by the time of the Solar …

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SolarOrbiter 20
Rise of the Titans: Gas Excitation and Feedback in a Binary Hyperluminous Dusty Starburst Galaxy at z ∼ 6
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abcf2e Bibcode: 2021ApJ...907...62R

Burgarella, Denis; Clements, David L.; Oliver, Seb +8 more

We report new observations toward the hyperluminous dusty starbursting major merger ADFS-27 (z = 5.655), using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). We detect CO (J = 2 → 1), CO (J = 8 → 7), CO (J = 9 → 8), CO (J = 10 → 9), and H2O (312 → 221) emis…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia Herschel eHST 20
D/H in the refractory organics of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko measured by Rosetta/COSIMA
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1028 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.504.4940P

Hilchenbach, M.; Merouane, S.; Engrand, C. +11 more

The D/H ratio is a clue to the origin and evolution of hydrogen-bearing chemical species in Solar system materials. D/H has been observed in the coma of many comets, but most such measurements have been for gaseous water. We present the first in situ measurements of the D/H ratios in the organic refractory component of cometary dust particles coll…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosetta 20
The Evolution of Plasma Composition during a Solar Flare
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abe85a Bibcode: 2021ApJ...911...86T

Long, David M.; Brooks, David H.; Baker, Deborah +4 more

We analyze the coronal elemental abundances during a small flare using Hinode/EIS observations. Compared to the preflare elemental abundances, we observed a strong increase in coronal abundance of Ca XIV 193.84 Å, an emission line with low first ionization potential (FIP < 10 eV), as quantified by the ratio Ca/Ar during the flare. This is in co…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 20
The substructure of the Perseus star-forming region: a survey with Gaia DR2
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab352 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.503.3232P

Scholz, Aleks; Teixeira, Paula S.; Pavlidou, Tatiana

We use photometric and kinematic data from Gaia DR2 to explore the structure of the star-forming region associated with the molecular cloud of Perseus. Apart from the two well-known clusters, IC 348 and NGC 1333, we present five new clustered groups of young stars, which contain between 30 and 300 members, named Autochthe, Alcaeus, Heleus, Electry…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 20
First Detection of Orbital Motion for HD 106906 b: A Wide-separation Exoplanet on a Planet Nine-like Orbit
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abc012 Bibcode: 2021AJ....161...22N

Kalas, Paul; De Rosa, Robert J.; Nguyen, Meiji M.

HD 106906 is a 15 Myr old short-period (49 days) spectroscopic binary that hosts a wide-separation (737 au) planetary-mass ( $\sim 11\,{M}_{\mathrm{Jup}}$ ) common proper motion companion, HD 106906 b. Additionally, a circumbinary debris disk is resolved at optical and near-infrared wavelengths that exhibits a significant asymmetry at wide separat…

2021 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia eHST 20
The 6.2 µm PAH Feature and the Role of Nitrogen: Revisited
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac28fc Bibcode: 2021ApJ...923..202R

Boersma, C.; Peeters, E.; Ricca, A.

This study revisits the role that nitrogen inclusion in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs; those with nitrogen inclusion, PANHs) plays in their infrared (IR) spectral properties. We present spectra of pure PAHs, PANHs, and protonated PANHs, computed using density functional theory and basis sets that treat polarization. We investigate trends …

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
ISO eHST 20
TOI-1431b/MASCARA-5b: A Highly Irradiated Ultrahot Jupiter Orbiting One of the Hottest and Brightest Known Exoplanet Host Stars
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac224e Bibcode: 2021AJ....162..292A

Latham, David W.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Wittenmyer, Robert A. +70 more

We present the discovery of a highly irradiated and moderately inflated ultrahot Jupiter, TOI-1431b/MASCARA-5 b (HD 201033b), first detected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission (TESS) and the Multi-site All-Sky Camera (MASCARA). The signal was established to be of planetary origin through radial velocity measurements obtained u…

2021 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 20
The PAU Survey: narrow-band photometric redshifts using Gaussian processes
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab711 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.503.4118S

Alarcon, Alex; Carretero, Jorge; Castander, Francisco J. +16 more

We study the performance of the hybrid template machine learning photometric redshift (photo-z) algorithm DELIGHT, which uses Gaussian processes, on a subset of the early data release of the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS). We calibrate the fluxes of the 40 PAUS narrow bands with six broad-band fluxes (uBVriz) in the Cosmic Evol…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 20