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Absolute parameters of young stars: V puppis
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab381 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.502.6032B

Blackford, M. G.; Budding, E.; Banks, T. +2 more

New spectrometric data on V Pup are combined with satellite photometry [HIPPARCOS and recent Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)] to allow a revision of the absolute parameters with increased precision. We find: M1 = 14.0 ± 0.5, M2 = 7.3 ± 0.3 (M); R1 = 5.48 ± 0.18, R2 = 4.59 ± 0.15 …

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hipparcos 11
The diffuse interstellar band around 8620 Å. II. Kinematics and distance of the DIB carrier
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141128 Bibcode: 2021A&A...654A.116Z

Schultheis, M.; Recio-Blanco, A.; de Laverny, P. +4 more

Context. Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are important interstellar absorption features of which the origin is still debated. With the large data sets from modern spectroscopic surveys, background stars are widely used to show how the integrated columns of DIB carriers accumulate from the Sun to great distances. To date, studies on the kinematic…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 11
Probing the Hot Circumgalactic Medium with Broad O VI and X-Rays
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abd03f Bibcode: 2021ApJ...908...69M

Nicastro, Fabrizio; Mathur, Smita; Gupta, Anjali +2 more

Most of the baryonic mass in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of a spiral galaxy is believed to be warm-hot, with temperature around 106 K. The narrow O VI absorption lines probe a somewhat cooler component at $\mathrm{log}\,T({\rm{K}})=5.5$ , but broad O VI absorbers have the potential to probe the hotter CGM. Here we present 376 ks Cha…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 11
Morphometry as a probe of the evolution of jellyfish galaxies: evidence of broadening in the surface brightness profiles of ram-pressure stripping candidates in the multicluster system A901/A902
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3226 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.500...40R

Rodríguez Del Pino, Bruno; Chies-Santos, Ana L.; Ferrari, Fabricio +2 more

We explore the morphometric properties of a group of 73 ram-pressure stripping candidates in the A901/A902 multicluster system, at z~ 0.165, to characterize the morphologies and structural evolution of jellyfish galaxies. By employing a quantitative measurement of morphometric indicators with the algorithm MORFOMETRYKA on Hubble Space Telescope (F…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 11
The β Pictoris b Hill sphere transit campaign. I. Photometric limits to dust and rings
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202040060 Bibcode: 2021A&A...648A..15K

Wang, L.; Lecavelier des Etangs, A.; Stee, P. +33 more


Aims: Photometric monitoring of β Pic in 1981 showed anomalous fluctuations of up to 4% over several days, consistent with foreground material transiting the stellar disk. The subsequent discovery of the gas giant planet β Pic b and the predicted transit of its Hill sphere to within a 0.1 au projected separation of the planet provided an oppo…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 11
Stellar loci IV. red giant stars
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4527/21/12/319 Bibcode: 2021RAA....21..319Z

Yuan, Hai-Bo; Huang, Yang; Chen, Bing-Qiu +3 more

In the fourth paper of this series, we present the metallicity-dependent Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) stellar color loci of red giant stars, using a spectroscopic sample of red giants in the SDSS Stripe 82 region. The stars span a range of 0.55 - 1.2 mag in color g - i, -0.3 - -2.5 in metallicity [Fe/H], and have values of surface gravity log g…

2021 Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 11
Discovery of a Protocluster Core Associated with an Enormous Lya Nebula at z = 2.3
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac29c6 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...922..236L

Fan, Xiaohui; Cai, Zheng; Li, Qiong +10 more

The MAMMOTH-1 nebula at z = 2.317 is an enormous Lyα nebula (ELAN) extending to a ~440 kpc scale at the center of the extreme galaxy overdensity BOSS 1441. In this paper, we present observations of the CO(3 - 2) and 250 GHz dust-continuum emission from MAMMOTH-1 using the IRAM NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array. Our observations show that CO(3 - 2…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 11
Radio evidence for a shock wave reflected by a coronal hole
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141387 Bibcode: 2021A&A...651L..14M

Bemporad, A.; Frassati, F.; Giordano, S. +4 more

We report the first unambiguous observational evidence in the radio range of the reflection of a coronal shock wave at the boundary of a coronal hole. The event occurred above an active region located at the northwest limb of the Sun and was characterized by an eruptive prominence and an extreme-ultraviolet wave steepening into a shock. The EUV ob…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
PROBA-2 SOHO 11
A Spatially Resolved Survey of Distant Quasar Host Galaxies. II. Photoionization and Kinematics of the ISM
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abddc1 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...910...44V

Armus, Lee; Larkin, James E.; Wright, Shelley A. +6 more

We present detailed observations of photoionization conditions and galaxy kinematics in 11 z = 1.39-2.59 radio-loud quasar host galaxies. Data were taken with the OSIRIS integral field spectrograph and the adaptive optics system at the W. M. Keck Observatory that targeted nebular emission lines (Hβ, [O III], Hα, [N II]) redshifted into the near-in…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 11
The ultraviolet luminosity function of star-forming galaxies between redshifts of 0.6 and 1.2
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1638 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.506..473P

McHardy, I.; Page, M. J.; Symeonidis, M. +11 more

We use ultraviolet (UV) imaging taken with the XMM-Newton Optical Monitor telescope (XMM-OM), covering 280 arcmin2 in the UVW1 band (λeff = 2910 Å) to measure rest-frame UV 1500-Å luminosity functions of galaxies with redshifts z between 0.6 and 1.2. The XMM-OM data are supplemented by a large body of optical and infrared ima…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 11