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Observations of compact sources in galaxy clusters using MUSTANG2
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2679 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.508.2600D

Sarazin, Craig L.; Hilton, Matt; Sifón, Cristóbal +26 more

Compact sources can cause scatter in the scaling relationships between the amplitude of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (tSZE) in galaxy clusters and cluster mass. Estimates of the importance of this scatter vary - largely due to limited data on sources in clusters at the frequencies at which tSZE cluster surveys operate. In this paper, we p…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 11
New X-ray observations of the hot subdwarf binary HD 49798/RX J0648.0-4418
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1004 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.504..920M

Rauch, T.; Tiengo, A.; Mereghetti, S. +7 more

HD 49798/RX J0648.0-4418 is the only confirmed X-ray binary in which the mass donor is a hot subdwarf star of O spectral type and, most likely, it contains a massive white dwarf (1.28 ± 0.05 M) with a very fast spin period of 13.2 s. Here, we report the results of new XMM-Newton pointings of this peculiar binary, carried out in 2018 an…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia XMM-Newton 11
Extreme relativistic reflection in the active galaxy ESO 033-G002
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1290 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.506.1557W

Harrison, F. A.; Stern, D.; Fabian, A. C. +13 more

We present the first high signal-to-noise broad-band X-ray spectrum of the radio-quiet type-2 Seyfert ESO 033-G002, combining data from XMM-Newton and NuSTAR. The nuclear X-ray spectrum is complex, showing evidence for both neutral and ionized absorption, as well as reflection from both the accretion disc and more distant material, but our broad-b…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 11
Detection of millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-Ray binary 1RXS J180408.9-342058
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3224 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.500...34T

Galloway, Duncan K.; Chou, Yi; Hsieh, Hung-En +2 more

Millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations (mHz QPOs) observed in neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries (NS LMXBs) are generally explained as marginally stable thermonuclear burning on the neutron star surface. We report the discovery of mHz QPOs in an XMM-Newton observation of the transient 1RXS J180408.9-342058, during a regular bursting phase of its…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 11
Photometric and Kinematic Study of the Open Clusters SAI 44 and SAI 45
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac0138 Bibcode: 2021AJ....162...64M

Sharma, Saurabh; Joshi, Y. C.; Elsanhoury, W. H. +1 more

We carry out a detailed photometric and kinematic study of the poorly studied sparse open clusters SAI 44 and SAI 45 using ground-based BVRcIc data supplemented by archival data from Gaia eDR3 and Pan-STARRS. The stellar memberships are determined using a statistical method based on Gaia eDR3 kinematic data, and we found 204 …

2021 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 11
The Source Locations of Major Flares and CMEs in Emerging Active Regions
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abde37 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...909..142L

Wang, Yuming; Liu, Lijuan; Cui, Jun +1 more

Major flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) tend to originate from compact polarity inversion lines (PILs) in solar active regions (ARs). Recently, a scenario named "collisional shearing" was proposed by Chintzoglou et al. to explain the phenomenon, which suggests that the collision between different emerging bipoles is able to form a compact P…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 11
AlFoCS + F3D - II. Unexpectedly low gas-to-dust ratios in the Fornax galaxy cluster
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab342 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.502.4723Z

De Looze, Ilse; Baes, Maarten; Bendo, George J. +14 more

We combine observations from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Australia Telescope Compact Array, Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), and Herschel to study gas-to-dust ratios in 15 Fornax cluster galaxies detected in the FIR/sub-mm by Herschel and observed by ALMA as part of the ALMA Fornax Cluster Survey. The sample spans…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 11
APOGEE-2S Discovery of Light- and Heavy-element Abundance Correlations in the Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6380
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac1c7e Bibcode: 2021ApJ...918L...9F

Cunha, Katia; Smith, Verne V.; Majewski, Steven R. +11 more

We derive abundance ratios for nine stars in the relatively high-metallicity bulge globular cluster NGC 6380. We find a mean cluster metallicity between [Fe/H] = -0.80 and -0.73, with no clear evidence for a variation in iron abundances beyond the observational errors. Stars with strongly enhanced [N/Fe] abundance ratios populate the cluster and a…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 11
Mrk 1239: a Type-2 Counterpart of Narrow-line Seyfert-1?
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abf148 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...912..118P

Zhou, Hongyan; Ji, Tuo; Shi, Xiheng +10 more

We present new spectrophotometric and spectropolarimetric observations of Mrk 1239, one of the 8 prototypes that defines type-1 narrow-line Seyfert galaxies (NLS1s). Unlike the other typical NLS1s though, a high degree of polarization (P ∼ 5.6%) and red optical-IR (g-W4 = 12.35) colors suggest that Mrk 1239 is more similar to type-2 act…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
IUE eHST 11
Looking into the cradle of the grave: J22564-5910, a potential young post-merger hot subdwarf
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140391 Bibcode: 2021A&A...655A..43V

Uzundag, Murat; Pelisoli, Ingrid; Bobrick, Alexey +10 more

Context. We present the discovery of J22564-5910, a new type of hot subdwarf (sdB) which shows evidence of gas present in the system and it has shallow, multi-peaked hydrogen and helium lines which vary in shape over time. All observational evidence points towards J22564-5910 being observed very shortly after the merger phase that formed it.

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 11