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Possible Periodic Dips in the Pulsating Ultraluminous X-Ray Source M51 ULX-7
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abd7a5 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...909....5H

Enoto, Teruaki; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Hu, Chin-Ping

We report the discovery of possible periodic X-ray dips in a pulsating ultraluminous X-ray source, M51 ULX-7, with archival Chandra observations. With ∼20 days of monitoring in the superorbital descending state, we discovered three dips with separations of ∼2 and ∼8 days via the Bayesian block technique. A phase-dispersion minimization and a ${\ch…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 11
Spectroscopic and photometric time series of the bright RRc star T Sex
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3452 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.500.2554B

Pál, András; Sódor, Ádám; Benkő, József M.

We present spectroscopic time series observations on one of the brightest northern RRc stars, namely T Sex. Additionally, we also analysed extended photometric data sets, particularly the recent observations of the TESS space telescope. The main findings of our studies are as follows: T Sex, unlike all RRc stars whose space photometry has been ana…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 11
The H I Column Density Distribution of the Galactic Disk and Halo
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac1b9f Bibcode: 2021ApJ...923...50F

Richter, Philipp; Heckman, Timothy; Savage, Blair D. +8 more

We present a census of neutral gas in the Milky Way disk and halo down to limiting column densities of N(H I) ~ 1014 cm-2 using measurements of H I Lyman series absorption from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer. Our results are drawn from an analysis of 25 AGN sight lines spread evenly across the sky with Galactic la…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 11
ALMA Observations of Lyα Blob 1: Multiple Major Mergers and Widely Distributed Interstellar Media
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac1106 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...918...69U

Ivison, R. J.; Smail, Ian; Hayes, Matthew +11 more

We present observations of a giant Lyα blob (LAB) in the SSA22 protocluster at z = 3.1, SSA22-LAB1, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Dust continuum, along with [C II] 158 µm and CO(4-3) line emission have been detected in LAB1, showing complex morphology and kinematics across a ~100 kpc central region. Seven galax…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 11
KIC 9406652: A laboratory for tilted disks in cataclysmic variable stars. II. Modeling of the orbital light curves
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psab069 Bibcode: 2021PASJ...73.1225K

Kimura, Mariko; Osaki, Yoji

KIC 9406652, one of the recently identified IW And-type dwarf novae, is the best target for studying the tilted disk in cataclysmic variable stars. In a previous paper by Kimura et al. (2020b, PASJ, 72, 94), we analyzed its Kepler light curves and found that its orbital light curves during the brightening stage were dominated by the reflection eff…

2021 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Gaia 11
Even More Rapidly Rotating Pre-main-sequence M Dwarfs with Highly Structured Light Curves: An Initial Survey in the Lower Centaurus-Crux and Upper Centaurus-Lupus Associations
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abc7c6 Bibcode: 2021AJ....161...60S

Powell, Brian P.; Kruse, Ethan; Cody, Ann Marie +6 more

Using K2, we recently discovered a new type of periodic photometric variability while analyzing the light curves of members of Upper Sco. The 23 exemplars of this new variability type are all mid-M dwarfs, with short rotation periods. Their phased light curves have one or more broad flux dips or multiple arcuate structures which are not explicable…

2021 The Astronomical Journal
AKARI Gaia 11
The VLA Frontier Fields Survey: Deep, High-resolution Radio Imaging of the MACS Lensing Clusters at 3 and 6 GHz
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abdf61 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...910..105H

Smail, I.; Dickinson, M.; Jiménez-Andrade, E. F. +9 more

The Frontier Fields project is an observational campaign targeting six galaxy clusters, with the intention of using the magnification provided by gravitational lensing to study galaxies that are extremely faint or distant. We used the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at 3 and 6 GHz to observe three Frontier Fields: MACS J0416.1-2403 (z = 0.39…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 11
Comparison of multifrequency positions of extragalactic sources from ICRF3 and Gaia EDR3
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038179 Bibcode: 2021A&A...652A..87L

Liu, N.; Zhu, Z.; Liu, J. -C. +5 more

Context. Comparisons of optical positions derived from the Gaia mission and radio positions measured by very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) probe the structure of active galactic nuclei (AGN) on the milliarcsecond scale. So far, these comparisons have focused on using the S∕X-band (2/8 GHz) radio positions, but did not take advantage of the V…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 11
Absence of obvious tidal tails around the globular cluster NGC 6397
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2035 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.507.1814B

Vitral, Eduardo; Boldrini, Pierre

In this work, we use N-body simulations performed on GPU to trace the past 10 Gyr dynamical history of a globular cluster (GC) similar to NGC 6397 in the tidal field of a Milky Way-like galaxy and we compare our simulated GCs with data from the third Gaia early data release. Our simulations predict, in contrast to what is deduced from the data, th…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 11
The MOSDEF survey: differences in SFR and metallicity for morphologically selected mergers at z ∼ 2
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3502 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.501..137H

Barro, Guillermo; Siana, Brian; Shapley, Alice E. +15 more

We study the properties of 55 morphologically-identified merging galaxy systems at z ~ 2. These systems are flagged as mergers based on features such as tidal tails, double nuclei, and asymmetry. Our sample is drawn from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey, along with a control sample of isolated galaxies at the same redshift. We cons…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 11