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Detection of the phase curve and occultation of WASP-100b with TESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa814 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.494.4077J

Kipping, David; Jansen, Tiffany

We report the detection of the full orbital phase curve and occultation of the hot-Jupiter WASP-100b using TESS photometry. The phase curve is isolated by suppressing low-frequency stellar and instrumental modes using both a non-parametric harmonic notch filter (phasma) and semi-sector long polynomials. This yields a phase-curve signal of (73 ± 9)…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 19
Coordination of the in situ payload of Solar Orbiter
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936894 Bibcode: 2020A&A...642A...5W

Lewis, G. R.; Livi, S.; Müller, D. +36 more

Solar Orbiter's in situ coordination working group met frequently during the development of the mission with the goal of ensuring that its in situ payload has the necessary level of coordination to maximise science return. Here we present the results of that work, namely how the design of each of the in situ instruments (EPD, MAG, RPW, SWA) was gu…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SolarOrbiter 19
Outer Radiation Belt Electron Lifetime Model Based on Combined Van Allen Probes and Cluster VLF Measurements
DOI: 10.1029/2020JA028018 Bibcode: 2020JGRA..12528018A

Aryan, Homayon; Boynton, Richard; Balikhin, Michael A. +4 more

The flux of energetic electrons in the outer radiation belt shows a high variability. The interactions of electrons with very low frequency (VLF) chorus waves play a significant role in controlling the flux variation of these particles. Quantifying the effects of these interactions is crucially important for accurately modeling the global dynamics…

2020 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 19
Outside the Lyman-break box: detecting Lyman continuum emitters at 3.5 < z < 5.1 with CLAUDS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa920 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.494.4986M

Ryan-Weber, E. V.; Arnouts, S.; Sawicki, M. +12 more

Identifying non-contaminated sample of high-redshift galaxies with escaping Lyman continuum (LyC) flux is important for understanding the sources and evolution of cosmic reionization. We present CLAUDS (CFHT Large Area u-band deep survey) u-band photometry of the COSMOS field to probe LyC radiation from spectroscopically confirmed galaxies at $z$ …

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 19
H2 emission in the low-ionization structures of the planetary nebulae NGC 7009 and NGC 6543
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa515 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.493.3800A

Gonçalves, Denise R.; Akras, Stavros; Ramos-Larios, Gerardo +1 more

Despite the many studies in the last decades, the low-ionization structures (LISs) of planetary nebulae (PNe) still hold several mysteries. Recent imaging surveys have demonstrated that LISs are composed of molecular gas. Here, we report H2 emission in the LISs of NGC 7009 and NGC 6543 by means of very deep narrow-band H2 ima…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 19
Time evolution of dust deposits in the Hapi region of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202037485 Bibcode: 2020A&A...636A..91C

Sierks, H.; Fulle, M.; Kührt, E. +25 more


Aims: We provide a measurement of the seasonal evolution of the dust deposit erosion and accretion in the Hapi region of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with a vertical accuracy of 0.2-0.9 m.
Methods: We used OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera images with a spatial scale of lower than 1.30 m px-1 and developed a tool to monitor the ti…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Rosetta 19
Exploiting NIKA2/XMM-Newton imaging synergy for intermediate-mass high-z galaxy clusters within the NIKA2 SZ large program. Observations of ACT-CL J0215.4+0030 at z ∼ 0.9
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038933 Bibcode: 2020A&A...644A..93K

Berta, S.; Aussel, H.; Adam, R. +40 more

High-resolution mapping of the intracluster medium (ICM) up to high redshift and down to low masses is crucial to derive accurate mass estimates of the galaxy cluster and to understand the systematic effects affecting cosmological studies based on galaxy clusters. We present a spatially resolved Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ)/X-ray analysis of ACT-CL J02…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel XMM-Newton 19
Deep XMM-Newton observations of the northern disc of M31. II. Tracing the hot interstellar medium
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201937008 Bibcode: 2020A&A...637A..12K

Williams, Benjamin F.; Sasaki, Manami; Haberl, Frank +10 more


Aims: We use new deep XMM-Newton observations of the northern disc of M31 to trace the hot interstellar medium (ISM) in unprecedented detail and to characterise the physical properties of the X-ray emitting plasmas.
Methods: We used all XMM-Newton data up to and including our new observations to produce the most detailed image yet of the…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton eHST 19
The Pristine survey XI: the FORS2 sample
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa589 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.493.4677C

Bonifacio, P.; Caffau, E.; Jablonka, P. +11 more

Extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars are old objects that mostly formed very early after the big bang. They are rare and, to select them, we have to rely on low-resolution spectroscopic or photometric surveys; specifically the combination of narrow- and broad-band photometry provides a powerful and time efficient way to select MP stars. The Pristine p…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 19
The MAVERIC survey: a hidden pulsar and a black hole candidate in ATCA radio imaging of the globular cluster NGC 6397
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa631 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.493.6033Z

Gelfand, Joseph D.; Strader, Jay; Bahramian, Arash +9 more

Using a 16.2-h radio observation by the Australia Telescope Compact Array and archival Chandra data, we found >5σ radio counterparts to four known and three new X-ray sources within the half-light radius (rh) of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6397. The previously suggested millisecond pulsar (MSP) candidate, U18, is a steep-spectr…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia eHST 19