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JOYS+: Mid-infrared detection of gas-phase SO2 emission in a low-mass protostar. The case of NGC 1333 IRAS 2A: Hot core or accretion shock?
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348118 Bibcode: 2024A&A...682A..78V

Chen, Y.; van Dishoeck, E. F.; Nazari, P. +18 more

Context. Thanks to the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), our ability to observe the star formation process in the infrared has greatly improved. Due to its unprecedented spatial and spectral resolution and sensitivity in the mid-infrared, JWST/MIRI can see through highly extincted protostellar envelopes and p…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 9
The IACOB project: XII. New grid of northern standards for the spectral classification of B-type stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449298 Bibcode: 2024A&A...690A.176N

Simón-Díaz, S.; de Burgos, A.; Negueruela, I. +2 more

Context. With the advent of large spectroscopic surveys, automated stellar parameter determination has become commonplace. Nevertheless, spectral classification still offers a quick and useful alternative for obtaining parameter estimates for large samples of spectra of varying quality. Aims. We present a new atlas of stellar spectra covering the …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 9
CHEX-MATE: Turbulence in the intra-cluster medium from X-ray surface brightness fluctuations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348701 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A..58D

Pointecouteau, E.; Pratt, G. W.; Rossetti, M. +15 more

The intra-cluster medium is prone to turbulent motion that will contribute to the non-thermal heating of the gas, complicating the use of galaxy clusters as cosmological probes. Indirect approaches can estimate the intensity and structure of turbulent motions by studying the associated fluctuations in gas density and X-ray surface brightness. In t…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 9
Evidence of extended [CII] and dust emission in local dwarf galaxies
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202349111 Bibcode: 2024A&A...683L...9R

Ginolfi, M.; Shivaei, I.; Jones, G. C. +8 more


Aims: The evolution of dwarf galaxies is dramatically affected by gaseous and dusty outflows, which can easily deprive their interstellar medium of the material needed for the formation of new stars, simultaneously enriching their surrounding circumgalactic medium (CGM). In this Letter, we present the first evidence of extended [CII] 158 &mic…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 9
Warp and flare of the old Galactic disc as traced by the red clump stars
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3525 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.527.4863U

Ganesh, Shashikiran; Schultheis, Mathias; Uppal, Namita

Our study aims to investigate the outer disc structure of the Milky Way Galaxy using the red clump (RC) stars. We analysed the distribution of the largest sample of RC stars to date, homogeneously covering the entire Galactic plane in the range of 40° ≤ ℓ ≤ 340° and -10° ≤ b ≤ +10°. This sample allows us to model the RC star distribution in the Ga…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 9
JWST Imaging of the Closest Globular Clusters. II. Discovery of Brown Dwarfs in NGC 6397 and Measurement of Age from the Brown Dwarf Cooling Sequence, Using SANDee—A New Grid of Model Isochrones across the Hydrogen-burning Limit
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad5551 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...971...65G

Anderson, Jay; Burgasser, Adam J.; Bedin, Luigi R. +4 more

Globular clusters contain vast repositories of metal-poor stars that represent some of the oldest stellar generations in the Universe. The archaeological footprint of early Galactic evolution may be retained in the measurable properties of globular clusters, such as their ages, mass functions, and chemical abundances. Until recently, all photometr…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST JWST 9
PDRs4All. VI. Probing the photochemical evolution of PAHs in the Orion Bar using machine learning techniques
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348465 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A..77P

Hartigan, Patrick; Zhang, Yong; Onaka, Takashi +22 more

Context. Extraordinary observations of the Orion Bar by JWST have shown, for the first time, the incredible richness of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission bands and their variation on very small scales. These variations are the result of photochemical evolution of the PAH carrier.
Aims: We aim to probe the photochemical evolution …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 9
Euclid preparation. XLVIII. The pre-launch Science Ground Segment simulation framework
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202349128 Bibcode: 2024A&A...690A.103E

Altieri, B.; Aussel, H.; Cimatti, A. +274 more

Context. The European Space Agency's Euclid mission is one of a raft of forthcoming large-scale cosmology surveys that will map the large-scale structure in the Universe with unprecedented precision. The mission will collect a vast amount of data that will be processed and analysed by Euclid's Science Ground Segment (SGS). The development and vali…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 9
Reconstructing Galactic magnetic fields from local measurements for backtracking ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346423 Bibcode: 2024A&A...681A.111T

Enßlin, Torsten; Edenhofer, Gordian; Pavlidou, Vasiliki +2 more

Context. Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are highly energetic charged particles with energies exceeding 1018 eV. These energies are far greater than those achieved in Earth-bound accelerators, and identifying their sources and production mechanism can shed light on many open questions in both astrophysics and high-energy physics.…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 9
Observations of the 2022 September 5 Solar Energetic Particle Event at 15 Solar Radii
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad37f8 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...966..148C

Mitchell, D. G.; McComas, D. J.; Bale, S. D. +27 more

On 2022 September 5, Parker Solar Probe (Parker) observed a large solar energetic particle (SEP) event at the unprecedented distance of only 15 R S from the Sun. The observations from the Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (IS⊙IS) obtained over the course of this event are remarkably rich, and an overview is presented here. IS⊙…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO SolarOrbiter 9