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Gaia-IGRINS synergy: Orbits of newly identified Milky Way star clusters
Beers, Timothy C.; Placco, Vinicius M.; Minniti, Dante +11 more
Context. The recent and exquisite astrometric, photometric, and radial velocity measurements of the Gaia mission resulted in a substantial advancement of the determination of the orbits for old star clusters, including the oldest Milky Way globular clusters (MW GCs).
Aims: The main goal of the present paper is to use the new Gaia data release…
The breakdown of current gyrochronology as evidenced by old coeval stars
Godoy-Rivera, Diego; Chanamé, Julio; Silva-Beyer, Joaquín
Gyrochronology can yield useful ages for field main-sequence stars, a regime where other techniques are problematic. Typically, gyrochronology relations are calibrated using young (≲2 Gyr) clusters, but the constraints at older ages are scarce, making them potentially inaccurate and imprecise. In order to test the performance of existing relations…
The VLT/SPHERE view of the ATOMIUM cool evolved star sample. I. Overview: Sample characterization through polarization analysis
Waters, L. B. F. M.; Menten, K. M.; Sahai, R. +32 more
Context. Low- and intermediate-mass asymptotic giant stars and massive red supergiant stars are important contributors to the chemical enrichment of the Universe. They are among the most efficient dust factories of the Galaxy, harboring chemically rich circumstellar environments. Yet, the processes that lead to dust formation or the large-scale sh…
GECAM Localization of High-energy Transients and the Systematic Error
Gao, Min; Gong, Ke; Qiao, Rui +63 more
The Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) is a pair of microsatellites (i.e., GECAM-A and GECAM-B) dedicated to monitoring gamma-ray transients including the high-energy electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves, such as gamma-ray bursts, soft gamma-ray repeaters, solar flares, and terrestrial…
Chemistry of multiple stellar populations in the mono-metallic, in situ, bulge globular cluster NGC 6388
Bragaglia, Angela; Carretta, Eugenio
We present the homogeneous abundance analysis for a combined sample of 185 giants in the bulge globular cluster (GC) NGC 6388. Our results are used to describe the multiple stellar populations and differences or analogies with bulge field stars. Proton-capture elements indicate that a single class of first-generation polluters is sufficient to rep…
No Surviving SN Ia Companion in SNR 0509-67.5: Stellar Population Characterization and Comparison to Models
Hughes, John P.; Shields, Joshua V.; Kerzendorf, Wolfgang +4 more
The community agrees that Type Ia supernovae arise from carbon/oxygen white dwarfs undergoing thermonuclear runaway. However, the full progenitor system and the process that prompts the white dwarf to explode remain unknown. Most current models suggest that the white dwarf explodes because of interaction with a binary companion that may survive th…
An X-Ray Census of Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies: Constraints on Active Galactic Nuclei and X-Ray Counterparts
Tejos, N.; Dong, Y.; Fong, W. +16 more
We present the first X-ray census of fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies to conduct the deepest search for active galactic nuclei (AGN) and X-ray counterparts to date. Our sample includes seven well-localized FRBs with unambiguous host associations and existing deep Chandra observations, including two events for which we present new observations.…
Multiple flares in the changing-look AGN NGC 5273
Kochanek, C. S.; Huber, M. E.; Stanek, K. Z. +15 more
NGC 5273 is a known optical and X-ray variable AGN. We analyse new and archival IR, optical, UV, and X-ray data in order to characterize its long-term variability from 2000-2022. At least one optical changing-look event occurred between 2011 and 2014 when the AGN changed from a Type 1.8/1.9 Seyfert to a Type 1. It then faded considerably at all wa…
A low-metallicity massive contact binary undergoing slow Case A mass transfer: A detailed spectroscopic and orbital analysis of SSN 7 in NGC 346 in the SMC
Pauli, D.; Rickard, M. J.
Context. Most massive stars are believed to be born in close binary systems where they can exchange mass, which impacts the evolution of both binary components. Their evolution is of great interest in the search for the progenitors of gravitational waves. However, there are unknowns in the physics of mass transfer as observational examples are rar…
Vortex fiber nulling for exoplanet observations: implementation and first light
Fitzgerald, Michael P.; Ren, Bin B.; Jovanovic, Nemanja +31 more
Vortex fiber nulling (VFN) is a single-aperture interferometric technique for detecting and characterizing exoplanets separated from their host star by less than a diffracted beam width. VFN uses a vortex mask and single-mode fiber to selectively reject starlight while coupling off-axis planet light with a simple optical design that can be readily…