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The TESS-Keck Survey. XI. Mass Measurements for Four Transiting Sub-Neptunes Orbiting K Dwarf TOI-1246
Lester, Kathryn V.; Bieryla, Allyson; Latham, David W. +78 more
Multiplanet systems are valuable arenas for investigating exoplanet architectures and comparing planetary siblings. TOI-1246 is one such system, with a moderately bright K dwarf (V = 11.6, K = 9.9) and four transiting sub-Neptunes identified by TESS with orbital periods of 4.31, 5.90, 18.66, and 37.92 days. We collected 130 radial velocity observa…
Mid-ultraviolet Hubble Observations of Europa and the Global Surface Distribution of SO2
Alday, Juan; Roth, Lorenz; McGrath, Melissa A. +6 more
We present spatially resolved reflectance spectra of Europa's surface in the wavelength range of 210-315 nm obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph in 2018 and 2019. These data provide the first high-quality, near-global spectral observations of Europa from 210 to 240 nm. They show that the reflectance of Europa's leading, trai…
Accretion of a clumped wind from a red supergiant donor on to a magnetar is suggested by the analysis of the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations of the X-ray binary 3A 1954+319
Ducci, L.; Ferrigno, C.; Bozzo, E. +1 more
3A 1954+319 has been classified for a long time as a symbiotic X-ray binary, hosting a slowly rotating neutron star and an aged M red giant. Recently, this classification has been revised thanks to the discovery that the donor star is an M supergiant. This makes 3A 1954+319 a rare type of high-mass X-ray binary consisting of a neutron star and a r…
The Far Ultra-violet Background
Kulkarni, S. R.
The diffuse far-ultraviolet (FUV) background has received considerable attention from astronomers since the 1970s The initial impetus came from the hope of detecting UV radiation from the hot intergalactic medium. The central importance of the FUV background to the physics (heating and ionization) of the diffuse atomic phases motivated the next ge…
An Elusive Population of Massive Disk Galaxies Hosting Double-lobed Radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei
Ho, Luis C.; Zhuang, Ming-Yang; Wu, Zihao
It is commonly accepted that radio-loud active galactic nuclei are hosted exclusively by giant elliptical galaxies. We analyze high-resolution optical Hubble Space Telescope images of a sample of radio galaxies with extended double-lobed structures associated with disk-like optical counterparts. After systematically evaluating the probability of c…
The Extended Field-aligned Suprathermal Proton Beam and Long-lasting Trapped Energetic Particle Population Observed Upstream of a Transient Interplanetary Shock
Lario, D.; Jian, L. K.; Wilson, L. B., III +3 more
The properties of the suprathermal particle distributions observed upstream of interplanetary shocks depend not only on the properties of the shocks but also on the transport conditions encountered by the particles as they propagate away from the shocks. The confinement of particles in close proximity to the shocks, as well as particle scattering …
pterodactyls: A Tool to Uniformly Search and Vet for Young Transiting Planets in TESS Primary Mission Photometry
Pascucci, Ilaria; Ciardi, David R.; Giacalone, Steven +8 more
Kepler's short-period exoplanet population has revealed evolutionary features such as the Radius Valley and the Hot Neptune desert that are likely sculpted by atmospheric loss over time. These findings suggest that the primordial planet population is different from the Gyr-old Kepler population, and motivates exoplanet searches around young stars.…
Atmospheric Characterization of Hot Jupiter CoRoT-1 b Using the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope
Deming, Drake; Zhou, Yifan; Schlawin, Everett +3 more
Exoplanet CoRoT-1 b is intriguing because we predict it to be a transitional planet between hot Jupiters (equilibrium temperatures ~1500 K) and ultrahot Jupiters (equilibrium temperatures >2000 K). In 2012, observations of CoRoT-1 b included one primary transit and three secondary eclipses with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera…
A 6D view of stellar shells
Evans, N. W.; Vasiliev, E.; Dong-Páez, C. A.
Stellar shells are low surface brightness features, created during nearly head-on galaxy mergers from the debris of the tidally disrupted satellite. Here, we investigate the formation and evolution mechanism of shells in six dimensions (3D positions and velocities). We propose a new description in action-angle coordinates which condenses the seemi…
Manifestation of Gravitational Settling in Coronal Mass Ejections Measured in the Heliosphere
Reeves, Katharine K.; Landi, Enrico; Raymond, John C. +4 more
Elemental composition in the solar wind reflects the fractionation processes at the Sun. In coronal mass ejections (CMEs) measured in the heliosphere, the elemental composition can vary between plasma of high and low ionization states as indicated by the average Fe charge state, <QFe>. It is found that CMEs with higher ionized pla…