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A Gemini-NIFS view of the merger remnant NGC 34
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1977 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.506.4354M

Pastoriza, M. G.; Storchi-Bergmann, T.; Ricci, T. V. +8 more

The merger remnant NGC 34 is a local luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) hosting a nuclear starburst and a hard X-ray source associated with a putative, obscured Seyfert 2 nucleus. In this work, we use adaptive optics assisted near-infrared (NIR) integral field unit observations of this galaxy to map the distribution and kinematics of the ionized and …

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 3
The sharpest ultraviolet view of the star formation in an extreme environment of the nearest Jellyfish Galaxy IC 3418
DOI: 10.1007/s12036-021-09764-w Bibcode: 2021JApA...42...86H

Hota, Ananda; Devaraj, Ashish; Pradhan, Ananta C. +11 more

We present the far ultraviolet (FUV) imaging of the nearest Jellyfish or Fireball galaxy IC3418/VCC 1217, in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, using Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard the AstroSat satellite. The young star formation observed here in the 17 kpc long turbulent wake of IC3418, due to ram pressure stripping of cold gas surround…

2021 Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
eHST 3
Solar EUV-Enhancement and Thermospheric Disturbances
DOI: 10.1029/2021SW002840 Bibcode: 2021SpWea..1902840B

Briand, C.; Doerksen, K.; Deleflie, F.

The increase of energetic electromagnetic flux during solar flares and particle precipitation during geomagnetic activity are among the most important sources of neutral density disturbances to the Earth's thermosphere. However, disentangling the role of X and EUV radiation during solar flares is difficult due to the rarity of sufficiently isolate…

2021 Space Weather
SOHO 3
Mapping Milky Way Halo Substructure Using Stars in the Extended Blue Tail of the Horizontal Branch
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abe385 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...910..102G

Newberg, Heidi Jo; Gryncewicz, Robert; Martin, Charles +2 more

Although blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars are commonly used to trace halo substructure, the stars bluer than (g - r) < -0.3 are ignored owing to the difficulty in determining their absolute magnitudes. The blue extension of the horizontal branch (HBX) includes BHB tail stars and extreme horizontal branch (EHB) stars. We present a method for i…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 3
A Comparison of Sparse and Non-sparse Techniques for Electric-Field Inversion from Normal-Component Magnetograms
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-021-01924-z Bibcode: 2021SoPh..296..178M

Yeates, Anthony R.; Mackay, Duncan H.

An important element of 3D data-driven simulations of solar magnetic fields is the determination of the horizontal electric field at the solar photosphere. This electric field is used to drive the 3D simulations and inject energy and helicity into the solar corona. One outstanding problem is the localisation of the horizontal electric field such t…

2021 Solar Physics
SOHO 3
Orbital evolution of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) in the gravity field of Mercury
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2021.105195 Bibcode: 2021P&SS..20005195H

Oberst, Jürgen; Hussmann, Hauke; Stark, Alexander +2 more

We assessed the impact of the uncertainties in the gravity field harmonic coefficients of Mercury on the orbital evolution of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), part of the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission. We used in our simulations the most recent estimation of the gravity field model of Mercury determined from radio tracking data of the …

2021 Planetary and Space Science
BepiColombo 3
Radio Proper Motions of the Energetic Pulsar PSR J1813-1749
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac312f Bibcode: 2021ApJ...923..228D

Rodríguez, Luis F.; Dzib, Sergio A.

PSR J1813-1749 has peculiarities that make it a very interesting object of study. It is one of the most energetic and the most scattered pulsars known. It is associated with HESS J1813-178, one of the brightest and most compact TeV sources in the sky. Recently, Ho et al. used archival X-ray Chandra observations separated by more than 10 yr and det…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 3
New insights into the WR nebula M1-67 with SITELLE
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3971 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.501.5350S

Drissen, Laurent; St-Louis, Nicole; Sévigny, Marcel +1 more

We present a detailed study of M1-67, a well-known nebula around the population I Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 (WNh 8), based on datacubes obtained with the imaging Fourier transform spectrometer SITELLE at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. This allowed us to reconstruct detailed emission-line ratio maps that highlight clear orthogonal features from a…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia eHST 3
The Robustness of Synthetic Observations in Producing Observed Core Properties: Predictions for the TolTEC Clouds to Cores Legacy Survey
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2666 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...923...25B

Wilson, G.; Gutermuth, R.; Pokhrel, R. +3 more

We use hydrodynamical simulations of star-forming gas with stellar feedback and sink particles-proxies for young stellar objects (YSOs)-to produce and analyze synthetic 1.1 mm continuum observations at different distances (150-1000 pc) and ages (0.49-1.27 Myr). We characterize how the inferred core properties, including mass, size, and clustering …

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia Herschel 3
Solar Wind—Magnetosphere Coupling During Radial Interplanetary Magnetic Field Conditions: Simultaneous Multi-Point Observations
DOI: 10.1029/2021JA029506 Bibcode: 2021JGRA..12629506T

Escoubet, C. P.; Lavraud, B.; Fear, R. C. +12 more

In-situ spacecraft missions are powerful assets to study processes that occur in space plasmas. One of their main limitations, however, is extrapolating such local measurements to the global scales of the system. To overcome this problem at least partially, multi-point measurements can be used. There are several multi-spacecraft missions currently…

2021 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 3