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Connecting remote and in situ observations of shock-accelerated electrons associated with a coronal mass ejection
Jebaraj, I. C.; Vainio, R.; Kilpua, E. K. J. +7 more
Context. One of the most prominent sources for energetic particles in our Solar System are huge eruptions of magnetised plasma from the Sun, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which usually drive shocks that accelerate charged particles up to relativistic energies. In particular, energetic electron beams can generate radio bursts through the …
Secular change in the spin states of asteroids due to radiation and gravitation torques. New detections and updates of the YORP effect
Snodgrass, C.; Ehgamberdiev, Sh. A.; Kučáková, H. +21 more
Context. The rotation state of small asteroids is affected in the long term by perturbing torques of gravitational and radiative origin (the YORP effect). The former can be detected by a change in the spin-axis orientation in the inertial space; the latter manifests itself by a quadratic increase in the rotation phase.
Aims: Direct observatio…
No Longer Impossible: The Self-lensing Binary KIC 8145411 is a Triple
Bieryla, Allyson; Latham, David W.; El-Badry, Kareem +5 more
Five self-lensing binaries (SLBs) have been discovered with data from the Kepler mission. One of these systems is KIC 8145411, which was reported to host an extremely low mass (ELM; 0.2 M ⊙) white dwarf (WD) in a 456 days orbit with a solar-type companion. The system has been dubbed "impossible," because evolutionary models predict that…
A Survey of Lyα Emission around Damped Lyα Absorbers at z ≈ 2 with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager
Prochaska, J. Xavier; Rafelski, Marc; Neeleman, Marcel +3 more
We present Keck Cosmic Web Imager Lyα integral field spectroscopy of the fields surrounding 14 damped Lyα absorbers (DLAs) at z ≈ 2. Of these 14 DLAs, nine have high metallicities ([M/H] > ‑ 0.3), and four of those nine feature a CO-emitting galaxy at an impact parameter ≲30 kpc. Our search reaches median Lyα line flux sensitivities of ∼2 × 10<…
Planets observed with CHEOPS. Two super-Earths orbiting the red dwarf star TOI-776
Alonso, R.; Deeg, H.; Deleuil, M. +86 more
Context. M-dwarf stars are the most common of potential exoplanet host stars in the Galaxy. It is therefore very important to understand planetary systems orbiting such stars and to determine the physical parameters of such planets with high precision. Also with the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) the observation of atmospheric par…
A magnetized Galactic halo from inner Galaxy outflows
Morris, Mark R.; Zhang, Yi; Carretti, Ettore +12 more
Magnetic halos of galaxies are crucial for understanding galaxy evolution, galactic-scale outflows and feedback from star formation activity. Identifying the magnetized halo of the Milky Way is challenging because of the potential contamination from foreground emission arising in local spiral arms. In addition, it is unclear how our magnetic halo …
X-shooter spectroscopy of Liller 1 giant stars
Dalessandro, E.; Rich, R. M.; Mucciarelli, A. +8 more
We present the first comprehensive chemical study of a representative sample of 27 luminous red giant branch (RGB) stars belonging to Liller 1, a complex stellar system in the Galactic bulge. This study is based on medium-resolution near-infrared spectra acquired with X-shooter at the Very Large Telescope. We found a subpopulation counting 22 star…
MOSEL Survey: Spatially Offset Lyman-continuum Emission in a New Emitter at z = 3.088 Can Explain the Low Number Density of Observed LyC Leakers
Bunker, Andrew J.; Cameron, Alex J.; Kacprzak, Glenn G. +9 more
We present the discovery of a unique Lyman-continuum (LyC) emitter at z = 3.088. The LyC emission was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/UVIS F336W filter, covering a rest-frame wavelength range of 760–900 Å. The peak signal-to-noise ratio of LyC emission is 3.9 in an r = 0.″24 aperture and is spatially offset by 0.″29 ± 0.″04 (∼2.2 ± …
The Intrabinary Shock and Companion Star of Redback Pulsar J2215+5135
Romani, Roger W.; Sullivan, Andrew G.
PSR J2215+5135 (J2215) is a "redback" spider pulsar, where the intrabinary shock (IBS) wraps around the pulsar rather than the stellar-mass companion. Spider orbital light curves are modulated, dominated by their binary companion thermal emission in the optical bands and by IBS synchrotron emission in the X-rays. We report on new XMM-Newton X-ray …
Lyman Continuum Leakers in the AstroSat Ultraviolet Deep Field: Extreme-ultraviolet Emitters at the Cosmic Noon
Teplitz, Harry I.; Rafelski, Marc; Saha, Kanak +5 more
We report the direct detection of Lyman continuum (LyC) emission from nine galaxies and one active galactic nucleus at z ∼ 1.1–1.6 in the GOODS-North field using deep observations from the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board AstroSat. The absolute escape fraction of the sources estimated from the far-ultraviolet and Hα-line luminosities …