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Streams, Substructures, and the Early History of the Milky Way
Helmi, Amina
The advent of the second data release of the Gaia mission, in combination with data from large spectroscopic surveys, is revolutionizing our understanding of the Galaxy. Thanks to these transformational data sets and the knowledge accumulated thus far, a new, more mature picture of the evolution of the early Milky Way is currently emerging. Two of…
The SunPy Project: Open Source Development and Status of the Version 1.0 Core Package
Ryan, Daniel F.; Murray, Sophie A.; Ireland, Jack +32 more
The goal of the SunPy project is to facilitate and promote the use and development of community-led, free, and open source data analysis software for solar physics based on the scientific Python environment. The project achieves this goal by developing and maintaining the sunpy core package and supporting an ecosystem of affiliated packages. This …
INTEGRAL Discovery of a Burst with Associated Radio Emission from the Magnetar SGR 1935+2154
Tiengo, A.; Sunyaev, R.; Götz, D. +23 more
We report on International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) observations of the soft γ-ray repeater SGR 1935+2154 performed between 2020 April 28 and May 3. Several short bursts with fluence of $\sim {10}^{-7}\mbox{--}{10}^{-6}$ erg cm-2 were detected by the Imager on-board INTEGRAL (IBIS) instrument in the 20-200 keV range.…
Pan-STARRS Photometric and Astrometric Calibration
Price, P. A.; Chambers, K. C.; Stubbs, C. W. +20 more
We present the details of the photometric and astrometric calibration of the Pan-STARRS1 3π Survey. The photometric goals were to reduce the systematic effects introduced by the camera and detectors, and to place all of the observations onto a photometric system with consistent zero-points over the entire area surveyed, the ≈30,000 deg2…
The third realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame by very long baseline interferometry
Charlot, P.; Lambert, S.; Bourda, G. +17 more
A new realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) is presented based on the work achieved by a working group of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) mandated for this purpose. This new realization follows the initial realization of the ICRF completed in 1997 and its successor, ICRF2, adopted as a replacement in 2009. Th…
Unresolved stellar companions with Gaia DR2 astrometry
Everall, Andrew; Brown, Anthony G. A.; Belokurov, Vasily +9 more
For stars with unresolved companions, motions of the centre of light and that of mass decouple, causing a single-source astrometric model to perform poorly. We show that such stars can be easily detected with the reduced χ2 statistic, or renormalized unit weight error (RUWE), provided as part of Gaia DR2. We convert RUWE into the amplit…
The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey. IX. The fourth XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue
Motch, C.; Page, M. J.; Ballet, J. +28 more
Context. Sky surveys produce enormous quantities of data on extensive regions of the sky. The easiest way to access this information is through catalogues of standardised data products. XMM-Newton has been surveying the sky in the X-ray, ultra-violet, and optical bands for 20 years.
Aims: The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre has been producin…
The Solar Orbiter EUI instrument: The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager
Vial, J. -C.; Zhang, X.; Peter, H. +146 more
Context. The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) is part of the remote sensing instrument package of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission that will explore the inner heliosphere and observe the Sun from vantage points close to the Sun and out of the ecliptic. Solar Orbiter will advance the "connection science" between solar activity and the heliosphere…
Rapid Reionization by the Oligarchs: The Case for Massive, UV-bright, Star-forming Galaxies with High Escape Fractions
Conroy, Charlie; Tacchella, Sandro; Naidu, Rohan P. +3 more
The protagonists of the last great phase transition of the universe - cosmic reionization - remain elusive. Faint star-forming galaxies are leading candidates because they are found to be numerous and may have significant ionizing photon escape fractions (fesc). Here we update this picture via an empirical model that successfully predic…
The milky way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2
Grand, Robert J. J.; Gómez, Facundo A.; Fattahi, Azadeh +7 more
We determine the Milky Way (MW) mass profile inferred from fitting physically motivated models to the Gaia DR2 Galactic rotation curve and other data. Using various hydrodynamical simulations of MW-mass haloes, we show that the presence of baryons induces a contraction of the dark matter (DM) distribution in the inner regions, r ≲ 20 kpc. We provi…