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In-flight calibration of the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope
DOI: 10.1016/j.jheap.2020.02.009 Bibcode: 2020JHEAp..27...64L

Zhang, Shu; Li, Xiaobo; Tuo, Youli +19 more

We present the calibration of the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) X-ray satellite, which can be used to perform timing and spectral studies of bright X-ray sources. Insight-HXMT carries three main payloads onboard: the High Energy X-ray telescope (HE), the Medium Energy X-ray telescope (ME) and the low Energy X-ray telescope…

2020 Journal of High Energy Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 74
Evidence for a vast prograde stellar stream in the solar vicinity
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-1131-2 Bibcode: 2020NatAs...4.1078N

Hopkins, Philip F.; Sanderson, Robyn; Wetzel, Andrew +6 more

Massive dwarf galaxies that merge with the Milky Way on prograde orbits can be dragged into the disk plane before being completely disrupted. Such mergers can contribute to an accreted stellar disk and a dark matter disk. Here we present Nyx, a vast stellar stream in the vicinity of the Sun, which provides the first indication that such an event o…

2020 Nature Astronomy
Gaia 74
The carbon monoxide-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-1095-2 Bibcode: 2020NatAs...4..867B

Feldman, P. D.; Bodewits, D.; Noonan, J. W. +7 more

Interstellar comets offer direct samples of volatiles from distant protoplanetary disks. 2I/Borisov is the first notably active interstellar comet discovered in our Solar System1. Comets are condensed samples of the gas, ice and dust that were in a star's protoplanetary disk during the formation of its planets, and inform our understand…

2020 Nature Astronomy
eHST 74
A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri at a distance of 1.5 AU
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax7467 Bibcode: 2020SciA....6.7467D

Butler, R. Paul; Jenkins, James S.; Anglada-Escudé, Guillem +18 more

Our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, hosts a temperate terrestrial planet. We detected in radial velocities evidence of a possible second planet with minimum mass mc sin ic = 5.8 ± 1.9 M and orbital period Pc = 5.21+0.26-0.22 years. The analysis of photometric data and spectrosc…

2020 Science Advances
Gaia 74
ARES I: WASP-76 b, A Tale of Two HST Spectra
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ab9225 Bibcode: 2020AJ....160....8E

Drossart, Pierre; Blain, Doriann; Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe +25 more

We analyze the transmission and emission spectra of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76 b, observed with the G141 grism of the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). We reduce and fit the raw data for each observation using the open-source software Iraclis before performing a fully Bayesian retrieval using the publicly available anal…

2020 The Astronomical Journal
eHST 74
The Herschel view of the dense core population in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936442 Bibcode: 2020A&A...638A..74L

André, Ph.; Arzoumanian, D.; Könyves, V. +15 more

Context. Herschel observations of nearby clouds in the Gould Belt support a paradigm for low-mass star formation, starting with the generation of molecular filaments, followed by filament fragmentation, and the concentration of mass into self-gravitating prestellar cores. In the case of the Ophiuchus molecular complex, a rich star formation activi…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia Herschel 74
Perpendicular Transport of Energetic Particles in Magnetic Turbulence
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-020-0644-4 Bibcode: 2020SSRv..216...23S

Shalchi, Andreas

Scientists have explored how energetic particles such as solar energetic particles and cosmic rays move through a magnetized plasma such as the interplanetary and interstellar medium since more than five decades. From a theoretical point of view, this topic is difficult because the particles experience complicated interactions with turbulent magne…

2020 Space Science Reviews
Ulysses 74
The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) I: tracing the kinematics of metal-poor stars in the Galactic bulge
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slz156 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.491L..11A

Schultheis, M.; Lardo, C.; Sestito, F. +20 more

Our Galaxy is known to contain a central boxy/peanut-shaped bulge, yet the importance of a classical, pressure-supported component within the central part of the Milky Way is still being debated. It should be most visible at low metallicity, a regime that has not yet been studied in detail. Using metallicity-sensitive narrow-band photometry, the P…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 73
Identical or fraternal twins? The chemical homogeneity of wide binaries from Gaia DR2
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3132 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.492.1164H

Ting, Yuan-Sen; Hawkins, Keith; Lucey, Madeline +7 more

One of the high-level goals of Galactic archaeology is chemical tagging of stars across the Milky Way to piece together its assembly history. For this to work, stars born together must be uniquely chemically homogeneous. Wide binary systems are an important laboratory to test this underlying assumption. Here, we present the detailed chemical abund…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 73
Two Ultra-faint Milky Way Stellar Systems Discovered in Early Data from the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6c67 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...890..136M

Bechtol, K.; Zenteno, A.; Allam, S. +56 more

We report the discovery of two ultra-faint stellar systems found in early data from the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE). The first system, Centaurus I (DELVE J1238-4054), is identified as a resolved overdensity of old and metal-poor stars with a heliocentric distance of ${\text{}}{D}_{\odot }={116.3}_{-0.6}^{+0.6}\,\mathrm{kpc}$ , a …

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 73