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Beyond the Rotational Deathline: Radio Emission from Ultra-long Period Magnetars
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1813 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.533.2133C

Wadiasingh, Z.; Cooper, A. J.

Motivated by the recent detection of ultralong-period radio transients, we investigate new models of coherent radio emission via low-altitude electron-positron pair production in neutron stars (NSs) beyond rotationally powered curvature radiation deathlines. We find that plastic motion (akin to 'continental drift') and qualitatively similar thermo…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 8
Physical properties of the eclipsing binary KIC 9851944 and analysis of its tidally perturbed p- and g-mode pulsations
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3427 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.527.4052J

Southworth, J.; Van Reeth, T.; Jennings, Z. +1 more

Stars that are both pulsating and eclipsing offer an important opportunity to better understand many of the physical phenomena that occur in stars, because it is possible to measure the pulsation frequencies of stars for which the masses and radii are known precisely and accurately. KIC 9851944 is a double-lined detached eclipsing binary containin…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 8
HELLO project: high-z evolution of large and luminous objects
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1913 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.533.1463W

Kang, Xi; Buck, Tobias; Davis, Benjamin L. +6 more

We present the High-z Evolution of Large and Luminous Objects (HELLO) project, a set of $\sim \!30$ high-resolution cosmological simulations aimed to study Milky Way analogues ($M_\star \sim 10^{10-11}$ ${\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$) at high redshift ($z\sim [2-4]$). Based on the numerical investigation of a hundred astrophysical objects, HELLO features…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST JWST 8
HdC and EHe stars through the prism of Gaia DR3. 3D distribution and Gaia's chromatic PSF effects
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348005 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A.131T

Tisserand, P.; Crawford, C. L.; Clayton, G. C. +3 more

Context. Upon its release the Gaia DR3 catalogue has led to tremendous progress in multiple fields of astronomy by providing the complete astrometric solution for nearly 1.5 billion sources.
Aims: We analysed the photometric and astrometric results for Hydrogen-deficient Carbon (HdC), Extreme Helium (EHe), and DYPer type stars to identify any…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 8
tdescore: An Accurate Photometric Classifier for Tidal Disruption Events
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad3337 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...965L..14S

Rusholme, Ben; Sollerman, Jesper; van Velzen, Sjoert +12 more

Optical surveys have become increasingly adept at identifying candidate tidal disruption events (TDEs) in large numbers, but classifying these generally requires extensive spectroscopic resources. Here we present tdescore, a simple binary photometric classifier that is trained using a systematic census of ∼3000 nuclear transients from the Zwicky T…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 8
Flaring Stars in a Nontargeted Millimeter-wave Survey with SPT-3G
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad58db Bibcode: 2024ApJ...972....6T

Ade, P. A. R.; Benabed, K.; Bouchet, F. R. +96 more

We present a flare star catalog from 4 yr of nontargeted millimeter-wave survey data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The data were taken with the SPT-3G camera and cover a 1500 deg2 region of the sky from 20h40m0s to 3h20m0s in right ascension and from ‑42° to ‑70° i…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 8
The Ice Chemistry in Comets and Planet-forming Disks: Statistical Comparison of CH3OH, H2CO, and NH3 Abundance Ratios
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad5a6d Bibcode: 2024ApJ...970L...5L

Ceccarelli, Cecilia; Codella, Claudio; Villanueva, Geronimo L. +5 more

Comets are frozen remnants of our solar system's formation, and comparing their chemical composition to that of planet-forming systems can reveal crucial insights about our origins, potentially answering one of the most challenging questions in planetary science, i.e., whether cometary material was mainly inherited from the protosolar nebula or re…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Rosetta JWST 8
The Uranus system from occultation observations (1977-2006): Rings, pole direction, gravity field, and masses of Cressida, Cordelia, and Ophelia
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2024.115957 Bibcode: 2024Icar..41115957F

Nicholson, Philip D.; French, Richard G.; Hedman, Matthew M. +2 more

From an analysis of 31 Earth-based stellar occultations and three Voyager 2 occultations spanning 1977-2006 (French et al. 2023a), we determine the keplerian orbital elements of the centerlines of the nine main Uranian rings to high accuracy, with typical RMS residuals of 0.2-0.4 km and 1- σ formal errors in a , ae , and a sin i of order 0.1 km, r…

2024 Icarus
Gaia eHST 8
CANUCS: UV and ionizing properties of dwarf star-forming galaxies at z 5-7
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1574 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.532.1112H

Willott, Chris J.; Harshan, Anishya; Martis, Nicholas S. +14 more

The epoch of reionization (EoR) progressed through the emission of ionizing photons from galaxies to their local intergalactic medium. In this work, we characterize the dwarf star-forming galaxies as candidates for the source of ionizing photons that drove EoR. We investigate the ionizing properties and star formation histories of star-forming dwa…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST JWST 8
The white dwarf binary pathways survey - X. Gaia orbits for known UV excess binaries
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae807 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.529.4840G

Gänsicke, B. T.; Koester, D.; Rebassa-Mansergas, A. +9 more

White dwarfs with an F, G, or K type companion represent the last common ancestor for a plethora of exotic systems throughout the galaxy, though to this point very few of them have been fully characterized in terms of orbital period and component masses, despite the fact several thousand have been identified. Gaia data release 3 has examined many …

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia eHST 8