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The final SDSS-IV/SPIDERS X-ray point source spectroscopic catalogue
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201937272 Bibcode: 2020A&A...636A..97C

Georgakakis, A.; Salvato, M.; Buchner, J. +15 more


Aims: We look to provide a detailed description of the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS) survey, an SDSS-IV programme aimed at obtaining spectroscopic classification and redshift measurements for complete samples of sufficiently bright X-ray sources.
Methods: We describe the SPIDERS X-ray Point Source Spectroscopi…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 38
Case study of multi-temperature coronal jets for emerging flux MHD models
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202037806 Bibcode: 2020A&A...639A..22J

Nóbrega-Siverio, Daniel; Aulanier, Guillaume; Schmieder, Brigitte +4 more

Context. Hot coronal jets are a basic observed feature of the solar atmosphere whose physical origin is still actively debated.
Aims: We study six recurrent jets that occurred in active region NOAA 12644 on April 4, 2017. They are observed in all the hot filters of AIA as well as cool surges in IRIS slit-jaw high spatial and temporal resoluti…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
IRIS 38
A nearby recent supernova that ejected the runaway star ζ Oph, the pulsar PSR B1706-16, and 60Fe found on Earth
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2629 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.498..899N

Neuhäuser, R.; Hambaryan, V. V.; Gießler, F.

The detection of ∼1.5-3.2 Myr old 60Fe on Earth indicates recent nearby core-collapse supernovae. For supernovae in multiple stars, the primary stars may become neutron stars, while former companions may become unbound and become runaway stars. We wrote software for tracing back the space motion of runaway and neutron stars to young ass…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 38
TOI-1235 b: A Keystone Super-Earth for Testing Radius Valley Emergence Models around Early M Dwarfs
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ab9534 Bibcode: 2020AJ....160...22C

López-Morales, Mercedes; Latham, David W.; Esquerdo, Gilbert A. +85 more

Small planets on close-in orbits tend to exhibit envelope mass fractions of either effectively zero or up to a few percent depending on their size and orbital period. Models of thermally driven atmospheric mass loss and of terrestrial planet formation in a gas-poor environment make distinct predictions regarding the location of this rocky/nonrocky…

2020 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 38
White dwarf pollution by hydrated planetary remnants: hydrogen and metals in WD J204713.76-125908.9
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2717 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.499..171H

Hollands, Mark; Raddi, Roberto; Gänsicke, Boris T. +9 more

WD J204713.76-125908.9 is a new addition to the small class of white dwarfs with helium-dominated photospheres that exhibit strong Balmer absorption lines and atmospheric metal pollution. The exceptional abundances of hydrogen observed in these stars may be the result of accretion of water-rich rocky bodies. We obtained far-ultraviolet and optical…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia eHST 38
The Gaia-ESO survey: 3D NLTE abundances in the open cluster NGC 2420 suggest atomic diffusion and turbulent mixing are at the origin of chemical abundance variations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038833 Bibcode: 2020A&A...643A.164S

Hansen, Camilla Juul; Serenelli, Aldo; Bergemann, Maria +10 more

Context. Atomic diffusion and mixing processes in stellar interiors influence the structure and the surface composition of stars. Some of these processes cannot yet be modelled from the first principles, and they require calibrations. This limits their applicability in stellar models used for studies of stellar populations and Galactic evolution. …

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 38
The hunt for pulsating ultraluminous X-ray sources
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3036 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.491.1260S

Fabian, A. C.; Roberts, T. P.; Lansbury, G. B. +4 more

Motivated by the recent discoveries that six ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are powered by highly super-Eddington X-ray pulsars, we searched for additional pulsating ULX (PULX) candidates by identifying sources that exhibit long-term flux variability of at least an order of magnitude (a common feature seen in the six known PULXs, which may pot…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 38
Reproducing the Universe: a comparison between the EAGLE simulations and the nearby DustPedia galaxy sample
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa857 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.494.2823T

Mosenkov, Aleksandr V.; Meidt, Sharon E.; De Looze, Ilse +17 more

We compare the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and inferred physical properties for simulated and observed galaxies at low redshift. We exploit UV-submillimetre mock fluxes of ∼7000 z = 0 galaxies from the EAGLE suite of cosmological simulations, derived using the radiative transfer code skirt. We compare these to ∼800 observed galaxies in th…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 38
The Fornax Deep Survey with VST. IX. Catalog of sources in the FDS area with an example study for globular clusters and background galaxies
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038137 Bibcode: 2020A&A...639A.136C

van de Ven, Glenn; Mieske, Steffen; Hilker, Michael +18 more

Context. A possible pathway for understanding the events and the mechanisms involved in galaxy formation and evolution is an in-depth investigation of the galactic and inter-galactic fossil sub-structures with long dynamical timescales: stars in the field and in stellar clusters.
Aims: This paper continues the Fornax Deep Survey (FDS) series.…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 38
Hard X-ray cataclysmic variables
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2019.09.006 Bibcode: 2020AdSpR..66.1209D

Mukai, K.; de Martino, D.; Masetti, N. +2 more

Among hard X-ray Galactic sources detected with the Swift and INTEGRAL surveys, those discovered as accreting white dwarf binaries have surprisingly boosted in number in the recent years. The majority are identified as magnetic Cataclysmic Variables of the Intermediate Polar type, suggesting this subclass as an important constituent of the Galacti…

2020 Advances in Space Research
Gaia INTEGRAL 38