Search Publications

Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from the Central Compact Objects in Supernova Remnants Cassiopeia A, Vela Jr., and G347.3-0.5
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab92a6 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...897...22P

Gotthelf, E. V.; Allen, B.; Dergachev, V. +6 more

We perform a sub-threshold follow-up search for continuous nearly monochromatic gravitational waves from the central compact objects associated with the supernova remnants (SNRs) Vela Jr., Cassiopeia A, and SNR G347.3-0.5. Across the three targets, we investigate the most promising ≈10,000 combinations of gravitational-wave frequency and frequency…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 36
A Diffuse Metal-poor Component of the Sagittarius Stream Revealed by the H3 Survey
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abab08 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...900..103J

Conroy, Charlie; Ting, Yuan-Sen; Cargile, Phillip A. +6 more

The tidal disruption of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy has generated a spectacular stream of stars wrapping around the entire Galaxy. We use data from Gaia and the H3 Stellar Spectroscopic Survey to identify $823$ high-quality Sagittarius members based on their angular momenta. The H3 Survey is largely unbiased in metallicity, and so our sample of S…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 36
Full orbital solution for the binary system in the northern Galactic disc microlensing event Gaia16aye
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935097 Bibcode: 2020A&A...633A..98W

Reichart, D. E.; Harrison, D. L.; Hanlon, L. +182 more

Gaia16aye was a binary microlensing event discovered in the direction towards the northern Galactic disc and was one of the first microlensing events detected and alerted to by the Gaia space mission. Its light curve exhibited five distinct brightening episodes, reaching up to I = 12 mag, and it was covered in great detail with almost 25 000 data …

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 36
Mass determinations of the three mini-Neptunes transiting TOI-125
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa197 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.492.5399N

Bouchy, F.; Fridlund, M.; Rauer, H. +79 more

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, is currently carrying out an all-sky search for small planets transiting bright stars. In the first year of the TESS survey, a steady progress was made in achieving the mission's primary science goal of establishing bulk densities for 50 planets smaller than Neptune. During that year, the TESS's obs…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 35
The Semiforbidden C III] λ1909 Emission in the Rest-ultraviolet Spectra of Green Pea Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab91a5 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...896..170R

Ferguson, Henry C.; Ravindranath, Swara; Jaskot, Anne +2 more

We used the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to observe the semiforbidden C III] λλ1907, 1909 doublet emission in green pea galaxies at 0.13 ≤ z ≤ 0.3. We detect C III] emission in 7/10 galaxies with C III] equivalent widths (EWs) that range from 2 to 10 Å, confirming that C III] emission is almost ubiquitou…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 35
Evidence for a Highly Opaque Large-scale Galaxy Void at the End of Reionization
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab5a7d Bibcode: 2020ApJ...888....6K

Ouchi, Masami; Shibuya, Takatoshi; Kashino, Daichi +2 more

We present evidence that a region of high effective Lyα optical depth at z ∼ 5.7 is associated with an underdense region at the tail end of cosmic reionization. We carried out a survey of Lyman-break Galaxies (LBGs) using Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam in the field of the z = 5.98 quasar J0148+0600, whose spectrum presents an unusually long (∼160 cMpc) …

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 35
Improving galaxy clustering measurements with deep learning: analysis of the DECaLS DR7 data
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1231 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.495.1613R

Ross, Ashley J.; Seo, Hee-Jong; Rezaie, Mehdi +1 more

Robust measurements of cosmological parameters from galaxy surveys rely on our understanding of systematic effects that impact the observed galaxy density field. In this paper, we present, validate, and implement the idea of adopting the systematics mitigation method of artificial neural networks for modelling the relationship between the target g…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 35
Five New Post-main-sequence Debris Disks with Gaseous Emission
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abc339 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...905....5D

Hermes, J. J.; Clemens, J. C.; Lai, Samuel +13 more

Observations of debris disks, the products of the collisional evolution of rocky planetesimals, can be used to trace planetary activity across a wide range of stellar types. The most common end points of stellar evolution are no exception, as debris disks have been observed around several dozen white dwarf stars. But instead of planetary formation…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 35
A HARPS RV search for planets around young nearby stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936038 Bibcode: 2020A&A...633A..44G

Meunier, N.; Messina, S.; Keppler, M. +11 more

Context. Young nearby stars are good candidates in the search for planets with both radial velocity (RV) and direct imaging techniques. This, in turn, allows for the computation of the giant planet occurrence rates at all separations. The RV search around young stars is a challenge as they are generally faster rotators than older stars of similar …

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 35
The synthetic Emission Line COSMOS catalogue: Hα and [O II] galaxy luminosity functions and counts at 0.3 < z < 2.5
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa727 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.494..199S

Ilbert, Olivier; Saito, Shun; Yabe, Kiyoto +3 more

Star-forming galaxies with strong nebular and collisional emission lines are privileged target galaxies in forthcoming cosmological large galaxy redshift surveys. We use the COSMOS2015 photometric catalogue to model galaxy spectral energy distributions and emission-line fluxes. We adopt an empirical but physically motivated model that uses informa…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 35