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A Word to the WISE: Confusion is Unavoidable for WISE-selected Infrared Excesses
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7249 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...891...97D

Debes, John H.; Gentile Fusillo, Nicola Pietro; Farihi, Jay +1 more

Stars with excess infrared radiation from circumstellar dust are invaluable for studies of exoplanetary systems, informing our understanding of processes of planet formation and destruction alike. All-sky photometric surveys have made the identification of dusty infrared excess candidates trivial, however, samples that rely on data from Wise Infra…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 27
Probing the circumstellar medium 2.8 Gyr after the big bang: detection of Bowen fluorescence in the Sunburst arc
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slaa163 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.499L..67V

Castellano, M.; Grillo, C.; Brammer, G. B. +13 more

We discovered Bowen emission arising from a strongly lensed (i.e. with magnification factor µ > 20) source hosted in the Sunburst arc at z = 2.37. We claim this source is plausibly a transient stellar object and study the unique ultraviolet lines emerging from it. In particular, narrow (σv ≃ 40 km s-1) ionization lin…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 27
Stellar parameter determination from photometry using invertible neural networks
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2931 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.499.5447K

Gennaro, Mario; Sabbi, Elena; Gouliermis, Dimitrios +7 more

Photometric surveys with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) allow us to study stellar populations with high-resolution and deep coverage, with estimates of the physical parameters of the constituent stars being typically obtained by comparing the survey data with adequate stellar evolutionary models. This is a highly non-trivial task due to effects …

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 27
Cosmic evolution of star-forming galaxies to z ≃ 1.8 in the faint low-frequency radio source population
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3401 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.491.5911O

Prandoni, I.; Vaccari, M.; Mancuso, C. +4 more

We study the properties of star-forming galaxies selected at 610 MHz with the GMRT in a survey covering ∼1.86 deg2 down to a noise of ∼7.1 µJy beam-1. These were identified by combining multiple classification diagnostics: optical, X-ray, infrared, and radio data. Of the 1685 SFGs from the GMRT sample, 496 have spectros…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 27
Discovery of a Large Population of Nitrogen-enhanced Stars in the Magellanic Clouds
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/abc01d Bibcode: 2020ApJ...903L..17F

Beers, Timothy C.; Placco, Vinicius M.; Minniti, Dante +7 more

We report the APOGEE-2S+ discovery of a unique collection of nitrogen-enhanced mildly metal-poor giant stars, peaking at [Fe/H] ∼ -0.89 with no carbon enrichment, toward the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC), with abundances of light- (C, N), odd-Z (Al, K), and α-elements (O, Mg, Si) that are typically found in Galactic globular clus…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 27
Fast Outflows in Hot Dust-obscured Galaxies Detected with Keck/NIRES
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abc3bf Bibcode: 2020ApJ...905...16F

Tsai, Chao-Wei; Moon, Dae-Sik; Jun, Hyunsung D. +10 more

We present rest-frame optical spectroscopic observations of 24 Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies (Hot DOGs) at redshifts 1.7-4.6 with KECK/NIRES. Our targets are selected, based on their extreme red colors, to be the highest-luminosity sources from the WISE infrared survey. In 20 sources with well-detected emission, we fit the key [O III], Hβ, Hα, [N II]…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 27
Characterization of the K2-38 planetary system. Unraveling one of the densest planets known to date
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038187 Bibcode: 2020A&A...641A..92T

Bouchy, F.; Rebolo, R.; Pallé, E. +90 more

Context. An accurate characterization of the known exoplanet population is key to understanding the origin and evolution of planetary systems. Determining true planetary masses through the radial velocity (RV) method is expected to experience a great improvement thanks to the availability of ultra-stable echelle spectrographs.
Aims: We took a…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 27
Real-time Flare Prediction Based on Distinctions between Flaring and Non-flaring Active Region Spectra
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab700b Bibcode: 2020ApJ...891...17P

Kleint, Lucia; Panos, Brandon

With machine learning entering into the awareness of the heliophysics community, solar flare prediction has become a topic of increased interest. Although machine-learning models have advanced with each successive publication, the input data has remained largely fixed on magnetic features. Despite this increased model complexity, results seem to i…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
IRIS 27
The R-process Alliance: The Peculiar Chemical Abundance Pattern of RAVE J183013.5-455510
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab99c6 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...897...78P

Whitten, Devin D.; Beers, Timothy C.; Placco, Vinicius M. +14 more

We report on the spectroscopic analysis of RAVE J183013.5-455510, an extremely metal-poor star, highly enhanced in CNO, and with discernible contributions from the rapid neutron-capture process. There is no evidence of binarity for this object. At $[\mathrm{Fe}/{\rm{H}}]$ = -3.57, this star has one of the lowest metallicities currently observed, w…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 27
A large, deep 3 deg2 survey of H α, [O III], and [O II] emitters from LAGER: constraining luminosity functions
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa175 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.493.3966K

Hu, W.; Infante, L.; Walker, A. R. +14 more

We present our measurements of the H α, [O III], and [O II] luminosity functions as part of the Lyman Alpha Galaxies at Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) survey using our samples of 1577 z = 0.47 H α-, 3933 z = 0.93 [O III]-, and 5367 z = 1.59 [O II]-selected emission line galaxies in a 3 deg2 single, CTIO/Blanco DECam pointing of the COSMO…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 27