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Space Velocity and Time Span of Jets in Planetary Nebulae
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab61fa Bibcode: 2020ApJ...890...50G

Guerrero, Martín A.; Ortiz, Roberto; Suzett Rechy-García, Jackeline

Fast highly collimated outflows, including bipolar knots, jetlike features, and point-symmetric filaments or strings of knots, are common in planetary nebulae (PNe). These features, generally known as jets, are thought to play an active role in the nebular shaping immediately before or while fast stellar winds and D-type ionization fronts shock an…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 25
The influence of NLTE effects in Fe I lines on an inverted atmosphere. I. 6301 Å and 6302 Å lines formed in 1D NLTE
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201937041 Bibcode: 2020A&A...633A.157S

Solanki, S. K.; van Noort, M.; Smitha, H. N. +1 more

Context. Ultraviolet overionisation of iron atoms in the solar atmosphere leads to deviations in their level populations based on Saha-Boltzmann statistics. This causes their line profiles to form in non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) conditions. When inverting such profiles to determine atmospheric parameters, the NLTE effects are often n…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hinode 25
Connecting 3D Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections to Their Source Regions
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aba1f2 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...899....6M

Pant, Vaibhav; Banerjee, Dipankar; Patel, Ritesh +1 more

Since coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the major drivers of space weather, it is crucial to study their evolution starting from the inner corona. In this work we use graduated cylindrical shell model to study the 3D evolution of 59 CMEs in the inner (<3 R) and outer (>3 R) corona using observations from COR-1 and COR…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 25
Search for Nearby Earth Analogs .III. Detection of 10 New Planets, 3 Planet Candidates, and Confirmation of 3 Planets around 11 Nearby M Dwarfs
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/abb139 Bibcode: 2020ApJS..250...29F

Butler, R. Paul; Vogt, Steven S.; Holden, Bradford +10 more

Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of M dwarfs are good candidates for the study of habitability and detection of biosignatures. To search for these planets, we analyze all available radial velocity data and apply four signal detection criteria to select the optimal candidates. We find 10 strong candidates satisfying these criteria and thr…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia 25
Spirals, shadows, and precession in HD 100453 - I. The orbit of the binary
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2938 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.499.3837G

Ménard, François; Pinte, Christophe; Maire, Anne-Lise +7 more

In recent years, several protoplanetary discs have been observed to exhibit spirals, both in scattered light and (sub)millimetre continuum data. The HD 100453 binary star system hosts such a disc around its primary. Previous work has argued that the spirals were caused by the gravitational interaction of the secondary, which was assumed to be on a…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 25
Stellar Population Astrophysics (SPA) with TNG. The old open clusters Collinder 350, Gulliver 51, NGC 7044, and Ruprecht 171
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039176 Bibcode: 2020A&A...643A..12C

Vallenari, A.; Sordo, R.; Bragaglia, A. +9 more

Context. Open clusters are excellent tracers of the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc. The spatial distribution of their elemental abundances, through the analysis of high-quality and high-resolution spectra, provides insight into the chemical evolution and mechanisms of element nucleosynthesis in regions characterised by different condition…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 25
A comprehensive study of open clusters Czernik 14, Haffner 14, Haffner 17 and King 10 using multicolour photometry and Gaia DR2 astrometry
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa656 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.494..607B

Bisht, D.; Rangwal, Geeta; Yadav, R. K. S. +2 more

This paper presents an investigation into the four open clusters Czernik 14, Haffner 14, Haffner 17 and King 10, located near the Perseus arm of the Milky Way, using the Gaia DR2, 2MASS, WISE, APASS and Pan-STARRS1 data sets. We find normal interstellar extinction in 12 photometric bands for these clusters. Using Gaia DR2 proper motion data, the n…

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 25
Deep XMM-Newton Observations Reveal the Origin of Recombining Plasma in the Supernova Remnant W44
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6987 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...890...62O

Seta, Masumichi; Yamaguchi, Hiroya; Uchida, Hiroyuki +8 more

Recent X-ray studies have revealed overionized recombining plasmas in a dozen mixed-morphology (MM) supernova remnants (SNRs). However, the physical process of the overionization has not yet been fully understood. Here we report on spatially resolved spectroscopy of X-ray emission from W44, one of the overionized MM SNRs, using XMM-Newton data fro…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 25
High-resolution, 3D radiative transfer modelling. II. The early-type spiral galaxy M 81
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935770 Bibcode: 2020A&A...637A..24V

Clark, Christopher J. R.; Mosenkov, Aleksandr V.; De Looze, Ilse +14 more

Context. Interstellar dust absorbs stellar light very efficiently, thus shaping the energy output of galaxies. Studying the impact of different stellar populations on the dust heating continues to be a challenge because it requires decoupling the relative geometry of stars and dust and also involves complex processes such as scattering and non-loc…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 25
Spirals inside the millimeter cavity of transition disk SR 21
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202037656 Bibcode: 2020A&A...636L...4M

Ménard, F.; Henning, T.; Ginski, C. +22 more

Context. Hydrodynamical simulations of planet-disk interactions suggest that planets may be responsible for a number of the substructures frequently observed in disks in both scattered light and dust thermal emission. Despite the ubiquity of these features, direct evidence of planets embedded in disks and of the specific interaction features like …

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 25