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A Mass-Magnitude Relation for Low-mass Stars Based on Dynamical Measurements of Thousands of Binary Star Systems
Blake, Cullen H.; Giovinazzi, Mark R.
Stellar mass is a fundamental parameter that is key to our understanding of stellar formation and evolution, as well as the characterization of nearby exoplanet companions. Historically, stellar masses have been derived from long-term observations of visual or spectroscopic binary star systems. While advances in high-resolution imaging have enable…
Peculiar X-ray transient SRGA J043520.9+552226/AT2019wey discovered with SRG/ART-XC
Gilfanov, M. R.; Medvedev, P. S.; Sunyaev, R. A. +24 more
Context. During its ongoing all-sky survey, the Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC (Astronomical Roentgen Telescope - X-ray Concentrator) telescope on board the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory is set to discover new X-ray sources, many of which can be transient. Here we report the discovery and multiwavelength follow-up of a peculiar X-ray source …
Calibration of the NOMAD-UVIS data
Vandaele, Ann Carine; Neefs, Eddy; Aoki, Shohei +23 more
The Ultraviolet and VIsible Spectrometer (UVIS), covering the 200-650 nm range, is one of three spectrometers that comprise the NOMAD instrument on the ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). UVIS can operate in solar occultation, nadir and limb viewing mode and was designed to monitor ozone and aerosols in the Martian atmosphere. Here, we describe …
The LCO Outbursting Objects Key Project: Overview and Year 1 Status
Bannister, Michele T.; Schwamb, Megan E.; Bodewits, Dennis +32 more
The LCO Outbursting Objects Key (LOOK) Project uses the telescopes of the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) Network to (1) systematically monitor a sample of previously discovered over the whole sky, to assess the evolutionary state of these distant remnants from the early solar system, and (2) use alerts from existing sky surveys to rapidly respond t…
The Velocity Dispersion Function for Massive Quiescent and Star-forming Galaxies at 0.6 < z ≤ 1.0
Bell, Eric F.; Maseda, Michael V.; D'Eugenio, Francesco +10 more
We present the first direct spectroscopic measurement of the stellar velocity dispersion function (VDF) for massive quiescent and star-forming galaxies at 0.6 < z ≤ 1.0. For this analysis we use individual measurements of stellar velocity dispersion from high-signal-to-noise-ratio spectra from the public Large Early Galaxy Astrophysics Census (…
Magnetic Activity on Four Short-period Contact Binaries: V0576 Peg, KW Psc, V0873 Per, and FY Boo
Wang, Shuang; Yang, Yuangui; Yuan, Huiyu +1 more
We presented new photometry for four short-period late-type binaries, observed by three small telescopes in China from 2020 September to 2021 December. Seven sets of light curves (including the TESS data for FY Boo) were analyzed by using the W-D method. Three binaries (V0576 Peg, V0873 Per, and FY Boo) are W-type binaries with q ≃ 2.5, while KW P…
MHD Simulation of Homologous Eruptions from Solar Active Region 10930 Caused by Sunspot Rotation
Feng, Xueshang; Duan, Aiying; Jiang, Chaowei +2 more
The relationship between solar eruption and sunspot rotation has been widely reported, and the underlying mechanism needs to be studied. Here we performed a full 3D MHD simulation using a data-constrained approach to study the mechanism of flare eruptions in active region (AR) NOAA 10930, which is characterized by continuous sunspot rotation and h…
Morphological Evolution of the Hosts of Far-infrared/Submillimeter Galaxies
Yan, Haojing; Ling, Chenxiaoji
We present a host morphological study of 1266 far-infrared galaxies (FIRGs) and submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) in the Cosmic Evolution Survey field using the F160W and F814W images obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. The FIRGs and SMGs are selected from the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey and the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey, resp…
Modelling high-resolution ALMA observations of strongly lensed dusty star-forming galaxies detected by Herschel
Serjeant, Stephen; Dunne, Loretta; Cooray, Asantha +15 more
We present modelling of ~0.1 arcsec resolution Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array imaging of seven strong gravitationally lensed galaxies detected by the Herschel Space Observatory. Four of these systems are galaxy-galaxy strong lenses, with the remaining three being group-scale lenses. Through careful modelling of visibilities, we infer…
Chemistry and physical properties of the born-again planetary nebula HuBi 1
Morisset, C.; Guerrero, M. A.; Toalá, J. A. +4 more
The central star of the planetary nebula (PN) HuBi 1 has been recently proposed to have experienced a very late thermal pulse (VLTP), but the dilution of the emission of the recent ejecta by that of the surrounding H-rich old outer shell has so far hindered confirming its suspected H-poor nature. We present here an analysis of the optical properti…