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Multi-wavelength campaign on NGC 7469. VI. Photoionisation modelling of the emission line regions and the warm absorber
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935815 Bibcode: 2020A&A...633A..62G

Kriss, G. A.; Arav, N.; Bianchi, S. +16 more


Aims: We aim to investigate and characterise the photoionised X-ray emission line regions within the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469.
Methods: We applied the photoionisation model, PION, within the spectral fitting code SPEX to analyse the 640 ks reflection grating spectrometer spectrum of NGC 7469 gathered during an XMM-Newton observing campa…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 15
2003-2019 Monitoring of the Crab Emission through INTEGRAL SPI, or Vice Versa
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aba8a4 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...899..131J

Jourdain, E.; Roques, J. P.

The Crab Nebula is used by many instruments as a calibration source, in particular at high energy, where it is one of the brightest celestial objects. The spectrometer INTEGRAL SPI (20 keV-8 MeV), in operation since 2002 October, offers a large data set dedicated to this source, with regular campaigns planned twice per year. We have analyzed the a…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
INTEGRAL 15
Evidence for magnetic activity at starbirth: a powerful X-ray flare from the Class 0 protostar HOPS 383
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038185 Bibcode: 2020A&A...638L...4G

Hamaguchi, Kenji; Kastner, Joel H.; Principe, David A. +1 more

Context. Class 0 protostars represent the earliest evolutionary stage of solar-type stars, during which the majority of the system mass resides in an infalling envelope of gas and dust and is not yet in the central, nascent star. Although X-rays are a key signature of magnetic activity in more evolved protostars and young stars, whether such magne…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 15
The UV Perspective of Low-Mass Star Formation
DOI: 10.3390/galaxies8010027 Bibcode: 2020Galax...8...27S

France, Kevin; Schneider, P. Christian; Günther, H. Moritz

The formation of low-mass (M★≲2M⊙) stars in molecular clouds involves accretion disks and jets, which are of broad astrophysical interest. Accreting stars represent the closest examples of these phenomena. Star and planet formation are also intimately connected, setting the starting point for planetary systems like our own. The ultraviolet (UV) sp…

2020 Galaxies
eHST 15
The Not So Simple Stellar System ω Cen. II. Evidence in Support of a Merging Scenario
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab77c0 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...891..167C

Rest, Armin; Mastrobuono-Battisti, Alessandra; Zenteno, Alfredo +7 more

We present multiband photometry covering ∼5° × 5° across ω Cen collected with the Dark Energy Camera on the 4 m Blanco telescope, combined with Hubble Space Telescope and Wide Field Imager data for the central regions. The unprecedented photometric accuracy and field coverage allows us to confirm the different spatial distribution of blue and red …

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 15
A SETI survey of the Vela region using the Murchison Widefield Array: Orders of magnitude expansion in search space
DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2020.27 Bibcode: 2020PASA...37...35T

Tremblay, C. D.; Tingay, S. J.

Following the results of our previous low-frequency searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), directed towards the Galactic Centre and the Orion Molecular Cloud (Galactic Anticentre), we report a new large-scale survey towards the Vela region with the lowest upper limits thus far obtained with the…

2020 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Gaia 15
When Does the Onset of Multiple Stellar Populations in Star Clusters Occur? III. No Evidence of Significant Chemical Variations in Main-sequence Stars of NGC 419
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7b64 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...893...17L

Milone, Antonino P.; Li, Chengyuan; Ji, Xin +3 more

Recent studies have revealed that the onset age for the presence of multiple stellar populations (MPs) in star clusters seems to correspond to the disappearance of the extended main-sequence turnoff in young clusters, a pattern associated with stellar rotations. A speculative suggestion is that MPs might be caused by the magnetic brake, a stellar …

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 15
Diffuse radio emission in the galaxy cluster SPT-CL J2031-4037: a steep-spectrum intermediate radio halo?
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slaa002 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.493L..28R

van Weeren, R. J.; Rapetti, David; Intema, H. T. +6 more

The advent of sensitive low-frequency radio observations has revealed a number of diffuse radio objects with peculiar properties that are challenging our understanding of the physics of the intracluster medium. Here, we report the discovery of a steep-spectrum radio halo surrounding the central brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in the galaxy cluster …

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 15
Rotation of Solar Analogs Crossmatching Kepler and Gaia DR2
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab9c16 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...898..173D

Barnes, S. A.; Castro, M.; da Costa, J. S. +10 more

A major obstacle to interpreting the rotation period distribution for main-sequence stars from Kepler mission data has been the lack of a precise evolutionary status for these objects. We address this by investigating the evolutionary status based on Gaia Data Release 2 parallaxes and photometry for more than 30,000 Kepler stars with rotation peri…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 15
Correlations of Sunspot Physical Characteristics during Solar Cycle 23
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-020-01691-3 Bibcode: 2020SoPh..295..120V

Valio, Adriana; Spagiari, Eduardo; Marengoni, Mauricio +1 more

The behavior of sunspots is governed by the magnetic dynamo acting deep within the convection zone of the Sun. Therefore, knowledge of sunspot physical characteristics and how they evolve in time during a solar cycle can help to improve our understanding of the solar magnetic behavior. This work analyzes the physical characteristics of sunspots du…

2020 Solar Physics
SOHO 15