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Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus star formation history as revealed by detailed elemental abundances: An archival study using SAGA data
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450827 Bibcode: 2024A&A...691A.333E

Skúladóttir, Á.; Feltzing, S.; Ernandes, H. +1 more

Context. The Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger was a major event in the history of the Milky Way. Debris from this merger has been extensively studied with full kinematic data from the Gaia mission. Understanding the star formation history of the progenitor galaxy aids in our understanding of the evolution of the Milky Way and galaxy formation in gene…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 7
Seven new triply eclipsing triple star systems
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449273 Bibcode: 2024A&A...686A..27R

Mitnyan, T.; Pál, A.; Vanderburg, A. +19 more


Aims: We have identified nearly a hundred close triply eclipsing hierarchical triple star systems from data taken with the space telescope TESS. These systems are noteworthy in that we can potentially determine their dynamical and astrophysical parameters with a high precision. In the present paper, we report the comprehensive study of seven …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 7
The Distribution of Semidetached Binaries. I. An Efficient Pipeline
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ad0ceb Bibcode: 2024ApJS..270...20X

Han, Zhanwen; Chen, Xuefei; Li, Jiadong +5 more

Semidetached binaries are in the stage of mass transfer and play a crucial role in studying the physics of mass transfer between interacting binaries. Large-scale time-domain surveys provide many light curves of binary systems, while Gaia offers high-precision astrometric data. In this paper, we develop, validate, and apply a pipeline that combine…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia 7
X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive stars at low metallicity: VI. Atmosphere and mass-loss properties of O-type giants in the Small Magellanic Cloud
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451893 Bibcode: 2024A&A...692A..88B

van Loon, J. Th.; Kaper, L.; Crowther, P. A. +21 more

Context. Mass loss through a stellar wind is an important physical process that steers the evolution of massive stars and controls the properties of their end-of-life products, such as the supernova type and the mass of compact remnants. To probe its role in stellar evolution over cosmic time, mass loss needs to be studied as function of metallici…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 7
Spectroscopic Observations of Coronal Rain Formation and Evolution Following an X2 Solar Flare
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad18be Bibcode: 2024ApJ...962..105B

Warren, Harry P.; Ugarte-Urra, Ignacio; Brooks, David H. +2 more

A significant impediment to solving the coronal heating problem is that we currently only observe active region loops in their cooling phase. Previous studies showed that the evolution of cooling loop densities and apex temperatures is insensitive to the magnitude, duration, and location of energy deposition. Still, potential clues to how energy i…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 7
Disk Evolution Study Through Imaging of Nearby Young Stars (DESTINYS): The SPHERE view of the Orion star-forming region
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347452 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A..54V

Ginski, C.; Garufi, A.; Dominik, C. +17 more

Context. Resolved observations at near-infrared (near-IR) and millimeter wavelengths have revealed a diverse population of planet-forming disks. In particular, near-IR scattered light observations usually target close-by, low-mass star-forming regions. However, disk evolution in high-mass star-forming regions is likely affected by the different en…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 7
A First Look with JWST Aperture Masking Interferometry: Resolving Circumstellar Dust around the Wolf–Rayet Binary WR 137 beyond the Rayleigh Limit
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad192c Bibcode: 2024ApJ...963..127L

Corcoran, Michael F.; Morris, Mark R.; Russell, Christopher M. P. +20 more

We present infrared aperture-masking interferometry (AMI) observations of newly formed dust from the colliding winds of the massive binary Wolf–Rayet system WR 137 with JWST using the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS). NIRISS AMI observations of WR 137 and a point-spread function calibrator star, HD 228337, were taken using t…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 7
Empirical mass-loss rates and clumping properties of O-type stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348478 Bibcode: 2024A&A...690A.126H

Puls, J.; de Koter, A.; Decin, L. +6 more

Context. The nature of mass-loss in massive stars is one of the most important and difficult to constrain processes in the evolution of massive stars. The largest observational uncertainties are related to the influence of metallicity and wind structure with optically thick clumps. Aims. We aim to constrain the wind parameters of sample of 18 O-ty…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 6
The AGN fraction in high-redshift protocluster candidates selected by Planck and Herschel
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3404 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.527.3006G

Frye, Brenda; Demarco, Ricardo; Rettura, Alessandro +4 more

A complete understanding of the mass assembly history of structures in the Universe requires the study of the growth of galaxies and their supermassive black holes (SMBHs) as a function of their local environment over cosmic time. In this context, it is important to quantify the effects that the early stages of galaxy cluster development have on t…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 6
Observational signatures of the dust size evolution in isolated galaxy simulations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449454 Bibcode: 2024A&A...689A..79M

Matsumoto, Kosei; De Looze, Ilse; Baes, Maarten +9 more

Aims. We aim to provide observational signatures of the dust size evolution in the interstellar medium. In particular, we explore indicators of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) mass fraction (qPAH), defined as the mass fraction of PAHs relative to the total dust grains. In addition, we validate our dust evolution model by compa…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel JWST 6