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Episodic mass loss in the very luminous red supergiant [W60] B90 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450737 Bibcode: 2024A&A...690A..99M

Udalski, A.; Boumis, P.; Boutsia, K. +6 more

Context. Despite mounting evidence that extreme red supergiants (RSGs) undergo episodic mass-loss events, their role in RSG evolution remains uncertain. Critical questions remain unanswered, such as whether or not these events can strip the star, and their timescale and frequency. Aims. This study delves into [W60] B90, one of the most luminous an…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST 6
PDRs4All. IX. Sulfur elemental abundance in the Orion Bar
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449229 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A..87F

Onaka, Takashi; Madden, Suzanne C.; Fuente, Asunción +31 more

Context. One of the main problems in astrochemistry is determining the amount of sulfur in volatiles and refractories in the interstellar medium. The detection of the main sulfur reservoirs (icy H2S and atomic gas) has been challenging, and estimates are based on the reliability of models to account for the abundances of species contain…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 6
Equilibrium dynamical models in the inner region of the Large Magellanic Cloud based on Gaia DR3 kinematics
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451578 Bibcode: 2024A&A...692A..40K

Kacharov, Nikolay; van de Ven, Glenn; Khoperskov, Sergey +3 more

Context. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) contains complex dynamics driven by both internal and external processes. The external forces are due to tidal interactions with the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way, while internally its dynamics mainly depend on the stellar, gas, and dark matter mass distributions. Despite this complexity, simple…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 6
Satellite group infall into the Milky Way: Exploring the Crater-Leo case with new HST proper motions
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449985 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A.212J

van der Marel, Roeland P.; Pawlowski, Marcel S.; Júlio, Mariana P. +3 more

Context. Within Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) simulations, Milky Way-like galaxies accrete some of their satellite galaxies in groups of 3–5 members rather than individually, and this has been suggested as a possible mechanism driving the formation of satellite planes. Objects accreted in groups are expected to share similar specific total energy and …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 6
The JWST/NIRISS Deep Spectroscopic Survey for Young Brown Dwarfs and Free-floating Planets
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad6f0c Bibcode: 2024AJ....168..179L

Johnstone, Doug; Albert, Loïc; Doyon, René +9 more

The discovery and characterization of free-floating planetary-mass objects (FFPMOs) is fundamental to our understanding of star and planet formation. Here we report results from an extremely deep spectroscopic survey of the young star cluster NGC1333 using Near-InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) wide field slitless spectroscopy on …

2024 The Astronomical Journal
JWST 6
Inferring Fundamental Properties of the Flare Current Sheet Using Flare Ribbons: Oscillations in the Reconnection Flux Rates
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad25f4 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...965...16C

Kazachenko, Maria D.; Lynch, Benjamin J.; Corchado Albelo, Marcel F.

Magnetic reconnection is understood to be the main physical process that facilitates the transformation of magnetic energy into heat, motion, and particle acceleration during solar eruptions. Yet, observational constraints on reconnection region properties and dynamics are limited due to a lack of high-cadence and high-spatial-resolution observati…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
IRIS 6
El Gordo needs El Anzuelo: Probing the structure of cluster members with multi-band extended arcs in JWST data
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449876 Bibcode: 2024A&A...689A.304G

Caminha, G. B.; Suyu, S. H.; Galan, A. +2 more

Gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters involves hundreds of galaxies over a large redshift range and increases the likelihood of rare phenomena (supernovae, microlensing, dark substructures, etc.). Characterizing the mass and light distributions of foreground and background objects often requires a combination of high-resolution data and advance…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST JWST 6
SRG/ART-XC all-sky X-ray survey: Catalog of sources detected during the first five surveys
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348950 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A.183S

Sunyaev, R.; Krivonos, R.; Sazonov, S. +27 more

We present an updated catalog of sources detected by the Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope aboard the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory during its all-sky survey. It is based on the data of the first four and the partially completed fifth scans of the sky (ARTSS1-5). The catalog comprises 1545 sources detected in the 4-12 keV energy band.…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia INTEGRAL XMM-Newton 6
Improved constraints on Galactic Centre ejection of hypervelocity stars based on novel search method
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1888 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.533.2747V

Tohill, Clár-Bríd; Kuijken, Konrad; Koposov, Sergey E. +6 more

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) are stars which have been ejected from the Galactic Centre (GC) at velocities of up to a few thousand $\text{km}\, \text{s}^{-1}$. They are tracers of the Galactic potential and can be used to infer properties of the GC, such as the initia…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 6
Identification of new nearby white dwarfs using Gaia DR3
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347767 Bibcode: 2024A&A...683A..33G

Reffert, Sabine; Golovin, Alex; Vani, Akash +3 more

Context. A volume-complete sample of white dwarfs is essential for statistical studies of the white dwarf population. The sample of nearby white dwarfs is the only one that allows the faint end of the luminosity function to be probed and thus is the only one that covers the entire range of white dwarf ages. However, due to their intrinsic faintnes…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 6