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Eclipsing binaries in the era of Gaia
DOI: 10.31577/caosp.2020.50.2.414 Bibcode: 2020CoSka..50..414S

Holl, B.; Mowlavi, N.; Lecoeur-Taïbi, I. +3 more

The ESA mission Gaia is expected to detect a few million eclipsing binaries, most of them hitherto unknown. We present an outline of the processing of these objects in the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium pipeline, with an emphasis on the scientific validation of the software components.

2020 Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnate Pleso
Gaia 2
Study of the Streamer Current Sheet with White-Light and UV Observations
DOI: 10.1016/j.chinastron.2020.11.004 Bibcode: 2020ChA&A..44..474S

Feng, Li; Li, Hui; Shi, Guang-lu +2 more

Current sheets (CSs) are the main region where magnetic reconnections can convert magnetic energy into plasma thermal and kinetic energies. We have studied a CS in the streamer occurred on 3 January 2003 by combining the White-Light (WL) images observed by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) and the EUV spectra detected by the Ul…

2020 Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 2
Martian fan deposits: Insights on depositional processes and origin from mass balance survey
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.116049 Bibcode: 2020E&PSL.53316049V

Hynek, Brian M.; Williams, Rebecca M. E.; Di Achille, Gaetano +2 more

Fan deposits located at the mouths of Martian valleys have been interpreted as indicators of wet conditions during Mars history. However, the processes, time and amount of water needed to carve the valleys and form the fans are still debated. Here we present a detailed morphometric and mass balance analysis of valleys and fan-shaped deposits using…

2020 Earth and Planetary Science Letters
MEx 2
High-Velocity Moving Groups in the Solar Neighborhood in Gaia DR2
DOI: 10.32023/0001-5237/70.2.4 Bibcode: 2020AcA....70..141B

Baluev, R. V.; Shaidulin, V. Sh.; Veselova, A. V.

We use an improved wavelet analysis technique to reconstruct the (U,V,W) velocity distribution for ≈250 000 stars from Gaia DR2, located in the solar neighborhood of 200 pc. The 2D wavelet transforms for three bivariate distributions (U,V), (U,W), and (V,W) were investigated. Though most of currently known (low-velocity) stellar moving groups are …

2020 Acta Astronomica
Gaia 2
More planetary candidates from K2 Campaign 5 using TRAN_K2
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038726 Bibcode: 2020A&A...643A.169K

Kovacs, Geza

Context. The exquisite precision of space-based photometric surveys and the unavoidable presence of instrumental systematics and intrinsic stellar variability call for the development of sophisticated methods that distinguish these signal components from those caused by planetary transits.
Aims: Here, we introduce the standalone Fortran code …

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 2
The characteristics of the coronal mass ejections preceding the associated X-ray and γ-ray burst solar flares
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2019.101285 Bibcode: 2020NewA...7401285M

Abdel-Sattar, Walid; Mawad, Ramy

In this study, investigated 14,786 coronal mass ejection (CME) events and 5092 Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) solar flare events (called γ-ray burst solar flare) recorded during 2008-2017, by using temporal and spatial conditions criteria, we found 845 (about 16%) CME events associated with γ-ray burst solar flare events only (hereafter, CME-γ-pref…

2020 New Astronomy
SOHO 2
IVOA HiPS implementation in the framework of WorldWide Telescope
DOI: 10.1016/j.ascom.2020.100380 Bibcode: 2020A&C....3100380X

Li, S.; Li, C.; Xu, Y. +9 more

The WorldWide Telescope(WWT) is a scientific visualization platform which can browse deep space images, star catalogs, and planetary remote sensing data from different observation facilities in a three-dimensional virtual scene. First launched and then open-sourced by Microsoft Research, the WWT is now managed by the American Astronomical Society …

2020 Astronomy and Computing
Gaia 2
[Rb/Zr] ratio in Ba stars as a diagnostic of the companion AGB stellar mass
DOI: 10.1007/s12036-020-09654-7 Bibcode: 2020JApA...41...37S

Shejeelammal, J.; Goswami, Aruna

Understanding nucleosynthesis in and evolution of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars is of primary importance as these stars are the main producers of some of the key elements in the Universe. They are the predominant sites for slow-neutron-capture nucleosynthesis (s-process). The exact physical conditions and nucleosynthetic processes occurring …

2020 Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
Gaia 2
Star formation rates in the L 1482 filament of the California molecular cloud
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psaa048 Bibcode: 2020PASJ...72...55O

Shimajiri, Yoshito; Sunada, Kazuyoshi; Dobashi, Kazuhito +7 more

We measured the trigonometric parallax of the H2O maser source associated with the L 1482 molecular filament hosting the most massive young star, LkHα 101, in the California molecular cloud. The measured parallax is 1.879 ± 0.096 mas, corresponding to the distance of 532 ± 28 pc. This parallax is consistent with that of the nearby star …

2020 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Gaia 2
The Initiation of a Solar Streamer Blowout Coronal Mass Ejection Arising from the Streamer Flank
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab9ebd Bibcode: 2020ApJ...897L..21Z

Chen, Yao; Zheng, Ruisheng; Wang, Bing

Streamer blowout (SBO) coronal mass ejections (CMEs) represent a particular class of CMEs that are characterized by a gradual swelling of the overlying streamer and a slow CME containing a flux-rope structure. SBO CMEs arising from the streamer flank fall into a special category of SBO CMEs involving three lower arches under the higher streamer ar…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 2