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On the Age of Galactic Bulge CSPNe: Too Young and Complicated?
DOI: 10.3390/galaxies8020051 Bibcode: 2020Galax...8...51L

Parker, Quentin A.; Lykou, Foteini; Zijlstra, Albert

We present preliminary results of our study of a small sample of planetary nebulae in the Galactic Bulge for which high-angular resolution Hubble Space Telescope imaging is available. From this and from archival spectroscopy, we were able to calculate temperatures and luminosities for their central stars. These were then correlated to up-to-date e…

2020 Galaxies
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Particle Induced X-ray Emission at Mercury and the Moon.
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-18423 Bibcode: 2020EGUGA..2218423G

Grande, Manuel; Cooper, Rose

Mercury and the Moon are examples of terrestrial bodies which lack an atmosphere and therefore have surfaces which interact directly with the space environment. Thus the surfaces can be reprocessed by plasma impact, and in the process can emit X-rays via the Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) process. We will present and review existing measur…

2020 EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts
Chandrayaan-1 SMART-1 0
HD 54361: evidence for the status of a low mass TP-AGB star
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-020-3739-1 Bibcode: 2020Ap&SS.365...27Z

Schmidt, M.; Sperauskas, J.; Začs, L. +3 more

The mass of the cool carbon star HD 54361 was suspected to be high, assuming the membership in the stellar association CMa OB1, in conflict with the theory of stellar evolution. The Gaia parallax and a high-resolution spectrum in the wavelength region from about 4800 to 6900 Å was employed in order to update the distance, atmospheric parameters an…

2020 Astrophysics and Space Science
Gaia 0
New Virtual Moon Atlas freeware version 7
DOI: 10.5194/epsc2020-942 Bibcode: 2020EPSC...14..942L

Legrand, Christian; Chevalley, Patrick

Introduction: Since 2002, we develop a freeware to help Moon observing, to improve interest for Moon in general public, and to provide a basic tool for aggregating informations on the Moon for professionals.Double windows with "Kaguya / LRO Shaded relief" and "Unified geologic 2020" textures Presentation : VMA uses datas coming from NASA, USGS, JP…

2020 European Planetary Science Congress
SMART-1 0
EREBUS: the EuRopean Extinction BUmp Survey
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-020-09667-8 Bibcode: 2020ExA....50..145C

Shipman, R. F.; Kargl, G.; Skalidis, R. +14 more

Dust in the Interstellar Medium (ISM) is intimately linked to the life cycle of stars. Despite being of such fundamental importance to galaxy evolution, the dynamic behaviour and composition of the ISM are not yet fully understood. Observations of reddened Milky Way OB stars have revealed a strong UV extinction feature around 2175 Å and a precipit…

2020 Experimental Astronomy
Gaia 0
Observation of Gaia (DR2) Red and White Dwarf Binary Stars in the Solar Neighborhood (Abstract)
Bibcode: 2020JAVSO..48..266W

Wasson, R.

(Abstract only) The Gaia satellite combines astrometric, parallax, photometric, and spectroscopic measurements of stellar propertiesówith greater accuracy than ever before. In 2018 Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) made preliminary but consistent data available for an extraordinary number of stars: 1.3 Billion!

2020 Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (JAAVSO)
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Fractal dimension in star formation regions
Bibcode: 2020BAAA...61B.254C

Canavesi, T.; Hurtado, S.

Several two-dimensional studies in spiral galaxies show that HII star formation regions have a fractal distribution, with a fractal dimension of approximately 2.3. In this work, the fractal dimension is calculated through the box-counting method implemented in an R code. The innovation of the work lies in calculating the fractal dimension directly…

2020 Boletin de la Asociacion Argentina de Astronomia La Plata Argentina
Gaia 0
Follow‑up imaging observations of comet 2I/Borisov
DOI: 10.1002/asna.202013734 Bibcode: 2020AN....341..258M

Mugrauer, Markus; Schlagenhauf, Saskia; Bischoff, Richard +3 more

Follow‑up imaging observations of the first detected interstellar comet 2I/Borisov are presented, which were carried out with the Schmidt‑Teleskop‑Kamera at the University Observatory Jena in 11 observing epochs in October and November 2019. The orbital solution of the comet, derived from the obtained astrometric measurements, confirms its highly …

2020 Astronomische Nachrichten
Gaia 0
Changes of plasma parameters in Earth magnetosphere tail during substorm initialization
DOI: 10.15407/kfnt2020.02.082 Bibcode: 2020KFNT...36b..82K

Grigorenko, E. E.; Kronberg, E. A.; Kozak, L. V. +3 more

2020 Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel
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The MICROSCOPE space mission to test the Equivalence Principle
DOI: 10.5802/crphys.24 Bibcode: 2020CRPhy..21..139T

Métris, Gilles; Rodrigues, Manuel; Touboul, Pierre +2 more

2020 Comptes Rendus Physique
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