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Gaia Data Release 2. Cross-match with external catalogues: algorithms and results
Marinoni, S.; Marrese, P. M.; Altavilla, G. +1 more
Context. Although the Gaia catalogue on its own is a very powerful tool, it is the combination of this high-accuracy archive with other archives that will truly open up amazing possibilities for astronomical research. The advanced interoperation of archives is based on cross-matching, leaving the user with the feeling of working with one single da…
X-Ray Properties of SPT-selected Galaxy Clusters at 0.2 < z < 1.5 Observed with XMM-Newton
Miller, Eric D.; Schrabback, Tim; Holzapfel, W. L. +22 more
We present measurements of the X-ray observables of the intracluster medium (ICM), including luminosity L X , ICM mass M ICM, emission-weighted mean temperature T X , and integrated pressure Y X , that are derived from XMM-Newton X-ray observations of a Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect (SZE) selected sample …
Hunting for open clusters in Gaia DR2: the Galactic anticentre
Castro-Ginard, A.; Jordi, C.; Luri, X. +2 more
Context. The Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) provided an unprecedented volume of precise astrometric and excellent photometric data. In terms of data mining the Gaia catalogue, machine learning methods have shown to be a powerful tool, for instance in the search for unknown stellar structures. Particularly, supervised and unsupervised learning methods c…
Toward Precise Stellar Ages: Combining Isochrone Fitting with Empirical Gyrochronology
Hogg, David W.; Angus, Ruth; Morton, Timothy D. +7 more
We present a new age-dating technique that combines gyrochronology with isochrone fitting to infer ages for FGKM main-sequence and subgiant field stars. Gyrochronology and isochrone fitting are each capable of providing relatively precise ages for field stars in certain areas of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD): gyrochronology works optimally…
He I λ 10 830 Å in the transmission spectrum of HD209458 b
Schmitt, J. H. M. M.; Alonso-Floriano, F. J.; Sánchez-López, A. +27 more
Context. Recently, the He I triplet at 10 830 Å was rediscovered as an excellent probe of the extended and possibly evaporating atmospheres of close-in transiting planets. This has already resulted in detections of this triplet in the atmospheres of a handful of planets, both from space and from the ground. However, while a strong signal is expect…
Old and young stellar populations in DustPedia galaxies and their role in dust heating
Bianchi, S.; Fritz, J.; Madden, S. C. +19 more
Aims: Within the framework of the DustPedia project we investigate the properties of cosmic dust and its interaction with stellar radiation (originating from different stellar populations) for 814 galaxies in the nearby Universe, all observed by the Herschel Space Observatory.
Methods: We take advantage of the widely used fitting code CI…
The Analogous Structure of Accretion Flows in Supermassive and Stellar Mass Black Holes: New Insights from Faded Changing-look Quasars
Green, Paul J.; Anderson, Scott F.; Eracleous, Michael +5 more
Despite their factor of ∼108 difference in black hole mass, several lines of evidence suggest possible similarities between black hole accretion flows in active galactic nuclei (AGN) and Galactic X-ray binaries. However, it is still unclear whether the geometry of the disk-corona system in X-ray binaries directly scales up to AGN and wh…
Reclassification of Cepheids in the Gaia Data Release 2. Period-luminosity and period-Wesenheit relations in the Gaia passbands
Ripepi, V.; Molinaro, R.; Eyer, L. +3 more
Context. Classical Cepheids are the most important primary indicators for the extragalactic distance scale. Establishing the precise zero points of their period-luminosity and period-Wesenheit (PL/PW) relations has profound consequences on the estimate of H0. Type II Cepheids are also important distance indicators and tracers of old ste…
Preliminary Trigonometric Parallaxes of 184 Late-T and Y Dwarfs and an Analysis of the Field Substellar Mass Function into the “Planetary” Mass Regime
Cushing, Michael C.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gelino, Christopher R. +16 more
We present preliminary trigonometric parallaxes of 184 late-T and Y dwarfs using observations from Spitzer (143), the U.S. Naval Observatory (18), the New Technology Telescope (14), and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (9). To complete the 20 pc census of ≥T6 dwarfs, we combine these measurements with previously published trigonometric parall…
An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: source catalogue and properties
Thomson, A. P.; Ivison, R. J.; Kocevski, Dale D. +26 more
We present the catalogue and basic properties of sources in AS2UDS, an 870-µm continuum survey with the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA) of 716 single-dish sub-millimetre sources detected in the UKIDSS/UDS field by the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey. In our sensitive ALMA follow-up observations, we detect 708 sub-millime…