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Simultaneous retrieval of orbital phase resolved JWST/MIRI emission spectra of the hot Jupiter WASP-43b: evidence of water, ammonia, and carbon monoxide
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1427 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.532..460Y

Irwin, Patrick G. J.; Bell, Taylor J.; Kreidberg, Laura +14 more

Spectroscopic phase curves of hot Jupiters measure their emission spectra at multiple orbital phases, thus enabling detailed characterization of their atmospheres. Precise constraints on the atmospheric composition of these exoplanets offer insights into their formation and evolution. We analyse four phase-resolved emission spectra of the hot Jupi…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JWST 6
Introducing the Condor Array Telescope - III. The expansion and age of the shell of the dwarf nova Z Camelopardalis, and detection of a second, larger shell
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3220 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.529..212S

Zurek, David R.; Walter, Frederick M.; Rich, R. Michael +7 more

The existence of a vast nova shell surrounding the prototypical dwarf nova Z Camelopardalis (Z Cam) proves that some old novae undergo metamorphosis to appear as dwarf novae thousands of years after a nova eruption. The expansion rates of ancient nova shells offer a way to constrain both the time between nova eruptions and the time for post-nova m…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 6
The AstraLux-TESS high spatial resolution imaging survey. Search for stellar companions of 215 planet candidates from TESS
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449687 Bibcode: 2024A&A...686A.232L

Montesinos, B.; Mendigutía, I.; Huélamo, N. +6 more

Context. Chance-aligned sources or blended companions can cause false positives in planetary transit detections or simply bias the determination of the candidate properties. In the era of high-precision space-based photometers, the need for high spatial resolution images has been demonstrated to be critical for validating and confirming transit si…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 6
Scaling relations for globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies - III. The inner flattening of the radial distributions
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3602 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.527.6993C

Caso, Juan Pablo; Ennis, Ana Inés; De Bórtoli, Bruno Javier

The current properties of globular cluster systems (GCSs) in the nearby Universe are a consequence of an evolutionary history ruled by accretion and disruption processes. The analysis of scaling relations for GCSs is crucial for understanding the relevance of different physical processes involved in their origin and subsequent survival. In this wo…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 6
High-speed stars. II. An unbound star, young stars, bulge metal-poor stars, and Aurora candidates
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347865 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A..91B

Bonifacio, P.; Caffau, E.; Spite, M. +6 more

Context. The data from the Gaia satellite led us to revise our conception of the Galaxy structure and history. Hitherto unknown components have been discovered and a deep re-thinking of what the Galactic halo is in progress.
Aims: We selected from the Gaia catalogue stars with extreme transverse velocities with respect to the Sun (|VT

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 6
The Orbit and Dynamical Mass of Polaris: Observations with the CHARA Array
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad5e7a Bibcode: 2024ApJ...971..190E

Torres, Guillermo; Mérand, Antoine; Monnier, John D. +19 more

The 30 yr orbit of the Cepheid Polaris has been followed with observations by the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array from 2016 through 2021. An additional measurement has been made with speckle interferometry at the Apache Point Observatory. Detection of the companion is complicated by its comparative faintness—an extreme f…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 6
The Featherweight Giant: Unraveling the Atmosphere of a 17 Myr Planet with JWST
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad81d7 Bibcode: 2024AJ....168..297T

Vanderburg, Andrew; Batalha, Natasha E.; Brown, Alexander +29 more

The characterization of young planets (<300 Myr) is pivotal for understanding planet formation and evolution. We present the 3–5 µm transmission spectrum of the 17 Myr, Jupiter-size (R ∼10R ) planet, HIP 67522b, observed with JWST NIRSpec/G395H. To check for spot contamination, we obtain a simultaneous g-band transit with the …

2024 The Astronomical Journal
eHST JWST 6
TOI-5126: a hot super-Neptune and warm Neptune pair discovered by TESS and CHEOPS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3036 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.527.8768F

Bieryla, Allyson; Latham, David W.; Quinn, Samuel N. +33 more

We present the confirmation of a hot super-Neptune with an exterior Neptune companion orbiting a bright (V = 10.1 mag) F-dwarf identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The two planets, observed in sectors 45, 46, and 48 of the TESS extended mission, are $4.74_{-0.14}^{+0.16}$ and $3.86_{-0.16}^{+0.17}$ R with $5.…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
CHEOPS Gaia 6
Searching for X-ray counterparts of unassociated Fermi-LAT sources and rotation-powered pulsars with SRG/eROSITA
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348620 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A.208M

Becker, Werner; Mayer, Martin G. F.

Context. The latest source catalog of the Fermi-LAT telescope contains more than 7000 γ-ray sources at giga-electronvolt energies, with the two dominant source classes thought to be blazars and rotation-powered pulsars. Despite continuous follow-up efforts, around 2600 sources have no known multiwavelength association.
Aims: Our target is the…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 6
AGN STORM 2. VII. A Frequency-resolved Map of the Accretion Disk in Mrk 817: Simultaneous X-Ray Reverberation and UVOIR Disk Reprocessing Time Lags
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad6b08 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...974..271L

Kaspi, Shai; Barth, Aaron J.; Horne, Keith +35 more

X-ray reverberation mapping is a powerful technique for probing the innermost accretion disk, whereas continuum reverberation mapping in the UV, optical, and infrared (UVOIR) reveals reprocessing by the rest of the accretion disk and broad-line region (BLR). We present the time lags of Mrk 817 as a function of temporal frequency measured from 14 m…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 6