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Observations of fan-spine topology by Solar Orbiter/EUI: Rotational motions and indications of Alfvén waves
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348799 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A..13P

Berghmans, D.; Parenti, S.; Valori, G. +3 more

Context. Torsional Alfvén waves do not produce any intensity variation and are therefore challenging to observe with imaging instruments. Previously, Alfvén wave observations were reported throughout all the layers of the solar atmosphere using spectral imaging.
Aims: We present a torsional Alfvén wave detected in an inverted Y-shaped structu…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SolarOrbiter 5
JWST's First Glimpse of a z > 2 Forming Cluster Reveals a Top-heavy Stellar Mass Function
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad4986 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...967L..34S

Daddi, Emanuele; Lu, Shiying; Kodama, Tadayuki +11 more

Clusters and their progenitors (protoclusters) at z ∼ 2 ‑ 4, the peak epoch of star formation, are ideal laboratories to study the formation process of both the clusters themselves and their member galaxies. However, a complete census of their member galaxies has been challenging due to observational difficulties. Here we present new JWST/NIRCam o…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST JWST 5
Solar Eruptions in Nested Magnetic Flux Systems
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad2eaa Bibcode: 2024ApJ...966...27K

Antiochos, Spiro K.; Kumar, Pankaj; DeVore, C. Richard +2 more

The magnetic topology of erupting regions on the Sun is a key factor in the energy buildup and release, and the subsequent evolution of flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The presence/absence of null points and separatrices dictates whether and where current sheets form and magnetic reconnection occurs. Numerical simulations show that energ…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 5
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems. IV. NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometry Performance and Lessons Learned
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad21fb Bibcode: 2024ApJ...963L...2S

Henning, Thomas; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Moran, Sarah E. +120 more

We present a performance analysis for the aperture masking interferometry (AMI) mode on board the James Webb Space Telescope Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (JWST/NIRISS). Thanks to self-calibrating observables, AMI accesses inner working angles down to and even within the classical diffraction limit. The scientific potential of thi…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 5
Characterisation of the warm-Jupiter TOI-1130 system with CHEOPS and a photo-dynamical approach
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450974 Bibcode: 2024A&A...689A..52B

Alonso, R.; Deleuil, M.; Erikson, A. +93 more

Context. Among the thousands of exoplanets discovered to date, approximately a few hundred gas giants on short-period orbits are classified as 'lonely' and only a few are in a multi-planet system with a smaller companion on a close orbit. The processes that formed multi-planet systems hosting gas giants on close orbits are poorly understood, and o…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
CHEOPS 5
A Photoionization Model for the Infrared Coronal Line Emission in the Classical Nova V1716 Scorpii
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad4097 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...968...31W

Evans, A.; Starrfield, S.; Page, K. L. +2 more

A near-infrared spectrum of nova V1716 Scorpii (PNV J17224490-4137160), a recent bright ( Vmax=7.3 mag), Fermi-LAT detected γ-ray source, was mod…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 5
Generic low-atmosphere signatures of swirled-anemone jets
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449553 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A.172J

Nóbrega-Siverio, Daniel; Aulanier, Guillaume; Schmieder, Brigitte +4 more

Context. Solar jets are collimated plasma flows moving along magnetic field lines and are accelerated at low altitude following magnetic reconnection. Several of them originate from anemone-shaped low-lying arcades, and the most impulsive ones tend to be relatively wider and display untwisting motions.
Aims: We aim to establish typical behavi…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
IRIS 5
Are WASP-107-like Systems Consistent with High-eccentricity Migration?
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad5ffb Bibcode: 2024ApJ...972..159Y

Dai, Fei; Yu, Hang

WASP-107 b seems to be a poster child of the long-suspected high-eccentricity migration scenario. It is on a 5.7 day, polar orbit. The planet is Jupiter-like in radius but Neptune-like in mass with exceptionally low density. WASP-107 c is on a 1100 day, e = 0.28 orbit with at least Saturn mass. Planet b may still have a residual eccentricity of 0.…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 5
The PHANGS-AstroSat Atlas of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ad152c Bibcode: 2024ApJS..271....2H

Sandstrom, Karin M.; Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik; Leroy, Adam K. +29 more

We present the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS)-AstroSat atlas, which contains UV imaging of 31 nearby star-forming galaxies captured by the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on the AstroSat satellite. The atlas provides a homogeneous data set of far-UV and near-UV maps of galaxies within a distance of 22 Mpc and a median…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia eHST 5
SDSS1335+0728: The awakening of a ∼106 M black hole
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347957 Bibcode: 2024A&A...688A.157S

Bayo, A.; Bauer, F. E.; Merloni, A. +22 more

Context. The early-type galaxy SDSS J133519.91+072807.4 (hereafter SDSS1335+0728), which had exhibited no prior optical variations during the preceding two decades, began showing significant nuclear variability in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) alert stream from December 2019 (as ZTF19acnskyy). This variability behaviour, coupled with the hos…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 5