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Discovery of a White Dwarf Companion to HD 159062
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab1b11 Bibcode: 2019ApJ...878...50H

Fulton, Benjamin J.; Hirsch, Lea A.; Howard, Andrew W. +11 more

We report on the discovery of a white dwarf companion to the nearby late G dwarf star, HD 159062. The companion is detected in 14 years of precise radial velocity (RV) data, and in high-resolution imaging observations. RVs of HD 159062 from 2003 to 2018 reveal an acceleration of -13.3 ± 0.12 {{m}} {{{s}}}-1 {yr}}-1, indicatin…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 14
The GALAH Survey: lithium-strong KM dwarfs
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz296 Bibcode: 2019MNRAS.484.4591Z

Zwitter, T.; Buder, S.; Casagrande, L. +10 more

Identifying and characterizing young stars in the Solar neighbourhood is essential to find and describe planets in the early stages of their evolution. This work seeks to identify nearby young stars showing a lithium 6708 Å absorption line in the GALAH survey. A robust, data-driven approach is used to search for corresponding templates in the pool…

2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 14
Statistical Study of Chromospheric Evaporation in Impulsive Phase of Solar Flares
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaf6b0 Bibcode: 2019ApJ...871....2S

Kerr, Graham S.; Kosovichev, Alexander G.; Sadykov, Viacheslav M. +1 more

We present a statistical study of chromospheric evaporation in solar flares using simultaneous observations by the RHESSI X-ray telescope and the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph UV spectrograph. The results are compared with radiation hydrodynamic flare models from the F-CHROMA RADYN database. For each event, we study spatially resolved Dopp…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
IRIS 14
Deriving star cluster parameters with convolutional neural networks. I. Age, mass, and size
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833833 Bibcode: 2019A&A...621A.103B

Narbutis, D.; Vansevičius, V.; Bialopetravičius, J.

Context. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proven to perform fast classification and detection on natural images and have the potential to infer astrophysical parameters on the exponentially increasing amount of sky-survey imaging data. The inference pipeline can be trained either from real human-annotated data or simulated mock obser…

2019 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 14
The Origin of [C II] 158 µm Emission toward the H II Region Complex S235
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab1c59 Bibcode: 2019ApJ...882...11A

Schneider, N.; Tremblin, P.; Zavagno, A. +9 more

Although the {}2{{{P}}}3/2-{}2{{{P}}}1/2 transition of [C II] at λ ≃ 158 µ {{m}} is known to be an excellent tracer of active star formation, we still do not have a complete understanding of where within star formation regions the emission originates. Here, we use SOFIA upGREAT observations of [C I…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 14
The spectacular cluster chain Abell 781 as observed with LOFAR, GMRT, and XMM-Newton
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833861 Bibcode: 2019A&A...622A..19B

Brunetti, G.; Shimwell, T. W.; Gastaldello, F. +20 more

Context. A number of merging galaxy clusters show the presence of large-scale radio emission associated with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). These synchrotron sources are generally classified as radio haloes and radio relics.
Aims: Whilst it is commonly accepted that mergers play a crucial role in the formation of radio haloes and relics, not…

2019 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 14
Scattering, absorption, and thermal emission by large cometary dust particles: Synoptic numerical solution
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936235 Bibcode: 2019A&A...631A.164M

Agarwal, Jessica; Markkanen, Johannes

Context. Remote light scattering and thermal infrared observations provide clues about the physical properties of cometary and interplanetary dust particles. Identifying these properties will lead to a better understanding of the formation and evolution of the Solar System.
Aims: We present a numerical solution for the radiative and conductiv…

2019 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Rosetta 14
Coordinated UV and X-Ray Spectroscopic Observations of the O-type Giant ξ Per: The Connection between X-Rays and Large-scale Wind Structure
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0283 Bibcode: 2019ApJ...873...81M

Ignace, Richard; Massa, Derck; Oskinova, Lida +1 more

We present new, contemporaneous Hubble Space Telescope STIS and XMM-Newton observations of the O7 III(n)((f)) star ξ Per. We supplement the new data with archival IUE spectra, to analyze the variability of the wind lines and X-ray flux of ξ Per. The variable wind of this star is known to have a 2.086-day periodicity. We use a simple, heuristic spo…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
IUE XMM-Newton eHST 14
Modeling of the Sunspot-Associated Microwave Emission Using a New Method of DEM Inversion
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-019-1406-x Bibcode: 2019SoPh..294...23A

Patsourakos, S.; Alissandrakis, C. E.; Bogod, V. M. +2 more

We develope a method to compute the temperature and density structure along the line of sight by inversion of the differential emission measure (DEM), under the assumptions of stratification and hydrostatic equilibrium. We apply this method to the DEM obtained from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) observations and use the results, together w…

2019 Solar Physics
Hinode 14
Spectral Magnetic Helicity of Solar Active Regions between 2006 and 2017
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab32ef Bibcode: 2019ApJ...882...80G

Gosain, Sanjay; Brandenburg, Axel

We compute magnetic helicity and energy spectra from about 2485 patches of about 100 Mm side length on the solar surface using data from Hinode during 2006-2017. An extensive database is assembled where we list the magnetic energy and helicity, large- and small-scale magnetic helicity, mean current helicity density, fractional magnetic helicity, a…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 14