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JWST/NIRCam Detection of the Fomalhaut C Debris Disk in Scattered Light
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad4496 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...967L...8L

Gennaro, Mario; Barclay, Thomas; Rest, Armin +20 more

Observations of debris disks offer important insights into the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Though M dwarfs make up approximately 80% of nearby stars, very few M dwarf debris disks have been studied in detail—making it unclear how or if the information gleaned from studying debris disks around more massive stars extends to the mor…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 4
A study of Jupiter's UV Great Dark Spot and tropopause to stratosphere winds in the high northern latitudes as seen by Cassini imaging
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115913 Bibcode: 2024Icar..41015913B

West, R. A.; Sinclair, J. A.; Del Genio, A. D. +1 more

Images of Jupiter taken during the year 2000 Cassini flyby revealed the early stages and evolution of a high northern-latitude UV Great Dark Spot over a three-month period. They also provided a window on the circulation of Jupiter's polar stratosphere. Jupiter's rarely-detected UV Great Dark Spot (UVGDS) is unusual in several respects. It is an ep…

2024 Icarus
Cassini eHST 4
Quasars as standard candles. V. Accounting for the dispersion in the LX-LUV relation down to ≤ 0.06 dex
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348941 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A..32S

Signorini, Matilde; Risaliti, Guido; Lusso, Elisabeta +4 more

A characteristic feature of quasars is the observed non-linear relationship between their monochromatic luminosities at rest-frame 2500 Å and 2 keV. This relationship is evident across all redshifts and luminosities and, due to its non-linearity, can be implemented to estimate quasar distances and construct a Hubble Diagram for quasars. Historical…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 4
J0526+5934: A peculiar ultra-short-period double white dwarf
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449519 Bibcode: 2024A&A...686A.221R

Rebassa-Mansergas, Alberto; Hollands, Mark; Parsons, Steven G. +6 more

Context. Ultra-short-period compact binaries are important sources of gravitational waves. The class of short-period compact binaries includes, for example, the progenitors of type Ia supernovae and the progenitors of merger episodes that may lead to massive and magnetic single white dwarfs. J0526+5934 is one such example: it is an unresolved comp…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 4
Astrometry and Precise Radial Velocities Yield a Complete Orbital Solution for the Nearby Eccentric Brown Dwarf LHS 1610 b
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad57be Bibcode: 2024AJ....168..140F

Callingham, J. R.; Cochran, William D.; Mahadevan, Suvrath +18 more

The LHS 1610 system consists of a nearby (d = 9.7 pc) M5 dwarf hosting a candidate brown dwarf companion in a 10.6 days, eccentric (e ∼ 0.37) orbit. We confirm this brown dwarf designation and estimate its mass ( 49.53…

2024 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 4
INTEGRAL view of GRB 221009A. Prompt energetics and week-long hard X-ray afterglow
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346336 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684L...2S

Mereghetti, Sandro; Tiengo, Andrea; Kuulkers, Erik +11 more

The gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A is among the most luminous of its kind and its proximity to Earth has made it an exceptionally rare observational event. The International Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) was in an optimal aspect position to use its all-sky instruments for recording the prompt emission and early gamma-ray afterglow in u…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
INTEGRAL 4
Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Two-process Parameters and Residual Abundances for 288,789 Stars from Data Release 17
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad4ed2 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...970..180S

Masseron, Thomas; Hayes, Christian R.; Sit, Tawny +4 more

Stellar abundance measurements are subject to systematic errors that induce extra scatter and artificial correlations in elemental abundance patterns. We derive empirical calibration offsets to remove systematic trends with surface gravity log(g…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 4
Survey of extended main-sequence turn-offs in galactic open clusters: stellar rotations from Gaia RVS spectra
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1569 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.532.1547C

Milone, A. P.; Cordoni, G.; Marino, A. F. +6 more

The origin of extended main-sequence turn-offs (eMSTO) in star clusters younger than 2 Gyr still challenges our current understanding of stellar evolution. Exploiting data from Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3), we investigate eMSTOs in a large sample of 32 Galactic open clusters younger than 2.4 Gyr. We first validate Gaia rotational velocities from radi…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 4
Variation of the electron flux spectrum along a solar flare loop as inferred from STIX hard X-ray observations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348553 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A.185V

Volpara, Anna; Massa, Paolo; Krucker, Säm +3 more

Context. Regularized imaging spectroscopy was introduced for the construction of electron flux images at different energies from count visibilities recorded by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI). In this work we seek to extend this approach to data from the Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) on board th…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SolarOrbiter 4
JWST Observations of Starbursts: Massive Star Clusters in the Central Starburst of M82
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad7af3 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...973L..55L

Boogaard, Leindert A.; Meier, David S.; Böker, Torsten +25 more

We present a near-infrared (NIR) candidate star cluster catalog for the central kiloparsec of M82 based on new JWST NIRCam images. We identify star cluster candidates using the F250M filter, finding 1357 star cluster candidates with stellar masses >104 M . Compared to previous optical catalogs, nearly all (87%) of the can…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST JWST 4