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Eruptive events with exceptionally bright emission in H I Ly-α observed by the Metis coronagraph
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347741 Bibcode: 2024A&A...683A.191R

Heinzel, P.; Jejčič, S.; Sasso, C. +29 more

Context. Ultraviolet (UV) emission from coronal mass ejections can provide information on the evolution of plasma dynamics, temperature, and elemental composition, as demonstrated by the UV Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) on board the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Metis, the coronagraph on board Solar Orbiter, provides for the first t…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO SolarOrbiter 4
VLBI position variability of AGNs is inversely correlated with their photometric variability
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348842 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A..93L

Lambert, S.; Secrest, N. J.


Aims: The stability of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF), realized through geodetic very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) positions of thousands of extragalactic objects, is dependent on the individual positional stability of these objects. It has been recently shown that the prevalence of offsets between the VLBI position…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 4
Violation of the equivalence principle induced by oscillating rest mass and transition frequency, and its detection in atom interferometers
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.035005 Bibcode: 2024PhRvD.110c5005G

Wolf, Peter; Gué, Jordan; Hees, Aurélien

We present a theoretical investigation of the expected experimental signals produced by freely falling atoms with time oscillating mass and transition frequency. These oscillations could be produced in a variety of models, in particular, models of scalar dark matter nonuniversally coupled to the standard matter such as axionlike particles and dila…

2024 Physical Review D
MICROSCOPE 4
The Ancient Star Formation History of the Extremely Low-mass Galaxy Leo P: An Emerging Trend of a Post-reionization Pause in Star Formation
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad8158 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...976...60M

McQuinn, Kristen B. W.; Cannon, John M.; Dolphin, Andrew E. +12 more

Isolated, low-mass galaxies provide the opportunity to assess the impact of reionization on their star formation histories (SFHs) without the ambiguity of environmental processes associated with massive host galaxies. There are very few isolated, low-mass galaxies that are close enough to determine their SFHs from resolved star photometry reaching…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 4
Limitations and rotation of the two-armed phase spiral in the Milky Way stellar disc
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451387 Bibcode: 2024A&A...690A..15A

McMillan, P. J.; Bensby, T.; Alinder, S.

Context. The Milky Way's history of recent disturbances is vividly demonstrated by a structure in the vertical phase-space distribution known as the Gaia phase spiral. A one-armed phase spiral has been seen widely across the Milky Way disc, while a two-armed one has only been observed in the solar neighbourhood. Aims. This study aims to determine …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 4
Revealing the burning and soft heart of the bright bare active galactic nucleus ESO 141-G55: X-ray broadband and SED analysis
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449708 Bibcode: 2024A&A...689A.336P

Grosso, N.; Porquet, D.; Reeves, J. N. +4 more

Context. ESO 141-G55 is a nearby X-ray bright broad-line Seyfert 1 (BLS1) that has been classified as a bare active galactic nucleus (AGN) due to a lack of warm absorption along its line of sight, providing an unhampered view into its disc-corona system. Aims. We aim to probe its disc-corona system thanks to the first simultaneous XMM-Newton and N…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 4
UVIT Study of the MAgellanic Clouds (U-SMAC). II. A Far-UV Catalog of the Small Magellanic Cloud: Morphology and Kinematics of Young Stellar Population
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad7de2 Bibcode: 2024AJ....168..255H

Subramaniam, Annapurni; Subramanian, Smitha; Nayak, Prasanta K. +1 more

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is an irregular dwarf galaxy that has recently undergone an interaction with the Large Magellanic Cloud. The young massive stars in the SMC formed in the disturbed low-metallicity environment are important targets in astrophysics. We present a catalog of ∼76,800 far-ultraviolet (FUV) sources toward the SMC detected…

2024 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 4
The White-light Superflares from Cool Stars in GWAC Triggers
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad55e8 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...971..114L

Wang, Jing; Wang, Liang; Liang, En-Wei +16 more

M-type stars are the ones that flare most frequently, but how big their maximum flare energy can reach is still unknown. We present 163 flares from 162 individual M2 through L1-type stars that triggered the GWAC, with flare energies ranging from 1032.2 to 1036.4 erg. The flare amplitudes range from △G = 0.84 to ∼10 mag. Flare…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 4
PYSSED: an automated method of collating and fitting stellar spectral energy distributions
DOI: 10.1093/rasti/rzae005 Bibcode: 2024RASTI...3...89M

McDonald, Iain; Zijlstra, Albert A.; Cox, Nick L. J. +4 more

Stellar atmosphere modelling predicts the luminosity and temperature of a star, together with parameters such as the effective gravity and the metallicity, by reproducing the observed spectral energy distribution. Most observational data come from photometric surveys, using a variety of passbands. We herein present the Python Stellar Spectral Ener…

2024 RAS Techniques and Instruments
Gaia 4
Investigating X-ray emission in the GeV-emitting compact symmetric objects PKS 1718-649 and TXS 1146+596
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348208 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A..65B

Vignali, C.; Giroletti, M.; Stawarz, Ł. +8 more


Aims: Compact symmetric objects (CSOs) are thought to represent the first step in the evolutionary path of radio galaxies. In the present study, we investigated the X-ray emission of two CSOs confirmed to emit at GeV energies: PKS 1718-649 and TXS 1146+596. Unveiling the origin of their observed high-energy emission is crucial to establishing…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 4