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The impact of stellar metallicity on rotation and activity evolution in the Kepler field using gyro-kinematic ages
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1828 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.533.1290S

Amard, Louis; See, Victor; Lu, Yuxi (Lucy) +1 more

In recent years, there has been a push to understand how chemical composition affects the magnetic activity levels of main sequence low-mass stars. Results indicate that more metal-rich stars are more magnetically active for a given stellar mass and rotation period. This metallicity dependence has implications for how the rotation periods and acti…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 3
From Chromospheric Evaporation to Coronal Rain: An Investigation of the Mass and Energy Cycle of a Flare
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad4ed9 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...970..106S

Antolin, Patrick; Şahin, Seray

Chromospheric evaporation (CE) and coronal rain (CR) represent two crucial phenomena encompassing the circulation of mass and energy during solar flares. While CE marks the start of the hot inflow into the flaring loop, CR marks the end, indicating the outflow in the form of cool and dense condensations. With the Interface Region Imaging Spectrogr…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
IRIS 3
First Detection of CO Isotopologues in a High-redshift Main-sequence Galaxy: Evidence of a Top-heavy Stellar Initial Mass Function
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad4da2 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...970..136G

Fu, Xiaoting; Ivison, R. J.; Zhang, Zhi-Yu +5 more

Recent observations and theories have presented a strong challenge to the universality of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) in extreme environments. A notable example has been found for starburst conditions, where evidence favors a top-heavy IMF, i.e., there is a bias toward massive stars compared to the IMF that is responsible for the stell…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 3
The ALMA View of Positive Black Hole Feedback in the Dwarf Galaxy Henize 2–10
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1b62 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...963..103G

Reines, Amy E.; Gim, Hansung B.

Henize 2–10 is a dwarf starburst galaxy hosting a ∼106 M black hole (BH) that is driving an ionized outflow and triggering star formation within the central ∼100 pc of the galaxy. Here, we present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array continuum observations from 99 to 340 GHz, as well as spectral line observations of…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 3
Membership determination in open clusters using the DBSCAN Clustering Algorithm
DOI: 10.1016/j.ascom.2024.100826 Bibcode: 2024A&C....4700826R

Hasan, P.; Raja, M.; Mahmudunnobe, Md. +2 more

In this paper, we apply the machine learning clustering algorithm Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) to study the membership of stars in twelve open clusters (NGC 2264, NGC 2682, NGC 2244, NGC 3293, NGC 6913, NGC 7142, IC 1805, NGC 6231, NGC 2243, NGC 6451, NGC 6005 and NGC 6583) based on Gaia DR3 Data. This sampl…

2024 Astronomy and Computing
Gaia 3
A Suite of Classical Cepheids Tied to the Binary Cluster Berkeley 58 and NGC 7790
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ad59c6 Bibcode: 2024PASP..136f4201M

Majaess, Daniel; Turner, David G.

The classical Cepheids CE Cas A, CE Cas B, CF Cas, and CG Cas are likely members of the binary open cluster comprising NGC 7790 and Berkeley 58. The clusters are of comparable age and in close proximity, as deduced from differentially dereddened UuB P BVGR P photometry, and Cepheid period-age relations. Gaia DR3 astrometr…

2024 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Gaia 3
Prominent Mid-infrared Excess of the Dwarf Planet (136472) Makemake Discovered by JWST/MIRI Indicates Ongoing Activity
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad8dcb Bibcode: 2024ApJ...976L...9K

Pál, András; Lellouch, Emmanuel; Moór, Attila +18 more

We report on the discovery of a very prominent mid-infrared (18–25 µm) excess associated with the trans-Neptunian dwarf planet (136472) Makemake. The excess, detected by the Mid-Infrared Instrument of the James Webb Space Telescope, along with previous measurements from the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes, indicates the occurrence of t…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia Herschel JWST 3
The radius distribution of M dwarf-hosted planets and its evolution
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2207 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.534.3277G

Gaidos, Eric; Kraus, Adam L.; Rowe, Jason F. +1 more

M dwarf stars are the most promising hosts for detection and characterization of small and potentially habitable planets, and provide leverage relative to solar-type stars to test models of planet formation and evolution. Using Gaia astrometry, adaptive optics imaging, and calibrated gyrochronologic relations to estimate stellar properties and fil…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 3
Absolute Calibration. IV. Use of G-type Stars as Primary Calibrators
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad24f7 Bibcode: 2024AJ....167..213R

Rieke, G. H.; Willmer, Christopher; Proffitt, Charles R. +1 more

We demonstrate an approach to determine spectral energy distribution (SED) templates that are accurate to the 1% level from the visible through the infrared for nearby (unextincted) solar-type stars. Our approach is based only on measurements of T eff, log(g), and M/H and the use of standard theoretical SED models. The success of this a…

2024 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia eHST JWST 3
Revisiting the dynamical masses of the transiting planets in the young AU Mic system: Potential AU Mic b inflation at 20 Myr
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450047 Bibcode: 2024A&A...689A.132M

Aigrain, S.; Nagel, E.; Amado, P. J. +26 more

Context. Understanding planet formation is important in the context of the origin of planetary systems in general and of the Solar System in particular, as well as to predict the likelihood of finding Jupiter, Neptune, and Earth analogues around other stars. Aims. We aim to precisely determine the radii and dynamical masses of transiting planets o…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
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