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Exoplanets across galactic stellar populations with PLATO: Estimating exoplanet yields around FGK stars for the thin disk, thick disk, and stellar halo
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451537 Bibcode: 2024A&A...692A.150B

Dayal, P.; Boettner, C.; Viswanathan, A.

Context. The vast majority of exoplanet discoveries to date have occurred around stars in the solar neighbourhood, with chemical compositions comparable to that of the Sun. However, models suggest that planetary systems in different Galactic environments, with varying dynamical histories and chemical abundances, may exhibit distinct characteristic…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 2
An investigation into Venusian atmospheric chemistry based on an open-access photochemistry-transport model at 0–112 km
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450552 Bibcode: 2024A&A...689A..55D

Sheng, Zheng; Dai, Longkang; Shao, Wencheng

Atmospheric chemistry plays a crucial role in the evolution of climate habitability on Venus. It has been widely explored by chemistry-transport models, but some characteristics are still poorly interpreted. This study is devoted to developing an open-access chemistry-transport model spanning both the middle and lower atmospheres of Venus. It prov…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
VenusExpress 2
CLASSY. XI. Tracing Neutral Gas Properties Using UV Absorption Lines and 21 cm Observations
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad87cd Bibcode: 2024ApJ...977..104P

Martin, Crystal L.; McQuinn, Kristen B. W.; Skillman, Evan D. +15 more

Rest-frame far-ultraviolet (FUV) observations from JWST are revolutionizing our understanding of the high-z galaxies that drove reionization and the mechanisms by which they accomplished it. To fully interpret these observations, we must be able to diagnose how properties of the interstellar medium (ISM; e.g., column density, covering fraction, an…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 2
Laboratory and Computational Studies of Interstellar Ices
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-astro-071221-052732 Bibcode: 2024ARA&A..62..243C

Ioppolo, S.; Linnartz, H.; Cuppen, Herma M.

Ice mantles play a crucial role in shaping the astrochemical inventory of molecules during star and planet formation. Small-scale molecular processes have a profound impact on large-scale astronomical evolution. The areas of solid-state laboratory astrophysics and computational chemistry involve the study of these processes. We review laboratory e…

2024 Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 2
Velocity Dispersion of the Open Cluster NGC 2571 by Radial Velocities and Proper Motions
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad32cc Bibcode: 2024AJ....167..212K

Carraro, Giovanni; Seleznev, Anton F.; Kulesh, Maxim V. +3 more

We use a kernel density estimator method to evaluate the stellar velocity dispersion in the open cluster NGC 2571. We derive the 3D velocity dispersion using both proper motions as extracted from Gaia Data Release 3 and single-epoch radial velocities as obtained with the instrument FLAMES at ESO's Very Large Telescope. The mean-square velocity alo…

2024 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 2
Correction to: TOI-2447 b / NGTS-29 b: a 69-day Saturn around a Solar analogue
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1804 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.533..109G

Trifonov, Trifon; Henning, Thomas; Ramsay, Gavin +63 more

Discovering transiting exoplanets with relatively long orbital periods ($>$10 days) is crucial to facilitate the study of cool exoplanet atmospheres ($T_{\rm eq} < 700 K$) and to understand exoplanet formation and inward migration further out than typical transiting exoplanets. In order to discover these longer period transiting exoplanets, …

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 2
What causes the ultraviolet extinction bump at the cosmic dawn?
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slae095 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.535L..58L

Li, Aigen; Yang, X. J.; Li, Qi

The enigmatic ultraviolet (UV) extinction bump at 2175 $\, {\rm \mathring{\rm A}}$, the strongest spectroscopic absorption feature superimposed on the interstellar extinction curve, has recently been detected at the cosmic dawn by the JWST in JADES-GS-z6-0, a distan…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JWST 2
The GAPS Programme at TNG: LXI. Atmospheric parameters and elemental abundances of TESS young exoplanet host stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450611 Bibcode: 2024A&A...690A.370F

Baratella, M.; Scandariato, G.; Sozzetti, A. +26 more

Context. The study of exoplanets at different evolutionary stages can shed light on their formation, migration, and evolution. The determination of exoplanet properties depends on the properties of their host stars. It is therefore important to characterise the host stars for accurate knowledge on their planets. Aims. Our final goal is to derive, …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 2
Molecular cloud matching in CO and dust in M33: I. High-resolution hydrogen column density maps from Herschel
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202349027 Bibcode: 2024A&A...688A.171K

Bigiel, Frank; Ossenkopf-Okada, Volker; Riechers, Dominik +7 more

This study is aimed to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the molecular hydrogen distribution in the galaxy M33 by introducing novel methods for generating high angular resolution (18.2″, equivalent to 75 pc for a distance of 847 kpc) column density maps of molecular hydrogen (NH2). M33 is a local group galax…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 2
Stacking and Analyzing MOSDEF Galaxies by Spectral Types: Implications for Dust Geometry and Galaxy Evolution
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad7de8 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...975..187L

Siana, Brian; Shapley, Alice E.; Reddy, Naveen A. +12 more

We examine star formation and dust properties for a sample of 660 galaxies at 1.37 ≤ z ≤ 2.61 in the MOSDEF survey by dividing them into groups with similarly shaped spectral energy distributions (SEDs). For each group, we combine the galaxy photometry into a finely sampled composite SED, and stack their spectra. This method enables the study of m…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 2