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A Gamma-Ray Flare from TXS 1508+572: Characterizing the Jet of a z = 4.31 Blazar in the Early Universe
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad6a4e Bibcode: 2024ApJ...974...38G

Wilms, Jörn; Kadler, Matthias; Smith, Paul S. +13 more

Blazars can be detected from very large distances due to their high luminosity. However, the detection of γ-ray emission of blazars beyond z = 3 has only been confirmed for a small number of sources. Such observations probe the growth of supermassive black holes close to the peak of star formation in the history of galaxy evolution. As a result fr…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 2
Advancing Precision Particle Background Estimation for Future X-Ray Missions: Correlated Variability between the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Chandra/XMM-Newton
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad47c6 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...970...22S

Miller, Eric D.; Kraft, Ralph P.; Wilkins, Dan +9 more

Galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) particles have a significant impact on the particle-induced background of X-ray observatories, and their flux exhibits substantial temporal variability, potentially influencing background levels. In this study, we present 1 day binned high-energy reject rates derived from the Chandra-ACIS and XMM-Newton EPIC-pn instrument…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 2
The R-Process Alliance: Analysis of limited-r stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449376 Bibcode: 2024A&A...688A.123X

Sneden, C.; Hansen, T. T.; Beers, T. C. +8 more

Context. In recent years, the R-Process Alliance (RPA) has conducted a successful search for stars that are enhanced in elements produced by the rapid neutron-capture (r-)process. In particular, the RPA has uncovered a number of stars that are strongly enriched in light r-process elements, such as Sr, Y, and Zr. These so-called limited-r stars wer…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 2
Weak Lensing Analysis of A2390 Using Short Exposures
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad7c4f Bibcode: 2024ApJ...977...87D

Li, G.; Bonafede, A.; Peterson, J. R. +4 more

We present a weak lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster A2390 at z = 0.23 using second moment shape measurements made in 411 short 60 s exposures. The exposures are obtained in three broadband photometric filters (g, r, and i) using WIYN-ODI. Shape measurement in individual exposures is done using a moment-matching algorithm. Forced measurement i…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 2
A reanalysis of the LHS 1140 b atmosphere observed with the Hubble Space Telescope
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae823 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.530.1054B

Petralia, Antonino; Micela, Giuseppina; Maldonado, Jesús +3 more

The super-Earth LHS 1140 b is an interesting target for atmospheric observations since it is close to the habitable zone of its star and falls in the gap of the radius distribution of small exoplanets, in the region thought to correspond to the transition between planets with and without atmospheres. Observations of the primary transit with WFC3 o…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia eHST 2
Investigating the Star-forming Sites in the Outer Galactic Arm
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad5a8b Bibcode: 2024AJ....168...98V

Sharma, Saurabh; Verma, Aayushi; Kaur, Harmeen +7 more

We aim to investigate the global star formation scenario in star-forming sites AFGL 5157, [FSR2007] 0807 (hereafter FSR0807), [HKS2019] E70 (hereafter E70), [KPS2012] MWSC 0620 (hereafter KPS0620), and IRAS 05331+3115 in the outer Galactic arm. The distribution of young stellar objects in these sites coincides with a higher extinction and H2<…

2024 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia Herschel 2
Counting the Unseen. I. Nuclear Density Scaling Relations for Nucleated Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad630a Bibcode: 2024AJ....168..137H

Stone, Nicholas C.; Seth, Anil C.; van Velzen, Sjoert +1 more

The volumetric rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs) encodes information on the still-unknown demographics of central massive black holes (MBHs) in low-mass galaxies (≲109 M ). Theoretical TDE rates from model galaxy samples can extract this information, but this requires accurately defining the nuclear stellar density stru…

2024 The Astronomical Journal
eHST 2
EUHFORIA modelling of the Sun-Earth chain of the magnetic cloud of 28 June 2013
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346906 Bibcode: 2024A&A...683A..28P

Schmieder, B.; Poedts, S.; Carbone, V. +5 more

Context. Predicting geomagnetic events starts with an understanding of the Sun-Earth chain phenomena in which (interplanetary) coronal mass ejections (CMEs) play an important role in bringing about intense geomagnetic storms. It is not always straightforward to determine the solar source of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) detected a…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 2
The VISCACHA survey - IX. The SMC Southern Bridge in 8D
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3871 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.52710632P

Minniti, D.; Bica, E.; Fernández-Trincado, J. G. +16 more

The structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) outside of its main body is characterized by tidal branches resulting from its interactions mainly with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Characterizing the stellar populations in these tidal components helps to understand the dynamical history of this galaxy and of the Magellanic system in general…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 2
Upper limits of 44Ti decay emission in four nearby thermonuclear supernova remnants
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae584 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.529..999W

Zhou, Ping; Wik, Daniel R.; Chen, Yang +2 more

To identify progenitors and investigate evidence of He burning, we searched for decay radiation of freshly synthesized 44Ti in four young nearby thermonuclear supernova remnants: Kepler, SN 1885, G1.9+0.3, and SN 1006, by analysing the up-to-date NuSTAR archival data. No apparent flux excess from the 68 and 78 keV line emissions accompa…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
INTEGRAL 2