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Modeling Circumstellar Gas Emission around a White Dwarf Using CLOUDY
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad3737 Bibcode: 2024AJ....167..248X

Weinberger, Alycia J.; Steele, Amy; Xu, Siyi +9 more

The chemical composition of an extrasolar planet is fundamental to its formation, evolution, and habitability. In this study, we explore a new way to measure the chemical composition of the building blocks of extrasolar planets by measuring the gas composition of the disrupted planetesimals around white dwarf stars. As a first attempt, we used the…

2024 The Astronomical Journal
eHST 2
Direct Observational Evidence of Multi-epoch Massive Star Formation in G24.47+0.49
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad6144 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...970L..40S

Sanhueza, Patricio; Tej, Anandmayee; Hwang, Jihye +19 more

Using new continuum and molecular line data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming Regions (ATOMS) survey and archival Very Large Array, 4.86 GHz data, we present direct observational evidence of hierarchical triggering relating three epochs of massive star formation in a ringlik…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 2
The Epoch of Giant Planet Migration Planet Search Program. II. A Young Hot Jupiter Candidate around the AB Dor Member HS Psc
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad2eaf Bibcode: 2024AJ....167..193T

Cochran, William D.; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Tran, Quang H. +6 more

We report the discovery of a hot Jupiter candidate orbiting HS Psc, a K7 (≈0.7 M ) member of the ≈130 Myr AB Doradus moving group. Using radial velocities over 4 yr from the Habitable-zone Planet Finder spectrograph at the Hobby–Eberly Telescope, we find a periodic signal of ${P}_{b}={3.986}_{-0.003}^{+0.044}$ days. A joint Keplerian a…

2024 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 2
Periodicity from X-ray sources within the inner Galactic disk
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449527 Bibcode: 2024A&A...686A.125M

Hailey, Charles J.; Mori, Kaya; Morris, Mark R. +9 more


Aims: For many years it had been claimed that the Galactic ridge X-ray emission at the Galactic Center (GC) is truly diffuse in nature. However, with the advancement of modern X-ray satellites, it has been found that most of the diffuse emission actually comprises thousands of previously unresolved X-ray point sources. Furthermore, many studi…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia XMM-Newton 2
Straight outta photosphere: Open solar flux without coronal modeling
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451267 Bibcode: 2024A&A...688L..32T

Tähtinen, Ismo; Asikainen, Timo; Mursula, Kalevi

Context. The open solar flux, that is, the total magnetic flux escaping the Sun, is one of the most important parameters connecting solar activity to the Earth. The open solar flux is commonly estimated from photospheric magnetic field measurements by making model assumptions about the solar corona. However, the question in which way the open sola…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 2
A comprehensive analysis towards the Fermi-LAT source 4FGL J1846.9-0227: jets of a protoplanetary nebula producing γ-rays?
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1697 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.532.4446O

Ortega, M. E.; Paron, S.; Petriella, A.

Most of the $\gamma$-ray sources in the Fermi-LAT 14-yr source catalogue are associated with pulsars and blazars. However, unveiling the nature of the still unassociated $\gamma$-ray sources is important for the understanding of high energy emission mechanisms in astrophysical objects. This work presents a comprehensive study towards the region co…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 2
Relative Occurrence Rate between Hot and Cold Jupiters as an Indicator to Probe Planet Migration
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3deb Bibcode: 2024ApJ...967...74G

Fulton, Benjamin J.; Gan, Tianjun; Mao, Shude +4 more

We propose a second-order statistic parameter ɛ, the relative occurrence rate between hot Jupiters (HJs) and cold Jupiters (CJs) (ɛ = η HJCJ), to probe the migration of gas giants. Since the planet occurrence rate is the combined outcome of the formation and migration processes, a joint analysis of HJ and CJ frequency may …

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 2
Quasiperiodic Oscillations of Flare Loops and Slipping Motion of Ribbon Substructures during a C-class Flare
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad5e69 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...972..122Z

Li, Ting; Ye, Jing; Zhang, Yining

Quasiperiodic oscillations in solar-flaring emission have been observed over the past few decades. To date, the underpinning processes resulting in the quasiperiodic oscillations remain unknown. In this paper, we report a unique event that exhibits both the long-duration quasiperiodic intensity oscillations of flare loops and the quasiperiodic sli…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
IRIS 2
Deep Search for a Scattered Light Dust Halo Around Vega with the Hubble Space Telescope
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad67cb Bibcode: 2024AJ....168..236W

Wolff, Schuyler G.; Wilner, David J.; Rieke, George H. +6 more

We present a provisory scattered-light detection of the Vega debris disk using deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) coronagraphy (PID 16666). At only 7.7 pc, Vega is immensely important in debris disk studies both for its prominence and also because it allows the highest physical resolution among all debris systems relative to temperature zones aroun…

2024 The Astronomical Journal
eHST JWST 2
Magnetic Field Alignment Relative to Multiple Tracers in the High-mass Star-forming Region RCW 36
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad77c7 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...975..267B

Fissel, Laura M.; Cunningham, Maria; Jones, Paul +9 more

We use polarization data from SOFIA HAWC+ to investigate the interplay between magnetic fields and stellar feedback in altering gas dynamics within the high-mass star-forming region RCW 36, located in Vela C. This region is of particular interest as it has a bipolar H II region powered by a massive star cluster, which may be impacting the surround…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 2