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Heavy element abundances in galactic globular clusters
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348805 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A..10S

Cescutti, G.; Carretta, E.; Lucatello, S. +1 more

Context. Globular clusters are considered key objects for understanding the formation and evolution of the Milky Way. In this sense, the characterisation of their chemical and orbital parameters can provide constraints on chemical evolution models of the Galaxy.
Aims: We use the heavy element abundances of globular clusters to trace their ove…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 1
Long-term Doppler imaging of the star XX Trianguli indicates chaotic non-periodic dynamo
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54329-4 Bibcode: 2024NatCo..15.9986S

Strassmeier, K. G.; Weber, M.; Granzer, T. +1 more

Sunspots are the most well-known manifestations of solar magnetic fields and exhibit a range of phenomena related to the interior dynamo. Starspots are the direct analogs of sunspots on other stars but with the big observational restriction that we usually cannot resolve other star's surfaces. In this paper we employ an indirect surface imaging te…

2024 Nature Communications
Gaia 1
The Dynamics of CO2-Driven Granular Flows in Gullies on Mars
DOI: 10.1029/2024JE008319 Bibcode: 2024JGRE..12908319R

Iversen, Jens Jacob; Conway, Susan J.; Kleinhans, Maarten G. +10 more

Martian gullies are landforms consisting of an erosional alcove, a channel, and a depositional apron. A significant proportion of Martian gullies at the mid-latitudes is active today. The seasonal sublimation of CO2 ice has been suggested as a driver behind present-day gully activity. However, due to a lack of in situ observations, the …

2024 Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets)
ExoMars-16 1
Absolute dimensions of solar-type eclipsing binaries. NY Hya: A test for magnetic stellar evolution models
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244066 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A.116H

Stahl, O.; Morales, J. C.; Yılmaz, M. +29 more

Context. The binary star NY Hya is a bright, detached, double-lined eclipsing system with an orbital period of just under five days with two components each nearly identical to the Sun and located in the solar neighbourhood.
Aims: The objective of this study is to test and confront various stellar evolution models for solar-type stars based o…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 1
Kinematical and ellipsoidal properties of the inner-halo hot subdwarfs observed in Gaia DR3 and LAMOST DR7
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2024.102258 Bibcode: 2024NewA..11202258E

Elsanhoury, W. H.

Studying the kinematics of inner-halo hot subdwarfs with Gaia DR3 and LAMOST DR7. Three sets of program stars were considered including subsections namely sdB and sdO. Estimating their inner kinematics and velocity ellipsoid parameters. Determine the average local Galactic rotational constants (i.e., Oort's constants).

2024 New Astronomy
Gaia 1
A New Cosmic-Ray Rejection Routine for HST WFC3/UVIS via Label-free Training of deepCR
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1602 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...962....7C

Williams, Benjamin F.; Zhang, Keming; Durbin, Meredith +1 more

deepCR is a deep-learning-based cosmic-ray (CR) rejection framework originally presented by Zhang & Bloom. The original approach requires a dedicated training set that consists of multiple frames of the same fields, enabling automatic CR labeling through comparison with their median coadds. Here, we present a novel training approach that circu…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 1
Hemispheric analysis of the magnetic flux in regular and irregular solar active regions
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1604 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.532.2032Z

Zhukova, A.

Studying the hemispheric distribution of active regions (ARs) with different magnetic morphologies may clarify the features of the dynamo process that is hidden under the photospheric level. The magnetic flux data for 3047 ARs from the CrAO catalogue (https://sun.crao.ru/databases/catalog-mmc-ars), between May 1996 and December 2021 (cycles 23 and…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
SOHO 1
Following the tidal trail: a history of modeling the Magellanic Stream
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-024-04377-5 Bibcode: 2024Ap&SS.369..114L

Lucchini, Scott

The formation of the Magellanic Stream has puzzled astronomers for decades. In this review, we outline the history of our understanding of the Magellanic System highlighting key observations that have revolutionized thinking of its evolution. We also walk through the major models and theoretical advances that have led to our current paradigm ‑ (1)…

2024 Astrophysics and Space Science
Gaia 1
Unveiling the complex circumgalactic medium: a comparative study of merging and non-interacting galaxy groups
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1332 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.531.3658F

Kacprzak, Glenn G.; Barone, Tania M.; Fisher, Deanne B. +5 more

While most galaxies live in group environments where they undergo an accelerated evolution, the characteristics of their circumgalactic medium (CGM) remain uncertain. We present an analysis of the CGM of two galaxy groups in different stages of interaction: (G1) a close pair of galaxies (z = 0.043) separated by 87 kpc that do not show signs of int…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 1
Automatic crater shape retrieval using unsupervised and semi-supervised systems
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115761 Bibcode: 2024Icar..40815761T

Tewari, Atal; Jain, Vikrant; Khanna, Nitin

Impact craters are depressions formed due to impacts on the surface of planetary bodies. Recent deep learning-based crater detection methods assume craters as circular-shaped without much attention to extracting craters' shape and morphology. Craters' shape information (i.e., instance segmentation map for craters) can be helpful for many advanced …

2024 Icarus
MEx 1