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NGTS discovery of a highly inflated Saturn-mass planet and a highly irradiated hot Jupiter. NGTS-26 b and NGTS-27 b
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347162 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A.201B

Bouchy, F.; Erikson, A.; Alves, D. R. +31 more

We report the discovery of two new transiting giant exoplanets NGTS-26 b and NGTS-27 b by the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). NGTS-26 b orbits around a G6-type main sequence star every 4.52 days. It has a mass of 0.29-0.06+0.07 MJup and a radius of 1.33-0.05+0.06 RJup making …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 1
A Temperature or Far-ultraviolet Tracer? The HNC/HCN Ratio in M83 on the Scale of Giant Molecular Clouds
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad4639 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...969...82H

Saito, Toshiki; Watanabe, Yoshimasa; Nishimura, Yuri +2 more

The HNC/HCN ratio is observationally known as a thermometer in Galactic interstellar molecular clouds. A recent study has alternatively suggested that the HNC/HCN ratio is affected by the ultraviolet (UV) field, not by the temperature. We aim to study this ratio on the scale of giant molecular clouds in the barred spiral galaxy M83 towards the sou…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 1
Search for interacting galaxy clusters from SDSS DR-17 employing optimized friends-of-friends algorithm and multimessenger tracers
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae200 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.528.5924O

Paul, Surajit; Oak, Tejas

In the theoretical framework of hierarchical structure formation, galaxy clusters evolve through continuous accretion and mergers of substructures. Cosmological simulations have revealed the best picture of the universe as a 3D filamentary network of dark-matter distribution called the cosmic web. Galaxy clusters are found to form at the nodes of …

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 1
Confirmation and Characterization of the Eccentric, Warm Jupiter TIC 393818343 b with a Network of Citizen Scientists
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad5096 Bibcode: 2024AJ....168...26S

Gagliano, Robert; Kristiansen, Martti H.; LaCourse, Daryll M. +21 more

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has identified over 7000 candidate exoplanets via the transit method, with gas giants among the most readily detected due to their large radii. Even so, long intervals between TESS observations for much of the sky lead to candidates for which only a single transit is detected in one TESS sector, …

2024 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 1
Cluster: List of plasma jets in the subsolar magnetosheath
DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2024.1388307 Bibcode: 2024FrASS..1188307P

Temmer, Manuela; Plaschke, Ferdinand; Simon Wedlund, Cyril +6 more

2024 Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Cluster 1
Star Image Centering with Deep Learning. II. HST/WFPC2 Full Field of View
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ad430c Bibcode: 2024PASP..136e4501C

Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I.; Girard, Terrence M.; Baena-Gallé, Roberto +2 more

We present an expanded and improved deep-learning (DL) methodology for determining centers of star images on Hubble Space Telescope/Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) exposures. Previously, we demonstrated that our DL model can eliminate the pixel-phase bias otherwise present in these undersampled images; however that analysis was limited to th…

2024 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
eHST 1
Duskward displacement of plasmoids and reconnection in the near-Earth magnetotail
DOI: 10.1186/s40623-024-02003-w Bibcode: 2024EP&S...76..159I

Miyashita, Yukinaga; Ieda, Akimasa

Magnetic reconnection in the near-Earth magnetotail is responsible for explosive release of energy during substorms and auroral breakups. This near-tail reconnection was previously assumed to occur around the midnight meridian, where earthward flows were typically observed. Based on observations of tailward-moving plasmoids, the Geotail spacecraft…

2024 Earth, Planets and Space
Cluster 1
High-resolution spectroscopy of the intermediate polar EX Hydrae. II. The inner disk radius
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244473 Bibcode: 2024A&A...686A.304B

Beuermann, K.; Reinsch, K.

EX Hya is one of the best studied, but still enigmatic intermediate polars. We present phase-resolved blue VLT/UVES high-resolution (λ/Δλ ≃ 16.000) spectra of EX Hya taken in January 2004. Our analysis involves a unique decomposition of the Balmer line profiles into the spin-modulated line wings that represent…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Exosat 1
Reconstruction of Carrington Rotation Means of Open Solar Flux over the Past 154 Years
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-024-02268-0 Bibcode: 2024SoPh..299...28L

Lockwood, Mike; Owens, Mat

We generate reconstructions of signed open solar flux (OSF) for the past 154 years using observations of geomagnetic activity. Previous reconstructions have been limited to annual resolution, but this is here increased by a factor of more than 13 by using averages over Carrington rotation (CR) intervals. We use two indices of geomagnetic activity,…

2024 Solar Physics
Ulysses 1
Unveiling a Hidden Bar-like Structure in NGC 1087: Kinematic and Photometric Evidence Using MUSE/VLT, ALMA, and JWST
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad152a Bibcode: 2024ApJ...962...65L

Lin, Lihwai; López-Cobá, Carlos; Sánchez, Sebastián F.

We report a faint nonaxisymmetric structure in NGC 1087 through the use of James Webb Space Telescope Near Infrared Camera, with an associated kinematic counterpart observed as an oval distortion in the stellar velocity map, Hα, and CO J = 2 → 1 velocity fields. This structure is not evident in the MUSE optical continuum images but only revealed i…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 1