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An isotropic full-sky sample of optically selected blazars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449163 Bibcode: 2024A&A...686A.178K

Kudenko, Maria; Troitsky, Sergey

Context. Various high-energy phenomena in the Universe are associated with blazars, which are powerful active galaxies with jets pointing at the observer. Novel results relating blazars to high-energy neutrinos, cosmic rays, and even possible manifestations of new particle physics, often emerge from statistical analyses of blazar samples, and unif…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia XMM-Newton 1
Photometric study of the overcontact binary NSVS2910034
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2024.102210 Bibcode: 2024NewA..10902210T

Tobin, R. Wes; Berrington, Robert C.

We present BVRC+TESS differential photometry of an eclipsing binary system NSVS 2910034. A period analysis reveals unusual variations that are inconsistent with systemic orbital period changes and may be due to surface activity. The best fit models are consistent with a W-type W UMa overcontact binary, consisting of a less massive G7 spectral type…

2024 New Astronomy
Gaia 1
OGLE-BLAP-001 and ZGP-BLAP-08: Two possible magnetic blue large-amplitude pulsators
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451631 Bibcode: 2024A&A...691A.343P

Pigulski, Andrzej; Kołaczek-Szymański, Piotr A.; Święch, Marta +2 more

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are a newly discovered group of compact pulsating stars whose origins are yet to be explained. Of the existing evolutionary scenarios that could lead to the formation of BLAPs, there are two positing that BLAPs are the products of the merger of two stars: either a main-sequence star and a helium white dwarf o…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 1
Exploring faint white dwarfs and the luminosity function with Subaru HSC and SDSS in Stripe 82
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2355 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.535.3611Q

Takada, Masahiro; Kashiyama, Kazumi; Yasuda, Naoki +4 more

We present 5080 white dwarf (WD) candidates selected from stars matching between the multiband imaging data sets of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the Stripe82 region covering about 165 deg$^2$. We select WD candidates …

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 1
TOI-3568 b: A super-Neptune in the sub-Jovian desert
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450334 Bibcode: 2024A&A...690A.312M

Moutou, C.; Carmona, A.; Donati, J. -F. +42 more

The sub-Jovian desert is a region in the mass-period and radius-period parameter space that typically encompasses short-period ranges between super-Earths and hot Jupiters, and exhibits an intrinsic dearth of planets. This scarcity is likely shaped by photoevaporation caused by the stellar irradiation received by giant planets that have migrated i…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 1
Do All the Quasars and High-excitation Radio Galaxies (HERGs) in the 3CRR Catalog Contain a Magnetically Arrested Disk (MAD)?
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad6a5b Bibcode: 2024ApJ...972...34L

Li, Shuang-Liang; Cao, Xinwu; Zuo, Wenwen

Based on the magnetization, an accretion disk with a large-scale magnetic field can be separated into either standard and normal evolution or magnetically arrested disk (MAD), which are difficult to identify from observations. It is still unclear whether all the radio-loud active galactic nuclei (RLAGNs) with a thin disk and strong radio emissions…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 1
Spectroscopic evidence of a possible young stellar cluster at the Galactic Center
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449877 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685L...7M

Najarro, F.; Nogueras-Lara, F.; Schödel, R. +3 more

Context. The nuclear stellar disk has been the most prolific star-forming region in the Milky Way over the past ∼30 million years. Notably, the cumulative mass of the three clusters currently found in the nuclear stellar disk, the Quintuplet, the Arches, and the Nuclear clusters, amounts to just 10% of the total anticipated mass of young stars tha…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST 1
A Massive White Dwarf or Low-mass Neutron Star Discovered by LAMOST
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9273 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...977..245Z

Liu, Jifeng; Wang, Song; Zhao, Xinlin +3 more

We report the discovery of a close binary J0606+2132 (Gaia DR3 3423365496448406272) with P obs = 2.77 days containing a possible massive white dwarf (WD) or a neutron star (NS) using LAMOST spectroscopic data. By a joint fitting of the radial velocity from LAMOST and the light curve from TESS, we derived a circular Keplerian orbit with …

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 1
A Search for Collisions and Planet–Disk Interactions in the Beta Pictoris Disk with 26 Years of High-precision HST/STIS Imaging
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad7369 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...975...40A

Stark, Christopher C.; Wagner, Kevin; Apai, Dániel +2 more

β Pictoris's well-studied debris disk and two known giant planets, in combination with the stability of the Hubble Space Telescope's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (HST/STIS) (and now also JWST), offers a unique opportunity to test planet–disk interaction models and to observe recent planetesimal collisions. We present HST/STIS coronagraphic…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 1
Finite Element Analysis of Electrostatic Coupling in LISA Pathfinder Inertial Sensors
DOI: 10.3390/s24196189 Bibcode: 2024Senso..24.6189Z

Zhang, Wenyan; Lei, Jungang; Wang, Zuolei +4 more

In the LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission, electrostatic noise can reach the femto-Newtonian level despite the fact that the LPF's sensors are equipped with potential shielding. Most of the existing simulation studies focus on the electrostatic edge effect and related fields, while the simulation study of the patch effect is neglected. For that reason,…

2024 Sensors
LISAPathfinder 1