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Anisotropy of Solar Wind Turbulence in the Inner Heliosphere at Kinetic Scales: PSP Observations
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac07ac Bibcode: 2021ApJ...915L...8D

Chen, Christopher H. K.; He, Jiansen; Bale, Stuart D. +5 more

The anisotropy of solar wind turbulence is a critical issue in understanding the physics of energy transfer between scales and energy conversion between fields and particles in the heliosphere. Using the measurement of Parker Solar Probe (PSP), we present an observation of the anisotropy at kinetic scales in the slow, Alfvénic, solar wind in the i…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Cluster 46
PHANGS-HST: star cluster spectral energy distribution fitting with CIGALE
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab055 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.502.1366T

Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik; Leroy, Adam K. +24 more

The sensitivity and angular resolution of photometric surveys executed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) enable studies of individual star clusters in galaxies out to a few tens of megaparsecs. The fitting of spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of star clusters is essential for measuring their physical properties and studying their evolution. W…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 45
A planetary system with two transiting mini-Neptunes near the radius valley transition around the bright M dwarf TOI-776
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039455 Bibcode: 2021A&A...645A..41L

Fridlund, M.; Pallé, E.; Guenther, E. W. +63 more

We report the discovery and characterization of two transiting planets around the bright M1 V star LP 961-53 (TOI-776, J = 8.5 mag, M = 0.54 ± 0.03 M ) detected during Sector 10 observations of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Combining the TESS photometry with HARPS radial velocities, as well as ground-based follow-up…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 45
The non-linear infrared-radio correlation of low-z galaxies: implications for redshift evolution, a new radio SFR recipe, and how to minimize selection bias
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab746 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.504..118M

Zamorani, Giovanni; Schinnerer, Eva; Vardoulaki, Eleni +7 more

The infrared-radio correlation (IRRC) underpins many commonly used radio luminosity-star formation rate (SFR) calibrations. In preparation for the new generation of radio surveys, we revisit the IRRC of low-z galaxies by (a) drawing on the best currently available infrared (IR) and 1.4 GHz radio photometry, plus ancillary data over the widest poss…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 45
The Gaia-ESO survey: Mixing processes in low-mass stars traced by lithium abundance in cluster and field stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140935 Bibcode: 2021A&A...651A..84M

Baratella, M.; Gilmore, G.; Bayo, A. +42 more


Aims: We aim to constrain the mixing processes in low-mass stars by investigating the behaviour of the Li surface abundance after the main sequence. We take advantage of the data from the sixth internal data release of Gaia-ESO, IDR6, and from the Gaia Early Data Release 3, EDR3s.
Methods: We selected a sample of main-sequence, sub-giant…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 45
Long-term X-ray spectral evolution of ultraluminous X-ray sources: implications on the accretion flow geometry and the nature of the accretor
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039572 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A.104G

Godet, O.; Webb, N.; Olive, J. -F. +2 more

Context. The discovery of pulsations in several ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) has demonstrated that a fraction of them are powered by super-Eddington accretion onto neutron stars (NSs). This has raised questions regarding the NS to black hole (BH) ratio within the ULX population and the physical mechanism that allows ULXs to reach luminositie…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 45
Lyman-alpha spectroscopy of extreme [O III] emitting galaxies at z ≃ 2-3: implications for Lyα visibility and LyC leakage at z > 6
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab705 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.503.4105T

Charlot, Stéphane; Chevallard, Jacopo; Tang, Mengtao +3 more

Spectroscopic observations of massive z > 7 galaxies selected to have extremely large [O III] + H β equivalent width (EW ~1500 Å) have recently revealed large Ly α detection rates, in contrast to the weak emission seen in the general population. Why these systems are uniquely visible in Ly α at redshifts where the intergalactic medium (IGM) is …

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 45
Anomaly detection in the Zwicky Transient Facility DR3
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab316 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.502.5147M

Pruzhinskaya, M. V.; Malanchev, K. L.; Ishida, E. E. O. +12 more

We present results from applying the SNAD anomaly detection pipeline to the third public data release of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF DR3). The pipeline is composed of three stages: feature extraction, search of outliers with machine learning algorithms, and anomaly identification with followup by human experts. Our analysis concentrates in …

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 45
Primordial black holes and secondary gravitational waves from the Higgs field
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.063535 Bibcode: 2021PhRvD.103f3535Y

Gong, Yungui; Wang, Bin; Yi, Zhu +1 more

We devise a novel mechanism and for the first time demonstrate that the Higgs model in particle physics can drive the inflation to satisfy the cosmic microwave background observations and simultaneously enhance the curvature perturbations at small scales to explain the abundance of dark matter in our universe in the form of primordial black holes.…

2021 Physical Review D
INTEGRAL 45
Deep generative models for galaxy image simulations
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1214 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.504.5543L

Mandelbaum, Rachel; Lanusse, François; Freeman, Peter +3 more

Image simulations are essential tools for preparing and validating the analysis of current and future wide-field optical surveys. However, the galaxy models used as the basis for these simulations are typically limited to simple parametric light profiles, or use a fairly limited amount of available space-based data. In this work, we propose a meth…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 45