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UV-optical Emission of AB Aur b Is Consistent with Scattered Stellar Light
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/acf9ec Bibcode: 2023AJ....166..220Z

Herczeg, Gregory J.; Zhou, Yifan; Kraus, Adam L. +12 more

The proposed protoplanet AB Aur b is a spatially concentrated emission source imaged in the millimeter-wavelength disk gap of the Herbig Ae/Be star AB Aur. Its near-infrared spectrum and absence of strong polarized light have been interpreted as evidence supporting the protoplanet interpretation. However, the complex scattered-light structures in …

2023 The Astronomical Journal
eHST 15
An 600 pc View of the Strongly Lensed, Massive Main-sequence Galaxy J0901: A Baryon-dominated, Thick Turbulent Rotating Disk with a Clumpy Cold Gas Ring at z = 2.259
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aca46b Bibcode: 2023ApJ...942...98L

Lutz, D.; Förster Schreiber, N. M.; Genzel, R. +19 more

We present a high-resolution kinematic study of the massive main-sequence star-forming galaxy (SFG) SDSS J090122.37+181432.3 (J0901) at z = 2.259, using ~0.″36 Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array CO(3-2) and ~0.″1-0.″5 SINFONI/VLT Hα observations. J0901 is a rare, strongly lensed but otherwise normal massive ( $\mathrm{log}({M}_{\star }/{…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 15
PENELLOPE. IV. A comparison between optical forbidden lines and H2 UV lines in the Orion OB1b and σ-Ori associations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346543 Bibcode: 2023A&A...675A.153G

France, K.; Kóspál, Á.; Siwak, M. +17 more

Context. Observing the spatial distribution and excitation processes of atomic and molecular gas in the inner regions (<20 au) of young (<10 Myr) protoplanetary disks helps us to understand the conditions for the formation and evolution of planetary systems.
Aims: In the framework of the PENELLOPE and ULLYSES projects, we aim to charact…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST 15
The dark side of FIRE: predicting the population of dark matter subhaloes around Milky Way-mass galaxies
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1395 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.523..428B

Sanderson, Robyn; Wetzel, Andrew; Samuel, Jenna +3 more

A variety of observational campaigns seek to test dark matter models by measuring dark matter subhaloes at low masses. Despite their predicted lack of stars, these subhaloes may be detectable through gravitational lensing or via their gravitational perturbations on stellar streams. To set measurable expectations for subhalo populations within Lamb…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 15
Chronology of the chemical enrichment of the old Galactic stellar populations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245404 Bibcode: 2023A&A...673A..18G

Smiljanic, R.; Giribaldi, R. E.

Context. Over its history, the Milky Way has accreted several smaller satellite galaxies. These mergers added stars and gas to the Galaxy and affected the properties of the pre-existing stellar populations. Stellar chemical abundances and ages are needed to establish the chronological order of events that occur before, during, and after such merge…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 15
Albatross: a scalable simulation-based inference pipeline for analysing stellar streams in the Milky Way
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2458 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.525.3662A

Weniger, Christoph; Alvey, James; Gerdes, Mathis

Stellar streams are potentially a very sensitive observational probe of galactic astrophysics, as well as the dark matter population in the Milky Way. On the other hand, performing a detailed, high-fidelity statistical analysis of these objects is challenging for a number of key reasons. First, the modelling of streams across their (potentially bi…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 15
Eruption and propagation of twisted flux ropes from the base of the solar corona to 1 au
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244483 Bibcode: 2023A&A...670A..14R

Auchère, F.; Janvier, M.; Lugaz, N. +3 more

Context. Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) originate from the eruption of complex magnetic structures occurring in our star's atmosphere. Determining the general properties of ICMEs and the physical processes at the heart of their interactions with the solar wind is a hard task, in particular using only unidimensional in situ profiles.…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SolarOrbiter 15
AutoTAB: Automatic Tracking Algorithm for Bipolar Magnetic Regions
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/acec47 Bibcode: 2023ApJS..268...58S

Banerjee, Dipankar; Sreedevi, Anu; Jha, Bibhuti Kumar +1 more

Bipolar magnetic regions (BMRs) provide crucial information about solar magnetism. They exhibit varying morphology and magnetic properties throughout their lifetime, and studying these properties can provide valuable insights into the workings of the solar dynamo. The majority of previous studies have counted every detected BMR as a new one and ha…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
SOHO 15
eRASSt J074426.3 + 291606: prompt accretion disc formation in a 'faint and slow' tidal disruption event
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad046 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.520.4209M

Salvato, M.; Liu, Z.; Buchner, J. +10 more

We report on multiwavelength observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate eRASSt J074426.3 + 291606 (J0744), located in the nucleus of a previously quiescent galaxy at z = 0.0396. J0744 was first detected as a new, ultra-soft X-ray source (photon index ~4) during the second SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey (eRASS2), where it had brightened…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 15
Constraining the X-ray reflection in low accretion-rate active galactic nuclei using XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, and Swift
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244678 Bibcode: 2023A&A...669A.114D

Malizia, A.; Arévalo, P.; Diaz, Y. +8 more

Context. An interesting feature of active galactic nuclei (AGN) accreting at low rates is the weakness of the reflection features in their X-ray spectra, which may result from the gradual disappearance of the torus with decreasing accretion rates. It has been suggested that low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN) would exhibit a different reflector configurati…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 15