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Forbidden hugs in pandemic times. IV. Panchromatic evolution of three luminous red novae
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244684 Bibcode: 2023A&A...671A.158P

Fugazza, D.; Lundqvist, P.; Reichart, D. E. +77 more

We present photometric and spectroscopic data on three extragalactic luminous red novae (LRNe): AT 2018bwo, AT 2021afy, and AT 2021blu. AT 2018bwo was discovered in NGC 45 (at about 6.8 Mpc) a few weeks after the outburst onset. During the monitoring per…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 12
The high-albedo, low polarization disk around HD 114082 that harbors a Jupiter-sized transiting planet. Constraints from VLT/SPHERE completed with TESS, Gaia, and radial velocities
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244380 Bibcode: 2023A&A...672A...1E

Ménard, F.; Marshall, J. P.; del Burgo, C. +36 more


Aims: We present new optical and near-infrared images of the debris disk around the F-type star HD 114082 in the Scorpius-Centaurus OB association. We obtained direct imaging observations and analyzed the TESS photometric time series data of this target with the goal of searching for planetary companions to HD 114082 and characterizing the mo…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 12
AGN STORM 2. II. Ultraviolet Observations of Mrk 817 with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acc45a Bibcode: 2023ApJ...948...85H

Gorjian, Varoujan; Treu, Tommaso; Kaspi, Shai +62 more

We present reverberation mapping measurements for the prominent ultraviolet broad emission lines of the active galactic nucleus Mrk 817 using 165 spectra obtained with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. Our ultraviolet observations are accompanied by X-ray, optical, and near-infrared observations as part of the AGN Spac…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 12
Detection of open cluster rotation fields from Gaia EDR3 proper motions
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142826 Bibcode: 2023A&A...673A.128G

Krone-Martins, A.; Moitinho, A.; Guilherme-Garcia, P.

Context. Most stars from in groups which with time disperse, building the field population of their host galaxy. In the Milky Way, open clusters have been continuously forming in the disk up to the present time, providing it with stars spanning a broad range of ages and masses. Observations of the details of cluster dissolution are, however, scarc…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 12
The ages and metallicities of the globular clusters in the Sparkler
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slad084 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.525L...6A

Adamo, Angela; Claeyssens, Adélaïde; Usher, Christopher +1 more

JWST observations of the strongly lensed galaxy the Sparkler have revealed a population of gravitationally bound globular cluster (GC) candidates. Different analyses have resulted in broadly similar ages but significantly different metallicities, questioning the assembly history that has led to the formation of such a population. In this letter, w…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JWST 12
Identifying the energy release site in a solar microflare with a jet
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244996 Bibcode: 2023A&A...670A..56B

Monstein, Christian; Krucker, Säm; Veronig, Astrid M. +10 more

Context. One of the main science questions of the Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe missions deals with understanding how electrons in the lower solar corona are accelerated and how they subsequently access interplanetary space.
Aims: We aim to investigate the electron acceleration and energy release sites as well as the manner in which ac…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SolarOrbiter 12
Catalog of Magnetic White Dwarfs with Hydrogen Dominated Atmospheres
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acaf6e Bibcode: 2023ApJ...944...56A

Kepler, S. O.; Jordan, S.; Romero, A. D. +2 more

White dwarfs are excellent research laboratories as they reach temperatures, pressures, and magnetic fields that are unattainable on Earth. To better understand how these three physical parameters interact with each other and with other stellar features, we determined the magnetic field strength for a total of 804 hydrogen-rich white dwarfs (WDs) …

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 12
Solar cycle variation of ion escape from Mars
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114610 Bibcode: 2023Icar..39314610N

Barabash, Stas; Nilsson, Hans; Zhang, Qi +6 more

Using Mars Express data from 2007 until 2020 we show how ion outflow from Mars varied over more than a solar cycle, from one solar minimum to another. The data was divided into intervals with a length of one Martian year, starting from 30 April 2007 and ending 13 July 2020. The net escape rate was about 5 × 1024s-1 in the fir…

2023 Icarus
MEx 12
Compton-thick AGN in the NuSTAR Era X: Analysing seven local CT-AGN candidates
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245646 Bibcode: 2023A&A...676A.103S

Pozzi, F.; Vignali, C.; Gilli, R. +14 more

Context. We present the broad-band X-ray spectral analysis (0.6-50 keV) of seven Compton-thick active galactic nuclei (CT-AGN; line-of-sight (LOS) column density > 1024 cm−2) candidates selected from the Swift-BAT 100 month catalogue using archival NuSTAR data.
Aims: We aim to obtain a complete census of the heavily o…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 12
The TESS-Keck Survey. XVI. Mass Measurements for 12 Planets in Eight Systems
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ace2ca Bibcode: 2023AJ....166..153A

Anderson, Jay; Dattilo, Anne; Batalha, Natalie M. +45 more

With JWST's successful deployment and unexpectedly high fuel reserves, measuring the masses of sub-Neptunes transiting bright, nearby stars will soon become the bottleneck for characterizing the atmospheres of small exoplanets via transmission spectroscopy. Using a carefully curated target list and observations from more than 2 yr of APF-Levy and …

2023 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 12