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Using shell models to investigate clumping in the WN4 star HD 50896
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3160 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.518.5001F

Hillier, D. John; Dessart, Luc; Flores, Brian L.

The spectra of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars exhibit strong, broad emission lines that originate in the wind. These winds are radiatively driven and are susceptible to hydrodynamic instabilities that result in the formation of clumps. When modelling spectra of WR stars the volume-filling factor (VFF) approach is usually employed to treat clumpy winds. How…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 10
Photometric metallicity for 694 233 Galactic giant stars from Gaia DR3 synthetic Strömgren photometry. Metallicity distribution functions of halo substructures
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202345921 Bibcode: 2023A&A...674A.194B

Massari, D.; De Angeli, F.; Riello, M. +4 more

We used two previous calibrations and the standardised synthetic photometry in the v, b, and y Strömgren passbands from Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectra to obtain photometric metallicities for a selected sample of 694 233 old Galactic giant stars having |b|> 20.0° and parallax uncertainties lower than 10%. The zero point of both sets of photometric metal…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 10
Calibrating angular momentum transport in intermediate-mass stars from gravity-mode asteroseismology
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202345956 Bibcode: 2023A&A...677A..63M

Mombarg, J. S. G.

Context. The physical mechanisms driving the transport of angular momentum in stars are not fully understood, as current models cannot explain the observed stellar rotation profiles across all stages of evolution.
Aims: By making use of pulsating F-type dwarfs, we aim to (i) observationally calibrate the efficiency of angular momentum transpo…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 10
The slippery slope of dust attenuation curves. Correlation of dust attenuation laws with star-to-dust compactness up to z = 4
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245818 Bibcode: 2023A&A...674A..99H

Ciesla, L.; Buat, V.; Małek, K. +5 more


Aims: We investigate the dust attenuation of 122 heavily dust-obscured galaxies detected with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and Herschel in the COSMOS field. We search for correlations between dust attenuation recipes and the variation of physical parameters, namely, the effective radii of galaxies, their star formation rates, and…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 10
Carbon-oxygen ultra-massive white dwarfs in general relativity
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1720 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.523.4492A

Córsico, Alejandro H.; Rebassa-Mansergas, Alberto; Althaus, Leandro G. +4 more

We employ the La Plata stellar evolution code, LPCODE, to compute the first set of constant rest-mass carbon-oxygen ultra-massive white dwarf evolutionary sequences for masses higher than 1.29 M that fully take into account the effects of general relativity on their structural and evolutionary properties. In addition, we employ the LP-…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 10
Tidally induced velocity gradients in the Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellites
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3305 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.518.3083M

del Pino, Andrés; Aparicio, Antonio; Martínez-García, Alberto Manuel

We present a kinematic study of six dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSph) satellites of the Milky Way (MW), namely Carina, Draco, Fornax, Sculptor, Sextans, and Ursa Minor. We combine proper motions (PMs) from the Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) and line-of-sight velocities (vlos) from the literature to derive their 3D internal kinematics and to s…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 10
Solution to the Conflict between the Estimations of Resolved and Unresolved Galaxy Stellar Mass from the Perspective of JWST
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0365 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...958...82S

Lin, Zesen; Kong, Xu; Gu, Yizhou +2 more

By utilizing the spatially resolved photometry of galaxies at 0.2 < z < 3.0 in the CEERS field, we estimate the resolved and unresolved stellar mass via fitting of the spectral energy distribution (SED) to study the discrepancy between them. We first compare M * derived from photometry with and without the JWST wavelength coverage…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST JWST 10
Photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of YSOs in nearby star-forming regions - I. Eruptive YSOs
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad820 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.521.5669C

Herczeg, Gregory J.; Jose, Jessy; Johnstone, Doug +7 more

Mid-infrared (mid-IR) variability in young stellar objects (YSOs) is driven by several physical mechanisms, which produce a variety of amplitudes and light-curve shapes. One of these mechanisms, variable disc accretion, is predicted by models of episodic accretion to drive secular variability, including in the mid-IR. Because the largest accretion…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 10
Evidence of external reconnection between an erupting mini-filament and ambient loops observed by Solar Orbiter/EUI
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245814 Bibcode: 2023A&A...673A..83L

Barczynski, K.; Peter, H.; Chitta, L. P. +16 more

Mini-filament eruptions are one of the most common small-scale transients in the solar atmosphere. However, their eruption mechanisms are still not understood thoroughly. Here, with a combination of 174 Å images of high spatio-temporal resolution taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on board Solar Orbiter and images of the Atmospheric Imaging A…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SolarOrbiter 10
GlobULeS. IV. UVIT/AstroSat Detection of Extremely Low Mass White Dwarf Companions to Blue Straggler Stars in NGC 362
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acade0 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...943..130D

Dattatrey, Arvind K.; Yadav, R. K. S.; Sahu, Snehalata +4 more

We report the discovery of extremely low mass white dwarfs (ELM WDs) as a companion of blue straggler stars (BSSs) in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 362 using images from AstroSat's Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT). Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for 26 far-UV (FUV) bright member BSSs are created using data from the UVIT, the UltraVi…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 10