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NEID Reveals That the Young Warm Neptune TOI-2076 b Has a Low Obliquity
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acba18 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...944L..41F

Mahadevan, Suvrath; Wisniewski, John; Wright, Jason T. +27 more

TOI-2076 b is a sub-Neptune-sized planet (R = 2.39 ± 0.10 R ) that transits a young (204 ± 50 MYr) bright (V = 9.2) K-dwarf hosting a system of three transiting planets. Using spectroscopic observations obtained with the NEID spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5 m Telescope, we model the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect of TOI-2076 b, and derive a s…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 8
Resolved Velocity Profiles of Galactic Winds at Cosmic Noon
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acf462 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...959..124K

Kacprzak, Glenn G.; Glazebrook, Karl; Tran, Kim-Vy H. +7 more

We study the kinematics of the interstellar medium (ISM) viewed "down the barrel" in 20 gravitationally lensed galaxies during cosmic noon (z = 1.5-3.5). We use moderate-resolution spectra (R ~ 4000) from Keck's Echellette Spectrograph and Imager and Magellan/MagE to spectrally resolve the ISM absorption in these galaxies into ~10 independent elem…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 8
Identification of a Helium Donor Star in NGC 247 ULX-1
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acc5eb Bibcode: 2023ApJ...947...52Z

Feng, Hua; Bian, Fuyan; Zhou, Changxing

With Very Large Telescope Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) observations, we detected highly variable helium emission lines from the optical counterpart of the supersoft ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 247 ULX-1. No Balmer lines can be seen in the source spectrum. This is the first evidence for the presence of a helium donor star in UL…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 8
A dense mini-Neptune orbiting the bright young star HD 18599
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2845 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.518.2627V

Kane, Stephen R.; Wittenmyer, Robert A.; Horner, Jonathan +24 more

Very little is known about the young planet population because the detection of small planets orbiting young stars is obscured by the effects of stellar activity and fast rotation, which mask planets within radial velocity and transit data sets. The few planets that have been discovered in young clusters generally orbit stars too faint for any det…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 8
The OGLE Collection of Variable Stars. Over 15 000 δ Scuti Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
DOI: 10.32023/0001-5237/73.2.1 Bibcode: 2023AcA....73..105S

Soszyński, I.; Udalski, A.; Szymański, M. K. +12 more

We present the OGLE collection of δ Scuti stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud and in its foreground. Our dataset encompasses a total of 15 256 objects, constituting the largest sample of extragalactic δ Sct stars published so far. In the case of 12 δ Sct pulsators, we detected additional eclipsing or ellipsoidal variations in their light curves. T…

2023 Acta Astronomica
Gaia 8
Active Stars in the Spectroscopic Survey of Mid-to-late M Dwarfs within 15 pc
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/acd6a2 Bibcode: 2023AJ....166...16P

Winters, Jennifer G.; Medina, Amber A.; Irwin, Jonathan M. +2 more

We present results from the volume-complete spectroscopic survey of 0.1-0.3 M M dwarfs within 15 pc. This work discusses the active sample without close binary companions, providing a comprehensive picture of these 123 stars with Hα emission stronger than -1 Å. Our analysis includes rotation periods (including 31 new measurements), Hα…

2023 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 8
Discovery of a resolved white dwarf-brown dwarf binary with a small projected separation: SDSS J222551.65+001637.7AB
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3807 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.519.5008F

Debes, John H.; Manjavacas, Elena; Dupuy, Trent J. +4 more

We present the confirmation of SDSS J222551.65+001637.7AB as a closely separated, resolved, white dwarf-brown dwarf binary. We have obtained spectroscopy from GNIRS and seeing-limited Ks-band imaging from NIRI on Gemini North. The target is spatially resolved into its constituent components: a 10926 ± 246 K white dwarf, with log g = 8.2…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 8
SRG/eROSITA and XMM-Newton observations of Vela Jr
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245475 Bibcode: 2023A&A...673A..45C

Sasaki, Manami; Becker, Werner; Freyberg, Michael +4 more

Context. The Vela supernova remnant (SNR) complex is a region containing at least three SNRs: Vela, Puppis A, and Vela Jr. With the launch of the spectro-imaging X-ray telescope eROSITA on board the Spectrum-Röntgen-Gamma (SRG) mission, it became possible to observe the one degree wide Vela Jr in its entirety. Although several previous pointed Cha…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 8
Gaia search for early-formed andesitic asteroidal crusts
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245311 Bibcode: 2023A&A...671A..40G

Galluccio, L.; Delbo, M.; Avdellidou, C. +2 more

Context. Andesitic meteorites are among the oldest achondrites known to date. They record volcanic events and crust formation episodes in primordial planetesimals that took place about 4.565 Myr ago. However, no analogue for these meteorites has been found in the asteroid population to date.
Aims: We searched for spectroscopic analogues of th…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 8
Detection of Dust in High-velocity Cloud Complex C-Enriched Gas Accreting onto the Milky Way
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acc640 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...946L..48F

Richter, Philipp; Kriss, Gerard A.; Fox, Andrew J. +4 more

We present the detection of dust depletion in Complex C, a massive, infalling, low-metallicity high-velocity cloud in the northern Galactic hemisphere that traces the ongoing accretion of gas onto the Milky Way. We analyze a very high signal-to-noise Hubble Space Telescope Cosmic Origins Spectrograph spectrum of active galactic nucleus (AGN) Mrk 8…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 8