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The UV 2175Å attenuation bump and its correlation with PAH emission at z 2
Brinchmann, Jarle; Nanayakkara, Themiya; Shivaei, Irene +10 more
The UV bump is a broad absorption feature centred at 2175 Å that is seen in the attenuation/extinction curve of some galaxies, but its origin is not well known. Here, we use a sample of 86 star-forming galaxies at z = 1.7-2.7 with deep rest-frame UV spectroscopy from the MUSE HUDF Survey to study the connection between the strength of the observed…
Residual Abundances in GALAH DR3: Implications for Nucleosynthesis and Identification of Unique Stellar Populations
Buder, Sven; Weinberg, David H.; Johnson, Jennifer A. +3 more
We investigate the [X/Mg] abundances of 16 elements for 82,910 Galactic disk stars from GALAH+ DR3. We fit the median trends of low-Ia and high-Ia populations with a two-process model, which describes stellar abundances in terms of a prompt core-collapse and delayed Type-Ia supernova component. For each sample star, we fit the amplitudes of these …
The local hole: a galaxy underdensity covering 90 per cent of sky to ≈200 Mpc
Metcalfe, N.; Shanks, T.; Whitbourn, J. R. +1 more
We investigate the 'Local Hole', an anomalous underdensity in the local galaxy environment, by extending our previous galaxy K-band number-redshift and number-magnitude counts to ≈90 per cent of the sky. Our redshift samples are taken from the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) and the 2M++ catalogues, limited to K < 11.5. We find that both surveys a…
LAMOST meets Gaia: The Galactic open clusters
Fu, Xiaoting; Xu, Yan; Chang, Jiang +14 more
Open clusters (OCs) are born and evolve along the Milky Way (MW) plane. On them is imprinted the history of the Galactic disc, including its chemical and dynamical evolution. Chemical and dynamical properties of OCs can be derived from photometric, spectroscopic, and astrometric data of their member stars. Based on the photometric and astrometric …
Causes and Consequences of Magnetic Complexity Changes within Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections: A Statistical Study
Lugaz, Noé; Scolini, Camilla; Winslow, Réka M. +3 more
We present the first statistical analysis of complexity changes affecting the magnetic structure of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), with the aim of answering the questions: How frequently do ICMEs undergo magnetic complexity changes during propagation? What are the causes of such changes? Do the in situ properties of ICMEs differ de…
Solar-to-supersolar sodium and oxygen absolute abundances for a 'hot Saturn' orbiting a metal-rich star
Deming, Drake; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Smalley, Barry +10 more
We present new analysis of infrared transmission spectroscopy of the cloud-free hot-Saturn WASP-96b performed with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes (HST and Spitzer). The WASP-96b spectrum exhibits the absorption feature from water in excellent agreement with synthetic spectra computed assuming a cloud-free atmosphere. The HST-Spitzer spect…
Red supergiant stars in binary systems. I. Identification and characterization in the small magellanic cloud from the UVIT ultraviolet imaging survey
Lennon, D. J.; Bianchi, L.; Negueruela, I. +5 more
We aim to identify and characterize binary systems containing red supergiant (RSG) stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using a newly available ultraviolet (UV) point source catalogue obtained using the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board AstroSat. We select a sample of 560 SMC RSGs based on photometric and spectroscopic observation…
The 'Giraffe': discovery of a stripped red giant in an interacting binary with an 2 M⊙ lower giant
Ilyin, I.; Kochanek, C. S.; Badenes, C. +13 more
We report the discovery of a stripped giant + lower giant Algol-type binary, 2M04123153+6738486 (2M0412), identified during a search for non-interacting compact object - star binaries. 2M0412 is an evolved (Teff, giant ≃ 4000 K), luminous (Lgiant ≃ 150 L⊙) red giant in a circular P = 81.2 d binary. 2M0412 is a know…
Progenitor, environment, and modelling of the interacting transient AT 2016jbu (Gaia16cfr)
Sollerman, J.; Reichart, D. E.; Harrison, D. L. +67 more
We present the bolometric light curve, identification and analysis of the progenitor candidate, and preliminary modelling of AT 2016jbu (Gaia16cfr). We find a progenitor consistent with a ~ 22-25 M⊙ yellow hypergiant surrounded by a dusty circumstellar shell, in agreement with what has been previously reported. We see evidence for signi…
A novel black hole mass scaling relation based on coronal gas, and its dependence with the accretion disc
Panda, Swayamtrupta; Rodríguez-Ardila, Alberto; Marinello, Murilo +1 more
Using bona-fide black hole (BH) mass estimates from reverberation mapping and the line ratio [Si VI] 1.963$\rm{\mu m}$/Brγbroad as tracer of the AGN ionizing continuum, a novel BH-mass scaling relation of the form log(MBH) = (6.40 ± 0.17) - (1.99 ± 0.37) × log ([Si VI]/Brγbroad), dispersion 0.47 dex, over the BH ma…