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Particle monitoring capability of the Solar Orbiter Metis coronagraph through the increasing phase of solar cycle 25
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346679 Bibcode: 2023A&A...677A..45G

Gissot, S.; Sasso, C.; Romoli, M. +26 more

Context. Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) and solar particles with energies greater than tens of MeV penetrate spacecraft and instruments hosted aboard space missions. The Solar Orbiter Metis coronagraph is aimed at observing the solar corona in both visible (VL) and ultraviolet (UV) light. Particle tracks are observed in the Metis images of the corona…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SolarOrbiter Ulysses 3
Extended main-sequence turnoff and red clump in intermediate-age star clusters: A study of NGC 419
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347405 Bibcode: 2023A&A...679A.102D

Dalessandro, E.; Massari, D.; Ferraro, F. R. +4 more

With the goal of untangling the origin of extended main-sequence turnoffs (eMSTOs) and extended red clumps (eRCs) in star clusters, in this work we present the study of the intermediate-age cluster NGC 419, situated along the Bridge of the Small Magellanic Cloud. To this aim, we analyzed multi-epoch, high angular resolution observations acquired w…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 3
Chemical enrichment of ICM within the Ophiuchus cluster I: radial profiles
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2796 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.526..396G

Fabian, A. C.; Pinto, C.; Eckert, D. +6 more

The analysis of the elemental abundances in galaxy clusters offers valuable insights into the formation and evolution of galaxies. In this study, we explore the chemical enrichment of the intracluster medium in the Ophiuchus cluster by utilizing XMM-Newton EPIC-pn observations. We explore the radial profiles of Si, S, Ar, Ca, and Fe. Due to the hi…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 3
Whistler-mode waves in Mercury's magnetosphere observed by BepiColombo/Mio
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-023-02055-0 Bibcode: 2023NatAs...7.1309O

Sahraoui, Fouad; Kasaba, Yasumasa; Omura, Yoshiharu +10 more

Whistler-mode chorus waves are natural electromagnetic emissions known to play a key role in electron acceleration and loss mechanisms via wave-particle interactions in planetary magnetospheres. Chorus waves have not yet been detected in Mercury's magnetosphere due to the lack of suitable instruments in the probes that previously visited the plane…

2023 Nature Astronomy
BepiColombo 3
Cannonball or Bowling Ball: Proper Motion and Parallax for PSR J0002+6216
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad07e4 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...958..163B

Frail, D. A.; Kerr, M.; Schinzel, F. K. +4 more

We report the results of careful astrometric measurements of the cannonball pulsar J0002+6216 carried out over 3 yr using the High Sensitivity Array. We significantly refine the proper motion to µ = 35.3 ± 0.6 mas yr-1 and place new constraints on the distance, with the overall effect of lowering the velocity and increasing the in…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 3
The 14 Her Planetary System: Companion Masses and Architecture from Radial Velocities and Astrometry
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/acd93a Bibcode: 2023AJ....166...27B

McArthur, B. E.; Benedict, G. F.; Nelan, E. P. +1 more

We combine Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Fine Guidance Sensor, Hipparcos, and Gaia DR3 astrometric observations of the K0 V star 14 Her with the results of an analysis of extensive ground-based radial velocity data to determine perturbation orbits and masses for two previously known companions, 14 Her b and c. Radial velocities obtained with the Ho…

2023 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia Hipparcos eHST 3
Morphology of the gas-rich debris disk around HD 121617 with SPHERE observations in polarized light
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244694 Bibcode: 2023A&A...673A..39P

Kral, Quentin; Pinte, Christophe; Olofsson, Johan +7 more

Context. Debris disks are the signposts of collisionally eroding planetesimal circumstellar belts, whose study can put important constraints on the structure of extrasolar planetary systems. The best constraints on the morphology of such disks are often obtained from spatially resolved observations in scattered light. In this paper, we investigate…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia Herschel 3
A Catalog of Candidate Double and Lensed Quasars from Gaia and WISE Data
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac97f0 Bibcode: 2023ApJS..264....4M

Secrest, Nathan J.; Makarov, Valeri V.

Making use of strong correlations between closely separated multiple or double sources and photometric and astrometric metadata in Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), we generate a catalog of candidate double- and multiply imaged lensed quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs), comprising 3140 systems. It includes two partially overlapping parts: a…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia 3
On the Short-period Eclipsing High-mass X-Ray Binary in NGC 4214
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ace770 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...954...46L

Soria, Roberto; Swartz, Douglas A.; Lin, Zikun

We present the results of our study of the luminous (L X ≈ 1039 erg s-1) X-ray binary CXOU J121538.2+361921 in NGC 4214, the high-mass X-ray binary with the shortest known orbital period. Using Chandra data, we confirm the ≈13,000 s (3.6 hr) eclipse period, and an eclipse duration of ≈2000 s. From this, we estimate…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 3
New Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the ART-XC and eROSITA Telescopes during the First Five SRG All-Sky X-ray Surveys
DOI: 10.1134/S1063773723020044 Bibcode: 2023AstL...49...25U

Gilfanov, M. R.; Medvedev, P. S.; Sunyaev, R. A. +8 more

We present the results of our identification of 14 X-ray sources detected in the eastern Galactic sky ($0^{\circ}<l<180^{\circ}$) in the 4-12 keV energy band on the combined map of the first five all-sky surveys (from December 2019 to March 2022) with the Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope onboard the SRG observatory. All 14 sources are reli…

2023 Astronomy Letters
Gaia XMM-Newton 3