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Mesoscale Structure and Properties of the Terrestrial Magnetotail Plasma Sheet From the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
DOI: 10.1029/2023JA031358 Bibcode: 2023JGRA..12831358V

Vo, T.; Ergun, R. E.; Usanova, M. E. +1 more

Using Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) orbits in the Earth's magnetotail from 2017 to 2020, plasma conditions and the 3D spatial structure of inner-magnetotail plasma environments (with a focus on the plasma sheet (PS)) are studied with different approaches. Threshold conditions for distinguishing the PS, PS boundary layers, and lobes are d…

2023 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 3
Photometry of the Four Anti-Galactocentric Old Open Clusters: Czernik 30, Berkeley 34, Berkeley 75, and Berkeley 76
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aca7fb Bibcode: 2023AJ....165...53I

Lee, Joon Hyeop; Kyeong, Jaemann; Kim, Sang Chul +2 more

We present a BVI photometric study of four old open clusters (OCs) in the the Milky Way, Czernik 30, Berkeley 34, Berkeley 75, and Berkeley 76 using the observation data obtained with the Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System 1.0 m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile. These four OCs are located at the an…

2023 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 3
The Long-term Spectral Changes of Eta Carinae: Are they Caused by a Dissipating Occulter as Indicated by CMFGEN Models?
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ace596 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...954...65D

Hamaguchi, Kenji; Corcoran, Michael F.; Russell, Christopher M. P. +23 more

Eta Carinae (η Car) exhibits a unique set of P Cygni profiles with both broad and narrow components. Over many decades, the spectrum has changed-there has been an increase in observed continuum fluxes and a decrease in Fe II and H I emission-line equivalent widths. The spectrum is evolving toward that of a P Cygni star such as P Cygni itself and H…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 3
Constraint on the event rate of general relativistic instability supernovae from the early JWST deep field data
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2908 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.526.2400M

Harikane, Yuichi; Inoue, Akio K.; Moriya, Takashi J.

General relativistic instability supernovae (GRSNe) at 10 ≲ z ≲ 15 are predicted to be observed as red faint point sources, and they can be detected only in the reddest filters in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)/NIRCam (F444W and F356W). They should be observed as persistent point sources with little flux variations for a couple of decades becau…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JWST 3
A Nearby Isolated Dwarf: Star Formation and Structure of ESO 006-001
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acb048 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...943..139M

Koribalski, Bärbel S.; Anand, Gagandeep S.; Tully, R. Brent +4 more

Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope unexpectedly revealed that the dwarf galaxy ESO 006-001 is a near neighbor to the Local Group at a distance of 2.70 ± 0.11 Mpc. The stellar population in the galaxy is well resolved into individual stars to a limit of M I ~ - 0.5 mag. The dominant population is older than 12 Gyr yet display…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 3
Ionosphere of Mars during the consecutive solar minima 23/24 and 24/25 as seen by MARSIS-Mars Express
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114616 Bibcode: 2023Icar..39314616S

Witasse, Olivier; Sánchez-Cano, Beatriz; Kofman, Wlodek +4 more

The Mars' ionospheric behavior during two consecutive solar minima (23/24 and 24/25) is investigated with the same dataset. In particular, we use the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) on board Mars Express to investigate the total electron content behavior of the whole atmosphere in relation to the solar irradian…

2023 Icarus
MEx 3
Confident detection of doubly ionized thorium in the extreme Ap star CPD-62° 2717
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1355 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.522.5931C

Nidever, David L.; Labadie-Bartz, Jonathan; Hasselquist, Sten +4 more

Despite the Universe containing primordial thorium (Th) of sufficient abundance to appear in stellar spectra, detection of Th has to date been tentative and based on just a few weak and blended lines. Here, we present convincing evidence not only for the first Th detection in a magnetic chemically peculiar Ap star but also for the first detection …

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 3
Likelihood of the sky. Bayesian treatment of the geometric two-catalog matching problem
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244195 Bibcode: 2023A&A...674A.136C

Schmitt, J. H. M. M.; Salvato, M.; Buchner, J. +4 more

Catalogs with celestial positions and uncertainties are among the primary data products of observational astronomy. Consequently, the (cross-)matching problem, namely, the question of how many (and which) pairs of positions pertain to the same celestial source, remains a central part of this scientific exploitation. We address the matching problem…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 3
Identification of large equivalent width dusty galaxies at 4 < z < 6 from sub-millimetre colours
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244491 Bibcode: 2023A&A...671A.123B

Buat, V.; Boquien, M.; Burgarella, D. +8 more

Context. Infrared (IR), sub-millimetre (sub-mm), and millimetre (mm) databases contain a huge quantity of high-quality data. However, a large part of these data are photometric, and they are thought not to be useful to derive quantitative information on the nebular emission of galaxies.
Aims: The aim of this project is first to identify galax…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 3
Star clusters in tidal debris
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2886 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.526.2341R

Gallagher, Sarah C.; Gronwall, Caryl; Trancho, Gelys +13 more

We present results of a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) UBVI-band study of star clusters in tidal tails, using new WFC3 and ACS imaging to complement existing WFPC2 data. We survey 12 tidal tails across seven merging systems, deriving ages and masses for 425 star cluster candidates (SCCs). The stacked mass distribution across all systems follows a po…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 3