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astro-ph.SR2023

VVV-WIT-12 and its fashionable nebula: a four year long period Young Stellar Object with a light echo?

Roberto K. Saito, Bringfried Stecklum, Dante Minniti +7

We report the serendipitous discovery of VVV-WIT-12, an unusual variable source that seems to induce variability in its surrounding nebula. The source belongs to the rare objects t…

astro-ph.SR2026

The long-term outburst(s) of GPSV16: from an intermediate to a FUor classification

Carlos Contreras Peña, Jeong-Eun Lee, Philip W. Lucas +8

FU Ori outbursts are thought to play a key role in stellar mass assembly and in the chemistry of protoplanetary disks during the early formation of stars. However, uncertainties re…

astro-ph.SR2026

Gaia24ccy: An outburst followed the footsteps of its predecessor

Koshvendra Singh, Joe P. Ninan, Zhen Guo +25

Accretion-driven outbursts in young stellar objects remain poorly understood, largely limited by a statistically small sample of closely followed-up events. This underscores the im…

astro-ph.SR2026

Hot water emission during an outburst on a classical T Tauri star

Zhen Guo, Javier Osses, Vitor Fermiano +34

In this paper, we present observations of an eruptive young star in the Rosette Nebula, identified by the Gaia Science Alerts system using Gaia time series data. We aim to investig…

astro-ph.SR2025

VVV-WIT-13: an eruptive young star with cool molecular features

Zhen Guo, Philip Lucas, Sergey N. Yurchenko +27

Here we investigate an infrared eruptive source, identified from the decade-long VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey (VVV). We named this target after a group of variable sour…

astro-ph.IM2024

The verification of periodicity with the use of recurrent neural networks

Niall Miller, Philip Lucas, Yi Sun +3

The ability to automatically and robustly self-verify periodicity present in time-series astronomical data is becoming more important as data sets rapidly increase in size. The age…