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astro-ph.SR2026

HCO and the Effect of Mixing in SN 1987A

H. M. Davies, M. Matsuura, H. L. Gomez +8

We present high angular resolution observations of the HCO emission in the central ejecta of the supernova remnant SN 1987A using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). We…

astro-ph.SR2026

MUSE Imaging Spectroscopy of the Fullerene Planetary Nebula Tc 1

J. R. Walsh, M. J. Barlow, A. Monreal-Ibero +6

The planetary nebula Tc 1 (PN G345.2 -08.8), one of the rare group of Galactic PNe showing fullerene emission in the infrared, was observed with MUSE wide field mode with adaptive…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Impact of Radiation Environment on the Evolution and Fragmentation of Protostellar Discs

Matt T. Cusack, Paul C. Clark, Ken Rice +5

We present high-resolution zoom-in simulations of molecular clouds exposed to an interstellar radiation field and cosmic ray ionisation rate up to 1000 times stronger than that of…

astro-ph.SR2026

Nested, asymmetric H-He circumstellar shells in the Type Icn/Ibn SN 2024abvb

The INTEL Collaboration, J. P. Anderson, C. Aster +17

Interacting transients probe mass loss in the final stages of stellar evolution; however, the geometry and timing of multi-episode mass loss remain poorly constrained. SN 2024abvb…

astro-ph.SR2026

WEAVE imaging spectroscopy of NGC 6720: an iron bar in the Ring

R. Wesson, J. E. Drew, M. J. Barlow +23

We present spatially resolved spectroscopic observations of the planetary nebula NGC 6720, the Ring Nebula, taken during the science verification phase of WEAVE, a new instrument m…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

Rethinking mass transfer: a unified semianalytical framework for circular and eccentric binaries. II. Orbital evolution due to nonconservative mass transfer

A. Parkosidis, S. Toonen, E. Laplace +1

Although mass transfer (MT) has been studied primarily in circular binaries, observations show that it also occurs in eccentric systems. We investigate orbital evolution during non…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium XII. SN 2024acyl: A fast, linearly declining Type Ibn supernova with early flash-ionisation features

Y. -Z. Cai, A. Pastorello, K. Maeda +63

We present a photometric and spectroscopic analysis of the Type Ibn supernova (SN) 2024acyl. It rises to an absolute magnitude peak of about -17.58 mag in 10.6 days, and displays a…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 7 cited

Rethinking mass transfer: a unified semi-analytical framework for circular and eccentric binaries. I. Orbital evolution due to conservative mass transfer

A. Parkosidis, S. Toonen, F. Dosopoulou +1

Mass transfer (MT) is a fundamental process in stellar evolution. While MT in circular orbits is well studied, observations indicate that it also occurs in eccentric ones, where th…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

JWST observations of the Ring Nebula (NGC 6720) -- II. PAH emission

Nicholas Clark, Els Peeters, Nick L. J. Cox +16

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and carbonaceous dust have been observed in clumpy circumstellar environments, yet their formation and evolutionary pathways in such environ…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

The fragmentation of molecular clouds in starburst environments

Matt T. Cusack, Paul C. Clark, Simon C. O. Glover +4

A significant amount of star formation occurs and has occurred in environments unlike the solar neighbourhood. The majority of stars formed closer to the peak of the cosmic star fo…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Temporal Changes in the Infrared Spectra of Magellanic Carbon Stars

G. C. Sloan, K. E. Kraemer, B. Aringer +9

The Medium-Resolution Spectrometer on the Mid-Infrared Instrument on JWST obtained spectra of three carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Two of the spectra differ significan…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

A study in scarlet -- II. Spectroscopic properties of a sample of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients

G. Valerin, A. Pastorello, E. Mason +65

We investigate the spectroscopic characteristics of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients (ILRTs), a class of elusive objects with peak luminosity between that of classical novae…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 8 cited

A study in scarlet -- I. Photometric properties of a sample of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients

G. Valerin, A. Pastorello, A. Reguitti +57

We investigate the photometric characteristics of a sample of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients (ILRTs), a class of elusive objects with peak luminosity between that of classi…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 10 cited

MUSE spectroscopy of the high abundance discrepancy planetary nebula NGC 6153

V. Gómez-Llanos, J. García-Rojas, C. Morisset +5

(Abridged) The abundance discrepancy problem in planetary nebulae (PNe) has long puzzled astronomers. NGC6153, with its high Abundance Discrepancy Factor (ADF~10), provides an oppo…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 10 cited

SN 2020pvb: a Type IIn-P supernova with a precursor outburst

Nancy Elias-Rosa, Seán J. Brennan, Stefano Benetti +37

We present photometric and spectroscopic data sets for SN 2020pvb, a Type IIn-P supernova (SN) similar to SNe 1994W, 2005cl, 2009kn and 2011ht, with a precursor outburst detected (…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 12 cited

Flaring Stars in a Non-targeted mm-wave Survey with SPT-3G

C. Tandoi, S. Guns, A. Foster +96

We present a flare star catalog from four years of non-targeted millimeter-wave survey data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The data were taken with the SPT-3G camera and cove…

astro-ph.SR2023

NIKA2 observations of dust grain evolution from star-forming filament to T-Tauri disk: Preliminary results from NIKA2 observations of the Taurus B211/B213 filament

Q. Nguyen-Luong, R. Adam, P. Ade +51

To understand the evolution of dust properties in molecular clouds in the course of the star formation process, we constrain the changes in the dust emissivity index from star-form…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 16 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Systematic Transient Search of 3-Day Maps

Yaqiong Li, Emily Biermann, Sigurd Naess +34

We conduct a systematic search for transients in three years of data (2017-2019) from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). ACT covers 40 percent of the sky at three bands spannin…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

Bringing Stellar Evolution & Feedback Together: Summary of proposals from the Lorentz Center Workshop, 2022

Sam Geen, Poojan Agrawal, Paul A. Crowther +34

Stars strongly impact their environment, and shape structures on all scales throughout the universe, in a process known as ``feedback''. Due to the complexity of both stellar evolu…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 12 cited

An APEX study of molecular outflows in FUor-type stars

Fernando Cruz-Sáenz de Miera, Ágnes Kóspál, Péter Ábrahám +4

FU Orionis-type objects (FUors) are low-mass pre-main-sequence objects which go through a short-lived phase (~100 years) of increased mass accretion rate (from 10^-8 to 10^-4 M_sun…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 17 cited

SN 2016dsg: A Thermonuclear Explosion Involving A Thick Helium Shell

Yize Dong, Stefano Valenti, Abigail Polin +29

A thermonuclear explosion triggered by a helium-shell detonation on a carbon-oxygen white dwarf core has been predicted to have strong UV line blanketing at early times due to the…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 2 cited

Quantifying the dust in SN 2012aw and iPTF14hls with ORBYTS

Maria Niculescu-Duvaz, M. J. Barlow, W. Dunn +32

Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are potentially capable of producing large quantities of dust, with strong evidence that ejecta dust masses can grow significantly over extended pe…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 33 cited

Dust masses for a large sample of core-collapse supernovae from optical emission line asymmetries: dust formation on 30-year timescales

Maria Niculescu-Duvaz, Michael J Barlow, Antonia Bevan +7

Modelling the red-blue asymmetries seen in the broad emission lines of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) is a powerful technique to quantify total dust mass formed in the ejecta at…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 5 cited

Protostellar Outflows: a window to the past

P. F. Rohde, S. Walch, D. Seifried +2

During the early phases of low-mass star formation, episodic accretion causes the ejection of high-velocity outflow bullets, which carry a fossil record of the driving protostar's…