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astro-ph.SR2026

Ionized Nebulae Around Two New Symbiotic Stars: GR Cygni and [D75] 141

Howard E. Bond, Calvin Carter, Sven E. Eklund +4

In the course of selecting targets for a spectroscopic survey of faint planetary-nebula nuclei, we encountered two anomalous cases of late-type variable stars surrounded by nebulos…

astro-ph.SR2026

SPIRITS 19q: Dust Production by a Subsolar-metallicity Carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet Star in NGC 2403

Sam Rose, Ryan M. Lau, Jacob E. Jencson +20

We present JWST/NIRSpec IFU observations of SPIRITS 19q, the highly dust-producing carbon-rich (WC) binary candidate located in a subsolar-metallicity region of the nearby spiral g…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 2 cited

Asteroseismic study of KUV03442+0719 with parallax constraints

Agnès Bischoff-Kim

Hydrogen atmosphere white dwarf KUV03442+0719 was first reported as a pulsator by Gianninas et al. in 2006. Follow up campaigns by Su et al. (2014) revealed more periods. Some spec…

astro-ph.SR2026

Pre-nova Observations of T CrB: A view from the CHARA Array

Ryan Norris, Narsireddy Anugu, Thomas Gaudin +38

T CrB is a symbiotic recurrent nova consisting of a red giant and white dwarf with recent eruptions in 1866 and 1946 and an anticipated eruption in the mid 2020s. We report CHARA A…

astro-ph.SR2026

Spectroscopic Survey of Faint Planetary-Nebula Nuclei. VIII. The Dwarf Barium Central Star of Kohoutek 1-9

Howard E. Bond, Peter Goodhew, Daniel Stern +2

In the course of our ongoing survey of faint planetary-nebula nuclei (PNNi), we obtained optical spectroscopy of the central star of the little-studied PN Kohoutek~1-9 (K 1-9). Its…

astro-ph.SR2025

Citizen CATE 2024: Extending Totality During the 8 April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse with a Distributed Network of Community Participants

Sarah A. Kovac, Amir Caspi, Daniel B. Seaton +240

The Citizen CATE 2024 next-generation experiment placed 43 identical telescope and camera setups along the path of totality during the total solar eclipse (TSE) on 8 April 2024 to…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

A scaling relationship for non-thermal radio emission from ordered magnetospheres - II. Investigating the efficiency of relativistic electron production in magnetospheres of BA-type stars

P. Leto, S. Owocki, C. Trigilio +19

Magnetic BA stars host dipole-like magnetospheres. When detected as radio sources, their luminosities correlate with the magnetic field and rotation. Rotation is crucial because th…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Bow-Shock Nebula Around the Z Camelopardalis-type Cataclysmic Variable FY Vulpeculae

Howard E. Bond, Calvin Carter, Eric Coles +3

We present deep images of the faint nebulosity StDr 90, which we have discovered surrounds the cataclysmic variable (CV) star FY Vulpeculae. Archival photometric and spectroscopic…

astro-ph.SR2025

Serendipitous Discovery of a Faint Planetary Nebula in the Massive Young LMC Cluster NGC 1866

Howard E. Bond, Nate Bastian, Andrea Bellini +5

During an integral-field spectroscopic study of stars in the massive young open cluster NGC 1866 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, we serendipitously discovered a faint planetary nebu…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Semi-Empirical Estimate of Solar EUV Evolution from 10 Myr to 10 Gyr

Kevin France, Girish Duvvuri, Cynthia Froning +9

The extreme-ultraviolet (EUV; 100 -- 911 Å) spectra of F, G, K, and M stars provide diagnostics of the stellar chromosphere through the corona, with line and continuum formation te…

astro-ph.SR2025

Discovery of Faint Nebulosity Around a Z Camelopardalis-type Cataclysmic Variable in Antlia: Nova Shell or Ancient Planetary Nebula?

Howard E. Bond, Dana Patchick, Daniel Stern +2

We report our discovery of a faint nebula surrounding a previously little-studied 15th-mag variable star, ASASSN-19ds, in the southern-hemisphere constellation Antlia. Spectra veri…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Discovery of the binary nature of the magnetospheric B-type star Oph A

M. E. Shultz, I. Berry, D. Bohlender +11

The nearby B-type star Oph A was recently identified as a rapidly rotating magnetic B-type star with variable radio and X-ray emission consistent with a magnetospheric origin.…

astro-ph.SR2025

Two More Bow Shocks and Off-Center Halpha Nebulae Associated with Nova-like Cataclysmic Variables

Howard E. Bond, Calvin Carter, Eric Coles +4

We report discoveries of bow-shock nebulae, seen in Halpha and [O III] 5007, around two cataclysmic variables (CVs): LS Pegasi and ASASSN-V J205457.73+515731.9 (hereafter ASASJ2054…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 7 cited

XUE. JWST spectroscopy of externally irradiated disks around young intermediate-mass stars

María Claudia Ramírez-Tannus, Arjan Bik, Konstantin V. Getman +17

Most young stars and therefore planetary systems form in high-mass star forming regions and are exposed to ultraviolet radiation, affecting the protoplanetary disk. These regions a…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 13 cited

OGLE-2011-BLG-0462: An Isolated Stellar-Mass Black Hole Confirmed Using New HST Astrometry and Updated Photometry

Kailash C Sahu, Jay Anderson, Stefano Casertano +7

The long-duration Galactic-bulge microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0462 produced relativistic astrometric deflections of the source star, which we measured using HST observations ta…

astro-ph.SR2025

Testing Cluster Membership of Planetary Nebulae with High-Precision Proper Motions. II. HST Observations of PHR J1315-6555 in the Open Cluster AL 1 (ESO 96-SC04)

Andrea Bellini, Howard E. Bond, Kailash C. Sahu

Planetary nebulae (PNe) shown to be members of star clusters provide information on their properties and evolutionary histories that cannot be determined for PNe in the field, in p…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Horizontal flows in the atmospheres of chemically peculiar stars

A. ud-Doula, J. Krticka, B. Kubátová

Context. Classical chemically peculiar stars exhibit atmospheres that are often structured by the effects of atomic diffusion. As a result of these elemental diffusion and horizont…

astro-ph.SR2025

Multi-Observatory Study of Young Stellar Energetic Flares (MORYSEF): No Evidence For Abnormally Strong Stellar Magnetic Fields After Powerful X-ray Flares

Konstantin V. Getman, Oleg Kochukhov, Joe P. Ninan +9

We explore the empirical power-law relationship between X-ray luminosity (Lx) and total surface magnetic flux (Phi), established across solar magnetic elements, time- and disk-aver…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 5 cited

X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive Stars at Low Metallicity X. Physical Parameters and Feedback of Massive Stars in the LMC N11 B Star-Forming Region

V. M. A. Gómez-González, L. M. Oskinova, W. -R. Hamann +23

Massive stars lead the ionization and mechanical feedback within young star-forming regions. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is an ideal galaxy for studying individual massive sta…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 3 cited

Polarization position angle standard stars: a reassessment of and its variability for seventeen stars based on a decade of observations

Daniel V. Cotton, Jeremy Bailey, Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer +14

Observations of polarization position angle () standards made from 2014 to 2023 with the High Precision Polarimetric Instrument (HIPPI) and other HIPPI-class polarimeters in bot…

astro-ph.SR2024

Multi-Observatory Research of Young Stellar Energetic Flares (MORYSEF): X-ray Flare Related Phenomena and Multi-epoch Behavior

Konstantin V. Getman, Eric D. Feigelson, Abygail R. Waggoner +8

The most powerful stellar flares driven by magnetic energy occur during the early pre-main sequence (PMS) phase. The Orion Nebula represents the nearest region populated by young s…

astro-ph.SR2024

Discovery of a Bow-Shock Nebula around the Z Cam-type Cataclysmic Variable SY Cancri

Howard E. Bond, Calvin Carter, David F. Elmore +3

We report the serendipitous discovery of a bow-shock nebula around the cataclysmic variable (CV) SY Cancri. In addition, SY Cnc lies near the edge of a faint Halpha-emitting nebula…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 17 cited

X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive stars at low metallicity. IV. Spectral analysis methods and exemplary results for O stars

A. A. C. Sander, J. -C. Bouret, M. Bernini-Peron +26

CONTEXT: The spectral analysis of hot, massive stars is a fundamental astrophysical method to obtain their intrinsic properties and their feedback. Quantitative spectroscopy for ho…

astro-ph.SR2024

Testing Cluster Membership of Planetary Nebulae with High-Precision Proper Motions. I. HST Observations of JaFu 1 Near the Globular Cluster Palomar 6

Howard E. Bond, Andrea Bellini, Kailash C. Sahu

If a planetary nebula (PN) is shown to be a member of a star cluster, we obtain important new constraints on the mass and chemical composition of the PN's progenitor star, which ca…