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most citedSDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

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astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Discovery and Timing of Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster M5 (NGC 5904) with FAST and Arecibo

Lei Zhang, Paulo C. C. Freire, Alessandro Ridolfi +29

We report on a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of the pulsars in the globular cluster (GC) M5, including the discovery of M5G, a new compact non-eclipsing "black widow" pulsar…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

New evidence of multiple channels for the origin of gamma-ray bursts with extended emission

Q. M. Li, Q. B. Sun, Z. B. Zhang +2

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most intense explosions in the universe. GRBs with extended emission (GRB EE) constitute a small subclass of GRBs. GRB EE are divided into EE-I GRBs…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 16 cited

A seven-Earth-radius helium-burning star inside a 20.5-min detached binary

Jie Lin, Chengyuan Wu, Heran Xiong +28

Binary evolution theory predicts that the second common envelope (CE) ejection can produce low-mass (0.32-0.36 Msun) subdwarf B (sdB) stars inside ultrashort-orbital-period binary…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 58 cited

Binary Stars in the New Millennium

Xuefei Chen, Zhengwei Liu, Zhanwen Han

Binary stars are as common as single stars. Binary stars are of immense importance to astrophysicists because that they allow us to determine the masses of the stars independent of…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 681 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI: Testing the Black Hole Metric

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 450 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. III: Imaging of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present the first event-horizon-scale images and spatiotemporal analysis of Sgr A* taken with the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017 April at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. Imaging of Sgr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 370 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Variability, Morphology, and Black Hole Mass

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

In this paper we quantify the temporal variability and image morphology of the horizon-scale emission from Sgr A*, as observed by the EHT in 2017 April at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. W…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 19 cited

A Phase-resolved View of the Low-frequency Quasiperiodic Oscillations from the Black Hole Binary MAXI J1820+070

Qing C. Shui, S. Zhang, Shuang N. Zhang +21

Although low-frequency quasiperiodic oscillations (LFQPOs) are commonly detected in the X-ray light curves of accreting black hole X-ray binaries, their origin still remains elusiv…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 28 cited

An ALMA Spectroscopic Survey of the Brightest Submillimeter Galaxies in the SCUBA-2-COSMOS Field (AS2COSPEC): Physical Properties of z=2-5 Ultra- and Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies

Cheng-Lin Liao, Chian-Chou Chen, Wei-Hao Wang +11

We report physical properties of the brightest (-mJy) and not strongly lensed 18 870m selected dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs), also known as…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 73 cited

A Shock Flash Breaking Out of a Dusty Red Supergiant

Gaici Li, Maokai Hu, Wenxiong Li +41

Shock breakout emission is light that arises when a shockwave, generated by core-collapse explosion of a massive star, passes through its outer envelope. Hitherto, the earliest det…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Mass Ratio Distribution of Hierarchical Triple Systems from the LAMOST-MRS Survey

Tongyu He, Jiangdan Li, Xuefei Chen +3

Hierarchical triple-star systems consists of three components organised into an inner binary (,) and a more distant outer tertiary () star. The LAMOST Medium-R…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 4 cited

Predicting Astrometric Microlensing Events from Gaia DR3

Jie Su, Jiancheng Wang, Yigong Zhang +2

Currently astrometric microlensing is the only tool that can directly measure the mass of a single star, it can also help us to detect compact objects like isolated neutron stars a…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 37 cited

The Dusty and Extremely Red Progenitor of the Type II Supernova 2023ixf in Messier 101

Danfeng Xiang, Jun Mo, Lingzhi Wang +4

Stars with initial masses in the range of 8-25 solar masses are thought to end their lives as hydrogen-rich supernovae (SNe II). Based on the pre-explosion images of Hubble Space T…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 37 cited

Circumstellar Material Ejected Violently by A Massive Star Immediately before its Death

Jujia Zhang, Han Lin, Xiaofeng Wang +7

Type II supernovae represent the most common stellar explosions in the Universe, for which the final stage evolution of their hydrogen-rich massive progenitors towards core-collaps…

astro-ph.SR2023

Detection of 12426 SB2 candidates in the LAMOST-MRS, using a binary spectral model

Mikhail Kovalev, Zenghua Zhou, Xuefei Chen +1

We use an updated method for the detection of double-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2) using values from spectral fits. The method is applied to all spectra from LAMOS…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Spectroscopic triples and a chance alignment. A solution for a problem of suspicious mass ratios for SB2s from Wilson method

Mikhail Kovalev, Xuefei Chen, Zhanwen Han

We selected three double-lined spectroscopic binary systems which have extreme mass ratios, if measured using the Wilson method. We analysed medium resolution spectroscopic observa…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

Effect of irradiation on the spin of millisecond pulsars

Shunyi Lan, Xiangcun Meng

A millisecond pulsar (MSP) is an old neutron star (NS) that has accreted material from its companion star, causing it to spin up, which is known as the recycling scenario. During t…

astro-ph.GA2023

Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. XIII. Ultraviolet Time Lag of H Emission in Mrk 142

V. C. Khatu, S. C. Gallagher, K. Horne +17

We performed a rigorous reverberation-mapping analysis of the broad-line region (BLR) in a highly accreting () active galactic nucleus, Markarian 142 (…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 8 cited

Morphological evidence for nanoflares heating warm loops in the solar corona

Y. Bi, J. J. Yang, Y. Qin +6

Nanoflares are impulsive energy releases by magnetic reconnection in the braided coronal magnetic field, which is a potential mechanism for heating the corona. However, there are s…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

PSF-based Analysis for Detecting Unresolved Wide Binaries

You Wu, Jiao Li, Chao Liu +5

Wide binaries play a crucial role in analyzing the birth environment of stars and the dynamical evolution of clusters. When wide binaries are located at greater distances, their co…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 11 cited

Evolution of negative superhumps, quasi-periodic oscillations and outbursts in the Z Cam-type dwarf nova AH Her

Qi-Bin Sun, Sheng-Bang Qian, Min-Yu Li

AH Her is a Z Cam-type dwarf nova with an orbital period of ~ 0.258 d. Dwarf nova oscillations and long-period dwarf nova oscillations have been detected, but no quasi-periodic osc…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

Relation between spectral indices and binary fractions in GCs

F. Zhang, L. Li, Z. Han +1

Context. We study the relation between the known binary fraction and spectral absorption feature index to judge whether (and potentially which) spectral absorption feature indices…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 115 cited

PDRs4All IV. An embarrassment of riches: Aromatic infrared bands in the Orion Bar

Ryan Chown, Ameek Sidhu, Els Peeters +136

(Abridged) Mid-infrared observations of photodissociation regions (PDRs) are dominated by strong emission features called aromatic infrared bands (AIBs). The most prominent AIBs ar…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 47 cited

PDRs4All II: JWST's NIR and MIR imaging view of the Orion Nebula

Emilie Habart, Els Peeters, Olivier Berné +139

The JWST has captured the most detailed and sharpest infrared images ever taken of the inner region of the Orion Nebula, the nearest massive star formation region, and a prototypic…