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astro-ph.EP2021★ 8 cited

Composition of super-Earths, super-Mercuries, and their host stars

V. Adibekyan, N. C. Santos, C. Dorn +11

Because of their common origin, it was assumed that the composition of planet building blocks should, to a first order, correlate with stellar atmospheric composition, especially f…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 6 cited

Detection of anomalous element distribution in the extremely slowly rotating magnetic O9.7 V star HD 54879

S. P. Järvinen, S. Hubrig., M. Schöller +4

The O9.7 V star HD 54879 is currently the only massive magnetic star whose magnetic field geometry and rotation period are not constrained. Over the last three years, we gathered a…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 30 cited

The Physical Properties of the SVS 13 Protobinary System: Two Circumstellar Disks and a Spiraling Circumbinary Disk in the Making

Ana K. Diaz-Rodriguez, Guillem Anglada, Guillermo Blázquez-Calero +13

We present VLA and ALMA observations of the close (0.3" = 90 au separation) protobinary system SVS 13. We detect two small circumstellar disks (radii 12 and 9 au in dus…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 96 cited

Thermal imaging of dust hiding the black hole in the Active Galaxy NGC 1068

Violeta Gamez Rosas, Jacob W. Isbell, Walter Jaffe +49

In the widely accepted 'Unified Model' solution of the classification puzzle of Active Galactic Nuclei, the orientation of a dusty accretion torus around the central black hole dom…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 28 cited

Galaxy populations in the Hydra I cluster from the VEGAS survey I. Optical properties of a large sample of dwarf galaxies

Antonio La Marca, Reynier Peletier, Enrichetta Iodice +17

At ~50 Mpc, the Hydra I cluster of galaxies is among the closest cluster in the z=0 Universe, and an ideal environment to study dwarf galaxy properties in a cluster environment. We…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 10 cited

New Periodograms Separating Orbital Radial Velocities and Spectral Shape Variation

Avraham Binnenfeld, Sahar Shahaf, Richard I. Anderson +1

We present new periodograms that are effective in distinguishing Doppler shift from spectral shape variability in astronomical spectra. These periodograms, building upon the concep…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 2 cited

The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey XI: Stellar Mass Fractions and Luminosity Functions of MaDCoWS Clusters at

Bandon Decker, Mark Brodwin, Ripon Saha +14

We present stellar mass fractions and composite luminosity functions (LFs) for a sample of \Ncl\ clusters from the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS) at a redshi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 22 cited

The Pristine survey -- XV. A CFHT ESPaDOnS view on the Milky Way halo and disc populations

R. Lucchesi, C. Lardo, P. Jablonka +14

We present a one-dimensional, local thermodynamic equilibrium (1D-LTE) homogeneous analysis of 132 stars observed at high-resolution with ESPaDOnS. This represents the largest samp…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

The extended atmosphere and circumstellar environment of the cool evolved star VX Sagittarii as seen by MATISSE

A. Chiavassa, K. Kravchenko, M. Montargès +50

Context. VX Sgr is a cool, evolved, and luminous red star whose stellar parameters are difficult to determine, which affects its classification. Aims. We aim to spatially resolve t…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 73 cited

p-winds: an open-source Python code to model planetary outflows and upper atmospheres

Leonardo A. Dos Santos, Aline A. Vidotto, Shreyas Vissapragada +6

Atmospheric escape is considered to be one of the main channels for evolution in sub-Jovian planets, particularly in their early lives. While there are several hypotheses proposed…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

Brightest stars of irregular and low-massive spiral galaxies

Nickolay Tikhonov, Olga Galazutdinova, Gulnara Karataeva +4

A search for a correlation between the luminosities of the brightest stars and luminosities of their host galaxies was carried out on archived Hubble Space Telescope (HST) F606W or…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 16 cited

The post-common-envelope binary central star of the planetary nebula Ou 5: a doubly-eclipsing post-red-giant-branch system

David Jones, James Munday, Romano Corradi +10

We present a detailed study of the stellar and orbital parameters of the post-common envelope binary central star of the planetary nebula Ou~5. Low-resolution spectra obtained duri…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

NOEMA confirmation of an optically dark ALMA-AzTEC submillimetre galaxy at . A late-stage starburst prior to quenching

Soh Ikarashi, R. J. Ivison, William I. Cowley +1

We have obtained 1 and 3 mm spectral scans of ASXDF1100.053.1 using NOEMA. ASXDF1100.053.1 is an unlensed optically dark millimetre-bright SMG with (), which…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 38 cited

LoTSS Jellyfish Galaxies III. The first identification of jellyfish galaxies in the Perseus cluster

Ian D. Roberts, Reinout J. van Weeren, Roland Timmerman +4

In this paper we report the first identification of jellyfish galaxies in the Perseus cluster (Abell 426). We identified four jellyfish galaxies (LEDA 2191078, MCG +07-07-070, UGC…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 95 cited

ALMA-IMF I -- Investigating the origin of stellar masses: Introduction to the Large Program and first results

F. Motte, S. Bontemps, T. Csengeri +61

The ALMA-IMF Large Program imaged a total noncontiguous area of 53pc2, covering 15 extreme, nearby protoclusters of the Milky Way. They were selected to span relevant early protocl…

astro-ph.IM2021

Laser guide star return-flux gain from frequency chirping

J. Hellemeier, M. Enderlein, M. Hager +7

Spectral hole burning reduces sodium laser guide star efficiency. Due to photon recoil, atoms that are initially resonant with the single-frequency laser get Doppler shifted out of…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 7 cited

Could the Magnetic Star HD 135348 Possess a Rigidly Rotating Magnetosphere?

Rahul Jayaraman, Swetlana Hubrig, Daniel L. Holdsworth +4

We report the detection and characterization of a new magnetospheric star, HD 135348, based on photometric and spectropolarimetric observations. The TESS light curve of this star e…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 287 cited

The mass distribution in the Galactic Centre from interferometric astrometry of multiple stellar orbits

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +62

The stars orbiting the compact radio source Sgr A* in the Galactic Centre are precision probes of the gravitational field around the closest massive black hole. In addition to adap…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 35 cited

Deep Images of the Galactic Center with GRAVITY

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +65

Stellar orbits at the Galactic Center provide a very clean probe of the gravitational potential of the supermassive black hole. They can be studied with unique precision, beyond th…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 11 cited

The protoplanetary disc around HD 169142: circumstellar or circumbinary?

P. P. Poblete, N. Cuello, S. Pérez +12

Stellar binaries represent a substantial fraction of stellar systems, especially among young stellar objects. Accordingly, binaries play an important role in setting the architectu…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 27 cited

Early planet formation in embedded protostellar disks: Setting the stage for the first generation of planetesimals

A. J. Cridland, G. P. Rosotti, B. Tabone +3

(Abridged) Recent surveys of young star formation regions have shown that the average Class II object does not have enough dust mass to make the cores of giant planets. Younger Cla…

astro-ph.GA2021

The cosmic environment overtakes the local density in shaping galaxy star formation

Jian Ren, Zhizheng Pan, XianZhong Zheng +11

The gas supply from the cosmic web is the key to sustain star formation in galaxies. It remains to be explored how the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS) effects on galaxy evolutio…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 54 cited

Fundamental physics with ESPRESSO: Precise limit on variations in the fine-structure constant towards the bright quasar HE 05154414

Michael T. Murphy, Paolo Molaro, Ana C. O. Leite +40

The strong intervening absorption system at redshift 1.15 towards the very bright quasar HE 05154414 is the most studied absorber for measuring possible cosmological variations…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 34 cited

Disentangling the formation mechanisms of nuclear star clusters

Katja Fahrion, Ryan Leaman, Mariya Lyubenova +1

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are massive star clusters found ubiquitously in the centres of galaxies, from the dwarf regime to massive ellipticals and spirals. The fraction of nucl…