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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph.SR2021★ 2 cited

SOFIA/FORCAST Monitoring of the Dust Emission from R Aqr: Start of the Eclipse

Ravi Sankrit, Eric Omelian, Uma Gorti +3

We present mid-infrared spectra from our continued monitoring of R Aquarii, the nearest symbiotic Mira, using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). New phot…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 5 cited

Synchronous Satellites of Venus

Anthony R. Dobrovolskis, Jose Luis Alvarellos

Synchronous satellites of Venus have long been thought unstable, but we use Poincare's surface of section technique to show that synchronous quasi-satellites orbiting just outside…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 15 cited

Hypotheses for Triton's Plumes: New Analyses and Future Remote Sensing Tests

Jason D. Hofgartner, Samuel P. D. Birch, Julie Castillo +14

At least two active plumes were observed on Neptune's moon Triton during the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989. Models for Triton's plumes have previously been grouped into five hypotheses,…

astro-ph.GA2021

Families and Clusters of Diffuse Interstellar Bands: a Data-Driven Correlation Analysis

Haoyu Fan, Madison Schwartz, Amin Farhang +9

More than 500 diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) have been observed in astronomical spectra, and their signatures and correlations in different environments have been studied over t…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 71 cited

ExoMiner: A Highly Accurate and Explainable Deep Learning Classifier that Validates 301 New Exoplanets

Hamed Valizadegan, Miguel Martinho, Laurent S. Wilkens +10

The kepler and TESS missions have generated over 100,000 potential transit signals that must be processed in order to create a catalog of planet candidates. During the last few yea…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 5 cited

Ionized carbon around IRC +10216

William T. Reach, Maxime Ruaud, Helmut Wiesemeyer +5

Asymptotic giant branch (AGB)stars create a rich inventory of molecules in their envelopes as they lose mass during later stages of their evolution. These molecules cannot survive…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

C diffuse interstellar band correlations and environmental variations

Leander Schlarmann, Bernard Foing, Jan Cami +1

The Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) are absorption features seen in the spectra of astronomical objects, that arise in the interstellar medium. Today more than 500 DIBs have been…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 74 cited

GJ 367b: A dense ultra-short period sub-Earth planet transiting a nearby red dwarf star

Kristine W. F. Lam, Szilárd Csizmadia, Nicola Astudillo-Defru +75

Ultra-short-period (USP) exoplanets have orbital periods shorter than one day. Precise masses and radii of USPs could provide constraints on their unknown formation and evolution p…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 4 cited

New Fe I Level Energies and Line Identifications from Stellar Spectra. III. Initial Results from UV, Optical, and Infrared Spectra

Ruth C. Peterson, Robert L. Kurucz

The spectrum of neutral iron is critical to astrophysics, yet furnace laboratory experiments cannot reach many high-lying Fe I levels. Instead, Peterson & Kurucz (2015) and Peterso…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 18 cited

TOI-1842b: A Transiting Warm Saturn Undergoing Re-Inflation around an Evolving Subgiant

Robert A. Wittenmyer, Jake T. Clark, Trifon Trifonov +41

The imminent launch of space telescopes designed to probe the atmospheres of exoplanets has prompted new efforts to prioritise the thousands of transiting planet candidates for fol…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 42 cited

Mapping the magnetic field in the Taurus/B211 filamentary cloud with SOFIA HAWC+ and comparing with simulation

Pak Shing Li, Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Hamza Ajeddig +4

Optical and infrared polarization mapping and recent Planck observations of the filamentary cloud L1495 in Taurus show that the large-scale magnetic field is approximately perpendi…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 42 cited

Accreting protoplanets: Spectral signatures and magnitude of gas and dust extinction at H alpha

G. -D. Marleau, Y. Aoyama, R. Kuiper +14

Accreting planets have been seen at Ha (H alpha), but targeted searches have not been fruitful. For planets, accretion tracers should come from the shock itself, exposing them to e…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 49 cited

TOI-2109b: An Ultrahot Gas Giant on a 16 hr Orbit

Ian Wong, Avi Shporer, George Zhou +56

We report the discovery of an ultrahot Jupiter with an extremely short orbital period of days (16 hr). The plane…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

Panoramic SETI: Overall focal plane electronics and timing and network protocols

Wei Liu, Dan Werthimer, Ryan Lee +11

The PANOSETI experiment is an all-sky, all-the-time visible search for nanosecond to millisecond time-scale transients. The experiment will deploy observatory domes at several site…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 37 cited

Triply eclipsing triple stars in the northern TESS fields: TICs 193993801, 388459317 and 52041148

T. Borkovits, T. Mitnyan, S. A. Rappaport +23

In this work we report the discovery and analysis of three new triply eclipsing triple star systems found with the TESS mission during its observations of the northern skies: TICs…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

Characterizing Spatial Variations of PAH Emission in the Reflection Nebula NGC 1333

C. Knight, E. Peeters, M. Wolfire +1

Infrared emission features at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, and 11.2 m, attributed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, show variations in relative intensity, shape, and peak position. Th…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 33 cited

A radio technosignature search towards Proxima Centauri resulting in a signal-of-interest

Shane Smith, Danny C Price, Sofia Z Sheikh +15

The detection of life beyond Earth is an ongoing scientific endeavour, with profound implications. One approach, known as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), seeks…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 41 cited

Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework

Sofia Z. Sheikh, Shane Smith, Danny C. Price +15

The aim of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is to find technologically-capable life beyond Earth through their technosignatures. On 2019 April 29, the Breakthrou…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 31 cited

CO emission as an effective measure of gas masses of protoplanetary disks

Maxime Ruaud, Uma Gorti, David Hollenbach

Many astrochemical models of observed CO isotopologue line emission, earlier considered a good proxy measure of H and hence disk gas mass, favor large deviations in the carbon…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 8 cited

Cyber-Cosmos: A New Citizen Science Concept in A Dark Sky Destination

Domingos Barbosa, Bruno Coelho, Miguel Bergano +8

Astrotourism and related citizen science activities are becoming a major trend of a sustainable, high-quality tourism segment, core elements to the protection of Dark skies in many…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

The MURALES survey. V. Jet-induced star formation in 3C 277.3 (Coma A)

A. Capetti, B. Balmaverde, C. Tadhunter +13

We present observations obtained with the VLT/MUSE optical integral field spectrograph of the radio source 3C277.3, located at a redshift of 0.085 and associated with the galaxy Co…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 46 cited

TOI-2076 and TOI-1807: Two young, comoving planetary systems within 50 pc identified by TESS that are ideal candidates for further follow-up

Christina Hedges, Alex Hughes, Steven Giacalone +42

We report the discovery of two planetary systems around comoving stars; TOI-2076 (TIC 27491137) and TOI-1807 (TIC 180695581). TOI-2076 is a nearby (41.9 pc) multi-planetary system…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 27 cited

Multiband Detection of Repeating FRB 20180916B

Ketan R. Sand, Jakob Faber, Vishal Gajjar +19

We present a multiband study of FRB 20180916B, a repeating source with a 16.3 day periodicity. We report the detection of 4, 1 and 7 bursts from observations spanning 3 days using…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 14 cited

Volatile transport modeling on Triton with new observational constraints

T. Bertrand, E. Lellouch, B. J. Holler +18

Neptune's moon Triton shares many similarities with Pluto, including volatile cycles of N2, CH4 and CO, and represents a benchmark case for the study of surface-atmosphere interact…