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most citedAstropy: A Community Python Package for Astronomy

14.6k citations

948 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Chromospherically Active Stars in the MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey

Okwudili D. Egbo, David A. H. Buckley, Paul J. Groot +4

Stellar magnetic activity has long been established to occur in subsets of late-type main-sequence stars and manifests itself in the form of chromospheric and coronal activity. Thi…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

TESS Discovery of Twin Planets near 2:1 Resonance around Early M-Dwarf TOI 4342

Evan Tey, Chelsea X. Huang, Michelle Kunimoto +28

With data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), we showcase improvements to the MIT Quick-Look Pipeline (QLP) through the discovery and validation of a multi-plane…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 4 cited

A search for variable subdwarf B stars in TESS Full Frame Images III. An update on variable targets in both ecliptic hemispheres -- contamination analysis and new sdB pulsators

S. K. Sahoo, A. S. Baran, H. L. Worters +2

We present an update on the variable star survey performed on the TESS 30 min Full Frame Image (FFI) data reported by our first two papers in this series. This update includes a co…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 18 cited

Trajectory Based RFI Subtraction and Calibration for Radio Interferometry

Chris Finlay, Bruce A. Bassett, Martin Kunz +1

Radio interferometry calibration and Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) removal are usually done separately. Here we show that jointly modelling the antenna gains and RFI has signi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 33 cited

Optical and mid-infrared line emission in nearby Seyfert galaxies

A. Feltre, C. Gruppioni, L. Marchetti +24

Line ratio diagnostics provide valuable clues on the source of ionizing radiation in galaxies with intense black hole accretion and starbursting events, such as local Seyfert or ga…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

Multi-wavelength study of TeV blazar 1ES 1218+304 using gamma-ray, X-ray and optical observations

Rishank Diwan, Raj Prince, Aditi Agarwal +6

We report the multi-wavelength study for a high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac 1ES 1218+304 using near-simultaneous data obtained during the period from January 1, 2018, to May 31, 2021…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 17 cited

The outburst of the changing-look AGN IRAS23226-3843 in 2019

Wolfram Kollatschny, Dirk Grupe, Michael L. Parker +8

IRAS23226-3843 has previously been classified as a changing-look AGN based on X-ray and optical spectral variations. In 2019, Swift observations revealed a strong rebrightening in…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 1 cited

Local Volume dwarf KK242: radial velocity, SF region, and metallicity

S. A. Pustilnik, A. L. Tepliakova, Y. A. Perepelitsyna +5

KK242 is a LV dwarf of transition type residing in the void environment. Koda et al. present clear indications on its connection with Scd galaxy NGC6503. This implies the distance…

gr-qc2022★ 3 cited

Transitioning from a bounce to inflation

Richard Daniel, Mariam Campbell, Carsten van de Bruck +1

Non-singular bouncing cosmologies are well--motivated models for the early universe. Recent observational data are consistent with positive spatial curvature and allow for a natura…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 26 cited

Short-period pulsating hot-subdwarf stars observed by TESS I. Southern ecliptic hemisphere

A. S. Baran, V. Van Grootel, R. H. Ostensen +7

We present results of a Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) search for short-period pulsations in compact stellar objects observed in years 1 and 3 of the TESS mission, du…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Learning to Detect Interesting Anomalies

Alireza Vafaei Sadr, Bruce A. Bassett, Emmanuel Sekyi

Anomaly detection algorithms are typically applied to static, unchanging, data features hand-crafted by the user. But how does a user systematically craft good features for anomali…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 32 cited

Semi-analytic forecasts for Roman -- the beginning of a new era of deep-wide galaxy surveys

L. Y. Aaron Yung, Rachel S. Somerville, Steven L. Finkelstein +11

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next flagship observatory, will redefine deep-field galaxy survey with a field of view two orders of magnitude larger than Hubble and…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 6 cited

Broadband study and the discovery of pulsations from the Be/X-ray binary eRASSU J052914.9-662446 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

C. Maitra, D. Kaltenbrunner, F. Haberl +12

Context. The Magellanic Clouds are our nearest star-forming galaxies. While the population of high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is relatively wel…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

The need for multicomponent dust attenuation in modeling nebular emission: Constraints from SDSS-IV MaNGA

Xihan Ji, Renbin Yan, Kevin Bundy +12

A fundamental assumption adopted in nearly every extragalactic emission-line study is that the attenuation of different emission lines can be described by a single attenuation curv…

gr-qc2022★ 8 cited

Horizon area bound and MOTS stability in locally rotationally symmetric solutions

Abbas M. Sherif, Peter K. S. Dunsby

In this paper, we study the stability of marginally outer trapped surfaces (MOTS), foliating horizons of the form , embedded in locally rotationally symmetric class II perf…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 73 cited

Deciphering the extreme X-ray variability of the nuclear transient eRASSt J045650.3-203750: A likely repeating partial tidal disruption event

Zhu Liu, A. Malyali, M. Krumpe +17

(Abridged) In this paper, we present the results of an exceptional repeating X-ray nuclear transient, eRASSt J045650.3-203750 (hereafter J0456-20), uncovered by SRG/eROSITA in a qu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 25 cited

Starlight-polarization-based tomography of the magnetized interstellar medium: PASIPHAE's line-of-sight inversion method

V. Pelgrims, G. V. Panopoulou, K. Tassis +20

We present the first Bayesian method for tomographic decomposition of the plane-of-sky orientation of the magnetic field with the use of stellar polarimetry and distance. This stan…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

The Role of Magnetic Fields in the Formation of the Filamentary Infrared Dark Cloud G11.11-0.12

Zhiwei Chen, Ramotholo Sefako, Yang Yang +4

We report on the near-infrared polarimetric observations of G11.11-0.12 (hereafter G11) obtained with SIRPOL on the 1.4 m IRSF telescope. The starlight polarisation of the backgrou…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 8 cited

Improved binary solution for the gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856

B. van Soelen, S. Mc Keague, D. Malyshev +4

The gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 consists of an O6V((f)) type star and an unknown compact object, and shows orbitally modulated emission from radio to very high energy gamma…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

TUVO-21acq: a new cataclysmic variable discovered through a UV outburst

David Modiano, Rudy Wijnands, David A. H. Buckley +3

Outbursts from cataclysmic variables, such as dwarf novae (DNe), are prevalent throughout the galaxy and are known to emit strongly in the ultraviolet (UV). However, the UV emissio…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 141 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: pyPipe3D analysis release for 10,000 galaxies

S. F. Sánchez, J. K. Barrera-Ballesteros, E. Lacerda +12

We present here the analysis performed using the pyPipe3D pipeline for the final MaNGA dataset included in the SDSS seventeenth data-release. This dataset comprises more than 10,00…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 169 cited

Discovery of a radio emitting neutron star with an ultra-long spin period of 76 seconds

Manisha Caleb, Ian Heywood, Kaustubh Rajwade +19

The radio-emitting neutron star population encompasses objects with spin periods ranging from milliseconds to tens of seconds. As they age and spin more slowly, their radio emissio…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

3D-DASH: The Widest Near-Infrared Hubble Space Telescope Survey

Lamiya A. Mowla, Sam E. Cutler, Gabriel B. Brammer +15

The 3D-Drift And SHift (3D-DASH) program is a \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} WFC3 F160W imaging and G141 grism survey of the equatorial COSMOS field. 3D-DASH extends the legacy of…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 12 cited

Searching for the Next Galactic Luminous Red Nova

Harry Addison, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Paul J. Groot +3

Luminous red novae (LRNe) are astrophysical transients believed to be caused by the partial ejection of a binary star's common envelope (CE) and the merger of its components. The f…