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astro-ph.GA2021★ 10 cited

A FAST Survey of HINSA in PGCCs Guided by HC3N

Xunchuan Liu, Yuefang Wu, Chao Zhang +11

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we search for HI narrow-line self-absorption (HINSA) features in twelve Planck Galactic cold clumps (PGCCs),…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 49 cited

An Early Transition to Magnetic Supercriticality in Star Formation

Tao-Chung Ching, Di Li, Carl Heiles +5

Magnetic fields play an important role in the evolution of interstellar medium and star formation. As the only direct probe of interstellar field strength, credible Zeeman measurem…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 34 cited

An environmental analysis of the Type Ib SN 2019yvr and the possible presence of an inflated binary companion

Ning-Chen Sun, Justyn R. Maund, Paul A. Crowther +5

SN 2019yvr is the second Type Ib supernova (SN) with a possible direct detection of its progenitor (system); however, the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the pre-explosion so…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 15 cited

Coherent Search for Binary Pulsars across all Five Keplerian Parameters in Radio Observations using the template-bank algorithm

Vishnu Balakrishnan, David Champion, Ewan Barr +5

Relativistic binary pulsars orbiting white dwarfs and neutron stars have already provided excellent tests of gravity. However, despite observational efforts, a pulsar orbiting a bl…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

Possible Signature of Sausage Waves in Photospheric Bright Points

Yuhang Gao, Fuyu Li, Bo Li +4

Sausage waves have been frequently reported in solar magnetic structures such as sunspots, pores, and coronal loops. However, they have not been unambiguously identified in photosp…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 4 cited

XMM-Newton detection of soft time lags in the TDE candidate AT 2018fyk

Wenda Zhang

In this letter we report a tentative detection of soft time lags (i.e. variability of softer photons lags behind the variability of harder photons) in one observation…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 43 cited

Prospects for differentiating extended coronal geometries in AGNs with the IXPE mission

F. Ursini, G. Matt, S. Bianchi +3

X-ray polarimetry can potentially constrain the unknown geometrical shape of AGN coronae. We present simulations of the X-ray polarization signal expected from AGN coronae, assumin…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 49 cited

The passband integrationproperties of Birefringent filter

Xiaofan Wang, Mikhail Leonidovich Demidov, Yuanyong Deng +1

In this article, we discuss an observation phenomenon where the total amount of photons in the full passband of the Birefringent lter is a constant number that is considered by rem…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 6 cited

Catching a grown-up starfish planetary nebula II. Plasma analysis and central star properties of PC 22

L. Sabin, V. Gómez-Llanos, C. Morisset +4

After performing the morpho-kinematic analysis of the planetary nebula (PN) PC 22, we now present its nebular and stellar analysis. The plasma investigation relies on the novel use…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 3 cited

Measuring the Metallicity of Early-type Galaxies. I. Composite Region

Wu Yuzhong

We present the data of 9,739 early-type galaxies (ETGs), cross-matching the Galaxy Zoo 1 with our sample selected from the catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 of…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

Estimating The Metallicity of Star-forming Early-type Galaxies

Wu Yuzhong, Zhang Wei

We derive data of 4615 star-forming early-type galaxies (ETGs), which come from cross-match of the and the catalogue of the MPA-JHU emission-line measurements for th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

The Metallicity measurement of Early-type Galaxies

Wu Yuzhong

We use data for 6048 early-type galaxies (ETGs) from Galaxy Zoo 1 that have been cross-matched with the catalog of the MPA-JHU emission-line measurements for the Sloan Digital Sky…

astro-ph.IM2021

An empirical comparison of primary baffle and vanes for optical astronomical telescope

Taoran Li

In optical astronomical telescopes, the primary baffle is a tube-like structure centering in the hole of the primary mirror and the vanes usually locate inside the baffle, improvin…

gr-qc2021★ 24 cited

Neutron stars in massive scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity: Spherical structure and time-independent perturbations

Rui Xu, Yong Gao, Lijing Shao

The class of scalar-tensor theories with the scalar field coupling to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant has drawn great interest since solutions of spontaneous scalarization were found fo…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 3 cited

The Disk Veiling Effect of the Black Hole Low-Mass X-ray Binary A0620-00

Wan-Min Zheng, Qiaoya Wu, Jianfeng Wu +15

The optical light curves of quiescent black hole low-mass X-ray binaries often exhibit significant non-ellipsoidal variabilities, showing the photospheric radiation of the companio…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 37 cited

J-PLUS: Stellar Parameters, C, N, Mg, Ca and [α/Fe] Abundances for Two Million Stars from DR1

Lin Yang, Haibo Yuan, Maosheng Xiang +20

Context. The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS) has obtained precise photometry in twelve specially designed filters for large numbers of Galactic stars. Derivin…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

System Equivalent Flux Density of a Polarimetric Tripole Radio Interferometer

A. T. Sutinjo, M. Kovaleva, Y. Xu

System equivalent flux density (SEFD) is an important figure of merit of a radio telescope. This paper aims to derive a general expression for SEFD of a polarimetric tripole interf…

astro-ph.HE2021

Impact of Massive Binary Star and Cosmic Evolution on Gravitational Wave Observations II: Double Compact Object Rates and Properties

Floor S. Broekgaarden, Edo Berger, Simon Stevenson +9

Making the most of the rapidly increasing population of gravitational-wave detections of black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) mergers requires comparing observations with populati…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 26 cited

WALLABY Pre-Pilot Survey: The effects of tidal interaction on radial distribution of color in galaxies of the Eridanus supergroup

Shun Wang, Jing Wang, Bi-Qing For +21

We study the tidal interaction of galaxies in the Eridanus supergroup, using HI data from the pre-pilot survey of WALLABY (Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY). We o…

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.SR2021★ 12 cited

Simultaneous Observations of Chromospheric Evaporation and Condensation during a C-class Flare

Dong Li, Zhenxiang Hong, Zongjun Ning

We explored simultaneous observations of chromospheric evaporation and condensation during the impulsive phase of a C6.7 flare on 9 May 2019. The solar flare was simultaneously obs…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 4 cited

A Study on Correcting the Effect of Polarization Crosstalk in Full-Disk Solar Photospheric Magnetic Fields Observations

S. Liu, J. T. Su, X. Y. Bai +6

Magnetography using magnetic sensitive lines is regarded traditionally as the main instrument for measuring the magnetic field of the whole Sun. Full polarized Stockes parameters (…

astro-ph.GA2021

Galactic Star Formation with NIKA2 (GASTON): Evidence of mass accretion onto dense clumps

A. J. Rigby, R. Adam, P. Ade +49

High-mass stars () play a crucial role in the evolution of galaxies, and so it is imperative that we understand how they are formed. We have used the New…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 1 cited

Resolving Two Distinct Thermal X-ray Components in A compound Solar Flare

Zhenjun Zhou, Rui Liu, Jianqing Sun +6

X-ray emission provides the most direct diagnostics of the energy-release process in solar flares. Occasionally, a superhot X-ray source is found to be above hot flare loops of ~10…