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astro-ph.SR2021★ 21 cited

A Wide Planetary Mass Companion Discovered Through the Citizen Science Project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9

Jacqueline K. Faherty, Jonathan Gagne, Mark Popinchalk +24

Through the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project we discovered a late-type L dwarf co-moving with the young K0 star BD+60 1417 at a projected separation of 37" or 1662…

astro-ph.SR2021

Discovery of a uniquely cool and compact source at 28 parsecs from the Sun

Kevin Apps, R. L. Smart, Roberto Silvotti

We present the discovery of what appears to be both a uniquely cool and old white dwarf within 30 parsecs of the sun. DES J214756.46-403529.3 is detected in four separate surveys,…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 138 cited

The 10 parsec sample in the Gaia era

Céline Reylé, Kevin Jardine, Pascal Fouqué +3

The nearest stars provide a fundamental constraint for our understanding of stellar physics and the Galaxy. The nearby sample serves as an anchor where all objects can be seen and…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: Structure and properties of the Magellanic Clouds

Gaia Collaboration, X. Luri, L. Chemin +417

We compare the Gaia DR2 and Gaia EDR3 performances in the study of the Magellanic Clouds and show the clear improvements in precision and accuracy in the new release. We also show…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 117 cited

A classifier for spurious astrometric solutions in Gaia EDR3

Jan Rybizki, Gregory Green, Hans-Walter Rix +6

The Gaia early Data Release 3 has delivered exquisite astrometric data for 1.47 billion sources, which is revolutionizing many fields in astronomy. For a small fraction of these so…