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most citedDiscovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry

129 citations · 278 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Candidates for the most [] -luminous planetary nebula in the Milky Way. I. Integrated light properties of NGC 6572, NGC 6884, and M 1-71

Azlizan A. Soemitro, Martin M. Roth, Jeremy R. Walsh +3

The bright-end cutoff of the planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF) serves as an extragalactic standard candle. However, the physical properties of planetary nebulae (PNe) at…

astro-ph.SR2026

Two hot pre-white dwarfs inside the red-giant-branch planetary nebula Pa 13 -- Double core evolution or common envelope-induced rejuvenation?

Nicole Reindl, David Jones, Todd Hillwig +4

Close binary central stars of PNe offer a unique window for investigating the conditions immediately following the ejection of a common envelope (CE). Double eclipsing and double-l…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Variable Universe with the Gaia mission and AI methods

L. Eyer, P. Huijse, N. Chornay +5

The Gaia mission has observed over 2 billion stars repeatedly across the entire sky over 10 years, revealing the many astronomical objects that vary on human timescales from second…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Learning novel representations of variable sources from multi-modal data via autoencoders

P. Huijse, J. De Ridder, L. Eyer +18

Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) published for the first time epoch photometry, BP/RP (XP) low-resolution mean spectra, and supervised classification results for millions of variable sour…

astro-ph.SR2025

Variability of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae with the Zwicky Transient Facility. II. Long-Timescale Variables including Wide Binary and Late Thermal Pulse Candidates

Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee, Nicole Reindl, Howard E. Bond +14

In this second paper on our variability survey of central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPNe) using ZTF, we report 11 long-timescale variables with variability timescales ranging fr…

astro-ph.SR2024

Variability of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae with the Zwicky Transient Facility. I. Methods, Short-Timescale Variables, Binary Candidates, and the Unusual Nucleus of WeSb 1

Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee, S. R. Kulkarni, Albert K. H. Kong +16

Over the past several decades, time-series photometry of CSPNe has yielded significant results including, but not limited to, discoveries of nearly 100 binary systems, insights int…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 129 cited

Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry

Gaia Collaboration, P. Panuzzo, T. Mazeh +412

Gravitational waves from black-hole merging events have revealed a population of extra-galactic BHs residing in short-period binaries with masses that are higher than expected base…

astro-ph.GA2023

Probing the Local Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function with Gaia

N. Chornay, N. A. Walton, D. Jones +1

The Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function (PNLF) remains an important extragalactic distance indicator despite a still limited understanding of its most important feature - the brig…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 16 cited

Gaia Focused Product Release: Sources from Service Interface Function image analysis -- Half a million new sources in omega Centauri

Gaia Collaboration, K. Weingrill, A. Mints +400

Gaia's readout window strategy is challenged by very dense fields in the sky. Therefore, in addition to standard Gaia observations, full Sky Mapper (SM) images were recorded for ni…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 23 cited

Gaia Focused Product Release: Asteroid orbital solution. Properties and assessment

Gaia Collaboration, P. David, F. Mignard +2

Context. We report the exploitation of a sample of epoch astrometry for 157 000 asteroids, the same object in the Gaia Data Release 3, extended over the time coverage planned for t…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

Gaia Focused Product Release: A catalogue of sources around quasars to search for strongly lensed quasars

Gaia Collaboration, A. Krone-Martins, C. Ducourant +398

Context. Strongly lensed quasars are fundamental sources for cosmology. The Gaia space mission covers the entire sky with the unprecedented resolution of " in the optical, ma…

astro-ph.SR2023

Gaia Focused Product Release: Radial velocity time series of long-period variables

Gaia Collaboration, M. Trabucchi, N. Mowlavi +403

The third Gaia Data Release (DR3) provided photometric time series of more than 2 million long-period variable (LPV) candidates. Anticipating the publication of full radial-velocit…

astro-ph.SR2023

The messy death of a multiple star system and the resulting planetary nebula as observed by JWST

Orsola De Marco, Muhammad Akashi, Stavros Akras +66

Planetary nebulae (PNe), the ejected envelopes of red giant stars, provide us with a history of the last, mass-losing phases of 90 percent of stars initially more massive than the…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 4 cited

New Close Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae from Gaia DR3 Epoch Photometry

N. Chornay, N. A. Walton

Close binary interactions perform a key role in the formation and shaping of planetary nebulae. However only a small fraction of Galactic planetary nebulae are known to host close…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 23 cited

Towards a more complete sample of binary central stars of planetary nebulae with Gaia

N. Chornay, N. A. Walton, D. Jones +3

Context: Many if not most planetary nebulae (PNe) are now thought to be the outcome of binary evolutionary scenarios. However only a few percent of PNe in the Milky Way are known t…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 46 cited

One star, two star, red star, blue star: an updated planetary nebula central star distance catalogue from Gaia EDR3

N. Chornay, N. A. Walton

Context. Planetary nebulae (PNe) are a brief but important phase of stellar evolution. The study of Galactic PNe has historically been hampered by uncertain distances, but the para…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 27 cited

Searching for central stars of planetary nebulae in Gaia DR2

N. Chornay, N. A. Walton

Context: Accurate distance measurements are fundamental to the study of Planetary Nebulae (PNe) but have long been elusive. The most accurate and model-independent distance measure…