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most citedDeGaPe 35: Amateur discovery of a new southern symbiotic star

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13 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

The changing optical and X-ray emission of the dormant Cas star HD 45314

G. Rauw, Y. Nazé, E. Bryssinck +25

Cas stars are Oe/Be stars that exhibit bright and hard X-ray emission. HD45314 belonged to this category, but lost its Cas characteristics as its circumstellar disc started…

astro-ph.SR2026

Symbiotic binaries in the Gaia data. II. Symbiotic candidates from general variability classification in DR3

Jaroslav Merc, Lionel Mulato, Joanna Mikołajewska +7

We investigate the reliability of the symbiotic star class in the general variability classification of Gaia DR3 and search for new genuine symbiotic systems among the objects assi…

astro-ph.SR2026

Analysis of the Gaia DR3 planetary nebula candidates and the possible symbiotic stars among them

Lionel Mulato, Jaroslav Merc, Stéphane Charbonnel +3

The Gaia DR3, released in June 2022, included low-resolution BP/RP (XP) spectra that have been exploited for the classification of various types of emission-line objects using mach…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

V4141 Sgr: Outflows and repeated outbursts

Jaroslav Merc, Joanna Mikołajewska, Thomas Petit +6

In this work, we analyze the ongoing brightening of the poorly studied symbiotic star V4141 Sgr and examine its long-term variability. We present new low-resolution spectroscopic o…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

The birth of Be star disks I. From localized ejection to circularization

J. Labadie-Bartz, A. C. Carciofi, A. C. Rubio +35

Classical Be stars are well known to eject mass, but the details governing the initial distribution and evolution of this matter into a disk are poorly constrained by observations.…

astro-ph.SR2025

Spectral evolution of the narrow emission line components in optical during the 2022 nova eruption of U Scorpii

Katsuki Muraoka, Naoto Kojiguchi, Junpei Ito +20

There remains debate over whether the accretion disk survives or is entirely disrupted after the nova eruption. In our previous paper, Muraoka et al. (2024, PASJ, 76, 293) have pho…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Search for new Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars using Gaia DR3. I. Candidate selection and the follow-up of the bright sample

Lionel Mulato, Jaroslav Merc, Stéphane Charbonnel +3

Gaia DR3, released in June 2022, included low-resolution XP spectra that have been used for the classification of various types of emission-line objects through machine-learning te…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 5 cited

Gaia23ckh: Symbiotic outburst of the assumed Mira variable V390 Sco

Jaroslav Merc, Peter Velez, Stéphane Charbonnel +5

The poorly studied variable star V390 Sco, previously classified as a Mira pulsator, was detected in a brightening event by the ESA Gaia satellite in September 2023. This work pres…

astro-ph.SR2024

Dracula's Chivito: discovery of a large edge-on protoplanetary disk with Pan-STARRS

Ciprian T. Berghea, Ammar Bayyari, Michael L. Sitko +6

We report the serendipitous discovery of a large edge-on protoplanetary disk associated with the infrared source IRAS 23077+6707. The disk's apparent size in the Pan-STARRS (PS1) i…

astro-ph.EP2023

A planetary collision afterglow and transit of the resultant debris cloud

Matthew Kenworthy, Simon Lock, Grant Kennedy +19

Planets grow in rotating disks of dust and gas around forming stars, some of which can subsequently collide in giant impacts after the gas component is removed from the disk. Monit…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 9 cited

V618 Sgr: Galactic eclipsing symbiotic nova detected in repeated outbursts

J. Merc, R. Gális, P. Velez +9

V618 Sgr was previously classified as an R CrB-type variable and later as a possible symbiotic star. Our study aims to analyse the nature of this target, which is currently undergo…

astro-ph.SR2022

WHTZ 1: A high excitation Planetary Nebula not a gaseous cocoon from runaway star HD 185806

Quentin A. Parker, Pascal Le Dû, Andreas Ritter +6

We present evidence that the nebular cocoon and bow-shock emission nebula putatively and recently reported as deriving from the 9th magnitude "runaway" star HD 185806 is the previo…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 9 cited

DeGaPe 35: Amateur discovery of a new southern symbiotic star

Thomas Petit, Jaroslav Merc, Rudolf Gális +6

In this work, we present the discovery and characterization of a new southern S-type symbiotic star, DeGaPe 35. We have obtained the low-resolution spectroscopic observations and s…