6 papers
Dimming and pulsation shock of the coalesced star V838 Monocerotis
T. KamiÅski, C. E. Woodward, T. Liimets +3
V838 Mon is the remnant of a stellar merger that occurred in 2002. Twenty-four years after the merger, the remnant closely resembles a red supergiant, but its luminosity is sustain…
KDP as a thermal blocking filter -- Deep near IR observations with a warm narrow band filter
J. K. M. Viuho, A. A. Djupvik, A. N. Sørensen +5
Ground-based astronomy suffers from strong atmospheric line- and thermal continuum emission, at the near infrared (NIR, 0.7-1.1m), and short-wave infrared (SWIR, 1.1-2.5m)…
The Diamond Ring in Cygnus X: Advanced stage of an expanding bubble of ionised carbon
Simon M. Dannhauer, Sebastian Vider, Nicola Schneider +18
The "Diamond Ring" in Cygnus X, southwest of the DR21 ridge, is a nearly circular structure of 6 pc in diameter, prominent in FIR emission and enclosed by clumpy molecular cl…
Advancing accuracy in age determinations of old-disk stars using an oscillating red giant in an eclipsing binary
J. S. Thomsen, A. Miglio, K. Brogaard +26
The study of resonant oscillation modes in low-mass red giant branch stars enables their ages to be inferred with exceptional (10%) precision, unlocking the possibility to re…
Observations of UX Ori in deep minima with the Nordic Optical Telescope. I. Analysis of spectral lines
L. V. Tambovtseva, A. A. Djupvik, V. P. Grinin +11
UX Orionis stars are the most active young stars; they undergo sporadic fadings of 2 - 4 magnitudes in the V-band, due to variable circumstellar extinction caused by a nearly edge-…
Detection of binary companions below the diffraction limit with lucky imaging
Miguel A. Cagigas, R. Clavero, Manuel P. Cagigal +10
We provide a technique for resolving intermediate-separation binaries stars with medium-sized telescopes (i.e. diameter less than or equal to 2.5 m) at wavelengths around 825 nm in…