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most citedA close halo of large transparent grains around extreme red giant stars

198 citations · 376 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.SR2026

The FU Ori outburst of PR Ori B

Carlos Contreras Pena, Zsofia Nagy, Gregory Herczeg +42

We report the discovery of a nearby FU Ori-type outburst (FUor), PR Ori B, in the L1641 cluster of the Orion star-forming region. The high-amplitude variability was first identifie…

astro-ph.SR2025

Evidence for an accretion bridge in the DX Cha circumbinary system from VLTI/MATISSE observations

Tímea Juhász, József Varga, Péter Ábrahám +20

DX Cha (HD 104237) is a spectroscopic binary consisting of a Herbig A7.5Ve-A8Ve primary star and a K3-type companion. Here we report on new micrometer interferometric observ…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

From an amateur PN candidate to the Rosetta Stone of SN Iax research

Andreas Ritter, Quentin A. Parker, Foteini Lykou +3

On August 25th 2013 Dana Patchick from the "Deep Sky Hunters" (DSH) amateur astronomer group discovered a diffuse nebulosity in the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mid-I…

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★ 23 cited

A new study on a type Iax stellar remnant and its probable association with SN 1181

Foteini Lykou, Quentin A. Parker, Andreas Ritter +4

We report observations and modeling of the stellar remnant and presumed double-degenerate merger of Type~Iax supernova Pa30, which is the probable remnant of SN~1181~AD. It is the…

astro-ph.HE2021

The remnant and origin of the historical supernova 1181AD

Andreas Ritter, Quentin Parker, Foteini Lykou +3

The guest star of AD 1181 is the only historical supernova of the last millennium that is without a definite counterpart. The previously proposed association with supernova remnant…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 17 cited

The infrared view of dust and molecules around V4334 Sgr (Sakurai's Object): a 20-year retrospective

A. Evans, R. D. Gehrz, C. E. Woodward +16

We present an analysis of the evolution of circumstellar dust and molecules in the environment of the very late thermal pulse object V4334 Sgr (Sakurai's Object) over a -ye…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 10 cited

The Central Star of Planetary Nebula PHR 1315-6555 and its host Galactic Open Cluster AL 1

V. Fragkou, Q. A. Parker, A. A. Zijlstra +2

PHR 1315-6555 is a rare case of a Galactic Planetary Nebula that is a proven member of the Open Cluster AL 1. This allows its distance to be defined with precision and thus the acc…

astro-ph.SR2018

Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae in Galactic Open Clusters: Providing additional data for the White Dwarf Initial-to-Final-Mass Relation

Vasiliki Fragkou, Quentin A. Parker, Albert Zijlstra +2

Accurate (<10%) distances of Galactic star clusters allow precise estimation of the physical parameters of any physically associated Planetary Nebula (PN) and also that of its cent…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 14 cited

The curious case of II Lup: a complex morphology revealed with SAM/NACO and ALMA

Foteini Lykou, Albert A. Zijlstra, Jacques Kluska +5

We present the first-ever images of the circumstellar environment of the carbon-rich AGB star II Lup in the infrared and sub-mm wavelengths, and the discovery of the envelope's non…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 198 cited

A close halo of large transparent grains around extreme red giant stars

Barnaby R. M. Norris, Peter G. Tuthill, Michael J. Ireland +6

Intermediate-mass stars end their lives by ejecting the bulk of their envelope via a slow dense wind back into the interstellar medium, to form the next generation of stars and pla…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 35 cited

A disk inside the bipolar planetary nebula M2-9

Foteini Lykou, Olivier Chesneau, Albert A. Zijlstra +4

Bipolarity in proto-planetary and planetary nebulae is associated with events occurring in or around their cores. Past infrared observations have revealed the presence of dusty str…

astro-ph2007★ 38 cited

A disc in the heart of the Ant nebula

Foteini Lykou, Olivier Chesneau, Eric Lagadec +1

We present the discovery of a silicate disc at the centre of the planetary nebula Mz3 (the Ant). The nebula was observed with MIDI on the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI)…

astro-ph2007★ 38 cited

A silicate disk in the heart of the Ant

Olivier Chesneau, Foteini Lykou, Bruce Balick +6

We aim at getting high spatial resolution information on the dusty core of bipolar planetary nebulae to directly constrain the shaping process. Methods: We present observations of…