5 papers
KL Dra as a Benchmark Laboratory for Accretion-Disk Physics: Constraints from TESS and Ground-Based Surveys
Luis E. Salazar Manzano, Liliana E. Rivera Sandoval, Jean-Marie Hameury +4
We present the longest-term optical analysis of the AM CVn system KL Dra using years of monitoring from TESS and wide-field ground-based surveys. The continuous TESS cover…
Water D/H in 3I/ATLAS as a Probe of Formation Conditions in Another Planetary System
Luis E. Salazar Manzano, Teresa Paneque-Carreño, Martin A. Cordiner +17
Water reservoirs in the Solar System exhibit a deuterium enrichment that links back to the physical environment at the time of stellar birth. Gas-phase and ice-grain deuterium enri…
A study of transients from ground-based surveys reveals new ultra-compact accreting white dwarf binaries
Jan Kára, Liliana Rivera Sandoval, Wendy Mendoza +5
AM CVn stars are ultra-compact semi-detached binaries consisting of a white dwarf primary and a hydrogen-depleted secondary. In this paper we present spectroscopic and photometric…
Onset of CN Emission in 3I/ATLAS: Evidence for Strong Carbon-Chain Depletion
Luis E. Salazar Manzano, Hsing Wen Lin, Aster G. Taylor +6
Interstellar objects provide a direct window into the environmental conditions around stars other than the Sun. The recent discovery of 3I/ATLAS, a new interstellar comet, offers a…
The Effect of Vera C. Rubin Observatory Cadence Selections on Kilonova Detectability
Cristina Andrade, Raiyah Alserkal, Luis Salazar Manzano +5
The discovery of the optical/infra-red counterpart (AT2017gfo) to the binary neutron star gravitational-wave detection (GW170817), which was followed by a short gamma-ray burst (GR…