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SN 2017ati: A luminous type IIb explosion from a massive progenitor
Z. -H. Peng, S. Benetti, Y. -Z. Cai +21
We present optical photometric and spectroscopic observations of the Type~IIb supernova (SN)~2017ati. It reached the maximum light at about 27~d after the explosion and the light c…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Preparing for Gaia Searches for Optical Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Events during O4
Sumedha Biswas, Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Peter G. Jonker +9
The discovery of gravitational wave (GW) events and the detection of electromagnetic counterparts from GW170817 has started the era of multimessenger GW astronomy.The field has bee…
Estimating the selection function of Gaia DR3 sub-samples
A. Castro-Ginard, A. G. A. Brown, Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska +9
Understanding which sources are present in an astronomical catalogue and which are not is crucial for the accurate interpretation of astronomical data. In particular, for the multi…
The Galactic Nova Rate: Estimates from the ASAS-SN and Gaia Surveys
A. Kawash, L. Chomiuk, J. Strader +13
We present the first estimate of the Galactic nova rate based on optical transient surveys covering the entire sky. Using data from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASA…
Gaia Data Release 3: Processing and validation of BP/RP low-resolution spectral data
F. De Angeli, M. Weiler, P. Montegriffo +51
(Abridged) Blue (BP) and Red (RP) Photometer low-resolution spectral data is one of the exciting new products in Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3). We calibrate about 65 billion indiv…
Probing for the host galaxies of the fast X-ray transients XRT 000519 and XRT 110103
D. Eappachen, P. G. Jonker, M. Fraser +13
Over the past few years, 30 extragalactic fast X-ray transients (FXRTs) have been discovered, mainly in Chandra and XMM-Newton data. Their nature remains unclear, with propos…
Intermediate-luminosity red transients: Spectrophotometric properties and connection to electron-capture supernova explosions
Y. -Z. Cai, A. Pastorello, M. Fraser +56
We present the spectroscopic and photometric study of five intermediate-luminosity red transients (ILRTs), namely AT 2010dn, AT 2012jc, AT 2013la, AT 2013lb, and AT 2018aes. They s…
Gaia Photometric Science Alerts
S. T. Hodgkin, D. L. Harrison, E. Breedt +108
Since July 2014, the Gaia mission has been engaged in a high-spatial-resolution, time-resolved, precise, accurate astrometric, and photometric survey of the entire sky. Aims: We pr…
The Gravitational Wave Universe Toolbox: A software package to simulate observation of the Gravitational Wave Universe with different detectors
Shu-Xu Yi, Gijs Nelemans, Christiaan Brinkerink +5
Context. As the importance of Gravitational Wave (GW) Astrophysics increases rapidly, astronomers in different fields and with different backgrounds can have the need to get a quic…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Structure and properties of the Magellanic Clouds
Gaia Collaboration, X. Luri, L. Chemin +417
We compare the Gaia DR2 and Gaia EDR3 performances in the study of the Magellanic Clouds and show the clear improvements in precision and accuracy in the new release. We also show…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The astrometric solution
L. Lindegren, S. A. Klioner, J. Hernández +94
Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results for 1.812 billion sources in the magnitude range G = 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gai…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars
Gaia Collaboration, R. L. Smart, L. M. Sarro +420
We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100\,pc of the Sun from the \G\ Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Acceleration of the solar system from Gaia astrometry
Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, F. Mignard +414
Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which have the best-quali…
Dynamical Modeling of CXOGBS J175553.2-281633: A 10 Hour Long Orbital Period Cataclysmic Variable
Sebastian Gomez, Manuel A. P. Torres, Peter G. Jonker +8
We present modeling of the long-term optical light curve and radial velocity curve of the binary stellar system CXOGBS J175553.2-281633, first detected in X-rays in the \textit{Cha…
Hypercompact stellar clusters: morphological renditions and spectro-photometric models
Davide Lena, Peter G. Jonker, Jean P. Rauer +2
Numerical relativity predicts that the coalescence of a black hole-binary causes the newly formed black hole to recoil, and evidence for such recoils has been found in the gravitat…
Electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events from Gaia
Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, P. G. Jonker, S. T. Hodgkin +15
The recent discoveries of gravitational wave events and in one case also its electromagnetic (EM) counterpart allow us to study the Universe in a novel way. The increased sensitivi…
Extreme variability in an active galactic nucleus: Gaia16aax
G. Cannizzaro, M. Fraser, P. G. Jonker +12
We present the results of a multi-wavelength follow up campaign for the luminous nuclear transient Gaia16aax, which was first identified in January 2016. The transient is spatially…
Optical follow-up of the tidal disruption event iPTF16fnl: new insights from X-shooter observations
F. Onori, G. Cannizzaro, P. G. Jonker +11
We present the results from Nordic Optical Telescope and X-shooter follow-up campaigns of the tidal disruption event (TDE) iPTF16fnl, covering the first 100 days after the tr…
Evidence for rapid disk formation and reprocessing in the X-ray bright tidal disruption event AT 2018fyk
T. Wevers, D. R. Pasham, S. van Velzen +15
We present optical spectroscopic and Swift UVOT/XRT observations of the X-ray and UV/optical bright tidal disruption event (TDE) AT 2018fyk/ASASSN-18ul discovered by ASAS-SN. The S…