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most citedBinary companions of evolved stars in APOGEE DR14: Search method and catalog of ~5,000 companions

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astro-ph.IM2026

Diffuse and specular brightness models applied to LEO satellites. Case study: The ONEWEB constellation

María Romero-Colmenares, Katherine Vieira, Jeremy Tregloan-Reed +11

Context. To better understand the observed brightness of low Earth orbit satellites, we must characterize their reflectivity, which in turn depends importantly on their bus designs…

astro-ph.EP2026

Long-term monitoring of WASP-19 b: Signs of apsidal precession and molecular signatures

A. R. Rajkumar, A. Bayo, P. Peng +30

With more than 6000 exoplanets discovered so far, about 12 percent are hot Jupiters. Their large sizes and short orbital periods make them valuable targets for studying planetary f…

astro-ph.EP2026

Time-Domain Photometry and Activity Evolution of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS with BHTOM

A. Fraser Gillan, Łukasz Wyrzykowski, Przemysław J. Mikołajczyk +69

Time-domain photometric monitoring is essential for characterizing cometary evolution, particularly for rare interstellar objects with limited observing opportunities. We aimed to…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

A search for transit timing variations in the transiting hot Jupiter systems HIP 65, NGTS-6, NGTS-10 and WASP-173

A. W. Griffiths, J. Southworth, L. Alegre +30

Hot Jupiters are Jupiter-mass planets with orbital periods of less than ten days. Their short orbital separations make tidal dissipation within the stellar host especially efficien…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

The Orbit of WASP-4 b is in Decay

Ö. Baştürk, A. C. Kutluay, A. Barker +25

WASP-4 b is a hot Jupiter exhibiting a decreasing orbital period, prompting investigations into potential mechanisms driving its evolution. We analyzed 173 transit light curves, in…

astro-ph.EP2025

Shape and spin state model of contact binary (388188) 2006 DP14 using combined radar and optical observations

Richard E. Cannon, Agata Rozek, Marina Brozović +36

Contact binaries are found throughout the solar system. The recent discovery of Selam, the satellite of MBA (152830) Dinkinesh, by the NASA LUCY mission has made it clear that the…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

OGLE-2015-BLG-1609Lb: Sub-jovian planet orbiting a low-mass stellar or brown dwarf host

M. J. Mróz, R. Poleski, A. Udalski +70

We present a comprehensive analysis of a planetary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1609. The planetary anomaly was detected by two survey telescopes, OGLE and MOA. Each of these s…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Digging deeper into the dense Galactic globular cluster Terzan 5 with Electron-Multiplying CCDs. Variable star detection and new discoveries

R. Figuera Jaimes, M. Catelan, K. Horne +20

Context. High frame-rate imaging was employed to mitigate the effects of atmospheric turbulence (seeing) in observations of globular cluster Terzan 5. Aims. High-precision time-ser…

astro-ph.SR2024

Absolute dimensions of solar-type eclipsing binaries. NY Hya: A test for magnetic stellar evolution models

T. C. Hinse, O. Baştürk, J. Southworth +29

The binary star NY Hya is a bright, detached, double-lined eclipsing system with an orbital period of just under five days with two components each nearly identical to the Sun and…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

Gaia21blx: Complete resolution of a binary microlensing event in the Galactic disk

P. Rota, V. Bozza, M. Hundertmark +22

Context. Gravitational microlensing is a method that is used to discover planet-hosting systems at distances of several kiloparsec in the Galactic disk and bulge. We present the an…

astro-ph.EP2024

Star-spot activity, orbital obliquity, transmission spectrum, physical properties, and TTVs of the HATS-2 planetary system

F. Biagiotti, L. Mancini, J. Southworth +23

Our aim in this paper is to refine the orbital and physical parameters of the HATS-2 planetary system and study transit timing variations and atmospheric composition thanks to tran…

astro-ph.EP2023

Optical monitoring of the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system with the Danish telescope around the DART mission impact

Agata Rożek, Colin Snodgrass, Uffe G. Jørgensen +26

The NASA's Double-Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a unique planetary defence and technology test mission, the first of its kind. The main spacecraft of the DART mission impact…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Photometry of the Didymos system across the DART impact apparition

Nicholas Moskovitz, Cristina Thomas, Petr Pravec +78

On 26 September 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted Dimorphos, the satellite of binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos. This demonstrated the…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Revealing the Chemical Structure of the Magellanic Clouds with APOGEE. III. Abundance Gradients of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Joshua T. Povick, David L. Nidever, Pol Massana +10

We determine radial- and age-abundance gradients of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using spectra of 2,062 red giant branch (RGB) field stars observed by SDSS-IV / APOGEE-2S. With…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Revealing the Chemical Structure of the Magellanic Clouds with APOGEE. II. Abundance Gradients of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Joshua T. Povick, David L. Nidever, Steven R. Majewski +10

We present the abundance gradients of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) for 25 elemental abundance ratios and their respective temporal evolution as well as age-[X/Fe] trends using…

astro-ph.EP2023

OGLE-2019-BLG-0825: Constraints on the Source System and Effect on Binary-lens Parameters arising from a Five Day Xallarap Effect in a Candidate Planetary Microlensing Event

Yuki K. Satoh, Naoki Koshimoto, David P. Bennett +86

We present an analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0825. This event was identified as a planetary candidate by preliminary modeling. We find that significant residuals from…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 164 cited

Orbital Period Change of Dimorphos Due to the DART Kinetic Impact

Cristina A. Thomas, Shantanu P. Naidu, Peter Scheirich +46

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully performed the first test of a kinetic impactor for asteroid deflection by impacting Dimorphos, the secondary of…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

Stellar Properties for a Comprehensive Collection of Star Forming Regions in the SDSS APOGEE-2 Survey

Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga, Marina Kounkel, Jesús Hernández +25

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) APOGEE-2 primary science goal was to observe red giant stars throughout the Galaxy to study its dynamics, morphology, and chemical evoluti…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 4 cited

Pre-main Sequence Brackett Emitters in the APOGEE DR17 Catalog: Line Strengths and Physical Properties of Accretion Columns

Hunter Campbell, Elliott Khilfeh, Kevin R. Covey +21

Very young (t 10 Myrs) stars possess strong magnetic fields that channel ionized gas from the interiors of their circumstellar discs to the surface of the star. Upon imp…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

A search for transit timing variations in the HATS-18 planetary system

John Southworth, A. J. Barker, T. C. Hinse +23

HATS-18b is a transiting planet with a large mass and a short orbital period, and is one of the best candidates for the detection of orbital decay induced by tidal effects. We pres…

astro-ph.EP2022

VLT, GROND and Danish Telescope observations of transits in the TRAPPIST-1 system

John Southworth, L. Mancini, M. Dominik +14

TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool dwarf that hosts seven known transiting planets. We present photometry of the system obtained using three telescopes at ESO La Silla (the Danish 1.54-m…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 4 cited

Physical properties of near-Earth asteroid (2102) Tantalus from multi-wavelength observations

Agata Rożek, Stephen C. Lowry, Benjamin Rozitis +20

Between 2010 and 2017 we have collected new optical and radar observations of the potentially hazardous asteroid (2102)~Tantalus from the ESO NTT and Danish telescopes at the La Si…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 72 cited

The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: VI. Galactic Chemical Gradient Analysis from APOGEE DR17

Natalie Myers, John Donor, Taylor Spoo +19

The goal of the Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey is to constrain key Galactic dynamic and chemical evolution parameters by the construction and analysis…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 6 cited

Precision measurement of a brown dwarf mass in a binary system in the microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0033/MOA-2019-BLG-035

A. Herald, A. Udalski, V. Bozza +89

Context. Brown dwarfs are poorly understood transition objects between stars and planets, with several competing mechanisms having been proposed for their formation. Mass measureme…