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most citedThe global gas and dust budget of the Large Magellanic Cloud: AGB stars and supernovae, and the impact on the ISM evolution

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52 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

The Last Gasps of a Dying Star: ALMA Observations of the Pre-Planetary Nebula IRAS 06530-0213

Raghvendra Sahai, Wouter Vlemmings, Guillermo Quintana-Lacaci +16

We present high angular-resolution () ALMA observations of millimeter-wave line and continuum emission (at and mm) in the pre-planetary ne…

astro-ph.SR2026

CO rotational line emission in very red carbon stars in the Magellanic Clouds

M. A. T. Groenewegen, A. Nanni, M. L. Boyer +11

Stars of low and intermediate initial mass lose most of their stellar mass at the end of their lives during the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phase. Determining their gas and dust…

astro-ph.SR2026

K 1-6 is a photoionised ISM nebula shaped by a fast-moving hot white dwarf in a triple system

Jaroslav Merc, David Jones, Ana Escorza +22

K 1-6 has long been classified as a planetary nebula (PN) hosting a binary central star, yet it has remained poorly studied due to its faintness. The central star exhibits pronounc…

astro-ph.GA2026

Detection of C Combination Bands in the Near-IR Spectrum of Tc 1

Morgan M. Giese, Vincent J. Esposito, Simon Van Schuylenbergh +26

We report the detection of a set of new near-infrared emission features between 3.5 and 5.2 m in JWST/NIRSpec observations of Tc 1, the planetary nebula known for displaying the…

astro-ph.SR2026

ATOMIUM: Inner circumstellar envelopes of oxygen-rich AGB stars as revealed by highly excited SiO lines

B. Pimpanuwat, S. Etoka, M. D. Gray +14

Silicon monoxide (SiO) traces the physical conditions and dynamics in the circumstellar envelopes (CSEs) of AGB stars. We present high-resolution ALMA Band 6 observations of highly…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Current Unsolved Problems in Planetary Nebulae Research

Sun Kwok, Bruce Balick, You-Hua Chu +5

While there has been significant progress in our understanding of the origin and evolu-tion of planetary nebulae in the last 50 years, there remain several unsolved problems. These…

astro-ph.GA2025

Detection of CH3+ in the O-rich planetary nebula NGC 6302

Charmi Bhatt, Jan Cami, Els Peeters +33

Planetary nebulae are sites where ejected stellar material evolves into complex molecules, but the precise physical conditions and chemical routes that govern these processes are u…

astro-ph.SR2025

Central-star extinctions towards planetary nebulae

Alexander Csukai, Albert A. Zijlstra, Iain McDonald +1

Planetary nebulae trace the hottest and most luminous phase of evolution of solar-type stars. We use these hot, bright stars to investigate extinctions towards a complete sample of…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Temporal Changes in the Infrared Spectra of Magellanic Carbon Stars

G. C. Sloan, K. E. Kraemer, B. Aringer +9

The Medium-Resolution Spectrometer on the Mid-Infrared Instrument on JWST obtained spectra of three carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Two of the spectra differ significan…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 4 cited

Machine learning based stellar classification with highly sparse photometry data

Sean Enis Cody, Sebastian Scher, Iain McDonald +3

Identifying stars belonging to different classes is vital in order to build up statistical samples of different phases and pathways of stellar evolution. In the era of surveys cove…

astro-ph.SR2024

Searching for radio late-type dwarf stars in the GLEAM-X DR1 catalog

Qichen Huang, Biwei Jiang, Zehao Zhang +1

We have developed a new method of multi-wavelength data combination for the search of late-type radio dwarfs, and have put it into practice using GLEAM-X DR1 data. The initial samp…

astro-ph.GA2024

ALMA detection of Masers and Dasars in the Hydrogen Recombination Lines of the Planetary Nebula Mz3

Z. Abraham, P. P. B. Beaklini, I. Aleman +5

The hydrogen recombination lines H30, H40, H42, H50 and H57 and the underlying bremsstrahlung continuum emission were detected with ALMA in the bipolar nebula Mz3. T…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

SMC-Last Extracted Photometry

T. A. Kuchar, G. C. Sloan, D. R. Mizuno +11

We present point-source photometry from the Spitzer Space Telescope's final survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We mapped 30 square degrees in two epochs in 2017, with the…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

PySSED: an automated method of collating and fitting stellar spectral energy distributions

Iain McDonald, Albert A. Zijlstra, Nick L. J. Cox +4

Stellar atmosphere modelling predicts the luminosity and temperature of a star, together with parameters such as the effective gravity and the metallicity, by reproducing the obser…

astro-ph.GA2024

Diverse Science from VLT imagery and spectroscopy of PNe in the Galactic Bulge

Quentin Parker, Shuyu Tan, Andreas Ritter +1

We have undertaken a deep investigation of a well defined sample of 136 PNe located in a 10x10 degree central region of the Galactic Bulge observed with the ESO VLT and supplemente…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 17 cited

Atomium: The astounding complexity of the near circumstellar environment of the M-type AGB star R Hydrae. I. Morpho-kinematical interpretation of CO and SiO emission

Ward Homan, Bannawit Pimpanuwat, Fabrice Herpin +36

Evolved low- to intermediate-mass stars are known to shed their gaseous envelope into a large, dusty, molecule-rich circumstellar nebula which typically develops a high degree of s…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 31 cited

Atomium: A high-resolution view on the highly asymmetric wind of the AGB star Pi1 Gruis. I. First detection of a new companion and its effect on the inner wind

Ward Homan, Miguel Montarges, Bannawit Pimpanuwat +35

The nebular circumstellar environments of cool evolved stars are known to harbour a rich morphological complexity of gaseous structures on different length scales. A large part of…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 17 cited

Radio observations of planetary nebulae: no evidence for strong radial density gradients

Marcin Hajduk, Peter A. M. van Hoof, Karolina Śniadkowska +4

Radio continuum observations trace thermal emission of ionized plasma in planetary nebulae and bring useful information on nebular geometries. A model of homogeneous sphere or shel…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 14 cited

Herschel Planetary Nebula Survey (HerPlaNS): Hydrogen Recombination Laser Lines in Mz 3

Isabel Aleman, Katrina Exter, Toshiya Ueta +12

The bipolar nebula Menzel 3 (Mz 3) was observed as part of the \textit{Herschel} Planetary Nebula Survey (\textit{HerPlaNS}), which used the PACS and SPIRE instruments aboard the \…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 11 cited

Opening PANDORA's box: APEX observations of CO in PNe

L. Guzman-Ramirez, A. I. Gomez-Ruiz, H. M. J. Boffin +5

Context. Observations of molecular gas have played a key role in developing the current understanding of the late stages of stellar evolution. Aims. The survey Planetary nebulae AN…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 17 cited

The binary fraction of planetary nebula central stars: the promise of VPHAS+

Helen Barker, Albert Zijlstra, Orsola De Marco +5

The majority of planetary nebulae (PNe) are not spherical, and current single-star models cannot adequately explain all the morphologies we observe. This has led to the Binary Hypo…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 27 cited

The ALMA detection of CO rotational line emission in AGB stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud

M. A. T. Groenewegen, W. H. T. Vlemmings, P. Marigo +21

Context: Low- and intermediate-mass stars lose most of their stellar mass at the end of their lives on the asymptotic giant branch (AGB). Determining gas and dust mass-loss rates (…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 49 cited

The infrared spectral properties of Magellanic carbon stars

G. C. Sloan, K. E. Kraemer, I. McDonald +12

The Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope observed 184 carbon stars in the Magellanic Clouds. This sample reveals that the dust-production rate (DPR) from carbon sta…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 31 cited

The extinction and dust-to-gas structure of the planetary nebula NGC 7009 observed with MUSE

J. R. Walsh, A. Monreal-Ibero, M. J. Barlow +3

The large field and wavelength range of MUSE is well suited to mapping Galactic planetary nebulae (PN). The bright PN NGC 7009 was observed with MUSE on the VLT during the Science…