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High-Precision Near-Infrared Abundances of Solar Analogs in the YJ Bands
Noriyuki Matsunaga, Takuji Tsujimoto, Daisuke Taniguchi +12
We present a near-infrared abundance analysis of 46 solar analogs with known ages, observed with the WINERED WIDE-mode spectrograph at a resolution of . Using an empi…
Kinematical and dynamical properties of recently discovered bulge and disc star clusters with WINERED
Ilaria Petralia, Dante Minniti, José G. Fernández-Trincado +8
Context. Galactic globular clusters are a very important tool in explaining the characteristics of the Milky Way. Therefore it is essential to determine the kinematical and dynamic…
First Results from WINERED: Detection of Emission Lines from Neutral Iron and a Combined Set of Trace Species on the Dayside of WASP-189 b
Lennart van Sluijs, Emily Rauscher, Eliza M. -R. Kempton +9
Ground and space-based observations have revealed that Ultra Hot Jupiters (UHJs,~) typically have inverted thermal profiles, while cooler hot Jupiters…
Assessing robustness and bias in 1D retrievals of 3D Global Circulation Models at high spectral resolution: a WASP-76 b simulation case study in emission
Lennart van Sluijs, Hayley Beltz, Isaac Malsky +4
High-resolution spectroscopy (HRS) of exoplanet atmospheres has successfully detected many chemical species and is quickly moving toward detailed characterization of the chemical a…
Discovery of WINERED-HVS1: A metal-rich hyper-velocity star candidate ejected from the Galactic center
Kohei Hattori, Daisuke Taniguchi, Takuji Tsujimoto +4
We report the discovery of a metal-rich red giant star, WINERED-HVS1, which is a candidate for a hyper-velocity star (HVS). Its past trajectory suggests that this star may have bee…
MAGIS (Measuring Abundances of red super Giants with Infrared Spectroscopy) project I. Establishment of an abundance analysis procedure for red supergiants and its evaluation with nearby stars
Daisuke Taniguchi, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Naoto Kobayashi +11
[Abbreviated] Context. Given their high luminosities (L>~10^4Lsun), red supergiants (RSGs) are good tracers of the chemical abundances of the young stellar population in the Milky…
[N I] 10400/10410 Å Lines as Possible Disk Wind Tracers in a Young Intermediate-Mass Star
Haruki Katoh, Chikako Yasui, Yuji Ikeda +10
In this study, we performed high-resolution near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy (R = 28,000; -1.35 m) with a high signal-to-noise ratio on HD 200775, a very young (${\sim…
First Result for Dark Matter Search by WINERED
Wen Yin, Taiki Bessho, Yuji Ikeda +10
The identity of dark matter has been a mystery in astronomy, cosmology, and particle theory for about a century. Bessho, Ikeda, and Yin (2022), three of the current authors, propos…
A High-Resolution Non-Detection of Escaping Helium In The Ultra-Hot Neptune LTT 9779b: Evidence for Weakened Evaporation
Shreyas Vissapragada, Patrick McCreery, Leonardo A. Dos Santos +16
The recent discovery of ``ultra-hot'' ( day) Neptunes has come as a surprise: some of these planets have managed to retain gaseous envelopes despite being close enough to th…
WARP: The Data Reduction Pipeline for the WINERED spectrograph
Satoshi Hamano, Yuji Ikeda, Shogo Otsubo +8
We present a data reduction pipeline written in Python for data obtained with the near-infrared cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph, WINERED, which yields a 0.911.35 m spect…
The globular cluster VVV CL002 falling down to the hazardous Galactic centre
D. Minniti, N. Matsunaga, J. G. Fernandez-Trincado +15
Context. The Galactic centre is hazardous for stellar clusters because of the strong tidal force. Supposedly, many clusters were destroyed and contributed stars to the crowded stel…
Shock Excitation in Narrow Line Regions Powered by AGN Outflows
Misaki Mizumoto, Hiroaki Sameshima, Naoto Kobayashi +10
Outflows in the Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) are considered to play a key role in the host galaxy evolution through transfer of a large amount of energy. A Narrow Line Region (NLR…
Metallicities of Classical Cepheids in the Inner Galactic Disk
N. Matsunaga, D. Taniguchi, S. S. Elgueta +14
Metallicity gradients refer to the sloped radial profile of metallicities of gas and stars and are commonly seen in disk galaxies. A well-defined metallicity gradient of the Galact…
Astrophysical calibration of the oscillator strengths of YJ-band absorption lines in classical Cepheids
S. S. Elgueta, N. Matsunaga, M. Jian +13
Newly-developed spectrographs with increased resolving powers, particularly those covering the near-IR range, allow the characterization of more and more absorption lines in stella…
Survey of near-infrared diffuse interstellar bands in and bands. I. Newly identified bands
Satoshi Hamano, Naoto Kobayashi, Hideyo Kawakita +12
We searched for diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in the 0.911.33 m region by analyzing the near-infrared (NIR) high-resolution ( and 28,000) spectra of 31 redden…
A Very Metal-poor RR Lyrae Star with a Disk Orbit Found in the Solar Neighborhood
Noriyuki Matsunaga, Akinori Itane, Kohei Hattori +28
Metal-deficient stars are important tracers for understanding the early formation of the Galaxy. Recent large-scale surveys with both photometric and spectroscopic data have report…
Absorption Lines in the 0.91-1.33 m Spectra of Red Giants for Measuring Abundances of Mg, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, and Ni
K. Fukue, N. Matsunaga, S. Kondo +13
Red giants show a large number of absorption lines in both optical and near-infrared wavelengths. Still, the characteristics of the lines in different wave passbands are not necess…
Effective temperatures of red supergiants estimated from line-depth ratios of iron lines in the YJ bands, 0.97--1.32 micron
Daisuke Taniguchi, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Mingjie Jian +10
Determining the effective temperatures (Teff) of red supergiants (RSGs) observationally is important in many fields of stellar physics and galactic astronomy, yet some significant…
Mg II and Fe II fluxes of luminous quasars at z ~ 2.7 and evaluation of the Baldwin effect in the flux-to-abundance conversion method for quasars
Hiroaki Sameshima, Yuzuru Yoshii, Noriyuki Matsunaga +12
To investigate the chemical abundance of broad-line region clouds in quasars at high redshifts, we performed near-infrared spectroscopy of six luminous quasars at z ~ 2.7 with the…
The effect of surface gravity on line-depth ratios in the wavelength range 0.97-1.32 μm
Mingjie Jian, Daisuke Taniguchi, Noriyuki Matsunaga +10
A line-depth ratio (LDR) of two spectral lines with different excitation potentials is expected to be correlated with the effective temperature (). It is possible t…
Identification of Absorption Lines of Heavy Metals in the Wavelength Range 0.97--1.32 Micron
Noriyuki Matsunaga, Daisuke Taniguchi, Mingjie Jian +13
Stellar absorption lines of heavy elements can give us various insights into the chemical evolution of the Galaxy and nearby galaxies. Recently developed spectrographs for the near…
Possible progression of mass flow processes around young intermediate-mass stars based on high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy. I. Taurus
Chikako Yasui, Satoshi Hamano, Kei Fukue +12
We used the WINERED spectrograph to perform near-infrared high-resolution spectroscopy (resolving power ,000) of 13 young intermediate-mass stars in the Taurus star-forming…
First detection of -- (0,0) bands of interstellar C and CN
Satoshi Hamano, Hideyo Kawakita, Naoto Kobayashi +12
We report the first detection of C -- (0,0) and CN -- (0,0) absorption bands in the interstellar medium. The detection was made using the near…
FeI lines in 0.91-1.33 m spectra of red giants for measuring the microturbulence and metallicities
Sohei Kondo, Kei Fukue, Noriyuki Matsunaga +16
For a detailed analysis of stellar chemical abundances, high-resolution spectra in the optical have mainly been used, while the development of near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph has…