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most citedHERMES: a high-resolution fibre-fed spectrograph for the Mercator telescope

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astro-ph.SR2026

The chemical fingerprint of the Gaia BH3 system. Evidence for early cluster enrichment from the analysis of 51 elements

Gregory Vanden Broeck, Thibault Merle, Nhat Tan Mai +5

The Gaia BH3 system hosts the most massive known stellar-origin black hole and a low-mass metal-poor companion whose chemical composition may constrain early explosive nucleosynthe…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Technetium-rich M Stars: Prime diagnostics of recent third dredge-up events on the Asymptotic Giant Branch

Shreeya Shetye, Sophie Van Eck, Alain Jorissen +6

Context. Technetium (Tc)-rich M-type stars have been known for over 45 years. However, the origin of Tc in these stars, particularly its detection without the concomitant detection…

astro-ph.SR2023

An update of SB9 orbits using HERMES/Mercator radial velocities

Thibault Merle, Dimitri Pourbaix, Alain Jorissen +3

The Gaia mission is delivering a large number of astrometric orbits for binary stars. By combining these with spectroscopic orbits for systems with two observable spectra (SB2), it…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 2 cited

Supernovae Origin for the Low-Latitude-Intermediate-Velocity Arch and the North-Celestial-Pole Loop

J. T. Schmelz, G. L. Verschuur, A. Escorza +1

Supernova explosions attributed to the unseen companion in several binary systems identified by the Third Gaia Data Release (Gaia DR3) may be responsible for a number of well-known…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 15 cited

Titans metal-poor reference stars II. Red giants and CEMP stars

Riano E. Giribaldi, Sophie Van Eck, Thibault Merle +6

Representative samples of F-, G-, K-type stars located out of the Solar Neighbourhood has started to be available in spectroscopic surveys. The fraction of metal-poor ([Fe/H]~$\les…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

Does the i-process operate at nearly solar metallicity?

D. Karinkuzhi, S. Van Eck, S. Goriely +7

A sample of 895 s-process-rich candidates has been found among the 454180 giant stars surveyed by LAMOST at low spectral resolution (R~1800). In a previous study, taking advantage…