Angling for x-ray pulsar geometry with polarimetry

Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Victor Doroshenko, Juri Poutanen, Sergey Tsygankov, Valery Suleimanov, Matteo Bachetti | Summary: Using observations of X-ray pulsar Her X-1 by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, we report on a highly significant detection of the polarization signal from an accreting neutron star. The observed degree of the […]


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Possibilities and Limitations of Kinematically Identifying Stars from Accreted Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

Kavli Affiliate: Anna Frebel | First 5 Authors: Kaley Brauer, Hillary D. Andales, Alexander P. Ji, Anna Frebel, Mohammad K. Mardini | Summary: The Milky Way has accreted many ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs), and stars from these galaxies can be found throughout our Galaxy today. Studying these stars provides insight into galaxy formation and early […]


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TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) VII : Membership, rotation, and lithium in the young cluster Group-X and a new young exoplanet

Kavli Affiliate: George R. Ricker | First 5 Authors: Elisabeth R. Newton, Rayna Rampalli, Adam L. Kraus, Andrew W. Mann, Jason L. Curtis | Summary: The public, all-sky surveys Gaia and TESS provide the ability to identify new young associations and determine their ages. These associations enable study of planetary evolution by providing new opportunities […]


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TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) VII : Membership, rotation, and lithium in the young cluster Group-X and a new young exoplanet

Kavli Affiliate: Gabor Furesz | First 5 Authors: Elisabeth R. Newton, Rayna Rampalli, Adam L. Kraus, Andrew W. Mann, Jason L. Curtis | Summary: The public, all-sky surveys Gaia and TESS provide the ability to identify new young associations and determine their ages. These associations enable study of planetary evolution by providing new opportunities to […]


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The stellar halo in Local Group Hestia simulations III. Chemical abundance relations for accreted and in-situ stars

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Sergey Khoperskov, Ivan Minchev, Noam Libeskind, Vasily Belokurov, Matthias Steinmetz | Summary: Since the chemical abundances of stars are the fossil records of the physical conditions in galaxies, they provide the key information for recovering the assembly history of galaxies. In this work, we explore the chemo-chrono-kinematics […]


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The stellar halo in Local Group Hestia simulations III. Chemical abundance relations for accreted and in-situ stars

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Sergey Khoperskov, Ivan Minchev, Noam Libeskind, Vasily Belokurov, Matthias Steinmetz | Summary: Since the chemical abundances of stars are the fossil records of the physical conditions in galaxies, they provide the key information for recovering the assembly history of galaxies. In this work, we explore the chemo-chrono-kinematics […]


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Testing the Reliability of X-rays as a Tool for Constraining Mass-loss Rates of Hot Stars

Kavli Affiliate: David P. Huenemoerder | First 5 Authors: Sean J. Gunderson, Kenneth G. Gayley, Pragati Pradhan, David P. Huenemoerder, Nathan A. Miller | Summary: We fit a new line shape model to textit{Chandra} X-ray spectra of the O supergiant $zeta$ Puppis to test the robustness of mass-loss rates derived from X-ray wind line profiles […]


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Evolution of a Relativistic Outflow and X-ray Corona in the Extreme Changing-Look AGN 1ES 1927+654

Kavli Affiliate: Ronald A. Remillard | First 5 Authors: Megan Masterson, Erin Kara, Claudio Ricci, Javier A. GarcĂ­a, Andrew C. Fabian | Summary: 1ES 1927+654 is a paradigm-defying AGN and one of the most peculiar X-ray nuclear transients. In early 2018, this well-known AGN underwent a changing-look event, in which broad optical emission lines appeared […]


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Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of Grus I: a low metallicity ultra-faint dwarf galaxy

Kavli Affiliate: Anna Frebel | First 5 Authors: Anirudh Chiti, Joshua D. Simon, Anna Frebel, Andrew B. Pace, Alexander P. Ji | Summary: We present a chemodynamical study of the Grus I ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD) from medium-resolution ($Rsim11,000$) Magellan/IMACS spectra of its individual member stars. We identify eight confirmed members of Grus I, based […]


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The stellar halo in Local Group Hestia simulations II. The accreted component

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Sergey Khoperskov, Ivan Minchev, Noam Libeskind, Misha Haywood, Paola Di Matteo | Summary: In the Milky Way, recent progress in the exploration of its assembly history is driven by the tremendous amount of high-quality data delivered by Gaia, which has revealed a number of substructures potentially linked […]


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