Bin Liu, Junzhi Wang, Bo Zhang, Shanghuo Li, Shu Liu, Juan Li, Bo Peng, Min Fang, Xiaofeng Mai
{"title":"A pilot study of Galactic radio recombination lines using FAST: Identification of diffuse ionized gas clumps and off-arm star-forming regions","authors":"Bin Liu, Junzhi Wang, Bo Zhang, Shanghuo Li, Shu Liu, Juan Li, Bo Peng, Min Fang, Xiaofeng Mai","doi":"10.1051/0004-6361/202449258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202449258","url":null,"abstract":"Observing low-frequency decimeter hydrogen radio recombination lines (RRLs) with large single-dish telescopes, such as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in the L band, is a unique method for probing massive star formation on scales of hundreds of parsecs. This approach is particularly effective for detecting relatively weak and extended emissions from low-density gas ionized by massive stars.\u0000Deep, unbiased decimeter or centimeter RRL surveys with large single-dish telescopes can significantly enhance our understanding of the diffuse ionized gas along the Galactic plane. This, in turn, will improve our knowledge of the life cycle of matter in the interstellar medium and the dynamics of the Galaxy. In this context, we present a pilot project for such a blind L-band RRL survey targeting the Galactic plane and conducted using FAST. The results include the detection of RRL clumps and the identification of an off-arm active massive star-forming region near the Sagittarius-Carina arm. The ongoing and upcoming massive star formation in this region may be associated with the kink in the Sagittarius-Carina arm near 23$^ circ $ azimuth.","PeriodicalId":8585,"journal":{"name":"Astronomy & Astrophysics","volume":"26 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141806158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Bagnulo, J. Landstreet, J. Farihi, C. Folsom, M. Hollands, L. Fossati
{"title":"Metal accretion scars may be common on magnetic, polluted white dwarfs","authors":"S. Bagnulo, J. Landstreet, J. Farihi, C. Folsom, M. Hollands, L. Fossati","doi":"10.1051/0004-6361/202451215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451215","url":null,"abstract":"More than 30 of white dwarfs exhibit atmospheric metals, which are understood to be from recent or ongoing accretion of circumstellar debris. In cool white dwarfs, surface motions should rapidly homogenise photospheric abundances, and the accreted heavy elements should diffuse inward on a timescale much longer than that for surface mixing. The recent discovery of a metal scar on WD,0816--310 implies its $B 140$,kG magnetic field has impeded surface mixing of metals near the visible magnetic pole. Here, we report the discovery of a second magnetic, metal-polluted white dwarf, WD,2138--332, which exhibits periodic variability in longitudinal field, metal line strength, and broadband photometry. All three variable quantities have the same period, and show remarkable correlations: the published light curves have a brightness minimum exactly when the longitudinal field and line strength have a maximum, and a maximum when the longitudinal field and line strength have a minimum. The simplest interpretation of the line strength variability is that there is an enhanced metal concentration around one pole of the magnetic field; however, the variable line-blanketing cannot account for the observed multi-band light curves. More theoretical work is required to understand the efficiency of horizontal mixing of the accreted metal atoms, and the origin of photometric variability. Because both magnetic, metal-polluted white dwarfs that have been monitored to date show that metal line strengths vary in phase with the longitudinal field, we suggest that metal scars around magnetic poles may be a common feature of metal-polluted white dwarfs.","PeriodicalId":8585,"journal":{"name":"Astronomy & Astrophysics","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141808497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Charalampopoulos, R. Kotak, T. Wevers, G. Leloudas, T. Kravtsov, M. Pursiainen, P. Ramsden, T. Reynolds, A. Aamer, J. P. Anderson, I. Arcavi, Y.-Z. Cai, T.-W. Chen, M. Dennefeld, L. Galbany, M. Gromadzki, C. P. Gutierrez, N. Ihanec, T. Kangas, E. Kankare, E. Kool, A. Lawrence, P. Lundqvist, L. Makrygianni, S. Mattila, T. Muller-bravo, M. Nicholl, F. Onori, A. Sahu, S. Smartt, J. Sollerman, Y. Wang, D. Young
{"title":"The fast transient AT 2023clx in the nearby LINER galaxy NGC 3799 as a tidal disruption of a very low-mass star","authors":"P. Charalampopoulos, R. Kotak, T. Wevers, G. Leloudas, T. Kravtsov, M. Pursiainen, P. Ramsden, T. Reynolds, A. Aamer, J. P. Anderson, I. Arcavi, Y.-Z. Cai, T.-W. Chen, M. Dennefeld, L. Galbany, M. Gromadzki, C. P. Gutierrez, N. Ihanec, T. Kangas, E. Kankare, E. Kool, A. Lawrence, P. Lundqvist, L. Makrygianni, S. Mattila, T. Muller-bravo, M. Nicholl, F. Onori, A. Sahu, S. Smartt, J. Sollerman, Y. Wang, D. Young","doi":"10.1051/0004-6361/202449296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202449296","url":null,"abstract":"We present an extensive analysis of the optical and ultraviolet (UV) properties of AT 2023clx, the closest optical/UV tidal disruption event (TDE) to date ($z=0.01107$), which occurred in the nucleus of the interacting low-ionization nuclear emission-line region (LINER) galaxy, NGC 3799. After correcting for the host reddening ($ h $ = 0.179 mag), we find its peak absolute $g$-band magnitude to be $-18.03 0.07$ mag, and its peak bolometric luminosity to be L_ pk $. AT 2023clx displays several distinctive features: first, it rose to peak within $10.4 days, making it the fastest rising TDE to date. Our SMBH mass estimate of $ M BH ---estimated using several standard methods--- rules out the possibility of an intermediate-mass BH as the reason for the fast rise. Dense spectral follow-up reveals a blue continuum that cools slowly and broad Balmer and He II lines as well as weak He I emission features that are typically seen in TDEs. The early, broad (width $ $) profile of Halpha matches theoretical expectations from an optically thick outflow. A flat Balmer decrement ($L_ H alpha $/$L_ H beta 1.58$) suggests that the lines are collisionally excited rather than being produced via photoionisation, in contrast to typical active galactic nuclei. A second distinctive feature, seen for the first time in TDE spectra, is a sharp, narrow emission peak at a rest wavelength of sim 6353 This feature is clearly visible up to 10,d post-peak; we attribute it to clumpy material preceding the bulk outflow, which manifests as a high-velocity component of Halpha ($-9,584 $). Its third distinctive feature is the rapid cooling during the first sim 20 days after peak, reflected as a break in the temperature evolution. Combining these findings, we propose a scenario for AT 2023clx involving the disruption of a very low-mass star ($ with an outflow launched in our line of sight and with disruption properties that led to efficient circularisation and prompt accretion disc formation, observed through a low-density photosphere.","PeriodicalId":8585,"journal":{"name":"Astronomy & Astrophysics","volume":"41 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141807079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Lipták, M. Skarka, E. Guenther, P. Chaturvedi, M. V'itkov'a, R. Karjalainen, J. Šubjak, A. Hatzes, A. Bieryla, D. Gandolfi, S. H. Albrecht, P. G. Beck, H. Deeg, M. Everett, J. Higuera, D. Jones, S. Mathur, Y. G. Patel, C. Persson, S. Redfield, P. Kabáth
{"title":"Five new eclipsing binaries with low-mass companions","authors":"J. Lipták, M. Skarka, E. Guenther, P. Chaturvedi, M. V'itkov'a, R. Karjalainen, J. Šubjak, A. Hatzes, A. Bieryla, D. Gandolfi, S. H. Albrecht, P. G. Beck, H. Deeg, M. Everett, J. Higuera, D. Jones, S. Mathur, Y. G. Patel, C. Persson, S. Redfield, P. Kabáth","doi":"10.1051/0004-6361/202450038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450038","url":null,"abstract":"Precise space-based photometry from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite results in a huge number of exoplanetary candidates. However, the masses of these objects are unknown and must be determined by ground-based spectroscopic follow-up observations, frequently revealing the companions to be low-mass stars rather than exoplanets. We present the first orbital and stellar parameter solutions for five such eclipsing binary-star systems using radial-velocity follow-up measurements together with spectral-energy-distribution solutions. TOI-416 and TOI-1143 are totally eclipsing F+M star systems with well-determined secondary masses, radii, and temperatures. TOI-416 is a circular system with an F6 primary and a secondary with a mass of $M_2= M_ odot $. TOI-1143 consists of an F6 primary with an $M_2= M_ odot $ secondary on an eccentric orbit with a third companion. With respect to the other systems, TOI-1153 shows ellipsoidal variations, TOI-1615 contains a pulsating primary, and TOI-1788 has a spotted primary, while all have moderate mass ratios of 0.2-0.4. However, these systems are in a grazing configuration, which limits their full description. The parameters of TOI-416B and TOI-1143B are suitable for the calibration of the radius-mass relation for dwarf stars.","PeriodicalId":8585,"journal":{"name":"Astronomy & Astrophysics","volume":"26 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141806156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of active galactic nucleus feedback on the evolution of dwarf galaxies from cosmological simulations. Supermassive black holes suppress star formation in low-mass galaxies","authors":"E. Arjona-Gálvez, Arianna Di Cintio, R. Grand","doi":"10.1051/0004-6361/202449439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202449439","url":null,"abstract":"Recent observational studies suggest that feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) may play an important role in the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies, an issue that has received little attention from a theoretical perspective. We investigated this using two sets of 12 cosmological magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the formation of dwarf galaxies (10$^ M_ M$_ M_ one set using a version of the AURIGA galaxy formation physics model including AGN feedback and a parallel set with AGN feedback turned off. We show that the full-physics AGN runs satisfactorily reproduce several scaling relations, including the black-hole-to-stellar mass (M$_ BH $-M$_ star $), the black-hole-to-sigma (M$_ BH and the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation. We find that the global star formation (SF) of galaxies run with an AGN is reduced compared to the one in which the AGN has been turned off, suggesting that AGN feedback is a viable way of suppressing SF in dwarf galaxies, even though none of our galaxies is completely quenched by $z$=$0$. Furthermore, we find a tight correlation between the median SF rates and the BH $/M$_ star $ ratio in our simulated dwarfs. Star formation is suppressed due to gas heating in the vicinity of the AGN: less HI gas is available in AGN runs, though the total amount of gas is preserved across the two settings within each galaxy. This indicates that the main effect of AGN feedback in our dwarfs is to heat up and push the gas away from the galaxy's centre rather than expelling it completely. Finally, we show that the two galaxies harbouring the largest supermassive black holes have suffered a considerable (up to sim 65$,$) reduction in their central dark matter density, pinpointing the role of AGNs in determining the final dark matter mass distribution within dwarf galaxies. This pilot paper highlights the importance of modelling AGN feedback at the lowest mass scales and the impact this can have on dwarf galaxy evolution.","PeriodicalId":8585,"journal":{"name":"Astronomy & Astrophysics","volume":"54 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141807516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Ershova, J. Schmidt, F. Postberg, N. Khawaja, L. Nolle, R. Srama, S. Kempf, B. Southworth
{"title":"Modeling the Enceladus dust plume based on in situ measurements performed with the Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer","authors":"A. Ershova, J. Schmidt, F. Postberg, N. Khawaja, L. Nolle, R. Srama, S. Kempf, B. Southworth","doi":"10.1051/0004-6361/202450429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450429","url":null,"abstract":"We analyzed data recorded by the Cosmic Dust Analyzer on board the Cassini spacecraft during Enceladus dust plume traversals. Our focus was on profiles of relative abundances of grains of different compositional types derived from mass spectra recorded with the Dust Analyzer subsystem during the Cassini flybys E5 and E17. The E5 profile, corresponding to a steep and fast traversal of the plume, has already been analyzed. In this paper, we included a second profile from the E17 flyby involving a nearly horizontal traversal of the south polar terrain at a significantly lower velocity. Additionally, we incorporated dust detection rates from the High Rate Detector subsystem during flybys E7 and E21. We derived grain size ranges in the different observational data sets and used these data to constrain parameters for a new dust plume model. This model was constructed using a mathematical description of dust ejection implemented in the software package DUDI. Further constraints included published velocities of gas ejection, positions of gas and dust jets, and the mass production rate of the plume. Our model employs two different types of sources: diffuse sources of dust ejected with a lower velocity and jets with a faster and more colimated emission. From our model, we derived dust mass production rates for different compositional grain types, amounting to at least 28 kg/s. Previously, salt-rich dust was believed to dominate the plume mass based on E5 data alone. The E17 profile shows a dominance of organic-enriched grains over the south polar terrain, a region not well constrained by E5 data. By including both E5 and E17 profiles, we find the salt-rich dust contribution to be at most 1 by mass. This revision also results from an improved understanding of grain masses of various compositional types that implies smaller sizes for salt-rich grains. Our new model can predict grain numbers and masses for future mission detectors during plume traversals.","PeriodicalId":8585,"journal":{"name":"Astronomy & Astrophysics","volume":"56 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141808494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. V. von Fellenberg, G. Witzel, M. Bauboeck, Hui-Hsuan Chung, N. Marchili, Greg Martinez, Matteo Sadun-Bordoni, G. Bourdarot, Tuan Do, Antonia Drescher, Giovanni Fazio, F. Eisenhauer, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, Joseph L. Hora, F. Mang, Thomas Ott, A. Howard Smith, Eduardo Ros, Diogo C. Ribeiro, F. Widmann, S. Willner, J. Anton Zensus
{"title":"General relativistic effects and the near-infrared variability of Sgr A*. II. A systematic approach to temporal asymmetry","authors":"S. V. von Fellenberg, G. Witzel, M. Bauboeck, Hui-Hsuan Chung, N. Marchili, Greg Martinez, Matteo Sadun-Bordoni, G. Bourdarot, Tuan Do, Antonia Drescher, Giovanni Fazio, F. Eisenhauer, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, Joseph L. Hora, F. Mang, Thomas Ott, A. Howard Smith, Eduardo Ros, Diogo C. Ribeiro, F. Widmann, S. Willner, J. Anton Zensus","doi":"10.1051/0004-6361/202451146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451146","url":null,"abstract":"A systematic study, based on the third-moment structure function, of Sgr A*'s variability finds an exponential rise time, $ obs minutes $, and decay time, $ obs minutes $. This symmetry of the flux-density variability is consistent with earlier work, and we interpret it as being caused by the dominance of Doppler boosting, as opposed to gravitational lensing, in Sgr A*'s light curve. A relativistic, semi-physical model of Sgr A* confirms an inclination angle of $i The model also shows that the emission of the intrinsic radiative process can have some asymmetry even though the observed emission does not. The third-moment structure function, which is a measure of the skewness of the light-curve increments, may be a useful summary statistic in other contexts of astronomy because it senses only temporal asymmetry; that is, it averages to zero for any temporally symmetric signal.","PeriodicalId":8585,"journal":{"name":"Astronomy & Astrophysics","volume":"8 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141809258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New numerical models of atomic diffusion in the atmospheres of cool Ap\u0000 stars, including ambipolar diffusion of hydrogen","authors":"G. Alecian, M. Stift","doi":"10.1051/0004-6361/202450986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450986","url":null,"abstract":"Ambipolar diffusion of hydrogen gives an additional upward thrust to\u0000 metals that diffuse in the atmosphere of Ap stars. Its quantitative effect\u0000 on the build-up of abundance stratification due to atomic diffusion that produces the\u0000 observed abundance anomalies in Ap stars has not been evaluated so far. The purpose of this work is to quantify this effect throughout the\u0000 stratification process of metals inside the atmosphere. We used our code caratmotion to compute the time-dependent atomic\u0000 diffusion of four metals (Mg, Ca, Si, and Fe) in the atmosphere of a main-sequence star\u0000 with an effective temperature of $8,500$,K, which is a typical temperature of Ap stars. The results, including ambipolar diffusion of H, are compared to results obtained without this process. Our main result is that ambipolar diffusion must be included in any\u0000 calculation of atomic diffusion in Ap star atmospheres, at least for stars with\u0000 $T_ eff 10,000$,K. We show that this concerns all metals, even those that are well supported by the radiation field, such as Fe. The crucial role of the stellar mass-loss rate is confirmed; it remains a determining parameter that is constrained, but still free in our calculations. We also present 3D calculations of Ca distributions in magnetic atmospheres. Questioning the interest of systematic searches for stationary solutions (which can often only be reached after a long evolutionary process), we note that remarkable behaviour can occur during the transient phases of the stratification build-up.","PeriodicalId":8585,"journal":{"name":"Astronomy & Astrophysics","volume":"61 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141809296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}