Gaia Data Release 3-Catalogue validation

C Babusiaux, C Fabricius, S Khanna… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The third Gaia data release (DR3) provides a wealth of new data products. The
early part of the release, Gaia EDR3, already provided the astrometric and photometric data …

Gaia FGK benchmark stars: Metallicity

P Jofré, U Heiter, C Soubiran… - Astronomy & …, 2014 - aanda.org
Context. To calibrate automatic pipelines that determine atmospheric parameters of stars,
one needs a sample of stars, or “benchmark stars”, with well-defined parameters to be used …

Detection of elements at all three r-process peaks in the metal-poor star HD 160617

IU Roederer, JE Lawler - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the first detection of elements at all three r-process peaks in the metal-poor halo
star HD 160617. These elements include arsenic and selenium, which have not been …

The spectroscopic orbit of Polaris and its pulsation properties

G Torres - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Polaris is the nearest and brightest classical Cepheid, and pulsates with a period of about 4
d. It has long been known as a single-lined spectroscopic binary with an orbital period of 30 …

On the effect of rotation on populations of classical Cepheids-I. Predictions at solar metallicity

RI Anderson, S Ekström, C Georgy, G Meynet… - Astronomy & …, 2014 - aanda.org
Context. Classical Cepheids are among the most important variable star types due to their
nature as standard candles and have a long history of modeling in terms of stellar evolution …

Fast-rotating Blue Straggler Stars in the Globular Cluster NGC 3201

A Billi, FR Ferraro, A Mucciarelli… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We used high-resolution spectra acquired with the Magellan Telescope to measure radial
and rotational velocities of approximately 200 stars in the Galactic globular cluster NGC …

Hats-3b: An inflated hot jupiter transiting an F-type star

D Bayliss, G Zhou, K Penev, GÁ Bakos… - The Astronomical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery by the HATSouth survey of HATS-3b, a transiting extrasolar planet
orbiting a V= 12.4 F dwarf star. HATS-3b has a period of P= 3.5479 days, mass of M p= 1.07 …

An overview of the rotational behavior of metal-poor stars

C Cortés, JRP Silva, A Recio-Blanco… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the behavior of the rotational velocity in metal-poor stars ([Fe/H]⩽− 0.5
dex) in different evolutionary stages, based on vsin i values from the literature. Our sample is …

New binaries from the SHINE survey

M Bonavita, R Gratton, S Desidera… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We present the multiple stellar systems observed within the SpHere INfrared survey for
Exoplanet (SHINE). SHINE searched for sub-stellar companions to young stars using high …

The linear polarization of Southern bright stars measured at the parts-per-million level

DV Cotton, J Bailey… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We report observations of the linear polarization of a sample of 50 nearby Southern bright
stars measured to a median sensitivity of∼ 4.4× 10− 6. We find larger polarizations and …