Heavy-element production in a compact object merger observed by JWST

AJ Levan, BP Gompertz, OS Salafia, M Bulla, E Burns… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The mergers of binary compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes are of central
interest to several areas of astrophysics, including as the progenitors of gamma-ray bursts …

The catwise2020 catalog

F Marocco, PRM Eisenhardt, JW Fowler… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The CatWISE2020 Catalog consists of 1,890,715,640 sources over the entire sky
selected from Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and NEOWISE survey data at 3.4 …

Overview of the DESI legacy imaging surveys

A Dey, DJ Schlegel, D Lang, R Blum… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (http://legacysurvey. org/) are a combination of
three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing–Arizona Sky …

A challenge to the standard cosmological model

NJ Secrest, S von Hausegger, M Rameez… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first joint analysis of catalogs of radio galaxies and quasars to determine
whether their sky distribution is consistent with the standard ΛCDM model of cosmology …

Parameters of 220 million stars from Gaia BP/RP spectra

X Zhang, GM Green, HW Rix - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We develop, validate and apply a forward model to estimate stellar atmospheric parameters
(T eff, log g, and [Fe/H]), revised distances and extinctions for 220 million stars with XP …

Reverberation in tidal disruption events: dust echoes, coronal emission lines, multi-wavelength cross-correlations, and QPOs

S van Velzen, DR Pasham, S Komossa, L Yan… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
Stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) are typically discovered by transient emission due to
accretion or shocks of the stellar debris. Yet this luminous flare can be reprocessed by gas …

From discovery to the first month of the type II supernova 2023ixf: high and variable mass loss in the final year before explosion

D Hiramatsu, D Tsuna, E Berger, K Itagaki… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the discovery of the Type II supernova SN 2023ixf in M101 and follow-up
photometric and spectroscopic observations, respectively, in the first month and week of its …

First tidal disruption events discovered by SRG/eROSITA: X-ray/optical properties and X-ray luminosity function at z < 0.6

S Sazonov, M Gilfanov, P Medvedev… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present the first sample of tidal disruption events (TDEs) discovered during the SRG all-
sky survey. These 13 events were selected among X-ray transients detected in the 0°< l< …

The unWISE catalog: two billion infrared sources from five years of WISE imaging

EF Schlafly, AM Meisner… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the unWISE Catalog, containing the positions and fluxes of roughly 2 billion
objects observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) over the full sky. The …

A WC/WO star exploding within an expanding carbon–oxygen–neon nebula

A Gal-Yam, R Bruch, S Schulze, Y Yang, DA Perley… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The final fate of massive stars, and the nature of the compact remnants they leave behind
(black holes and neutron stars), are open questions in astrophysics. Many massive stars are …