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We present the first detection of GG Tau A at centimeter-wavelengths, made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array (AMI-LA) at a frequency of 16 GHz ({\lambda} = 1.8 cm). The source is detected at > 6 {\sigma}_{rms} with an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Anna M. M. Scaife

We present a multiwavelength study of the extended green object, G12.42+0.50 in this paper. The associated ionized, dust, and molecular components of this source are studied in detail employing various observations at near-, mid- and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 Namitha Issac , Anandmayee Tej , Tie Liu , Watson Varricatt , Sarita Vig , Ishwara Chandra C. H. , Mathias Schultheis

Hubble Space Telescope observations of active asteroid 324P/La Sagra near perihelion show continued mass loss consistent with the sublimation of near-surface ice. Isophotes of the coma measured from a vantage point below the orbital plane…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 David Jewitt , Jessica Agarwal , Harold Weaver , Max Mutchler , Jing Li , Stephen Larson

We present a study of the newly-discovered main-belt comet P/2008 R1 (Garradd), an object with the dynamical characteristics of an asteroid and the physical characteristics of a comet. Photometry sets a limit to the effective radius of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Jewitt , Bin Yang , Nader Haghighipour

Intrinsically faint comets in nearly-parabolic orbits with perihelion distances much smaller than 1 AU exhibit strong propensity for suddenly disintegrating at a time not long before perihelion, as shown by Bortle (1991). Evidence from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-31 Zdenek Sekanina

Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) was discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Survey on 2017 May 21 at a distance 16.09 au from the Sun, the second most distant discovery of an active comet. Pre-discovery images in the PS1 archive back to 2014 and…

We present imaging and spectroscopic observations of 6478 Gault, a 6 km diameter inner main-belt asteroid currently exhibiting strong, comet-like characteristics. Three distinct tails indicate that ultra-slow dust (ejection speed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 David Jewitt , Yoonyoung Kim , Jane Luu , Jayadev Rajagopal , Ralf Kotulla , Susan Ridgway , Wilson Liu

The main belt asteroids 458271 (2010 UM26) and 2010 RN221 share almost identical orbital elements and currently appear as comoving objects 30 arcsec apart in the plane of the sky. They are products of the breakup of a parent object, or the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 David Jewitt , Yonyoung Kim , Jing Li , Max Mutchler

We present high spatial resolution Submillimeter Array observations and supplementary single-dish photometry of the molecular gas and dust around IRAS 04158+2805, a young source with spectral type M5-M6 in the Taurus star-forming region. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sean M. Andrews , Michael C. Liu , Jonathan P. Williams , K. N. Allers

We present 24 micron photometry of the intermediate-age open cluster Praesepe. We assemble a catalog of 193 probable cluster members that are detected in optical databases, the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), and at 24 micron, within an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 A. Gaspar , G. H. Rieke , K. Y. L. Su , Z. Balog , D. Trilling , J. Muzzerole , D. Apai , B. C. Kelly

Between 2010 and 2017 we have collected new optical and radar observations of the potentially hazardous asteroid (2102)~Tantalus from the ESO NTT and Danish telescopes at the La Silla Observatory and from the Arecibo planetary radar. The…

Jewitt et al. (2014) recently reported that main belt comet P/2013 R3 experienced a breakup, probably due to rotational disruption, with its components separating on mutually hyperbolic orbits. We propose a technique for constraining…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Masatoshi Hirabayashi , Daniel J. Scheeres , Paul Sánchez , Travis Gabriel

(Abreviated) Comet C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS drew attention to its activity already at a time of its discovery in May 2017 when it was about 16 au from the Sun. This Oort spike comet will approach its perihelion in December 2022, and the question…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-15 Małgorzata Królikowska , Piotr A. Dybczyński

The under-abundance of asteroids on orbits with small perihelion distances suggests that thermally-driven disruption may be an important process in the removal of rocky bodies in the Solar System. Here we report our study of how the debris…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Quanzhi Ye , Mikael Granvik

In the early stages of planet formation, small dust grains grow to become mm sized particles in debris disks around stars. These disks can in principle be characterized by their emission at submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Jacob Aaron White , Jason Aufdenberg , Aaron Boley , Peter Hauschildt , A. Meredith Hughes , Brenda Matthews , David J. Wilner

[Abridged] We present a search for fast optical transients (~0.5 hr-1 day) using repeated observations of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey (PS1/MDS) fields. Our search takes advantage of the consecutive g/r-band observations (16.5 min in…

We present the results of a Monte Carlo technique to calculate the absolute magnitudes (H) and slope parameters (G) of about 240000 asteroids observed by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope during the first 15 months of its 3-year all-sky survey…

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the planetary nebula (PN) NGC6781 to investigate the physical conditions of each of its ionized, atomic, and molecular gas and dust components and the object's evolution, based on panchromatic…

We report the detection of a large amplitude MIR outburst in the white dwarf (WD) 0145+234 in the NEOWISE Survey data. The source had a stable MIR flux before 2018, and was brightened by about 1.0 magnitude in the W1 and W2 bands within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-11 Ting-Gui Wang , Ning Jiang , Jian Ge , Roc M. Cutri , Peng Jiang , Zhengfeng Sheng , Hongyan Zhou , James Bauer , Amy Mainzer , Edward L. Wright

We observed comet C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) with the ARO 10-m SMT, and report the first detection of CO emission from this comet with amounts high enough to be the primary driver of activity. We obtained spectra and maps of the CO J=2-1…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Kacper Wierzchos , Maria Womack