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A supernova remnant (SNR) candidate SRGe~J0023+3625 = G116.6-26.1 was recently discovered in the \textit{SRG}/eROSITA all-sky X-ray survey. This large ($\sim 4$ deg in diameter) SNR candidate lacks prominent counterparts in other bands.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 E. M. Churazov , I. I. Khabibullin , A. M. Bykov , N. N. Chugai , R. A. Sunyaev , I. I. Zinchenko

Previous detections of an X-ray emission line near 3.5 keV in galaxy clusters and other dark matter-dominated objects have been interpreted as observational evidence for the decay of sterile neutrino dark matter. Motivated by this, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-15 E. M. Silich , K. Jahoda , L. Angelini , P. Kaaret , A. Zajczyk , D. M. LaRocca , R. Ringuette , J. Richardson

(Abridged) Lunar occultations (LO) are a very efficient and powerful technique, that achieves the best combination of high angular resolution and sensitivity possible today at near-infrared wavelengths. Given that the events are fixed in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Richichi , O. Fors , W-P. Chen , E. Mason

We present the discovery of three new quasars at z>6 in 1300 deg^2 of SDSS imaging data, J114816.64+525150.3 (z=6.43), J104845.05+463718.3 (z=6.23) and J163033.90+401209.6 (z=6.05). The first two objects have weak Ly alpha emission lines;…

The 3.6 meter Indo-Belgian Devasthal optical telescope (DOT) has been used for optical and near-infrared (NIR) observations of celestial objects. The telescope has detected stars of B = 24.5+-0.2; R = 24.6+-0.12 and g = 25.2+-0.2 mag in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Ram Sagar , Brijesh Kumar , Saurabh Sharma

The number of satellites on low orbit has dramatically increased over the past years, raising concerns among the astronomical community about their impact on observations. Spectroscopic observations represent a large fraction of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-19 Olivier R. Hainaut Sabine Moehler

We present the first results of the LBT Imaging of Galaxy Haloes and Tidal Structures (LIGHTS) survey. LIGHTS is an ongoing observational campaign with the 2x8.4m Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) aiming to explore the stellar haloes and the…

The DRAO Synthesis Telescope (ST) is a forefront telescope for imaging large-scale neutral hydrogen and polarized radio continuum emission at arcminute resolution. Equipped for observations at 1420 and 408 MHz, the ST completed the Canadian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 T. L. Landecker , L. Belostotski , J. C. Brown , B. R. Carlson , X. Du , T. Foster , A. S. Hill , T. Johnson , R. Kothes , M. Rupen , S. Safi-Harb , K. Vanderlinde , B. G. Veidt , J. L. West

The current studies of microlensing planets are limited by small number statistics. Follow-up observations of high-magnification microlensing events can efficiently form a statistical planetary sample. Since 2020, the Korea Microlensing…

It is widely believed that the large discrepancy between the observed number of satellite galaxies and the predicted number of dark subhalos can be resolved via a variety of baryonic effects which suppress star formation in low mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 A. M. Nierenberg , T. Treu , N. Menci , Y. Lu , Paul Torrey , M. Vogelsberger

The low-frequency sky below $\sim$15 MHz (20 m) is obscured by the Earth's ionosphere, the layer of charged particles above the neutral atmosphere. Single spacecraft have made measurements in this band, but cannot achieve high or even…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Mary Knapp , Lenny Paritsky , Ekaterina Kononov , Melodie M. Kao

We present direct measurements of the limb-darkened intensity profiles of the late-type giant stars HR5299, HR7635, and HR8621 obtained with the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer (NPOI) at the Lowell Observatory. A triangle of baselines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Wittkowski , C. A. Hummel , K. J. Johnston , D. Mozurkewich , A. R. Hajian , N. M. White

We report the discovery of Andromeda X, a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31, based on stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using follow-up imaging data we have estimated its distance and other physical…

The illumination phase functions for Starlink Mini satellites are determined for times of twilight and darkness. Those functions are then evaluated to give apparent magnitudes over a grid of points across the sky and over a range of solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-04 Anthony Mallama , Richard E. Cole , Jay Respler , Cees Bassa , Scott Harrington , Aaron Worley

We have shown in paper I of this series (arXiv:1706.03795) that interstellar communication to nearby (pc) stars is possible at data rates of bits per second per Watt between a 1 m sized probe and a large receiving telescope (E-ELT, 39 m),…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Michael Hippke

Expected to be of the highest survey power telescope in the northern hemisphere, the Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) will begin its routine observations of the northern sky since 2023. WFST will produce a lot of scientific data to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Lei Lei , Qing-Feng Zhu , Xu Kong , Ting-Gui Wang , Xian-Zhong Zheng , Dong-Dong Shi , Lu-Lu Fan , Wei Liu

Accurate measurement of pulsar distances via astrometry using very long baseline interferometry enables the improvement of Galactic electron density distribution models, improving distance estimates for the vast majority of pulsars for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. T. Deller , S. J. Tingay , M. Bailes , J. E. Reynolds

We report g-r and r-i new colors for 21 Saturn Irregular Satellites, among them, 4 previously unreported. This is the highest number of Saturn Irregular satellites reported in a single survey. These satellites were measured by "stacking"…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 J. Peña , C. Fuentes

We present the detection limits of a new survey for resolved low surface brightness satellite galaxies to the Milky Way, based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our survey exploits SDSS's major strengths (multi-color photometry,…

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