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  • A JWST Project on 47 Tucanae. Overview, photometry, and early spectroscopic results of M dwarfs and observations of brown dwarfs 

    Marino, Anna Fabiola; Milone, Antonio P.; Legnardi, Maria Vittoria; Renzini, Alvio; Dondoglio, Emanuele; Cavecchi, Yuri; Cordoni, Giacomo; Dotter, Aaron; Lagioia, Edoardo Prospero; Ziliotto, Tuila; Bernizzoni, M.; Bortolan, Emanuele (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2024-04-01)
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    James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have been demonstrated to be efficient in detecting multiple stellar populations in globular clusters (GCs) in the low-mass regime of M dwarfs. We present an overview, and ...
  • White dwarf random forest classification through Gaia spectral coefficients 

    García Zamora, Enrique Miguel; Torres Gil, Santiago; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto (EDP Sciences, 2023-11)
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    Context. The third data release of Gaia has provided approximately 220 million low resolution spectra. Among these, about 100 000 correspond to white dwarfs. The magnitude of this quantity of data precludes the possibility ...
  • 3D hydrodynamic simulations of white dwarf–main-sequence star collisions – I. Head-on collisions 

    van der Merwe, Christian; Mohamed, Shazrene; José Pont, Jordi; Shara, M.; Kaminski, Tomasz (Oxford University Press, 2024-11-01)
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    Recently inaugurated telescopes, such as the MeerKAT radio telescope and the upcoming Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time, will be able to detect millions of transient events in the night sky. Stellar collisions ...
  • Hydrodynamical shear mixing in subsonic boundary layers and its role in the thermonuclear explosion of classical novae 

    Bellomo, Marco; Shore, Steven N.; José Pont, Jordi (EDP Sciences, 2024-10-22)
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    Context. The transition zone between the white dwarf (WD) envelope and a circumstellar accretion disk in classical novae, the boundary layer, is a region of strong dissipation and intense vorticity. In this strongly sheared ...
  • Thermonuclear 28P(p, y)29S reaction rate and astrophysical implication in ONe nova explosion 

    Liu, J. B.; José Pont, Jordi; Hou, Suqing; Pignatari, Marco; Trueman, T. C. L.; Longland, Richard; Li, Jianguo; Bertulani, Carlos; Xu, X. X. (EDP Sciences, 2024-07-01)
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    Context. An accurate 28P(p, ¿)29S reaction rate is crucial to defining the nucleosynthesis products of explosive hydrogen burning in ONe novae. Using the recently released nuclear mass of 29S, together with a shell model ...
  • Photometric follow-up of 43 new eclipsing white dwarf plus main-sequence binaries from the ZTF survey 

    Brown, Alexander James; Parsons, Steven G.; van Roestel, Jan; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Breedt, Elmé; Dhillon, Vikram S.; Dyer, Martin J.; Green, Matthew J.; Kerry, Paul; Littlefair, Stuart P.; Marsh, Thomas R.; Munday, James; Pelisoli, Ingrid; Sahman, David I.; Wild, James F. (Oxford University Press, 2023-02-27)
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    Wide-field time-domain photometric sky surveys are now finding hundreds of eclipsing white dwarf plus M dwarf binaries, a population encompassing a wealth of information and potential insight into white dwarf and close ...
  • The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation 

    Jin, Shuanggen; Drew, Janet E.; Gänsicke, Boris T.; Aguado Fernández, Maria Dolores; Antoja, T.; Babusiaux, C.; Battaglia, Giuseppe; Hoskin, Matthew; Pérez Ràfols, Ignasi; Pico, Sandra; Raddi, Roberto; Ashley, R. P.; Bernard, Escudié; Bosma, A.; Cantat Gaudin, Tristan; Castro Ginard, Alfred; Casamiquela Floriach, Laia; Figueras Siñol, Francesca; Greimel, Robert; Hughes, Samantha J.; Jordi Nebot, Carme; Barberá Flichi, Francesc; Larsen, Sine; Miralda Escudé, Jordi; Morelli, Luca; Naylor, Tim; Hochrainer, M; Ramos, Pau; Grossi, Emanuele; Sanna, Nico; Steele, I. A.; Vink, J; Wilson, Alice; Wright, Nicholas; Zurita, C (Oxford University Press, 2023-03-11)
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    WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, will see first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-degree field-of-view prime-focus corrector system, ...
  • White dwarf spectral type-temperature distribution from Gaia DR3 and the Virtual Observatory 

    Torres Gil, Santiago; Cruz Gamba, Patricia; Murillo Ojeda, Raquel; Jiménez Esteban, F. M.; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Solano Márquez, Enrique; Camisassa, María Eugenia; Raddi, Roberto; Doliguez Le Lourec, J. (EDP Sciences, 2023-09-21)
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    Context. The characterization of white dwarf atmospheres is crucial for accurately deriving stellar parameters such as effective temperature, mass, and age. However, the inclusion of physical processes such as convective ...
  • Spectral classification of the 100 pc white dwarf population from Gaia-DR3 and the virtual observatory 

    Jiménez Esteban, F. M.; Torres Gil, Santiago; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Cruz Gamba, Patricia; Murillo Ojeda, Raquel; Solano Márquez, Enrique; Rodrigo Blanco, Carlos; Camisassa, María Eugenia (Oxford University Press, 2023-02-01)
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    The third data release of Gaia has provided low resolution spectra for 100 000 white dwarfs (WDs) that, together with the excellent photometry and astrometry, represent an unrivalled benchmark for the study of this ...
  • The unusual planetary nebula nucleus in the Galactic open cluster M37 and six further hot white dwarf candidates 

    Werner, Klaus; Reindl, Nicole; Raddi, Roberto; Griggio, Massimo; Bedin, Luigi; Camisassa, María Eugenia; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Torres Gil, Santiago; Goodhew, Peter (EDP Sciences, 2023-10-01)
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    Planetary nebulae in Galactic open star clusters are rare objects; only three are known to date. They are of particular interest because their distance can be determined with high accuracy, allowing one to characterize the ...
  • NICER Observations of thermonuclear bursts from 4U 1728-34: detection of oscillations prior to the onset of two bursts 

    Bostanci, Funda; Boztepe, Tugba; Güver, Tolga; Strohmayer, Tod E.; Cavecchi, Yuri; Gögüs, Ersin; Altamirano, Diego; Bult, Peter; Chakrabarty, Deepto; Guillot, Sebastien; Jaisawal, Gaurava K.; Malacaria, Christian; Mancuso, Giulio C.; Sanna, Andrea; Swank, Jean H. (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2023-11-13)
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    We present temporal and time-resolved spectral analyses of all the thermonuclear X-ray bursts observed from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34 with NICER from 2017 June to 2019 September. In total, we detected ...
  • Main-sequence companions to white dwarfs - II. The age-activity-rotation relation from a sample of Gaia common proper motion pairs 

    Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Maldonado, Jesús; Raddi, Roberto; Torres Gil, Santiago; Hoskin, Matthew; Cunningham, Tim; Hollands, Mark; Ren, Juanjuan; Gänsicke, Boris T.; Tremblay, P. E.; Camisassa, María Eugenia (Oxford University Press, 2023-10-06)
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    Magnetic activity and rotation are related to the age of low-mass main-sequence stars. To further constrain these relations, we study a sample of 574 main-sequence stars members of common proper motion pairs with white ...

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