Red clump stars

L Girardi - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Low-mass stars in their core-helium-burning stage define the sharpest feature present in the
color-magnitude diagrams of nearby galaxy systems: the red clump (RC). This feature has …

[HTML][HTML] Simulating groups and the intragroup medium: the surprisingly complex and rich middle ground between clusters and galaxies

BD Oppenheimer, A Babul, Y Bahé, IS Butsky… - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
Galaxy groups are more than an intermediate scale between clusters and halos hosting
individual galaxies, they are crucial laboratories capable of testing a range of astrophysics …

A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

I Andreoni, MW Coughlin, DA Perley, Y Yao, W Lu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy that are released when
supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes too …

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products

G Gilmore, S Randich, CC Worley, A Hourihane… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to
obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100 000 stars, including …

First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the galaxy colour bimodality

D Nelson, A Pillepich, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the first two simulations of the IllustrisTNG project, a next generation of
cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations, focusing on the optical colours of …

The sloan digital sky survey quasar catalog: Sixteenth data release

BW Lyke, AN Higley, JN McLane… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the final Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) quasar catalog from Data
Release 16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). This catalog …

A tidal disruption event coincident with a high-energy neutrino

R Stein, S Velzen, M Kowalski, A Franckowiak… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cosmic neutrinos provide a unique window into the otherwise hidden mechanism of particle
acceleration in astrophysical objects. The IceCube Collaboration recently reported the likely …

FIRE-3: updated stellar evolution models, yields, and microphysics and fitting functions for applications in galaxy simulations

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, C Wheeler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Increasingly, uncertainties in predictions from galaxy formation simulations (at sub-Milky
Way masses) are dominated by uncertainties in stellar evolution inputs. In this paper, we …

BAT AGN spectroscopic survey. V. X-ray properties of the Swift/BAT 70-month AGN catalog

C Ricci, B Trakhtenbrot, MJ Koss, Y Ueda… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Hard X-ray (≥ 10 keV) observations of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can shed light on some
of the most obscured episodes of accretion onto supermassive black holes. The 70-month …

ASPCAP: the APOGEE stellar parameter and chemical abundances pipeline

AEG Pérez, CA Prieto, JA Holtzman… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has
built the largest moderately high-resolution (R≈ 22,500) spectroscopic map of the stars …