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The ESO supernovae type Ia progenitor survey (SPY) : The radial velocities of 644 DA white dwarfs
(2019-07-27)
Close double degenerate binaries are one of the favoured progenitor channels for type Ia supernovae, but it is unclear how many suitable systems there are in the Galaxy. We report results of a large radial velocity survey ...
Beyond the Solar Circle - Trends in Massive Star Formation Between the Inner and Outer Galaxy
(2019-07-01)
We have compiled the most complete compact and ultracompact HII region catalogue to date via multi-wavelength inspection of survey data. We utilise data from the recently available SASSy 850$\mu$m survey to identify massive ...
Ongoing astrometric microlensing events from VVV and Gaia
(2019-07)
We extend predictive microlensing event searches using the Vista Variables in the Via Lactea survey and the second Gaia data release. We identify two events with maxima in 2019 that require urgent follow-up. First, we ...
The asymptotic evolution of the stellar merger V1309 Sco: a Blue Straggler in the making?
(2019-06-01)
Stellar mergers are estimated to be common events in the Galaxy. The best studied stellar merger case to date is V1309 Sco (= Nova Scorpii 2008) which was originally misclassified as a Nova event. Later identified as the ...
The O star hinterland of the Galactic starburst, NGC 3603
(2019-06-01)
The very bright and compact massive young cluster, NGC 3603, has been cited as an example of a starburst in the Milky Way and compared with the much-studied R136/30 Doradus region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Here we ...
The Gaia Ultra-Cool Dwarf Sample -- II : Structure at the end of the main sequence
(2019-05-01)
We identify and investigate known late M, L, and T dwarfs in the Gaia second data release. This sample is being used as a training set in the Gaia data processing chain of the ultracool dwarfs work package. We find 695 ...
ALMA survey of Class II protoplanetary disks in Corona Australis : a young region with low disk masses
(2019-04-03)
In recent years, the disk populations in a number of young star-forming regions have been surveyed with ALMA. Understanding the disk properties and their correlation with those of the central star is critical to understand ...
Disentangling the spatial substructure of Cygnus OB2 from Gaia DR2
(2019-04-01)
For the first time, we have explored the spatial substructure of the Cygnus OB2 association using parallaxes from the recent second Gaia data release. We find significant line-of-sight substructure within the association, ...
Long-term Stellar Variability in the Galactic Centre Region
(2019-02)
We report the detection of variable stars within a 11.5' x 11.5' region near the Galactic centre (GC) that includes the Arches and Quintuplet clusters, as revealed by the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey. ...
The JCMT Transient Survey: An Extraordinary Submillimeter Flare in the T Tauri Binary System JW 566
(2019-01-23)
The binary T Tauri system JW 566 in the Orion Molecular Cloud underwent an energetic, short-lived flare observed at submillimetre wavelengths by the SCUBA-2 instrument on 26 November 2016 (UT). The emission faded by nearly ...