A binary merger origin for inflated hot Jupiter planets
We hypothesize that hot Jupiters with inflated sizes represent a separate planet formation channel, the merging of two low-mass stars. We show that the...
We have discovered an object in the field of the Galactic open cluster [1]36 which exhibits a nebulous tail-like structure and a high velocity outflow. We first...
A Black Hole Nova Obscured by an Inner Disk Torus.
Stellar-mass black holes (BHs) are mostly found in X-ray transients, a subclass of X-ray binaries that exhibit violent outbursts. None of the 50 Galactic BHs...
A black hole X-ray binary at ̃100 Hz: multiwavelength timing of MAXI J1820+070 with HiPERCAM and NICER
We report on simultaneous sub-second optical and X-ray timing observations of the low-mass X-ray binary black hole candidate MAXI J1820+070. The bright 2018...
A black widow population dissection through HiPERCAM multiband light-curve modelling
Black widows are extreme millisecond pulsar binaries where the pulsar wind ablates their low-mass companion stars. In the optical range, their light curves vary...
A blind detection of a large, complex, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich structure
We present an interesting Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) detection in the first of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) ‘blind’, degree-square fields to have been...
A Blueprint for the Milky Way's Stellar Populations. IV. A String of Pearls-the Galactic Starburst Sequence
We continue our series of papers on phase-space distributions of stars in the Milky Way based on photometrically derived metallicities and Gaia astrometry, with...
A boxy bulge in the Milky Way. Inversion of the stellar statistics equation with 2MASS data
Inverting the stellar statistics equation from 2MASS star counts, we obtain the 3D density distribution of the Galactic bulge as well as its luminosity function...
A brief review of contrastive learning applied to astrophysics
Reliable tools to extract patterns from high-dimensionality spaces are becoming more necessary as astronomical data sets increase both in volume and complexity...