Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publication
The Mass of the Black-Hole in A:0620-00
We present a direct determination of the mass of the system components in the soft X-ray transient A0620 -00. Infrared photometry during 1990 allows us to...
The mass of X-ray Nova Scorpii1994 (=GRO J1655-40)
We have obtained high- and intermediate-resolution optical spectra of the black hole candidate Nova Scorpii 1994 in 1998 May/June, when the source was in...
The massive white dwarf in the recurrent nova TCrB
We have obtained I-, J-, H- and K-band light curves of the recurrent nova TCrB. We find that we can fit the J-band light curve only with a Roche lobe filling...
The maximum stellar mass, star-cluster formation and composite stellar populations
We demonstrate that the mass of the most massive star in a cluster correlates non-trivially with the cluster mass. A simple algorithm, according to which a...
The merger history of massive spheroids since z ˜ 1 is size-independent
Using a compilation of 379 massive (stellar mass M ≳ 1011 M⊙) spheroid-like galaxies from the near-infrared Palomar/DEEP-2 survey, we investigated, up to z ˜ 1...
The metal-rich halo tail extended in |z|: a characterization with Gaia DR2 and APOGEE
We report an analysis of the metal-rich tail ([Fe/H] > -0.75) of stars located at distances from the Galactic plane up to |z| ˜ 10 kpc, observed by the Apache...
The metallicity-period-mass diagram of low-mass exoplanets
The number of exoplanet detections continues to grow following the development of better instruments and missions. Key steps for the understanding of these...
The Milky Way bar pattern speed using Hercules and Gaia DR3
The distribution of moving groups in the solar neighbourhood has been used to constrain dynamical properties of the Milky Way for decades. The kinematic...
The Milky Way's bulge star formation history as constrained from its bimodal chemical abundance distribution
We conduct a quantitative analysis of the star formation history (SFH) of the Milky Way's (MW) bulge by exploiting the constraining power of its stellar [Fe/H]...