Search Results - "Barba, R. H"
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The MiMeS survey of magnetism in massive stars: introduction and overview
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-02-2016)“…The MiMeS (Magnetism in Massive Stars) project is a large-scale, high-resolution, sensitive spectropolarimetric investigation of the magnetic properties of O-…”
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NGC 1624‐2: a slowly rotating, X‐ray luminous Of?cp star with an extraordinarily strong magnetic field
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-09-2012)“…ABSTRACT This paper presents a first observational investigation of the faint Of?p star NGC 1624‐2, yielding important new constraints on its spectral and…”
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Two O2If/WN6 stars possibly ejected from the massive young Galactic cluster Westerlund 2
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2011)“…ABSTRACT In this paper we report the identification of two new Galactic O2If*/WN6 stars (WR20aa and WR20c), on the outskirts of the massive young stellar…”
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Two O2 If/WN6 stars possibly ejected from the massive young Galactic cluster Westerlund 2
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2011)“…In this paper we report the identification of two new Galactic O2 If*/WN6 stars (WR20aa and WR20c), on the outskirts of the massive young stellar cluster…”
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The Alma catalogue of OB stars – II. A cross-match with Gaia DR2 and an updated map of the solar neighbourhood
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2021)“…ABSTRACT We cross-match the Alma catalogue of OB stars with Gaia DR2 astrometry and photometry as a first step towards producing a clean sample of massive…”
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A close encounter of the massive kind
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2017)“…We have used (i) Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph spectroscopy, (ii) ground-based Precision…”
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The spectroscopic orbit of HD 168112 A,B in NGC 6604: another massive binary target for interferometry
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-09-2023)“…ABSTRACT We present the first spectroscopic orbit of the O-type double-lined star HD 168112 A,B. We analyse 101 high-resolution optical spectra identifying the…”
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Fundamental parameters of two O9-type giant stars: the (former) spectral classification standard HD 93249 A and ALS 12502 A
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2023)“…ABSTRACT The evolution of massive stars is not completely understood. Several phenomena affect their birth, life, and death, multiplicity being one of them. In…”
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DISCOVERY OF THE MASSIVE OVERCONTACT BINARY VFTS 352: EVIDENCE FOR ENHANCED INTERNAL MIXING
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-10-2015)“…ABSTRACT The contact phase expected to precede the coalescence of two massive stars is poorly characterized due to the paucity of observational constraints…”
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A magnetic massive star has experienced a stellar merger
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (12-04-2024)“…Massive stars (those ≥8 solar masses at formation) have radiative envelopes that cannot sustain a dynamo, the mechanism that produces magnetic fields in…”
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The double-lined spectroscopic binary orbit of the massive supergiant HD 152147: A new target for interferometry
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-10-2022)“…ABSTRACT We present a new spectroscopic orbit of the O-type binary system HD 152147. We identify absorption lines in both components and use their radial…”
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The GALANTE photometric survey of the northern Galactic plane: project description and pipeline
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2021)“…ABSTRACT The GALANTE optical photometric survey is observing the northern Galactic plane and some adjacent regions using seven narrow- and…”
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Extreme resonance line profile variations in the ultraviolet spectra of NGC 1624-2: probing the giant magnetosphere of the most strongly magnetized known O-type star
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-02-2019)“…In this paper, we present high-resolution HST/COS observations of the extreme magnetic O star NGC 1624-2. These represent the first ultraviolet spectra of this…”
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The outer orbit of the high-mass stellar triple system Herschel 36 determined with the VLTI
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (09-06-2022)“…ABSTRACT Multiplicity is a ubiquitous characteristic of massive stars. Multiple systems offer us a unique observational constraint on the formation of…”
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Rotation, spectral variability, magnetic geometry and magnetosphere of the Of?p star CPD −28° 2561
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2015)“…We report magnetic and spectroscopic observations and modelling of the Of?p star CPD -28... 2561. Using more than 75 new spectra, we have measured the…”
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The High-Energy Emission from HD 93129A Near Periastron
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2020)“…We conducted an observational campaign towards one of the most massive and luminous colliding wind binaries in the Galaxy, HD 93129A, close to its periastron…”
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The GALANTE photometric system
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-06-2019)“…Abstract This paper describes the characterization of the GALANTE photometric system, a seven intermediate- and narrow-band filter system with a wavelength…”
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G287.84-0.82: an infrared star cluster in the Carina nebula
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2004)“…Abstract We have studied the properties of an infrared cluster embedded in the gas and dust of the southern part of the Carina nebula (NGC 3372), where the…”
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Deriving stellar parameters from GALANTE photometry: bias and precision
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-05-2020)“…ABSTRACT In this paper, we analyse how to extract the physical properties from the GALANTE photometry of a stellar sample. We propose a direct comparison…”
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The infrared Hourglass cluster in M8
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2006)“…A detailed study of the Hourglass nebula in the M8 star-forming region is presented. The study is mainly based on recent subarcsec-resolution JHKs images taken…”
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