Search Results - "Kervella, P"
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A distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud that is precise to one per cent
Published in Nature (London) (01-03-2019)“…In the era of precision cosmology, it is essential to determine the Hubble constant empirically with an accuracy of one per cent or better 1 . At present, the…”
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A Dusty Veil Shading Betelgeuse During Its Great Dimming
Published in Nature (London) (17-06-2021)“…Red supergiants are the most common final evolutionary stage of stars that have initial masses between 8 and 35 times that of the Sun. During this stage, which…”
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Prevalence of SED Turndown among Classical Be Stars: Are All Be Stars Close Binaries?
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-11-2019)“…Rapid rotation is a fundamental characteristic of classical Be stars and a crucial property allowing for the formation of their circumstellar disks. Past…”
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Detection of Rydberg Lines from the Atmosphere of Betelgeuse
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-05-2024)“…Abstract Emission lines from Rydberg transitions are detected for the first time from a region close to the surface of Betelgeuse. The H30 α line is observed…”
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The inner circumstellar dust of the red supergiant Antares as seen with VLT/SPHERE/ZIMPOL
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2021)“…ABSTRACT The processes by which red supergiants lose mass are not fully understood thus-far and their mass-loss rates lack theoretical constraints. The ambient…”
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A Geometrical 1% Distance to the Short-period Binary Cepheid V1334 Cygni
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-11-2018)“…Cepheid stars play a considerable role as extragalactic distances indicators, thanks to the simple empirical relation between their pulsation period and their…”
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The gravitational mass of Proxima Centauri measured with SPHERE from a microlensing event
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-10-2018)“…Proxima Centauri, our closest stellar neighbour, is a low-mass M5 dwarf orbiting in a triple system. An Earth-mass planet with an 11 day period has been…”
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Physical, spectral, and dynamical properties of asteroid (107) Camilla and its satellites
Published in Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962) (15-07-2018)“…•Exhaustive study of Camilla system with all available data: lightcurves, high angular resolution images, occultations, and spectra.•Orbit of largest satellite…”
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First Results from the CHARA Array. VII. Long-Baseline Interferometric Measurements of Vega Consistent with a Pole-On, Rapidly Rotating Star
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-07-2006)“…We have obtained high-precision interferometric measurements of Vega with the CHARA Array and FLUOR beam combiner in the K' band at projected baselines between…”
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Obtaining accurate radial velocities for Cepheid companions using the STIS echelles
Published in EPJ Web of conferences (01-01-2017)“…We discuss the high dispersion echelle observations of the hot binary companions of six Cepheids with known radial-velocity orbits that we have obtained with…”
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Chemical tracers of a highly eccentric AGB–main-sequence star binary
Published in Nature astronomy (2024)“…Binary interactions have been proposed to explain a variety of circumstellar structures seen around evolved stars, including asymptotic giant branch (AGB)…”
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On the Limb Darkening, Spectral Energy Distribution, and Temperature Structure of Procyon
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2005)“…We have fit synthetic visibilities from three-dimensional (CO super(5)BOLD+PHOENIX) and one-dimensional (PHOENIX, ATLAS 12) model stellar atmospheres of…”
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Asteroseismology and interferometry
Published in The Astronomy and astrophysics review (01-11-2007)“…Asteroseismology provides us with a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. Recent developments, including the…”
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Four years’ interferometric observations of Galactic binary Cepheids
Published in EPJ Web of Conferences (01-01-2017)“…We give an update on our long-term program of Galactic Cepheids started in 2012, whose goal is to measure the visual orbits of Cepheid companions. Using the…”
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Evidence for Very Extended Gaseous Layers around O-rich Mira Variables and M Giants
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A measure of the size of the magnetospheric accretion region in TW Hydrae
Published in Nature (London) (27-08-2020)“…Stars form by accreting material from their surrounding disks. There is a consensus that matter flowing through the disk is channelled onto the stellar surface…”
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Investigating Cepheid ℓ Carinae's cycle-to-cycle variations via contemporaneous velocimetry and interferometry
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2016)“…Baade–Wesselink-type (BW) techniques enable geometric distance measurements of Cepheid variable stars in the Galaxy and the Magellanic clouds. The leading…”
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The VLTI - A Status Report
Published in Astrophysics and space science (01-01-2003)“…The Very Large Telescope (VLT) Observatory on Cerro Paranal (2635 m) in Northern Chile is approaching completion. After the four 8-m Unit Telescopes (UT)…”
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Using the motion of S2 to constrain scalar clouds around SgrA
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2023)“…The motion of S2, one of the stars closest to the Galactic Centre, has been measured accurately and used to study the compact object at the centre of the Milky…”
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