01/01/2026 - High-Energy

The Feasibility of Using Fe XXIII Metastable Transitions as a Density Diagnostic for Low-mass X-Ray Binary Disk Winds

Low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) occasionally show signs of outflowing material from the accretion disk. Studying these outflows can inform the understanding of the geometry of the systems, as well as the dynamics and energetics of accretion. One key variable for determining the location of these disk winds is the density of the outflowing material. In…

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01/01/2026 - High-Energy

XRISM Observations of the Prototypical Cold Front in A3667

We present high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the merging galaxy cluster A3667 with XRISM/Resolve. Two observations, targeting the cluster X-ray core and the prototypical cold front, were performed with exposures of 105 and 276 ks, respectively. We find that the gas in the core is blueshifted by vz ∼ −200 km s−1 relative to the brightest…

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01/01/2026 - Exoplanets

HARPS-N, TESS, and CHEOPS discover a transiting sub-Neptune and two outer companions around the bright solar analogue HD 85426

We provide a detailed characterization of the planetary system orbiting HD 85426 (TOI-1774). This bright G-type star ($M_{ast }$: 0.99 $text{M}_{odot }$; $R_{ast }$: 1.13 $text{R}_{odot }$; age: 7.4 Gyr; V mag: 8.25) hosts a transiting sub-Neptune, HD 85426 b, with an orbital period of 16.71 d and a blackbody equilibrium temperature of $824^{+11}_{-11}$ K.…

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