Context. Stellar carbon abundances are crucial for tracing the star formation history and predicting the near-infrared emission of galaxies. It is still a complex task to derive accurate carbon abundance estimates for a wide variety of stars because it is hard to measure it based on atomic and molecular lines. It therefore remains challenging to

Benchmark brown dwarfs in wide binary systems are crucial for characterizing substellar objects and calibrating atmospheric and evolutionary models. However, brown dwarf benchmarks with subsolar metallicity, very cool temperatures, or suitability for dynamical mass measurements are rare, limiting our understanding across the full range of mass, age

Spiral arms play a central role in disc galaxies, but their dynamical nature remains a long-standing open question. Azimuthal offsets between molecular gas and star formation are expected if gas crosses spiral arms, as predicted by quasi-stationary density wave theory. In this work, we measure offsets between CO and Hα peaks in radial bins for 24

The distribution of close-in exoplanets is shaped by a complex interplay between atmospheric and dynamical processes. The Desert, Ridge, and Savanna (respectively a lack, overoccurence, and mild deficit of Neptunes with increasing periods) illustrate the sensitivity of these worlds to such processes, making them ideal targets to disentangle their

We report a candidate repeating tidal disruption event (TDE), AT2022sxl, found from large-field optical survey data. Two flares with a separation time of ∼7.2 yr between the two optical peaks are observed. Related mid-infrared (MIR) flares, with delay times of ∼200 days are also seen. We analyze two optical spectra of the TDE source, one near the

We present the Rossiter–McLaughlin measurement of the sub-Neptune TOI-1759A b with MAROON-X. A joint analysis with MuSCAT3 photometry and nine additional TESS transits produces a sky-projected obliquity of ∣λ∣ = 4° ± 18°. We also derive a true obliquity of ψ = 24° ± 12° making this planet consistent with full alignment albeit to <1σ. With a period