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Data-driven Stellar Intrinsic Colors and Dust Reddenings for Spectrophotometric Data: From the Blue-edge Method to a Machine Learning Approach

The Astrophysical Journal
Intrinsic colors (ICs) of stars are essential for studies on both stellar physics and dust reddening. In this work, we developed an XGBoost model to predict ICs with the atmospheric parameters T _eff , ${\rm{log}}\,g$ , and [M/H].
He Zhao, Shu Wang, Biwei Jiang, Jun Li, Dongwei Fan, Yi Ren, Xiaoxiao Ma   +6 more
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An unexpected alternative viologen electron mediator site in tungsten‐containing formate dehydrogenase

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
An unexpected alternative interaction site for ethyl viologen was identified in formate dehydrogenase 1 from Methylorubrum extorquens. Combined mutagenesis, kinetic analysis, and docking revealed that aromatic residues near an iron–sulfur cluster enable flavin mononucleotide‐independent electron transfer, offering a framework for engineering improved ...
Eleni G. Poloniataki, Yong Hwan Kim
wiley   +1 more source

B stars in open clusters: fundamental parameters [PDF]

, 2011
We use the BCD spectrophotometric classification system to derive fundamental parameters of B stars in NGC 2439, NGC 3766 and NGC 6087. We are able to perform a complete study of each open cluster by deriving spectral classification of its members ...
Arias, María Laura, Zorec, Juan, Cidale, Lydia Sonia, Aidelman, Yael Judith   +3 more
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Scaling K2. VIII. Short-period Sub-Neptune Occurrence Rates Peak Around Early-type M Dwarfs

The Astronomical Journal
We uniformly combined data from the NASA Kepler and K2 missions to compute planet occurrence rates across the entire FGK and M-dwarf stellar range. The K2 mission, driven by targets selected by guest observers, monitored nine times more M dwarfs than the
Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman, Galen J. Bergsten, Jessie L. Christiansen, Jon K. Zink, Sakhee Bhure, Kiersten M. Boley, Rachel B. Fernandes, Steven Giacalone, Preethi R. Karpoor   +8 more
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Cell geometry and membrane protein crowding constrain Escherichia coli growth rate, overflow metabolism, respiration, and maintenance energy

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The physical dimensions and shape of bacterial cells define the surface area available to acquire nutrients and the volume available for synthesizing proteins and DNA. Here, we use computational systems biology to decode the importance of cell geometry as a major determinant of prokaryotic phenotype, including growth rate and metabolic efficiency. This
Ross P. Carlson, Tomáš Gedeon, Mauricio Garcia Benitez, Campbell Putnam, William R. Harcombe, Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, Ashley E. Beck   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methodology for measuring fundamental parameters and associated uncertainties for middle and cool main-sequence stars

, 2014
We have performed a study of a representative group of main-sequence stars in the temperature range 5000-10000 K in order to test our methodology for determining fundamental parameters and for the assesment of associated uncertainties. The stars selected
Piskunov, Nikolai,, Ryabchikova, T.,, Nizamov, B.,, Pakhomov, Yu, V,, Titarenko, A.,   +4 more
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Fundamental parameters of He-weak and He-strong stars [PDF]

, 2019
Context. He-weak and He-strong stars are chemically peculiar AB objects whose He lines are anomalously weak or strong for their MK spectral type. The determination of fundamental parameters for these stars is often more complex than for normal stars due ...
Arias, María Laura, Cruzado, Alicia, Frémat, Y., Zorec, J., Cidale, Lydia Sonia, Torres, Andrea Fabiana   +5 more
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A Star-based Method for the Precise Flux Calibration of the Chinese Space Station Telescope Slitless Spectroscopic Survey

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
The upcoming Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) slitless spectroscopic survey poses a challenge of flux calibration, which requires a large number of flux-standard stars.
Lin Yang, Haibo Yuan, Fuqing Duan, Ruoyi Zhang, Bowen Huang, Kai Xiao, Shuai Xu, Jinming Zhang   +7 more
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Fundamental Parameters of Exoplanets and Their Host Stars

, 2013
For much of human history we have wondered how our solar system formed, and whether there are any other planets like ours around other stars. Only in the last 20 years have we had direct evidence for the existence of exoplanets, with the number of known exoplanets dramatically increasing in recent years, especially with the success of the Kepler ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Salmonella lipopolysaccharide‐containing supported lipid bilayers as platforms to study bacteriophage interactions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace, Alyssa Borges, Charles Arnaud, Tove Karlsson, Nina K. Bröker, Stefanie Barbirz, Marta Bally   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source