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    Gaia-ESO Survey: Gas dynamics in the Carina nebula through optical emission lines
    (EDP SCIENCES, 2016-06) Damiani, F.; Bonito, R.; Magrini, L.; Prisinzano, L.; Mapelli, M.; Micela, G.; Kalari, V.; Maíz Apellániz, J.; Gilmore, G.; Randich, S.; Alfaro, E.; Flaccomio, E.; Koposov, S.; Klutsch, A.; Lanzafame, A. C.; Pancino, E.; Sacco, G. G.; Bayo, A.; Carraro, G.; Casey, A. R.; Costado, M. T.; Franciosini, E.; Hourihane, A.; Lardo, C.; Lewis, J.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Worley, C.; Zaggia, S.; Zwitter, T.; Dorda, R.
    Aims. We present observations from the Gaia-ESO Survey in the lines of Hα, [N II], [S II], and He I of nebular emission in the central part of the Carina nebula. Methods. We investigate the properties of the two already known kinematic components (approaching and receding), which account for the bulk of emission. Moreover, we investigate the features of the much less known low-intensity high-velocity (absolute RV >50 km s-1) gas emission. Results. We show that gas giving rise to Hα and He I emission is dynamically well correlated with but not identical to gas seen through forbidden-line emission. Gas temperatures are derived from line-width ratios, and densities from [S II] doublet ratios. The spatial variation of N ionization is also studied, and found to differ between the approaching and receding components. The main result is that the bulk of the emission lines in the central part of Carina arise from several distinct shell-like expanding regions, the most evident found around η Car, the Trumpler 14 core, and the star WR25. These “shells” are non-spherical and show distortions probably caused by collisions with other shells or colder, higher-density gas. Some of them are also partially obscured by foreground dust lanes, while very little dust is found in their interior. Preferential directions, parallel to the dark dust lanes, are found in the shell geometries and physical properties, probably related to strong density gradients in the studied region. We also find evidence that the ionizing flux emerging from η Car and the surrounding Homunculus nebula varies with polar angle. The high-velocity components in the wings of Hα are found to arise from expanding dust reflecting the η Car spectrum.
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    GRAWITA: VLT Survey Telescope observations of the gravitational wave sources GW150914 and GW151226
    (Oxford University Press, 2018-02) Brocato, E.; Branchesi, M.; Cappellaro, E.; Covino, S.; Grado, A.; Greco, G.; Limatola, L.; Stratta, G.; Yang, S.; Campana, S.; D'Avanzo, P.; Getman, F.; Melandri, A.; Nicastro, L.; Palazzi, E.; Pian, E.; Piranomonte, S.; Pulone, L.; Rossi, A.; Tomasella, L.; Amati, L.; Antonelli, L.A.; Ascenzi, S.; Benetti, S.; Bulgarelli, A.; Capaccioli, M.; Cella, G.; Dadina, M.; De Cesare, G.; D'Elia, V.; Ghirlanda, G.; Ghisellini, G.; Giuffrida, G.; Iannicola, G.; Israel, G.; Lisi, M.; Longo, F.; Mapelli, M.; Marinoni, S.; Marrese, P.; Masetti, N.; Patricelli, B.; Possenti, A.; Radovich, M.; Razzano, M.; Salvaterra, R.; Schipani, P.; Spera, M.; Stamerra, A.; Stella, L.; Tagliaferri, G.; Testa, V.
    We report the results of deep optical follow-up surveys of the first two gravitational-wave sources, GW150914 and GW151226, done by the GRAvitationalWave Inaf TeAm Collaboration (GRAWITA). The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) responded promptly to the gravitational wave alerts sent by the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations, monitoring a region of 90 and 72 deg 2 for GW150914 and GW151226, respectively, and repeated the observations over nearly two months. Both surveys reached an average limiting magnitude of about 21 in the r band. The paper describes the VST observational strategy and two independent procedures developed to search for transient counterpart candidates in multi-epoch VST images. Several transients have been discovered but no candidates are recognized to be related to the gravitational wave events. Interestingly, among many contaminant supernovae, we find a possible correlation between the supernova VSTJ57.77559-59.13990 and GRB150827A detected by Fermi-GBM. The detection efficiency of VST observations for different types of electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave events is evaluated for the present and future follow-up surveys. © 2017 The Author(s).
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    Spectroscopic identification of r-process nucleosynthesis in a double neutron-star merger
    (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-11) Pian, E.; D'Avanzo, P.; Benetti, S.; Branchesi, M.; Brocato, Campana S.; Cappellaro, E.; Covino, S.; D'Elia, V.; Fynbo, J.P.U.; Getman, F.; Ghirlanda, G.; Ghisellini, G.; Grado, A.; Greco, G.; Hjorth, J.; Kouveliotou, C.; Levan, A.; Limatola, L.; Malesani, D.; Mazzali, P.A.; Melandri, A.; Møller, P.; Nicastro, L.; Palazzi, E.; Piranomonte, S.; Rossi, A.; Salafia, O.S.; Selsing, J.; Stratta, G.; Tanaka, M.; Tanvir, N.R.; Tomasella, L.; Watson, D.; Yang, S.; Amati, L.; Antonelli, L.A.; Ascenzi, S.; Bernardini, M.G.; Boër, M.; Bufano, F.; Bulgarelli, A.; Capaccioli, M.; Casella, P.; Castro-Tirado, A.J.; Chassande-Mottin, E.; Ciolfi, R.; Copperwheat, C.M.; Dadina, M.; De Cesare, G.; Di Paola, A.; Fan, Y.Z.; Gendre, B.; Giuffrida, G.; Giunta, A.; Hunt, L.K.; Israel, G.L.; Jin, Z.-P.; Kasliwal, M.M.; Klose, S.; Lisi, M.; Longo, F.; Maiorano, E.; Mapelli, M.; Masetti, N.; Nava, L.; Patricelli, B.; Perley, D.; Pescalli, A.; Piran, T.; Possenti, A.; Pulone, L.; Razzano, M.; Salvaterra, R.; Schipani, P.; Spera, M.; Stamerra, A.; Stella, L.; Tagliaferri, G.; Testa, V.; Troja, E.; Turatto, M.; Vergani, S.D.; Vergani, D.
    The merger of two neutron stars is predicted to give rise to three major detectable phenomena: a short burst of γ-rays, a gravitational-wave signal, and a transient optical-near-infrared source powered by the synthesis of large amounts of very heavy elements via rapid neutron capture (the r-process)1-3. Such transients, named 'macronovae' or 'kilonovae'4-7, are believed to be centres of production of rare elements such as gold and platinum8. The most compelling evidence so far for a kilonova was a very faint near-infrared rebrightening in the afterglow of a short γ-ray burst9,10 at redshift z = 0.356, although findings indicating bluer events have been reported11. Here we report the spectral identification and describe the physical properties of a bright kilonova associated with the gravitational-wave source12 GW170817 and γ-ray burst13,14 GRB 170817A associated with a galaxy at a distance of 40 megaparsecs from Earth. Using a series of spectra from ground-based observatories covering the wavelength range from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared, we find that the kilonova is characterized by rapidly expanding ejecta with spectral features similar to those predicted by current models15,16. The ejecta is optically thick early on, with a velocity of about 0.2 times light speed, and reaches a radius of about 50 astronomical units in only 1.5 days. As the ejecta expands, broad absorption-like lines appear on the spectral continuum, indicating atomic species produced by nucleosynthesis that occurs in the post-merger fast-moving dynamical ejecta and in two slower (0.05 times light speed) wind regions. Comparison with spectral models suggests that the merger ejected 0.03 to 0.05 solar masses of material, including high-opacity lanthanides. © 2017 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature.
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    The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Implementation, data products, open cluster survey, science, and legacy
    (EDP Sciences, 2022-10-01) Randich, S.; Gilmore, G.; Magrini, L.; Sacco, G.G.; Jackson, R.J.; Jeffries, R.D.; Worley, C.C.; Hourihane, A.; Gonneau, A.; Viscasillas Vázquez, C.; Franciosini, E.; Lewis, J.R.; Alfaro, E.J.; Allende Prieto, C.; Bensby, T.; Blomme, R.; Bragaglia, A.; Flaccomio, E.; François, P.; Irwin, M.J.; Koposov, S.E.; Korn, A.J.; Lanzafame, A.C.; Pancino, E.; Recio Blanco, A.; Smiljanic, R.; Van Eck, S.; Zwitter, T.; Asplund, M.; Bonifacio, P.; Feltzing, S.; Binney, J.; Drew, J.; Ferguson, A.M.N.; Micela, G.; Negueruela, I.; Prusti, T.; Rix, H.-W.; Vallenari, A.; Bayo, A.; Bergemann, M.; Biazzo, K.; Carraro, G.; Casey, A.R.; Damiani, F.; Frasca, A.; Heiter, U.; Hill, V.; Jofré, P.; de Laverny, P.; Lind, K.; Marconi, G.; Martayan, C.; Masseron, T.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Prisinzano, L.; Sbordone, L.; Sousa, S.G.; Zaggia, S.; Adibekyan, V.; Bonito, R.; Caffau, E.; Daflon, S.; Feuillet, D.K.; Gebran, M.; González Hernández, J.I.; Guiglion, G.; Herrero, A.; Lobel, A.; Maíz Apellániz, J.; Merle, T.; Mikolaitis, S.; Montes, D.; Morel, T.; Soubiran, C.; Spina, L.; Tabernero, H.M.; Tautvaišiene, G.; Traven, G.; Valentini, M.; Van der Swaelmen, M.; Villanova, S.; Wright, N.J.; Abbas, U.; Aguirre Børsen-Koch, V.; Alves, J.; Balaguer Núnez, L.; Barklem, P.S.; Barrado, D.; Berlanas, S.R.; Binks, A.S.; Bressan, A.; Capuzzo Dolcetta, R.; Casagrande, L.; Casamiquela, L.; Collins, R.S.; D’Orazi, V.; Dantas, M.L.L.; Debattista, V.P.; Delgado Mena, E.; Di Marcantonio, P.; Drazdauskas, A.; Evans, N.W.; Famaey, B.; Franchini, M.; Frémat, Y.; Friel, E.D.; Fu, X.; Geisler, D.; Gerhard, O.; González Solares, E.A.; Grebel, E.K.; Gutiérrez Albarrán, M.L.; Hatzidimitriou, D.; Held, E.V.; Jiménez Esteban, F.; Jönsson, H.; Jordi, C.; Khachaturyants, T.; Kordopatis, G.; Kos, J.; Lagarde, N.; Mahy, L.; Mapelli, M.; Marfil, E.; Martell, S.L.; Messina, S.; Miglio, A.; Minchev, I.; Moitinho, A.; Montalban, J.; Monteiro, M.J.P.F.G.; Morossi, C.; Mowlavi, N.; Mucciarelli, A.; Murphy, D.N.A.; Nardetto, N.; Ortolani, S.; Paletou, F.; Palous, J.; Paunzen, E.; Pickering, J.C.; Quirrenbach, A.; Re Fiorentin, P.; Read, J.I.; Romano, D.; Ryde, N.; Sanna, N.; Santos, W.; Seabroke, G.M.; Spagna, A.; Steinmetz, M.; Stonkuté, E.; Sutorius, E.; Thévenin, F.; Tosi, M.; Tsantaki, M.; Vink, J.S.; Wright, N.; Wyse, R.F.G.; Zoccali, M.; Zorec, J.; Zucker, D.B.; Walton, N.A.
    Context. In the last 15 years different ground-based spectroscopic surveys have been started (and completed) with the general aim of delivering stellar parameters and elemental abundances for large samples of Galactic stars, complementing Gaia astrometry. Among those surveys, the Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey, the only one performed on a 8m class telescope, was designed to target 100 000 stars using FLAMES on the ESO VLT (both Giraffe and UVES spectrographs), covering all the Milky Way populations, with a special focus on open star clusters. Aims. This article provides an overview of the survey implementation (observations, data quality, analysis and its success, data products, and releases), of the open cluster survey, of the science results and potential, and of the survey legacy. A companion article reviews the overall survey motivation, strategy, Giraffe pipeline data reduction, organisation, and workflow. Methods. We made use of the information recorded and archived in the observing blocks; during the observing runs; in a number of relevant documents; in the spectra and master catalogue of spectra; in the parameters delivered by the analysis nodes and the working groups; in the final catalogue; and in the science papers. Based on these sources, we critically analyse and discuss the output and products of the Survey, including science highlights. We also determined the average metallicities of the open clusters observed as science targets and of a sample of clusters whose spectra were retrieved from the ESO archive. Results. The Gaia-ESO Survey has determined homogeneous good-quality radial velocities and stellar parameters for a large fraction of its more than 110 000 unique target stars. Elemental abundances were derived for up to 31 elements for targets observed with UVES. Lithium abundances are delivered for about 1/3 of the sample. The analysis and homogenisation strategies have proven to be successful; several science topics have been addressed by the Gaia-ESO consortium and the community, with many highlight results achieved. Conclusions. The final catalogue will be released through the ESO archive in the first half of 2022, including the complete set of advanced data products. In addition to these results, the Gaia-ESO Survey will leave a very important legacy, for several aspects and for many years to come. © ESO 2022.
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    The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products?
    (EDP Sciences, 2022-10-01) Gilmore, G.; Randich, S.; Worley, C.C.; Hourihane, A.; Gonneau, A.; Sacco, G.G.; Lewis, J.R.; Magrini, L.; François, P.; Jeffries, R.D.; Koposov, S.E.; Bragaglia, A.; Alfaro, E.J.; Allende Prieto, C.; Blomme, R.; Korn, A.J.; Lanzafame, A.C.; Pancino, E.; Recio Blanco, A.; Smiljanic, R.; Van Eck, S.; Zwitter, T.; Bensby, T.; Flaccomio, E.; Irwin, M.J.; Franciosini, E.; Morbidelli, L.; Damiani, F.; Bonito, R.; Friel, E.D.; Vink, J.S.; Prisinzano, L.; Abbas, U.; Hatzidimitriou, D.; Held, E.V.; Jordi, C.; Paunzen, E.; Spagna, A.; Jackson, R.J.; Maíz Apellániz, J.; Asplund, M.; Bonifacio, P.; Feltzing, S.; Binney, J.; Drew, J.; Ferguson, A.M.N.; Micela, G.; Negueruela, I.; Prusti, T.; Rix, H.-W.; Vallenari, A.; Bergemann, M.; Casey, A.R.; Laverny, P.; Frasca, A.; Hill, V.; Lind, K.; Sbordone, L.; Sousa, S.G.; Adibekyan, V.; Caffau, E.; Daflon, S.; Feuillet, D.K.; Gebran, M.; González Hernández, J.I.; Guiglion, G.; Herrero, A.; Lobel, A.; Merle, T.; Mikolaitis, S.; Montes, D.; Morel, T.; Ruchti, G.; Soubiran, C.; Tabernero, H.M.; Tautvaišiene, G.; Traven, G.; Valentini, M.; Van der Swaelmen, M.; Villanova, S.; Viscasillas Vázquez, C.; Bayo, A.; Biazzo, K.; Carraro, G.; Edvardsson, B.; Heiter, U.; Jofré, P.; Marconi, G.; Martayan, C.; Masseron, T.; Monaco, L.; Walton, N.A.; Zaggia, S.; Aguirre Børsen-Koch, V.; Alves, J.; Balaguer Núnez, L.; Barklem, P.S.; Barrado, D.; Bellazzini, M.; Berlanas, S.R.; Binks, A.S.; Bressan, A.; Capuzzo Dolcetta, R.; Casagrande, L.; Casamiquela, L.; Collins, R.S.; D’Orazi, V.; Dantas, M.L.L.; Debattista, V.P.; Delgado Mena, E.; Marcantonio, P. Di; Drazdauskas, A.; Evans, N.W.; Famaey, B.; Franchini, M.; Frémat, Y.; Fu, X.; Geisler, D.; Gerhard, O.; González Solares, E.A.; Grebel, E.K.; Albarrán Gutiérrez, M.L.; Jiménez Esteban, F.; Jönsson, H.; Khachaturyants, T.; Kordopatis, G.; Kos, J.; Lagarde, N.; Ludwig, H.-G.; Mahy, L.; Mapelli, M.; Marfil, E.; Martell, S.L.; Messina, S.; Miglio, A.; Minchev, I.; Moitinho, A.; Montalban, J.; Monteiro, M.J.P.F.G.; Morossi, C.; Mowlavi, N.; Mucciarelli, A.; Murphy, D.N.A.; Nardetto, N.; Ortolani, S.; Paletou, F.; Palous, J.; Pickering, J.C.; Quirrenbach, A.; Re Fiorentin, P.; Read, J.I.; Romano, D.; Ryde, N.; Sanna, N.; Santos, W.; Seabroke, G.M.; Spina, L.; Steinmetz, M.; Stonkuté, E.; Sutorius, E.; Thévenin, F.; Tosi, M.; Tsantaki, M.; Wright, N.; Wyse, R.F.G.; Zoccali, M.; Zorec, J.; Zucker, D.B.
    Context. The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100 000 stars, including large representative samples of the stellar populations in the Galaxy, and a well-defined sample of 60 (plus 20 archive) open clusters. We provide internally consistent results calibrated on benchmark stars and star clusters, extending across a very wide range of abundances and ages. This provides a legacy data set of intrinsic value, and equally a large wide-ranging dataset that is of value for the homogenisation of other and future stellar surveys and Gaia’s astrophysical parameters. Aims. This article provides an overview of the survey methodology, the scientific aims, and the implementation, including a description of the data processing for the GIRAFFE spectra. A companion paper introduces the survey results. Methods. Gaia-ESO aspires to quantify both random and systematic contributions to measurement uncertainties. Thus, all available spectroscopic analysis techniques are utilised, each spectrum being analysed by up to several different analysis pipelines, with considerable effort being made to homogenise and calibrate the resulting parameters. We describe here the sequence of activities up to delivery of processed data products to the ESO Science Archive Facility for open use. Results. The Gaia-ESO Survey obtained 202 000 spectra of 115 000 stars using 340 allocated VLT nights between December 2011 and January 2018 from GIRAFFE and UVES. Conclusions. The full consistently reduced final data set of spectra was released through the ESO Science Archive Facility in late 2020, with the full astrophysical parameters sets following in 2022. A companion article reviews the survey implementation, scientific highlights, the open cluster survey, and data products. © G. Gilmore et al. 2022.