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COSMOS2020: The galaxy stellar mass function. The assembly and star formation cessation of galaxies at 0.2< z ≤ 7.5
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245581 Bibcode: 2023A&A...677A.184W

Sanders, D. B.; Ilbert, O.; Kartaltepe, J. S. +30 more

Context. How galaxies form, assemble, and cease their star formation is a central question within the modern landscape of galaxy evolution studies. These processes are indelibly imprinted on the galaxy stellar mass function (SMF), and its measurement and understanding is key to uncovering a unified theory of galaxy evolution.
Aims: We present…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 135
Gaia Data Release 3. The Galaxy in your preferred colours: Synthetic photometry from Gaia low-resolution spectra
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243709 Bibcode: 2023A&A...674A..33G

Prusti, T.; Mazeh, T.; Zucker, S. +442 more

Gaia Data Release 3 provides novel flux-calibrated low-resolution spectrophotometry for ≃220 million sources in the wavelength range 330 nm ≤ λ ≤ 1050 nm (XP spectra). Synthetic photometry directly tied to a flux in physical units can be obtained from these spectra for any passband fully enclosed in this wavelength range. We describe how synthetic…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST 102
The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field surveys: Data release II
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244187 Bibcode: 2023A&A...670A...4B

Feltre, Anna; Bacon, Roland; Tresse, Laurence +30 more

We present the second data release of the MUSE Hubble Ultra-Deep Field surveys, which includes the deepest spectroscopic survey ever performed. The MUSE data, with their 3D content, amazing depth, wide spectral range, and excellent spatial and medium spectral resolution, are rich in information. Their location in the Hubble ultra-deep field area, …

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST 89
TDCOSMO. XII. Improved Hubble constant measurement from lensing time delays using spatially resolved stellar kinematics of the lens galaxy
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202345878 Bibcode: 2023A&A...673A...9S

Treu, Tommaso; Fassnacht, Christopher D.; Birrer, Simon +12 more

Strong-lensing time delays enable the measurement of the Hubble constant (H0) independently of other traditional methods. The main limitation to the precision of time-delay cosmography is mass-sheet degeneracy (MSD). Some of the previous TDCOSMO analyses broke the MSD by making standard assumptions about the mass density profile of the …

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 76
Repeating tidal disruptions in GSN 069: Long-term evolution and constraints on quasi-periodic eruptions' models
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244512 Bibcode: 2023A&A...670A..93M

Read, A. M.; Bianchi, S.; Miniutti, G. +4 more

Context. GSN 069 is the first galactic nucleus where quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) have been identified in December 2018. These are high-amplitude, soft X-ray bursts recurring every ∼9 h, lasting ∼1 h, and during which the X-ray count rate increases by up to two orders of magnitude with respect to an otherwise stable quiescent level. The X-ray s…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton eHST 71
New high-precision strong lensing modeling of Abell 2744. Preparing for JWST observations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244575 Bibcode: 2023A&A...670A..60B

Brammer, G.; Grillo, C.; Rosati, P. +8 more

We present a new strong lensing (SL) model of the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) galaxy cluster Abell 2744, at z = 0.3072, by exploiting archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) multiband imaging and Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) follow-up spectroscopy. The lens model considers 90 spectroscopically confirmed multiple images (from 30 backgrou…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 68
Closing in on the sources of cosmic reionization: First results from the GLASS-JWST program
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202345866 Bibcode: 2023A&A...672A.155M

Vulcani, B.; Bradač, M.; Brammer, G. +29 more

The escape fraction of Lyman-continuum (LyC) photons (fesc) is a key parameter for determining the sources of cosmic reionization at z ≥ 6. At these redshifts, owing to the opacity of the intergalactic medium, the LyC emission cannot be measured directly. However, LyC leakers during the epoch of reionization could be identified using in…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 66
Bubbles and outflows: The novel JWST/NIRSpec view of the z = 1.59 obscured quasar XID2028
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346001 Bibcode: 2023A&A...672A.128C

Marconi, A.; Capetti, A.; Brusa, M. +20 more

Quasar feedback in the form of powerful outflows is invoked as a key mechanism to quench star formation in galaxies, although direct observational evidence is still scarce and debated. Here we present Early Release Science JWST NIRSpec IFU observations of the z = 1.59 prototypical obscured Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) XID2028: This target represe…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 59
JWST's PEARLS: A new lens model for ACT-CL J0102−4915, "El Gordo," and the first red supergiant star at cosmological distances discovered by JWST
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245238 Bibcode: 2023A&A...672A...3D

Ryan, R. E.; Diego, J. M.; Zitrin, A. +29 more

The first James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data on the massive colliding cluster El Gordo allow for 23 known families of multiply lensed images to be confirmed and for eight new members of these families to be identified. Based on these families, which have been confirmed spectroscopically by MUSE, we derived an initial lens mo…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 51
The production of ionizing photons in UV-faint z ∼ 3-7 galaxies
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245532 Bibcode: 2023A&A...672A.186P

Calabrò, Antonello; Castellano, Marco; Pentericci, Laura +20 more


Aims: The demographics of the production and escape of ionizing photons from UV-faint early galaxies is a key unknown that has hindered attempts to discover the primary drivers of reionization. With the advent of JWST, it is finally possible to observe the rest-frame optical nebular emission from individual sub-L*z > 3 galaxies …

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 51