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A Terrestrial-mass Rogue Planet Candidate Detected in the Shortest-timescale Microlensing Event
Han, Cheongho; Udalski, Andrzej; Lee, Chung-Uk +29 more
Some low-mass planets are expected to be ejected from their parent planetary systems during early stages of planetary system formation. According to planet formation theories, such as the core accretion theory, typical masses of ejected planets should be between 0.3 and 1.0 M⊕. Although in practice such objects do not emit any light, th…
HST Imaging of the Ionizing Radiation from a Star-forming Galaxy at z = 3.794
Papovich, Casey; Castellano, Marco; Ferguson, Henry C. +17 more
We report on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) detection of the Lyman-continuum (LyC) radiation emitted by a galaxy at redshift z = 3.794 dubbed Ion1. The LyC from Ion1 is detected at 820-890 Å with HST WFC3/UVIS in the F410M band (m410 = 27.60 ± 0.36 mAB, peak signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) = 4.17 in an r = 0"12 aperture) and 70…
PopSyCLE: A New Population Synthesis Code for Compact Object Microlensing Events
Hosek, Matthew W., Jr.; Lu, Jessica R.; Dawson, William A. +2 more
We present a new Milky Way microlensing simulation code, dubbed PopSyCLE (Population Synthesis for Compact object Lensing Events). PopSyCLE is the first resolved microlensing simulation to include a compact object distribution derived from numerical supernova explosion models and both astrometric and photometric microlensing effects. We demonstrat…
Probing the Bright End of the Rest-frame Ultraviolet Luminosity Function at z = 8-10 with Hubble Pure-parallel Imaging
Finkelstein, Steven L.; Bagley, Micaela B.; Rojas-Ruiz, Sofía +5 more
Looking for bright galaxies born in the early universe is fundamental to investigating the Epoch of Reionization, the era when the first stars and galaxies ionized the intergalactic medium. We utilize Hubble Space Telescope pure-parallel imaging to select galaxy candidates at a time 500-650 million years after the Big Bang, which corresponds to re…
Chemical Evolution in the Milky Way: Rotation-based Ages for APOGEE-Kepler Cool Dwarf Stars
van Saders, Jennifer L.; García, Rafael A.; Claytor, Zachary R. +5 more
We use models of stellar angular momentum evolution to determine ages for ∼500 stars in the APOGEE-Kepler Cool Dwarfs sample. We focus on lower-main-sequence stars, where other age-dating tools become ineffective. Our age distributions are compared to those derived from asteroseismic and giant samples and solar analogs. We are able to recover gyro…
CLEAR. II. Evidence for Early Formation of the Most Compact Quiescent Galaxies at High Redshift
Papovich, Casey; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Cleri, Nikko J. +11 more
The origin of the correlations between mass, morphology, quenched fraction, and formation history in galaxies is difficult to define, primarily due to the uncertainties in galaxy star formation histories (SFHs). SFHs are better constrained for higher redshift galaxies, observed closer to their formation and quenching epochs. Here we use "nonparame…
Microwave Spectral Imaging of an Erupting Magnetic Flux Rope: Implications for the Standard Solar Flare Model in Three Dimensions
Reeves, Katharine K.; Chen, Bin; Yu, Sijie +1 more
We report microwave spectral imaging observations of an erupting magnetic flux rope during the early impulsive phase of the X8.2-class limb flare on 2017 September 10, obtained by the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array. A few days prior to the eruption, when viewed against the disk, the flux rope appeared as a reverse S-shaped dark filament along t…
Multiwavelength Variability of BL Lacertae Measured with High Time Resolution
Chen, W. P.; Villata, M.; Carnerero, M. I. +54 more
In an effort to locate the sites of emission at different frequencies and physical processes causing variability in blazar jets, we have obtained high time-resolution observations of BL Lacertae over a wide wavelength range: with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) at 6000-10000 Å with 2 minute cadence; with the Neil Gehrels Swift sat…
An Evolutionary Study of Volatile Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks
Wilner, David J.; Cleeves, L. Ilsedore; Andrews, Sean M. +11 more
The volatile composition of a planet is determined by the inventory of gas and ice in the parent disk. The volatile chemistry in the disk is expected to evolve over time, though this evolution is poorly constrained observationally. We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of C18O, C2H, and the isot…
A Very Young Radio-loud Magnetar
Campana, S.; Tiengo, A.; Götz, D. +20 more
The magnetar Swift J1818.0-1607 was discovered in 2020 March when Swift detected a 9 ms hard X-ray burst and a long-lived outburst. Prompt X-ray observations revealed a spin period of 1.36 s, soon confirmed by the discovery of radio pulsations. We report here on the analysis of the Swift burst and follow-up X-ray and radio observations. The burst …