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MOSEL Survey: Tracking the Growth of Massive Galaxies at 2 < z < 4 Using Kinematics and the IllustrisTNG Simulation
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7b6d Bibcode: 2020ApJ...893...23G

Papovich, Casey; Kewley, Lisa J.; Harshan, Anishya +13 more

We use K-band spectroscopic data from the Multi-Object Spectroscopic Emission Line survey to analyze the kinematic properties of galaxies at z > 3. Our sample consists of 34 galaxies at 3.0 < zspec < 3.8 between 9.0 < $\mathrm{log}({M}_{* }/{M}_{\odot })$ < 11.0. We find that galaxies with $\mathrm{log}({M}_{* }/{M}_{\odo…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 10
Intercycle and Intracycle Variation of Halo CME Rate Obtained from SOHO/LASCO Observations
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb887 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...903..118D

Gopalswamy, Nat; Akiyama, Sachiko; Yashiro, Seiji +3 more

We report on the properties of halo coronal mass ejections (HCMEs) in solar cycles 23 and 24. We compare the HCME properties between the corresponding phases (rise, maximum, and declining) in cycles 23 and 24 and compare those between the whole cycles. Despite the significant decline in the sunspot number (SSN) in cycle 24, which dropped by 46% wi…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 10
Hα Distances to the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6ef9 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...891..176A

Antwi-Danso, Jacqueline; Barger, Kathleen A.; Haffner, L. Matthew

The Leading Arm (LA) is a tidal feature that is in front of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) on their orbit through the Galaxy's halo. Many physical properties of the LA, such as its mass and size, are poorly constrained because it has few distance measurements. While Hα measurements have been used to estimate the distances to halo clouds, many studies…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 10
A Catalog of Emission-line Galaxies from the Faint Infrared Grism Survey: Studying Environmental Influence on Star Formation
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab5f5c Bibcode: 2020ApJ...888...79P

Finkelstein, Steven L.; Hathi, Nimish; Windhorst, Rogier +18 more

We present a catalog of 208 0.3 < z < 2.1 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) selected from 1D slitless spectroscopy obtained using Hubble’s WFC3 G102 grism, as part of the Faint Infrared Grism Survey. We identify ELG candidates by searching for significant peaks in all continuum-subtracted G102 spectra and, where possible, confirm candidates by i…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 10
The Elusive Distance Gradient in the Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxy Hercules: A Combined Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia View
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb40b Bibcode: 2020ApJ...902..106M

Strader, Jay; Seth, Anil C.; Sand, David J. +6 more

The ultrafaint dwarf galaxy Hercules has an extremely elongated morphology with both photometric overdensities and kinematic members at large radii, suggesting that it may be tidally disrupting due to a previous close encounter with the Milky Way. To explain its observational peculiarities, we present a deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging st…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 10
Gas Kinematics of the Massive Protocluster G286.21+0.17 Revealed by ALMA
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab879f Bibcode: 2020ApJ...894...87C

Tan, Jonathan C.; Lim, Wanggi; Andersen, Morten +2 more

We study the gas kinematics and dynamics of the massive protocluster G286.21+0.17 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array using spectral lines of C18O(2-1), ${{\rm{N}}}_{2}{{\rm{D}}}^{+}$ (3-2), ${\mathrm{DCO}}^{+}$ (3-2), and $\mathrm{DCN}$ (3-2). On the parsec clump scale, C18O emission appears highly filament…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 10
Intrusion of Magnetic Peninsula toward the Neighboring Opposite-polarity Region That Triggers the Largest Solar Flare in Solar Cycle 24
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab85ca Bibcode: 2020ApJ...894...29B

Inoue, Satoshi; Bamba, Yumi; Imada, Shinsuke

The largest X9.3 solar flare in solar cycle 24 and the preceding X2.2 flare occurred on 2017 September 6, in the solar active region NOAA 12673. This study aims to understand the onset mechanism of these flares via analysis of multiple observational data sets from the Hinode and Solar Dynamics Observatory and results from a nonlinear force-free fi…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Hinode 10
Strong Lensing Model of SPT-CL J0356-5337, a Major Merger Candidate at Redshift 1.0359
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab886b Bibcode: 2020ApJ...894..150M

Mahler, Guillaume; Schrabback, Tim; Sharon, Keren +10 more

We present an analysis of the mass distribution inferred from strong lensing by SPT-CL J0356-5337, a cluster of galaxies at redshift $z=1.0359$ revealed in the follow-up of the SPT-SZ clusters. The cluster has an Einstein radius of ${\theta }_{{\rm{E}}}\simeq $ 14″ for a source at z = 3 and a mass within 500 kpc of ${M}_{500\mathrm{kpc}}=4.0\pm 0.…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 10
Inferences About the Magnetic Field Structure of a CME with Both In Situ and Faraday Rotation Constraints
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab93b8 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...896...99W

Wood, Brian E.; Nieves-Chinchilla, Teresa; Kooi, Jason E. +2 more

On 2012 August 2, two coronal mass ejections (CMEs; CME-1 and CME-2) erupted from the west limb of the Sun as viewed from Earth, and were observed in images from the white-light coronagraphs on the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory and Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft. These events were also observed by the Very Large A…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 10
The Spatially Resolved Bipolar Nebula of Sakurai's Object. II. Mapping the Planetary Nebula Expansion
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abbd9a Bibcode: 2020ApJ...904...34H

Matheson, Thomas; Hinkle, Kenneth H.; Joyce, Richard R. +2 more

Observations of the ejecta from the final flash (FF) of helium shell burning in Sakurai's Object (V4334 Sgr) are presented for 2015-2019, a period ∼20-24 yr after discovery. Adaptive optics images at Ks trace the expanding debris. While most of the ejecta mass is in ∼200 K dust, a small fraction, ∼0.4%, of the dust mass is at ∼760 K. Th…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 10