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A Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km s-1 Mpc-1 Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team
Casertano, Stefano; Filippenko, Alexei V.; Jones, David O. +15 more
We report observations from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of Cepheid variables in the host galaxies of 42 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) used to calibrate the Hubble constant (H 0). These include the complete sample of all suitable SNe Ia discovered in the last four decades at redshift z ≤ 0.01, collected and calibrated from ≥1000 HST o…
The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints
Filippenko, Alexei V.; Coulter, David A.; Foley, Ryan J. +45 more
We present constraints on cosmological parameters from the Pantheon+ analysis of 1701 light curves of 1550 distinct Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) ranging in redshift from z = 0.001 to 2.26. This work features an increased sample size from the addition of multiple cross-calibrated photometric systems of SNe covering an increased redshift span, and im…
The Pantheon+ Analysis: The Full Data Set and Light-curve Release
Filippenko, Alexei V.; Kilpatrick, Charles D.; Coulter, David A. +27 more
Here we present 1701 light curves of 1550 unique, spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that will be used to infer cosmological parameters as part of the Pantheon+ SN analysis and the Supernovae and H 0 for the Equation of State of dark energy distance-ladder analysis. This effort is one part of a series of works that …
Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z ≈ 10-12 Revealed by JWST
Strait, Victoria; van Dokkum, Pieter; Conroy, Charlie +22 more
The first few 100 Myr at z > 10 mark the last major uncharted epoch in the history of the universe, where only a single galaxy (GN-z11 at z ≈ 11) is currently spectroscopically confirmed. Here we present a search for luminous z > 10 galaxies with JWST/NIRCam photometry spanning ≈1-5 µm and covering 49 arcmin2 from the public…
COSMOS2020: A Panchromatic View of the Universe to z∼10 from Two Complementary Catalogs
Aussel, H.; Sanders, D. B.; Ilbert, O. +55 more
The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) has become a cornerstone of extragalactic astronomy. Since the last public catalog in 2015, a wealth of new imaging and spectroscopic data have been collected in the COSMOS field. This paper describes the collection, processing, and analysis of these new imaging data to produce a new reference photometric redsh…
A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ∼ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging
Papovich, Casey; Cole, Justin W.; Yang, Guang +119 more
We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z ~ 12 in the first epoch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey. Following conservative selection criteria, we identify a source with a robust z phot = ${11.8}_{-0.2}^{+0.3}$ (1σ uncertainty) with m F200W = 27.3 an…
A kilonova following a long-duration gamma-ray burst at 350 Mpc
Kilpatrick, Charles D.; Izzo, Luca; Smith, Nathan +32 more
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are divided into two populations1,2; long GRBs that derive from the core collapse of massive stars (for example, ref. 3) and short GRBs that form in the merger of two compact objects4,5. Although it is common to divide the two populations at a gamma-ray duration of 2 s, classification based …
Third data release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program
Ono, Yoshiaki; Ouchi, Masami; Harikane, Yuichi +64 more
This paper presents the third data release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP), a wide-field multi-band imaging survey with the Subaru 8.2 m telescope. HSC-SSP has three survey layers (Wide, Deep, and UltraDeep) with different area coverages and depths, designed to address a wide array of astrophysical questions. This third…
Ram pressure stripping in high-density environments
Fossati, Matteo; Sun, Ming; Boselli, Alessandro
Galaxies living in rich environments are suffering different perturbations able to drastically affect their evolution. Among these, ram pressure stripping, i.e. the pressure exerted by the hot and dense intracluster medium (ICM) on galaxies moving at high velocity within the cluster gravitational potential well, is a key process able to remove the…
A nearby long gamma-ray burst from a merger of compact objects
Troja, E.; Wollaeger, R. T.; Butler, N. R. +21 more
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are flashes of high-energy radiation arising from energetic cosmic explosions. Bursts of long (greater than two seconds) duration are produced by the core-collapse of massive stars1, and those of short (less than two seconds) duration by the merger of compact objects, such as two neutron stars2. A thir…