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Cloud-by-cloud multiphase investigation of the circumgalactic medium of low-redshift galaxies
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae962 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.530.3827S

Richter, Philipp; Charlton, Jane C.; Kacprzak, Glenn G. +10 more

The pervasive presence of warm gas in galaxy haloes suggests that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is multiphase in its ionization structure and complex in its kinematics. Some recent state-of-the-art cosmological galaxy simulations predict an azimuthal dependence of CGM metallicities. We investigate the presence of such a trend by analysing the di…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 16
The Type I superluminous supernova catalogue I: light-curve properties, models, and catalogue description
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2270 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.535..471G

Rest, Armin; Villar, V. Ashley; Eftekhari, Tarraneh +25 more

We present the most comprehensive catalogue to date of Type I superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), a class of stripped-envelope supernovae (SNe) characterized by exceptionally high luminosities. We have compiled a sample of 262 SLSNe reported through 2022 December 31. We verified the spectroscopic classification of each SLSN and collated an exhaustiv…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 16
Strong size evolution of disc galaxies since z = 1. Readdressing galaxy growth using a physically motivated size indicator
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346133 Bibcode: 2024A&A...682A.110B

Trujillo, Ignacio; Buitrago, Fernando

Our understanding of how the size of galaxies has evolved over cosmic time is based on the use of the half-light (effective) radius as a size indicator. Although the half-light radius has many advantages for structurally parameterising galaxies, it does not provide a measure of the global extent of the objects, but only an indication of the size o…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 16
Global-scale magnetosphere convection driven by dayside magnetic reconnection
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44992-y Bibcode: 2024NatCo..15..639D

Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella; Wang, Chi; Dai, Lei +8 more

Plasma convection on a global scale is a fundamental feature of planetary magnetosphere. The Dungey cycle explains that steady-state convection within the closed part of the magnetosphere relies on magnetic reconnection in the nightside magnetospheric tail. Nevertheless, time-dependent models of the Dungey cycle suggest an alternative scenario whe…

2024 Nature Communications
Cluster 16
CHEOPS in-flight performance. A comprehensive look at the first 3.5 yr of operations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348576 Bibcode: 2024A&A...687A.302F

Guterman, P.; Alonso, R.; Deleuil, M. +128 more

Context. Since the discovery of the first exoplanet almost three decades ago, the number of known exoplanets has increased dramatically. By beginning of the 2000s it was clear that dedicated facilities to advance our studies in this field were needed. The CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) is a space telescope specifically designed to mon…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
CHEOPS Gaia 16
Dead or Alive? How Bursty Star Formation and Patchy Dust Can Cause Temporary Quiescence in High-redshift Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad58e2 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...971...47F

Morishita, Takahiro; Faisst, Andreas L.

The recent discovery of a galaxy at z = 7.3 with undetected optical emission lines and a blue UV-to-optical continuum ratio in JWST spectroscopy is surprising and needs to be explained physically. Here, we explore two possibilities that could cause such a seemingly quiescent ∼5 × 108 M galaxy in the early Universe: (i) stoc…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 16
JWST observations of the Ring Nebula (NGC 6720): I. Imaging of the rings, globules, and arcs
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3670 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.528.3392W

Matsuura, Mikako; Volk, Kevin; Cami, Jan +18 more

We present JWST images of the well-known planetary nebula NGC 6720 (the Ring Nebula), covering wavelengths from 1.6 to 25 $\, \mu$m. The bright shell is strongly fragmented with some 20 000 dense globules, bright in H2, with a characteristic diameter of 0.2 arcsec and density nH ~ 105-106 cm-3

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia eHST JWST 16
JWST Thermal Emission of the Terrestrial Exoplanet GJ 1132b
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad72e9 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...973L...8X

Eastman, Jason D.; Bean, Jacob L.; Zhang, Michael +9 more

We present thermal emission measurements of GJ 1132b spanning 5–12 µm obtained with the Mid-Infrared Instrument Low-Resolution Spectrometer on the James Webb Space Telescope. GJ 1132b is an M dwarf rocky planet with T eq = 584 K and an orbital period of 1.6 days. We measure a white-light secondary eclipse depth of 140 ± 17 ppm, wh…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 16
Importance of Cosmic-Ray Propagation on Sub-GeV Dark Matter Constraints
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad41e0 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...968...46D

De la Torre Luque, Pedro; Balaji, Shyam; Koechler, Jordan

We study sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles that may annihilate or decay into Standard Model particles producing an exotic injection component in the Milky Way that leaves an imprint in both photon and cosmic-ray (CR) fluxes. Specifically, the DM particles may annihilate or decay into e + e , µ + µ

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 16
Data reconstruction of the dynamical connection function in f(Q) cosmology
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1905 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.533.2232Y

Ren, Xin; Wang, Bo; Cai, Yi-Fu +2 more

We employ Hubble data and Gaussian Processes in order to reconstruct the dynamical connection function in $f(Q)$ cosmology beyond the coincident gauge. In particular, there exist three branches of connections that satisfy the torsionless and curvatureless conditions, parametrized by a new dynamical function $\gamma$. We express the redshift depend…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 16