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Hunt for light primordial black hole dark matter with ultrahigh-frequency gravitational waves
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.103520 Bibcode: 2022PhRvD.106j3520F

Franciolini, Gabriele; Maharana, Anshuman; Muia, Francesco

Light primordial black holes may comprise a dominant fraction of the dark matter in our Universe. This paper critically assesses whether planned and future gravitational wave detectors in the ultrahigh-frequency band could constrain the fraction of dark matter composed of subsolar primordial black holes. Adopting the state-of-the-art description o…

2022 Physical Review D
INTEGRAL 69
ELVES II: Globular Clusters and Nuclear Star Clusters of Dwarf Galaxies: the Importance of Environment
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac457e Bibcode: 2022ApJ...927...44C

Greene, Jenny E.; Beaton, Rachael L.; Carlsten, Scott G. +1 more

We present the properties of the globular clusters (GCs) and nuclear star clusters (NSCs) of low-mass (105.5 < M < 108.5 M ) early-type satellites of Milky Way-like and small group hosts in the Local Volume (LV) using deep, ground-based data from the ongoing Exploration of Local VolumE Satellite…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 69
Early Results from GLASS-JWST. V: The First Rest-frame Optical Size-Luminosity Relation of Galaxies at z > 7
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac8803 Bibcode: 2022ApJ...938L..17Y

Vulcani, B.; Treu, T.; Castellano, M. +23 more

We present the first rest-frame optical size-luminosity relation of galaxies at z > 7, using the NIRCam imaging data obtained by the GLASS James Webb Space Telescope Early Release Science (GLASS-JWST-ERS) program, providing the deepest extragalactic data of the ERS campaign. Our sample consists of 19 photometrically selected bright galaxies wit…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 68
Searching for Islands of Reionization: A Potential Ionized Bubble Powered by a Spectroscopic Overdensity at z = 8.7
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5dbd Bibcode: 2022ApJ...930..104L

Papovich, Casey; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Dickinson, Mark +10 more

We present the results from a spectroscopic survey using the MOSFIRE near-infrared spectrograph on the 10 m Keck telescope to search for Lyα emission from candidate galaxies at z ~ 9-10 in four of the CANDELS fields (GOODS-N, EGS, UDS, and COSMOS). We observed 11 target galaxies, detecting Lyα from one object in ~8.1 hr of integration, at z = 8.66…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 68
The diverse cold molecular gas contents, morphologies, and kinematics of type-2 quasars as seen by ALMA
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141906 Bibcode: 2022A&A...658A.155R

Tadhunter, C. N.; Feruglio, C.; García-Burillo, S. +8 more

We present CO(2−1) and adjacent continuum observations of seven nearby radio-quiet type-2 quasars (QSO2s) obtained with ALMA at ∼0.2″ resolution (370 pc at z ∼ 0.1). These QSO2s are luminous (L[OIII] > 108.5 L ∼ MB < −23), and their host galaxies massive (M* ∼ 1011 M

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 68
Hunting for massive black holes in dwarf galaxies
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01556-0 Bibcode: 2022NatAs...6...26R

Reines, Amy E.

Despite traditional thinking, an appreciable population of massive black holes (that is, more massive than stellar-mass black holes) may be lurking in dwarf galaxies. Before the last decade, nearly all known massive black holes were in the nuclei of giant galaxies and the existence of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies was highly controversial.…

2022 Nature Astronomy
eHST 67
Significant Dust-obscured Star Formation in Luminous Lyman-break Galaxies at z 7-8
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac4605 Bibcode: 2022ApJ...928...31S

Holwerda, Benne W.; Carniani, Stefano; Maiolino, Roberto +13 more

We make use of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array continuum observations of 15 luminous Lyman-break galaxies at z ~ 7-8 to probe their dust-obscured star formation. These observations are sensitive enough to probe obscured star formation rates (SFRs) of 20 M yr-1 (3σ). Six of the targeted galaxies show significant…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 67
The star formation burstiness and ionizing efficiency of low-mass galaxies
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac360 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.511.4464A

Contini, Thierry; van Dokkum, Pieter; Reddy, Naveen +5 more

We investigate the burstiness of star formation and the ionizing efficiency of a large sample of galaxies at 0.7 < z < 1.5 using HST grism spectroscopy and deep ultraviolet (UV) imaging in the GOODS-N and GOODS-S fields. The star formation history (SFH) in these strong emission-line low-mass galaxies indicates an elevated star formation rate…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 66
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: galaxy clustering and systematics treatment for lens galaxy samples
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac104 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.511.2665R

Bacon, D.; Bechtol, K.; Smith, M. +103 more

In this work, we present the galaxy clustering measurements of the two DES lens galaxy samples: a magnitude-limited sample optimized for the measurement of cosmological parameters, MAGLIM, and a sample of luminous red galaxies selected with the REDMAGIC algorithm. MAGLIM/REDMAGIC sample contains over 10 million/2.5 million galaxies and is divided …

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 64
TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). VI. An 11 Myr Giant Planet Transiting a Very-low-mass Star in Lower Centaurus Crux
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac511d Bibcode: 2022AJ....163..156M

Owen, James E.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Lester, Kathryn V. +48 more

Mature super-Earths and sub-Neptunes are predicted to be ≃ Jovian radius when younger than 10 Myr. Thus, we expect to find 5-15 R planets around young stars even if their older counterparts harbor none. We report the discovery and validation of TOI 1227b, a 0.85 ± 0.05 R J (9.5 R ) planet transiting a very-low-m…

2022 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 64