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JWST/NIRISS Reveals the Water-rich "Steam World" Atmosphere of GJ 9827 d
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad6f00 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...974L..10P

Fortney, Jonathan J.; MacDonald, Ryan J.; Knutson, Heather A. +30 more

With sizable volatile envelopes but smaller radii than the solar system ice giants, sub-Neptunes have been revealed as one of the most common types of planet in the galaxy. While the spectroscopic characterization of larger sub-Neptunes (2.5–4 R ) has revealed hydrogen-dominated atmospheres, smaller sub-Neptunes (1.6–2.5 R

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST JWST 25
A 1.9 solar-mass neutron star candidate in a 2-year orbit
DOI: 10.33232/001c.116675 Bibcode: 2024OJAp....7E..27E

Bieryla, Allyson; Latham, David W.; Rix, Hans-Walter +10 more

We report discovery and characterization of a main-sequence G star orbiting a dark object with mass 1.90±0.04M⊙. The system was discovered via Gaia astrometry and has an orbital period of 731 days. We obtained multi-epoch RV follow-up over a period of 639 days, allowing us to refine the Gaia orbital solution and precisely constrain the masses of b…

2024 The Open Journal of Astrophysics
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CEERS Key Paper. VIII. Emission-line Ratios from NIRSpec and NIRCam Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy at z > 2
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1520 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...962..195B

Papovich, Casey; Yang, Guang; Finkelstein, Steven L. +37 more

We use James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (NIRCam WFSS) and the Near-Infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) in the Cosmic Evolution Early Release survey to measure rest-frame optical emission-line ratios of 155 galaxies at z > 2. The blind NIRCam grism observations include a sample of galaxies with bright …

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST JWST 25
Discovery of a Collimated Jet from the Low-luminosity Protostar IRAS 16253‑2429 in a Quiescent Accretion Phase with the JWST
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad1de3 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...962L..16N

Manoj, P.; Narang, Mayank; Bourke, Tyler L. +36 more

Investigating Protostellar Accretion (IPA) is a JWST Cycle 1 GO program that uses NIRSpec integral field units and MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrograph to obtain 2.9–28 µm spectral cubes of young, deeply embedded protostars with luminosities of 0.2–10,000 L and central masses of 0.15–12 M . In this Letter, we report t…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
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Statistical analysis of the gravitational anomaly in Gaia wide binaries
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3446 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.528.4720H

Hernandez, X.; Aguayo-Ortiz, A.; Verteletskyi, V. +1 more

The exploration of the low acceleration a < a0 regime, where a0 = 1.2 × 10-10 m s-2 is the acceleration scale of MOND around which gravitational anomalies at galactic scale appear, has recently been extended to the much smaller mass and length scales of local wide binaries thanks to the availability o…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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GA-NIFS: NIRSpec reveals evidence for non-circular motions and AGN feedback in GN20
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1993 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.533.4287U

Charlot, Stéphane; Parlanti, Eleonora; Carniani, Stefano +15 more

We present rest-frame optical data of the $z\sim 4$ submillimetre galaxy GN20 obtained with the JWST Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) in integral field spectroscopy mode. The H$\alpha$

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia JWST 25
Spectroscopic sizing of interstellar icy grains with JWST
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-023-02155-x Bibcode: 2024NatAs...8..359D

Rocha, W. R. M.; Melnick, G. J.; Boogert, A. C. A. +22 more

Clouds of gas and dust in the Galaxy are nurseries in which stars and planetary systems are born. During their journey from the diffuse interstellar medium to the protoplanetary disks, molecular solids accumulate on cold dust grains by accretion and surface chemistry. These so-called icy grains will continuously evolve, notably by collision and ag…

2024 Nature Astronomy
JWST 25
Sustained super-Eddington accretion in high-redshift quasars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348788 Bibcode: 2024A&A...686A.256L

Lupi, Alessandro; Volonteri, Marta; Colpi, Monica +2 more

Observations of z ≳ 6 quasars provide information on the early evolution of the most massive black holes (MBHs) and galaxies. Current observations, able to trace both gas and stellar properties, reveal a population of MBHs that is significantly more massive than expected from the local MBH-stellar mass relation. The population lies on, but mostly …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 25
The ALMA REBELS survey: obscured star formation in massive Lyman-break galaxies at z= 4-8 revealed by the IRX-β and M relations
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3578 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.527.5808B

Inami, H.; Bowler, R. A. A.; Cullen, F. +23 more

We investigate the degree of dust obscured star formation in 49 massive (log10(M/M) > 9) Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z = 6.5-8 observed as part of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Reionization Era Bright Emission Line Survey (REBELS) large program. By creating deep stacks of the photo…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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JADES: Balmer decrement measurements at redshifts 4 < z < 7
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347119 Bibcode: 2024A&A...691A.305S

Chevallard, Jacopo; Carniani, Stefano; Übler, Hannah +33 more

We present Balmer decrement, Hα/Hβ, measurements for a sample of 51 galaxies at redshifts z = 4 ‑ 7 observed with the JWST/NIRSpec micro-shutter assembly (MSA), as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). Leveraging 28-hour long exposures and the efficiency of the prism/clear configuration (but also using information from the m…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
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