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Star formation characteristics of CNN-identified post-mergers in the Ultraviolet Near Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS)
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1500 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.514.3294B

Ellison, Sara L.; Gwyn, Stephen; Hudson, Michael J. +3 more

The importance of the post-merger epoch in galaxy evolution has been well documented, but post-mergers are notoriously difficult to identify. While the features induced by mergers can sometimes be distinctive, they are frequently missed by visual inspection. In addition, visual classification efforts are highly inefficient because of the inherent …

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 30
LoTSS jellyfish galaxies. III. The first identification of jellyfish galaxies in the Perseus cluster
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142294 Bibcode: 2022A&A...658A..44R

Botteon, A.; van Weeren, R. J.; Ignesti, A. +4 more

In this paper we report the first identification of jellyfish galaxies in the Perseus cluster (Abell 426). We identified four jellyfish galaxies (LEDA 2191078, MCG +07-07-070, UGC 2654, UGC 2665) within the central 2° ×2° (2.6 Mpc × 2.6 Mpc) of Perseus based on the presence of one-sided radio continuum tails that were detected at 144 MHz by the LO…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 29
Constraining Galaxy Overdensities around Three z 6.5 Quasars with ALMA and MUSE
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac4f67 Bibcode: 2022ApJ...927..141M

Li, Qiong; Walter, Fabian; Meyer, Romain A. +6 more

We quantify galaxy overdensities around three high-redshift quasars with known [C II]158 µm companions: PJ231-20 (z = 6.59), PJ308-21 (z = 6.24), and J0305-3150 (z = 6.61). Recent SCUBA2 imaging revealed the presence of 17 submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) with sky separations 0.'7 < θ < 2.'4 from these three quasars. We present…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 29
APOGEE Net: An Expanded Spectral Model of Both Low-mass and High-mass Stars
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac4de7 Bibcode: 2022AJ....163..152S

Stassun, Keivan G.; Kounkel, Marina; Beaton, Rachael L. +17 more

We train a convolutional neural network, APOGEE Net, to predict T eff, $\mathrm{log}g$ , and, for some stars, [Fe/H], based on the APOGEE spectra. This is the first pipeline adapted for these data that is capable of estimating these parameters in a self-consistent manner not only for low-mass stars, (such as main-sequence dwarfs, pre-ma…

2022 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 29
Non-LTE abundance corrections for late-type stars from 2000 Å to 3 µm. I. Na, Mg, and Al
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142195 Bibcode: 2022A&A...665A..33L

Sneden, C.; Lind, K.; Barklem, P. S. +6 more

Context. It is well known that cool star atmospheres depart from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). Making an accurate abundance determination requires taking those effects into account, but the necessary non-LTE (hereafter NLTE) calculations are often lacking.
Aims: Our goal is to provide detailed estimates of NLTE effects for FGK type s…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 29
Statistics of galaxy mergers: bridging the gap between theory and observation
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3324 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.509.5918H

Baugh, Carlton M.; Lacey, Cedric G.; Huško, Filip

We present a study of galaxy mergers up to z = 10 using the Planck Millennium cosmological dark matter simulation and the GALFORM semi-analytical model of galaxy formation. Utilizing the full 800 Mpc3 volume of the simulation, we studied the statistics of galaxy mergers in terms of merger rates and close pair fractions. We predict that …

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 29
A Uniform Type Ia Supernova Distance Ladder with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Absolute Calibration Based on the Tip of the Red Giant Branch Method
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7ceb Bibcode: 2022ApJ...934..185D

Riddle, Reed; Madore, Barry F.; Freedman, Wendy L. +21 more

The current Cepheid-calibrated distance ladder measurement of H 0 is reported to be in tension with the values inferred from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), assuming standard cosmology. However, some tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) estimates report H 0 in better agreement with the CMB. Hence, it is critical to reduc…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 29
Planetary nebula luminosity function distances for 19 galaxies observed by PHANGS-MUSE
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac110 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.511.6087S

Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik; Rosolowsky, Erik +15 more

We provide new planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF) distances to 19 nearby spiral galaxies that were observed with VLT/MUSE by the PHANGS collaboration. Emission line ratios are used to separate planetary nebulae (PNe) from other bright $[\mathrm{O}\, {\small III}]$ emitting sources like compact supernovae remnants (SNRs) or H II regions. W…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia eHST 29
GASKAP-HI pilot survey science I: ASKAP zoom observations of HI emission in the Small Magellanic Cloud
DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2021.59 Bibcode: 2022PASA...39....5P

van Loon, J. Th.; Lee, M. -Y.; Joncas, G. +53 more

We present the most sensitive and detailed view of the neutral hydrogen ( ${H\small I}$ ) emission associated with the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), through the combination of data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and Parkes (Murriyang), as part of the Galactic Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (GASKAP) pilo…

2022 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Gaia Herschel 29
Reconstructing the Pleiades with Gaia EDR3
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac45fc Bibcode: 2022ApJ...926..132H

Caiazzo, Ilaria; Richer, Harvey B.; Heyl, Jeremy

We search through an eight million cubic parsec volume surrounding the Pleiades star cluster and the Sun to identify both the current and past members of the Pleiades cluster within the Gaia EDR3 data set. We find nearly 1300 current cluster members and 289 former cluster candidates. Many of these candidates lie well in front of or behind the clus…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 29