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Sulfur Dioxide and Other Molecular Species in the Atmosphere of the Sub-Neptune GJ 3470 b
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad55e9 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...970L..10B

Fortney, Jonathan J.; Henry, Gregory W.; Bell, Taylor J. +13 more

We report observations of the atmospheric transmission spectrum of the sub-Neptune exoplanet GJ 3470 b taken using the Near-Infrared Camera on JWST. Combined with two archival Hubble Space Telescope/Wide-Field Camera 3 transit observations and 15 archival Spitzer transit observations, we detect water, methane, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide in…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST JWST 21
A Walk on the Retrograde Side (WRS) project. I. Tidying-up the retrograde halo with high-resolution spectroscopy
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348332 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A..37C

Ilyin, I.; Lardo, C.; Massari, D. +7 more

Relics of ancient accretion events experienced by the Milky Way are predominantly located within the stellar halo of our Galaxy. However, debris from different objects display overlapping distributions in dynamical spaces, making it extremely challenging to properly disentangle their contribution to the build-up of the Galaxy. To shed light on thi…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 21
Uncovering a Massive z 7.7 Galaxy Hosting a Heavily Obscured Radio-loud Active Galactic Nucleus Candidate in COSMOS-Web
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad11ee Bibcode: 2024ApJ...961L..25L

Casey, Caitlin M.; Chworowsky, Katherine; Hutchison, Taylor A. +47 more

In this Letter, we report the discovery of the highest redshift, heavily obscured, radio-loud (RL) active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidate selected using JWST NIRCam/MIRI, mid-IR, submillimeter, and radio imaging in the COSMOS-Web field. Using multifrequency radio observations and mid-IR photometry, we identify a powerful, RL, growing supermassive…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST JWST 21
SPICE: the connection between cosmic reionization and stellar feedback in the first galaxies
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1125 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.531.3406B

Pakmor, Rüdiger; Costa, Tiago; Bhagwat, Aniket +2 more

We present SPICE, a new suite of radiation-hydrodynamic, cosmological simulations targeting the epoch of reionization. The goal of these simulations is to systematically probe a variety of stellar feedback models, including 'bursty' and 'smooth' forms of supernova energy injection, as well as poorly explored physical scenarios such as hypernova ex…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JWST 21
The On-axis Jetted Tidal Disruption Event AT2022cmc: X-Ray Observations and Broadband Spectral Modeling
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad2b6b Bibcode: 2024ApJ...965...39Y

Kulkarni, S. R.; Cenko, S. Bradley; Gezari, Suvi +5 more

AT2022cmc was recently reported as the first on-axis jetted tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered in the last decade, and the fourth on-axis jetted TDE candidate known so far. In this work, we present NuSTAR hard X-ray (3–30 keV) observations of AT2022cmc, as well as soft X-ray (0.3–6 keV) observations obtained by NICER, Swift, and XMM-Newton. O…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 21
Semi-analytic modelling of Pop. III star formation and metallicity evolution - I. Impact on the UV luminosity functions at z = 9-16
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae567 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.529..628V

Qin, Yuxiang; Balu, Sreedhar; Wyithe, J. Stuart B. +1 more

We implemented Population III (Pop. III) star formation in mini-haloes within the MERAXES semi-analytic galaxy formation and reionization model, run on top of a N-body simulation with L = 10 h-1 cMpc with 20483 particles resolving all dark matter haloes down to the mini-haloes (~105 M). Our modelling in…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JWST 21
The Radcliffe Wave is oscillating
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07127-3 Bibcode: 2024Natur.628...62K

Alves, João; Zucker, Catherine; Goodman, Alyssa A. +6 more

Our Sun lies within 300 parsecs of the 2.7-kiloparsecs-long sinusoidal chain of dense gas clouds known as the Radcliffe Wave1. The structure's wave-like shape was discovered using three-dimensional dust mapping, but initial kinematic searches for oscillatory motion were inconclusive2-7. Here we present evidence that the Radcl…

2024 Nature
Gaia 21
Modeling the molecular gas content and CO-to-H2 conversion factors in low-metallicity star-forming dwarf galaxies
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347280 Bibcode: 2024A&A...681A..14R

Ramambason, L.; Lebouteiller, V.; Madden, S. C. +8 more

Context. Low-metallicity dwarf galaxies often show no or little CO emission, despite the intense star formation observed in local samples. Both simulations and resolved observations indicate that molecular gas in low-metallicity galaxies may reside in small dense clumps, surrounded by a substantial amount of more diffuse gas that is not traced by …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 21
Classification and parameterization of a large Gaia sample of white dwarfs using XP spectra
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347694 Bibcode: 2024A&A...682A...5V

Jordan, S.; Barstow, M. A.; Bergeron, P. +3 more

Context. The latest Gaia data release in July 2022, DR3, in addition to the refinement of the astrometric and photometric parameters from DR2, added a number of important data products to those available in earlier releases, including radial velocity data, information on stellar multiplicity, and XP spectra of a selected sample of stars. Gaia has …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 21
pop-cosmos: A Comprehensive Picture of the Galaxy Population from COSMOS Data
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ad5c69 Bibcode: 2024ApJS..274...12A

Leistedt, Boris; Peiris, Hiranya V.; Leja, Joel +4 more

We present pop-cosmos: a comprehensive model characterizing the galaxy population, calibrated to 140,938 (r < 25 selected) galaxies from the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) with photometry in 26 bands from the ultraviolet to the infrared. We construct a detailed forward model for the COSMOS data, comprising: a population model describing the j…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
eHST 21