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An Early Dark Matter–dominated Phase in the Assembly History of Milky Way–mass Galaxies Suggested by the TNG50 Simulation and JWST Observations
Pillepich, Annalisa; Rix, Hans-Walter; de Graaff, Anna
Whereas well-studied galaxies at cosmic noon are found to be baryon dominated within the effective radius, recent JWST observations of z ∼ 6–7 galaxies with stellar masses of only M * ∼ 108‑9 M ⊙ surprisingly indicate that they are dark matter dominated within r e ≈ 1 kpc. Here, we place these high-redsh…
Haro 11: The Spatially Resolved Lyman Continuum Sources
Jaskot, Anne E.; Östlin, Göran; Hernandez, Svea +13 more
As the nearest confirmed Lyman continuum (LyC) emitter, Haro 11 is an exceptional laboratory for studying LyC escape processes crucial to cosmic reionization. Our new Hubble Space Telescope/Cosmic Origins Spectrograph G130M/1055 observations of its three star-forming knots now reveal that the observed LyC originates in Knots B and C, with 903–912 …
A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager. I. An Empirical Search for Perturbations from Planetary Companions in Polarized Light Images
Stark, Christopher C.; Weinberger, Alycia J.; Hughes, A. Meredith +37 more
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) has excelled in imaging debris disks in the near-infrared. The GPI Exoplanet Survey imaged 24 debris disks in polarized H-band light, while other programs observed half of these disks in polarized J and/or K1 bands. Using these data, we present a uniform analysis of the morphology of each disk to find asymmetries sug…
Resonant and Ultra-short-period Planet Systems Are at Opposite Ends of the Exoplanet Age Distribution
Schlaufman, Kevin C.; Hamer, Jacob H.; Schmidt, Stephen P.
Exoplanet systems are thought to evolve on secular timescales over billions of years. This evolution is impossible to directly observe on human timescales in most individual systems. While the availability of accurate and precise age inferences for individual exoplanet host stars with ages τ in the interval 1 Gyr ≲ τ ≲ 10 Gyr would constrain this …
Massive black holes in nuclear star clusters. Investigation with SRG/eROSITA X-ray data
Merloni, A.; Zhang, Y.; Arcodia, R. +4 more
Context. Massive black holes (MBHs) are typically hosted in the centres of massive galaxies but they appear to become rarer in lower mass galaxies, where nuclear star clusters (NSCs) frequently appear instead. The transition region, where both an MBH and NSC can co-exist, has been poorly studied to date and only a few dozen galaxies are known to h…
Detection of decayless oscillations in solar transition region loops
Guo, Mingzhe; Gao, Yuhang; Van Doorsselaere, Tom +1 more
Context. Decayless kink oscillations have been frequently observed in coronal loops, serving as a valuable diagnostic tool for the coronal magnetic field. Such oscillations have never before been reported in low-lying loops of the transition region (TR).
Aims: The aim of this study is to detect decayless kink oscillations in TR loops for the …
The Emergence of a Brightest Cluster Galaxy in a Protocluster Core at z = 2.24
Teplitz, Harry I.; Fan, Xiaohui; Cai, Zheng +4 more
We report the detection of a pair of massive quiescent galaxies likely in the process of merging at the center of the spectroscopically confirmed, extremely massive protocluster BOSS1244 at z = 2.24 ± 0.02. These galaxies, BOSS1244-QG1 and BOSS1244-QG2, were detected with Hubble Space Telescope grism slitless spectroscopic observations. These two …
The Fundamental Parameters and Evolutionary Status of V454 Aurigae
Canbay, Remziye; Yucel, Gokhan; Bakis, Volkan
Eclipsing binary systems have a unique feature that enables scientists to obtain precise fundamental star parameters, which opens up a greater area of astrophysics studies. In this study, we derived the fundamental parameters, evolutionary status, and birthplace of V454 Aur in the Galaxy by combining radial velocity, photometric, and spectral ener…
Dust Polarization of Prestellar and Protostellar Sources in OMC-3
Tomisaka, Kohji; Sato, Asako; Ho, Paul T. P. +5 more
We present the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of linearly polarized 1.1 mm continuum emission at ∼0.″14 (55 au) resolution and CO (J = 2‑1) emission at ∼1.″5 (590 au) resolution toward one prestellar (MMS 4), four Class 0 (MMS 1, MMS 3, MMS 5, and MMS 6), one Class I (MMS 7), and one flat-spectrum (MMS 2) sources in the …
Light thermal dark matter beyond p-wave annihilation in minimal Higgs portal model
Wu, Lei; Chen, Yu-Tong; Matsumoto, Shigeki +2 more
This study explores a minimal renormalizable dark matter (DM) model, incorporating a sub-GeV Majorana DM and a singlet scalar particle ϕ. Using scalar and pseudo-scalar interactions (couplings cs and cp), we investigate implications for DM detection, considering s-wave, p-wave, and combined (s+p wave) contributions in DM anni…