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The ALPINE-ALMA [CII] survey: The population of [CII]-undetected galaxies and their role in the L[CII]-SFR relation
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142265 Bibcode: 2022A&A...660A..14R

Schaerer, D.; Béthermin, M.; Silverman, J. D. +22 more

The [CII] 158 µm emission line represents one of the most profitable tools for the investigation of the high-redshift galaxies in the early Universe so far. Being one of the brightest cooling lines in the rest-frame far-infrared regime of star-forming galaxies, it has been successfully exploited as a tracer of the star-formation rate (SFR) i…

2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 16
An Eccentric Brown Dwarf Eclipsing an M dwarf
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac415f Bibcode: 2022AJ....163...89C

Cochran, William D.; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Monson, Andrew +16 more

We report the discovery of an M = 67 ± 2M J brown dwarf transiting the early M dwarf TOI-2119 on an eccentric orbit (e = 0.3362 ± 0.0005) at an orbital period of 7.200861 ± 0.000005 days. We confirm the brown dwarf nature of the transiting companion using a combination of ground-based and space-based photometry and high-precision veloci…

2022 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 16
The MASSIVE Survey. XVII. A Triaxial Orbit-based Determination of the Black Hole Mass and Intrinsic Shape of Elliptical Galaxy NGC 2693
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac58fd Bibcode: 2022ApJ...928..178P

Ma, Chung-Pei; Greene, Jenny E.; Blakeslee, John P. +5 more

We present a stellar dynamical mass measurement of a newly detected supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of the fast-rotating, massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2693 as part of the MASSIVE survey. We combine high signal-to-noise ratio integral field spectroscopy (IFS) from the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph with wide-field data from the Mitc…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 16
Quasiperiodic Behavior in the γ-Ray Light Curve of the Blazar PKS 0405-385
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac6c8c Bibcode: 2022ApJ...931..168G

Gong, Yunlu; Yuan, Min; Yi, Tingfeng +3 more

We analyze the quasiperiodic oscillation (QPO) of the historical light curve of flat-spectrum radio quasars PKS 0405-385 detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope from 2008 August to 2021 November. To identify and determine the QPO signal of PKS 0405-385 in the γ-ray light curve, we use four time series analysis techniques based on frequency and …

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 16
Constraints on the Galactic Centre environment from Gaia hyper-velocity stars
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac495 Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.512.2350E

Rossi, E. M.; Marchetti, T.; Evans, F. A.

Following a dynamical encounter with Sgr A*, binaries in the Galactic Centre (GC) can be tidally separated and one member star ejected as a hyper-velocity star (HVS) with a velocity beyond the escape speed of the Milky Way. As GC-born objects located in more observationally accessible regions of the sky, HVSs offer insight into the stellar populat…

2022 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 16
What Are Those Tiny Things? A First Study of Compact Star Clusters in the SMACS0723 Field with JWST
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aca1bf Bibcode: 2022ApJ...941L..11F

Brammer, Gabriel; Toft, Sune; Faisst, Andreas L. +1 more

We use the unprecedented resolution and depth of the JWST NIRCam Early Release Observations at 1-5 µm to study the stellar mass, age, and metallicity of compact star clusters in the neighborhood of the host galaxies in the SMACS J0723.3-7327 galaxy cluster field at z = 0.39. The measured colors of these star clusters show a similar distribut…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 16
MICROSCOPE's constraint on a short-range fifth force
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/abe142 Bibcode: 2022CQGra..39t4010B

Bergé, Joel; Pernot-Borràs, Martin; Uzan, Jean-Philippe +5 more

The MICROSCOPE experiment was designed to test the weak equivalence principle in space, by comparing the low-frequency dynamics of cylindrical 'free-falling' test masses controlled by electrostatic forces. We use data taken during technical sessions aimed at estimating the electrostatic stiffness of MICROSCOPE's sensors to constrain a short-range …

2022 Classical and Quantum Gravity
MICROSCOPE 16
A Library of Synthetic X-Ray Spectra for Fitting Tidal Disruption Events
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac70c5 Bibcode: 2022ApJ...933...31W

Wen, Sixiang; Jonker, Peter G.; Stone, Nicholas C. +2 more

We present a tabulated version of our slim-disk model for fitting tidal disruption events (TDEs). We create a synthetic X-ray spectral library by ray-tracing stationary general relativistic slim disks and including gravitational redshift, Doppler, and lensing effects self-consistently. We introduce the library to reduce computational expense and i…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 16
Discovery of Extended Structure Around Open Cluster COIN-Gaia 13 Based on Gaia EDR3
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4527/ac60d2 Bibcode: 2022RAA....22e5022B

Chen, Li; Zhong, Jing; Li, Jing +2 more

COIN-Gaia 13 is a newly discovered open cluster revealed by Gaia DR2 data. It is a nearby open cluster with a distance of about 513 pc. Combined with the five-dimensional astrometric data of Gaia EDR3 with higher accuracy, we use the membership assignment algorithm (pyUPMASK) to determine the membership of COIN-Gaia 13 in a large extended spatial …

2022 Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 16
Bayesian Solar Wind Modeling with Pulsar Timing Arrays
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5829 Bibcode: 2022ApJ...929...39H

Ransom, Scott M.; Zhu, Weiwei; Ray, Paul S. +29 more

Using Bayesian analyses we study the solar electron density with the NANOGrav 11 yr pulsar timing array (PTA) data set. Our model of the solar wind is incorporated into a global fit starting from pulse times of arrival. We introduce new tools developed for this global fit, including analytic expressions for solar electron column densities and open…

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 16