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The SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Scientific Motivation and Project Overview
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad6de9 Bibcode: 2024AJ....168..198D

Kumari, Nimisha; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Brownstein, Joel R. +48 more

We present the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V Local Volume Mapper (LVM). The LVM is an integral-field spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way, Magellanic Clouds, and a sample of local volume galaxies, connecting resolved parsec-scale individual sources of feedback to kiloparsec-scale ionized interstellar medium (ISM) properties. The 4 yr survey covers t…

2024 The Astronomical Journal
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A quasar-galaxy merger at z ∼ 6.2: Rapid host growth via the accretion of two massive satellite galaxies
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449239 Bibcode: 2024A&A...689A.219D

Strauss, Michael A.; Fan, Xiaohui; Trebitsch, Maxime +38 more

We present JWST/NIRSpec integral field spectroscopy in the rest-frame optical bands of the system PJ308–21, a quasar at z = 6.2342 caught as its host galaxy interacts with companion galaxies. We detect the spatially extended emission of several emission lines (Hα, Hβ, [O III], [N II], [S II], and He II), which we used to study the properties of th…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Spatially resolved emission lines in galaxies at 4 ≤ z < 10 from the JADES survey: Evidence for enhanced central star formation
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449980 Bibcode: 2024A&A...692A.184T

Charlot, Stéphane; Carniani, Stefano; Übler, Hannah +19 more

We present the first statistical investigation of spatially resolved emission-line properties in a sample of 63 low-mass galaxies at 4 ≤ z < 10 using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)/NIRSpec Micro Shutter Assembly (MSA) data from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic (JADES) survey, focusing on deep, spatially resolved spectroscopy in the GOODS…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Metal-poor stars observed with the Magellan Telescope - IV. Neutron-capture element signatures in 27 main-sequence stars
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3925 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.528.2912M

Frebel, Anna; Mardini, Mohammad K.; Christlieb, Norbert +3 more

We present a chemo-dynamical analysis for 27 near main-sequence turnoff metal-poor stars, including 20 stars analysed for the first time. The sample spans a range in [Fe/H] from -2.5 to -3.6, with 44 per cent having [Fe/H]<-2.9. We derived chemical abundances for 17 elements, including strontium and barium. We derive Li abundances for the sampl…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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GOALS-JWST: Mid-infrared Molecular Gas Excitation Probes the Local Conditions of Nuclear Star Clusters and the Active Galactic Nucleus in the LIRG VV 114
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad344b Bibcode: 2024ApJ...966..166B

Inami, Hanae; Böker, Torsten; Viti, Serena +19 more

The enormous increase in mid-IR sensitivity and spatial and spectral resolution provided by the JWST spectrographs enables, for the first time, detailed extragalactic studies of molecular vibrational bands. This opens an entirely new window for the study of the molecular interstellar medium in luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs). We present a detai…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
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JWST reveals star formation across a spiral arm in M33
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3879 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.52710668P

Williams, Benjamin F.; Sandstrom, Karin M.; Johnson, L. Clifton +13 more

Young stellar objects (YSOs) are the gold standard for tracing star formation in galaxies but have been unobservable beyond the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds. But that all changed when the JWST was launched, which we use to identify YSOs in the Local Group galaxy M33, marking the first time that individual YSOs have been identified at these larg…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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The first white dwarf debris disc observed by JWST
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slad198 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.529L..41S

Desch, Steven J.; Su, Kate Y. L.; Farihi, Jay +1 more

This letter reports the first JWST spectroscopy of a white dwarf debris disc, giving a preliminary assessment of the salient features, and recommendations for future observations. The polluted and dusty star WD 0145+234 experienced a major collisional event in its circumstellar disc in 2018, accompanied by an infrared outburst, and subsequently a …

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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An IXPE-led X-Ray Spectropolarimetric Campaign on the Soft State of Cygnus X-1: X-Ray Polarimetric Evidence for Strong Gravitational Lensing
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad58e4 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...969L..30S

Ingram, Adam; Kaaret, Philip; Wu, Kinwah +134 more

We present the first X-ray spectropolarimetric results for Cygnus X-1 in its soft state from a campaign of five IXPE observations conducted during 2023 May–June. Companion multiwavelength data during the campaign are likewise shown. The 2–8 keV X-rays exhibit a net polarization degree PD = 1.99% ± 0.13% (68% confidence). The polarization signal is…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
INTEGRAL 14
The Ultraviolet Luminosity Function at 0.6 < z < 1 from UVCANDELS
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad5540 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...972....8S

Barro, Guillermo; Dickinson, Mark; Giavalisco, Mauro +75 more

UVCANDELS is a Hubble Space Telescope Cycle-26 Treasury Program awarded 164 orbits of primary ultraviolet (UV) F275W imaging and coordinated parallel optical F435W imaging in four CANDELS fields—GOODS-N, GOODS-S, EGS, and COSMOS—covering a total area of ∼426 arcmin2. This is ∼2.7 times larger than the area covered by previous deep-field…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 14
GA-NIFS: JWST/NIRSpec IFS view of the z ∼ 3.5 galaxy GS5001 and its close environment at the core of a large-scale overdensity
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451021 Bibcode: 2024A&A...691A.153L

Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Charlot, Stéphane; Parlanti, Eleonora +19 more

We present JWST Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) observations in integral field spectroscopic (IFS) mode of the galaxy GS5001 at redshift z = 3.47, the central member of a candidate protocluster in the GOODS-S field. The data cover a field of view (FoV) of 4″ × 4″ (∼30 × 30 kpc2) and were obtained as part of the Galaxy Assembly with…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
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