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New insights into the role of AGNs in forming the cluster red sequence
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae118 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.528.3679S

Koyama, Yusei; Kodama, Tadayuki; Shimakawa, Rhythm +7 more

As a considerable investment of time from various telescope facilities was dedicated toward studying the Spiderweb protocluster at z = 2.2, it so far remains one of the most extensively studied protocluster. We report here the latest results in this field, adding a new dimension to previous research on cluster formation at high redshift. Previous …

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel eHST 14
GA-NIFS: the interplay between merger, star formation, and chemical enrichment in MACS1149-JD1 at z = 9.11 with JWST/NIRSpec
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1971 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.533.2488M

Maiolino, R.; Perna, M.; Cresci, G. +15 more

We present JWST/NIRSpec integral-field spectroscopy observations of the z $\sim$ 9.11 lensed galaxy MACS1149-JD1, as part of the GA-NIFS programme. The data were obtained with both the G395H grating (R $\sim$ 2700) and the prism (R $\sim$ 100). This target shows a main elongated UV-bright clump and a secondary component detected in continuum emiss…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JWST 14
NEOMOD 2: An updated model of Near-Earth Objects from a decade of Catalina Sky Survey observations
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115922 Bibcode: 2024Icar..41115922N

Granvik, Mikael; Chodas, Paul W.; Nesvorný, David +9 more

Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) is a major survey of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). In a recent work, we used CSS observations from 2005-2012 to develop a new population model of NEOs (NEOMOD). CSS's G96 telescope was upgraded in 2016 and detected over 10,000 unique NEOs since then. Here we characterize the NEO detection efficiency of G96 and use G96's NEO …

2024 Icarus
Gaia 14
A hidden population of active galactic nuclei can explain the overabundance of luminous z > 10 objects observed by JWST
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/08/025 Bibcode: 2024JCAP...08..025H

Furlanetto, Steven R.; Hegde, Sahil; Wyatt, Michael M.

The first wave of observations with JWST has revealed a striking overabundance of luminous galaxies at early times (z > 10) compared to models of galaxies calibrated to pre-JWST data. Early observations have also uncovered a large population of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at z > 6. Because many of the high-z objects appear extended, the…

2024 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JWST 14
Magnetic Fields in the Central Molecular Zone Influenced by Feedback and Weakly Correlated with Star Formation
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1395 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...962...39L

Hasegawa, Tetsuo; Gu, Qilao; Liu, Tie +12 more

Magnetic fields of molecular clouds in the central molecular zone (CMZ) have been relatively under-observed at sub-parsec resolution. Here, we report JCMT/POL2 observations of polarized dust emission in the CMZ, which reveal magnetic field structures in dense gas at ∼0.5 pc resolution. The 11 molecular clouds in our sample include two in the weste…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 13
CHEX-MATE: Robust reconstruction of temperature profiles in galaxy clusters with XMM-Newton
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348853 Bibcode: 2024A&A...686A..68R

Arnaud, M.; Pointecouteau, E.; Pratt, G. W. +25 more

The "Cluster HEritage project with XMM-Newton: Mass Assembly and Thermodynamics at the End point of structure formation" (CHEX-MATE) is a multi-year heritage program to obtain homogeneous XMM-Newton observations of a representative sample of 118 galaxy clusters. The observations are tuned to reconstruct the distribution of the main thermodynamic q…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 13
TRINITY IV: predictions for supermassive black holes at z ≳ 6
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1447 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.531.4974Z

Fan, Xiaohui; Aird, James; Yang, Jinyi +7 more

We present predictions for the high-redshift halo-galaxy-supermassive black hole (SMBH) connection from the TRINITY model. Matching a comprehensive compilation of galaxy (0 ≤ z ≤ 13) and SMBH data sets (0 ≤ z ≤ 6.5), TRINITY finds: (1) The number of SMBHs with M > 109 M in the observable Universe increases by …

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JWST 13
Complex angular structure of three elliptical galaxies from high-resolution ALMA observations of strong gravitational lenses
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449710 Bibcode: 2024A&A...688A.110S

Vegetti, S.; McKean, J. P.; Fassnacht, C. D. +4 more

The large-scale mass distributions of galaxy-scale strong lenses have long been assumed to be well described by a singular ellipsoidal power-law density profile with external shear. However, the inflexibility of this model could lead to systematic errors in astrophysical parameters inferred with gravitational lensing observables. Here, we present …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 13
Consistency of JWST black hole observations with NANOGrav gravitational wave measurements
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450846 Bibcode: 2024A&A...691A.270E

Hütsi, Gert; Ellis, John; Fairbairn, Malcolm +3 more

JWST observations have opened a new chapter in supermassive black hole (SMBH) studies, stimulating discussion of two puzzles: the abundance of high-z SMBHs and the fraction of dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We argue that the answers to these puzzles may be linked to an interpretation of the data on the nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs) disc…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 13
TOI-544 b: a potential water-world inside the radius valley in a two-planet system
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3837 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.52711138O

Fridlund, M.; Pallé, E.; Barragán, O. +32 more

We report on the precise radial velocity follow-up of TOI-544 (HD 290498), a bright K star (V = 10.8), which hosts a small transiting planet recently discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). We collected 122 high-resolution High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) and HARPS-N spectra to spectroscopically confirm…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 13