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New Determinations of the UV Luminosity Functions from z 9 to 2 Show a Remarkable Consistency with Halo Growth and a Constant Star Formation Efficiency
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abf83e Bibcode: 2021AJ....162...47B

Oesch, P. A.; Bouwens, R. J.; Reddy, N. +9 more

Here we provide the most comprehensive determinations of the rest-frame UV luminosity function (LF) available to date with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) at z ~ 2-9. Essentially all of the noncluster extragalactic legacy fields are utilized, including the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, the Hubble Frontier Fields parallel fields, and all five CANDELS f…

2021 The Astronomical Journal
eHST 323
Seventeen Tidal Disruption Events from the First Half of ZTF Survey Observations: Entering a New Era of Population Studies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abc258 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...908....4V

Kilpatrick, Charles D.; Foley, Ryan J.; Cenko, S. Bradley +37 more

While tidal disruption events (TDEs) have long been heralded as laboratories for the study of quiescent black holes, the small number of known TDEs and uncertainties in their emission mechanism have hindered progress toward this promise. Here we present 17 new TDEs that have been detected recently by the Zwicky Transient Facility along with Swift …

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 320
PHANGS-ALMA: Arcsecond CO(2-1) Imaging of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac17f3 Bibcode: 2021ApJS..257...43L

Sandstrom, Karin M.; Bolatto, Alberto D.; Henshaw, Jonathan D. +69 more

We present PHANGS-ALMA, the first survey to map CO J = 2 → 1 line emission at ~1″ ~100 pc spatial resolution from a representative sample of 90 nearby (d ≲ 20 Mpc) galaxies that lie on or near the z = 0 "main sequence" of star-forming galaxies. CO line emission traces the bulk distribution of molecular gas, which is the cold, star-forming phase of…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
eHST 318
Tidal Disruption Events
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-astro-111720-030029 Bibcode: 2021ARA&A..59...21G

Gezari, Suvi

The concept of stars being tidally ripped apart and consumed by a massive black hole (MBH) lurking in the center of a galaxy first captivated theorists in the late 1970s. The observational evidence for these rare but illuminating phenomena for probing otherwise dormant MBHs first emerged in archival searches of the soft X-ray ROSAT All-Sky Survey …

2021 Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 302
The TESS Objects of Interest Catalog from the TESS Prime Mission
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/abefe1 Bibcode: 2021ApJS..254...39G

Jayaraman, Rahul; Pál, András; Torres, Guillermo +102 more

We present 2241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during its 2 yr Prime Mission. We list these candidates in the TESS Objects of Interest (TOI) Catalog, which includes both new planet candidates found by TESS and previously known planets recovered by TESS observations. We describe the p…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia 302
CHIANTI—An Atomic Database for Emission Lines. XVI. Version 10, Further Extensions
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abd8ce Bibcode: 2021ApJ...909...38D

Young, P. R.; Del Zanna, G.; Dere, K. P. +1 more

We present version 10 of the CHIANTI package. In this release, we provide updated atomic models for several helium-like ions and for all the ions of the beryllium, carbon, and magnesium isoelectronic sequences that are abundant in astrophysical plasmas. We include rates from large-scale atomic structure and scattering calculations that are in many…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 291
The JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides DE440 and DE441
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abd414 Bibcode: 2021AJ....161..105P

Park, Ryan S.; Folkner, William M.; Williams, James G. +1 more

The planetary and lunar ephemerides called DE440 and DE441 have been generated by fitting numerically integrated orbits to ground-based and space-based observations. Compared to the previous general-purpose ephemerides DE430, seven years of new data have been added to compute DE440 and DE441, with improved dynamical models and data calibration. Th…

2021 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 291
Accurate distances to Galactic globular clusters through a combination of Gaia EDR3, HST, and literature data
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1474 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.505.5957B

Baumgardt, H.; Vasiliev, E.

We have derived accurate distances to Galactic globular clusters by combining data from the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) with distances based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data and literature-based distances. We determine distances either directly from the Gaia EDR3 parallaxes, or kinematically by combining line-of-sight velocity dispersion …

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia eHST 288
Gaia Early Data Release 3. The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039498 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A...6G

Prusti, T.; Mazeh, T.; Zucker, S. +420 more


Aims: We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100 pc of the Sun from the Gaia Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the full data release, external catalogues, and simulations. We carry out a first analysis of the science that is possible with this sample to demonstrate its po…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 282
The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac00b3 Bibcode: 2021ApJS..255...20A

Bacon, D.; Bechtol, K.; Juneau, S. +135 more

We present the second public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR2, based on optical/near-infrared imaging by the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4 m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. DES DR2 consists of reduced single-epoch and coadded images, a source catalog derived from coadded images, and associ…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia 266