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VINTERGATAN - I. The origins of chemically, kinematically, and structurally distinct discs in a simulated Milky Way-mass galaxy
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab322 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.503.5826A

Feuillet, Diane K.; Feltzing, Sofia; Ryde, Nils +6 more

Spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way's stars have revealed spatial, chemical, and kinematical structures that encode its history. In this work, we study their origins using a cosmological zoom simulation, VINTERGATAN, of a Milky Way-mass disc galaxy. We find that in connection to the last major merger at z ∼ 1.5, cosmological accretion leads to …

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton eHST 153
Space weather: the solar perspective: An update to Schwenn (2006)
DOI: 10.1007/s41116-021-00030-3 Bibcode: 2021LRSP...18....4T

Temmer, Manuela

The Sun, as an active star, is the driver of energetic phenomena that structure interplanetary space and affect planetary atmospheres. The effects of Space Weather on Earth and the solar system is of increasing importance as human spaceflight is preparing for lunar and Mars missions. This review is focusing on the solar perspective of the Space We…

2021 Living Reviews in Solar Physics
PROBA-2 SOHO Ulysses 152
Reconstructing the Last Major Merger of the Milky Way with the H3 Survey
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2d2d Bibcode: 2021ApJ...923...92N

Conroy, Charlie; Ting, Yuan-Sen; Cargile, Phillip A. +8 more

Several lines of evidence suggest that the Milky Way underwent a major merger at z ~ 2 with the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE) galaxy. Here we use H3 Survey data to argue that GSE entered the Galaxy on a retrograde orbit based on a population of highly retrograde stars with chemistry similar to the largely radial GSE debris. We present the first tai…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 151
The Hubble Constant from Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abe86a Bibcode: 2021ApJ...911...65B

Ma, Chung-Pei; Greene, Jenny E.; Blakeslee, John P. +2 more

We present a measurement of the Hubble constant H0 from surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) distances for 63 bright, mainly early-type galaxies out to 100 Mpc observed with the WFC3/IR on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The sample is drawn from several independent HST imaging programs using the F110W bandpass, with the majority of th…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 151
Recommended conventions for reporting results from direct dark matter searches
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09655-y Bibcode: 2021EPJC...81..907B

Yang, Y.; Conrad, J.; Baxter, D. +23 more

The field of dark matter detection is a highly visible and highly competitive one. In this paper, we propose recommendations for presenting dark matter direct detection results particularly suited for weak-scale dark matter searches, although we believe the spirit of the recommendations can apply more broadly to searches for other dark matter cand…

2021 European Physical Journal C
Gaia 149
KiDS-1000 catalogue: Weak gravitational lensing shear measurements
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038850 Bibcode: 2021A&A...645A.105G

Hoekstra, Henk; Heymans, Catherine; Kuijken, Konrad +20 more

We present weak lensing shear catalogues from the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey, KiDS-1000, spanning 1006 square degrees of deep and high-resolution imaging. Our `gold-sample' of galaxies, with well-calibrated photometric redshift distributions, consists of 21 million galaxies with an effective number density of 6.17 galaxies per s…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 148
TauREx 3: A Fast, Dynamic, and Extendable Framework for Retrievals
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0252 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...917...37A

Waldmann, I. P.; Tinetti, G.; Changeat, Q. +1 more

TauREx 3 is the next generation of the TauREx exoplanet atmospheric retrieval framework for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is a complete rewrite with a full Python stack that makes it easy-to-use, high-performance, dynamic, and flexible. The new main TauREx program is built with modularity in mind, allowing the user to augment its functionalities wit…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 147
Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities: A journey through scales
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2020.132838 Bibcode: 2021PhyD..42332838Z

Zhou, Ye; Williams, Robin J. R.; Ramaprabhu, Praveen +9 more

Hydrodynamic instabilities such as Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instabilities usually appear in conjunction with the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability and are found in many natural phenomena and engineering applications. They frequently result in turbulent mixing, which has a major impact on the overall flow development and othe…

2021 Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena
Hinode 145
A Quick Look at the 3 GHz Radio Sky. I. Source Statistics from the Very Large Array Sky Survey
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac05c0 Bibcode: 2021ApJS..255...30G

Safi-Harb, Samar; Baum, Stefi A.; O'Dea, Christopher P. +8 more

The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) is observing the entire sky north of -40° in the S band (2 GHz < ν < 4 GHz), with the highest angular resolution (2"5) of any all-sky radio continuum survey to date. VLASS will cover its entire footprint over three distinct epochs, the first of which has now been observed in full. Based on Quick Look i…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia 145
Updated BaSTI Stellar Evolution Models and Isochrones. II. α-enhanced Calculations
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abd4d5 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...908..102P

Salaris, Maurizio; Mucciarelli, Alessio; Silva Aguirre, Victor +7 more

This is the second paper of a series devoted to presenting an updated release of the BaSTI (a Bag of Stellar Tracks and Isochrones) stellar model and isochrone library. Following the publication of the updated solar-scaled library, here we present the library for an α-enhanced heavy element distribution. These new α-enhanced models account for all…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 142