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INTEGRAL x-ray constraints on sub-GeV dark matter
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.063022 Bibcode: 2021PhRvD.103f3022C

Pinetti, Elena; Fornengo, Nicolao; Cirelli, Marco +1 more

Light dark matter (DM), defined here as having a mass between 1 MeV and about 1 GeV, is an interesting possibility both theoretically and phenomenologically, at one of the frontiers of current progress in the field of DM searches. Its indirect detection via gamma rays is challenged by the scarcity of experiments in the MeV-GeV region. We look ther…

2021 Physical Review D
INTEGRAL 59
Star formation and nuclear activity in luminous infrared galaxies: an infrared through radio review
DOI: 10.1007/s00159-020-00128-x Bibcode: 2021A&ARv..29....2P

Aalto, Susanne; Alonso-Herrero, Almudena; Mattila, Seppo +2 more

Nearby galaxies offer unique laboratories allowing multi-wavelength spatially resolved studies of the interstellar medium, star formation and nuclear activity across a broad range of physical conditions. In particular, detailed studies of individual local luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) are crucial for gaining a better understanding of these pr…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics Review
Herschel eHST 59
Milky Way Mid-Infrared Spitzer Spectroscopic Extinction Curves: Continuum and Silicate Features
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac00b7 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...916...33G

Gordon, Karl D.; Hines, Dean C.; Bouwman, Jeroen +7 more

We measured the mid-infrared (MIR) extinction using Spitzer photometry and spectroscopy (3.6-37 µm) for a sample of Milky Way sight lines (mostly) having measured ultraviolet extinction curves. We used the pair method to determine the MIR extinction that we then fit with a power law for the continuum and modified Drude profiles for the silic…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
IUE eHST 59
TESS Observations of the WASP-121 b Phase Curve
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abd8d2 Bibcode: 2021AJ....161..131D

Mikal-Evans, Thomas; Sing, David K.; Kane, Stephen R. +23 more

We study the red-optical photometry of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121 b as observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and model its atmosphere through a radiative transfer simulation. Given its short orbital period of ∼1.275 days, inflated state, and bright host star, WASP-121 b is exceptionally favorable for detailed atmospheric …

2021 The Astronomical Journal
eHST 58
Multiscale, multiwavelength extraction of sources and filaments using separation of the structural components: getsf
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039913 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A..89M

Men'shchikov, A.

High-quality astronomical images delivered by modern ground-based and space observatories demand adequate, reliable software for their analysis and accurate extraction of sources, filaments, and other structures, containing massive amounts of detailed information about the complex physical processes in space. The multiwavelength observations with …

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel XMM-Newton eHST 58
r-Process elements from magnetorotational hypernovae
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03611-2 Bibcode: 2021Natur.595..223Y

Schmidt, B. P.; Da Costa, G. S.; Marino, A. F. +11 more

Neutron-star mergers were recently confirmed as sites of rapid-neutron-capture (r-process) nucleosynthesis1-3. However, in Galactic chemical evolution models, neutron-star mergers alone cannot reproduce the observed element abundance patterns of extremely metal-poor stars, which indicates the existence of other sites of r-process nucleo…

2021 Nature
Gaia 58
CGM2 I: The Extent of the Circumgalactic Medium Traced by Neutral Hydrogen
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abea14 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...912....9W

Tripp, Todd M.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Tejos, Nicolas +8 more

We present initial results from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Gemini Mapping the Circumgalactic Medium (CGMCGM ≡ CGM2) survey. The CGM2 survey consists of 1689 galaxies, all with high-quality Gemini-GMOS spectra, within 1 Mpc of 22 z ≲ 1 quasars, all with a signal-to-noise ratio of ∼10 Hubble Space Telescope/COS G…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 58
A New View of the Solar Interface Region from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-021-01826-0 Bibcode: 2021SoPh..296...84D

Reeves, Katharine K.; Polito, Vanessa; Liu, Wei +11 more

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has been obtaining near- and far-ultraviolet images and spectra of the solar atmosphere since July 2013. IRIS is the highest resolution observatory to provide seamless coverage of spectra and images from the photosphere into the low corona. The unique combination of near- and far-ultraviolet spectra…

2021 Solar Physics
Hinode IRIS 58
A hard X-ray view of luminous and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies in GOALS - I. AGN obscuration along the merger sequence
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2052 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.506.5935R

Sanders, D. B.; Stern, D.; Inami, H. +25 more

The merger of two or more galaxies can enhance the inflow of material from galactic scales into the close environments of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), obscuring and feeding the supermassive black hole (SMBH). Both recent simulations and observations of AGN in mergers have confirmed that mergers are related to strong nuclear obscuration. However,…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 58
Exploring the origin of low-metallicity stars in Milky-Way-like galaxies with the NIHAO-UHD simulations
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3479 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.500.3750S

Buck, Tobias; Sestito, Federico; Navarro, Julio F. +6 more

The kinematics of the most metal-poor stars provide a window into the early formation and accretion history of the Milky Way (MW). Here, we use five high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations (∼ 5 × 106 star particles) of MW-like galaxies taken from the NIHAO-UHD project, to investigate the origin of low-metallicity stars ([Fe/H] …

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 58