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Metal-enriched halo gas across galaxy overdensities over the last 10 billion years
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2752 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.508.4573D

Tripp, Todd M.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Tejos, Nicolas +15 more

We present a study of metal-enriched halo gas traced by Mg II and C IV absorption at z < 2 in the MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies survey and the Quasar Sightline and Galaxy Evolution survey. Using these large and complete galaxy surveys in quasar fields, we study the dependence of the metal distribution on galaxy properties and overdensiti…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 48
Bright galaxy sample in the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 4. Selection, photometric redshifts, and physical properties
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140352 Bibcode: 2021A&A...653A..82B

Heymans, C.; Hoekstra, H.; Hildebrandt, H. +16 more

We present a bright galaxy sample with accurate and precise photometric redshifts (photo-zs), selected using ugriZYJHKs photometry from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) Data Release 4. The highly pure and complete dataset is flux-limited at r < 20 mag, covers ∼1000 deg2, and contains about 1 million galaxies after artifact ma…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 48
The cumulative star formation histories of dwarf galaxies with TNG50. I: environment-driven diversity and connection to quenching
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2573 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.508.1652J

Vogelsberger, Mark; Pillepich, Annalisa; Springel, Volker +5 more

We present the cumulative star formation histories (SFHs) of >15 000 dwarf galaxies ($M_{\rm *}=10^{7-10}\, {\rm M}_{\odot }$) simulated with the TNG50 run of the IllustrisTNG suite across a vast range of environments. The key factors that determine the dwarfs' SFHs are their central/satellite status and stellar mass, with centrals and more mas…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 48
The Galaxy Activity, Torus, and Outflow Survey (GATOS). II. Torus and polar dust emission in nearby Seyfert galaxies
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141219 Bibcode: 2021A&A...652A..99A

Rouan, D.; Rigopoulou, D.; Hunt, L. K. +30 more

We compare high angular resolution mid-infrared (mid-IR) and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) far-infrared (far-IR) images of twelve nearby (median 21 Mpc) Seyfert galaxies selected from the Galaxy Activity, Torus, and Outflow Survey (GATOS). The mid-IR unresolved emission contributes more than 60% of the nuclear (diameters of 1…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 48
Chemical abundances of 1111 FGK stars from the HARPS GTO planet search program. IV. Carbon and C/O ratios for Galactic stellar populations and planet hosts
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141588 Bibcode: 2021A&A...655A..99D

Adibekyan, V.; Sousa, S. G.; Santos, N. C. +4 more

Context. To understand the formation and composition of planetary systems, it is essential to have insights into the chemical composition of their host stars. In particular, C/O elemental ratios are useful for constraining the density and bulk composition of terrestrial planets.
Aims: We study the carbon abundances with a twofold objective. O…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 48
TOI-257b (HD 19916b): a warm sub-saturn orbiting an evolved F-type star
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3960 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.502.3704A

Henning, Thomas; Vanderburg, Andrew; Chaplin, William J. +91 more

We report the discovery of a warm sub-Saturn, TOI-257b (HD 19916b), based on data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The transit signal was detected by TESS and confirmed to be of planetary origin based on radial velocity observations. An analysis of the TESS photometry, the MINERVA-Australis, FEROS, and HARPS radial velocit…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 48
Systematic Difference between Ionized and Molecular Gas Velocity Dispersions in z ∼ 1-2 Disks and Local Analogs
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abd5b9 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...909...12G

Bolatto, A. D.; Fisher, D. B.; Glazebrook, K. +7 more

We compare the molecular and ionized gas velocity dispersions of nine nearby turbulent disks, analogs to high-redshift galaxies, from the DYNAMO sample using new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and GMOS/Gemini observations. We combine our sample with 12 galaxies at z ∼ 0.5-2.5 from the literature. We find that the resolved velocity di…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 47
Confronting SO(10) GUTs with proton decay and gravitational waves
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2021)225 Bibcode: 2021JHEP...10..225K

King, Stephen F.; Pascoli, Silvia; Zhou, Ye-Ling +1 more

Grand Unified Theories (GUT) predict proton decay as well as the formation of cosmic strings which can generate gravitational waves. We determine which non-supersymmetric SO(10) breaking chains provide gauge unification in addition to a gravitational signal from cosmic strings. We calculate the GUT and intermediate scales for these SO(10) breaking…

2021 Journal of High Energy Physics
Gaia 47
The current weather and climate of Mars: 12 years of atmospheric monitoring by the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer on Mars Express
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113406 Bibcode: 2021Icar..35313406G

Aoki, Shohei; Formisano, V.; Giuranna, Marco +5 more

We used thermal-infrared spectra returned by the Mars Express Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS/MEx) to retrieve atmospheric temperature profiles, surface temperatures, and column-integrated optical depths of dust and water ice. More than 2,500,000 spectra were processed to build this new atmospheric dataset, covering the full range of season, l…

2021 Icarus
MEx 47
Fast magnetic field amplification in distant galaxy clusters
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-01244-5 Bibcode: 2021NatAs...5..268D

Gastaldello, Fabio; Simionescu, Aurora; Brunetti, Gianfranco +16 more

In the present-day Universe, magnetic fields pervade galaxy clusters1 and have strengths of a few microgauss, as measured from Faraday rotation2. Evidence for cluster magnetic fields is also provided by the observation of megaparsec-scale radio emission, namely radio halos and relics3. These are commonly found in m…

2021 Nature Astronomy
XMM-Newton 47