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How open is the asteroid-mass primordial black hole window?
DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.2.032 Bibcode: 2024ScPP...17...32G

Green, Anne; Gorton, Matthew

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can make up all of the dark matter (DM) if their mass, mm, is in the so-called "asteroid-mass window", 10^{17} g ≲ m ≲ 10^{22} g1017g≲m≲1022g. Observational constraints on the abundance of PBHs are usually calculated assuming they all have the same mass, however this is unlikely to be a good approximation. PBHs formed…

2024 SciPost Physics
INTEGRAL 12
Widespread AGN feedback in a forming brightest cluster galaxy at z = 4.1, unveiled by JWST
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1406 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.531.4391S

Pentericci, Laura; Cameron, Alex J.; Bosman, Sarah E. I. +16 more

We present rest-frame optical JWST Near-infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) integral field unit (IFU) spectroscopy of TN J1338-1942 at z = 4.1, one of the most luminous galaxies in the early universe with powerful extended radio jets. Previous observations showed evidence for strong, large-scale outflows based on its large (~150 kpc) halo detected in …

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST JWST 12
JWST Near-infrared Spectroscopy of the Lucy Jupiter Trojan Flyby Targets: Evidence for OH Absorption, Aliphatic Organics, and CO2
DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ad2fc3 Bibcode: 2024PSJ.....5...87W

Noll, Keith S.; Grundy, William M.; Brown, Michael E. +6 more

We present observations obtained with the Near Infrared Spectrograph on JWST of the five Jupiter Trojans that will be visited by the Lucy spacecraft—the Patroclus–Menoetius binary, Eurybates, Orus, Leucus, and Polymele. The measured 1.7–5.3 µm reflectance spectra, which provide increased wavelength coverage, spatial resolution, and signal-to…

2024 The Planetary Science Journal
AKARI JWST 12
The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets: XIX. A system including a cold sub-Neptune potentially transiting a V = 6.5 star HD 88986
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347897 Bibcode: 2024A&A...681A..55H

Bouchy, F.; Deleuil, M.; Moutou, C. +51 more

Transiting planets with orbital periods longer than 40 d are extremely rare among the 5000+ planets discovered so far. The lack of discoveries of this population poses a challenge to research into planetary demographics, formation, and evolution. Here, we present the detection and characterization of HD 88986 b, a potentially transiting sub-Neptun…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
CHEOPS Gaia Hipparcos 12
The BlackGEM Telescope Array. I. Overview
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ad8b6a Bibcode: 2024PASP..136k5003G

Gal-Yam, A.; Geier, S.; Vreeswijk, P. M. +76 more

The main science aim of the BlackGEM array is to detect optical counterparts to gravitational wave mergers. Additionally, the array will perform a set of synoptic surveys to detect Local Universe transients and short timescale variability in stars and binaries, as well as a six-filter all-sky survey down to ∼22nd mag. The BlackGEM Phase-I array co…

2024 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Gaia 12
Proposed Resolution to the Solar Open Magnetic Flux Problem
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad20e2 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...964..115A

Antiochos, Spiro K.; Wallace, Samantha; Henney, Carl J. +2 more

The solar magnetic fields emerging from the photosphere into the chromosphere and corona are comprised of a combination of closed (field lines with both ends rooted at the Sun) and open (field lines with only one end at the Sun) fields. Since the early 2000s, the magnitude of total unsigned open magnetic flux estimated by coronal models has been i…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Ulysses 12
No Top-heavy Stellar Initial Mass Function Needed: The Ionizing Radiation of GS9422 Can Be Powered by a Mixture of an Active Galactic Nucleus and Stars
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad5280 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...969L...5L

Johnson, Benjamin D.; Tacchella, Sandro; Leja, Joel +2 more

JWST is producing high-quality rest-frame optical and UV spectra of faint galaxies at z > 4 for the first time, challenging models of galaxy and stellar populations. One galaxy recently observed at z = 5.943, GS9422, has nebular line and UV continuum emission that appears to require a high ionizing photon production efficiency. This has been ex…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 12
The Loss of Starlink Satellites in February 2022: How Moderate Geomagnetic Storms Can Adversely Affect Assets in Low-Earth Orbit
DOI: 10.1029/2023SW003716 Bibcode: 2024SpWea..2203716B

Nandy, Dibyendu; Palmerio, Erika; Pal, Sanchita +4 more

On 3 February 2022, SpaceX launched 49 Starlink satellites, 38 of which unexpectedly de-orbited. Although this event was attributed to space weather, definitive causality remained elusive because space weather conditions were not extreme. In this study, we identify solar sources of the interplanetary coronal mass ejections that were responsible fo…

2024 Space Weather
SOHO 12
The NOEMA observations of GN-z11: constraining the neutral interstellar medium and dust formation in the heart of cosmic reionization at z = 10.6
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae556 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.530..340F

Pérez-Fournon, I.; Schaerer, D.; Marques-Chaves, R. +17 more

We present results of dust continuum and [C II]$\, 158\, {\rm \mu m}$ emission line observations of a remarkably UV luminous (MUV = -21.6) galaxy at z = 10.603: GN-z11. Using the Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA), observations have been carried out over multiple observing cycles. We achieved a high sensitivity resulting in a $\…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JWST 12
The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS) Data Release. I. Stokes I Image Catalogs at 1–1.4 GHz
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/acf7b9 Bibcode: 2024ApJS..270...33D

Momjian, E.; Combes, F.; Petitjean, P. +24 more

The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS) has observed 391 telescope pointings at the L band (900–1670 MHz) at δ ≲ +20°. We present radio continuum images and a catalog of 495,325 (240,321) radio sources detected at a signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) > 5 over an area of 2289 deg2 (1132 deg2) at 1006 MHz (1381 MHz). Every MALS p…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia 12