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Assessing the sources of reionization: a spectroscopic case study of a 30× lensed galaxy at z 5 with Lyα, C IV, Mg II, and [Ne III]
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2591 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.508.1686W

Richard, Johan; Maiolino, Roberto; Massey, Richard +5 more

We present a detailed spectroscopic analysis of a galaxy at z ≃ 4.88 that is, by chance, magnified ~30× by gravitational lensing. Only three sources at z ≳ 5 are known with such high magnification. This particular source has been shown to exhibit widespread, high equivalent width ${{\rm C\, \small {IV}}}\ \lambda 1549\, \mathring{\rm A}$ emission,…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 38
Strong toroidal magnetic fields required by quiescent X-ray emission of magnetars
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-01220-z Bibcode: 2021NatAs...5..145I

Igoshev, Andrei P.; Hollerbach, Rainer; Wood, Toby +1 more

Magnetars are neutron stars (NSs) with extreme magnetic fields1 of strength 5 × 1013-1015 G. These fields are generated by dynamo action during the proto-NS phase, and are expected to have both poloidal and toroidal components2-6, although the energy of the toroidal component could be ten times larger

2021 Nature Astronomy
XMM-Newton 38
A Massive Quiescent Galaxy Confirmed in a Protocluster at z = 3.09
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0cf8 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...919....6K

Tamura, Yoichi; Kohno, Kotaro; Steidel, Charles C. +10 more

We report a massive quiescent galaxy at ${z}_{\mathrm{spec}}={3.0922}_{-0.004}^{+0.008}$ spectroscopically confirmed at a protocluster in the SSA22 field by detecting the Balmer and Ca II absorption features with the multi-object spectrometer for infrared exploration on the Keck I telescope. This is the most distant quiescent galaxy confirmed in a…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 38
Chamaeleon DANCe. Revisiting the stellar populations of Chamaeleon I and Chamaeleon II with Gaia-DR2 data
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039395 Bibcode: 2021A&A...646A..46G

Bertin, E.; Miret-Roig, N.; Bouy, H. +6 more

Context. Chamaeleon is the southernmost low-mass star-forming complex within 200 pc from the Sun. Its stellar population has been extensively studied in the past, but the current census of the stellar content is not complete yet and deserves further investigation.
Aims: We take advantage of the second data release of the Gaia space mission to…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 38
Constraining the solar neighbourhood age-metallicity relation from white dwarf-main sequence binaries
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1559 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.505.3165R

Gänsicke, B. T.; Tremblay, P. -E.; Koester, D. +11 more

The age-metallicity relation (AMR) is a fundamental tool for constraining the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc. In this work, we analyse the observational properties of this relation using binary stars that have not interacted consisting of a white dwarf (WD) - from which we can derive the total age of the system - and a main sequence (MS) …

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 38
Dependence of dark matter - electron scattering on the galactic dark matter velocity distribution
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/02/004 Bibcode: 2021JCAP...02..004R

Radick, Aria; Taki, Anna-Maria; Yu, Tien-Tien

The rate of dark matter-electron scattering depends on the underlying velocity distribution of the dark matter halo. Importantly, dark matter-electron scattering is particularly sensitive to the high-velocity tail, which differs significantly amongst the various dark matter halo models. In this work, we summarize the leading halo models and discus…

2021 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Gaia 38
An ultra-short-period transiting super-Earth orbiting the M3 dwarf TOI-1685
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140688 Bibcode: 2021A&A...650A..78B

Tamura, M.; Amado, P. J.; Caballero, J. A. +51 more

Dynamical histories of planetary systems, as well as the atmospheric evolution of highly irradiated planets, can be studied by characterizing the ultra-short-period planet population, which the TESS mission is particularly well suited to discover. Here, we report on the follow-up of a transit signal detected in the TESS sector 19 photometric time …

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 38
Classical Cepheids in the Milky Way
DOI: 10.32023/0001-5237/71.3.2 Bibcode: 2021AcA....71..205P

Soszyński, I.; Udalski, A.; Pietrukowicz, P.

We share the most up-to-date, carefully verified list of classical Cepheids residing in the Galaxy. Based on long-term OGLE experience in the field of variable stars, we have inspected candidates for Cepheids from surveys such as ASAS, ASAS-SN, ATLAS, Gaia, NSVS, VVV, WISE, ZTF, among others, and also known sources from the General Catalogue of Va…

2021 Acta Astronomica
Gaia 38
An ALMA study of hub-filament systems - I. On the clump mass concentration within the most massive cores
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2674 Bibcode: 2021MNRAS.508.2964A

Peretto, Nicolas; Ragan, Sarah E.; Traficante, Alessio +7 more

The physical processes behind the transfer of mass from parsec-scale clumps to massive star-forming cores remain elusive. We investigate the relation between the clump morphology and the mass fraction that ends up in its most massive core (MMC) as a function of infrared brightness, i.e. a clump evolutionary tracer. Using Atacama Large Millimeter/s…

2021 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel 38
A Duality in the Origin of Bulges and Spheroidal Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abef72 Bibcode: 2021ApJ...913..125C

Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Costantin, Luca; Koekemoer, Anton M. +11 more

Studying the resolved stellar populations of the different structural components that build massive galaxies directly unveils their assembly history. We aim at characterizing the stellar population properties of a representative sample of bulges and pure spheroids in massive galaxies (M > 1010 M) in the GOODS-…

2021 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 38