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Clusters, clouds, and correlations: relating young clusters to giant molecular clouds in M33 and M31
Bell, Eric F.; Skillman, Evan D.; Williams, Benjamin F. +11 more
We use young clusters and giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the galaxies M33 and M31 to constrain temporal and spatial scales in the star formation process. In M33, we compare the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury: Triangulum Extended Region (PHATTER) catalogue of 1214 clusters with ages measured via colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) fitting to 4…
Implications of Different Solar Photospheric Flux-transport Models for Global Coronal and Heliospheric Modeling
Cheung, Mark C. M.; DeRosa, Marc L.; Barnes, Graham +3 more
The concept of surface-flux transport (SFT) is commonly used in evolving models of the large-scale solar surface magnetic field. These photospheric models are used to determine the large-scale structure of the overlying coronal magnetic field, as well as to make predictions about the fields and flows that structure the solar wind. We compare predi…
First Results from the JWST Early Release Science Program Q3D: Benchmark Comparison of Optical and Mid-infrared Tracers of a Dusty, Ionized Red Quasar Wind at z = 0.435
Shen, Lu; Johnson, Sean D.; Lützgendorf, Nora +27 more
The [O III] 5007 Å emission line is the most common tracer of warm, ionized outflows in active galactic nuclei across cosmic time. JWST newly allows us to use mid-IR spectral features at both high spatial and spectral resolution to probe these same winds. Here we present a comparison of ground-based, seeing-limited [O III] and space-based, diffrac…
On the degree of dynamical packing in the Kepler multiplanet systems
Tamayo, Daniel; Obertas, Alysa; Murray, Norm
Current planet formation theories rely on initially compact orbital configurations undergoing a (possibly extended) phase of giant impacts following the dispersal of the dissipative protoplanetary disc. The orbital architectures of observed mature exoplanet systems have likely been strongly sculpted by chaotic dynamics, instabilities, and giant im…
Lyα Scattering Models Trace Accretion and Outflow Kinematics in T Tauri Systems
Herczeg, Gregory J.; France, Kevin; Ábrahám, Péter +18 more
T Tauri stars produce broad Lyα emission lines that contribute ~88% of the total UV flux incident on the inner circumstellar disks. Lyα photons are generated at the accretion shocks and in the protostellar chromospheres and must travel through accretion flows, winds, and jets, the protoplanetary disks, and the interstellar medium before reaching t…
New Generation Stellar Spectral Libraries in the Optical and Near-infrared. I. The Recalibrated UVES-POP Library for Stellar Population Synthesis
Afanasiev, Anton V.; Chilingarian, Igor V.; Melo, Claudio +8 more
We present reprocessed flux-calibrated spectra of 406 stars from the UVES-POP stellar library in the wavelength range 320-1025 nm, which can be used for stellar population synthesis. The spectra are provided in the two versions having spectral resolving power R = 20,000 and R = 80,000. Raw spectra from the ESO data archive were re-reduced using th…
Star cluster classification using deep transfer learning with PHANGS-HST
Mobasher, Bahram; Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik; Chevance, Mélanie +17 more
Currently available star cluster catalogues from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of nearby galaxies heavily rely on visual inspection and classification of candidate clusters. The time-consuming nature of this process has limited the production of reliable catalogues and thus also post-observation analysis. To address this problem, deep t…
Pixelated Reconstruction of Foreground Density and Background Surface Brightness in Gravitational Lensing Systems Using Recurrent Inference Machines
Hezaveh, Yashar; Adam, Alexandre; Perreault-Levasseur, Laurence +1 more
Modeling strong gravitational lenses in order to quantify distortions in the images of background sources and to reconstruct the mass density in foreground lenses has been a difficult computational challenge. As the quality of gravitational lens images increases, the task of fully exploiting the information they contain becomes computationally and…
Saturn's atmospheric response to the large influx of ring material inferred from Cassini INMS measurements
Fletcher, Leigh N.; Guerlet, Sandrine; Moses, Julianne I. +12 more
During the Grand Finale stage of the Cassini mission, organic-rich ring material was discovered to be flowing into Saturn's equatorial upper atmosphere at a surprisingly large rate. Through a series of photochemical models, we have examined the consequences of this ring material on the chemistry of Saturn's neutral and ionized atmosphere. We find …
A Large-scale Kinematic Study of Molecular Gas in High-z Cluster Galaxies: Evidence for High Levels of Kinematic Asymmetry
Cooper, M. C.; Clements, D. L.; van Kampen, E. +14 more
We investigate the resolved kinematics of the molecular gas, as traced by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in CO (2-1), of 25 cluster member galaxies across three different clusters at a redshift of z ~ 1.6. This is the first large-scale analysis of the molecular gas kinematics of cluster galaxies at this redshift. By separately es…