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New physics in light of the H0 tension: An alternative view
Vagnozzi, Sunny
The strong discrepancy between local and early-time (inverse distance ladder) estimates of the Hubble constant H0 could be pointing towards new physics beyond the concordance Λ CDM model. Several attempts to address this tension through new physics rely on extended cosmological models, featuring extra free parameters beyond the six Λ CD…
Painting a portrait of the Galactic disc with its stellar clusters
Castro-Ginard, A.; Jordi, C.; Casamiquela, L. +10 more
Context. The large astrometric and photometric survey performed by the Gaia mission allows for a panoptic view of the Galactic disc and its stellar cluster population. Hundreds of stellar clusters were only discovered after the latest Gaia data release (DR2) and have yet to be characterised.
Aims: Here we make use of the deep and homogeneous …
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Sixteenth Data Release
Brandt, W. N.; Pâris, Isabelle; Petitjean, Patrick +34 more
We present the final Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) quasar catalog from Data Release 16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). This catalog comprises the largest selection of spectroscopically confirmed quasars to date. The full catalog includes two subcatalogs (the current versions are DR16Q_v4 and DR16Q_Superset_…
APOGEE Data and Spectral Analysis from SDSS Data Release 16: Seven Years of Observations Including First Results from APOGEE-South
Bizyaev, Dmitry; Bovy, Jo; Cunha, Katia +20 more
The spectral analysis and data products in Data Release 16 (DR16; 2019 December) from the high-resolution near-infrared Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)-2/Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-IV survey are described. Compared to the previous APOGEE data release (DR14; 2017 July), APOGEE DR16 includes about 200,000 new ste…
The Evolution of the Star-Forming Interstellar Medium Across Cosmic Time
Sternberg, Amiel; Genzel, Reinhard; Tacconi, Linda J.
Over the past decade, increasingly robust estimates of the dense molecular gas content in galaxy populations between redshift z = 0 and the peak of cosmic galaxy/star formation (z ∼ 1-3) have become available. This rapid progress has been possible due to the advent of powerful ground- and space-based telescopes for the combined study of several mi…
Cool outflows in galaxies and their implications
Maiolino, Roberto; Bolatto, Alberto D.; Veilleux, Sylvain +1 more
Neutral-atomic and molecular outflows are a common occurrence in galaxies, near and far. They operate over the full extent of their galaxy hosts, from the innermost regions of galactic nuclei to the outermost reaches of galaxy halos. They carry a substantial amount of material that would otherwise have been used to form new stars. These cool outfl…
A repeating fast radio burst source localized to a nearby spiral galaxy
Lazio, T. J. W.; Kirichenko, A. Yu.; Vanderlinde, K. +51 more
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, bright, extragalactic radio flashes1,2. Their physical origin remains unknown, but dozens of possible models have been postulated3. Some FRB sources exhibit repeat bursts4-7. Although over a hundred FRB sources have been discovered8, only four have been localized and a…
Calibration of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch
Madore, Barry F.; Freedman, Wendy L.; Lee, Myung Gyoon +6 more
The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) method provides one of the most accurate and precise means of measuring the distances to nearby galaxies. Here we present a multi-wavelength, VIJHK absolute calibration of the TRGB based on observations of TRGB stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), grounded on a geometric distance, determined by detached…
TDCOSMO. IV. Hierarchical time-delay cosmography - joint inference of the Hubble constant and galaxy density profiles
Treu, T.; Christensen, L.; Koopmans, L. V. E. +24 more
The H0LiCOW collaboration inferred via strong gravitational lensing time delays a Hubble constant value of H0 = 73.3-1.8+1.7 km s-1 Mpc-1, describing deflector mass density profiles by either a power-law or stars (constant mass-to-light ratio) plus standard dark matter halos. The mass-sheet tr…
Evidence from the H3 Survey That the Stellar Halo Is Entirely Comprised of Substructure
Conroy, Charlie; Ting, Yuan-Sen; Cargile, Phillip A. +5 more
In the ΛCDM paradigm, the Galactic stellar halo is predicted to harbor the accreted debris of smaller systems. To identify these systems, the H3 Spectroscopic Survey, combined with Gaia, is gathering 6D phase-space and chemical information in the distant Galaxy. Here we present a comprehensive inventory of structure within 50 kpc from the Galactic…