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Observation of Alfvén Wave Reflection in the Solar Chromosphere: Ponderomotive Force and First Ionization Potential Effect
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.215201 Bibcode: 2024PhRvL.132u5201M

Stangalini, Marco; Long, David M.; Brooks, David H. +7 more

We investigate the propagation of Alfvén waves in the solar chromosphere, distinguishing between upward and downward propagating waves. We find clear evidence for the reflection of waves in the chromosphere and differences in propagation between cases with waves interpreted to be resonant or nonresonant with the overlying coronal structures. This …

2024 Physical Review Letters
Hinode 8
The accretion burst of the massive young stellar object G323.46−0.08
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449891 Bibcode: 2024A&A...688A...8W

Matter, A.; Eislöffel, J.; Stecklum, B. +10 more

Context. Accretion bursts from low-mass young stellar objects (YSOs) have been known for many decades. In recent years, the first accretion bursts of massive YSOs (MYSOs) have been observed. These phases of intense protostellar growth are of particular importance for studying massive star formation. Bursts of MYSOs are accompanied by flares of Cla…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
AKARI Gaia 8
Astrometric search for ultralight dark matter
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.083031 Bibcode: 2024PhRvD.110h3031K

Kim, Hyungjin

Precision astrometry offers a way to probe new physics. By measuring the angular position of light sources at unprecedented precision, astrometry could probe minuscule fluctuations of underlying spacetime. This work explores the possibility of probing ultralight dark matter candidates using precision astrometry. Through the coherent and stochastic…

2024 Physical Review D
Gaia 8
An Early Dark Matter–dominated Phase in the Assembly History of Milky Way–mass Galaxies Suggested by the TNG50 Simulation and JWST Observations
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad4c65 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...967L..40D

Pillepich, Annalisa; Rix, Hans-Walter; de Graaff, Anna

Whereas well-studied galaxies at cosmic noon are found to be baryon dominated within the effective radius, recent JWST observations of z ∼ 6–7 galaxies with stellar masses of only M * ∼ 108‑9 M surprisingly indicate that they are dark matter dominated within r e ≈ 1 kpc. Here, we place these high-redsh…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 8
Haro 11: The Spatially Resolved Lyman Continuum Sources
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3962 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...967..117K

Jaskot, Anne E.; Östlin, Göran; Hernandez, Svea +13 more

As the nearest confirmed Lyman continuum (LyC) emitter, Haro 11 is an exceptional laboratory for studying LyC escape processes crucial to cosmic reionization. Our new Hubble Space Telescope/Cosmic Origins Spectrograph G130M/1055 observations of its three star-forming knots now reveal that the observed LyC originates in Knots B and C, with 903–912 …

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 8
A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager. I. An Empirical Search for Perturbations from Planetary Companions in Polarized Light Images
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0e69 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...961..245C

Stark, Christopher C.; Weinberger, Alycia J.; Hughes, A. Meredith +37 more

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) has excelled in imaging debris disks in the near-infrared. The GPI Exoplanet Survey imaged 24 debris disks in polarized H-band light, while other programs observed half of these disks in polarized J and/or K1 bands. Using these data, we present a uniform analysis of the morphology of each disk to find asymmetries sug…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 8
Resonant and Ultra-short-period Planet Systems Are at Opposite Ends of the Exoplanet Age Distribution
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad5d76 Bibcode: 2024AJ....168..109S

Schlaufman, Kevin C.; Hamer, Jacob H.; Schmidt, Stephen P.

Exoplanet systems are thought to evolve on secular timescales over billions of years. This evolution is impossible to directly observe on human timescales in most individual systems. While the availability of accurate and precise age inferences for individual exoplanet host stars with ages τ in the interval 1 Gyr ≲ τ ≲ 10 Gyr would constrain this …

2024 The Astronomical Journal
Gaia 8
Massive black holes in nuclear star clusters. Investigation with SRG/eROSITA X-ray data
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347665 Bibcode: 2024A&A...682A..36H

Merloni, A.; Zhang, Y.; Arcodia, R. +4 more

Context. Massive black holes (MBHs) are typically hosted in the centres of massive galaxies but they appear to become rarer in lower mass galaxies, where nuclear star clusters (NSCs) frequently appear instead. The transition region, where both an MBH and NSC can co-exist, has been poorly studied to date and only a few dozen galaxies are known to h…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 8
Detection of decayless oscillations in solar transition region loops
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348702 Bibcode: 2024A&A...681L...4G

Guo, Mingzhe; Gao, Yuhang; Van Doorsselaere, Tom +1 more

Context. Decayless kink oscillations have been frequently observed in coronal loops, serving as a valuable diagnostic tool for the coronal magnetic field. Such oscillations have never before been reported in low-lying loops of the transition region (TR).
Aims: The aim of this study is to detect decayless kink oscillations in TR loops for the …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
IRIS 8
The Emergence of a Brightest Cluster Galaxy in a Protocluster Core at z = 2.24
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad17c3 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...963...21S

Teplitz, Harry I.; Fan, Xiaohui; Cai, Zheng +4 more

We report the detection of a pair of massive quiescent galaxies likely in the process of merging at the center of the spectroscopically confirmed, extremely massive protocluster BOSS1244 at z = 2.24 ± 0.02. These galaxies, BOSS1244-QG1 and BOSS1244-QG2, were detected with Hubble Space Telescope grism slitless spectroscopic observations. These two …

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 8