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The Mass Relations between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies at 1 < z < 2 HST-WFC3
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab5b90 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...888...37D

Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Treu, Tommaso +10 more

Correlations between the mass of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and the properties of its host galaxy (e.g., total stellar mass M *, luminosity L host) suggest an evolutionary connection. A powerful test of a coevolution scenario is to measure the relations {{ \mathcal M }}BH}-L host and {{ \mathcal M …

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 153
The Energetic Particle Detector. Energetic particle instrument suite for the Solar Orbiter mission
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935287 Bibcode: 2020A&A...642A...7R

Kulkarni, S. R.; Lario, D.; Wang, L. +96 more

After decades of observations of solar energetic particles from space-based observatories, relevant questions on particle injection, transport, and acceleration remain open. To address these scientific topics, accurate measurements of the particle properties in the inner heliosphere are needed. In this paper we describe the Energetic Particle Dete…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SolarOrbiter 152
The stellar-to-halo mass relation over the past 12 Gyr. I. Standard ΛCDM model
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936329 Bibcode: 2020A&A...634A.135G

Bolzonella, M.; Giocoli, C.; Marulli, F. +3 more


Aims: Understanding the link between the galaxy properties and the dark matter halos they reside in and their coevolution is a powerful tool for constraining the processes related to galaxy formation. In particular, the stellar-to-halo mass relation (SHMR) and its evolution throughout the history of the Universe provides insights on galaxy fo…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 151
Public HARPS radial velocity database corrected for systematic errors
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936686 Bibcode: 2020A&A...636A..74T

Trifonov, Trifon; Mazeh, Tsevi; Zechmeister, Mathias +3 more

Context. The High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) spectrograph has been mounted since 2003 at the ESO 3.6 m telescope in La Silla and provides state-of-the-art stellar radial velocity (RV) measurements with a precision down to ∼1 m s-1. The spectra are extracted with a dedicated data-reduction software (DRS), and the RV…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 150
The Orbital Histories of Magellanic Satellites Using Gaia DR2 Proper Motions
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7b75 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...893..121P

van der Marel, Roeland P.; Gómez, Facundo A.; Weisz, Daniel R. +6 more

With the release of Gaia DR2, it is now possible to measure the proper motions (PMs) of the lowest-mass, ultrafaint satellite galaxies in the Milky Way's (MW) halo for the first time. Many of these faint satellites are posited to have been accreted as satellites of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs). Using their six-dimensional phase-space information, w…

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 150
Measuring Turbulent Motion in Planet-forming Disks with ALMA: A Detection around DM Tau and Nondetections around MWC 480 and V4046 Sgr
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab8cc5 Bibcode: 2020ApJ...895..109F

Hughes, A. Meredith; Wilner, David J.; Kóspál, Ágnes +6 more

Turbulence is a crucial factor in many models of planet formation, but it has only been directly constrained among a small number of planet-forming disks. Building on the upper limits on turbulence placed in disks around HD 163296 and TW Hya, we present ALMA CO J = 2-1 line observations at ∼0"3 (20-50 au) resolution and 80 ms-1 channel …

2020 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 147
CARMENES input catalogue of M dwarfs. V. Luminosities, colours, and spectral energy distributions
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038295 Bibcode: 2020A&A...642A.115C

Amado, P. J.; Caballero, J. A.; Reiners, A. +15 more

Context. The relevance of M dwarfs in the search for potentially habitable Earth-sized planets has grown significantly in the last years.
Aims: In our on-going effort to comprehensively and accurately characterise confirmed and potential planet-hosting M dwarfs, in particular for the CARMENES survey, we have carried out a comprehensive multi-…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 146
Tracing the total molecular gas in galaxies: [CII] and the CO-dark gas
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038860 Bibcode: 2020A&A...643A.141M

Ramambason, L.; Lebouteiller, V.; Madden, S. C. +11 more

Context. Molecular gas is a necessary fuel for star formation. The CO (1-0) transition is often used to deduce the total molecular hydrogen but is challenging to detect in low-metallicity galaxies in spite of the star formation taking place. In contrast, the [C II]λ158 µm is relatively bright, highlighting a potentially important reservoir o…

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 146
Probing cosmic isotropy with a new X-ray galaxy cluster sample through the LX-T scaling relation
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936602 Bibcode: 2020A&A...636A..15M

Lovisari, L.; Pacaud, F.; Ramos-Ceja, M. E. +3 more

The isotropy of the late Universe and consequently of the X-ray galaxy cluster scaling relations is an assumption greatly used in astronomy. However, within the last decade, many studies have reported deviations from isotropy when using various cosmological probes; a definitive conclusion has yet to be made. New, effective and independent methods …

2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 145
A new mass-loss rate prescription for red supergiants
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa255 Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.492.5994B

Smith, Nathan; Gehrz, Robert D.; van Loon, Jacco Th +3 more

Evolutionary models have shown the substantial effect that strong mass-loss rates ( $\dot{M}$ s) can have on the fate of massive stars. Red supergiant (RSG) mass-loss is poorly understood theoretically, and so stellar models rely on purely empirical $\dot{M}$ -luminosity relations to calculate evolution. Empirical prescriptions usually scale with …

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 145