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Evidence for an abundant old population of Galactic ultra-long period magnetars and implications for fast radio bursts
van der Horst, A. J.; Wadiasingh, Z.; Rajwade, K. M. +3 more
Two recent discoveries, namely PSR J0901-4046 and GLEAM-X J162759.5-523504.3 (hereafter GLEAM-X J1627), have corroborated an extant population of radio-loud periodic sources with long periods (76 and 1091 s, respectively) whose emission can hardly be explained by rotation losses. We argue that GLEAM-X J1627 is a highly magnetized object consistent…
The SPHINX M-dwarf Spectral Grid. I. Benchmarking New Model Atmospheres to Derive Fundamental M-dwarf Properties
Fortney, Jonathan J.; Muirhead, Philip S.; Line, Michael R. +2 more
About 70%-80% of stars in our solar and Galactic neighborhood are M dwarfs. They span a range of low masses and temperatures relative to solar-type stars, facilitating molecule formation throughout their atmospheres. Standard stellar atmosphere models primarily designed for FGK stars face challenges when characterizing broadband molecular features…
Mapping the Milky Way Disk with Gaia DR3: 3D Extended Kinematic Maps and Rotation Curve to ≈30 kpc
Wang, Hai-Feng; Sylos Labini, Francesco; Chrobáková, Žofia +1 more
We apply a statistical deconvolution of the parallax errors based on Lucy's inversion method (LIM) to the Gaia DR3 sources to measure their 3D velocity components in the range of Galactocentric distances R between 8 and 30 kpc with their corresponding errors and rms values. We find results that are consistent with those obtained by applying LIM to…
Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XVIII. A First Morphological Atlas of the 1 < z < 5 Universe in the Rest-frame Optical
Vulcani, B.; Bradač, M.; Treu, T. +21 more
We present a rest-frame optical morphological analysis of galaxies observed with the NIRCam imager on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as part of the GLASS-JWST Early Release Science program. We select 388 sources at redshifts 0.8 < z < 5.4 and use the seven 0.9-5 µm NIRCam filters to generate rest-frame gri composite color images…
The effect of the deforming dark matter haloes of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Orphan-Chenab stream
Lewis, Geraint F.; Erkal, Denis; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss +14 more
It has recently been shown that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has a substantial effect on the Milky Way's stellar halo and stellar streams. Here, we explore how deformations of the Milky Way and LMC's dark matter haloes affect stellar streams, and whether these effects are observable. In particular, we focus on the Orphan-Chenab (OC) stream whi…
PHANGS-JWST First Results: Destruction of the PAH Molecules in H II Regions Probed by JWST and MUSE
Sandstrom, Karin M.; Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik; Leroy, Adam K. +30 more
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) play a critical role in the reprocessing of stellar radiation and balancing the heating and cooling processes in the interstellar medium but appear to be destroyed in H II regions. However, the mechanisms driving their destruction are still not completely understood. Using PHANGS-JWST and PHANGS-MUSE observa…
Siena Galaxy Atlas 2020
Myers, Adam D.; Schlegel, David J.; Weaver, Benjamin A. +8 more
We present the 2020 version of the Siena Galaxy Atlas (SGA-2020), a multiwavelength optical and infrared imaging atlas of 383,620 nearby galaxies. The SGA-2020 uses optical grz imaging over ≈20,000 deg2 from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9 and infrared imaging in four bands (spanning…
EIGER. III. JWST/NIRCam Observations of the Ultraluminous High-redshift Quasar J0100+2802
Simcoe, Robert A.; Kashino, Daichi; Eilers, Anna-Christina +6 more
We present the first rest-frame optical spectrum of a high-redshift quasar observed with JWST/NIRCam in Wide Field Slitless mode. The observed quasar, J0100+2802, is the most luminous quasar known at z > 6. We measure the mass of the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) by means of the rest-frame optical H β emission line, and find consistent…
The Identification of a Dusty Multiarm Spiral Galaxy at z = 3.06 with JWST and ALMA
Fan, Xiaohui; Cai, Zheng; Lin, Xiaojing +13 more
Spiral arms serve crucial purposes in star formation and galaxy evolution. In this paper, we report the identification of "A2744-DSG-z3," a dusty, multiarm spiral galaxy at z = 3.059 using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRISS imaging and grism spectroscopy. A2744-DSG-z3 was discovered as a gravitationally lensed submillimeter galaxy with t…
Six More Ultra-faint Milky Way Companions Discovered in the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey
Geha, M.; Li, T. S.; Walker, A. R. +31 more
We report the discovery of six ultra-faint Milky Way satellites identified through matched-filter searches conducted using Dark Energy Camera (DECam) data processed as part of the second data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) survey. Leveraging deep Gemini/GMOS-N imaging (for four candidates) as well as follow-up DECam imaging …