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A new census of dust and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at z = 0.7–2 with JWST MIRI
Pérez-González, Pablo G.; D'Eugenio, Francesco; Bunker, Andrew J. +26 more
Aims. This paper utilises the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to extend the observational studies of dust and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission to a new mass and star formation rate (SFR) parameter space beyond our local Universe. The combination of fully sampled spectral energy distributions (SEDs) wi…
Small-scale stellar haloes: detecting low surface brightness features in the outskirts of Milky Way dwarf satellites
Smith, Simon E. T.; Hayes, Christian R.; Sestito, Federico +5 more
Dwarf galaxies are valuable laboratories for dynamical studies related to dark matter and galaxy evolution, yet it is currently unknown just how physically extended their stellar components are. Satellites orbiting the Galaxy's potential may undergo tidal stripping by the host, or alternatively, may themselves have accreted smaller systems whose d…
Ubiquitous broad-line emission and the relation between ionized gas outflows and Lyman continuum escape in Green Pea galaxies
Chisholm, J.; Schaerer, D.; Marques-Chaves, R. +29 more
We report observational evidence of highly turbulent ionized gas kinematics in a sample of 20 Lyman continuum (LyC) emitters (LCEs) at low redshift (z ∼ 0.3). Detailed Gaussian modeling of optical emission line profiles in high-dispersion spectra consistently shows that both bright recombination and collisionally excited lines can be fitted as one…
SN 2023ixf in Messier 101: The Twilight Years of the Progenitor as Seen by Pan-STARRS
Kilpatrick, Charles D.; Chambers, Kenneth C.; Coulter, David A. +28 more
The nearby type II supernova, SN 2023ixf in M101 exhibits signatures of early time interaction with circumstellar material in the first week postexplosion. This material may be the consequence of prior mass loss suffered by the progenitor, which possibly manifested in the form of a detectable presupernova outburst. We present an analysis of long-b…
A massive compact quiescent galaxy at z = 2 with a complete Einstein ring in JWST imaging
van Dokkum, Pieter; Conroy, Charlie; Brammer, Gabriel +2 more
One of the surprising results from the Hubble Space Telescope was the discovery that many of the most massive galaxies at redshift z ≈ 2 are very compact, having a half-light radius of only 1‑2 kpc. The interpretation is that massive galaxies formed inside out, with their cores largely in place by z ≈ 2 and approximately half of their present-day …
The CO-to-H2 conversion factor of molecular outflows. Rovibrational CO emission in NGC 3256-S resolved by JWST/NIRSpec
Rigopoulou, D.; García-Burillo, S.; González-Alfonso, E. +2 more
We analyze JWST/NIRSpec observations of the CO rovibrational υ = 1−0 band at ~4.67 µm around the dust-embedded southern active galactic nucleus (AGN) of NGC 3256 (d = 40 Mpc; LIR = 1011.6 L⊙). We classify the CO υ = 1−0 spectra into three categories based on the behavior of P- and R-branches of the band: (a) both b…
200 000 candidate very metal-poor stars in Gaia DR3 XP spectra
Limberg, Guilherme; Ji, Alexander P.; Koposov, Sergey E. +1 more
Very metal-poor stars ($\rm [Fe/H] \lt -2$) in the Milky Way are fossil records of early chemical evolution and the assembly and structure of the Galaxy. However, they are rare and hard to find. Gaia DR3 has provided over 200 million low-resolution (R ≈ 50) XP spectra, which provides an opportunity to greatly increase the number of candidate metal…
Shiva and Shakti: Presumed Proto-Galactic Fragments in the Inner Milky Way
Rix, Hans-Walter; Malhan, Khyati
Using Gaia Data Release 3 astrometry and spectroscopy, we study two new substructures in the orbit–metallicity space of the inner Milky Way: Shakti and Shiva. They were identified as two confined, high-contrast overdensities in the (L z , E) distribution of bright (G < 16) and metal-poor (‑2.5 < [M/H] < ‑ 1.0) stars. Both have…
On the Mesoscale Structure of Coronal Mass Ejections at Mercury's Orbit: BepiColombo and Parker Solar Probe Observations
Dresing, Nina; Nieves-Chinchilla, Teresa; Weiss, Andreas J. +27 more
On 2022 February 15, an impressive filament eruption was observed off the solar eastern limb from three remote-sensing viewpoints, namely, Earth, STEREO-A, and Solar Orbiter. In addition to representing the most-distant observed filament at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths—captured by Solar Orbiter's field of view extending to above 6 R ⊙
Binary stars in the new millennium
Han, Zhanwen; Chen, Xuefei; Liu, Zhengwei
Binary stars are as common as single stars. Binary stars are of immense importance to astrophysicists because that they allow us to determine the masses of the stars independent of their distances. They are the cornerstone of the understanding of stellar evolutionary theory and play an essential role in cosmic distance measurement, galactic evolut…