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The multiphase gas structure and kinematics in the circumnuclear region of NGC 5728
Lutz, D.; Genzel, R.; Sturm, E. +22 more
We report on our combined analysis of HST, VLT/MUSE, VLT/SINFONI, and ALMA observations of the local Seyfert 2 galaxy, NGC 5728 to investigate in detail the feeding and feedback of the active galactic nucleus (AGN). The data sets simultaneously probe the morphology, excitation, and kinematics of the stars, ionized gas, and molecular gas over a lar…
The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Evolution of the Molecular Gas in CO-selected Galaxies
Carilli, Chris; Somerville, Rachel S.; Bacon, Roland +31 more
We analyze the interstellar medium properties of a sample of 16 bright CO line emitting galaxies identified in the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (ASPECS) Large Program. This CO-selected galaxy sample is complemented by two additional CO line emitters in the UDF that are identified based on their Multi-Unit Spectroscopic …
Titan's gravity field and interior structure after Cassini
Iess, L.; Durante, Daniele; Hemingway, D. J. +2 more
Since its arrival at Saturn in 2004, Cassini performed nine flybys devoted to the determination of Titan's gravity field and its tidal variations. Here we present an updated gravity solution based on the final data set collected during the gravity-dedicated passes, before Cassini's plunge into Saturn's atmosphere. The data set includes an addition…
Quiet Sun magnetic fields: an observational view
Orozco Suárez, David; Bellot Rubio, Luis
The quiet Sun is the region of the solar surface outside of sunspots, pores, and plages. In continuum intensity it appears dominated by granular convection. However, in polarized light the quiet Sun exhibits impressive magnetic activity on a broad range of scales, from the 30,000 km of supergranular cells down to the smallest magnetic features of …
Uniformly hot nightside temperatures on short-period gas giants
Dang, Lisa; Cowan, Nicolas B.; Keating, Dylan
Short-period gas giants (hot Jupiters) on circular orbits are expected to be tidally locked into synchronous rotation, with permanent daysides that face their host stars and permanent nightsides that face the darkness of space1. Thermal flux from the nightside of several hot Jupiters has been detected, meaning energy is transported from…
Masses and Implications for Ages of Low-mass Pre-main-sequence Stars in Taurus and Ophiuchus
Schaefer, Gail H.; Grosso, N.; Prato, L. +8 more
The accuracy of masses of pre-main-sequence stars derived from their locations on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD) can be tested by comparison with accurate and precise masses determined independently. We present 29 single stars in the Taurus star-forming region (SFR) and 3 in the Ophiuchus SFR with masses measured dynamically to a precision …
A Warm Jupiter-sized Planet Transiting the Pre-main-sequence Star V1298 Tau
Hinkley, Sasha; Fulton, Benjamin J.; Isaacson, Howard T. +14 more
We report the detection of V1298 Tau b, a warm Jupiter-sized planet (R P = 0.91 ± 0.05 R Jup, P = 24.1 days) transiting a young solar analog with an estimated age of 23 Myr. The star and its planet belong to Group 29, a young association in the foreground of the Taurus-Auriga star-forming region. While hot Jupiters have been …
Cassini Ring Seismology as a Probe of Saturn’s Interior. I. Rigid Rotation
Fortney, Jonathan J.; Marley, Mark S.; Mankovich, Christopher +1 more
Seismology of the gas giants holds the potential to resolve long-standing questions about their internal structure and rotation state. We construct a family of Saturn interior models constrained by the gravity field and compute their adiabatic mode eigenfrequencies and corresponding Lindblad and vertical resonances in Saturn’s C ring, where more t…
The Wolf-Rayet binaries of the nitrogen sequence in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Spectroscopy, orbital analysis, formation, and evolution
Hamann, W. -R.; Oskinova, L. M.; Sander, A. A. C. +11 more
Context. Massive Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars dominate the radiative and mechanical energy budget of galaxies and probe a critical phase in the evolution of massive stars prior to core collapse. It is not known whether core He-burning WR stars (classical WR; cWR) form predominantly through wind stripping (w-WR) or binary stripping (b-WR). Whereas spectro…
The Black Hole-Bulge Mass Relation Including Dwarf Galaxies Hosting Active Galactic Nuclei
Greene, Jenny E.; Schutte, Zachary; Reines, Amy E.
We present a new relationship between central black hole (BH) mass and host galaxy stellar bulge mass extending to the lowest BH masses known in dwarf galaxies (M BH ≲ 105 M ⊙ M ⋆ ∼ 109 M ⊙). We have obtained visible and near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope imaging of seven dwarf ga…