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Gaia Data Release 3. The second Gaia catalogue of long-period variable candidates
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244241 Bibcode: 2023A&A...674A..15L

Audard, M.; Rimoldini, L.; Holl, B. +9 more

Context. The third Gaia Data Release covers 34 months of data and includes the second Gaia catalogue of long-period variables (LPVs), with G variability amplitudes larger than 0.1 mag (5-95% quantile range).
Aims: The paper describes the production and content of the second Gaia catalogue of LPVs and the methods we used to compute the publish…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 54
JWST/NIRCam observations of stars and H II regions in z ≃ 6-8 galaxies: properties of star-forming complexes on 150 pc scales
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3476 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.518.5607C

Charlot, Stéphane; Chen, Zuyi; Stark, Daniel P. +3 more

The onset of the JWST-era provides a much-improved opportunity to characterize the resolved structure of early star-forming systems. Previous Spitzer observations of z ≳ 6 galaxies revealed the presence of old stars and luminous H II regions (via [O III]+H β emission), but the poor resolution stunted our ability to map their locations with respect…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST JWST 53
Uncovering a population of gravitational lens galaxies with magnified standard candle SN Zwicky
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-023-01981-3 Bibcode: 2023NatAs...7.1098G

Richard, Johan; Riddle, Reed; Wheeler, J. Craig +35 more

Detecting gravitationally lensed supernovae is among the biggest challenges in astronomy. It involves a combination of two very rare phenomena: catching the transient signal of a stellar explosion in a distant galaxy and observing it through a nearly perfectly aligned foreground galaxy that deflects light towards the observer. Here we describe how…

2023 Nature Astronomy
eHST 53
GOALS-JWST: Mid-infrared Spectroscopy of the Nucleus of NGC 7469
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acac66 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...942L..37A

Malkan, M. A.; Inami, H.; Murphy, E. J. +32 more

We present mid-infrared spectroscopic observations of the nucleus of the nearby Seyfert galaxy NGC 7469 taken with the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as part of Directors Discretionary Time Early Release Science program 1328. The high-resolution nuclear spectrum contains 19 emission lines covering a wide range of ionizati…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 53
Possible Detection of the Progenitor of the Type II Supernova SN 2023ixf
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ace88b Bibcode: 2023ApJ...953L..14P

Shara, Michael M.; Pledger, Joanne L.

Stellar evolution theory predicts multiple pathways to the explosive deaths of stars as supernovae. Locating and characterizing the progenitors of well-studied supernovae is important to constrain the theory and to justify and design future surveys to improve on progenitor detections. Here we report the serendipitous preexplosion imaging, by the H…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 52
Exploring the Ability of Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 G141 to Uncover Trends in Populations of Exoplanet Atmospheres through a Homogeneous Transmission Survey of 70 Gaseous Planets
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac9f1a Bibcode: 2023ApJS..269...31E

Bouwman, Jeroen; Lagage, Pierre-Olivier; Changeat, Quentin +14 more

We present analysis of the atmospheres of 70 gaseous extrasolar planets via transit spectroscopy with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). For over half of these, we statistically detect spectral modulation that our retrievals attribute to molecular species. Among these, we use Bayesian hierarchical modeling to search for chemical trends with bulk…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
eHST 52
The Million Quasars (Milliquas) Catalogue, v8
DOI: 10.21105/astro.2308.01505 Bibcode: 2023OJAp....6E..49F

Flesch, Eric Wim

Announcing the final release, v8, of the Milliquas (Million Quasars) quasar catalogue which presents all published quasars to 30 June 2023, including quasars from the first releases of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and the SDSS-DR18 Black Hole Mapper. Its totals are 907,144 type-I QSOs/AGN and 66,026 high-confidence (~99% likelih…

2023 The Open Journal of Astrophysics
Gaia XMM-Newton 52
DESI Observations of the Andromeda Galaxy: Revealing the Immigration History of Our Nearest Neighbor
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aca5f8 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...944....1D

García-Bellido, Juan; Bell, Eric F.; Moustakas, J. +45 more

We present Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) observations of the inner halo of M31, which reveal the kinematics of a recent merger-a galactic immigration event-in exquisite detail. Of the 11,416 sources studied in 3.75 hr of on-sky exposure time, 7438 are M31 sources with well-measured radial velocities. The observations reveal intricate…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 52
The occurrence rate of giant planets orbiting low-mass stars with TESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad626 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.521.3663B

Bayliss, Daniel; Van Eylen, Vincent; Bryant, Edward M.

We present a systematic search for transiting giant planets ($0.6 \mbox{$R_{\rm J}$}\le \mbox{$R_{\rm P}$}\le 2.0 \mbox{$R_{\rm J}$}$) orbiting nearby low-mass stars ($\mbox{$M_{*}$}\le 0.71 \mbox{${\rm M}_{\odot }$}$). The formation of giant planets around low-mass stars is predicted to be rare by the core-accretion planet formation theory. We se…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 52
Breakdown of the Newton-Einstein Standard Gravity at Low Acceleration in Internal Dynamics of Wide Binary Stars
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ace101 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...952..128C

Chae, Kyu-Hyun

A gravitational anomaly is found at weak gravitational acceleration g N ≲ 10-9 m s-2 from analyses of the dynamics of wide binary stars selected from the Gaia DR3 database that have accurate distances, proper motions, and reliably inferred stellar masses. Implicit high-order multiplicities are required and the mult…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 52