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The Empirical Limits of Gyrochronology
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acc589 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...947L...3B

Bouma, Luke G.; Hillenbrand, Lynne A.; Palumbo, Elsa K.

The promise of gyrochronology is that, given a star's rotation period and mass, its age can be inferred. The reality of gyrochronology is complicated by effects other than ordinary magnetized braking that alter stellar rotation periods. In this work, we present an interpolation-based gyrochronology framework that reproduces the time- and mass-depe…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 44
The LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey. VI. Optical identifications for the second data release
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347333 Bibcode: 2023A&A...678A.151H

Prandoni, I.; Shimwell, T. W.; Vaccari, M. +49 more

The second data release of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) covers 27% of the northern sky, with a total area of ~5700 deg1. The high angular resolution of LOFAR with Dutch baselines (6 arcsec) allows us to carry out optical identifications of a large fraction of the detected radio sources without further radio followup; however, …

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 44
Gas phase Elemental abundances in Molecular cloudS (GEMS). VII. Sulfur elemental abundance
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244843 Bibcode: 2023A&A...670A.114F

Bachiller, R.; Gerin, M.; Goicoechea, J. R. +18 more

Context. Gas phase Elemental abundances in molecular CloudS (GEMS) is an IRAM 30-m Large Program aimed at determining the elemental abundances of carbon (C), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N), and sulfur (S) in a selected set of prototypical star-forming filaments. In particular, the elemental abundance of S remains uncertain by several orders of magnitude…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 44
Spatial variations in aromatic hydrocarbon emission in a dust-rich galaxy
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05998-6 Bibcode: 2023Natur.618..708S

Hutchison, Taylor A.; Rigby, Jane R.; Whitaker, Katherine E. +36 more

Dust grains absorb half of the radiation emitted by stars throughout the history of the universe, re-emitting this energy at infrared wavelengths1-3. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are large organic molecules that trace millimetre-size dust grains and regulate the cooling of interstellar gas within galaxies4,5. Obser…

2023 Nature
JWST 44
The Gas and Stellar Content of a Metal-poor Galaxy at z = 8.496 as Revealed by JWST and ALMA
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acb2cf Bibcode: 2023ApJ...944L..30H

Schaerer, D.; Magdis, G. E.; Bauer, F. E. +27 more

We present a joint analysis of the galaxy S04590 at z = 8.496 based on NIRSpec, NIRCam, and NIRISS observations obtained as part of the Early Release Observations program of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the far-infrared [C II] 158 µm emission line detected by dedicated Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observat…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
JWST 44
Observations of the planetary nebula SMP LMC 058 with the JWST MIRI medium resolution spectrometer
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1609 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.523.2519J

Fox, O. D.; Kavanagh, P. J.; Larson, Kirsten L. +21 more

During the commissioning of JWST, the medium-resolution spectrometer (MRS) on the mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) observed the planetary nebula SMP LMC 058 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The MRS was designed to provide medium resolution (R = λ/Δλ) 3D spectroscopy in the whole MIRI range. SMP LMC 058 is the only source observed in JWST commissioning…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JWST 44
Astrometric Accelerations as Dynamical Beacons: A Giant Planet Imaged inside the Debris Disk of the Young Star AF Lep
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acd6f6 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...950L..19F

Jensen-Clem, Rebecca; Crepp, Justin R.; Zhou, Yifan +13 more

We present the direct-imaging discovery of a giant planet orbiting the young star AF Lep, a 1.2 M member of the 24 ± 3 Myr β Pic moving group. AF Lep was observed as part of our ongoing high-contrast imaging program targeting stars with astrometric accelerations between Hipparcos and Gaia that indicate the presence of substellar compa…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia Hipparcos 44
MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - IV. The gaseous environment of z 3-4 Ly α emitting galaxies
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3089 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.518..305L

Prochaska, J. Xavier; Murphy, Michael T.; Fumagalli, Michele +9 more

We study the link between galaxies and H I-selected absorption systems at z ~ 3-4 in the MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) survey, an ESO large programme consisting of integral field spectroscopic observations of 28 quasar fields hosting 61 strong absorbers with $\rm N_{\rm H\,{\small I}}\gtrsim 10^{16.5}~\rm cm^{-2}$. We identify 127 Ly…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 44
An extremely metal-poor star complex in the reionization era: Approaching Population III stars with JWST
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346981 Bibcode: 2023A&A...678A.173V

Dickinson, M.; Zanella, A.; Bradač, M. +32 more

We present JWST/Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) integral field spectroscopy (IFS) of a lensed Population III candidate stellar complex (dubbed Lensed And Pristine 1, LAP1), with a lensing-corrected stellar mass of ≲104 M and an absolute luminosity of MUV > −11.2 (mUV > 35.6), confirmed at red…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 43
Putting all the X in one basket: Updated X-ray constraints on sub-GeV Dark Matter
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/07/026 Bibcode: 2023JCAP...07..026C

Pinetti, Elena; Fornengo, Nicolao; Cirelli, Marco +2 more

Sub-GeV dark matter particles can annihilate or decay producing e ± pairs which upscatter the low-energy photon fields in the Galaxy and generate an X-ray emission (via the Inverse Compton effect). Using X-ray data from XMM-NEWTON, INTEGRAL, NUSTAR and SUZAKU, we derive new constraints on this class of dark matter (DM). In the annihilat…

2023 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
INTEGRAL Suzaku XMM-Newton 43