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VINTERGATAN-GM: The cosmological imprints of early mergers on Milky-Way-mass galaxies
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad513 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.521..995R

Feuillet, Diane K.; Martin, Nicolas F.; Pontzen, Andrew +6 more

We present a new suite of cosmological zoom-in hydrodynamical ($\approx 20\, \mathrm{pc}$ spatial resolution) simulations of Milky-Way mass galaxies to study how a varying mass ratio for a Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE) progenitor impacts the z = 0 chemodynamics of halo stars. Using the genetic modification approach, we create five cosmological hist…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 22
JWST: Deuterated PAHs, PAH Nitriles, and PAH Overtone and Combination Bands. I. Program Description and First Look
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad022b Bibcode: 2023ApJ...959...74B

Boersma, C.; Bregman, J. D.; Allamandola, L. J. +6 more

A first look is taken at the NIRSpec 1-5 µm observations from James Webb Space Telescope program 1591 that targets seven objects along the low-mass stellar life cycle with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission. Spectra extracted from a 1.″5 radius circular aperture are explored, showing a wealth of features, including the 3 µm…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
ISO eHST JWST 22
Peering into the young planetary system AB Pic. Atmosphere, orbit, obliquity, and second planetary candidate
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244294 Bibcode: 2023A&A...670A..90P

Ginski, C.; Homeier, D.; Zhang, Y. +24 more


Aims: We aim to revisit the formation pathway of AB Pic b, an imaged companion that straddles the exoplanet/brown-dwarf boundary. We based this study on a rich set of observations, which allows us to investigate its orbital and atmospheric properties.
Methods: We composed a spectrum of AB Pic b by merging archival medium-resolution (~400…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia Hipparcos eHST 22
CEERS: MIRI deciphers the spatial distribution of dust-obscured star formation in galaxies at 0.1 < z < 2.5
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347052 Bibcode: 2023A&A...678A..83M

Papovich, Casey; Yang, Guang; Finkelstein, Steven L. +23 more


Aims: We study the stellar (i.e., rest-optical) and dust-obscured star-forming (i.e., rest-mid-infrared) morphologies (i.e., sizes and Sérsic indices) of star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at 0.1 < z < 2.5.
Methods: We combined Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CA…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 22
The Planck clusters in the LOFAR sky. VI. LoTSS-DR2: Properties of radio relics
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245102 Bibcode: 2023A&A...680A..31J

Simionescu, A.; Zhang, X.; Di Gennaro, G. +19 more

Context. It is well established that shock waves in the intracluster medium launched by galaxy cluster mergers can produce synchrotron emission, which is visible to us at radio frequencies as radio relics. However, the particle acceleration mechanism producing these relics is still not fully understood. It is also unclear how relics relate to radi…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 22
TDCOSMO. X. Automated modeling of nine strongly lensed quasars and comparison between lens-modeling software
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244909 Bibcode: 2023A&A...672A...2E

Treu, T.; Sluse, D.; Suyu, S. H. +5 more

When strong gravitational lenses are to be used as an astrophysical or cosmological probe, models of their mass distributions are often needed. We present a new, time-efficient automation code for the uniform modeling of strongly lensed quasars with GLEE, a lens-modeling software for multiband data. By using the observed positions of the lensed qu…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 22
A partially stripped massive star in a Be binary at low metallicity. A missing link towards Be X-ray binaries and double neutron star mergers
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346818 Bibcode: 2023A&A...674L..12R

Hamann, W. -R.; Oskinova, L. M.; Sander, A. A. C. +4 more

Standard binary evolutionary models predict a significant population of core helium-burning stars that lost their hydrogen-rich envelope after mass transfer via Roche-lobe overflow. However, there is a scarcity of observations of such stripped stars in the intermediate-mass regime (∼1.5 − 8 M), which are thought to be prominent progeni…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 22
CLEAR: High-ionization [Ne V] λ3426 Emission-line Galaxies at 1.4 < z < 2.3
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acc1e6 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...948..112C

Papovich, Casey; Yang, Guang; Finkelstein, Steven L. +13 more

We analyze a sample of 25 [Ne V] (λ3426) emission-line galaxies at 1.4 < z < 2.3 using Hubble Space Telescope/Wide Field Camera 3 G102 and G141 grism observations from the CANDELS Lyα Emission at Reionization (CLEAR) survey. [Ne V] emission probes extremely energetic photoionization (creation potential of 97.11 eV) and is often attributed to…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 22
An ever-present Gaia snail shell triggered by a dark matter wake
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1969 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.524..801G

Grand, Robert J. J.; Gómez, Facundo A.; van de Voort, Freeke +5 more

We utilize a novel numerical technique to model star formation in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation - called SUPERSTARS - to simulate a Milky Way-like galaxy with ≳108 star particles to study the formation and evolution of out-of-equilibrium stellar disc structures in a full cosmological setting. In the plane defined by the c…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gaia 22
Comparative analysis of atmospheric parameters from high-resolution spectroscopic sky surveys: APOGEE, GALAH, Gaia-ESO
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244813 Bibcode: 2023A&A...670A.107H

Jofré, Paula; Stringfellow, Guy S.; Mészáros, Szabolcs +5 more

Context. SDSS-IV APOGEE-2, GALAH, and Gaia-ESO are high-resolution, ground-based, multi-object spectroscopic surveys providing fundamental stellar atmospheric parameters and multiple elemental abundance ratios for hundreds of thousands of stars of the Milky Way. Data from these and other surveys contribute to investigations of the history and evol…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 22