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Rest-frame Near-infrared Radial Light Profiles up to z = 3 from JWST/NIRCam: Wavelength Dependence of the Sérsic Index
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acf716 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...957...46M

Bell, Eric F.; Franx, Marijn; van der Wel, Arjen +10 more

We examine the wavelength dependence of radial light profiles based on Sérsic index n measurements of 1067 galaxies with M * ≥ 109.5 M and in the redshift range 0.5 < z < 3. The sample and rest-frame optical light profiles are drawn from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CA…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST JWST 17
Oxygen, sulfur, and iron radial abundance gradients of classical Cepheids across the Galactic thin disk★★★
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346982 Bibcode: 2023A&A...678A.195D

Kovtyukh, V.; Lemasle, B.; Fabrizio, M. +25 more

Context. Classical Cepheids (CCs) are solid distance indicators and tracers of young stellar populations. Dating back to the beginning of the 20th century, they have been safely adopted to trace the rotation, kinematics, and chemical enrichment history of the Galactic thin disk.
Aims: The main aim of this investigation is to provide iron, oxy…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 17
Fraction of Clumpy Star-forming Galaxies at 0.5 ≤ z ≤ 3 in UVCANDELS: Dependence on Stellar Mass and Environment
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acd5d6 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...951..147S

Grogin, Norman A.; Hathi, Nimish P.; Koekemoer, Anton M. +25 more

High-resolution imaging of galaxies in rest-frame UV has revealed the existence of giant star-forming clumps prevalent in high-redshift galaxies. Studying these substructures provides important information about their formation and evolution and informs theoretical galaxy evolution models. We present a new method to identify clumps in galaxies' hi…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 17
Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XXIII. The Transmission of Lyα from UV-faint z 3-6 Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acf715 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...956..136P

Castellano, Marco; Pentericci, Laura; Treu, Tommaso +18 more

Lyα emission from galaxies can be used to trace neutral hydrogen in the epoch of reionization, however, there is a degeneracy between the attenuation of Lyα in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and the line profile emitted by the galaxy. Large shifts of Lyα redward of systemic due to scattering in the interstellar medium can boost Lyα transmission in…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST JWST 17
Discovery of the luminous X-ray ignition eRASSt J234402.9−352640. I. Tidal disruption event or a rapid increase in accretion in an active galactic nucleus?
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245078 Bibcode: 2023A&A...672A.167H

Gromadzki, M.; Liu, Z.; Rau, A. +17 more

In November 2020, a new, bright object, eRASSt J234402.9−352640, was discovered in the second all-sky survey of SRG/eROSITA. The object brightened by a factor of at least 150 in 0.2-2.0 keV flux compared to an upper limit found six months previous, reaching an observed peak of 1.76−0.24+0.03 × 10−11 erg cm−2

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 17
The GRAVITY young stellar object survey. IX. Spatially resolved kinematics of hot hydrogen gas in the star-disk interaction region of T Tauri stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244675 Bibcode: 2023A&A...669A..59G

Lutz, D.; Sturm, E.; Labadie, L. +58 more

Context. Hot atomic hydrogen emission lines in pre-main sequence stars serve as tracers for physical processes in the innermost regions of circumstellar accretion disks, where the interaction between a star and disk is the dominant influence on the formation of infalls and outflows. In the highly magnetically active T Tauri stars, this interaction…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 17
Precise Empirical Determination of Metallicity Dependence of Near-infrared Period-Luminosity Relations for RR Lyrae Variables
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acba7f Bibcode: 2023ApJ...944L..51B

de Grijs, Richard; Marconi, Marcella; Dall'Ora, Massimo +9 more

RR Lyrae variables are excellent Population II distance indicators thanks to their well-defined period-luminosity relations (PLRs) at infrared wavelengths. We present results of near-infrared (NIR) monitoring of Galactic globular clusters to empirically quantify the metallicity dependence of NIR PLRs for RR Lyrae variables. Our sample includes hom…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 17
The IACOB project. IX. Building a modern empirical database of Galactic O9 - B9 supergiants: Sample selection, description, and completeness
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346179 Bibcode: 2023A&A...674A.212D

Simón-Díaz, S.; Urbaneja, M. A.; de Burgos, A. +1 more

Context. Blue supergiants (BSGs) are key objects for studying the intermediate phases of massive star evolution because they are very useful to constrain evolutionary models. However, the lack of a holistic study of a statistically significant and unbiased sample of these objects has lead to several long-standing questions about their physical pro…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 17
Calibrating mid-infrared emission as a tracer of obscured star formation on H II-region scales in the era of JWST
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347175 Bibcode: 2023A&A...678A.129B

Leroy, Adam K.; Rosolowsky, Erik; Glover, Simon C. O. +25 more

Measurements of the star formation activity on cloud scales are fundamental to uncovering the physics of the molecular cloud, star formation, and stellar feedback cycle in galaxies. Infrared (IR) emission from small dust grains and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is widely used to trace the obscured component of star formation. However, th…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 17
The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. XXIV. Differences in Internal Kinematics of Multiple Stellar Populations
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acaec6 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...944...58L

Brown, Thomas M.; Milone, Antonino P.; Vesperini, Enrico +12 more

Our understanding of the kinematic properties of multiple stellar populations (mPOPs) in Galactic globular clusters (GCs) is still limited compared to what we know about their chemical and photometric characteristics. Such limitation arises from the lack of a comprehensive observational investigation of this topic. Here we present the first homoge…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 17