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Multiphase Black Hole Feedback and a Bright [C II] Halo in a LoBAL Quasar at z ∼ 6.6
Carniani, Stefano; Tripodi, Roberta; Lai, Samuel +18 more
Although the mass growth of supermassive black holes during the epoch of reionization is expected to play a role in shaping the concurrent growth of their host galaxies, observational evidence of feedback at z ≳ 6 is still sparse. We perform the first multiscale and multiphase characterization of black-hole-driven outflows in the z ∼ 6.6 quasar J0…
Constraints on the Lyman Continuum Escape from Low-mass Lensed Galaxies at 1.3 ≤ z ≤ 3.0
Finkelstein, Steven L.; Ferguson, Henry C.; Grazian, Andrea +17 more
Low-mass galaxies can significantly contribute to reionization due to their potentially high Lyman continuum (LyC) escape fraction and relatively high space density. We present a constraint on the LyC escape fraction from low-mass galaxies at z = 1.3–3.0. We obtained rest-frame UV continuum imaging with the ACS/SBC and the WFC3/UVIS from the Hubbl…
Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances with JWST. II. I-band Measurements in a Sample of Hosts of 10 Type Ia Supernova Match HST Cepheids
Casertano, Stefano; Li, Siyang; Riess, Adam G. +7 more
The Hubble Tension, a >5σ discrepancy between direct and indirect measurements of the Hubble constant (H 0), has persisted for a decade and motivated intense scrutiny of the paths used to infer H 0. Comparing independently derived distances for a set of galaxies with different standard candles, such as the tip of the red g…
The outer low-α disc of the Milky Way - I: evidence for the first pericentric passage of Sagittarius?
Huang, Yang; Fragkoudi, Francesca; Ciucă, Ioana +1 more
Phase-space data, chemistry, and ages together reveal a complex structure in the outer low-α disc of the Milky Way. The age-vertical velocity dispersion profiles beyond the Solar Neighbourhood show a jump at 6 Gyr for stars beyond the Galactic plane. Stars older than 6 Gyr are significantly hotter than younger stars. The chemistry and age histogra…
Survey of gravitationally lensed objects in HSC imaging (SuGOHI) - IX. Discovery of strongly lensed quasar candidates
Oguri, Masamune; Wong, Kenneth C.; Suyu, Sherry H. +7 more
We report the discovery of new lensed quasar candidates in the imaging data of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) Data Release 4, covering $1\, 310\deg ^2$ of the sky with median seeing in the i band of ≈0.6 arcsec. In addition to two catalogues of Million Quasars Catalog v7.2 and AllWISE Catalog of Mid-Infra Red Active Galac…
KRATOS: A large suite of N-body simulations to interpret the stellar kinematics of LMC-like discs
Luri, X.; Bernet, M.; Chemin, L. +4 more
Context. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) are the brightest satellites of the Milky Way (MW), and for the last thousand million years they have been interacting with one another. As observations only provide a static picture of the entire process, numerical simulations are used to interpret the present-day observat…
MINDS: A multi-instrument investigation into the molecule-rich JWST-MIRI spectrum of the DF Tau binary system
Banzatti, Andrea; Henning, Thomas; Güdel, Manuel +26 more
Context. The majority of young stars form in multiple systems, the properties of which can significantly impact the evolution of any circumstellar disks. Aims. We investigate the physical and chemical properties of the equal-mass, small-separation (~66 milliarcsecond, ~9 au) binary system DF Tau. Previous spatially resolved observations indicate t…
Searching for precursor activity of Type IIn supernovae
Reichart, D. E.; Pignata, G.; Haislip, J. B. +4 more
We conducted a search for luminous outbursts prior to the explosion of Type IIn supernovae (SNe IIn). We built a sample of 27 objects spectroscopically classified as SNe IIn and all located at z < 0.015. Using deep archival SN fields images - taken up to nearly 20 yr prior to the SN explosions themselves - from transient surveys (PTF, ZTF, DES …
Platform and environment requirements of a satellite quantum test of the weak equivalence principle at the 10-17 level
Métris, Gilles; Struckmann, Christian; Corgier, Robin +6 more
The space-time explorer and quantum equivalence principle space test (STE-QUEST) recently proposed, aims at performing a precision test of the weak equivalence principle (WEP), a fundamental cornerstone of general relativity. Taking advantage of the ideal operation conditions for high-precision quantum sensing on board of a satellite, it aims to d…
An Empirical Calibration of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distance Method in the Near Infrared. II. JWST NIRCam Wide Filters
McQuinn, Kristen B. W.; Dolphin, Andrew E.; Skillman, Evan D. +4 more
The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) is a standardizable candle, identifiable as the discontinuity at the bright extreme of the red giant branch (RGB) stars in color–magnitude diagram space. The TRGB-based distance method has been used to measure distances to galaxies out to D ≤ 20 Mpc with the Hubble Space Telescope F814W filter, and is an impo…