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The complex circumstellar environment of supernova 2023ixf
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07116-6 Bibcode: 2024Natur.627..759Z

Sollerman, J.; Bloom, J. S.; Gal-Yam, A. +54 more

The early evolution of a supernova (SN) can reveal information about the environment and the progenitor star. When a star explodes in vacuum, the first photons to escape from its surface appear as a brief, hours-long shock-breakout flare1,2, followed by a cooling phase of emission. However, for stars exploding within a distribution of d…

2024 Nature
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SPT clusters with DES and HST weak lensing. II. Cosmological constraints from the abundance of massive halos
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.083510 Bibcode: 2024PhRvD.110h3510B

Sharon, K.; Gladders, M. D.; Ade, P. A. R. +195 more

We present cosmological constraints from the abundance of galaxy clusters selected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in South Pole Telescope (SPT) data with a simultaneous mass calibration using weak gravitational lensing data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The cluster sample is constructed fro…

2024 Physical Review D
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Formation of a low-mass galaxy from star clusters in a 600-million-year-old Universe
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08293-0 Bibcode: 2024Natur.636..332M

Ravindranath, Swara; Rihtaršič, Gregor; Bradač, Maruša +19 more

The most distant galaxies detected were seen when the Universe was a scant 5% of its current age. At these times, progenitors of galaxies such as the Milky Way were about 10,000 times less massive. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) combined with magnification from gravitational lensing, these low-mass galaxies can not only be detected bu…

2024 Nature
JWST 60
JADES: The incidence rate and properties of galactic outflows in low-mass galaxies across 3 < z < 9
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347230 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A..99C

Chevallard, Jacopo; Maseda, Michael V.; Parlanti, Eleonora +30 more

We investigate the incidence and properties of ionised gas outflows in a sample of 52 galaxies with stellar masses between 107 M and 109 M observed with ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec MSA spectroscopy as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). The high-spectral resolution (R2700) NIRSpec …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 59
Inside the bubble: exploring the environments of reionisation-era Lyman-α emitting galaxies with JADES and FRESCO
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347176 Bibcode: 2024A&A...682A..40W

Chevallard, Jacopo; Carniani, Stefano; Übler, Hannah +35 more

We present a study of the environments of 17 Lyman-α emitting galaxies (LAEs) in the reionisation-era (5.8 < z < 8) identified by JWST/NIRSpec as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). Unless situated in sufficiently (re)ionised regions, Lyman-α emission from these galaxies would be strongly absorbed by neutral gas in t…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 59
Super-early JWST galaxies, outflows, and Lyα visibility in the Epoch of Reionization
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348321 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A.207F

Ferrara, A.

The overabundance of super-early (redshift z > 10) luminous (MUV < −20) blue galaxies detected by JWST has been explained as being due to negligible dust attenuation in these systems. We show that this model correctly reproduces the UV luminosity function at z > 10 and the star formation rate (SFR) density evolution. The model …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 59
PDRs4All. IV. An embarrassment of riches: Aromatic infrared bands in the Orion Bar
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346662 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A..75C

Hartigan, Patrick; Zhang, Yong; Gordon, Karl D. +136 more

Context. Mid-infrared observations of photodissociation regions (PDRs) are dominated by strong emission features called aromatic infrared bands (AIBs). The most prominent AIBs are found at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, and 11.2 µm. The most sensitive, highest-resolution infrared spectral imaging data ever taken of the prototypical PDR, the Orion Bar, have b…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISO JWST 58
Improving the open cluster census. III. Using cluster masses, radii, and dynamics to create a cleaned open cluster catalogue
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348662 Bibcode: 2024A&A...686A..42H

Reffert, Sabine; Hunt, Emily L.

Context. The census of open clusters has exploded in size thanks to data from the Gaia satellite. However, it is likely that many of these reported clusters are not gravitationally bound, making the open cluster census impractical for many scientific applications.
Aims: We aim to test different physically motivated methods for distinguishing …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
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GA-NIFS: JWST discovers an offset AGN 740 million years after the big bang
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae943 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.531..355U

Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Grogin, Norman A.; Charlot, Stéphane +24 more

A surprising finding of recent studies is the large number of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) associated with moderately massive black holes ($\rm \log (M_\bullet /M_\odot)\sim 6-8$), in the first billion years after the big bang (z > 5). In this context, a relevant…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JWST 58
Star formation shut down by multiphase gas outflow in a galaxy at a redshift of 2.45
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07412-1 Bibcode: 2024Natur.630...54B

Conroy, Charlie; Johnson, Benjamin D.; Belli, Sirio +15 more

Large-scale outflows driven by supermassive black holes are thought to have a fundamental role in suppressing star formation in massive galaxies. However, direct observational evidence for this hypothesis is still lacking, particularly in the young universe where star-formation quenching is remarkably rapid1-3, thus requiring effective …

2024 Nature
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