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most citedFirst M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

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astro-ph.GA2026

Full-polarization millimeter wavelength variability of Sagittarius A* during the 2018 EHT campaign

Ezequiel Albentosa-Ruiz, Jasmin E. Washington, Nicola Marchili +272

Sagittarius A* (Srg A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, provides a unique laboratory to study accretion dynamics and plasma processes near the event ho…

astro-ph.GA2025

Searching for EeV photons with Telescope Array Surface Detector and neural networks

Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad +126

Ultra-high-energy photons play an important role in probing astrophysical models and beyond-Standard-Model scenarios. We report updated limits on the diffuse photon flux using Tele…

astro-ph.GA2024

Morphology and Mach Number Distribution of Merger Shock Surfaces in Merging Galaxy Clusters

Eunyu Lee, Dongsu Ryu, Hyesung Kang

In a binary merger of two subclusters with comparable masses, a pair of merger shocks are typically generated, often manifesting as double radio relics. Using cosmological hydrodyn…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

Detecting and Characterizing Young Quasars. III. The Impact of Gravitational Lensing Magnification

Minghao Yue, Anna-Christina Eilers, Robert A. Simcoe +8

We test the impact of gravitational lensing on the lifetime estimates of seven high-redshift quasars at redshift . The targeted quasars are identified by their small obs…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 43 cited

Electron-Ion Temperature Ratio in Astrophysical Shocks

John C. Raymond, Parviz Ghavamian, Artem Bohdan +9

Collisionless shock waves in supernova remnants and the solar wind heat electrons less effectively than they heat ions, as is predicted by kinetic simulations. However, the values…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 24 cited

JCMT BISTRO Observations: Magnetic Field Morphology of Bubbles Associated with NGC 6334

Mehrnoosh Tahani, Pierre Bastien, Ray S. Furuya +142

We study the HII regions associated with the NGC 6334 molecular cloud observed in the sub-millimeter and taken as part of the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO)…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

The JCMT BISTRO-2 Survey: Magnetic Fields of the Massive DR21 Filament

Tao-Chung Ching, Keping Qiu, Di Li +154

We present 850 m dust polarization observations of the massive DR21 filament from the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey, using the POL-2 polarimeter a…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 6 cited

EAVN Astrometry toward the Extreme Outer Galaxy: Kinematic distance with the proper motion of G034.84-00.95

Nobuyuki Sakai, Bo Zhang, Shuangjing Xu +22

We aim to reveal the structure and kinematics of the Outer-Scutum-Centaurus (OSC) arm located on the far side of the Milky Way through very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) astr…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

The JCMT BISTRO Survey: A Spiral Magnetic Field in a Hub-filament Structure, Monoceros R2

Jihye Hwang, Jongsoo Kim, Kate Pattle +157

We present and analyze observations of polarized dust emission at 850 m towards the central 1 pc 1 pc hub-filament structure of Monoceros R2 (Mon R2). The data are obta…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 77 cited

Searching for Islands of Reionization: A Potential Ionized Bubble Powered by a Spectroscopic Overdensity at z = 8.7

Rebecca L. Larson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Taylor A. Hutchison +10

We present the results from a spectroscopic survey using the MOSFIRE near-infrared spectrograph on the 10m Keck telescope to search for Ly emission from candidate galaxies at z…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 45 cited

The Prevalence of Galaxy Overdensities Around UV-Luminous Lyman Emitters in the Epoch of Reionization

E. Leonova, P. A. Oesch, Y. Qin +19

Before the end of the epoch of reionization, the Hydrogen in the Universe was predominantly neutral. This leads to a strong attenuation of Ly lines of galaxies in th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

Effects of Forcing on Shocks and Energy Dissipation in Interstellar and Intracluster Turbulences

Hyunjin Cho, Dongsu Ryu, Hyesung Kang

Observations indicate that turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is supersonic () and strongly magnetized (), while in the intracluster medium…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 83 cited

H-alpha emission in local galaxies: star formation, time variability and the diffuse ionized gas

Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan +6

The nebular recombination line H is widely used as a star-formation rate (SFR) indicator in the local and high-redshift Universe. We present a detailed H radiative transfer s…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

VERA astrometry toward the Perseus arm gap

Nobuyuki Sakai, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Kohei Kurahara +4

The Perseus arm has a gap in Galactic longitudes (l) between 50 and 80 deg (hereafter the Perseus arm gap) where the arm has little star formation activity. To better understand th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 212 cited

On the Stellar Populations of Galaxies at z=9-11: The Growth of Metals and Stellar Mass at Early Times

Sandro Tacchella, Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela Bagley +18

We present a detailed stellar population analysis of 11 bright () galaxies at (three spectroscopically confirmed) to constrain the chemical enrichment and growth o…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 66 cited

Evidence from Disrupted Halo Dwarfs that -process Enrichment via Neutron Star Mergers is Delayed by Myrs

Rohan P. Naidu, Alexander P. Ji, Charlie Conroy +10

The astrophysical origins of -process elements remain elusive. Neutron star mergers (NSMs) and special classes of core-collapse supernovae (rCCSNe) are leading candidates. Due t…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 69 cited

(Re)Solving Reionization with Lyα: How Bright Lyα Emitters account for the Cosmic Ionizing Background

Jorryt Matthee, Rohan P. Naidu, Gabriele Pezzulli +12

The cosmic ionizing emissivity from star-forming galaxies has long been anchored to UV luminosity functions. Here we introduce an emissivity framework based on Ly emitters (LAEs…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 27 cited

Dissecting Nearby Galaxies with piXedfit: I. Spatially Resolved Properties of Stars, Dust, and Gas as Revealed by Panchromatic SED Fitting

Abdurro'uf, Yen-Ting Lin, Hiroyuki Hirashita +5

We study spatially resolved properties (on spatial scales of kpc out to at least effective radii) of the stars, dust, and gas in ten nearby spiral galaxies. The prop…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

Reproducing the UVJ Color Distribution of Star-forming Galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2.5 with a Geometric Model of Dust Attenuation

Leah Zuckerman, Sirio Belli, Joel Leja +1

We analyze the distribution of rest-frame U-V and V-J colors for star-forming galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2.5. Using stellar population synthesis, stochastic star formation histories, an…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 31 cited

Downstream depolarization in the Sausage relic: a 1-4 GHz Very Large Array study

G. Di Gennaro, R. J. van Weeren, L. Rudnick +10

Radio relics are elongated sources related to shocks driven by galaxy cluster merger events. Although these objects are highly polarized at GHz frequencies (), high-r…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 170 cited

Fast, Slow, Early, Late: Quenching Massive Galaxies at z~0.8

Sandro Tacchella, Charlie Conroy, S. M. Faber +14

We investigate the stellar populations for a sample of 161 massive, mainly quiescent galaxies at with deep Keck/DEIMOS rest-frame optical spectros…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 4.3k cited

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

When surrounded by a transparent emission region, black holes are expected to reveal a dark shadow caused by gravitational light bending and photon capture at the event horizon. To…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1 cited

Estimating the Fuel Supply Rate on the Galactic Disk from High Velocity Clouds (HVCs) Infall

Kwang Hyun Sung, Kyujin Kwak

Previous studies suggest that the estimated maximum accretion rate from approaching high velocity clouds (HVCs) on the Galactic disk can be up to ~ 0.4 solar mass per year. In this…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 85 cited

Deep Very Large Array observations of the merging cluster CIZA J2242.8+5301: continuum and spectral imaging

G. Di Gennaro, R. J. van Weeren, M. Hoeft +14

Despite progress in understanding radio relics, there are still open questions regarding the underlying particle acceleration mechanisms. In this paper we present deep 1--4 GHz VLA…