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astro-ph.GA2022★ 49 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Tracing the Diffuse ISM with JWST Imaging of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission in Nearby Galaxies

Karin M. Sandstrom, Eric W. Koch, Adam K. Leroy +43

JWST observations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission provide some of the deepest and highest resolution views of the cold interstellar medium (ISM) in nearby galaxie…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

Comparing the Locations of Supernovae to CO (2-1) Emission in their Host Galaxies

Ness Mayker Chen, Adam K. Leroy, Laura A. Lopez +19

We measure the molecular gas environment near recent ( yr old) supernovae (SNe) using or pc resolution CO (2-1) maps from the PHANGS-ALMA survey of nearb…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 64 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Destruction of the PAH molecules in HII regions probed by JWST and MUSE

Oleg V. Egorov, Kathryn Kreckel, Karin M. Sandstrom +30

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) play a critical role in the reprocessing of stellar radiation and in balancing the heating and cooling processes in the interstellar medium…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 32 cited

PHANGS--JWST First Results: ISM structure on the turbulent Jeans scale in four disk galaxies observed by JWST and ALMA

Sharon E. Meidt, Erik Rosolowsky, Jiayi Sun +31

JWST/MIRI imaging of the nearby galaxies IC 5332, NGC 628, NGC 1365 and NGC 7496 from PHANGS reveals a richness of gas structures that in each case form a quasi-regular network of…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 52 cited

The Pan-STARRS1 z>5.6 quasar survey II: Discovery of 55 Quasars at 5.6<z<6.5

Eduardo Banados, Jan-Torge Schindler, Bram P. Venemans +20

The identification of bright quasars at z>6 enables detailed studies of supermassive black holes, massive galaxies, structure formation, and the state of the intergalactic medium w…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 131 cited

The PHANGS-JWST Treasury Survey: Star Formation, Feedback, and Dust Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS

Janice C. Lee, Karin M. Sandstrom, Adam K. Leroy +74

The PHANGS collaboration has been building a reference dataset for the multi-scale, multi-phase study of star formation and the interstellar medium in nearby galaxies. With the suc…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 41 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Duration of the early phase of massive star formation in NGC628

Jaeyeon Kim, Mélanie Chevance, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen +33

The earliest stages of star formation, when young stars are still deeply embedded in their natal clouds, represent a critical phase in the matter cycle between gas clouds and young…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 55 cited

The gas and stellar content of a metal-poor galaxy at as revealed by JWST and ALMA

K. E. Heintz, C. Giménez-Arteaga, S. Fujimoto +27

We present a joint analysis of the galaxy S04590 at based on NIRSpec, NIRCam, and NIRISS observations obtained through as part of Early Release Observations programme of…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 274 cited

Identification and properties of intense star-forming galaxies at redshifts z>10

B. E. Robertson, S. Tacchella, B. D. Johnson +53

Surveys with James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered candidate galaxies in the first 400 Myr of cosmic time. Preliminary indications have suggested these candidate galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 193 cited

COSMOS2020: The Galaxy Stellar Mass Function: the assembly and star formation cessation of galaxies at

J. R. Weaver, I. Davidzon, S. Toft +30

How galaxies form, assemble, and cease their star-formation is a central question within the modern landscape of galaxy evolution studies. These processes are indelibly imprinted o…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 63 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Multi-wavelength view of feedback-driven bubbles (The Phantom Voids) across NGC 628

Ashley T. Barnes, Elizabeth J. Watkins, Sharon E. Meidt +51

We present a high-resolution view of bubbles within The Phantom Galaxy (NGC 628); a nearby (~10Mpc), star-forming (~2Msun/yr), face-on (i~9deg) grand-design spiral galaxy. With new…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 73 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: A statistical view on bubble evolution in NGC628

Elizabeth J. Watkins, Ashley Barnes, Kiana F. Henny +49

The first JWST observations of nearby galaxies have unveiled a rich population of bubbles that trace the stellar feedback mechanisms responsible for their creation. Studying these…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

Timing the r-Process Enrichment of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II

Joshua D. Simon, Thomas M. Brown, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil +65

The ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Reticulum II (Ret II) exhibits a unique chemical evolution history, with 72 +10/-12% of its stars strongly enhanced in r-process elements. We present d…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

Distant Echoes of the Milky Way's Last Major Merger

Vedant Chandra, Rohan P. Naidu, Charlie Conroy +9

The majority of the Milky Way's stellar halo consists of debris from our Galaxy's last major merger, the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE). In the past few years, stars from GSE have be…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Spurring on Star Formation: JWST Reveals Localised Star Formation in a Spiral Arm Spur of NGC 628

Thomas G. Williams, Jiayi Sun, Ashley T. Barnes +34

We combine JWST observations with ALMA CO and VLT-MUSE H data to examine off-spiral arm star formation in the face-on, grand-design spiral galaxy NGC 628. We focus on the northe…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

Elemental abundances in M31: Individual and Coadded Spectroscopic [Fe/H] and [α/Fe] throughout the M31 Halo with SPLASH

J. Leigh Wojno, Karoline M. Gilbert, Evan N. Kirby +6

We present spectroscopic chemical abundances of red giant branch (RGB) stars in Andromeda (M31), using medium resolution () spectra obtained via the Spectroscopic and Ph…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

Stellar Properties for a Comprehensive Collection of Star Forming Regions in the SDSS APOGEE-2 Survey

Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga, Marina Kounkel, Jesús Hernández +25

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) APOGEE-2 primary science goal was to observe red giant stars throughout the Galaxy to study its dynamics, morphology, and chemical evoluti…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 42 cited

A Transient "Changing-look'' Active Galactic Nucleus Resolved on Month Timescales from First-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey V Data

Grisha Zeltyn, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Michael Eracleous +32

We report the discovery of a new ``changing-look'' active galactic nucleus (CLAGN) event, in the quasar SDSS J162829.17+432948.5 at z=0.2603, identified through repeat spectroscopy…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 45 cited

Stellar Escape from Globular Clusters. I. Escape Mechanisms and Properties at Ejection

Newlin C. Weatherford, Fulya Kıroğlu, Giacomo Fragione +3

The theory of stellar escape from globular clusters (GCs) dates back nearly a century, especially the gradual evaporation of GCs via two-body relaxation coupled with external tides…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 16 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: A combined HST and JWST analysis of the nuclear star cluster in NGC 628

Nils Hoyer, Francesca Pinna, Albrecht W. H. Kamlah +28

We combine archival HST and new JWST imaging data, covering the ultraviolet to mid-infrared regime, to morphologically analyze the nuclear star cluster (NSC) of NGC 628, a grand-de…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

Growing Black Holes through Successive Mergers in Galactic Nuclei: I. Methods and First Results

Dany Atallah, Alessandro A. Trani, Kyle Kremer +4

We present a novel, few-body computational framework designed to shed light on the likelihood of forming intermediate-mass (IM) and supermassive (SM) black holes (BHs) in nuclear s…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

The connection between the escape of ionizing radiation and galaxy properties at z~3 in the Keck Lyman Continuum Spectroscopic Survey

Anthony J. Pahl, Alice Shapley, Charles C. Steidel +4

The connection between the escape fraction of ionizing radiation () and the properties of galaxies, such as stellar mass (M*), age, star-formation rate (SFR), and dust con…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 27 cited

An extended [CII] halo around a massive star-forming galaxy at z = 5.3

T. S. Lambert, A. Posses, M. Aravena +8

High-redshift observations are often biased towards massive and bright galaxies that are not necessarily representative of the full population. In order to accurately study galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 78 cited

The nature of an ultra-faint galaxy in the cosmic Dark Ages seen with JWST

Guido Roberts-Borsani, Tommaso Treu, Wenlei Chen +44

In the first billion years after the Big Bang, sources of ultraviolet (UV) photons are believed to have ionized intergalactic hydrogen, rendering the Universe transparent to UV rad…