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astro-ph.GA2021★ 52 cited

Molecular Gas Properties and CO-to-H2 Conversion Factors in the Central Kiloparsec of NGC 3351

Yu-Hsuan Teng, Karin M. Sandstrom, Jiayi Sun +16

The CO-to-H conversion factor ($α_\rm{CO}$) is critical to studying molecular gas and star formation in galaxies. The value of $α_\rm{CO}$ has been found to vary within and bet…

astro-ph.HE2021

A Linear Relation Between the Color Stretch and the Rising Color Slope of Type Ia Supernovae

Ping Chen, Subo Dong, Chris Ashall +34

Using data from the Complete Nearby () sample of Type Ia Supernovae (CNIa0.02), we discover a linear relation between two parameters derived from the color cur…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

CO(2-1)/CO(1-0) line ratio on 100 parsec scale in the nearby barred galaxy NGC1300

Fumiya Maeda, Fumi Egusa, Kouji Ohta +3

CO(2-1) emission is often used as a tracer of the giant molecular clouds (GMCs) as an alternative to CO(1-0) emission in recent years. Therefore, understanding the environmental de…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 73 cited

p-winds: an open-source Python code to model planetary outflows and upper atmospheres

Leonardo A. Dos Santos, Aline A. Vidotto, Shreyas Vissapragada +6

Atmospheric escape is considered to be one of the main channels for evolution in sub-Jovian planets, particularly in their early lives. While there are several hypotheses proposed…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 31 cited

A Carbon/Oxygen-dominated Atmosphere Days After Explosion for the "Super-Chandrasekhar" Type Ia SN 2020esm

Georgios Dimitriadis, Ryan J. Foley, Nikki Arendse +18

Seeing pristine material from the donor star in a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) explosion can reveal the nature of the binary system. In this paper, we present photometric and spectros…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 8 cited

Astrophysical Distance Scale IV. Preliminary Zero-Point Calibration of the JAGB Method in the HST/WFC3-IR Broad J-Band (F110W) Filter

Barry F. Madore, Wendy L. Freedman, Abigail Lee

We present an absolute calibration of the J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch (JAGB) method using published photometry of resolved stars in 20 nearby galaxies observed with HST using…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 11 cited

The Gliese 86 Binary System: A Warm Jupiter Formed in a Disk Truncated at 2 AU

Yunlin Zeng, Timothy D. Brandt, Gongjie Li +12

Gliese 86 is a nearby K dwarf hosting a giant planet on a 16-day orbit and an outer white dwarf companion on a century-long orbit. In this study we combine radial…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 8 cited

Polarization spectrum of near infrared zodiacal light observed with CIBER

Kohji Takimoto, Toshiaki Arai, Shuji Matsuura +14

We report the first measurement of the zodiacal light (ZL) polarization spectrum in the near-infrared between 0.8 and 1.8 m. Using the low-resolution spectrometer (LRS) on board…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 22 cited

Updated Photometry of the Yellow Supergiant Progenitor and Late-time Observations of the Type IIb Supernova 2016gkg

Charles D. Kilpatrick, David A. Coulter, Ryan J. Foley +4

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the type IIb supernova (SN) 2016gkg at 652, 1698, and 1795 days with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Ca…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

Searching for Anomalies in the ZTF Catalog of Periodic Variable Stars

H. S. Chan, V. Ashley Villar, S. H. Cheung +4

Periodic variables illuminate the physical processes of stars throughout their lifetime. Wide-field surveys continue to increase our discovery rates of periodic variable stars. Aut…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 7 cited

Carnegie Supernova Project: kinky -band light-curves of Type Ia supernovae

P. J. Pessi, E. Y. Hsiao, G. Folatelli +19

We present detailed investigation of a specific -band light-curve feature in Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) using the rapid cadence and high signal-to-noise ratio light-curves obta…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

APOGEE Detection of N-rich stars in the tidal tails of Palomar 5

Sian G. Phillips, Ricardo P. Schiavon, J. Ted Mackereth +15

Recent results from chemical tagging studies using APOGEE data suggest a strong link between the chemical abundance patterns of stars found within globular clusters, and chemically…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 16 cited

SDSS-IV MaStar: Data-driven Parameter Derivation for the MaStar Stellar Library

Julie Imig, Jon A. Holtzman, Renbin Yan +10

The MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar) is a large collection of high-quality empirical stellar spectra designed to cover all spectral types and ideal for use in the stellar population…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

Reconciling the Results of the z~2 MOSDEF and KBSS-MOSFIRE Surveys

Jordan N. Runco, Naveen A. Reddy, Alice E. Shapley +21

The combination of the MOSDEF and KBSS-MOSFIRE surveys represents the largest joint investment of Keck/MOSFIRE time to date, with ~3000 galaxies at 1.4<=z<=3.8, roughly half of whi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

Characterizing Protoclusters and Protogroups at z 2.5 Using Ly Tomography

Mahdi Qezlou, Andrew B. Newman, Gwen C. Rudie +1

Ly- tomography surveys have begun to produce three-dimensional (3D) maps of the intergalactic medium (IGM) opacity at with Mpc resolution. These surveys provide an…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 28 cited

Spatially Resolved Modeling of Optical Albedos for a Sample of Six Hot Jupiters

Danica Adams, Tiffany Kataria, Natasha Batalha +2

Optical secondary eclipse measurements made by \emph{Kepler} reveal a diverse set of geometric albedos for hot Jupiters with equilibrium temperatures between K. The pre…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 36 cited

Simultaneous Constraints on the Star Formation History and Nucleosynthesis of Sculptor dSph

Mithi A. C. de los Reyes, Evan N. Kirby, Alexander P. Ji +1

We demonstrate that using up to seven stellar abundance ratios can place observational constraints on the star formation histories (SFHs) of Local Group dSphs, using the Sculptor d…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 31 cited

Direct Constraints on the Extremely Metal-Poor Massive Stars Underlying Nebular C IV Emission from Ultra-Deep HST/COS Ultraviolet Spectroscopy

Peter Senchyna, Daniel P. Stark, Stephane Charlot +8

Metal-poor nearby galaxies hosting massive stars have a fundamental role to play in our understanding of both high-redshift galaxies and low metallicity stellar populations. But wh…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 26 cited

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Cosmological biases from supernova photometric classification

M. Vincenzi, M. Sullivan, A. Möller +81

Cosmological analyses of samples of photometrically-identified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) depend on understanding the effects of 'contamination' from core-collapse and peculiar SN…

astro-ph.GA2021

PHANGS-MUSE: the HII region luminosity function of local star-forming galaxies

Francesco Santoro, Kathryn Kreckel, Francesco Belfiore +30

We use an unprecedented sample of about 23,000 HII regions detected at an average physical resolution of 67pc in the PHANGS-MUSE sample to study the extragalactic HII region Ha lum…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 37 cited

Type II supernovae from the Carnegie Supernova Project-I. I. Bolometric light curves of 74 SNe II using uBgVriYJH photometry

L. Martinez, M. C. Bersten, J. P. Anderson +18

The present study is the first of a series of three papers where we characterise the type II supernovae (SNe~II) from the Carnegie Supernova Project-I to understand their diversity…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 15 cited

Citizen ASAS-SN Data Release I: Variable Star Classification Using Citizen Science

C. T. Christy, T. Jayasinghe, K. Z. Stanek +7

We present the first results from Citizen ASAS-SN, a citizen science project for the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) hosted on the Zooniverse platform. Citizen AS…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 19 cited

The Influence of 10 Unique Chemical Elements in Shaping the Distribution of Kepler Planets

Robert F. Wilson, Caleb I. Cañas, Steven R. Majewski +15

The chemical abundances of planet-hosting stars offer a glimpse into the composition of planet-forming environments. To further understand this connection, we make the first ever m…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 128 cited

A tale of two DIGs: The relative role of HII regions and low-mass hot evolved stars in powering the diffuse ionised gas (DIG) in PHANGS-MUSE galaxies

Francesco Belfiore, Francesco Santoro, Brent Groves +17

We use integral field spectroscopy from the PHANGS-MUSE survey, which resolves the ionised interstellar medium at pc resolution in 19 nearby spiral galaxies, to study th…