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astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

A large, long-lived, slowly-expanding superbubble across the Perseus Arm

Bingqiu Chen, Guangxing Li, Haibo Yuan +5

Stellar feedback is a crucial mechanism in galactic evolution, as demonstrated by the widespread bubbles observed with JWST. In this study, we combine data from Gaia and LAMOST to…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

NIKA2 Cosmological Legacy Survey. First measurement of the confusion noise at the IRAM 30 m telescope

N. Ponthieu, F. -X. Désert, A. Beelen +54

The NIKA2 Cosmological Legacy Survey (N2CLS) is a large programme using the NIKA2 dual-band camera on the IRAM 30\,m telescope. Its goal is to improve our understanding of the phys…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Kennicutt-Schmidt relation of galaxies over 13 billion years in the COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations

Claudia del P. Lagos, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +16

We investigate the correlation between star formation rate (SFR) surface density and gas surface density (known as the Kennicutt-Schmidt, KS, relation) at kiloparsec (kpc) scales a…

astro-ph.GA2025

Euclid: The first statistical census of dusty and massive objects in the ERO/Perseus field

G. Girardi, A. Grazian, G. Rodighiero +175

Our comprehension of the history of star formation at relies on rest-frame UV observations, yet this selection misses the most dusty and massive sources, yielding an incomple…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Multiphase Astrophysics to Unveil the Virgo Environment (MAUVE)

Barbara Catinella, Luca Cortese, Jiayi Sun +26

The Multiphase Astrophysics to Unveil the Virgo Environment (MAUVE) project is a multi-facility programme exploring how dense environments transform galaxies. Combining a VLT/MUSE…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Age and metallicity of low-mass galaxies: from their centres to their stellar halos

Elisa A. Tau, Antonela Monachesi, Facundo A. Gómez +5

We aim to analyse the metallicity and the ages of the stellar halos of low-mass galaxies to better understand their formation history. We use 17 simulated low-mass galaxies from th…

astro-ph.GA2025

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). The average far-infrared properties of Euclid-selected star-forming galaxies

Euclid Collaboration, R. Hill, A. Abghari +302

The first Euclid Quick Data Release contains millions of galaxies with excellent optical and near-infrared (IR) coverage. To complement this dataset, we investigate the average far…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The GECKOS Survey: Resolved, multiphase observations of mass-loading and gas density in the galactic wind of NGC 4666

Barbara Mazzilli Ciraulo, D. B. Fisher, R. Elliott +24

We present a multiphase, resolved study of the galactic wind extending from the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 4666. For this we use VLT/MUSE observations from the GECKOS program and…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey III: First data release of JCMT CO-line observations

S. H. J. Wallström, P. Scicluna, S. Srinivasan +37

Low- to intermediate-mass (0.88 M) evolved stars contribute significantly to the chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium in the local Universe, making accur…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWST/NIRCam imaging of the Bipolar Planetary Nebula NGC 6537: the (Infra)red Spider, Revealed

Joel Kastner, Paula Moraga Baez, Bruce Balick +5

We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) near-infrared (NIRCam) Br, H, [Fe II], and PAH imaging of the molecule-rich, high-excitation bipolar planetary nebula (PN) NGC 6…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The GECKOS survey: Jeans anisotropic models of edge-on discs uncover the impact of dust and kinematic structures

T. H. Rutherford, A. Fraser-McKelvie, E. Emsellem +17

The central regions of disc galaxies host a rich variety of stellar structures: nuclear discs, bars, bulges, and boxy-peanut (BP) bulges. These components are often difficult to di…

astro-ph.GA2025

The radial variation of the silicate-to-carbon ratio in M31 probed by PRIMA

Jérémy Chastenet, Ilse De Looze, Maarten Baes +12

The properties of interstellar dust grains are being scrutinized more than ever before, with the advent of large facilities. Infrared emission from dust grains is a powerful asset…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The GECKOS Survey: revealing the formation history of a barred galaxy via structural decomposition and resolved spectroscopy

A. Fraser-McKelvie, D. A. Gadotti, F. Fragkoudi +10

Disentangling the (co-)evolution of individual galaxy structural components remains a difficult task, owing to the inability to cleanly isolate light from spatially overlapping com…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Orbit-based structural decomposition and stellar population recovery for edge-on barred galaxies

Yunpeng Jin, Ling Zhu, Behzad Tahmasebzadeh +3

In our previous paper, we developed an orbit-superposition method for edge-on barred galaxies and constructed a set of dynamical models based on different mock observations of thre…

astro-ph.GA2025

Surveying the Whirlpool at Arcseconds with NOEMA (SWAN): III. CO/CO ratio variations across the M51 galaxy

Ina Galić, Mallory Thorp, Frank Bigiel +16

CO isotopologues are common tracers of the bulk molecular gas in extragalactic studies, providing insights into the physical and chemical conditions of the cold molecular gas, a re…

astro-ph.GA2025

Quantification of The Age Dependence of Mid-Infrared Star Formation Rate Indicators

Daniela Calzetti, Robert C. Kennicutt, Angela Adamo +33

We combine James Webb Space Telescope images of the nearby galaxy NGC 5194 in the hydrogen recombination line Pa-alpha (lambda=1.8756 micron) from the Cycle 1 program JWST-FEAST wi…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Tracers of the ionization fraction in dense and translucent molecular gas: II. Using mm observations to constrain ionization fraction across Orion B

Ivana Bešlić, Maryvonne Gerin, Viviana V. Guzmán +28

The ionization fraction () is a crucial parameter of interstellar gas, yet estimating it requires deep knowledge of molecular gas chemistry…

astro-ph.GA2025

VERTICO IX: Signatures of environmental processing of the gas in Virgo cluster spiral galaxies through mapping of CO isotopologues

Timothy A. Davis, Toby Brown, Maria J. Jimenez-Donaire +12

In this work we study CO isotopologue emission in the largest cluster galaxy sample to date: 48 VERTICO spiral galaxies in Virgo. We show for the first time in a significant sample…

astro-ph.GA2025

Gravitational Torques from a Lopsided Young Stellar Component Sustain High Black Hole Accretion Rates in NGC 4593

Nico Winkel, Knud Jahnke, Juan Antonio Fernández-Ontiveros +8

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) grow primarily through gas accretion, observed as active galactic nuclei (AGNs). While mergers can drive luminous AGN episodes, secular processes m…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dissecting NGC 3132: Tracing the mass-loss history of the southern ring planetary nebula

K. Bouvis, S. Akras, H. Monteiro +7

Central to our understanding of stellar evolution and its impact on processes in our Galaxy and across the Universe is the study of mass loss. While the general framework is well e…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Hierarchical Triples vs. Globular Clusters: Binary black hole merger eccentricity distributions compete and evolve with redshift

Andris Dorozsmai, Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, Aditya Vijaykumar +5

The formation mechanisms of merging binary black holes (BBHs) observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration remain uncertain. Detectable eccentricity provides a powerful diagnosti…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Auriga Superstars: Improving the resolution and fidelity of stellar dynamics in cosmological galaxy simulations

Ruediger Pakmor, Francesca Fragkoudi, Robert J. J. Grand +7

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have become an indispensable tool to understand galaxies. However, computational constraints still severely limit their numerical resolution…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

Quantifying the intrinsic variability due to randomness of the Auriga galaxy formation model

Ruediger Pakmor, Rebekka Bieri, Francesca Fragkoudi +6

Numerical simulations have become an indispensable tool in astrophysics. To interpret their results, it is critical to understand their intrinsic variability, that is, how much the…

astro-ph.GA2025

Stellar-gas kinematic misalignments in EAGLE: enhanced SMBH growth in misaligned galaxies

Maximilian K. Baker, Timothy A. Davis, Freeke van de Voort +1

Stellar-gas kinematic misalignments are a transient phenomenon observed in of the local galaxy population. According to current models, misaligned gas is expected to los…