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astro-ph.GA2020★ 26 cited

Baryonic effects on the detectability of annihilation radiation from dark matter subhaloes around the Milky Way

Robert J J Grand, Simon D M White

We use six, high-resolution CDM simulations of galaxy formation to study how emission from dark matter annihilation is affected by baryonic processes. These simulations produce…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 55 cited

The impact of Solar wind variability on pulsar timing

C. Tiburzi, G. M. Shaifullah, C. G. Bassa +22

High-precision pulsar timing requires accurate corrections for dispersive delays of radio waves, parametrized by the dispersion measure (DM), particularly if these delays are varia…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 49 cited

The KMOS Survey: Investigating the Origin of the Elevated Electron Densities in Star-Forming Galaxies at

Rebecca L. Davies, N. M. Förster Schreiber, R. Genzel +24

We investigate what drives the redshift evolution of the typical electron density () in star-forming galaxies, using a sample of 140 galaxies drawn primarily from KMOS$^{\rm 3…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 39 cited

Luminous Red Nova AT 2019zhd, a new merger in M 31

A. Pastorello, M. Fraser, G. Valerin +20

We present the follow-up campaign of the luminous red nova (LRN) AT~2019zhd, the third event of this class observed in M 31. The object was followed by several sky surveys for abou…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 34 cited

Molecular hydrogen in IllustrisTNG galaxies: carefully comparing signatures of environment with local CO & SFR data

Adam R. H. Stevens, Claudia del P. Lagos, Luca Cortese +7

We examine how the post-processed content of molecular hydrogen (H) in galaxies from the TNG100 cosmological, hydrodynamic simulation changes with environment at , ass…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 231 cited

Detection of large-scale X-ray bubbles in the Milky Way halo

P. Predehl, R. A. Sunyaev, W. Becker +25

The halo of the Milky Way provides a laboratory to study the properties of the shocked hot gas that is predicted by models of galaxy formation. There is observational evidence of e…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 34 cited

Calibrating Core Overshooting Parameters With Two-dimensional Hydrodynamical Simulations

Johann Higl, Ewald Mueller, Achim Weiss

The extent of mixed regions around convective zones is one of the biggest uncertainties in stellar evolution. 1D overshooting descriptions introduce a free parameter () tha…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

A search for dust and molecular gas in enormous Ly nebulae at

Roberto Decarli, Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia, Joseph F. Hennawi +3

Enormous Ly nebulae, extending over 300-500\,kpc around quasars, represent the pinnacle of galaxy and cluster formation. Here we present IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer obse…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 19 cited

Galaxies within galaxies in the TIMER survey: stellar populations of inner bars are scaled replicas of main bars

Adrian Bittner, Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres, Dimitri A. Gadotti +11

Inner bars are frequent structures in the local Universe and thought to substantially influence the nuclear regions of disc galaxies. In this study we explore the structure and dyn…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 30 cited

Galaxy shape statistics in the effective field theory

Zvonimir Vlah, Nora Elisa Chisari, Fabian Schmidt

Intrinsic galaxy alignments yield an important contribution to the observed statistics of galaxy shapes. The general bias expansion for galaxy sizes and shapes in three dimensions…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 17 cited

Insight-HXMT observations of a possible fast transition from jet to wind dominated state during a huge flare of GRS~1915+105

L. D. Kong, S. Zhang, Y. P. Chen +92

We present the analysis of the brightest flare that was recorded in the \emph{Insight}-HMXT data set, in a broad energy range (2200 keV) from the microquasar GRS~1915+105 during…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 340 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars

Gaia Collaboration, R. L. Smart, L. M. Sarro +420

We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100\,pc of the Sun from the \G\ Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 112 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: Acceleration of the solar system from Gaia astrometry

Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, F. Mignard +414

Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which have the best-quali…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 13 cited

A first-principle simulation of blast wave emergence at the photosphere of a neutron star merger

Christoffer Lundman, Andrei Beloborodov

We present the first ab initio simulation of a radiation-mediated shock emerging at the photosphere of a relativistic outflow. The simulation is performed using our code radshock t…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 15 cited

Populations of super-soft X-ray sources in galaxies of different morphological types

I. Galiullin, M. Gilfanov

We study populations of soft and super-soft X-ray sources in nearby galaxies of various morphological types with the special emphasis on characterizing populations of stable nuclea…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 17 cited

The GALAH+ Survey: A New Library of Observed Stellar Spectra Improves Radial Velocities and Hints at Motions within M67

Tomaž Zwitter, Janez Kos, Sven Buder +25

GALAH+ is a magnitude-limited survey of high resolution stellar spectra obtained by the HERMES spectrograph at the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Its third data release provi…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 52 cited

Tempestuous life beyond R_500: X-ray view on the Coma cluster with SRG/eROSITA. I. X-ray morphology, recent merger, and radio halo connection

E. Churazov, I. Khabibullin, N. Lyskova +2

This is the first paper in a series of studies of the Coma cluster using the SRG/eROSITA X-ray data obtained in course of the Calibration and Performance Verification observations.…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 35 cited

N-body simulations of dark matter with frequent self-interactions

Moritz S. Fischer, Marcus Brüggen, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg +4

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models have the potential to solve the small-scale problems that arise in the cold dark matter paradigm. Simulations are a powerful tool for stu…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 53 cited

An -th order Lagrangian Forward Model for Large-Scale Structure

Fabian Schmidt

A forward model of matter and biased tracers at arbitrary order in Lagrangian perturbation theory (LPT) is presented. The forward model contains the complete LPT displacement field…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 21 cited

Impact of baryons in cosmic shear analyses with tomographic aperture mass statistics

Nicolas Martinet, Tiago Castro, Joachim Harnois-Déraps +3

NonGaussian cosmic shear statistics based on weak-lensing aperture mass () maps can outperform the classical shear two-point correlation function (-2PCF) in terms of…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 29 cited

Globular cluster numbers in dark matter haloes in a dual formation scenario: an empirical model within EMERGE

Lucas M. Valenzuela, Benjamin P. Moster, Rhea-Silvia Remus +2

We present an empirical model for the number of globular clusters (GCs) in galaxies based on recent data showing a tight relationship between dark matter halo virial masses and GC…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 64 cited

Fast neutrino flavor conversions in one-dimensional core-collapse supernova models with and without muon creation

Francesco Capozzi, Sajad Abbar, Robert Bollig +1

In very dense environments, neutrinos can undergo fast flavor conversions on scales as short as a few centimeters provided that the angular distribution of the neutrino lepton numb…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 87 cited

On the characteristics of fast neutrino flavor instabilities in three-dimensional core-collapse supernova models

Sajad Abbar, Francesco Capozzi, Robert Glas +2

We assess the occurrence of fast neutrino flavor instabilities in two three-dimensional state-of-the-art core-collapse supernova simulations performed using a two-moment three-spec…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 27 cited

Responses of Halo Occupation Distributions: a new ingredient in the halo model & the impact on galaxy bias

Rodrigo Voivodic, Alexandre Barreira

Halo occupation distribution (HOD) models describe the number of galaxies that reside in different haloes, and are widely used in galaxy-halo connection studies using the halo mode…