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astro-ph.GA2026

The GECKOS survey: Assembly history of the lenticular galaxy NGC 3957

Yuchen Ding, Marie Martig, Ling Zhu +24

We analyse the assembly history of the edge-on lenticular galaxy NGC 3957 using deep integral-field spectroscopic MUSE data from the GECKOS survey. By applying a dust-corrected Mul…

astro-ph.GA2026

The slope of the power spectrum of the density field in isothermal supersonic compressible turbulence

Pierre Dumond, Jérémy Fensch, Gilles Chabrier +1

The power spectrum (PS) of the density field in supersonic turbulence is a fundamental quantity that characterizes the statistical properties of the structures formed in compressib…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 3 cited

MUSE-DARK III: The evolution of the radial acceleration relation at intermediate redshifts

B. I. Ciocan, N. F. Bouché, J. Fensch +5

The radial acceleration relation (RAR) is a tight empirical correlation between the observed radial acceleration (a_tot) and the baryonic radial acceleration (a_bar) measured acros…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Are supernovae driving turbulence in the solar neighborhood?

Georges Abboudeh, Patrick Hennebelle, Juan D. Soler +9

Turbulence plays an important role in shaping the interstellar medium, and strongly influences star formation. We aim to identify the physical processes capable of sustaining HI tu…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

MUSE-DARK-II: 3D morpho-kinematic modelling of lensed galaxies. Tully-Fisher relation of star-forming galaxies

Alexandre Jeanneau, Johan Richard, Nicolas F. Bouché +5

In a series of papers on lensed kinematics, we seek to combine the sensitivity of 3D forward modelling to low signal-to-noise ratio outskirts with the enhanced spatial resolution o…

astro-ph.GA2026

The SPHINX public data release. II. Using low-ionisation absorption lines and dust attenuation to predict Lyman continuum escape

Valentin Mauerhofer, Jérémy Blaizot, Thibault Garel +11

Low-ionisation state (LIS) absorption lines, such as SiII 1526, are widely used to trace the properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies. These lines provide crucial in…

astro-ph.GA2026

The dominance of turbulence over magnetism in the formation of massive star cluster seeds

Junhao Liu, Patricio Sanhueza, Piyali Saha +32

High-mass stars form in protoclusters, where gravo-magnetic processes shape collapsing clouds and clumps to be elongated preferentially perpendicular to magnetic (B) fields. Yet it…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

ARCHITECTS I: Impact of subgrid physics on the simulated properties of the circumgalactic medium

Maxime Rey, Jérémy Blaizot, Taysun Kimm +2

Galaxy evolution is shaped by star formation and stellar feedback at scales unresolved by current high-resolution cosmological simulations. Precise subgrid models are thus necessar…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Multi-spin stellar velocity maps of the most massive galaxies

Davor Krajnovic, Eric Emsellem, Roland Bacon +3

(Abridged) We present stellar kinematics of the MUSE Most Massive Galaxies (M3G) Survey, comprising 25 galaxies brighter than -25.7 mag in the Ks-band and stellar mass above ~6x10^…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

Molecular gas and star formation in central rings across nearby galaxies

Damian R. Gleis, Sophia K. Stuber, Eva Schinnerer +20

Nearby galaxies exhibit a variety of structures, including central rings, similar to the MW Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). These rings are common in barred galaxies and can be gas-r…

astro-ph.GA2025

Archaeological investigation of galaxies' evolutionary history in the cosmic middle ages

Anna R. Gallazzi, Stefano Zibetti, Mark Sargent +14

The cosmic Middle Ages, spanning the last 8-10 Gyr of the Universe, is a critical period in which massive early-formed systems coexist with global star formation quenching in less…

astro-ph.GA2025

KURVS: chemical properties from multiple strong line calibrations for star-forming galaxies at

Zefeng Li, Ugnė Dudzevičiūtė, Annagrazia Puglisi +13

Gas-phase oxygen abundance (metallicity) properties can be constrained through emission line analyses, and are of great importance to investigate galaxy evolution histories. We pre…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

JWST reveals extended stellar disks for ALMA-bright dusty star-forming galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster

Y. H. Zhang, H. Dannerbauer, J. M. Pérez-Martínez +14

We present JWST/NIRCam imaging of dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) detected by Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Spiderweb protocluster at . We…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

VENUS: When Red meets Blue -- A multiply imaged Little Red Dot with an apparent blue companion behind the galaxy cluster Abell 383

Miriam Golubchik, Lukas J. Furtak, Joseph F. V. Allingham +50

We report the discovery of a doubly-imaged Little Red Dot (LRD) candidate behind the galaxy cluster Abell 383, which we dub A383-LRD1. Initially classified as a dropout galaxy in H…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

A faint M Lyman-continuum leaker candidate in the epoch of reionization: Unprecedented Ly properties at z=5.725

M. Messa, E. Vanzella, T. Morishita +10

We report the unprecedented Ly properties of AMORE6, an extremely metal-poor (), low-mass (), and ultracompact (effec…

astro-ph.GA2025

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Quenching precedes bulge formation in dense environments but follows it in the field

Euclid Collaboration, F. Gentile, E. Daddi +321

(Abridged) The bimodality between star-forming discs and quiescent spheroids requires the existence of two main processes: the galaxy quenching and the morphological transformation…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The slope and scatter of the star forming main sequence at z~5 : reconciling observations with simulations

Claudia Di Cesare, Jorryt Matthee, Rohan P. Naidu +17

Galaxies exhibit a tight correlation between their star-formation rate and stellar mass over a wide redshift range known as the star-forming main sequence (SFMS). With JWST, we can…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

HerS-3: An Exceptional Einstein Cross Reveals a Massive Dark Matter Halo

P. Cox, K. M. Butler, C. R. Keeton +24

We present a study of HerS-3, a dusty star-forming galaxy at zspec = 3.0607, which is gravitationally amplified into an Einstein cross with a fifth image of the background galaxy s…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Dwarf galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope observations of nuclear star clusters

Mélina Poulain, Francine R. Marleau, Pierre-Alain Duc +8

In dwarf galaxies, nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are believed to primarily form from the migration and merger of globular clusters (GCs), with a possible contribution from in-situ s…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

Spatially resolved broad line region in a quasar at z=4: Dynamical black hole mass and prominent outflow

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, K. Abd El Dayem, N. Aimar +92

We present the first near-infrared interferometric data of a QSO at z=4. The K-band observations were performed with GRAVITY+ on the VLTI using all four UTs, detecting a differenti…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Multiple star-forming episodes of intermediate-redshift galaxies

C. Muñoz López, Davor Krajnović, B. Epinat +8

We derive and analyse the star formation histories of 393 intermediate-redshift (0.1 z 0.9) galaxies with stellar masses between 10 - 10 M$_{\odot}…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The dynamical evolution of the stellar clumps in the Sparkler galaxy

Eric Giunchi, Federico Marinacci, Carlo Nipoti +4

Recent JWST observations detected stellar clumps around the z=1.4 gravitationally lensed Sparkler galaxy (of stellar mass ), with ages and metallici…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Gas-Poor Hosts and Gas-Rich Companions of 3.5 Radio Active Galactic Nuclei: ALMA Insights into Jet Triggering and Feedback

Wuji Wang, Carlos De Breuck, Dominika Wylezalek +7

Cold gaseous systems play important roles in galaxy evolution by possibly providing fuel to ignite active galactic nuclei (AGN) activity and star-formation. In this work, we analyz…

astro-ph.GA2025

Intergalactic Medium Tomography with the Sunburst Arc

Michelle A. Berg, John Chisholm, J. Xavier Prochaska +9

Gravitational lensing has transformed the field of gas tomography in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and circumgalactic medium (CGM). Here we use the brightest lensed galaxy identif…