Showing 2023 · astro-ph.GAShow all

38 papers · 2 filters

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

Properties of 3D HI Filaments in the Smith High Velocity Cloud

Colin Holm-Hansen, M. E. Putman, D. A. Kim

We present findings of 3D filamentary structures in the Smith Cloud, a high-velocity cloud (HVC) located at , . We use data from the Galactic Arecibo L…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 70 cited

A Milky Way-like barred spiral galaxy at a redshift of 3

Luca Costantin, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Yuchen Guo +30

The majority of massive disk galaxies in the local Universe show a stellar barred structure in their central regions, including our Milky Way. Bars are supposed to develop in dynam…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

High-Spectral Resolution Observations of the Optical Filamentary Nebula in NGC 1275

Benjamin Vigneron, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Carter Lee Rhea +18

We present new high-spectral resolution observations (R = = 7000) of the filamentary nebula surrounding NGC 1275, the central galaxy of the Perseus cluster. These observatio…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

The influence of globular cluster evolution on the specific frequency in dwarf galaxies

Elizabeth Moreno-Hilario, Luis A. Martinez-Medina, Hui Li +2

Dwarf galaxies are known to exhibit an unusual richness in numbers of globular clusters (GCs), property quantified by the specific frequency (), which is high for dwarf and gi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 75 cited

JWST Reveals Widespread AGN-Driven Neutral Gas Outflows in Massive z ~ 2 Galaxies

Rebecca L. Davies, Sirio Belli, Minjung Park +15

We use deep JWST/NIRSpec R~1000 slit spectra of 113 galaxies at 1.7 < z < 3.5, selected from the mass-complete Blue Jay survey, to investigate the prevalence and typical properties…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

Dissociative Recombination of Rotationally Cold OH and Its Implications for the Cosmic Ray Ionization Rate in Diffuse Clouds

Ábel Kálosi, Lisa Gamer, Manfred Grieser +12

Observations of OH are used to infer the interstellar cosmic ray ionization rate in diffuse atomic clouds, thereby constraining the propagation of cosmic rays through and the s…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

The Kinematic Structure of Magnetically Aligned HI Filaments

Doyeon Avery Kim, Susan E Clark, Mary E Putman +1

We characterize the kinematic and magnetic properties of HI filaments located in a high Galactic latitude region ( and ). We extra…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

Simulating ionization feedback from young massive stars: impact of numerical resolution

Yunwei Deng, Hui Li, Rahul Kannan +3

Modelling galaxy formation in hydrodynamic simulations has increasingly adopted various radiative transfer methods to account for photoionization feedback from young massive stars.…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 36 cited

Pre-supernova feedback sets the star cluster mass function to a power law and reduces the cluster formation efficiency

Eric P. Andersson, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Oscar Agertz +2

The star cluster initial mass function is observed to have an inverse power law exponent around 2, yet there is no consensus on what determines this distribution, and why some vari…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 87 cited

Star Formation Shut Down by Multiphase Gas Outflow in a Galaxy at a Redshift of 2.45

Sirio Belli, Minjung Park, Rebecca L. Davies +15

Large-scale outflows driven by supermassive black holes are thought to play a fundamental role in suppressing star formation in massive galaxies. However, direct observational evid…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Cosmological baryon spread and impact on matter clustering in CAMELS

Matthew Gebhardt, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Josh Borrow +9

We quantify the cosmological spread of baryons relative to their initial neighboring dark matter distribution using thousands of state-of-the-art simulations from the Cosmology and…

astro-ph.GA2023

Roman Early-Definition Astrophysics Survey Opportunity: Galactic Roman Infrared Plane Survey (GRIPS)

Roberta Paladini, Catherine Zucker, Robert Benjamin +67

A wide-field near-infrared survey of the Galactic disk and bulge/bar(s) is supported by a large representation of the community of Galactic astronomers. The combination of sensitiv…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 26 cited

Structure, Kinematics, and Observability of the Large Magellanic Cloud's Dynamical Friction Wake in Cold vs. Fuzzy Dark Matter

Hayden R. Foote, Gurtina Besla, Philip Mocz +7

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) will induce a dynamical friction (DF) wake on infall to the Milky Way (MW). The MW's stellar halo will respond to the gravity of the LMC and the da…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

Galactic coronae in Milky Way-like galaxies: the role of stellar feedback in gas accretion

Filippo Barbani, Raffaele Pascale, Federico Marinacci +4

Star-forming galaxies like the Milky Way are surrounded by a hot gaseous halo at the virial temperature - the so-called galactic corona - that plays a fundamental role in their evo…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

A Pulsar-Based Map of Galactic Acceleration

Abigail Moran, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Ken Van Tilburg +1

Binary pulsars can be used to probe Galactic potential gradients through calculating their line-of-sight accelerations. We present the first data release of direct line-of-sight ac…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

Energy Flux and Particle Flux in Steady-State Solutions of Nuclear Star Clusters

Barak Rom, Itai Linial, Re'em Sari

We examine the effects of two-body interactions in a nuclear star cluster surrounding a supermassive black hole. We evaluate the energy flux, analogously to the particle flux calcu…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 35 cited

The impact of early massive mergers on the chemical evolution of Milky Way-like galaxies: insights from NIHAO-UHD simulations

Tobias Buck, Aura Obreja, Bridget Ratcliffe +4

Recent observations of the Milky Way (MW) found an unexpected steepening of the star-forming gas metallicity gradient around the time of the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE) merger eve…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

HSC-CLAUDS survey: The star formation rate functions since z ~ 2 and comparison with hydrodynamical simulations

V. Picouet, S. Arnouts, E. Le Floch +16

Star formation rate functions (SFRFs) give an instantaneous view of the distribution of star formation rates (SFRs) in galaxies at different epochs. They are a complementary and mo…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

Prospects for Detecting Gaps in Globular Cluster Stellar Streams in External Galaxies with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Christian Aganze, Sarah Pearson, Tjitske Starkenburg +5

Stellar streams form through the tidal disruption of satellite galaxies or globular clusters orbiting a host galaxy. Globular cluster streams are exciting since they are thin (dyna…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 91 cited

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): JWST Reveals a Filamentary Structure around a z=6.61 Quasar

Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Joseph F. Hennawi +56

We present the first results from the JWST ASPIRE program (A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era). This program represents an imaging and spectroscopic sur…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 77 cited

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): A First Look at the Rest-frame Optical Spectra of Quasars Using JWST

Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan +53

Studies of rest-frame optical emission in quasars at have historically been limited by the wavelengths accessible by ground-based telescopes. The James Webb Space Telescope (…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 43 cited

Electron-Ion Temperature Ratio in Astrophysical Shocks

John C. Raymond, Parviz Ghavamian, Artem Bohdan +9

Collisionless shock waves in supernova remnants and the solar wind heat electrons less effectively than they heat ions, as is predicted by kinetic simulations. However, the values…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 25 cited

A declining major merger fraction with redshift in the local Universe from the largest-yet catalog of major and minor mergers in SDSS

R. Nevin, L. Blecha, J. Comerford +4

It is difficult to accurately identify galaxy mergers and it is an even larger challenge to classify them by their mass ratio or merger stage. In previous work we used a suite of s…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 28 cited

Constraining the Gravitational Potential from the Projected Morphology of Extragalactic Tidal Streams

Jacob Nibauer, Ana Bonaca, Kathryn V. Johnston

The positions and velocities of stellar streams have been used to constrain the mass and shape of the Milky Way's dark matter halo. Several extragalactic streams have already been…