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Hidden in the Halo: New Diffuse Star Clusters in the M82 Starburst with JWST
Deepthi S. Prabhu, David J. Sand, Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil +12
Diffuse star clusters (DSCs) occupy a poorly explored region of the size-luminosity plane between classical globular clusters (GCs) and dwarf galaxies. Here we report the discovery…
Discovery, Characterization, and Potential Origins of a Stream in the Stellar Halo of Nearby LMC-Mass Galaxy NGC 55
Benjamin N. Velguth, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Erik Tollerud +33
We present a previously undetected stellar stream in the halo of the LMC-mass dwarf galaxy NGC 55 (2 Mpc), as part of an ongoing effort to characterize the stellar halos of LMC/SMC…
Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…
A Multiwavelength Inventory for the Local Group L-band Survey I: Atlas and Radial Profiles of Local Group Galaxies
Cosima Eibensteiner, Adam K. Leroy, Jiayi Sun +21
Resolving atomic gas at pc physical resolution is currently feasible only for the very nearest galaxies. We combine 120 pc resolution HI data using the Karl G. Jansky…
Revisiting ram pressure stripping in Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte: No evidence for stripped HI with LGLBS
Daniel R. Rybarczyk, Eric W. Koch, Fabian Caballero Vargas +12
We analyze HI 21-cm observations of the Local Group dwarf galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte (WLM) from the Local Group L-Band Survey to search for evidence of ram pressure stripping. Wh…
The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury (PHAST). II. The Spatially Resolved Recent Star Formation History in M31
Tobin M. Wainer, Benjamin F. Williams, Zhuo Chen +19
We use Hubble Space Telescope optical imaging from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury (PHAST) to measure the spatially resolved recent star formation history (SFH)…
Stars Born in the Wind II: Widespread Extra-planar Star Formation in M82's Halo
Vaishnav V. Rao, Eric F. Bell, Adam Smercina +6
Galaxies evolve in tandem with their environments -- mergers and gas inflows drive galaxy growth while galactic outflows launched by supernovae may seed the galactic environment wi…
A Quenched and Relatively Isolated Dwarf Galaxy in the Local Volume
Tehreem N. Hai, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Yao-Yuan Mao +7
An increasing number of discoveries of isolated and quenched dwarf galaxies are challenging the idea that the present-day local environment of low-mass systems is the main determin…
The low-mass and structured stellar halo of M83 argues against a merger origin for its starburst and extended neutral hydrogen disk
Eric F. Bell, Benjamin Harmsen, Matthew Cosby +12
A merger origin has been suggested for M83's massive, metal-rich extended HI disk and nuclear starburst. We observe M83's stellar halo to test this idea. We train nearest-neighbor…
Clumpy, dense gas in the outflow of NGC 1266
Justin Atsushi Otter, Katherine Alatalo, Kate Rowlands +23
Outflows are one of the most spectacular mechanisms through which active galactic nuclei (AGN) impact their host galaxy, though the role of AGN-driven outflows in global star forma…
The Timescales of Embedded Star Formation as Observed in STARFORGE
Tobin M. Wainer, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Michael Y. Grudić +7
Star formation occurs within dusty molecular clouds that are then disrupted by stellar feedback. However, the timing and physical mechanisms that govern the transition from deeply…
Stars Born in the Wind: M82's Outflow and Halo Star Formation
Vaishnav V. Rao, Adam Smercina, Eric F. Bell +8
Starburst galaxies, like M82, launch kiloparsec-scale galactic outflows that interact with the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in complex ways. Apart from enriching the CGM with metals…
Resolving Individual Stars in Nearby Large Galaxies with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Adam Smercina, Tara Fetherolf, Eric W. Koch +3
The varied and dynamic evolutionary histories of galaxies give rise to the stunning diversity in their properties that we observe in the present-day universe. HST, and now JWST, ha…
The Star Formation History and Evolution of the Ultra-Diffuse M81 Satellite F8D1
Adam Smercina, Eric F. Bell, Benjamin F. Williams +15
We present deep HST imaging of one of the nearest ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) outside of the Local Group: F8D1, a satellite of M81 known to be tidally disrupting. UDGs are an eni…
The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Local Group L-band Survey (LGLBS)
Eric W. Koch, Adam K. Leroy, Erik W. Rosolowsky +45
We present the Local Group L-Band Survey (LGLBS), a Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) survey producing the highest quality 21-cm and 1-2 GHz radio continuum images to date for…
The NGC3109 Satellite System: The First Systematic Resolved Search for Dwarf Galaxies Around a SMC-mass Host
Amandine Doliva-Dolinsky, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Denija Crnojević +38
We report the results of the deepest search to date for dwarf galaxies around NGC3109, a barred spiral galaxy with a mass similar to that of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using…
Streams, Shells, and Substructures in the Accretion-Built Stellar Halo of NGC 300
Catherine E. Fielder, David J. Sand, Michael G. Jones +27
We present deep optical observations of the stellar halo of NGC 300, an LMC-mass galaxy, acquired with the DEEP sub-component of the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE) u…
Exploring the Diversity of Faint Satellites in the M81 Group
Katya Gozman, Eric F. Bell, In Sung Jang +9
In the last decade, we have been able to probe further down the galaxy luminosity function than ever before and expand into the regime of ultra-faint dwarfs (UFDs), which are some…
A First-look at Spatially-resolved Infrared Supernova Remnants in M33 with JWST
Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, Erik Rosolowsky, Adam K. Leroy +12
We present the first spatially-resolved infrared images of supernova remnants (SNRs) in M33 with the unprecedented sensitivity and resolution of JWST. We analyze 40 SNRs in four JW…
Pulling back the curtain on shocks and star-formation in NGC 1266 with Gemini-NIFS
Justin Atsushi Otter, Katherine Alatalo, Kate Rowlands +21
We present Gemini near-infrared integral field spectrograph (NIFS) K-band observations of the central 400 pc of NGC 1266, a nearby (D30 Mpc) post-starburst galaxy with a p…
Three Quenched, Faint Dwarf Galaxies in the Direction of NGC 300: New Probes of Reionization and Internal Feedback
D. J. Sand, B. Mutlu-Pakdil, M. G. Jones +18
We report the discovery of three faint and ultra-faint dwarf galaxies -- Sculptor A, Sculptor B and Sculptor C -- in the direction of NGC 300 (D=2.0 Mpc), a Large Magellanic Cloud-…
A Timeline of the M81 Group: Properties of the Extended Structures of M82 and NGC 3077
Benjamin N. Velguth, Eric F. Bell, Adam Smercina +8
Mergers of and interactions between galaxies imprint a wide diversity of morphological, dynamical, and chemical characteristics in stellar halos and tidal streams. Measuring these…
First resolved stellar halo kinematics of a MW-mass galaxy outside the Local Group: A flat counter-rotating halo in NGC 4945
Camila Beltrand, Antonela Monachesi, Richard D'Souza +6
Stellar halos of galaxies, primarily formed through the accretion of smaller objects, are important to understand the hierarchical mass assembly of galaxies. However, the inner reg…
The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury: Triangulum Extended Region (PHATTER). VI. The High-Mass Stellar Initial Mass Function of M33
Tobin M. Wainer, Benjamin F. Williams, L. Clifton Johnson +15
We measure the high-mass stellar initial mass function (IMF) from resolved stars in M33 young stellar clusters. Leveraging \textit{Hubble Space Telescope's} high resolving power, w…