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astro-ph.HE2026

A Parsec-Scale Transient High-Frequency-Peaked Radio Source in the Very Large Array Sky Survey Brightening and Fading over a Decadal Timescale

Yuyang Chen, B. M. Gaensler, Maria R. Drout +10

A subset of active galactic nuclei (AGN) manifests as compact radio sources with peaked radio spectra, commonly referred to as peaked-spectrum (PS) sources. Generally, PS sources a…

astro-ph.SR2026

Revealing Optically Hidden Companions to Intermediate-Mass Stripped Stars with Radial Velocities

Alexander Laroche, Maria R. Drout, Ylva Götberg +7

The recent discovery of a population of intermediate-mass helium stars (2-8 ) in the Magellanic Clouds has opened a new observational window into massive binary evol…

astro-ph.HE2026

First Pre-peak Ultraviolet Spectrum of a Tidal Disruption Event: A Fast Outflow Revealed Prior to Maximum Light in TDE2025aarm

Erica Hammerstein, Ryan Chornock, Jean Somalwar +32

The tidal disruption and eventual accretion of a star by a massive black hole can lead to the launching of outflows and winds that encode important information about the tidal disr…

astro-ph.GA2026

SPURS: An Ultra-deep View Inside the Compact, Nitrogen-Enriched Nuclei of Little Red Dots

Mengtao Tang, Daniel P. Stark, Charlotte A. Mason +7

We present the first ultra-deep rest-UV spectroscopy of four UV-bright Little Red Dots (LRDs), obtained from the SPURS Cycle 4 Large Program. The spectra reveal broad CIV (FWHM $\a…

astro-ph.GA2026

SPURS: Massive Stars, Dense Gas, and Ly Escape in GN-z11 at

Zuyi Chen, Daniel P. Stark, Charlotte A. Mason +6

We present ultra-deep {\it JWST} spectroscopy of GN-z11 () obtained through the SPURS Cycle 4 Large Program, providing the deepest rest-UV view yet obtained of a galaxy at…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST absorption line spectroscopy with SPURS: ISM covering fractions and kinematics in individual galaxies at

Keerthi Vasan G. C., Peter Senchyna, Charlotte A. Mason +11

We present deep rest-ultraviolet (UV) spectra of six luminous -- 9 galaxies in the Abell-2744 field taken as part of the JWST Cycle 4 Large Program SPURS. The individual gala…

astro-ph.GA2026

SPURS: Bursty Star Formation in an Extremely Luminous Weak Emission Line Galaxy at

Zuyi Chen, Daniel P. Stark, Charlotte A. Mason +8

JWST has revealed a population of super-luminous early galaxies with a volume density in excess of most expectations. The spectra reveal diverse properties: while some reveal stron…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

SPURS: Evidence for Clumpy Neutral Envelopes and Ionized IGM Surrounding Little Red Dots in Abell 2744 from Ultra-Deep Rest-UV Spectroscopy

Mengtao Tang, Daniel P. Stark, Charlotte A. Mason +14

Rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) spectra of Little Red Dots (LRDs) often show Ly emission. Along with broad Balmer emission, LRDs are expected to produce broad Ly emission. Howeve…

astro-ph.GA2026

Consistent Gas-Phase Temperatures and Metallicities from UV and Optical Nebular Emission: A Reliable Foundation from z=0 to Cosmic Dawn

Erin Huntzinger, Yuguang Chen, Tucker Jones +6

The rest-frame UV spectra of star-forming galaxies are increasingly important as they become one of the primary windows to probe the physical properties of cosmic dawn (z>8) galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2025

CLASSY XIII. Cutting through the Clouds - Comparing Indirect Tracers of Ionizing Photon Escape

Kaelee S. Parker, Danielle A. Berg, John Chisholm +25

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) provides critical insights into the role of early galaxies in shaping the ionization state of the universe. However, because of the opacity of the i…

astro-ph.SR2025

Echoes of the First Stars: Massive Star Evolution in Extremely Metal-Poor Environments with the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Peter Senchyna, Calum Hawcroft, Miriam Garcia +3

A remarkable span of frontier astrophysics, from gravitational-wave archaeology to the origin of the elements to interpreting snapshots of the earliest galaxies, depends sensitivel…

astro-ph.GA2025

SDSS-V LVM: Detectability of Wolf-Rayet stars and their He II ionizing flux in low-metallicity environments I. The weak-lined, early-type WN3 stars in the SMC

G. González-Torà, A. A. C. Sander, E. Egorova +18

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is the nearest low-metallicity dwarf galaxy. Its proximity and low reddening has enabled us to detect its Wolf-Rayet (WR) star population with 12 k…

astro-ph.GA2025

Consistent gas-phase C/O abundances from UV and optical emission lines: a robust scale for chemical evolution across cosmic time

Paige M. Kelly, Tucker Jones, Yuguang Chen +5

The carbon to oxygen (C/O) abundance ratio is a valuable tracer of star formation history, as C and O enrichment occurs on different timescales. However, measurements based on ultr…

astro-ph.IM2025

Very Massive Stars with the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Fabrice Martins, Aida Wofford, Miriam Garcia +3

Very massive stars (VMS) are defined as stars with an initial mass in excess of 100 Msun. Because of their short lifetime and the shape of the stellar mass function, they are rare…

astro-ph.GA2025

CLASSY XII: Nitrogen Enrichment Shaped by Gas Density and Feedback

Karla Z. Arellano-Córdova, Danielle A. Berg, Matilde Mingozzi +25

We investigate the chemical evolution of N/O using a sample of 45 local star-forming galaxies (SFGs) from the CLASSY survey. This sample spans a wide range of galaxy properties, wi…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

JWST/NIRSpec Observations of High Ionization Emission Lines in Galaxies at High Redshift

Mengtao Tang, Daniel P. Stark, Adèle Plat +7

JWST spectroscopy has built large emission line samples at , but it has yet to confidently reveal many galaxies with the hard radiation fields commonly associated with A…

astro-ph.GA2024

Early Bright Galaxies from Helium Enhancements in High-Redshift Star Clusters

Harley Katz, Alexander P. Ji, O. Grace Telford +1

The first few cycles of JWST have identified an overabundance of UV-bright galaxies and a general excess of UV luminosity density at compared to expectations from most…

astro-ph.GA2024

Shining a Light on the Connections between Galactic Outflows Seen in Absorption and Emission Lines

Xinfeng Xu, Alaina Henry, Timothy Heckman +14

Galactic outflows provide important feedback effects to regulate the evolution of host galaxies. Two primary diagnostics of outflows are broad and/or blueshifted emission and absor…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Deep rest-UV JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of early galaxies: the demographics of CIV and N-emitters in the reionization era

Michael W. Topping, Daniel P. Stark, Peter Senchyna +12

JWST has recently discovered a subset of reionization era galaxies with ionized gas that is metal poor in oxygen and carbon but heavily-enriched in nitrogen. This abundance pattern…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Joint Optical and Infrared Observations of N and O Reveal the Dust-Obscured Gas in Haro 3

Yuguang Chen, Tucker Jones, Ryan L. Sanders +22

Accurate chemical compositions of star-forming regions are a critical diagnostic tool to characterize the star formation history and gas flows which regulate galaxy formation. Howe…

astro-ph.GA2024

Reply to: Effects of density and temperature variations on the metallicity of Mrk 71

Yuguang Chen, Tucker Jones, Ryan Sanders +9

In Chen et al., 2023 (C23; arXiv:2304.09898), we introduced a new method to directly measure temperature fluctuations and applied it to a nearby dwarf galaxy, Mrk 71, finding a tem…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Metal-poor star formation at with JWST: new insight into hard radiation fields and nitrogen enrichment on 20 pc scales

Michael W. Topping, Daniel P. Stark, Peter Senchyna +11

Nearly a decade ago, we began to see indications that reionization-era galaxies power hard radiation fields rarely seen at lower redshift. Most striking were detections of nebular…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

CLASSY VII Lyα Profiles: The Structure and Kinematics of Neutral Gas and Implications for LyC Escape in Reionization-Era Analogs

Weida Hu, Crystal L. Martin, Max Gronke +22

Lyman-alpha line profiles are a powerful probe of ISM structure, outflow speed, and Lyman continuum escape fraction. In this paper, we present the Ly line profiles of the COS Le…

astro-ph.GA2023

CLASSY VIII: Exploring the Source of Ionization with UV ISM diagnostics in local High- Analogs

Matilde Mingozzi, Bethan L. James, Danielle A. Berg +27

In the current JWST era, rest-frame UV spectra play a crucial role in enhancing our understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM) and stellar properties of the first galaxies in t…