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Numerous bow shocks in the outer Helix Nebula
Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, William P. Bowman +5
Near the end of their lives, low- and intermediate-mass stars expel metal-enriched material in winds and outflows, ultimately producing planetary nebulae (PNe). The ejected materia…
The Extended Globular Cluster System of the archetypal "failed galaxy" Dragonfly-44 from deep white-light Hubble Space Telescope imaging
Maria Luisa Buzzo, Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham +2
Deep Hubble imaging reveals that the ultra-diffuse galaxy Dragonfly-44 hosts about 78 globular clusters, confirming its extremely high dark‑matter content and supporting its classi…
DragonflyPol: Wide-Field Optical Linear Polarimetry with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array (Instrument Description and Commissioning)
Mehrnoosh Tahani, Leo Hollberg, Hiroshi Akitaya +9
The paper presents DragonflyPol, a wide-field optical linear polarimetry system built on the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, describing its modular design, laboratory characterization o…
dfcosmic: A Python package for cosmic ray removal
Carter Lee Rhea, Pieter van Dokkum, Steven R. Janssens +5
Astronomical images often show sharp features that are caused by cosmic ray (CR) hits, hot pixels, or non-Gaussian noise. L.A.Cosmic (van Dokkum 2001) is a widely used edge detecti…
JWST Confirmation of a Runaway Supermassive Black Hole via its Supersonic Bow Shock
Pieter van Dokkum, Connor Jennings, Imad Pasha +6
We present JWST/NIRSpec IFU observations of a candidate runaway supermassive black hole at the tip of a 62 kpc-long linear feature at z=0.96. The JWST data show a sharp kinematic d…
Kinematic Confirmation of a Remarkable Linear Trail of Galaxies in the NGC 1052 Field, Consistent with Formation in a High-Speed Bullet Dwarf Collision
Michael A. Keim, Pieter van Dokkum, Zili Shen +6
A unique linear trail of diffuse galaxies was recently identified in the NGC 1052 field. This trail includes the remarkable, ultra-diffuse galaxies DF2 and DF4 which lack dark matt…