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The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey III: First data release of JCMT CO-line observations
S. H. J. Wallström, P. Scicluna, S. Srinivasan +37
Low- to intermediate-mass (0.88 M) evolved stars contribute significantly to the chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium in the local Universe, making accur…
Gaussian Process Methods for Very Large Astrometric Data Sets
Timothy Hapitas, Lawrence M. Widrow, Thavisha E. Dharmawardena +1
We present a novel non-parametric method for inferring smooth models of the mean velocity field and velocity dispersion tensor of the Milky Way from astrometric data. Our approach…
Investigating silicate, carbon, and water in the diffuse interstellar medium: the first shots from WISCI
S. T. Zeegers, Jonathan P. Marshall, Karl D. Gordon +33
The dusty interstellar medium (ISM) of the Milky Way is distributed in a complex, cloudy structure. It is fundamental to the radiation balance within the Milky Way, provides a reac…
Searching for star formation towards the Eos molecular cloud
Suryansh Saxena, Thomas J. Haworth, Blakesley Burkhart +5
The Eos cloud, recently discovered in the far ultraviolet via H fluorescence, is one of the nearest known dark molecular clouds to the Sun, with a distance spanning from $\sim9…
A Nearby Dark Molecular Cloud in the Local Bubble Revealed via H Fluorescence
Blakesley Burkhart, Thavisha E. Dharmawardena, Shmuel Bialy +20
A longstanding prediction in interstellar theory posits that significant quantities of molecular gas, crucial for star formation, may be undetected due to being ``dark" in commonly…
Magnetic fields in the Eos Cloud: dynamically important fields in the interface between atomic and molecular gas
Janik Karoly, Kate Pattle, Blakesley Burkhart +3
The recently-discovered Eos molecular cloud, is a CO-dark, low-density cloud located at a distance of approximately 94 pc from the Sun which does not appear to have formed stars at…
All-sky three-dimensional dust density and extinction Maps of the Milky Way out to 2.8 kpc
T. E. Dharmawardena, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, M. Fouesneau +5
Three-dimensional dust density maps are crucial for understanding the structure of the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and the processes that shape it. However, constructing t…
Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry
Gaia Collaboration, P. Panuzzo, T. Mazeh +412
Gravitational waves from black-hole merging events have revealed a population of extra-galactic BHs residing in short-period binaries with masses that are higher than expected base…
Gaia Focused Product Release: Spatial distribution of two diffuse interstellar bands
Gaia Collaboration, M. Schultheis, H. Zhao +15
Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption features seen in optical and infrared spectra of stars that are probably caused by large and complex molecules in the ISM. Here we…
Gaia Focused Product Release: A catalogue of sources around quasars to search for strongly lensed quasars
Gaia Collaboration, A. Krone-Martins, C. Ducourant +398
Context. Strongly lensed quasars are fundamental sources for cosmology. The Gaia space mission covers the entire sky with the unprecedented resolution of " in the optical, ma…
The three-dimensional structure of Galactic molecular cloud complexes out to 2.5 kpc
T. E. Dharmawardena, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, M. Fouesneau +5
Knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of Galactic molecular clouds is important for understanding how clouds are affected by processes such as turbulence and magnetic fields…
Gaia DR3: Apsis III -- Non-stellar content and source classification
L. Delchambre, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, I. Bellas-Velidis +78
Context. As part of the third Gaia data release, we present the contributions of the non-stellar and classification modules from the eighth coordination unit (CU8) of the Data Proc…
Gaia Data Release 3: Astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis) I -- methods and content overview
O. L. Creevey, R. Sordo, F. Pailler +86
Gaia Data Release 3 contains a wealth of new data products for the community. Astrophysical parameters are a major component of this release. They were produced by the Astrophysica…
Gaia Data Release 3: Analysis of RVS spectra using the General Stellar Parametriser from spectroscopy
A. Recio-Blanco, P. de Laverny, P. A. Palicio +77
The chemo-physical parametrisation of stellar spectra is essential for understanding the nature and evolution of stars and of Galactic stellar populations. Gaia DR3 contains the pa…
Gaia Data Release 3: Exploring and mapping the diffuse interstellar band at 862 nm
Gaia collaboration, M. Schultheis, H. Zhao +12
Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are common interstellar absorption features in spectroscopic observations but their origins remain unclear. DIBs play an important role in the lif…
Solid confirmation of the broad DIB around 864.8 nm using stacked Gaia-RVS spectra
H. Zhao, M. Schultheis, T. Zwitter +26
Studies of the correlation between different diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are important for exploring their origins. However, the Gaia-RVS spectral window between 846 and 870…
Astrophysical Parameters from Gaia DR2, 2MASS & AllWISE
M. Fouesneau, R. Andrae, T. Dharmawardena +3
Stellar physical and dynamical properties are essential knowledge to understanding the structure, formation, and evolution of our Galaxy. We produced an all-sky uniformly derived c…
Three-dimensional dust density structure of the Orion, Cygnus X,Taurus, and Perseus star-forming regions
T. E. Dharmawardena, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, M. Fouesneau +1
Interstellar dust affects astronomical observations through absorption and reddening, yet this extinction is also a powerful tool for studying interstellar matter in galaxies. 3D r…
The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey II: Constructing a volume-limited sample and first results from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
P. Scicluna, F. Kemper, I. McDonald +89
The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey (NESS) is a volume-complete sample of 850 Galactic evolved stars within 3\,kpc at (sub-)mm wavelengths, observed in the CO (21) and…
H fluxes and extinction distances for planetary nebulae in the IPHAS survey of the Northern Galactic Plane
Thavisha E. Dharmawardena, M. J. Barlow, J. E. Drew +7
We report H filter photometry for 197 northern hemisphere planetary nebulae (PNe) obtained using imaging data from the IPHAS survey. H+[N II] fluxes were measured for 46 conf…
Systematic errors in dust mass determinations: Insights from laboratory opacity measurements
Lapo Fanciullo, Francisca Kemper, Peter Scicluna +2
The thermal emission of dust is one of the most important tracers of the interstellar medium: multi-wavelength photometry in the far-infrared (FIR) and submillimeter (submm) can be…
JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies: II. SCUBA-2 850 μm data reduction and dust flux density catalogues
Matthew W. L. Smith, Christopher J. R. Clark, Ilse De Looze +33
We present the SCUBA-2 850 component of JINGLE, the new JCMT large survey for dust and gas in nearby galaxies, which with 193 galaxies is the largest targeted survey of nearby…
JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies: I. Survey overview and first results
Amelie Saintonge, Christine D. Wilson, Ting Xiao +88
JINGLE is a new JCMT legacy survey designed to systematically study the cold interstellar medium of galaxies in the local Universe. As part of the survey we perform 850um continuum…