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most citedA Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km/s/Mpc Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team

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astro-ph.GA2026

KDG 162: A Nearby Isolated Star-forming Dwarf Galaxy

Gagandeep S. Anand, Igor D. Karachentsev, Meredith J. Durbin +6

The nearby dwarf galaxy KDG 162 (also known as KK 153) has recently attracted attention as a potentially gas-rich, isolated, and low-mass dwarf galaxy. However, many of these chara…

astro-ph.GA2026

Quantifying the decline in CO(2-1) intensity around PHANGS-HST star clusters: Constraints on molecular gas dispersal, stellar feedback, and cluster formation efficiency

Hao He, Adam K. Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky +37

We combine the largest survey of star clusters in nearby galaxies to-date, PHANGS-HST, with maps of molecular gas maps from PHANGS-ALMA to constrain the efficiency of cluster forma…

astro-ph.GA2026

Breaking the AGB Color Degeneracy with Variability and HO: A Consistent Picture of AGB Chemistry, Dust, and the J-Region Across Environments

Caroline D. Huang, Massimo Marengo, Antonio Capodagli +7

Resolved asymptotic giant branch (AGB) populations present many observational puzzles. We consider three often treated separately: photometric C/O classification boundaries must be…

astro-ph.GA2026

KKR 18: A Late Arrival Galaxy?

R. Brent Tully, Valentina E. Karachentseva, Igor D. Karachentsev +8

KKR 18 is a dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Void at a distance of 9.46 Mpc. It is gas rich and was experiencing vigorous star formation 20 - 100 Myr ago. Its metallicity is 4%…

astro-ph.GA2026

New Measurements of Distances to Galaxies in the NGC 1052 Field with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes: Testing the Bullet-Dwarf Origin of the Trail

Yimeng Tang, Gagandeep S. Anand, Aaron J. Romanowsky +2

NGC 1052-DF2 and DF4 are two ultra-diffuse galaxies deficient in dark matter (DM), and reported as part of a remarkable linear trail of dwarf galaxies in the NGC 1052 field. Recent…

astro-ph.GA2026

The PHANGS-Hα survey. Ground-based narrow-band imaging of nearby star-forming galaxies

Alessandro Razza, Guillermo A. Blanc, Brent Groves +36

We present PHANGS-Hα, a narrow-band imaging survey that maps Hα emission over a sample of 65 nearby massive star-forming galaxies. The data were obtained using the MPG-ESO 2.2-mete…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Metal Content of Resolved Galaxies

Lidia N. Makarova, Denis G. Purytin, R. Brent Tully +1

We present a homogeneous metallicity analysis of old stellar populations in Local Volume (LV) galaxies using data from the CMDs/TRGB catalog of the Extragalactic Distance Database…

astro-ph.GA2026

The TRGB-SBF Project. IV. A Color Calibration of the TRGB in the JWST F090W+F150W Filters

Maksim I. Chazov, Dmitry I. Makarov, R. Brent Tully +7

Observations with JWST in the F090W band provide a powerful tool for determining galaxy distances based on tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) measurements. It is a great convenienc…

astro-ph.GA2026

To What Extent Are Star Cluster Ages Encoded in Their Environments? Exploring the Spatial Distribution of Age-Related Information with PHANGS-HST Imaging and Convolutional Neural Networks

Javier Viaña, Janice C. Lee, Andrew Vanderburg +12

The environments around star clusters evolve as stellar feedback reshapes the interstellar medium and dynamical processes reorganize the structure of the surrounding stellar field.…

astro-ph.GA2025

Evolved Supergiants in PHANGS I: Red Supergiants in 19 Galaxies between 5-20 Mpc with HST and JWST

Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, David Thilker, Adam K. Leroy +17

Red supergiants (RSGs) are important for our understanding of supernova progenitors, stellar populations, stellar evolution, mass loss and dust production. Extragalactic surveys of…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Hidden Life of Stars: Embedded Beginnings to AGB Endings in the PHANGS-JWST Sample. I. Catalog of Mid-IR Sources

Hamid Hassani, Erik Rosolowsky, Adam K. Leroy +28

We present a multiwavelength catalog of mid-infrared-selected compact sources in 19 nearby galaxies, combining JWST NIRCam/MIRI, HST UV-optical broadband, H narrow-band, and ALM…

astro-ph.GA2025

The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud

Gagandeep S. Anand, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Rachael Beaton +3

Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) observations have recently identified a compact HI cloud (hereafter Cloud-9) in the vicinity of the spiral galaxy M94. This i…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Converging on the Cepheid Metallicity Dependence: Implications of Non-Standard Gaia Parallax Recalibration on Distance Measures

Louise Breuval, Gagandeep S. Anand, Richard I. Anderson +20

By comparing Cepheid brightnesses with geometric distance measures including Gaia EDR3 parallaxes, most recent analyses conclude metal-rich Cepheids are brighter, quantified as $γ\…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Hubble constant anchor galaxy NGC 4258: metallicity and distance from blue supergiants

Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Miguel A. Urbaneja, Fabio Bresolin +5

A quantitative spectroscopic study of blue supergiant stars in the Hubble constant anchor galaxy NGC 4258 is presented. The non-LTE analysis of Keck I telescope LRIS spectra yields…

astro-ph.GA2024

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon and CO(2-1) Emission at 50-150 pc Scales in 70 Nearby Galaxies

Ryan Chown, Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom +44

Combining Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array CO(2-1) mapping and JWST near- and mid-infrared imaging, we characterize the relationship between CO(2-1) and polycyclic aro…

astro-ph.GA2024

The TRGB-SBF Project. II. Resolving the Virgo Cluster with JWST

Gagandeep S. Anand, R. Brent Tully, Yotam Cohen +9

The Virgo Cluster is the nearest substantial cluster of galaxies to the Milky Way and a cornerstone of the extragalactic distance scale. Here, we present JWST/NIRCam observations t…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

PHANGS-JWST: Data Processing Pipeline and First Full Public Data Release

Thomas G. Williams, Janice C. Lee, Kirsten L. Larson +55

The exquisite angular resolution and sensitivity of JWST is opening a new window for our understanding of the Universe. In nearby galaxies, JWST observations are revolutionizing ou…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

Standardized Luminosity of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch utilizing Multiple Fields in NGC 4258 and the CATs Algorithm

Siyang Li, Adam G. Riess, Dan Scolnic +6

The Tip of the Red Giant Branch provides a luminous standard candle for calibrating distance ladders that reach Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) hosts. However, recent work reveals that t…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Is there a dwarf galaxy satellite-of-satellite problem in CDM?

Oliver Müller, Nick Heesters, Helmut Jerjen +2

Dark matter clusters on all scales, therefore it is expected that even substructure should host its own substructure. Using the Extragalactic Distance Database, we searched for dwa…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

A nearby isolated dwarf: star formation and structure of ESO 006-001

Lidia N. Makarova, R. Brent Tully, Gagandeep S. Anand +4

Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope unexpectedly revealed that the dwarf galaxy ESO 006-001 is a near neighbor to the Local Group at a distance of 2.70 +- 0.11 Mpc. The st…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Serendipitous Nebular-phase JWST Imaging of SN Ia 2021aefx: Testing the Confinement of 56-Co Decay Energy

Ness Mayker Chen, Michael A. Tucker, Nils Hoyer +29

We present new 0.3-21 micron photometry of SN 2021aefx in the spiral galaxy NGC 1566 at +357 days after B-band maximum, including the first detection of any SN Ia at >15 micron. Th…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 33 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: The Dust Filament Network of NGC 628 and its Relation to Star Formation Activity

David A. Thilker, Janice C. Lee, Sinan Deger +36

PHANGS-JWST mid-infrared (MIR) imaging of nearby spiral galaxies has revealed ubiquitous filaments of dust emission in intricate detail. We present a pilot study to systematically…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 22 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Stellar Feedback-Driven Excitation and Dissociation of Molecular Gas in the Starburst Ring of NGC 1365?

Daizhong Liu, Eva Schinnerer, Yixian Cao +36

We compare embedded young massive star clusters (YMCs) to (sub-)millimeter line observations tracing the excitation and dissociation of molecular gas in the starburst ring of NGC 1…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 9 cited

Peekaboo: the extremely metal poor dwarf galaxy HIPASS J1131-31

I. D. Karachentsev, L. N. Makarova, B. S. Koribalski +3

The dwarf irregular galaxy HIPASS J1131-31 was discovered as a source of HI emission at low redshift in such close proximity of a bright star that we call it Peekaboo. The galaxy r…