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Multiphase Analysis of (U)LIRG Nuclear Activity (MAUNA). I. Spatially Resolved Optical Emission-Line Diagnostics
Justin A. Kader, Vivian U, Marina Bianchin +33
We present resolved optical integral-field spectroscopy of the 32 luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxy systems of the Multiphase Analysis of (U)LIRG Nuclear Activity (MAUNA)…
First Very Long Baseline Interferometry Fringe Detection at 690GHz
Ming-Tang Chen, Geoffrey B. Crew, Dan Bintley +42
We report the first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiment conducted in the 690 GHz atmospheric window. On 2024 November 21, observations with the Atacama Large Millim…
JWST/NIRSpec Reveals Diverse Nuclear Environments in Dwarf Galaxies Hosting AGN
Thomas Bohn, Archana Aravindan, Gabriela Canalizo +18
Dwarf galaxies, in the CDM framework, are expected to dominate the galaxy number density at all redshifts. As such, studying AGN in these systems, including characterizing their…
Clumpy Disk, Interloper, or Merger? Nature of a Distant Galaxy Pair at 5 kpc Projected Separation
Hajar Aziz, Vivian U, Archana Aravindan +8
We present the morphological, photometric, and spectroscopic properties of a z ~ 1 galaxy, "lil gal", serendipitously detected in JWST Mid Infrared Instrument (MIRI) images of near…
Probing Heavily Obscured AGN in Major Galaxy Mergers Using the mm-X-ray Correlation
M. Droguett-Callejas, E. Treister, L. Barcos-Muñoz +10
The study of heavily obscured supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth in late-stage galaxy mergers is challenging: column densities can bloc…
Constraining Nuclear Molecular Gas Content with High-resolution CO Imaging of GOALS Galaxies
James Agostino, Anne M. Medling, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz +11
We present measurements of the cool molecular gas mass around the nuclei of two gas-rich mergers, III Zw 035 and IRAS F01364-1042, whose enclosed masses (M) within t…
A precessing jet from an active galactic nucleus drives gas outflow from a disk galaxy
Justin A. Kader, Vivian U, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz +30
To reproduce observed galaxy properties, cosmological simulations require that massive galaxies experience feedback from active galactic nuclei, which regulates star formation with…
The molecular diversity of the ISM in galaxies across cosmic time
Mathilde Bouvier, Yiqing Song, Michael Romano +7
Submillimetre molecular lines (e.g., CO, HCN, SiO) provide a uniquely powerful view of the physical and chemical processes that govern star formation (SF) and galaxy evolution. Yet…
Probing AGN Feedback in Dwarf Galaxies with Spatially Resolved NIR Coronal Lines from JWST
Archana Aravindan, Thomas Bohn, Gabriela Canalizo +20
We present the first spatially resolved investigation of near-infrared coronal lines in dwarf galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN), using JWST/NIRSpec integral field spect…
High-Resolution Optical IFU Spectroscopy of the Complex Galaxy Merger II Zw 096
C. Riesco, E. Treister, G. Venturi +20
Luminous and Ultra-luminous IR galaxies ((U)LIRGs) are critical for investigating feedback mechanisms due to a combination of intense star formation (SF) episodes and active galact…
Shockingly Effective: Cluster Winds as Engines of Feedback in Starburst Galaxy VV 114
Justin A. Kader, Vivian U, Jeffrey A. Rich +29
We present high-resolution Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) and MUSE IFU spectroscopy of VV 114, a local infrared-luminous merger undergoing a vigorous starburst and showing evidence…
Nuclear Spectral Energy Distributions of Luminous Infrared Galaxies
Tianmu Gao, Vivian U, Connor W. Auge +10
We present nuclear (100-150 pc) spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for a sample of 23 nearby luminous infrared galaxies hosting a total of 28 nuclei. We gather aperture photometr…
A Spectroscopically Calibrated Prescription for Extracting PAH Flux from JWST MIRI Imaging
Grant P. Donnelly, Thomas S. -Y. Lai, Lee Armus +24
We introduce a prescription for estimating the flux of the 7.7 micron and 11.3 micron\ polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) features from broadband JWST/MIRI images. Probing PAH f…
Spatially-resolved spectro-photometric SED Modeling of NGC 253's Central Molecular Zone I. Studying the star formation in extragalactic giant molecular clouds
Pedro K. Humire, Subhrata Dey, Tommaso Ronconi +29
Studying the interstellar medium in nearby starbursts is essential for understanding the physical mechanisms driving these objects, thought to resemble young star-forming galaxies.…
The Arp 240 Galaxy Merger: A Detailed Look at the Molecular Kennicutt-Schmidt Star Formation Law on Sub-kpc Scales
Alejandro Saravia, Eduardo Rodas-Quito, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz +25
The molecular Kennicutt-Schmidt (mK-S) Law has been key for understanding star formation (SF) in galaxies across all redshifts. However, recent sub-kpc observations of nearby galax…
GOALS-JWST: Constraining the Emergence Timescale for Massive Star Clusters in NGC 3256
Sean T. Linden, Thomas Lai, Aaron S. Evans +28
We present the results of a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam and NIRSpec investigation into the young massive star cluster (YMC) population of NGC 3256, the most cluster-ri…
Characterizing the Molecular Gas in Infrared Bright Galaxies with CARMA
Katherine Alatalo, Andreea O. Petric, Lauranne Lanz +20
We present the CO(1-0) maps of 28 infrared-bright galaxies from the Great Observatories All-Sky Luminous Infrared Galaxy Survey (GOALS) taken with the Combined Array for Research i…
GOALS-JWST: The Warm Molecular Outflows of the Merging Starburst Galaxy NGC 3256
Thomas Bohn, Hanae Inami, Aditya Togi +26
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Integral Field Spectrograph observations of NGC 3256, a local infrared-luminous late-stage merging system with two nuclei roughly 1$\;\…
GOALS-JWST: Mid-Infrared Molecular Gas Excitation Probes the Local Conditions of Nuclear Star Clusters and the AGN in the LIRG VV 114
Victorine A. Buiten, Paul P. van der Werf, Serena Viti +19
The enormous increase in mid-IR sensitivity and spatial and spectral resolution provided by the JWST spectrographs enables, for the first time, detailed extragalactic studies of mo…
GOALS-JWST: Gas Dynamics and Excitation in NGC7469 revealed by NIRSpec
Marina Bianchin, Vivian U, Yiqing Song +36
We present new JWST-NIRSpec IFS data for the luminous infrared galaxy NGC7469: a nearby (70.6Mpc) active galaxy with a Sy 1.5 nucleus that drives a highly ionized gas outflow and a…
GOALS-JWST: Small neutral grains and enhanced 3.3 micron PAH emission in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 7469
Thomas S. -Y. Lai, Lee Armus, Marina Bianchin +36
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) integral-field spectroscopy of the nearby luminous infrared galaxy, NGC 7469. We take advantage of…
Discovery of Hydrogen Radio Recombination Lines at z=0.89 towards PKS 1830-211
Kimberly L. Emig, Neeraj Gupta, Pedro Salas +14
We report the detection of stimulated hydrogen radio recombination line (RRL) emission from ionized gas in a galaxy using 580--1670 MHz observations from the MeerKAT Absor…
GOALS-JWST: Revealing the Buried Star Clusters in the Luminous Infrared Galaxy VV 114
Sean T. Linden, Aaron S. Evans, Lee Armus +30
We present the results of a {\it James Webb Space Telescope} NIRCam investigation into the young massive star cluster (YMC) population in the luminous infrared galaxy VV 114. We id…
GOALS-JWST: Resolving the Circumnuclear Gas Dynamics in NGC 7469 in the Mid-Infrared
Vivian U, Thomas Lai, Marina Bianchin +35
The nearby, luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) NGC 7469 hosts a Seyfert nucleus with a circumnuclear star-forming ring and is thus the ideal local laboratory for investigating the sta…