2 papers
astro-ph.GA2025
Witnessing the violent, merger-driven formation of an extremely massive galaxy 1.7 Gyr after the Big Bang
Lura K. Pitchford, Joseph Cairns, Duncan Farrah +4
We combine near-infrared imaging in two bands from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) with archival observations of molecular gas to study SDSS J160705.16+533558.6 (J1607), an extrem…
astro-ph.GA2024
Polarized Dust Emission in Arp220: Magnetic Fields in the Core of an Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy
David L Clements, Qizhou Zhang, K. Pattle +3
Arp 220 is the prototypical Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy (ULIRG), and one of the brightest objects in the extragalactic far-infrared sky. It is the result of a merger between two…