Red clump stars

L Girardi - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Low-mass stars in their core-helium-burning stage define the sharpest feature present in the
color-magnitude diagrams of nearby galaxy systems: the red clump (RC). This feature has …

Simulating groups and the intragroup medium: the surprisingly complex and rich middle ground between clusters and galaxies

BD Oppenheimer, A Babul, Y Bahé, IS Butsky… - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
Galaxy groups are more than an intermediate scale between clusters and halos hosting
individual galaxies, they are crucial laboratories capable of testing a range of astrophysics …

A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

I Andreoni, MW Coughlin, DA Perley, Y Yao, W Lu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy that are released when
supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes too …

The diversity of quasars unified by accretion and orientation

Y Shen, LC Ho - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Quasars are rapidly accreting supermassive black holes at the centres of massive galaxies.
They display a broad range of properties across all wavelengths, reflecting the diversity in …

Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Modeling the gas thermodynamics in BOSS CMASS galaxies from kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements

S Amodeo, N Battaglia, E Schaan, S Ferraro, E Moser… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects (tSZ, kSZ) probe the thermodynamic
properties of the circumgalactic and intracluster medium (CGM and ICM) of galaxies, groups …

Model-agnostic interpretation of 10 billion years of cosmic evolution traced by BOSS and eBOSS data

S Brieden, H Gil-Marín, L Verde - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first model-agnostic analysis of the complete set of Sloan Digital Sky Survey
III (BOSS) and-IV (eBOSS) catalogues of luminous red galaxy and quasar clustering in the …

Epoch of reionization window. I. Mathematical formalism

A Liu, AR Parsons, CM Trott - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
The 21 cm line provides a powerful probe of astrophysics and cosmology at high redshifts,
but unlocking the potential of this probe requires the robust mitigation of foreground …

Energetic eruptions leading to a peculiar hydrogen-rich explosion of a massive star

I Arcavi, DA Howell, D Kasen, L Bildsten… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Every supernova so far observed has been considered to be the terminal explosion of a star.
Moreover, all supernovae with absorption lines in their spectra show those lines decreasing …

Redshift distributions of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing

C Bonnett, MA Troxel, W Hartley, A Amara, B Leistedt… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
We present photometric redshift estimates for galaxies used in the weak lensing analysis of
the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification (DES SV) data. Four model-or machine …

L-PICOLA: A parallel code for fast dark matter simulation

C Howlett, M Manera, WJ Percival - Astronomy and Computing, 2015 - Elsevier
Robust measurements based on current large-scale structure surveys require precise
knowledge of statistical and systematic errors. This can be obtained from large numbers of …