The astrophysics of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays

K Kotera, AV Olinto - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The origin of the highest energy cosmic rays is still unknown. The discovery of their sources
is expected to reveal the workings of the most energetic astrophysical accelerators in the …

Physical Properties of Galaxies from z = 2–4

AE Shapley - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The epoch of galaxy assembly from 2⩽ z⩽ 4 marks a critical stage during the evolution of
today's galaxy population. During this period, the star-formation activity in the Universe was …

A repeating fast radio burst source localized to a nearby spiral galaxy

B Marcote, K Nimmo, JWT Hessels, SP Tendulkar… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, bright, extragalactic radio flashes,. Their physical origin
remains unknown, but dozens of possible models have been postulated. Some FRB sources …

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from cosmic shear

MA Troxel, N MacCrann, J Zuntz, TF Eifler, E Krause… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
We use 26× 10 6 galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 shape catalogs over
1321 deg 2 of the sky to produce the most significant measurement of cosmic shear in a …

[HTML][HTML] A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of advanced LIGO and Virgo

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences allow for the direct
measurement of the luminosity distance to their source. This makes them standard-distance …

The discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart of GW170817: kilonova AT 2017gfo/DLT17ck

S Valenti, J David, S Yang, E Cappellaro… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
During the second observing run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory
(LIGO) and Virgo Interferometer, a gravitational-wave signal consistent with a binary neutron …

The absolute magnitude of the sun in several filters

CNA Willmer - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a table with estimates of the absolute magnitude of the Sun and the
conversions from vegamag to the AB and ST systems for several wide-band filters used in …

UV luminosity functions at redshifts z∼ 4 to z∼ 10: 10,000 galaxies from HST legacy fields

RJ Bouwens, GD Illingworth, PA Oesch… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The remarkable Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data sets from the CANDELS,
HUDF09, HUDF12, ERS, and BoRG/HIPPIES programs have allowed us to map the …

Mass and Environment as Drivers of Galaxy Evolution in SDSS and zCOSMOS and the Origin of the Schechter Function

Y Peng, SJ Lilly, K Kovač, M Bolzonella… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the simple inter-relationships between mass, star formation rate, and
environment in the SDSS, zCOSMOS, and other deep surveys. We take a purely empirical …

The ATLAS3D project – XX. Mass–size and mass–σ distributions of early-type galaxies: bulge fraction drives kinematics, mass-to-light ratio, molecular gas fraction …

M Cappellari, RM McDermid, K Alatalo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In the companion Paper XV of this series, we derive accurate total mass-to-light ratios within
a sphere of radius centred on the galaxy, as well as stellar (M/L) stars (with the dark matter …