Active galactic nuclei: what's in a name?

P Padovani, DM Alexander, RJ Assef… - The Astronomy and …, 2017 - Springer
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto
supermassive black holes in galaxies, and present unique observational signatures that …

Atmospheres of rocky exoplanets

R Wordsworth, L Kreidberg - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Rocky planets are common around other stars, but their atmospheric properties remain
largely unconstrained. Thanks to a wealth of recent planet discoveries and upcoming …

The JWST early release observations

KM Pontoppidan, J Barrientes, C Blome… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Early Release Observations (EROs) is
a set of public outreach products created to mark the end of commissioning and the …

Refining the transit-timing and photometric analysis of TRAPPIST-1: masses, radii, densities, dynamics, and ephemerides

E Agol, C Dorn, SL Grimm, M Turbet… - The planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We have collected transit times for the TRAPPIST-1 system with the Spitzer Space
Telescope over four years. We add to these ground-based, HST, and K2 transit-time …

Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1

M Gillon, AHMJ Triaud, BO Demory, E Jehin, E Agol… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
One aim of modern astronomy is to detect temperate, Earth-like exoplanets that are well
suited for atmospheric characterization. Recently, three Earth-sized planets were detected …

Mesa isochrones and stellar tracks (MIST). I. Solar-scaled models

J Choi, A Dotter, C Conroy, M Cantiello… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This is the first of a series of papers presenting the Modules for Experiments in Stellar
Astrophysics (MESA) Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) project, a new comprehensive …

Galaxy Stellar Mass Functions from z∼ 10 to z∼ 6 using the Deepest Spitzer/Infrared Array Camera Data: No Significant Evolution in the Stellar-to-halo Mass Ratio of …

M Stefanon, RJ Bouwens, I Labbé… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new stellar mass functions at z∼ 6, z∼ 7, z∼ 8, z∼ 9 and, for the first time, z∼
10, constructed from∼ 800 Lyman-break galaxies previously identified over the eXtreme …

Short GRB host galaxies. I. Photometric and spectroscopic catalogs, host associations, and galactocentric offsets

W Fong, AE Nugent, Y Dong, E Berger… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive optical and near-infrared census of the fields of 90 short
gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) discovered in 2005–2021, constituting all short GRBs for which …

A luminous red supergiant and dusty long-period variable progenitor for SN 2023ixf

JE Jencson, J Pearson, ER Beasor… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze pre-explosion near-and mid-infrared (IR) imaging of the site of SN 2023ixf in the
nearby spiral galaxy M101 and characterize the candidate progenitor star. The star displays …

A remarkably luminous galaxy at z= 11.1 measured with Hubble Space Telescope grism spectroscopy

PA Oesch, G Brammer, PG Van Dokkum… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present Hubble WFC3/IR slitless grism spectra of a remarkably bright z≳ 10
galaxy candidate, GN-z11, identified initially from CANDELS/GOODS-N imaging data. A …