Gravitational Wave Measurement of the Mbh-Mbulge Intrinsic Scatter at High Redshift

该研究通过引入随红移演化的超大质量黑洞与星系核球质量关系(Mbh-Mbulge)内禀弥散,成功解释了纳赫兹引力波背景振幅超出模型预测的现象,并表明当前的质量关系并非宇宙全历史通用,暗示早期黑洞与星系演化存在多样化的种子模型和增长机制。

Cayenne Matt, Kayhan Gültekin, Gabriella Agazie, Nikita Agarwal, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald, Zaven Arzoumanian, Jeremy G. Baier, Paul T. Baker, Bence Bécsy, Laura Blecha, Adam Brazier, Paul R. Brook, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Rand Burnette, Robin Case, J. Andrew Casey-Clyde, Maria Charisi, Shami Chatterjee, Tyler Cohen, James M. Cordes, Neil J. Cornish, Fronefield Crawford, H. Thankful Cromartie, Kathryn Crowter, Megan E. DeCesar, Paul B. Demorest, Heling Deng, Lankeswar Dey, Timothy Dolch, Graham M. Doskoch, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, William Fiore, Emmanuel Fonseca, Gabriel E. Freedman, Emiko C. Gardiner, Nate Garver-Daniels, Peter A. Gentile, Kyle A. Gersbach, Joseph Glaser, Deborah C. Good, C. J. Harris, Jeffrey S. Hazboun, Ross J. Jennings, Aaron D. Johnson, Megan L. Jones, David L. Kaplan, Anala Kavumkandathil Sreekumar, Luke Zoltan Kelley, Matthew Kerr, Joey S. Key, Nima Laal, Michael T. Lam, William G. Lamb, Bjorn Larsen, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Natalia Lewandowska, Tingting Liu, Duncan R. Lorimer, Jing Luo, Ryan S. Lynch, Chung-Pei Ma, Dustin R. Madison, Ashley Martsen, Alexander McEwen, James W. McKee, Maura A. McLaughlin, Natasha McMann, Bradley W. Meyers, Patrick M. Meyers, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Andrea Mitridate, Cherry Ng, David J. Nice, Shania Nichols, Stella Koch Ocker, Ken D. Olum, Timothy T. Pennucci, Benetge B. P. Perera, Polina Petrov, Nihan S. Pol, Henri A. Radovan, Scott M. Ransom, Paul S. Ray, Joseph D. Romano, Jessie C. Runnoe, Alexander Saffer, Shashwat C. Sardesai, Ann Schmiedekamp, Carl Schmiedekamp, Kai Schmitz, Brent J. Shapiro-Albert, Xavier Siemens, Joseph Simon, Sophia V. Sosa Fiscella, Ingrid H. Stairs, Daniel R. Stinebring, Kevin Stovall, Abhimanyu Susobhanan, Joseph K. Swiggum, Jacob Taylor, Stephen R. Taylor, Mercedes S. Thompson, Jacob E. Turner, Michele Vallisneri, Rutger van Haasteren, Sarah J. Vigeland, Haley M. Wahl, Kevin P. Wilson, Caitlin A. Witt, David Wright, Olivia YoungFri, 13 Ma🔭 astro-ph

Large-scale environments of star-forming active galactic nuclei: How black hole mass, accretion rate, and luminosity connect to dark matter halos

该研究结合 XXL 和 Stripe 82X 巡天数据发现,X 射线选出的活动星系核主要 resides 在质量约为 $10^{13}h^{-1}M_\odot$ 的暗物质晕中,且其黑洞质量、吸积率和光度与在大尺度环境中的分布无显著关联,表明活动星系核的性质主要由宿主星系内部过程调控,而非大尺度环境。

G. Mountrichas, F. J. Carrera, F. Shankar, A. GeorgakakisFri, 13 Ma🔭 astro-ph

The Kinematically Hot, Extremely Metal-Poor C-19 Stellar Stream in DESI DR2

该研究利用 DESI 数据通过混合模型分析,确认了 C-19 恒星流中 41 颗新成员星,测得其速度弥散为 $7.8^{+1.5}_{-1.3}kms km s^{-1}且平均金属丰度极低([Fe/H]=且平均金属丰度极低([Fe/H] = -3.36$),从而证实了该恒星流具有“动力学热”且极度贫金属的特征,并发现了一个新的“刺状”结构。

Nasser Mohammed, Joseph Y. Tang, Ting S. Li, Sergey E. Koposov, Raymond G. Carlberg, Emma Jarvis, Andrew P. Li, Nathan Sandford, Gustavo E. Medina, Wenting Wang, Monica Valluri, Alexander H. Riley, Leandro Beraldo e Silva, Joan Najita, Mika Lambert, Songting Li, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen, D. Bianchi, D. Brooks, T. Claybaugh, A. P. Cooper, A. de la Macorra, J. E. Forero-Romero, E. Gaztañaga, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, G. Gutierrez, R. Joyce, S. Juneau, R. Kehoe, T. Kisner, A. Kremin, M. Landriau, L. Le Guillou, M. Manera, A. Meisner, R. Miquel, S. Nadathur, W. J. Percival, F. Prada, I. Pérez-Ràfols, G. Rossi, E. Sanchez, D. Schlegel, J. Silber, D. Sprayberry, G. Tarlé, B. A. Weaver, R. Zhou, H. ZouFri, 13 Ma🔭 astro-ph

Unveiling Massive Main-Sequence Stars in Sextans A through Panchromatic Photometry

该研究利用多波段测光数据,通过 BEAST 工具在低金属丰度的六分仪座 A 星系中识别出 867 颗大质量主序星候选体,并深入分析了其 OBe 星比例、OB 星协分布、逃逸星特征以及莱曼连续谱光子的逃逸率,为理解极低金属丰度环境下大质量恒星的演化与反馈机制提供了重要基准。

Maude Gull, Daniel R. Weisz, Yumi Choi, Benjamin F. Williams, Karoline M. Gilbert, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Kareem El-Badry, Puragra Guhathakurta, Steven R. Goldman, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Alessandro Savino, Evan D. SkillmanFri, 13 Ma🔭 astro-ph

PACHA: Probing AGN Coronae with High-redshift AGN

PACHA 项目利用 NuSTAR 和 XMM-Newton 对 13 个高红移 AGN 的观测发现,其冕区截止能量和温度显著低于本地 AGN,且光学深度更高,表明这些高光度 AGN 的冕区特性可能主要由纯热电子主导并受高效康普顿冷却影响,而非非热电子驱动。

Xiurui Zhao, Elias Kammoun, Marco Ajello, Yanfei Jiang, Giorgio Lanzuisi, Anne Lohfink, Stefano Marchesi, Elena Bertola, Peter G. Boorman, Francesca Civano, Luca Comisso, Paolo Coppi, Isaiah S. Cox, Martin Elvis, Roberto Gilli, Fiona A. Harrison, Ross Silver, Daniel Stern, Nuria Torres-Albà, Qian Yang, Lizhong ZhangFri, 13 Ma🔭 astro-ph

Balmer Decrements and Nebular-Stellar Reddening in JADES Galaxies at $2.7<z<7$

该研究利用 JWST/NIRSpec 数据分析了 $2.7<z<7$ 范围内星系的星云与恒星消光特性,发现恒星质量是决定尘埃总量的主要因素,且随着红移增加,星云发射与恒星连续谱所探测的尘埃柱密度趋于一致,同时揭示了尘埃几何结构在塑造高红移星系观测消光中的关键作用。

Shreya Karthikeyan, Leonardo Clarke, Alice E. Shapley, Natalie Lam, Ryan L. Sanders, Naveen A. Reddy, Michael W. Topping, Gabriel B. BrammerFri, 13 Ma🔭 astro-ph

JWST's PEARLS: A clumpy ring galaxy at z=4.0148z = 4.0148

本文利用哈勃和詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜的观测数据,确认了一个红移为 4.0148 的星系极可能是一个由星系碰撞形成的环状星系,但也指出其形态不能完全排除是由前景星系引力透镜效应造成的可能性,并强调高红移环状星系可能成为引力透镜巡天中的重要干扰源。

David Vizgan, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Ian Smail, Rogier Windhorst, Gibson Bowling, Cheng Cheng, Seth Cohen, Christopher Conselice, Jose Diego, Brenda Frye, Norman Grogin, Rolf Jansen, Patrick Kamieneski, Anton Koekemoer, Rafael Ortiz III, Massimo Ricotti, Bangzheng Sun, Hayley Williams, S. P. Willner, Aadya Agrawal, Manuel Solimano, Zachary Stone, Joaquin Vieira, Chentao YangFri, 13 Ma🔭 astro-ph

Merger-driven buildup of the MBHM_{\rm BH} - MM_* relation bridging high-zz overmassive black holes with the local relation

该研究通过蒙特卡洛模拟表明,仅依靠星系并合(尤其是高频的小质量比并合)即可在宇宙演化过程中通过平均化效应将高红移时期高度弥散的黑洞 - 星系质量比演化为本地紧密的标度关系,从而无需引入 AGN 反馈机制即可解释 JWST 观测到的高红移超大质量黑洞异常现象。

Takumi S. Tanaka, John D. Silverman, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Knud Jahnke, Junyao Li, Makoto AndoFri, 13 Ma🔭 astro-ph

Continuum Reverberation in Bright Quasars Using NASA/ATLAS

该研究利用 NASA/ATLAS 对 9,498 个明亮类星体进行了迄今最大规模的连续谱回响映射分析,发现吸积盘尺寸与标准理论的偏差在高光度样本中依然存在,且延迟幅度与波长的复杂非单调关系表明可变弥散发射污染普遍存在,同时揭示了延迟时间与 Eddington 比率、颜色及铁发射线特征等类星体属性之间的显著关联。

Zachary Steyn, Christian Wolf, Christopher Onken, Ken Smith, Ji-Jia Tang, Andjelka B. Kovacevic, John Tonry, Alejandro ClocchiattiFri, 13 Ma🔭 astro-ph