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The Average Stellar Population Age and Metallicity of Intermediate-redshift Quiescent Galaxies

The Astrophysical Journal
The HectoMAP spectroscopic survey provides a unique mass-limited sample of more than 35,000 quiescent galaxies ( D _n 4000 > 1.5) covering the redshift range 0.2  10 ^11 M _⊙ ) assemble the bulk of their stars at earlier epochs.
Ivana Damjanov, Margaret J. Geller, Jubee Sohn   +2 more
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Intermediate-mass black hole binary evolution in nuclear star clusters: The effect of the stellar-mass black hole population

Astronomy & Astrophysics
Aims. In this study, we investigate the dynamics of intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) binaries within nuclear star clusters (NSCs) that contain a population of stellar-mass black holes (BHs).
Khan Fazeel Mahmood, Berczik Peter, Sobolenko Margaryta, Just Andreas, Spurzem Rainer, Holley-Bockelmann Kelly, Macciò Andrea V.   +6 more
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Spatially Resolved Analysis of Stellar Populations in NGC 2992: Impact of Active Galactic Nucleus Feedback

The Astrophysical Journal
In NGC 2992, a galaxy-scale ionized gas outflow driven by active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has long been recognized, yet its impact on the host galaxy has remained elusive.
Xiaoyu Xu, Junfeng Wang, Zhiyuan Li, Yanmei Chen   +3 more
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The Mass of the Vela Pulsar Progenitor and the Age of the Vela-Puppis Complex

The Astrophysical Journal
The association of the Vela Pulsar with the Vela Supernova Remnant has long supported the hypothesis that core-collapse supernovae yield neutron stars, but its surrounding stellar population now offers new insights into progenitor evolution.
Jeremiah W. Murphy, Andrés F. Barrientos, René Andrae, Joseph Guzman, Benjamin F. Williams, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Brad Koplitz   +6 more
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Alpha Element Populations Among Local Halo Stars

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
Previous studies have shown that the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is made up of two distinct stellar populations, one from dissipative collapse and the other accreted.
Michael V. Reinhard, John B. Laird
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Starspots and Undetected Binary Stars Have Distinct Signatures in Young Stellar Associations

The Astrophysical Journal
Young stars form in associations, meaning that young stellar associations provide an ideal environment to measure the age of a nominally coeval population.
Kendall Sullivan, Adam L. Kraus
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A MaNGA about the Legacy. I. Connecting the Assembly of Stellar Halo with the Average Star Formation History in Low-redshift Massive Galaxies

The Astronomical Journal
We investigate the connection between stellar mass distribution, assembly history, and star formation timescales in low-redshift massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) by combining deep LegacySurvey imaging with MaNGA’s spatially resolved spectroscopy ...
Xiaoya Zhang, Song Huang, Meng Gu
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A Census of Star Formation Histories of Massive Galaxies at 0.6 < z < 1 from Spectrophotometric Modeling Using Bagpipes and Prospector

The Astrophysical Journal
We present individual star formation histories (SFHs) of ∼3000 massive galaxies (log( M _* / M _⊙ ) > 10.5) from the Large Early Galaxy Astrophysics Census spectroscopic survey at a lookback time of ∼7 billion yr and quantify the population trends ...
Yasha Kaushal, Angelos Nersesian, Rachel Bezanson, Arjen van der Wel, Joel Leja, Adam Carnall, Anna Gallazzi, Stefano Zibetti, Gourav Khullar, Marijn Franx, Adam Muzzin, Anna de Graaff, Camilla Pacifici, Katherine E. Whitaker, Eric F. Bell, Marco Martorano   +15 more
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Stellar Ages: A Code to Infer Properties of Stellar Populations

The Astrophysical Journal
We present a novel statistical algorithm, Stellar Ages, which currently infers the age, metallicity, and extinction posterior distributions of stellar populations from their magnitudes.
Joseph J. Guzman, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Andrés F. Barrientos, Benjamin F. Williams, Julianne J. Dalcanton   +4 more
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Metal-poor Stars in the MW Disk: Resonant Cooling of Vertical Oscillations of Halo Stars in Barred Galaxies

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Using numerical simulations of a barred disk galaxy embedded in nonspinning and spinning dark matter (DM) halos, we present a novel mechanism of “cooling” the vertical oscillations of DM particles, which acquire disk kinematics.
Xingchen Li, Isaac Shlosman, Daniel Pfenniger, Clayton Heller   +3 more
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