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The Effect of Environment on Star Formation Activity and Morphology at 0.5 < z < 2.5 in CANDELS

To explore the effect of environment on star formation and the morphological transformation of high-redshift galaxies, we present a robust estimation of localized galaxy overdensity using a density estimator within the Bayesian probability framework. The maps of environmental overdensity at 0.5 < z < 2.5 are constructed for the five CANDELS fields. In general, the quiescent fraction increases with overdensity and stellar mass. Stellar mass dominates the star formation quenching for massive galaxies, while environmental quenching tends to be more effective for the low-mass galaxies at 0.5 < z < 1. For the most massive galaxies (M* > 1010.8M⊙), the effect of environmental quenching is still significant up to z ~ 2.5. No significant environmental dependence is found in the distributions of Sérsic index and effective radius for SFGs and QGs separately. The primary role of environment might be to control the quiescent fraction. And the morphological parameters are primarily connected with star formation status. The similarity in the trends of quiescent fraction and Sérsic index along with stellar mass indicates that morphological transformation is accompanied by star formation quenching.

Keywords: galaxy quenching; galaxy structure; galaxy environments
Turbulence in a Self-gravitating Molecular Cloud Core

Externally driven interstellar turbulence plays an important role in shaping the density structure in molecular clouds. Here we study the dynamical role of internally driven turbulence in a self-gravitating molecular cloud core. Depending on the initial conditions and evolutionary stages, we find that a self-gravitating core in the presence of gravity-driven turbulence can undergo constant, decelerated, and accelerated infall, and thus has various radial velocity profiles. In the gravity-dominated central region, a higher level of turbulence results in a lower infall velocity, a higher density, and a lower mass accretion rate. As an important implication of this study, efficient reconnection diffusion of magnetic fields against the gravitational drag naturally occurs due to the gravity-driven turbulence, without invoking externally driven turbulence.

Keywords: astrophysical fluid dynamics; interstellar magnetic fields; star formation
Localized Reconnection Heating Inferred from the Three-dimensional Locations of Bright Active Region Coronal Loops

Coronal loops observed in soft X-rays and extreme ultraviolet imaging data offer direct evidence that coronal plasma is heated by some mechanism. That mechanism appears to energize a particular bundle of field lines somehow selected from the magnetized coronal volume. Magnetic reconnection localized to a patch within a coronal current sheet is one mechanism that would select a flux bundle at the same time it energized it. Since magnetic reconnection occurs preferentially at topological boundaries, we would expect to find coronal loops concentrated there if it were at work. We explore this hypothesis using a data set, previously compiled by McCarthy et al., consisting of 301 coronal loops interconnecting a pair of active regions over a 48 hr period. That work computed the three-dimensional geometries and magnetic field strengths for most of the loops. This revealed many bright loops lying at the periphery of the interconnecting flux domain, possibly created and energized by the reconnection that created the interconnecting flux. There were, however, many loops well inside the domain which would be difficult to attribute to that mode of reconnection. Here we use detailed magnetic models of the interconnecting domain to show that these internal loops tend to occur along internal boundaries: separatrices. This offers a novel form of evidence that coronal loops are the products of patchy reconnection even under quiescent conditions.

Keywords: solar coronal loops
Exploring the Mass-loss Histories of the Red Supergiants

We report mid- to far-infrared imaging and photometry from 7 to 37 μm with SOFIA/FORCAST and 2 μm adaptive optics imaging with LBTI/LMIRCam of a large sample of red supergiants (RSGs) in four Galactic clusters: RSGC1, RSGC2 = Stephenson 2, RSGC3, and NGC 7419. The RSGs in these clusters cover their expected range in luminosity and initial mass from ≈9 to more than 25 M⊙. The population includes examples of very late-type RSGs such as MY Cep, which may be near the end of the RSG stage, high-mass-losing maser sources, yellow hypergiants, and post-RSG candidates. Many of the stars and almost all of the most luminous have spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with extended infrared excess radiation at the longest wavelengths. To best model their SEDs, we use the DUSTY code with a variable radial density distribution function to estimate their mass-loss rates. Our $\dot{M}$ -luminosity relation for 42 RSGs basically follows the classical de Jager curve, but at luminosities below 105 ${L}_{\odot }$ , we find a significant population of RSGs with $\dot{M}$ below the de Jager relation. At luminosities above 105 L⊙, there is a rapid transition to higher mass-loss rates that approximates and overlaps the de Jager curve. We recommend that instead of using a linear relation or single curve, the empirical $\dot{M}$ -luminosity relation is better represented by a broad band. Interestingly, the transition to much higher $\dot{M}$ at about 105 L⊙ corresponds approximately to an initial mass of 18-20 M⊙, which is close to the upper limit for RSGs becoming Type II supernovae. * Based on observations obtained with (1) the NASA/DLR Stratospheric Observatory (SOFIA). SOFIA is jointly operated by the Universities Space Research Association, Inc. (USRA) under NASA contract NAS2-97001 and the Deutsches SOFIA Institut (DSI) under DLR contract 50OK 0901 to the University of Stuttgart, and (2) LMIRCam/LBTI on the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), an international collaboration among institutions in the United States, Italy, and Germany. LBT Corporation partners include The University of Arizona on behalf of the Arizona university system; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy; LBTBeteiligungsgesellschaft, Germany, representing the Max-Planck Society, the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, and Heidelberg University; The Ohio State University, and The Research Corporation, on behalf of The University of Notre Dame, University of Minnesota, and University of Virginia.

Keywords: red supergiant stars; stellar mass loss; circumstellar matter
Testing the Strong Equivalence Principle: Detection of the External Field Effect in Rotationally Supported Galaxies

The strong equivalence principle (SEP) distinguishes general relativity (GR) from other viable theories of gravity. The SEP demands that the internal dynamics of a self-gravitating system under freefall in an external gravitational field should not depend on the external field strength. We test the SEP by investigating the external field effect (EFE) in Milgromian dynamics (MOND), proposed as an alternative to dark matter in interpreting galactic kinematics. We report a detection of this EFE using galaxies from the Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves (SPARC) sample together with estimates of the large-scale external gravitational field from an all-sky galaxy catalog. Our detection is threefold: (1) the EFE is individually detected at 8σ to 11σ in "golden" galaxies subjected to exceptionally strong external fields, while it is not detected in exceptionally isolated galaxies, (2) the EFE is statistically detected at more than 4σ from a blind test of 153 SPARC rotating galaxies, giving a mean value of the external field consistent with an independent estimate from the galaxies' environments, and (3) we detect a systematic downward trend in the weak gravity part of the radial acceleration relation at the right acceleration predicted by the EFE of the MOND modified gravity. Tidal effects from neighboring galaxies in the Λ cold dark matter (CDM) context are not strong enough to explain these phenomena. They are not predicted by existing ΛCDM models of galaxy formation and evolution, adding a new small-scale challenge to the ΛCDM paradigm. Our results point to a breakdown of the SEP, supporting modified gravity theories beyond GR.

Keywords: non-standard theories of gravity; disk galaxies; gravitation
The Nucleosynthetic Yields of Core-collapse Supernovae: Prospects for the Next Generation of Gamma-Ray Astronomy

Though the neutrino-driven convection model for the core-collapse explosion mechanism has received strong support in recent years, there are still many uncertainties in the explosion parameters—such as explosion energy, remnant mass, and end-of-life stellar abundances as initial conditions. Using a broad set of spherically symmetric core-collapse simulations we examine the effects of these key parameters on explosive nucleosynthesis and final explosion yields. The post-bounce temperature and density evolution of zero-age main-sequence 15, 20, and 25 solar mass progenitors are post-processed through the Nucleosynthesis Grid nuclear network to obtain detailed explosive yields. In particular, this study focuses on radio isotopes that are of particular interest to the next generation of gamma-ray astronomical observations: 43K, 47Ca, 44Sc, 47Sc, 48V, 48Cr, 51Cr, 52Mn, 59Fe, 56Co, 57Co, and 57Ni. These nuclides may be key in advancing our understanding of the inner workings of core-collapse supernovae by probing the parameters of the explosion engine. We find that the isotopes that are strong indicators of explosion energy are 43K, 47Ca, 44Sc, 47Sc, and 59Fe, those that are dependent on the progenitor structure are 48V, 51Cr, and 57Co, and those that probe neither are 48Cr, 52Mn, 57Ni, and 56Co. We discuss the prospects of observing these radionuclides in supernova remnants.

Keywords: supernovae; core-collapse supernovae; explosive nucleosynthesis; stellar nucleosynthesis; gamma-ray transient sources; gamma-ray astronomy
Integrated Photometry of Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters

Evidence that multiple populations (MPs) are common properties of globular clusters (GCs) has accumulated over the past decades from clusters in the Milky Way and in its satellites. This finding has revived research into GCs, and suggested that their formation at high redshift must have been a much more complex phenomenon than imagined before. However, most information on MPs is limited to nearby GCs. The main limitation is that most studies of MPs rely on resolved stars, posing a major challenge to the investigation of the MP phenomenon in distant galaxies. Here we search for integrated colors of old GCs that are sensitive to the MP phenomenon. To do this, we exploit integrated magnitudes of simulated GCs with MPs, and multiband Hubble Space Telescope photometry of 56 Galactic GCs, where MPs are widely studied, and characterized as part of the UV Legacy Survey of Galactic GCs. We find that both integrated CF275W,F336W,F438W and mF275W - mF814W colors strongly correlate with the iron abundance of the host GC. To second order, the pseudo two-color diagram built with these integrated colors is sensitive to the MP phenomenon. In particular, once the dependence on cluster metallicity is removed, the color residuals depend on the maximum internal helium variation within GCs and on the fraction of second-generation stars. This diagram, which we define here for Galactic GCs, has the potential to detect and characterize MPs from integrated photometry of old GCs, thus providing the possibility to extend their investigation outside the Local Group.

Keywords: globular star clusters
Merger Rates of Intermediate-mass Black Hole Binaries in Nuclear Star Clusters

Repeated mergers of stellar-mass black holes in dense star clusters can produce intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). In particular, nuclear star clusters at the centers of galaxies have deep enough potential wells to retain most of the black hole (BH) merger products, in spite of the significant recoil kicks due to anisotropic emission of gravitational radiation. These events can be detected in gravitational waves, which represent an unprecedented opportunity to reveal IMBHs. In this paper, we analyze the statistical results of a wide range of numerical simulations, which encompass different cluster metallicities, initial BH seed masses, and initial BH spins, and we compute the merger rate of IMBH binaries. We find that merger rates are in the range 0.01-10 Gpc-3 yr-1 depending on IMBH masses. We also compute the number of multiband detections in ground-based and space-based observatories. Our model predicts that a few merger events per year should be detectable with LISA, DECIGO, Einstein Telescope (ET), and LIGO for IMBHs with masses ≲1000 M ⊙, and a few tens of merger events per year with DECIGO, ET, and LIGO only.

Keywords: black holes; intermediate-mass black holes; gravitational waves; gravitational wave sources; gravitational wave detectors; gravitational wave astronomy; star clusters
Asteroid Measurements at Millimeter Wavelengths with the South Pole Telescope

We present the first measurements of asteroids in millimeter wavelength data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT), which is used primarily to study the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We analyze maps of two ~270 deg2 sky regions near the ecliptic plane, each observed with the SPTpol camera ~100 times over 1 month. We subtract the mean of all maps of a given field, removing static sky signal, and then average the mean-subtracted maps at known asteroid locations. We detect three asteroids-(324) Bamberga, (13) Egeria, and (22) Kalliope-with signal-to-noise ratios (S/N) of 11.2, 10.4, and 6.1, respectively, at 2.0 mm (150 GHz); we also detect (324) Bamberga with an S/N of 4.1 at 3.2 mm (95 GHz). We place constraints on these asteroids' effective emissivities, brightness temperatures, and light-curve modulation amplitude. Our flux density measurements of (324) Bamberga and (13) Egeria roughly agree with predictions, while our measurements of (22) Kalliope suggest lower flux, corresponding to effective emissivities of 0.64 ± 0.11 at 2.0 and < 0.47 at 3.2 mm. We predict the asteroids detectable in other SPT data sets and find good agreement with detections of (772) Tanete and (1093) Freda in recent data from the SPT-3G camera, which has ~10× the mapping speed of SPTpol. This work is the first focused analysis of asteroids in data from CMB surveys, and it demonstrates we can repurpose historic and future data sets for asteroid studies. Future SPT measurements can help constrain the distribution of surface properties over a larger asteroid population.

Keywords: asteroids; asteroid surfaces; millimeter astronomy; cosmic microwave background radiation
Observations of 4U 1626-67 with the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer

We present measurements of the polarization of X-rays in the 2-8 keV band from the pulsar in the ultracompact low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1626-67 using data from the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The 7.66 s pulsations were clearly detected throughout the IXPE observations as well as in the NICER soft X-ray observations, which we used as the basis for our timing analysis and to constrain the spectral shape over the 0.4-10 keV energy band. Chandra HETGS high-resolution X-ray spectra were also obtained near the times of the IXPE observations for firm spectral modeling. We found an upper limit on the pulse-averaged linear polarization of <4% (at 95% confidence). Similarly, there was no significant detection of polarized flux in pulse phase intervals when subdividing the bandpass by energy. However, spectropolarimetric modeling over the full bandpass in pulse phase intervals provided a marginal detection of polarization of the power-law spectral component at the 4.8% ± 2.3% level (90% confidence). We discuss the implications concerning the accretion geometry onto the pulsar, favoring two-component models of the pulsed emission.

Keywords: polarimetry; spectropolarimetry; pulsars; low-mass x-ray binary stars
Large-scale Spatial Cross-calibration of Hinode/SOT-SP and SDO/HMI

We investigate the cross-calibration of the Hinode/Solar Optical Telescope-Spectro-Polarimeter (SOT-SP) and Solar Dynamics Observatory/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (SDO/HMI) instrument metadata, specifically the correspondence of the scaling and pointing information. Accurate calibration of these data sets gives the correspondence needed by interinstrument studies and learning-based magnetogram systems, and is required for physically meaningful photospheric magnetic field vectors. We approach the problem by robustly fitting geometric models on correspondences between images from each instrument's pipeline. This technique is common in computer vision, but several critical details are required when using scanning-slit spectrograph data like Hinode/SOT-SP. We apply this technique to data spanning a decade of the Hinode mission. Our results suggest corrections to the published Level 2 Hinode/SOT-SP data. First, an analysis on approximately 2700 scans suggests that the reported pixel size in Hinode/SOT-SP Level 2 data is incorrect by around 1%. Second, analysis of over 12,000 scans shows that the pointing information is often incorrect by dozens of arcseconds with a strong bias. Regression of these corrections indicates that thermal effects have caused secular and cyclic drift in Hinode/SOT-SP pointing data over its mission. We offer two solutions. First, direct coalignment with SDO/HMI data via our procedure can improve alignments for many Hinode/SOT-SP scans. Second, since the pointing errors are predictable, simple post-hoc corrections can substantially improve the pointing. We conclude by illustrating the impact of this updated calibration on derived physical data products needed for research and interpretation. Among other things, our results suggest that the pointing errors induce a hemispheric bias in estimates of radial current density.

Keywords: solar magnetic fields; computational methods
Impact of an Active Sgr A* on the Synthesis of Water and Organic Molecules throughout the Milky Way

Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in our Galaxy, is dormant today, but it should have gone through multiple gas-accretion episodes in the past billions of years to grow to its current mass of 4 × 106 M⊙. Each episode temporarily ignites the SMBH and turns the Galactic Center into an active galactic nucleus (AGN). Recently, we showed that the AGN could produce large amounts of hard X-rays that can penetrate the dense interstellar medium in the Galactic plane. Here we further study the impact of X-rays on the molecular chemistry in our Galaxy. We use a chemical-reaction network to simulate the evolution of several molecular species, including H2O, CH3OH, and H2CO, both in the gas phase and on the surface of dust grains. We find that X-ray irradiation could significantly enhance the abundances of these species. The effect is most significant in young, high-density molecular clouds and could be prominent at a Galactic distance of 8 kpc or smaller. The imprint in the chemical abundance is visible even several million years after the AGN turns off.

Keywords: astrochemistry; galaxy abundances; interstellar medium; interstellar molecules; x-ray active galactic nuclei
Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars. V. The Varieties of Disruptions

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are generally imagined as the complete disruption of a star when it passes close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH). Relativistic apsidal precession is thought to quickly "circularize" the bound debris, forming a compact accretion disk, which then emits a flare of standardized light curve and spectrum. We show here that this picture holds in only a minority of cases. TDEs are more diverse and can be grouped into several categories distinguished by stellar pericenter distance rp; we estimate the relative frequency of these categories. Rapid circularization is rare both because it requires ${r}_{p}\leqslant {R}_{\mathrm{circ}}\sim 10{r}_{g}$ ( ${r}_{g}\equiv {{GM}}_{\mathrm{BH}}/{c}^{2}$ ) and because most events with ${r}_{p}\leqslant 14{r}_{g}$ lead to direct capture. For larger pericenter distances, ${R}_{\mathrm{circ}}\lt {r}_{p}\lt 27{r}_{g}$ (for MBH = 106 M⊙), main-sequence stars with M* ≲ 3 are completely disrupted, but the bound debris orbits are highly eccentric and possess semimajor axes ∼100× the scale of the expected compact disk. Partial disruptions with fractional mass loss ≳10% occur with a rate similar to that of total disruptions; for fractional mass loss ≳50%, the rate is ≈1/3 as large. Partial disruptions—which must precede total disruptions when the stars' angular momenta evolve in the "empty loss-cone" regime—change the orbital energy by factors ≳O(1). Partial disruption remnants are in general far from thermal equilibrium. Depending on its orbital energy and conditions within the stellar cluster surrounding the SMBH, a remnant may return after ∼O(100)-O(1000) yr and be fully disrupted, or it may rejoin the stellar cluster.

Keywords: black hole physics; general relativity; supermassive black holes; galactic center; gravitation; stellar dynamics
Properties of Neutrino Transfer in a Deformed Remnant of a Neutron Star Merger

We study properties of neutrino transfer in a remnant of a neutron star merger, consisting of a massive neutron star and a surrounding torus. We perform numerical simulations of the neutrino transfer by solving the Boltzmann equation with momentum-space angles and energies of neutrinos for snapshots of the merger remnant having elongated shapes. The evaluation of the neutrino distributions in multiple dimensions enables us to provide detailed information on the angle and energy spectra and neutrino reaction rates. We demonstrate features of asymmetric neutrino fluxes from the deformed remnant and investigate the neutrino emission region by determining the neutrinosphere for each energy. We examine the emission and absorption of neutrinos to identify important ingredients of heating rates through neutrino irradiation. We show that the contributions of μ- and τ-type neutrinos are important for the heating in the region above the massive neutron star. We also examine the angle moments and the Eddington tensor calculated directly from the neutrino distribution functions and compare them with those obtained by a moment closure approach, which is often used in the study of neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics. We show that the components of the Eddington tensor have non-monotonic behaviors, and the approximation of the closure relation may become inaccurate for high-energy neutrinos, whose fluxes are highly aspherical due to the extended merger remnant.

Keywords: compact objects; neutron stars; neutrino astronomy; radiative transfer; high energy astrophysics