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Varying fundamental constants principal component analysis: additional hints about the Hubble tension
Authors: Hart Luke , Chluba Jens 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
Varying fundamental constants (VFC; e.g. the fine-structure constant, αEM) can arise in numerous extended cosmologies. Through their effect on the decoupling of baryons and photons during last scattering and reionization, these models can be directly constrained using measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies. Previous investigations focused mainly on time-independent changes to the values of fundamental constants. Here we generalize to time-dependent variations. Instead of directly studying various VFC parametrizations, we perform a model-independent principal component analysis (PCA), directly using an eigenmode decomposition of the varying constant during recombination. After developing the formalism, we use Planck 2018 data to obtain new VFC limits, showing that three independent VFC modes can be constrained at present. No indications for significant departures from the standard model are found with Planck data. Cosmic variance limited modes are also compared and simple forecasts for the Simons Observatory are carried out, showing that in the future improvements of the current constraints by a factor of ≃3 can be anticipated. Our modes focus solely on VFC at redshifts z ≥ 300. This implies that they do not capture some of the degrees of freedom relating to the reionization era. This aspect provides important new insights into the possible origin of the Hubble tension, hinting that indeed a combined modification of recombination and reionization physics could be at work. An extended PCA, covering both recombination and reionization simultaneously, could shed more light on this question, as we emphasize here.
The T Tauri star V410 Tau in the eyes of SPIRou and TESS
Authors: Finociety B , Donati J-F , Klein B , Zaire B , Lehmann L , Moutou C , Bouvier J , Alencar S H P , Yu L , Grankin K , Artigau É , Doyon R , Delfosse X , Fouqué P , Hébrard G , Jardine M , Kóspál Á , Ménard F ,   SLS consortium
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
We report results of a spectropolarimetric and photometric monitoring of the weak-line T Tauri star V410 Tau based on data collected mostly with SPIRou, the near-infrared (NIR) spectropolarimeter recently installed at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, as part of the SPIRou Legacy Survey large programme, and with TESS between October and December 2019. Using Zeeman–Doppler Imaging (ZDI), we obtained the first maps of photospheric brightness and large-scale magnetic field at the surface of this young star derived from NIR spectropolarimetric data. For the first time, ZDI is also simultaneously applied to high-resolution spectropolarimetric data and very-high-precision photometry. V410 Tau hosts both dark and bright surface features and magnetic regions similar to those previously imaged with ZDI from optical data, except for the absence of a prominent dark polar spot. The brightness distribution is significantly less contrasted than its optical equivalent, as expected from the difference in wavelength. The large-scale magnetic field (${\sim}410$ G), found to be mainly poloidal, features a dipole of ${\sim}390$ G, again compatible with previous studies at optical wavelengths. NIR data yield a surface differential rotation slightly weaker than that estimated in the optical at previous epochs. Finally, we measured the radial velocity of the star and filtered out the stellar activity jitter using both ZDI and Gaussian Process Regression down to a precision of ${\sim}0.15$ and 0.08 $\mathrm{km}\, \mathrm{s}^{-1}$ RMS, respectively, confirming the previously published upper limit on the mass of a potential close-in massive planet around V410 Tau.
A systematic bias in fitting the surface-density profiles of interstellar filaments
Authors: Whitworth A P , Priestley F D , Arzoumanian D 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
The surface-density profiles (SDPs) of dense filaments, in particular those traced by dust emission, appear to be well fit with Plummer profiles, i.e. Σ(b) = ΣB + ΣO{1 + [b/wO]2}[1 − p]/2. Here, $\, \Sigma _{{\rm B}}$ is the background surface density;  ΣB + ΣO is the surface density on the filament spine;  b is the impact parameter of the line-of-sight relative to the filament spine;  wO is the Plummer scale-length (which for fixed p is exactly proportional to the full width at half-maximum, $w_{{\rm O}}=\rm{\small fwhm}/2\lbrace 2^{2/[p-1]}-1\rbrace ^{1/2}$); and $\, p$ is the Plummer exponent (which reflects the slope of the SDP away from the spine). In order to improve signal to noise, it is standard practice to average the observed surface densities along a section of the filament, or even along its whole length, before fitting the profile. We show that, if filaments do indeed have intrinsic Plummer profiles with exponent pINTRINSIC, but there is a range of wO values along the length of the filament (and secondarily a range of ΣB values), the value of the Plummer exponent, pFIT, estimated by fitting the averaged profile, may be significantly less than pINTRINSIC. The decrease, Δp = pINTRINSIC − pFIT, increases monotonically (i) with increasing pINTRINSIC; (ii) with increasing range of wO values; and (iii) if (but only if) there is a finite range of wO values, with increasing range of ΣB values. For typical filament parameters, the decrease is insignificant if pINTRINSIC = 2 (0.05 ≲ Δp ≲ 0.10), but for pINTRINSIC = 3, it is larger (0.18 ≲ Δp ≲ 0.50), and for pINTRINSIC = 4, it is substantial (0.50 ≲ Δp ≲ 1.15). On its own, this effect is probably insufficient to support a value of pINTRINSIC much greater than pFIT ≃ 2, but it could be important in combination with other effects.
GW190521 formation via three-body encounters in young massive star clusters
Authors: Dall’Amico Marco , Mapelli Michela , Di Carlo Ugo N , Bouffanais Yann , Rastello Sara , Santoliquido Filippo , Ballone Alessandro , Arca Sedda Manuel 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
GW190521 is the most massive binary black hole (BBH) merger observed to date, and its primary component lies in the pair-instability (PI) mass gap. Here, we investigate the formation of GW190521-like systems via three-body encounters in young massive star clusters. We performed 2 × 105 simulations of binary-single interactions between a BBH and a massive $\ge {60}\,$M⊙ black hole (BH), including post-Newtonian terms up to the 2.5 order and a prescription for relativistic kicks. In our initial conditions, we take into account the possibility of forming BHs in the PI mass gap via stellar collisions. If we assume that first-generation BHs have low spins, $\sim {0.17}{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of all the simulated BBH mergers have component masses, effective and precessing spin, and remnant mass and spin inside the $90{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ credible intervals of GW190521. Seven of these systems are first-generation exchanged binaries, while five are second-generation BBHs. We estimate a merger rate density $\mathcal {R}_{\rm GW190521}\sim {0.03}\,$Gpc$^{-3}\,$yr−1 for GW190521-like binaries formed via binary-single interactions in young star clusters. This rate is extremely sensitive to the spin distribution of first-generation BBHs. Stellar collisions, second-generation mergers and dynamical exchanges are the key ingredients to produce GW190521-like systems in young star clusters.
The angular momentum structure of CR-driven galactic outflows triggered by stream accretion
Authors: Peschken N , Hanasz M , Naab T , Wóltański D , Gawryszczak A 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
We investigate the impact of gas accretion in streams on the evolution of disc galaxies, using magnetohydrodynamic simulations including advection and anisotropic diffusion of cosmic rays (CRs) generated by supernovae as the only source of feedback. Stream accretion has been suggested as an important galaxy growth mechanism in cosmological simulations and we vary their orientation and angular momentum in idealized setups. We find that accretion streams trigger the formation of galactic rings and enhanced star formation. The star formation rates and consequently the CR-driven outflow rates are higher for low angular momentum accretion streams, which also result in more compact, lower angular momentum discs. The CR generated outflows show a characteristic structure. At low outflow velocities (&lt;50 km s−1), the angular momentum distribution is similar to the disc and the gas is in a fountain flow. Gas at high outflow velocities (&gt;200 km s−1), penetrating deep into the halo, has close to zero angular momentum, and originates from the centre of the galaxies. As the mass loading factors of the CR-driven outflows are of the order of unity and higher, we conclude that this process is important for the removal of low angular momentum gas from evolving disc galaxies and the transport of, potentially metal enriched, material from galactic centres far into the galactic haloes.
Testing extensions to ΛCDM on small scales with forthcoming cosmic shear surveys
Authors: Stafford Sam G , McCarthy Ian G , Kwan Juliana , Brown Shaun T , Font Andreea S , Robertson Andrew 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
We investigate the constraining power of forthcoming Stage-IV weak lensing surveys (Euclid, lsst, and NGRST) for extensions to the Lambda cold dark matter model on small scales, via their impact on the cosmic shear power spectrum. We use high-resolution cosmological simulations to calculate how warm dark matter (WDM), self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), and a running of the spectral index affect the non-linear matter power spectrum, P(k), as a function of scale and redshift. We evaluate the cosmological constraining power using synthetic weak lensing observations derived from these power spectra and that take into account the anticipated source densities, shape noise, and cosmic variance errors of upcoming surveys. We show that upcoming Stage-IV surveys will be able to place useful, independent constraints on both WDM models (ruling out models with a particle mass of ≲0.5 keV) and SIDM models (ruling out models with a velocity-independent cross-section of ≳10 cm2 g−1) through their effects on the small-scale cosmic shear power spectrum. Similarly, they will be able to strongly constrain cosmologies with a running spectral index. Finally, we explore the error associated with the cosmic shear cross-spectrum between tomographic bins, finding that it can be significantly affected by Poisson noise (the standard assumption is that the Poisson noise cancels between tomographic bins). We provide a new analytic form for the error on the cross-spectrum that accurately captures this effect.
Charting nearby stellar systems: the intensity of Galactic cosmic rays for a sample of solar-type stars
Authors: Rodgers-Lee D , Vidotto A A , Mesquita A L 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
Cosmic rays can penetrate planetary atmospheres driving the formation of prebiotic molecules, which are important for the origin of life. We calculate the Galactic cosmic ray fluxes in the habitable zone (HZ) of five nearby, well-studied solar-type stars and at the orbits of two known exoplanets. We model the propagation of Galactic cosmic rays through the stellar winds using a combined 1.5D stellar wind and 1D cosmic ray transport model. We find that the HZ of 61 Cyg A has comparable Galactic cosmic ray fluxes to present-day Earth values. For the other four systems (ϵ Eri, ϵ Ind, ξ Boo B, and π1 UMa), the fluxes are orders of magnitude smaller than Earth values. Thus, it is unlikely that any as-of-yet undetected Earth-like planets in their HZs would receive a higher radiation dose than is received on Earth. $\epsilon \,$Ind b, a Jupiter-like planet orbiting at ∼11 au, receives higher Galactic cosmic ray fluxes than Earth. We find the suppression of Galactic cosmic rays is influenced by whether diffusion or advection dominates at GeV energies and at distances where the wind has reached its’ terminal velocity. For advectively dominated winds (∼younger systems), varying the astrospheric size influences the suppression significantly. For diffusion-dominated systems (∼older systems), the astrospheric size, and therefore knowledge of the interstellar medium properties, are not very important. This reduces the Galactic cosmic ray flux uncertainties in the HZ for diffusion-dominated systems. Whether a system is advection- or diffusion-dominated can be determined from the stellar wind properties.
SDSS-IV MaNGA: the physical origin of off-galaxy H α blobs in the local Universe
Authors: Ji Xihan , Li Cheng , Yan Renbin , Mo Houjun , Lin Lihwai , Zou Hu , Lian Jianhui , Stark David V , Riffel Rogemar A , Pan Hsi-An , Bizyaev Dmitry , Bundy Kevin 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
H α blobs are off-galaxy emission-line regions with weak or no optical counterparts. They are mostly visible in H α line, appearing as concentrated blobs. Such unusual objects have been rarely observed and studied, and their physical origin is still unclear. We have identified 13 H α blobs in the public data of MaNGA survey, by visually inspecting both the optical images and the spatially resolved maps of H α line for ∼4600 galaxy systems. Among the 13 H α blobs, 2 were reported in previously MaNGA-based studies and 11 are newly discovered. This sample, though still small in size, is by far the largest sample with both deep imaging and integral field spectroscopy. Therefore, for the first time we are able to perform statistical studies to investigate the physical origin of H α blobs. We examine the physical properties of these H α blobs and their associated galaxies, including their morphology, environments, gas-phase metallicities, kinematics of ionized gas, and ionizing sources. We find that the H α blobs in our sample can be broadly divided into two groups. One is associated with interacting/merging galaxy systems, of which the ionization is dominated by shocks or diffuse ionized gas. It is likely that these H α blobs used to be part of their nearby galaxies, but were stripped away at some point due to tidal interactions. The other group is found in gas-rich systems, appearing as low-metallicity star-forming regions that are visually detached from the main galaxy. These H α blobs could be associated with faint discs, spiral arms, or dwarf galaxies.
On the equations of warped disc dynamics
Authors: Dullemond C P , Kimmig C N , Zanazzi J J 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
The 1D evolution equations for warped discs come in two flavours: For very viscous discs, the internal torque vector $\boldsymbol {G}$ is uniquely determined by the local conditions in the disc, and warps tend to damp out rapidly if they are not continuously driven. For very inviscid discs, on the other hand, $\boldsymbol {G}$ becomes a dynamic quantity, and a warp will propagate through the disc as a wave. The equations governing both regimes are usually treated separately. A unified set of equations was postulated recently by Martin et al., but not yet derived from the underlying physics. The standard method for deriving these equations is based on a perturbation series expansion, which is a powerful, but somewhat abstract technique. A more straightforward method is to employ the warped shearing box framework of Ogilvie & Latter, which so far has not yet been used to derive the equations for the wave-like regime. The goal of this paper is to analyse the warped disc equations in both regimes using the warped shearing box framework, to derive a unified set of equations, valid for small warps, and to discuss how our results can be interpreted in terms of the affine tilted-slab approach of Ogilvie.
Residual velocities of Small Magellanic Cloud star clusters
Authors: Piatti Andrés E 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
We analysed the largest Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) cluster sample (32) with proper motions and radial velocity measurements, from which we obtained their space velocity components. By adopting as a reference, the recent best-fitting rotating disc of SMC star clusters as a function of the position angle, we computed their residual velocity vectors, and compared their magnitudes ($\Delta \, V$) with that of a cluster with residual velocity components equal to the velocity dispersions along the three independent SMC rotating disc axes of motion ($\Delta \, V$ = 60 km s−1). We found that clusters that belong to SMC tidally induced structures have $\Delta \, V\, \gt $ 50 km s−1, which suggests that space velocities of clusters in the process of escaping the rotating disc kinematics are measurably different. Studied clusters pertaining to a northern branch of the Magellanic Bridge, the main Magellanic Bridge, the Counter-Bridge, and the West Halo give support these findings. NGC 121, the oldest known SMC cluster, does not belong to any SMC tidal feature, and has $\Delta \, V$ = 64  km s−1, slightly above the boundary between bound and kinematically perturbed clusters.
Pisces VII: discovery of a possible satellite of Messier 33 in the DESI legacy imaging surveys
Authors: Martínez-Delgado David , Karim Noushin , Charles Emily J E , Boschin Walter , Monelli Matteo , Collins Michelle L M , Donatiello Giuseppe , Alfaro Emilio J 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
We report deep imaging observations with DOLoRes@TNG of an ultra-faint dwarf satellite candidate of the Triangulum galaxy (M33) found by visual inspection of the public imaging data release of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. Pisces VII/Triangulum (Tri) III is found at a projected distance of $72\, {\rm kpc}$ from M33, and using the tip of the red giant branch method, we estimate a distance of $D=1.0^{+0.3}_{-0.2}\, {\rm Mpc}$, meaning the galaxy could either be an isolated ultra-faint or the second known satellite of M33. We estimate an absolute magnitude of MV = −6.1 ± 0.2 if Pisces VII/Tri II is at the distance of M33, or as bright as MV = −6.8 ± 0.2 if the galaxy is isolated. At the isolated distance, it has a physical half-light radius of $r_{\rm h}=131\pm 61\, {\rm pc}$ consistent with similarly faint galaxies around the Milky Way. As the tip of the red giant branch is sparsely populated, constraining a precision distance is not possible, but if Pisces VII/Tri III can be confirmed as a true satellite of M33, it is a significant finding. With only one potential satellite detected around M33 previously (Andromeda XXII/Tri I), it lacks a significant satellite population in stark contrast to the similarly massive Large Magellanic Cloud. The detection of more satellites in the outskirts of M33 could help to better illuminate if this discrepancy between expectation and observations is due to a poor understanding of the galaxy formation process, or if it is due to the low luminosity and surface brightness of the M33 satellite population which has thus far fallen below the detection limits of previous surveys. If it is truly isolated, it would be the faintest known field dwarf detected to date.
Large binocular telescope observations of new six compact star-forming galaxies with [Ne v] λ3426 Å emission
Authors: Izotov Y I , Thuan T X , Guseva N G 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
We report the discovery of [Ne v] λ3426 emission, in addition to He ii λ4686 emission, in six compact star-forming galaxies. These observations considerably increase the sample of eight such galaxies discovered earlier by our group. For four of the new galaxies, the optical observations are supplemented by near-infrared spectra. All galaxies, but one, have H ii regions that are dense, with electron number densities of ∼ 300–700 cm−3. They are all characterized by high H β equivalent widths EW(H β) ∼ 190–520 Å and high O32 = [O iii] λ5007/[O ii] λ3727 ratios of 10–30, indicating young starburst ages and the presence of high ionization radiation. All are low-metallicity objects with 12 + logO/H = 7.46–7.88. The spectra of all galaxies show a low-intensity broad component of the H α line and five of six objects show Wolf–Rayet features. Comparison with photoionization models shows that pure stellar ionization radiation from massive stars is not hard enough to produce such strong [Ne v] and He ii emission in our galaxies. The [Ne v] λ3426/He ii λ4686 flux ratio of ∼1.2 in J1222+3602 is consistent with some contribution of active galactic nucleus ionizing radiation. However, in the remaining five galaxies, this ratio is considerably lower, $\lesssim$ 0.4. The most plausible models are likely to be non-uniform in density, where He ii and [Ne v] lines are emitted in low-density channels made by outflows and illuminated by harder ionizing radiation from radiative shocks propagating through these channels, whereas [O iii] emission originates in denser regions exposed to softer stellar ionizing sources.
The effects of varying colour–luminosity relations on Type Ia supernova science
Authors: González-Gaitán S , de Jaeger T , Galbany L , Mourão A , Paulino-Afonso A , Filippenko A V 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
The success of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) distance standardization for cosmology relies on a single global linear relationship between their peak luminosity and colour, the β parameter. However, there are several pieces of evidence and physical reasons to believe that this relation is not universal and may change within different subgroups, or even among individual objects. In this work, we allow β to vary among subpopulations with different observed properties in the cosmological fits. Although the inferred cosmological parameters are consistent with previous studies that assume a single colour–luminosity relation, we find that the SN data favour non-universal distributions of β when split according to SN colour and/or host-galaxy mass. For galaxy mass, we obtain a β-step relation in which low β values occur in more massive galaxies, a trend that can be explained by differing dust reddening laws for two types of environments. For colour, we find that bluer/redder SNe Ia are consistent with a lower/larger β. This trend is explained with β being a combination of a low intrinsic colour–luminosity relation dominant in bluer SNe and a higher extrinsic reddening relation dominant at redder colours. The host-galaxy mass-step correction always provides better distance calibration, regardless of the multiple β approaches, and we suggest that it may come from a difference in intrinsic colour–luminosity properties of SNe Ia in two types of environments. Additionally, we find that blue SNe in low-mass environments are better standard candles than the others.
A method to distinguish between micro- and macro-granular surfaces of small Solar system bodies
Authors: Bischoff D , Gundlach B , Blum J 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT
The surface granularity of small Solar system bodies is diverse through the different types of planetary bodies and even for specific objects it is often not known in detail. One of the physical properties that strongly depends on the surface structure is the surface temperature. In highly porous media with large voids, radiation can efficiently transport heat, whereas more compact, micro-porous structures transport the heat primarily by conduction through the solid material. In this work, we investigate under which conditions a macro-porous surface can be distinguished from a micro-porous one by simply measuring the surface temperature. In our numerical simulations, we included circular and elliptical orbits with and without obliquity and varied the rotation period of the considered objects. We found that daily temperature cycles are rather insensitive to the specific surface granularity. However, the surface temperature at sunrise shows significant dependence on the material structure and this effect becomes even more pronounced when the solar intensity increases. By measuring the sunrise temperature as a function of insolation at noon, a differentiation between micro- and macro-granular surface structures is possible. In this paper, we provide a strategy on how remote sensing can be used to derive the surface structure of small Solar system bodies.