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Interstellar objects (ISOs), the parent population of 1I/Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, are abundant in the interstellar medium of the Milky Way. This means that the interstellar medium, including molecular cloud regions, has three components:…

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The rarity and deeply embedded nature of stars with masses larger than 8 solar masses has limited our understanding of their formation. Previous work has shown that complementing spectral energy distributions with interferometric and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 A. J. Frost , R. D. Oudmaijer , W. J. de Wit , S. L. Lumsden

(Shortened) The combination of lensing and stellar dynamics breaks the mass-anisotropy degeneracy and provides stringent constraints on the mass distribution in early-type (E/S0) galaxies out to z~1. We present the combined results from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tommaso Treu , Leon V. E. Koopmans

We study the profiles of 75 086 elliptical galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) at both large (50-500 kpc/h) and small (~3 kpc/h) scales. Weak lensing observations in the outskirts of the halo are combined with measurements of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-09 A. E. Schulz , Rachel Mandelbaum , Nikhil Padmanabhan

Context. Three kilometer-sized interstellar objects (ISOs) have been detected transiting the Solar System, and spacecraft have directly measured micrometer-scale interstellar dust (ISD). Yet no intermediate-size interstellar meteoroids have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Eloy Peña-Asensio , Darryl Z. Seligman

Time-delay strong lensing (TDSL) is a powerful probe of the current expansion rate of the Universe. However, in light of the discrepancies between early and late-time cosmological studies, efforts revolve around the characterisation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 A. Yıldırım , S. H. Suyu , G. C. -F. Chen , E. Komatsu

Measurements of the surface brightness distribution and of the velocity dispersion profile have been so far used to infer the inner dynamics of globular clusters. We show that those observations do not trace back the dark matter potentially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francois Roueff , Pierre Salati , Richard Taillet

MOdified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) represents a phenomenological alternative to dark matter (DM) for the missing mass problem in galaxies and clusters of galaxies. We analyze the central regions of a local sample of $\sim 220$ early-type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. Tortora , A. J. Romanowsky , V. F. Cardone , N. R. Napolitano , Ph. Jetzer

We employ Maximum Likelihood Estimators to examine the Pantheon+ catalogue of Type Ia supernovae for large scale anisotropies in the expansion rate of the Universe. The analyses are carried out in the heliocentric frame, the CMB frame, as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-02 Animesh Sah , Mohamed Rameez , Subir Sarkar , Christos Tsagas

We have observed 99 mid-infrared-bright, massive young stellar objects and compact HII regions drawn from the Red MSX source (RMS) survey in the J=3$-$2 transition of $^{12}$CO and $^{13}$CO, using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. 89…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 L. T. Maud , T. J. T. Moore , S. L. Lumsden , J. C. Mottram , J. S. Urquhart , M. G. Hoare

We present the velocity dispersion measurements of four massive $\sim10^{11}M_\odot$ quiescent galaxies at $3.2 < z < 3.7$ based on deep H and K$-$band spectra using the Keck/MOSFIRE near-infrared spectrograph. We find high velocity…

We test claims of large-scale anisotropy in the local expansion rate using cluster scaling relations as distance indicators. Using a Bayesian forward model, we jointly fit the X-ray luminosity--temperature (LT) and thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Tariq Yasin , Richard Stiskalek , Harry Desmond , Sebastian von Hausegger , Pedro G. Ferreira

The evolution of masses and sizes of passive (early-type) galaxies with redshift provides ideal constraints to galaxy formation models. These parameters can in principle be obtained for large galaxy samples from multi-band photometry alone.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Michele Cappellari

Using detailed mock galaxy redshift surveys we investigate to what extent the kinematics of large samples of satellites galaxies extracted from flux-limited surveys can be used to constrain halo masses. Previous host-satellite selection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Frank C. van den Bosch , Peder Norberg , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang

By solving the Liouville equation, third-order nonlinear terms is found via iterative density matrix. Regarding the improved modeling, all frequency range is taken instead of weak absorptive limit. Considered process can be compared with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Sami Ortakaya

We study a process of anomalous diffusion, based on intermittent velocity fluctuations, and we show that its scaling depends on whether we observe the motion of many independent trajectories or that of a Liouville-like equation driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Bologna , P. Grigolini , B. J. West

We summarize the status of our program of near-infrared adaptive optics observations of ultracompact HII regions. By means of selected results we demonstrate the usefulness of this technique for disentangling the complexity of massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Henning , Markus Feldt , Bringfried Stecklum

We study closed systems of particles that are subject to stochastic forces in addition to the conservative forces. The stochastic equations of motion are set up in such a way that the energy is strictly conserved at all times. To ensure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-05 Tânia Tomé , Mário J. de Oliveira

In a serie of three papers, the dynamical interplay between environments and dark matter haloes is investigated, while focussing on the dynamical flows through their virial sphere. Our method relies on both cosmological simulations, to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dominique Aubert , Christophe Pichon

With the recent discoveries of interstellar objects `Oumuamua and Borisov traversing the solar system, understanding the dynamics of interstellar objects is more pressing than ever. These detections have highlighted the possibility that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 Kevin J Napier , Fred C Adams , Konstantin Batygin