A highly magnified star at redshift 6.2

B Welch, D Coe, JM Diego, A Zitrin, E Zackrisson… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Galaxy clusters magnify background objects through strong gravitational lensing. Typical
magnifications for lensed galaxies are factors of a few but can also be as high as tens or …

On the duration of the embedded phase of star formation

J Kim, M Chevance, JMD Kruijssen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Feedback from massive stars plays a key role in molecular cloud evolution. After the onset of
star formation, the young stellar population is exposed by photoionization, winds …

High star cluster formation efficiency in the strongly lensed Sunburst Lyman-continuum galaxy at z= 2.37

E Vanzella, M Castellano, P Bergamini… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We investigate the strongly lensed (μ≃× 10− 100) Lyman continuum (LyC) galaxy, dubbed
Sunburst, at z= 2.37, taking advantage of a new accurate model of the lens. A …

Early Results from GLASS-JWST. VII. Evidence for Lensed, Gravitationally Bound Protoglobular Clusters at z= 4 in the Hubble Frontier Field A2744

E Vanzella, M Castellano, P Bergamini… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the blue and optical rest-frame sizes (λ≃ 2300–4000 Å) of three compact star-
forming regions in a galaxy at z= 4 strongly lensed (× 30,× 45, and× 100) by the Hubble …

The spatial relation between young star clusters and molecular clouds in M51 with LEGUS

K Grasha, D Calzetti, A Adamo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a study correlating the spatial locations of young star clusters with those of
molecular clouds in NGC 5194, in order to investigate the time-scale over which clusters …

Clues on the presence and segregation of very massive stars in the Sunburst Lyman-continuum cluster at z= 2.37

U Meštrić, E Vanzella, A Upadhyaya, F Martins… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We report the identification of very massive stars (VMS; mass> 100 M⊙) that may be
segregated in the center of the young massive star cluster at z= 2.37 hosted in the lensed …

Star cluster classification in the PHANGS–HST survey: Comparison between human and machine learning approaches

BC Whitmore, JC Lee, R Chandar… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
When completed, the PHANGS–HST project will provide a census of roughly 50 000
compact star clusters and associations, as well as human morphological classifications for …

PHANGS–JWST First Results: A Combined HST and JWST Analysis of the Nuclear Star Cluster in NGC 628

N Hoyer, F Pinna, AWH Kamlah… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We combine archival Hubble Space Telescope and new James Webb Space
Telescope imaging data covering the ultraviolet to mid-infrared regime to morphologically …

The nucleation fraction of local volume galaxies

N Hoyer, N Neumayer, IY Georgiev… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are a common phenomenon in galaxy centres and are found in
a vast majority of galaxies of intermediate stellar mass. Recent investigations suggest that …

Deep transfer learning for star cluster classification: I. application to the PHANGS–HST survey

W Wei, EA Huerta, BC Whitmore, JC Lee… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present the results of a proof-of-concept experiment that demonstrates that deep
learning can successfully be used for production-scale classification of compact star clusters …