Atomic hydrogen in the milky way: a stepping stone in the evolution of galaxies

NM McClure-Griffiths, S Stanimirović… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Atomic hydrogen (Hi) is a critical stepping stone in the gas evolution cycle of the interstellar
medium (ISM) of the Milky Way. Hi traces both the cold, premolecular state before star …

Precise radio astrometry and new developments for the next generation of instruments

MJ Rioja, R Dodson - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2020 - Springer
We present a technique-led review of the progression of precise radio astrometry, from the
first demonstrations, half a century ago, until to date and into the future. We cover the …

First Sagittarius A* event horizon telescope results. VI. Testing the black hole metric

K Akiyama, A Alberdi, W Alef, JC Algaba… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only
stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies …

First Sagittarius A* event horizon telescope results. V. Testing astrophysical models of the galactic center black hole

K Akiyama, A Alberdi, W Alef, JC Algaba… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we provide a first physical interpretation for the Event Horizon Telescopeʼs
(EHT) 2017 observations of Sgr A*. Our main approach is to compare resolved EHT data at …

First Sagittarius A* event horizon telescope results. IV. Variability, morphology, and black hole mass

K Akiyama, A Alberdi, W Alef, JC Algaba… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we quantify the temporal variability and image morphology of the horizon-scale
emission from Sgr A*, as observed by the EHT in 2017 April at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. We …

[HTML][HTML] First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope results. I. The shadow of the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way

K Akiyama, A Alberdi, W Alef, JC Algaba… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive
Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way - IOPscience Skip to content IOP Science home …

Star formation near the Sun is driven by expansion of the Local Bubble

C Zucker, AA Goodman, J Alves, S Bialy, M Foley… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
For decades we have known that the Sun lies within the Local Bubble, a cavity of low-
density, high-temperature plasma surrounded by a shell of cold, neutral gas and dust …

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI: Testing the Black Hole Metric

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only
stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies …

Gaia Data Release 3-Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way

R Drimmel, M Romero-Gómez, L Chemin… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. With the most recent Gaia data release, the number of sources with complete 6D
phase space information (position and velocity) has increased to well over 33 million stars …

Improved GRAVITY astrometric accuracy from modeling optical aberrations

R Abuter, A Amorim, M Bauböck, JP Berger… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
The GRAVITY instrument on the ESO VLTI pioneers the field of high-precision near-infrared
interferometry by providing astrometry at the 10− 100 μas level. Measurements at this high …