Evidence of a Thick Heliopause Boundary Layer Resulting from Active Magnetic Reconnection with the Interstellar Medium by Drew L. Turner, Adam Michael, Elena Provornikova, Marc Kornbleuth, Merav Opher, Stefan Eriksson, Benoit Lavraud, Parisa Mostafavi, Matthew E. Hill, Pontus Brandt, Ian J. Cohen, Joseph Westlake, John D. Richardson, Nathan A. Schwadron, David J. McComas

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Bell Instability–mediated Diffusive Shock Acceleration at Supernova Blast Wave Shock Propagating in the Interstellar Medium by Tsuyoshi Inoue, Alexandre Marcowith, Gwenael Giacinti

“…We find that the magnetic field is mildly amplified under typical interstellar medium conditions that leads to maximum cosmic-ray energy ≃30 TeV for supernova remnants with age ≃1000 yr consistent with gamma-ray observations. …”
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Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program): The Magnetic Fields in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium of the Antennae Galaxies by Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Alejandro S. Borlaff, Rainer Beck, William T. Reach, Sui Ann Mao, Evangelia Ntormousi, Konstantinos Tassis, Sergio Martin-Alvarez, Susan E. Clark, Daniel A. Dale, Ignacio del Moral-Castro

“…Mergers are thought to be a fundamental channel for galaxy growth, perturbing the gas dynamics and the magnetic fields ( B -fields) in the interstellar medium (ISM). However, the mechanisms that amplify and dissipate B -fields during a merger remain unclear. …”
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PHANGS–JWST First Results: Measuring Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Properties across the Multiphase Interstellar Medium by Jérémy Chastenet, Jessica Sutter, Karin Sandstrom, Francesco Belfiore, Oleg V. Egorov, Kirsten L. Larson, Adam K. Leroy, Daizhong Liu, Erik Rosolowsky, David A. Thilker, Elizabeth J. Watkins, Thomas G. Williams, Ashley. T. Barnes, F. Bigiel, Médéric Boquien, Mélanie Chevance, Daniel A. Dale, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Eric Emsellem, Kathryn Grasha, Brent Groves, Hamid Hassani, Annie Hughes, Kathryn Kreckel, Sharon E. Meidt, Hsi-An Pan, Miguel Querejeta, Eva Schinnerer, Cory M. Whitcomb

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The Interaction Between Accretion from the Interstellar Medium and Accretion from the Evolved Binary Component in Barium Stars by Yeuncheol Jeong, Alexander V. Yushchenko, Dmytry N. Doikov

“…These findings demonstrate the possibility of hydrogen and helium accretion from the interstellar medium on the atmospheres of barium stars.…”
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CLASSY. VIII. Exploring the Source of Ionization with UV Interstellar Medium Diagnostics in Local High-z Analogs by Matilde Mingozzi, Bethan L. James, Danielle A. Berg, Karla Z. Arellano-Córdova, Adele Plat, Claudia Scarlata, Alessandra Aloisi, Ricardo O. Amorín, Jarle Brinchmann, Stéphane Charlot, John Chisholm, Anna Feltre, Simon Gazagnes, Matthew Hayes, Timothy Heckman, Svea Hernandez, Lisa J. Kewley, Nimisha Kumari, Claus Leitherer, Crystal L. Martin, Michael Maseda, Themiya Nanayakkara, Swara Ravindranath, Jane R. Rigby, Peter Senchyna, Evan D. Skillman, Yuma Sugahara, Stephen M. Wilkins, Aida Wofford, Xinfeng Xu

“…In the current JWST era, rest-frame UV spectra play a crucial role in enhancing our understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM) and stellar properties of the first galaxies in the epoch of reionization ( z > 6). …”
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Exploring turbulence from the Sun to the local interstellar medium: Current challenges and perspectives for future space missions by Federico Fraternale, Lingling Zhao, Nikolai V. Pogorelov, Nikolai V. Pogorelov, Luca Sorriso-Valvo, Luca Sorriso-Valvo, Seth Redfield, Ming Zhang, Keyvan Ghanbari, Vladimir Florinski, Vladimir Florinski, Thomas Y. Chen

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Physical conditions of the interstellar medium of high-redshift, strongly lensed submillimetre galaxies from the Herschel-ATLAS by Valtchanov, I, Virdee, J, Ivison, R, Swinyard, B, van der Werf, P, Rigopoulou, D, da Cunha, E, Lupu, R, Benford, D, Riechers, D, Smail, I, Jarvis, M, Pearson, C, Gomez, H, Hopwood, R, Altieri, B, Birkinshaw, M, Coia, D, Conversi, L, Cooray, A, De Zotti, G, Dunne, L, Frayer, D, Leeuw, L, Marston, A

...Spinning black holes in a supernova-driven turbulent interstellar medium ... by Dubois, Y, Volonteri, M, Silk, J, Devriendt, J, Slyz, A

An Origin of Narrow Extended Structure in the Interstellar Medium: An Interstellar Contrail Created by a Fast-moving Massive Object by Kanta Kitajima, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

“…We investigate the thermal condensation caused by a massive object that passes through the interstellar medium with high velocity, and propose a mechanism for creating a filamentary gaseous object, or interstellar contrail. …”
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First Glycine Isomer Detected in the Interstellar Medium: Glycolamide (NH2C(O)CH2OH) by Víctor M. Rivilla, Miguel Sanz-Novo, Izaskun Jiménez-Serra, Jesús Martín-Pintado, Laura Colzi, Shaoshan Zeng, Andrés Megías, Álvaro López-Gallifa, Antonio Martínez-Henares, Sarah Massalkhi, Belén Tercero, Pablo de Vicente, Sergio Martín, David San Andrés, Miguel A. Requena-Torres, José Luis Alonso

“…We report the first detection in the interstellar medium (ISM) of a C _2 H _5 O _2 N isomer: syn -glycolamide (NH _2 C(O)CH _2 OH). …”
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The Astrodust+PAH Model: A Unified Description of the Extinction, Emission, and Polarization from Dust in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium by Brandon S. Hensley, B. T. Draine

“…We derive a size distribution and alignment function for 1.4:1 oblate astrodust grains that, with PAHs, reproduce the mean wavelength dependence and polarization of Galactic extinction and emission from the diffuse interstellar medium while respecting constraints on solid-phase abundances. …”
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The Evolving Interstellar Medium of Star Forming Galaxies Since z=2 as Probed by Their Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions by Magdis, G, Daddi, E, Bethermin, M, Sargent, M, Elbaz, D, Pannella, M, Dickinson, M, Dannerbauer, H, Cunha, E, Walter, F, Rigopoulou, D, Charmandaris, V, Hwang, H, Kartaltepe, J

Low-frequency pulse profile variation in PSR B2217+47: evidence for echoes from the interstellar medium by Michilli, D, Hessels, JWT, Donner, JY, Grießmeier, JM, Serylak, M, Shaw, B, Stappers, BW, Verbiest, JPW, Deller, AT, Driessen, LN, Stinebring, DR, Bondonneau, L, Geyer, M, Hoeft, M, Karastergiou, A, Kramer, M, Oslowski, S, Pilia, M, Sanidas, S, Weltevrede, P

“…We argue that propagation effects in the ionized interstellar medium (IISM) are the most likely cause. The putative structures in the IISM causing the profile variation are roughly half-way between the pulsar and the Earth and have transverse radii R ∼ 30 au. …”

Physical conditions of the interstellar medium of high-redshift, strongly lensed submillimetre galaxies from theHerschel-ATLAS by Valtchanov, I, Virdee, J, Ivison, R, Swinyard, B, van der Werf, P, Rigopoulou, D, da Cunha, E, Lupu, R, Benford, D, Riechers, D, Smail, I, Jarvis, M, Pearson, C, Gomez, H, Hopwood, R, Altieri, B, Birkinshaw, M, Coia, D, Conversi, L, Cooray, A, De Zotti, G, Dunne, L, Frayer, D, Leeuw, L, Marston, A

Turbulence in Zeeman Measurements from Molecular Clouds by Zhuo Cao, Hua-bai Li

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Polarization in the GG Tau Ring—Confronting Dust Self-scattering, Dust Mechanical and Magnetic Alignment, Spirals, and Dust Grain Drift by Ya-Wen Tang, Anne Dutrey, Patrick M. Koch, Stephane Guilloteau, Hsi-Wei Yen, Emmanuel di Folco, Eric Pantin, Takayuki Muto, Akimasa Kataoka, Robert Brauer

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Criss-cross Nebula: A Case Study of Shock Regions with Resolved Microstructures at Scales of ∼1000 au by Tao Jing, Cheng Li, Renbin Yan, Cheng Cheng, Wei Zhang, Xihan Ji, Niu Li, Jing Wang, Chaojian Wu, Haibo Yuan

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Understanding the Kinetic Energy Deposition within Molecular Clouds by Lixia Yuan, Ji Yang, Fujun Du, Yang Su, Shaobo Zhang, Qing-Zeng Yan, Yan Sun, Xin Zhou, Xuepeng Chen, Hongchi Wang, Zhiwei Chen

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Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motion Measurements of Supernova Remnant N132D: Center of Expansion and Age by John Banovetz, Dan Milisavljevic, Niharika Sravan, Kathryn E. Weil, Bhagya Subrayan, Robert A. Fesen, Daniel J. Patnaude, Paul P. Plucinsky, Charles J. Law, William P. Blair, Jon A. Morse

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