Rubin-LSST

Abstract:

We study the 3D axis of rotation (3D spin) of 77 Hi galaxies from the MIGHTEE-Hi Early Science observations, and its relation to the filaments of the cosmic web. For this Hi-selected sample, the alignment between the spin axis and the closest filament (|cos ψ|) is higher for galaxies closer to the filaments, with 〈|cos ψ|〉 = 0.66 ± 0.04 for galaxies <5 Mpc from their closest filament compared to 〈|cos ψ|〉 = 0.37 ± 0.08 for galaxies at 5 < d < 10 Mpc. We find that galaxies with a low Hi-to-stellar mass ratio (log10(MHi/M∗) < 0.11) are more aligned with their closest filaments, with 〈|cos ψ|〉 = 0.58 ± 0.04; whilst galaxies with (log10(MHi/M∗) > 0.11) tend to be mis-aligned, with 〈|cos ψ|〉 = 0.44 ± 0.04. We find tentative evidence that the spin axis of Hi-selected galaxies tend to be aligned with associated filaments (d < 10 Mpc), but this depends on the gas fractions. Galaxies that have accumulated more stellar mass compared to their gas mass tend towards stronger alignment. Our results suggest that those galaxies that have accrued high gas fraction with respect to their stellar mass may have had their spin axis alignment with the filament disrupted by a recent gas-rich merger, whereas the spin vector for those galaxies in which the neutral gas has not been strongly replenished through a recent merger tend to orientate towards alignment with the filament. We also investigate the spin transition between galaxies with a high Hi content and a low Hi content at a threshold of MHI ≈ 109.5 M⊙ found in simulations; however, we find no evidence for such a transition with the current data.

Abstract:

The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by the symmetries of the standard model of particle physics. The Higgs boson was the last missing component of the model. After observation of the Higgs boson, a measurement of the W boson mass provides a stringent test of the model. We measure the W boson mass, MW, using data corresponding to 8.8 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity collected in proton-antiproton collisions at a 1.96 tera-electron volt center-of-mass energy with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. A sample of approximately 4 million W boson candidates is used to obtain [Formula: see text], the precision of which exceeds that of all previous measurements combined (stat, statistical uncertainty; syst, systematic uncertainty; MeV, mega-electron volts; c, speed of light in a vacuum). This measurement is in significant tension with the standard model expectation.