Mapping Gas Accretion and Stellar Kinematics to Sub-kiloparsec Scales in NGC 4696 with JWST/NIRSpec

arXiv:2608.07732 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-08-07 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-08-07

Updated: 2026-10-02

Comments: Submitted to ApJ and revised in response to referee comments (36 pages, 23 figures)

Code: https://github.com/mpi-astronomy/snowblind

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Aperture — 55× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Velocity Dispersion — 52× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 41× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 26× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN Feedback — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• alpha — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chebyshev Polynomials — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 3× in this paper
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Highresolution Hubble Space Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Integral Field Unit — 1× in this paper
• Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer — 1× in this paper
• Physical Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Very Long Baseline Array — 1× in this paper

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• Non-linear Least Squares Fitting in IDL with MPFIT

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