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- background It is well known that capturing key physics in the synthetic models - from stellar energetics and spectra, and in particular the treatment of the thermally puls- ing asymptotic-giant-branch (TP-AGB) phase - is key to avoid systematic uncertainties in the derived galaxy physical parameters. TP-AGB stars dominate the NIR light of intermediate-age stellar populations (∼0.2-2 Gyr) in C. Maraston (1998, 2005) evolutionary population synthe- sis models, producing numerous NIR features, including molec
- background The characteristic granule lifetime is estimated as Tgra ≈ dgra σ1D ≈2.9m −1 22 σ1D 100 km s−1 −2 Myr.(27) The dynamical effects of these density fluctuations can be modeled by treating FDM granules as quasiparticles (Bar-Or et al. 2019; El-Zant et al. 2020; Cha- vanis 2021; Dutta Chowdhury et al. 2021). Assuming a Maxwellian velocity distribution, the effective particle mass is Mgra ≈ πρd3 6 ,(28) whereρdenotes the local dark matter density. The granule size remains approximately constant in
- background 2025). Moreover, under the same approximation, the baryonic inflow rate is expressed as ˙Mb ≃144M ⊙ yr−1fb,0.16T 3/2 vir,6 1 +z 10 ,(6) whereT vir,6 =T vir/(106 K) is the normalized halo virial temperature. Therefore, if the gas supply feeds the nu- clear region of a massive halo with a virial temperature ofT vir,6 ≃1, this rate corresponds to∼ O(100)× ˙MEdd for a BH withM BH ≲10 7 M⊙. Such an inflow is sufficient to confine ionizing radiation from the central AGN through efficient radiative
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