I wasn’t planning to do the usual weekly update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics this morning as I thought we wouldn’t publish any more papers between last week’s update and the Christmas break. However, one final version did hit the arXiv on Christmas Eve so I decided to publish it straight away. This brings the total for Volume 7 (2024) to 120 – a neat average of ten a month – and the overall total to 235.
Here’s a table showing the sequence of papers published over the last six years and the series formed from the aforementioned sequence:
| Year | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Papers | 12 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 50 | 120 |
| Total | 16 | 31 | 48 | 65 | 115 | 235 |
Anyway, the new paper is “Galaxy evolution in the post-merger regime. II – Post-merger quenching peaks within 500 Myr of coalescence” by Sara Ellison (U. Victoria, Canada), Leonardo Ferreira (U. Victoria), Vivienne Wild, (St Andrews, UK), Scott Wilkinson (U. Victoria), Kate Rowlands, (STScI, USA) & David R. Patton (Trent U., Canada). It was published on 24th December 2024 in the folder marked Astrophysics of Galaxies. It comprises an investigation of the possibility that quenching of star formation is a consequence of galaxy-galaxy interactions and mergers. The overlay is here:
You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here.
Well, that definitely concludes the updates for 2024. I’ll be back on January 4th with the first update of 2025.
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