Publications (28)
Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature
Tracy X. Chen, Marion Schmitz, Joseph M. Mazzarella +42
We present an overview of best practices for publishing data in astronomy and astrophysics journals. These recommendations are intended as a reference for authors to help prepare a…
Investigating the Dominant Environmental Quenching Process in UVCANDELS/COSMOS Groups
Maxwell Kuschel, Claudia Scarlata, Vihang Mehta +36
We explore how the fraction of quenched galaxies changes in groups of galaxies with respect to the distance to the center of the group, redshift, and stellar mass to determine the…
The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive
Frank J. Masci, Russ R. Laher, Ben Rusholme +46
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new robotic time-domain survey currently in progress using the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope. ZTF uses a 47 square degree field with a…
Warm Molecular Hydrogen in Nearby, Luminous Infrared Galaxies
Andreea O. Petric, Lee Armus, Nicolas Flagey +19
Mid-infrared molecular hydrogen (H) emission is a powerful cooling agent in galaxy mergers and in radio galaxies; it is a potential key tracer of gas evolution and energy dissi…
The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results
Eric C. Bellm, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Matthew J. Graham +112
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new optical time-domain survey that uses the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope. A custom-built wide-field camera provides a 47 deg fiel…
Measuring Star-formation Rate and Far-Infrared Color in High-redshift Galaxies Using the CO (7-6) and [NII] 205 micron Lines
Nanyao Lu, Yinghe Zhao, C. Kevin Xu +13
To better characterize the global star formation (SF) activity in a galaxy, one needs to know not only the star formation rate (SFR) but also the rest-frame, far-infrared (FIR) col…
The Zwicky Transient Facility: Science Objectives
Matthew J. Graham, S. R. Kulkarni, Eric C. Bellm +114
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public-private enterprise, is a new time domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope with a 47 deg$^2…
GOALS-JWST: Small neutral grains and enhanced 3.3 micron PAH emission in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 7469
Thomas S. -Y. Lai, Lee Armus, Marina Bianchin +36
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) integral-field spectroscopy of the nearby luminous infrared galaxy, NGC 7469. We take advantage of…
The FUV to Near-IR Morphologies of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the GOALS Sample
Sara M. Petty, Lee Armus, Vassilis Charmandaris +9
We compare the morphologies of a sample of 20 LIRGs from the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) in the FUV, B, I and H bands, using the Gini (G) and M20 parameters to…
A Spectroscopically Calibrated Prescription for Extracting PAH Flux from JWST MIRI Imaging
Grant P. Donnelly, Thomas S. -Y. Lai, Lee Armus +24
We introduce a prescription for estimating the flux of the 7.7 micron and 11.3 micron\ polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) features from broadband JWST/MIRI images. Probing PAH f…
A Herschel Space Observatory Spectral Line Survey of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies from 194 to 671 Microns
Nanyao Lu, Yinghe Zhao, Tanio DÃaz-Santos +18
We describe a Herschel Space Observatory 194-671 micron spectroscopic survey of a sample of 121 local luminous infrared galaxies and report the fluxes of the CO to -1 rotati…
The Arp 240 Galaxy Merger: A Detailed Look at the Molecular Kennicutt-Schmidt Star Formation Law on Sub-kpc Scales
Alejandro Saravia, Eduardo Rodas-Quito, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz +25
The molecular Kennicutt-Schmidt (mK-S) Law has been key for understanding star formation (SF) in galaxies across all redshifts. However, recent sub-kpc observations of nearby galax…
UVCANDELS: Catalogs of photometric redshifts and galaxy physical properties
Vihang Mehta, Marc Rafelski, Ben Sunnquist +76
The UltraViolet imaging of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey Fields (UVCANDELS) program provides deep HST F275W and F435W imaging over four CANDELS…
Shockingly Effective: Cluster Winds as Engines of Feedback in Starburst Galaxy VV 114
Justin A. Kader, Vivian U, Jeffrey A. Rich +29
We present high-resolution Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) and MUSE IFU spectroscopy of VV 114, a local infrared-luminous merger undergoing a vigorous starburst and showing evidence…
GOALS-JWST: Gas Dynamics and Excitation in NGC7469 revealed by NIRSpec
Marina Bianchin, Vivian U, Yiqing Song +36
We present new JWST-NIRSpec IFS data for the luminous infrared galaxy NGC7469: a nearby (70.6Mpc) active galaxy with a Sy 1.5 nucleus that drives a highly ionized gas outflow and a…
The Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction of Star-forming Galaxies at from UVCANDELS
Xin Wang, Harry I. Teplitz, Brent M. Smith +74
The UltraViolet Imaging of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey Fields (UVCANDELS) survey is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cycle-26 Treasury Program,…
Dust Attenuation in UV-selected Starbursts at High Redshift and their Local Counterparts: Implications for the Cosmic Star Formation Rate Density
Roderik Overzier, Tim Heckman, Jing Wang +14
We present a new analysis of the dust obscuration in starburst galaxies at low and high redshift. This study is motivated by our unique sample of the most extreme UV-selected starb…
The Spatial Extent of (U)LIRGs in the Mid-Infrared. II. Feature Emission
Tanio Diaz-Santos, Vassilis Charmandaris, Lee Armus +11
We present results from the second part of our analysis of the extended mid-infrared (MIR) emission of the Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) sample based on 5-14 micr…
GOALS-JWST: Resolving the Circumnuclear Gas Dynamics in NGC 7469 in the Mid-Infrared
Vivian U, Thomas Lai, Marina Bianchin +35
The nearby, luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) NGC 7469 hosts a Seyfert nucleus with a circumnuclear star-forming ring and is thus the ideal local laboratory for investigating the sta…
GOALS-JWST: Hidden Star Formation and Extended PAH Emission in the Luminous Infrared Galaxy VV 114
Aaron S. Evans, David Frayer, Vassilis Charmandaris +32
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) images of the luminous infrared (IR) galaxy VV 114 are presented. This redshift ~ 0.020 merger has a western compon…
Massive Star Cluster Formation and Destruction in Luminous Infrared Galaxies in GOALS II: An ACS/WFC3 Survey of Nearby LIRGs
Sean Linden, Aaron Evans, Kirsten Larson +14
We present the results of a Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 near-UV and ACS/WFC optical study into the star cluster populations of 10 luminous and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (U/L…
The UV luminosity function at 0.6 < z < 1 from UVCANDELS
Lei Sun, Xin Wang, Harry I. Teplitz +75
UVCANDELS is a HST Cycle-26 Treasury Program awarded 164 orbits of primary ultraviolet (UV) F275W imaging and coordinated parallel optical F435W imaging in four CANDELS fields: GOO…
GOALS-JWST: Tracing AGN Feedback on the Star-Forming ISM in NGC 7469
Thomas S. -Y. Lai, Lee Armus, Vivian U +34
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) integral-field spectroscopy of the nearby merging, luminous infrared galaxy, NGC 7469. This galaxy hosts…
Keck OSIRIS AO LIRG Analysis: Feedback in the Nuclei of Luminous Infrared Galaxies
Vivian U, Anne M. Medling, Hanae Inami +21
The role of feedback in triggering or quenching star formation and hence driving galaxy evolution can be directly studied with high resolution integral field observations. The mani…
Tracing the Dynamical History of the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
Eric Monkman, Alison Sills, Justin Howell +3
We use two stellar populations in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae to trace its dynamical history: blue stragglers and low mass main sequence stars. We assumed that the blue straggl…
The [NII] 205 micron Emission in Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies
Yinghe Zhao, Nanyao Lu, C. Kevin Xu +9
In this paper, we present the measurements of the [NII] 205micron line ([NII]205) for a flux-limited sample of 122 (ultra-)luminous infrared galaxies [(U)LIRGs] and 20 additional n…
Mid-Infrared Properties of Luminous Infrared Galaxies II: Probing the Dust and Gas Physics of the GOALS Sample
Sabrina Stierwalt, Lee Armus, Vassilis Charmandaris +13
The Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) is a comprehensive, multiwavelength study of luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) in the local universe. Here we present the resul…
Probing Spectral Line Gradients Beyond One Effective Radius in NGC 3610
Justin Howell, Jean Brodie, Jay Strader +2
The outer region (0.75--1.25 r_e in the B-band) of the merger-remnant elliptical NGC 3610 is studied using extremely high signal to noise Keck spectra, with a supplementary spectru…