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astro-ph.GA2014★ 30 cited

Spatially resolved physical conditions of molecular gas and potential star formation tracers in M83, revealed by the Herschel SPIRE FTS

Ronin Wu, Suzanne Madden, Frédéric Galliano +19

Since the launch of the Herschel Space Observatory, our understanding about the photo-dissociation regions (PDR) has taken a step forward. In the bandwidth of the Fourier Transform…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 164 cited

Are Dusty Galaxies Blue? Insights on UV Attenuation from Dust-Selected Galaxies

C. M. Casey, N. Z. Scoville, D. B. Sanders +12

Galaxies' rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) properties are often used to directly infer the degree to which dust obscuration affects the measurement of star formation rates. While much r…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 75 cited

A Survey of the Molecular ISM Properties of Nearby Galaxies using the Herschel FTS

J. Kamenetzky, N. Rangwala, J. Glenn +2

The 12CO J=4-3 to J=13-12 lines of the interstellar medium from nearby galaxies, newly observable with the Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS), offer an opportunity…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 115 cited

Turbulence sets the initial conditions for star formation in high-pressure environments

J. M. Rathborne, S. N. Longmore, J. M. Jackson +9

Despite the simplicity of theoretical models of supersonically turbulent, isothermal media, their predictions successfully match the observed gas structure and star formation activ…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 153 cited

Fueling AGN II: Spatially Resolved Molecular Inflows and Outflows

R. I. Davies, W. Maciejewski, E. K. S. Hicks +11

We analyse the 2-dimensional distribution and kinematics of the stars as well as molecular and ionised gas in the central few hundred parsecs of 5 active and 5 matched inactive gal…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 82 cited

Initial LOFAR observations of Epoch of Reionization windows: II. Diffuse polarized emission in the ELAIS-N1 field

V. Jelic, A. G. de Bruyn, M. Mevius +106

This study aims to characterise the polarized foreground emission in the ELAIS-N1 field and to address its possible implications for the extraction of the cosmological 21-cm signal…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 45 cited

Herschel-ATLAS and ALMA: HATLAS J142935.3-002836, a lensed major merger at redshift 1.027

Hugo Messias, Simon Dye, Neil Nagar +29

[Abridged] Aims: This work focuses on one lensed system, HATLAS J142935.3-002836 (H1429-0028), selected in the Herschel-ATLAS field. Gathering a rich, multi-wavelength dataset, we…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 25 cited

The Inside-out Growth of the Most Massive Galaxies at 0.3<z<0.9

Lei Bai, H. K. C. Yee, Renbin Yan +7

We study the surface brightness profiles of a sample of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) with 0.3<z<0.9. The BCGs are selected from the first Red-sequence Cluster Survey and an X-…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 68 cited

Extreme dust disks in Arp 220 as revealed by ALMA

C. D. Wilson, N. Rangwala, J. Glenn +3

We present new images of Arp 220 from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array with the highest combination of frequency (691 GHz) and resolution ($0.36 \times 0.20^{\prime…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 99 cited

Decoding the X-ray Properties of Pre-Reionization Era Sources

Jordan Mirocha

Evolution in the X-ray luminosity -- star formation rate (-SFR) relation could provide the first evidence of a top-heavy stellar initial mass function in the early universe, a…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 7 cited

Unravelling the Mysteries of the Leo Ring: An Absorption Line Study of an Unusual Gas Cloud

J. L. Rosenberg, Karl Haislmaier, M. L. Giroux +2

Since the 1980's discovery of the large (2x10^9 Msun) intergalactic cloud known as the Leo Ring, this object has been the center of a lively debate about its origin. Determining th…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 57 cited

Lens Models of Herschel-Selected Galaxies From High-Resolution Near-IR Observations

J. A. Calanog, Hai Fu, A. Cooray +36

We present Keck-Adaptive Optics and Hubble Space Telescope high resolution near-infrared (IR) imaging for 500 um-bright candidate lensing systems identified by the Herschel Multi-t…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 250 cited

The COS-Dwarfs Survey: The Carbon Reservoir Around sub-L* Galaxies

Rongmon Bordoloi, Jason Tumlinson, Jessica K. Werk +12

We report new observations of circumgalactic gas from the COS-Dwarfs survey, a systematic investigation of the gaseous halos around 43 low-mass z 0.1 galaxies using backgrou…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 29 cited

The Comparison of Physical Properties Derived from Gas and Dust in a Massive Star-Forming Region

Cara Battersby, John Bally, Miranda Dunham +3

We explore the relationship between gas and dust in massive star-forming regions by comparing physical properties derived from each. We compare the temperatures and column densitie…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 54 cited

The Onset of Massive Star Formation: The Evolution of Temperature and Density Structure in an Infrared Dark Cloud

Cara Battersby, Adam Ginsburg, John Bally +3

We present new NH3 (1,1), (2,2), and (4,4) observations from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) compiled with work in the literature to explore the range of conditions obser…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 40 cited

Detection of chloronium and measurement of the 35Cl/37Cl isotopic ratio at z=0.89 toward PKS1830-211

S. Muller, J. H. Black, M. Guelin +11

We report the first extragalactic detection of chloronium (H2Cl+), in the z=0.89 absorber in front of the lensed blazar PKS1830-211. The ion is detected through its 1_11-0_00 line…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 63 cited

An ALMA Early Science survey of molecular absorption lines toward PKS1830-211 -- Analysis of the absorption profiles

S. Muller, F. Combes, M. Guelin +17

We present the first results of an ALMA spectral survey of strong absorption lines for common interstellar species in the z=0.89 molecular absorber toward the lensed blazar PKS1830…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 20 cited

First Extragalactic Detection of Far-Infrared CH Rotational Lines from the Herschel Space Observatory

Naseem Rangwala, Philip R. Maloney, Jason Glenn +5

We present the first extragalactic detections of several CH rotational transitions in the far-infrared (FIR) in four nearby galaxies: NGC 1068, Arp 220, M 82 and NGC 253 using the…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 6 cited

Vibrationally Excited Molecular Hydrogen Near Herschel 36

Brian L. Rachford, Theodore P. Snow, Teresa L. Ross

We present the first high resolution UV spectra toward Herschel 36, a Trapezium-like system of high-mass stars contained within the Lagoon Nebula (M8, NGC 6523). The spectra reveal…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 183 cited

Intermediate mass black holes in AGN disks II. Model predictions & observational constraints

B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford, B. Kocsis +2

If intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) grow efficiently in gas disks around supermassive black holes, their host active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks should exhibit myriad observa…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 80 cited

G0.253+0.016: A centrally condensed, high-mass protocluster

J. M. Rathborne, S. N. Longmore, J. M. Jackson +9

Despite their importance as stellar nurseries and the building blocks of galaxies, very little is known about the formation of the highest mass clusters. The dense clump G0.253+0.0…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 90 cited

Non-equilibrium chemistry and cooling in the diffuse interstellar medium - II. Shielded gas

Alexander J. Richings, Joop Schaye, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer

We extend the non-equilibrium model for the chemical and thermal evolution of diffuse interstellar gas presented in Richings et al. (2014) to account for shielding from the UV radi…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 17 cited

Imaging the environment of a z = 6.3 submillimeter galaxy with SCUBA-2

E. I. Robson, R. J. Ivison, Ian Smail +24

We describe a search for submillimeter emission in the vicinity of one of the most distant, luminous galaxies known, HerMES FLS3 at z=6.34, exploiting it as a signpost to a potenti…