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most citedThe Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

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astro-ph.CO2012★ 67 cited

High-z Quasars in the R_h=ct Universe

Fulvio Melia

One cannot understand the early appearance of 10^9 solar-mass black holes without invoking anomalously high accretion rates or the creation of exotically massive seeds, neither of…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 34 cited

A Study on the Chemical Properties of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies

Yinghe Zhao, Yu Gao, Qiusheng Gu

In this paper, we report our studies on the gaseous and chemical properties of a relatively large sample (53 members) of blue compact dwarf galaxies (BCDs). The results of correlat…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 26 cited

Multi-Wavelength Study of a Complete IRAC 3.6micron-Selected Galaxy Sample: a Fair Census of Red and Blue Populations at Redshifts 0.4-1

J. -S. Huang, S. M. Faber, C. N. A. Willmer +14

We present a multi-wavelength study of a 3.6 m-selected galaxy sample in the Extended Groth strip. The sample is complete for galaxies with stellar mass \Msun and re…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 52 cited

The dependence of tidal stripping efficiency on the satellite and host galaxy morphology

Jiang Chang, Andrea V. Maccio', Xi Kang

In this paper we study the tidal stripping process for satellite galaxies orbiting around a massive host galaxy, and focus on its dependence on the morphology of both satellite and…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 149 cited

Evidence for CO shock excitation in NGC 6240 from Herschel SPIRE spectroscopy

R. Meijerink, L. E. Kristensen, A. Weiss +28

We present Herschel SPIRE FTS spectroscopy of the nearby luminous infrared galaxy NGC 6240. In total 20 lines are detected, including CO J=4-3 through J=13-12, 6 H2O rotational lin…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 9 cited

Correlation between Line Width and Line Flux of Double-Peaked Broad Halpha of 3C390.3

XueGuang Zhang

In this manuscript, we carefully check the correlation between the line width and the line flux of the double-peaked broad H of the well-known mapped AGN 3C390.3, in order to sh…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 50 cited

AGN host galaxies at redshift z~0.7: peculiar or not?

Asmus Boehm, Lutz Wisotzki, Eric F. Bell +21

We perform a quantitative morphological comparison between the hosts of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and quiescent galaxies at intermediate redshifts (z~0.7). The imaging data are…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 6 cited

Constraining dark energy using observational growth rate data

K. Shi, Y. F. Huang, T. Lu

Observational growth rate data had been derived from observations of redshift distortions in galaxy redshift surveys. Here we use the growth rate data to place constraints on the d…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 53 cited

The Stellar and Gas Kinematics of the LITTLE THINGS Dwarf Irregular Galaxy NGC 1569

Megan Johnson, Deidre A. Hunter, Se-Heon Oh +5

In order to understand the formation and evolution of dIm galaxies, one needs to understand their three-dimensional structure. We present measurements of the stellar velocity dispe…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 42 cited

The effect of Warm Dark Matter on galaxy properties: constraints from the stellar mass function and the Tully-Fisher relation

Xi Kang, Andrea V. Macciò, Aaron A. Dutton

In this paper we combine high resolution N-body simulations with a semi analytical model of galaxy formation to study the effects of a possible Warm Dark Matter (WDM) component on…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 68 cited

A comprehensive comparison of cosmological models from latest observational data

Ke Shi, Yongfeng Huang, Tan Lu

We investigate in detail some popular cosmological models in light of the latest observational data, including the Union2.1 supernovae compilation, the baryon acoustic oscillation…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 24 cited

Statistical interpretation of the spatial distribution of current 130 GeV gamma-ray line signal within the dark matter annihilation scenario

Rui-Zhi Yang, Qiang Yuan, Lei Feng +2

Recently, several groups identified a tentative -ray line signal with energy GeV in the central Galaxy from the Fermi-LAT data. %The morphology study shows that the s…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 24 cited

Bulk flow of halos in ΛCDM simulation

Ming Li, Jun Pan, Liang Gao +10

Analysis of the Pangu N-body simulation validates that the bulk flow of halos follows a Maxwellian distribution which variance is consistent with the prediction of the linear theor…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 47 cited

Peculiar Velocity Decomposition, Redshift Space Distortion and Velocity Reconstruction in Redshift Surveys - I. The Methodology

Pengjie Zhang, Jun Pan, Yi Zheng

Massive spectroscopic surveys will measure the redshift space distortion (RSD) induced by galaxy peculiar velocity to unprecedented accuracy. We develop a new method to improve the…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 106 cited

The Dynamical State and Mass-Concentration Relation of Galaxy Clusters

Aaron D. Ludlow, Julio F. Navarro, Ming Li +3

We use the Millennium Simulation series to study how the dynamical state of dark matter halos affects the relation between mass and concentration. We find that a large fraction of…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 3 cited

Influence of baryons on spatial distribution of matter: higher order correlation functions

Xiaojun Zhu, Jun Pan

Baryonic physical processes could leave non-negligible imprint on cosmic matter distribution pattern. Series of high precision simulation data sets with identical initial condition…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 46 cited

HI Power Spectra and the Turbulent ISM of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies

Hong-Xin Zhang, Deidre A. Hunter, Bruce G. Elmegreen

HI spatial power spectra (PS) were determined for a sample of 24 nearby dwarf irregular galaxies selected from the LITTLE THINGS (Local Irregulars That Trace Luminosity Extremes -…

astro-ph.CO2012

The star formation efficiency in Stephan's Quintet intragroup regions

G. Natale, R. J. Tuffs, C. K. Xu +11

We investigated the star formation efficiency for all the dust emitting sources in Stephan's Quintet (SQ). We inferred star formation rates using Spitzer MIR/FIR and GALEX FUV data…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 1 cited

The dust emission SED of X-ray emitting regions in Stephan's Quintet

G. Natale, R. J. Tuffs, C. K. Xu +11

We analysed the Spitzer maps of Stephan's Quintet in order to investigate the nature of the dust emission associated with the X-ray emitting regions of the large scale intergalacti…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 176 cited

The molecular gas in Luminous Infrared Galaxies II: extreme physical conditions, and their effects on the X_{co} factor

Padelis P. Papadopoulos, Paul van der Werf, E Xilouris +2

In this work we conclude the analysis of our CO line survey of Luminous Infrared Galaxies (LIRGs: L_{IR}>=10^{11}L_{sol}) in the local Universe (Paper\,I), by focusing on the influ…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 61 cited

A New Equation of State for Dark Energy Model

Lei Feng, Tan Lu

A new parameterization for the dark energy equation of state(EoS) is proposed and some of its cosmological consequences are also investigated. This new parameterization is the modi…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 56 cited

Molecular Gas in Infrared Ultraluminous QSO Hosts

X. Y. Xia, Y. Gao, C. -N. Hao +6

We report CO detections in 17 out of 19 infrared ultraluminous QSO (IR QSO) hosts observed with the IRAM 30m telescope. The cold molecular gas reservoir in these objects is in a ra…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 55 cited

In-spiraling Clumps in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies

Bruce G. Elmegreen, Hongxin Zhang, Deidre Hunter

Giant star-formation clumps in dwarf irregular galaxies can have masses exceeding a few percent of the galaxy mass enclosed inside their orbital radii. They can produce sufficient…