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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.GA2017★ 69 cited

The TOP-SCOPE survey of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps: Survey overview and results of an exemplar source, PGCC G26.53+0.17

Tie Liu, Kee-Tae Kim, Mika Juvela +11

The low dust temperatures (<14 K) of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) make them ideal targets to probe the initial conditions and very early phase of star formation. TOP-SCOPE i…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 10 cited

VALES: IV. Exploring the transition of star formation efficiencies between normal and starburst galaxies using APEX/SEPIA Band-5 and ALMA at low redshift

C. Cheng, E. Ibar, T. M. Hughes +12

In this work we present new APEX/SEPIA Band-5 observations targeting the CO () emission line of 24 Herschel-detected galaxies at . Combining this sample {w…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 28 cited

ELUCID V. Lighting dark matter halos with galaxies

Xiaohu Yang, Youcai Zhang, Huiyuan Wang +16

In a recent study, using the distribution of galaxies in the north galactic pole of SDSS DR7 region enclosed in a 500$\mpch$ box, we carried out our ELUCID simulation (Wang et al.…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 109 cited

The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. XIII. Discovery of 40 New Galaxy-Scale Strong Lenses

Yiping Shu, Joel R. Brownstein, Adam S. Bolton +8

We present the full sample of 118 galaxy-scale strong-lens candidates in the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey for the Masses (S4TM) Survey, which are spectroscopically selected from t…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 6 cited

Constraints on the Evolution of the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function II: Quenching Timescale of Galaxies and its Implication for their Star Formation Rate

E. Contini, X. Kang, A. D. Romeo +2

We study the connection between the observed star formation rate-stellar mass (SFR-) relation and the evolution of the stellar mass function (SMF) by means of a subhalo abunda…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 8 cited

Average Spectral Properties of Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies

Syed A Uddin, Jeremy Mould, Lifan Wang

We construct average spectra of host galaxies of slower, faster, bluer, and redder Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from the SDSS-II supernova survey. The average spectrum of slower dec…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 12 cited

A turbulent origin for the complex envelope kinematics in the young low-mass core Per-Bolo 58

Maria Jose Maureira, Hector G. Arce, Stella S. R. Offner +5

We use CARMA 3mm continuum and molecular lines (NH2D, N2H+, HCO+, HCN and CS) at ~1000 au resolution to characterize the structure and kinematics of the envelope surrounding the de…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 36 cited

Kinetic temperature of massive star-forming molecular clumps measured with formaldehyde. III. The Orion Molecular Cloud 1

X. D. Tang, C. Henkel, K. M. Menten +10

We mapped the kinetic temperature structure of the Orion molecular cloud 1 with para-H2CO(303-202, 322-221, and 321-220) using the APEX 12m telescope. This is compared with the tem…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 126 cited

Molecular gas in the Herschel-selected strongly lensed submillimeter galaxies at z~2-4 as probed by multi-J CO lines

C. Yang, A. Omont, A. Beelen +18

(abridged) We present the IRAM-30m observations of multiple-J CO and CI line emission in a sample of redshift ~2-4 Herschel-ATLAS SMGs. A non-negligible effect of differential lens…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 59 cited

The Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS): Sample definition and SCUBA-2 observations

Tom J. L. C. Bakx, S. A. Eales, M. Negrello +20

We present the Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS) sample, a sample of bright, high-redshift Herschel sources detected in the 616.4 square degree H-ATLAS survey. The HerBS sample conta…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 1 cited

A 95 GHz Methanol Emission Survey Toward Eight Small Supernova Remnants

Yingjie Li, Ye Xu, Xi Chen +4

We report on a 95 GHz ( A) methanol (CHOH) emission survey with the Purple Mountain Observatory Delingha 13.7 m telescope. Eight supernova remnants (SNRs) with a…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 2 cited

Pre-heating of the intergalactic medium by gravitational collapse and ultraviolet background

Weishan Zhu, Long-Long Feng

The preheating of intergalactic medium(IGM) by structure collapsing and ultraviolet background(UVB) are investigated in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. When gravitational…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 19 cited

Gas kinematics and star formation in the filamentary molecular cloud G47.06+0.26

Jin-Long Xu, Ye Xu, Chuan-Peng Zhang +4

We performed a multi-wavelength study toward the filamentary cloud G47.06+0.26 to investigate the gas kinematics and star formation. We present the 12CO (J=1-0), 13CO (J=1-0) and C…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 50 cited

Deep Imaging of the HCG 95 Field.I.Ultra-diffuse Galaxies

Dongdong Shi, Xianzhong Zheng, Haibin Zhao +7

We present a detection of 89 candidates of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in a 4.9 degree field centered on the Hickson Compact Group 95 (HCG 95) using deep - and -band im…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 25 cited

The BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey V. Morphology and Substructure of Lensed Lyman- Emitters at redshift in the BELLS GALLERY

Matthew Cornachione, Adam Bolton, Yiping Shu +9

We present a morphological study of the 17 lensed Lyman- emitter (LAE) galaxies of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Emission-Line Lens Survey (BELLS) for the GALaxy-L…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 26 cited

DES Science Portal: Computing Photometric Redshifts

Julia Gschwend, Aurelio Carnero Rosell, Ricardo Ogando +68

A significant challenge facing photometric surveys for cosmological purposes is the need to produce reliable redshift estimates. The estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-zs)…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 19 cited

Is HESS J1912+101 associated with an old Supernova Remnant?

Yang Su, Xin Zhou, Ji Yang +4

HESS J1912+101 is a shell-like TeV source that has no clear counterpart in multiwavelength. Using CO and H i data, we reveal that VLSR~+60 km/s molecular clouds (MCs), together wit…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 14 cited

Metal enrichment signatures of the first stars on high-z DLAs

Q. Ma, U. Maio, B. Ciardi +1

We use numerical N-body hydrodynamical simulations with varying PopIII stellar models to investigate the possibility of detecting first star signatures with observations of high-re…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 38 cited

CALIFA reveals Prolate Rotation in Massive Early-type Galaxies: A Polar Galaxy Merger Origin?

Athanasia Tsatsi, Mariya Lyubenova, Glenn van de Ven +4

We present new evidence for eight early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the CALIFA Survey that show clear rotation around their major photometric axis ("prolate rotation"). These are LSB…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 44 cited

HIFI Spectroscopy of submm Lines in Nuclei of Actively Star Forming Galaxies

L. Liu, A. Weiss, J. P. Perez-Beaupuits +10

We present a systematic survey of multiple velocity-resolved HO spectra using Herschel/HIFI towards nine nearby actively star forming galaxies. The ground-state and low-excitat…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 14 cited

Towards a three-dimensional distribution of the molecular clouds in the Galactic Centre

Qing-Zeng Yan, A. J. Walsh, J. R. Dawson +8

We present a study of the three-dimensional structure of the molecular clouds in the Galactic Centre (GC) using CO emission and OH absorption lines. Two CO isotopologue lines, $^{1…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 27 cited

The Origins of UV-optical Color Gradients in Star-forming Galaxies at z ~ 2: Predominant Dust Gradients But Negligible sSFR Gradients

F. S. Liu, Dongfei Jiang, S. M. Faber +13

The rest-frame UV-optical (i.e., ) color is sensitive to both low-level recent star formation (specific star formation rate - sSFR) and dust. In this Letter, we extend our p…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 75 cited

ELUCID IV: Galaxy Quenching and its Relation to Halo Mass, Environment, and Assembly Bias

Huiyuan Wang, H. J. Mo, Sihan Chen +17

We examine the quenched fraction of central and satellite galaxies as a function of galaxy stellar mass, halo mass, and the matter density of their large scale environment. Matter…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 63 cited

SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES): Faint-End Counts at 450 um

Wei-Hao Wang, Wei-Ching Lin, Chen-Fatt Lim +40

The SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES) is a three-year JCMT Large Program aiming at reaching the 450 m confusion limit in the COSMOS-CANDELS region, to study a repr…