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astro-ph.GA2016★ 23 cited

Chemical enrichment of stars due to accretion from ISM during the Galaxy's assembly

Sijing Shen, Girish Kulkarni, Piero Madau +1

Using the Eris zoom-in cosmological simulation of assembly of a Milky Way analog, we study chemical enrichment of stars due to accretion of metal-enriched gas from the interstellar…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 73 cited

From Mirrors to Windows: Lyman-Alpha Radiative Transfer in a Very Clumpy Medium

Max Gronke, Mark Dijkstra, Michael McCourt +1

Lyman-Alpha (Ly) is the strongest emission line in the Universe and is frequently used to detect and study the most distant galaxies. Because Lya is a resonant line, photons typ…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 17 cited

Enhanced direct collapse due to Lyman alpha feedback

Jarrett L. Johnson, Mark Dijkstra

We assess the impact of trapped Lyman alpha cooling radiation on the formation of direct collapse black holes (DCBHs). We apply a one-zone chemical and thermal evolution model, acc…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 33 cited

The Mean Metal-line Absorption Spectrum of DLAs in BOSS

Lluís Mas-Ribas, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols +6

We study the mean absorption spectrum of the Damped Lyman alpha population at by stacking normalized, rest-frame shifted spectra of DLAs from the DR12 of…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 95 cited

ALMA [CII] detection of a redshift 7 lensed galaxy behind RXJ1347.1-1145

Maruša Bradač, Diego Garcia-Appadoo, Kuang-Han Huang +13

We present the results of ALMA spectroscopic follow-up of a Lyman- emitting galaxy behind the cluster RXJ1347-1145. We report the detection of [CII]158m line fully…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 36 cited

Lens Model and Time Delay Predictions for the Sextuply Lensed Quasar SDSS J2222+2745

Keren Sharon, Matthew B. Bayliss, Hakon Dahle +7

SDSS J2222+2745 is a galaxy cluster at z=0.49, strongly lensing a quasar at z=2.805 into six widely separated images. In recent HST imaging of the field, we identify additional mul…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 27 cited

Boosting Lya and HeII 1640A Line Fluxes from Pop III Galaxies: Stochastic IMF Sampling and Departures from Case-B

Lluís Mas-Ribas, Mark Dijkstra, Jaime E. Forero-Romero

We revisit calculations of nebular hydrogen Lya and HeII 1640A line strengths for population III galaxies, undergoing continuous and bursts of star formation. We focus on initial m…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 40 cited

ALMA observations of Lyman-alpha Blob 1: halo sub-structure illuminated from within

J. E. Geach, D. Narayanan, Y. Matsuda +28

We present new Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) 850um continuum observations of the original Lyman-alpha Blob (LAB) in the SSA22 field at z=3.1 (SSA22-LAB01). Th…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 56 cited

Illuminating gas in-/outflows in the MUSE deepest fields: discovery of Ly-alpha nebulae around forming galaxies at z~3.3

E. Vanzella, I. Balestra, M. Gronke +11

We report on the discovery of extended Ly-alpha nebulae at z~3.3 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF, ~ 40 kpc X 80 kpc) and behind the Hubble Frontier Fields galaxy cluster MACSJ…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 38 cited

High-redshift supernova rates measured with the gravitational telescope A1689

Tanja Petrushevska, Rahman Amanullah, Ariel Goobar +12

We present a ground-based near-infrared search for lensed supernovae behind the massive cluster Abell 1689 at z=0.18, one of the most powerful gravitational telescopes that nature…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 26 cited

Planck intermediate results. XLV. Radio spectra of northern extragalactic radio sources

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +202

Continuum spectra covering centimetre to submillimetre wavelengths are presented for a northern sample of 104 extragalactic radio sources, mainly active galactic nuclei, based on f…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 38 cited

Detection of Lyman-Alpha Emission From a Triple Imaged z=6.85 Galaxy Behind MACS J2129.4-0741

Kuang-Han Huang, Brian C. Lemaux, Kasper B. Schmidt +13

We report the detection of Ly emission at Å in the Keck/DEIMOS and \HST WFC3 G102 grism data from a triply-imaged galaxy at behind galaxy cluster MAC…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 22 cited

Giant Lyman-Alpha Nebulae in the Illustris Simulation

Max Gronke, Simeon Bird

Several `giant' Lyman- (Ly) nebulae with extent kpc and observed Ly luminosity of $\gtrsim 10^{44}\,{\rm erg}\,{\rm s}^{-1}\,{\rm cm}^{-2}\,{\rm arcsec}^{-2…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 93 cited

Ly Spectra from Multiphase Outflows, and their Connection to Shell Models

Max Gronke, Mark Dijkstra

We perform Lyman- (Ly) Monte-Carlo radiative transfer calculations on a suite of models of multiphase, outflowing media, which are characterized by parameters. We…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 60 cited

On the contribution of fluorescence to Ly halos (LAHs) around star forming galaxies

Lluís Mas-Ribas, Mark Dijkstra

We quantify the contribution of Ly fluorescence to observed spatially extended Ly halos around Ly emitters (LAE) at redshift . The key physical quantities tha…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 115 cited

High-resolution spectroscopy of a young, low-metallicity optically-thin L=0.02L* star-forming galaxy at z=3.12

E. Vanzella, S. De Barros, G. Cupani +29

We present VLT/X-Shooter and MUSE spectroscopy of an faint F814W=28.60+/-0.33 (Muv=-17.0), low mass (~<10^7 Msun) and compact (Reff=62pc) freshly star-forming galaxy at z=3.1169 ma…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 25 cited

Planck intermediate results. XLIV. The structure of the Galactic magnetic field from dust polarization maps of the southern Galactic cap

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. I. R. Alves +165

We study the statistical properties of interstellar dust polarization at high Galactic latitude, using the Stokes parameter Planck maps at 353 GHz. Our aim is to advance the unders…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 50 cited

Lyman Alpha Signatures from Direct Collapse Black Holes

Mark Dijkstra, Max Gronke, David Sobral

`Direct collapse black holes' (DCBHs) provide possible seeds for supermassive black holes that exist at redshifts as high as z~7. We study Lyman Alpha (Lya) radiative transfer thro…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 33 cited

Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 Observations of Escaping Lyman Continuum Radiation from Galaxies and Weak AGN at Redshifts 2.3-4.1

Brent M. Smith, Rogier A. Windhorst, Rolf A. Jansen +9

We present observations of escaping Lyman Continuum (LyC) radiation from 34 massive star-forming galaxies and 12 weak AGN with reliably measured spectroscopic redshifts at $\sim…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 17 cited

Spectro-polarimetry confirms central powering of a Ly nebula at z=3.09

Melanie Beck, Claudia Scarlata, Matthew Hayes +2

We present a follow-up study to the imaging polarimetry performed by Hayes et. al. 2011 on LAB1 in the SSA22 protocluster region. Arguably the most well-known Lyman- "blob", thi…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 14 cited

3-cm Fine Structure Masers: A Unique Signature of Supermassive Black Hole Formation via Direct Collapse in the Early Universe

Mark Dijkstra, Shiv Sethi, Abraham Loeb

The direct collapse black hole (DCBH) scenario describes the isothermal collapse of a pristine gas cloud directly into a massive, M_BH=10^4-10^6 M_sun black hole. In this paper we…