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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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23 papers · 2 filters

astro-ph.GA2014★ 47 cited

Frontier Fields : Combining HST, VLT and Spitzer data to explore the 8 Universe behind the lensing cluster MACS04162403

N. Laporte, A. Streblyanska, S. Kim +7

(Abridged) The HST Frontier Fields project started at the end of 2013 with the aim of providing extremely deep images of 6 massive galaxy clusters. One of the main goals of this pr…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 29 cited

Models of Diffuse Hα in the Interstellar Medium: The Relative Contributions from In Situ Ionisation and Dust Scattering

Joanna E. Barnes, Kenneth Wood, Alex S. Hill +1

Using three dimensional Monte Carlo radiation transfer models of photoionisation and dust scattering, we explore different components of the widespread diffuse H emission observ…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 8 cited

Extended, Dusty Star Formation Fueled by a Residual Cooling Flow in the Cluster of Galaxies Sersic 159-03

M. McDonald, N. Werner, J. B. R. Oonk +1

While the cooling of the hot intra-cluster medium (ICM) in the cores of galaxy clusters is mostly counteracted by heating from the central active galactic nucleus (AGN), the balanc…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 34 cited

Photometric Redshifts in the Hawaii-Hubble Deep Field-North (H-HDF-N)

G. Yang, Y. Q. Xue, B. Luo +11

We derive photometric redshifts (\zp) for sources in the entire ( deg) Hawaii-Hubble Deep Field-North (\hdfn) field with the EAzY code, based on point spread function-…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 83 cited

Storm in a "Teacup": a radio-quiet quasar with ~10kpc radio-emitting bubbles and extreme gas kinematics

C. M. Harrison, A. P. Thomson, D. M. Alexander +5

We present multi-frequency (1-8 GHz) VLA data, combined with VIMOS IFU data and HST imaging, of a z=0.085 radio-quiet type 2 quasar (with L(1.4GHz)~5e23 W/Hz and L(AGN)~2e45 erg/s)…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 18 cited

The evolution of star formation activity in galaxy groups

G. Erfanianfar, P. Popesso, A. Finoguenov +30

We study the evolution of the total star formation (SF) activity, total stellar mass and halo occupation distribution in massive halos by using one of the largest X-ray selected sa…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 74 cited

The host galaxies of X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei to z=2.5: Structure, star-formation and their relationships from CANDELS and Herschel/PACS

D. J. Rosario, D. H. McIntosh, A. van der Wel +60

We study the relationship between the structure and star-formation rate (SFR) of X-ray selected low and moderate luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the two Chandra Deep Fi…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 225 cited

Spectroscopy of superluminous supernova host galaxies. A preference of hydrogen-poor events for extreme emission line galaxies

G. Leloudas, S. Schulze, T. Kruehler +16

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are very bright explosions that were only discovered recently and that show a preference for occurring in faint dwarf galaxies. Understanding why s…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 52 cited

Evidence for Large Grains in the Star-forming Filament OMC-2/3

Scott Schnee, Brian Mason, James Di Francesco +4

We present a new 3.3 mm continuum map of the OMC-2/3 region. When paired with previously published maps of 1.2mm continuum and NH3-derived temperature, we derive the emissivity spe…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 81 cited

VLT/X-shooter survey of near-infrared diffuse interstellar bands

N. L. J. Cox, J. Cami, L. Kaper +5

This paper presents a spectral survey of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in the NIR range, from 0.9 to 2.5 micron. The observations were designed to detect new DIBs, confirm prev…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 20 cited

HST-COS Spectroscopy of the Cooling Flow in Abell 1795 - Evidence for Inefficient Star Formation in Condensing Intracluster Gas

Michael McDonald, Joel C. Roediger, Sylvain Veilleux +1

We present far-UV spectroscopy from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope of a cool, star-forming filament in the core of Abell 1795. These data, which span…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 144 cited

A Geometrically Supported Candidate Multiply-Imaged by the Hubble Frontier Fields Cluster Abell 2744

Adi Zitrin, Wei Zheng, Tom Broadhurst +11

The deflection angles of lensed sources increase with their distance behind a given lens. We utilize this geometric effect to corroborate the photometric redshi…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 23 cited

A very deep Chandra observation of Abell 1795: The Cold Front and Cooling Wake

S. Ehlert, M. McDonald, E. D. Miller +2

We present a new analysis of very deep Chandra observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 1795. Utilizing nearly 750 ks of net ACIS imaging, we are able to resolve the thermodynamic…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 42 cited

The X-ray Luminosity Functions of Field Low Mass X-ray Binaries in Early-Type Galaxies: Evidence for a Stellar Age Dependence

B. D Lehmer, M. Berkeley, A. Zezas +11

We present direct constraints on how the formation of low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) populations in galactic fields depends on stellar age. In this pilot study, we utilize Chandra an…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 162 cited

The COS/UVES Absorption Survey of the Magellanic Stream. III: Ionization, Total Mass, and Inflow Rate onto the Milky Way

Andrew J. Fox, Bart P. Wakker, Kathleen A. Barger +14

Dynamic interactions between the two Magellanic Clouds have flung large quantities of gas into the halo of the Milky Way, creating the Magellanic Stream, the Magellanic Bridge, and…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 12 cited

The X-ray Properties of the Cometary Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies Mrk 59 and Mrk 71

T. X. Thuan, F. E. Bauer, Y. I. Izotov

We present XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of two low-metallicity cometary blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies, Mrk 59 and Mrk 71. The first BCD, Mrk 59, contains two ultralumino…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 14 cited

Halpha and [S II] emission from warm ionized gas in the Scutum-Centaurus Arm

Alex S. Hill, Robert A. Benjamin, L. Matthew Haffner +2

We present Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper [S II] λ6716 and Hα spectroscopic maps of the warm ionized medium (WIM) in the Scutum-Centaurus Arm at Galactic longitudes 310° < l < 345°. Usin…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 105 cited

Rapidly growing black holes and host galaxies in the distant Universe from the Herschel Radio Galaxy Evolution Project

G. Drouart, C. De Breuck, J. Vernet +14

We present results from a survey of 70 radio galaxies (RGs) at redshifts 1<z<5.2 using the PACS and SPIRE on-board Herschel. Combined with existing mid-IR photometry from Spitzer a…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 29 cited

Photoionisation and Heating of a Supernova Driven, Turbulent, Interstellar Medium

J. E. Barnes, Kenneth Wood, Alex S. Hill +1

The Diffuse Ionised Gas (DIG) in galaxies traces photoionisation feedback from massive stars. Through three dimensional photoionisation simulations, we study the propagation of ion…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 125 cited

NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Observations of Luminous, Heavily Obscured, WISE-Selected Quasars at z ~ 2

D. Stern, G. B. Lansbury, R. J. Assef +30

We report on a NuSTAR and XMM-Newton program that has observed a sample of three extremely luminous, heavily obscured WISE-selected AGN at z~2 in a broad X-ray band (0.1 - 79 keV).…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 34 cited

NuSTAR J033202-2746.8: direct constraints on the Compton reflection in a heavily obscured quasar at z~2

A. Del Moro, J. R. Mullaney, D. M. Alexander +25

We report NuSTAR observations of NuSTAR J033202-2746.8, a heavily obscured, radio-loud quasar detected in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South, the deepest layer of the NuSTAR ext…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 28 cited

The nature of supernovae 2010O and 2010P in Arp 299 - II. Radio emission

C. Romero-Cañizales, R. Herrero-Illana, M. A. Pérez-Torres +8

We report radio observations of two stripped-envelope supernovae (SNe), 2010O and 2010P, which exploded within a few days of each other in the luminous infrared galaxy Arp 299. Whi…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 30 cited

The Spitzer Survey of Interstellar Clouds in the Gould Belt. VI. The Auriga-California Molecular Cloud observed with IRAC and MIPS

Hannah Broekhoven-Fiene, Brenda C. Matthews, Paul M. Harvey +15

We present observations of the Auriga-California Molecular Cloud (AMC) at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0, 24, 70 and 160 micron observed with the IRAC and MIPS detectors as part of the Spitzer…