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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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astro-ph.GA2016★ 534 cited

The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs

B. Luo, W. N. Brandt, Y. Q. Xue +23

We present X-ray source catalogs for the Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S), which covers a total area of 484.2 arcmin. Utilizing WAVDETECT for init…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 175 cited

Cosmic evolution and metal aversion in super-luminous supernova host galaxies

S. Schulze, T. Krühler, G. Leloudas +21

The SUperluminous Supernova Host galaxIES (SUSHIES) survey aims to provide strong new constraints on the progenitors of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) by understanding the relati…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 28 cited

IC 3639 - A new bona fide Compton thick AGN unveiled by NuSTAR

Peter G. Boorman, P. Gandhi, D. Alexander +19

We analyse high-quality NuSTAR observations of the local (z = 0.011) Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus (AGN) IC 3639, in conjunction with archival Suzaku and Chandra data. This pro…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 16 cited

NGC 1068: No change in the mid-IR torus structure despite X-ray variability

N. López-Gonzaga, D. Asmus, F. E. Bauer +5

Context. Recent NuSTAR observations revealed a somewhat unexpected increase in the X-ray flux of the nucleus of NGC 1068. We expect the infrared emission of the dusty torus to reac…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 15 cited

Warm Ionized Medium Throughout the Sagittarius-Carina Arm

Dhanesh Krishnarao, L. Matthew Haffner, Robert A. Benjamin +2

Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) observations of H-Alpha and [S II] emission are used to trace the vertical distribution and physical conditions of the warm ionized med…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 37 cited

Do Some AGN Lack X-ray Emission?

Charlotte Simmonds, Franz E. Bauer, Trinh X. Thuan +3

Intermediate-Mass Black Holes (IMBHs) are thought to be the seeds of early Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs). While 100 IMBH and small SMBH candidates have been…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 103 cited

ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Search for [CII] line and dust emission in 6<z<8 galaxies

M. Aravena, R. Decarli, F. Walter +29

We present a search for [CII] line and dust continuum emission from optical dropout galaxies at using ASPECS, our ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (UD…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 78 cited

The deepest X-ray view of high-redshift galaxies: constraints on low-rate black-hole accretion

Fabio Vito, Roberto Gilli, Cristian Vignali +16

We exploit the 7 Ms \textit{Chandra} observations in the \chandra\,Deep Field-South (\mbox{CDF-S}), the deepest X-ray survey to date, coupled with CANDELS/GOODS-S data, to measure…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 152 cited

Red giants observed by CoRoT and APOGEE: The evolution of the Milky Way's radial metallicity gradient

F. Anders, C. Chiappini, I. Minchev +21

Using combined asteroseismic and spectroscopic observations of 418 red-giant stars close to the Galactic disc plane (6 kpc kpc, kpc), w…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 509 cited

The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

SDSS Collaboration, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto +335

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in July 2014. It pursues three core programs: APOGEE-2, MaNGA, and eBOSS. In addition, eBOSS cont…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 244 cited

ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Survey Description

Fabian Walter, Roberto Decarli, Manuel Aravena +39

We present the rationale for and the observational description of ASPECS: The ALMA SPECtroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (UDF), the cosmological deep field that has t…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 124 cited

ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Molecular gas reservoirs in high-redshift galaxies

Roberto Decarli, Fabian Walter, Manuel Aravena +29

We study the molecular gas properties of high- galaxies observed in the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey (ASPECS) that targets a arcmin region in the Hubble Ultra Deep Fiel…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 126 cited

ALMA spectroscopic survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: CO luminosity functions and the evolution of the cosmic density of molecular gas

Roberto Decarli, Fabian Walter, Manuel Aravena +37

In this paper we use ASPECS, the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the {\em Hubble} Ultra Deep Field (UDF) in band 3 and band 6, to place blind constraints on the CO luminosity function…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 162 cited

ALMA spectroscopic survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Continuum number counts, resolved 1.2-mm extragalactic background, and properties of the faintest dusty star forming galaxies

M. Aravena, R. Decarli, F. Walter +31

We present an analysis of a deep (1=13 Jy) cosmological 1.2-mm continuum map based on ASPECS, the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. In the 1 arcmin$^2…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 82 cited

The ALMA Frontier Fields survey I: 1.1 mm continuum detections in Abell 2744, MACSJ0416.1-2403 and MACSJ1149.5+2223

J. González-López, F. E. Bauer, C. Romero-Cañizales +21

Dusty star-forming galaxies are among the most prodigious systems at high redshift (z>1), characterized by high star formation rates and huge dust reservoirs. The bright end of thi…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 27 cited

The Geometry of the Infrared and X-ray Obscurer in a Dusty Hyperluminous Quasar

Duncan Farrah, Mislav Balokovic, Daniel Stern +24

We study the geometry of the AGN obscurer in IRAS 09104+4109, an IR-luminous, radio-intermediate FR-I source at , using infrared data from Spitzer and Herschel, X-ray data…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 16 cited

Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of Sub-mm Galaxies at z~2

V. Olivares, E. Treister, G. C. Privon +9

We present near-infrared integral-field spectroscopic observations targeting H in eight sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) at =1.3-2.5 using VLT/SINFONI, obtaining significant de…

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★ 57 cited

A Survey of the Mon R2 Giant Molecular Cloud: Analysis of the Gas Column Density Probability Density Function

R. Pokhrel, R. Gutermuth, B. Ali +8

We present a far-IR survey of the entire Mon R2 GMC with cross-calibrated with data. We fit the SEDs of each pixel with a greybody function and an opt…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 281 cited

ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: The Infrared Excess of UV-selected z=2-10 galaxies as a function of UV-continuum Slope and Stellar Mass

Rychard Bouwens, Manuel Aravena, Roberto Decarli +25

We make use of deep 1.2mm-continuum observations (12.7microJy/beam RMS) of a 1 arcmin^2 region in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field to probe dust-enshrouded star formation from 330 Lyman…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 14 cited

Searching for molecular outflows in Hyper-Luminous Infrared Galaxies

D. Calderón, F. E. Bauer, S. Veilleux +5

We present constraints on the molecular outflows in a sample of five Hyper-Luminous Infrared Galaxies using Herschel observations of the OH doublet at 119 μm. We have detected the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 11 cited

Multi-Sightline Observation of Narrow Absorption Lines in Lensed Quasar SDSS J1029+2623

Toru Misawa, Cristian Saez, Jane C. Charlton +5

We exploit the widely-separated images of the lensed quasar SDSS J1029+2623 (=2.197, ) to observe its outflowing wind through two different sight…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 230 cited

The Evolution of Normal Galaxy X-ray Emission Through Cosmic History: Constraints from the 6 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South

B. D. Lehmer, A. R. Basu-Zych, S. Mineo +17

We present measurements of the evolution of normal-galaxy X-ray emission from 0-7 using local galaxies and galaxy samples in the 6 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) s…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 267 cited

Hi-GAL, the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey: photometric maps and compact source catalogues. First data release for Inner Milky Way: +68°> l > -70°

S. Molinari, E. Schisano, D. Elia +62

(Abridged) We present the first public release of high-quality data products (DR1) from Hi-GAL, the {\em Herschel} infrared Galactic Plane Survey. Hi-GAL is the keystone of a suite…