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astro-ph.GA2016★ 44 cited

Modeling dust emission in the Magellanic Clouds with Spitzer and Herschel

Jeremy Chastenet, Caroline Bot, Karl D. Gordon +4

Dust modeling is crucial to infer dust properties and budget for galaxy studies. However, there are systematic disparities between dust grain models that result in corresponding sy…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 15 cited

Stars with fast Galactic rotation observed in Gaia TGAS: a signature driven by the Perseus arm?

Jason A. S. Hunt, Daisuke Kawata, Giacomo Monari +3

We report on the detection of a small overdensity of stars in velocity space with systematically higher Galactocentric rotation velocity than the Sun by about 20 km s in the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 42 cited

Gemini/GRACES Spectroscopy of Stars in Triangulum II

K. A. Venn, E. Starkenburg, L. Malo +2

The chemical abundance ratios and radial velocities for two stars in the recently discovered Triangulum II faint dwarf galaxy have been determined from high resolution, medium sign…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 26 cited

Globular Clusters As Tracers of Fine Structure in the Dramatic Shell Galaxy NGC 474

Sungsoon Lim, Eric W. Peng, Pierre-Alain Duc +7

Globular clusters (GCs) are some of the most visible tracers of the merging and accretion history of galaxy halos. Metal-poor GCs, in particular, are thought to arrive in massive g…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 81 cited

Tracing the Hercules stream with Gaia and LAMOST: new evidence for a fast bar in the Milky Way

Giacomo Monari, Daisuke Kawata, Jason A. S. Hunt +1

The length and pattern speed of the Milky Way bar are still controversial. Photometric and spectroscopic surveys of the inner Galaxy, as well as gas kinematics, favour a long and s…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 34 cited

THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY. XIV. Shell feature early-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster

Sanjaya Paudel, Rory Smith, Pierre-Alain Duc +15

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey is a deep (with a detection limit = 29~mag~arcsec in the band) optical panchromatic survey targeting the Virgo cluste…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 18 cited

A very dark stellar system lost in Virgo: kinematics and metallicity of SECCO1 with MUSE

G. Beccari, M. Bellazzini, L. Magrini +11

We present the results of VLT-MUSE integral field spectroscopy of SECCO1, a faint, star-forming stellar system recently discovered as the stellar counterpart of an Ultra Compact Hi…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 8 cited

Source clustering in the Hi-GAL survey determined using a minimum spanning tree method

Maxime Beuret, Nicolas Billot, Laurent Cambrésy +5

The aims are to investigate the clustering of the far-infrared sources from the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey (Hi-GAL) in the Galactic longitude range of -71 to 67 deg. T…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 169 cited

Machine-Learned Identification of RR Lyrae Stars from Sparse, Multi-band Data: the PS1 Sample

Branimir Sesar, Nina Hernitschek, Sandra Mitrović +16

RR Lyrae stars may be the best practical tracers of Galactic halo (sub-)structure and kinematics. The PanSTARRS1 (PS1) survey offers multi-band, multi-epoch, precise photometr…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 45 cited

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXIV. The Red Sequence to 10 L and Comparisons with Galaxy Formation Models

Joel C. Roediger, Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Côté +22

We use deep optical photometry from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey [NGVS] to investigate the color-magnitude diagram for the galaxies inhabiting the core of this cluster.…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 46 cited

Staying away from the bar: the local dynamical signature of slow and fast bars in the Milky Way

Giacomo Monari, Benoit Famaey, Arnaud Siebert +3

Both the three-dimensional density of red clump giants and the gas kinematics in the inner Galaxy indicate that the pattern speed of the Galactic bar could be much lower than previ…

astro-ph.GA2016

Understanding active galactic nuclei using near-infrared high angular resolution polarimetry I : MontAGN - stokes comparison

Lucas Grosset, Frédéric Marin, Damien Gratadour +5

In this first research note of a series of two, we present a comparison between two Monte Carlo radiative transfer codes: MontAGN and STOKES. Both were developed in order to better…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 158 cited

The PAndAS view of the Andromeda satellite system - II. Detailed properties of 23 M31 dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Nicolas F. Martin, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Geraint F. Lewis +15

We present a comprehensive analysis of the structural properties and luminosities of the 23 dwarf spheroidal galaxies that fall within the footprint of the Pan-Andromeda Archaeolog…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 14 cited

The location, clustering, and propagation of massive star formation in giant molecular clouds

B. B. Ochsendorf, M. Meixner, J. Chastenet +2

Massive stars are key players in the evolution of galaxies, yet their formation pathway remains unclear. In this work, we use data from several galaxy-wide surveys to build an unbi…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 33 cited

SMASH 1: a very faint globular cluster disrupting in the outer reaches of the LMC?

Nicolas F. Martin, Valentin Jungbluth, David L. Nidever +20

We present the discovery of a very faint stellar system, SMASH 1, that is potentially a satellite of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Found within the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar H…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 39 cited

RAVE stars in K2 - I. Improving RAVE red giants spectroscopy using asteroseismology from K2 Campaign 1

M. Valentini, C. Chiappini, G. R. Davies +29

We present a set of 87 RAVE stars with detected solar like oscillations, observed during Campaign 1 of the K2 mission (RAVE K2-C1 sample). This dataset provides a useful benchmark…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 101 cited

An Ultra-Faint Galaxy Candidate Discovered in Early Data from the Magellanic Satellites Survey

A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Bechtol, S. Allam +21

We report a new ultra-faint stellar system found in Dark Energy Camera data from the first observing run of the Magellanic Satellites Survey (MagLiteS). MagLiteS J0644-5953 (Pictor…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 23 cited

New Constraints on a complex relation between globular cluster colors and environment

Mathieu Powalka, Thomas H. Puzia, Ariane Lançon +25

We present an analysis of high-quality photometry for globular clusters (GCs) in the Virgo cluster core region, based on data from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) p…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 122 cited

A Synoptic Map of Halo Substructures from the Pan-STARRS1 3π Survey

Edouard J. Bernard, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Edward F. Schlafly +18

We present a panoramic map of the entire Milky Way halo north of dec~-30 degrees (~30,000 deg^2), constructed by applying the matched-filter technique to the Pan-STARRS1 3Pi Survey…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 16 cited

Faint Dwarf Galaxies in Hickson Compact Group 90

Yasna Ordenes-Briceño, Matthew A. Taylor, Thomas H. Puzia +11

We report the discovery of a very diverse set of five low-surface brightness (LSB) dwarf galaxy candidates in Hickson Compact Group 90 (HCG 90) detected in deep U- and I-band image…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 29 cited

The Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS). XXV. Fiducial panchromatic colors of Virgo core globular clusters and their comparison to model predictions

Mathieu Powalka, Ariane Lançon, Thomas H. Puzia +17

The central region of the Virgo cluster of galaxies contains thousands of globular clusters (GCs), an order of magnitude more than the numbers found in the Local Group. Relics of e…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 29 cited

Understanding the internal dynamics of elliptical galaxies without non-baryonic dark matter

J. Dabringhausen, P. Kroupa, B. Famaey +1

Assuming virial equilibrium and Newtonian dynamics, low-mass early-type galaxies have larger velocity dispersions than expected from the amount of baryons they contain. The convent…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 38 cited

The Survey of Centaurus A's Baryonic Structures (SCABS). II. The Extended Globular Cluster System of NGC5128 and its Nearby Environment

Matthew A. Taylor, Thomas H. Puzia, Roberto P. Muñoz +5

Wide-field Dark Energy Camera observations centred on the giant elliptical galaxy NGC5128 covering are used to compile a new catalogue of glob…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 106 cited

The MIXR sample: AGN activity versus star formation across the cross-correlation of WISE, 3XMM, and FIRST/NVSS

B. Mingo, M. G. Watson, S. R. Rosen +7

We cross-correlate the largest available Mid-Infrared (WISE), X-ray (3XMM) and Radio (FIRST+NVSS) catalogues to define the MIXR sample of AGN and star-forming galaxies. We pre-clas…