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most citedThe Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

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astro-ph.GA2019★ 75 cited

Metallicity and -element Abundance Gradients along the Sagittarius Stream as Seen by APOGEE

Christian R. Hayes, Steven R. Majewski, Sten Hasselquist +27

Using 3D positions and kinematics of stars relative to the Sagittarius (Sgr) orbital plane and angular momentum, we identify 166 Sgr stream members observed by the Apache Point Obs…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 177 cited

From the bulge to the outer disc: StarHorse stellar parameters, distances, and extinctions for stars in APOGEE DR16 and other spectroscopic surveys

A. B. A. Queiroz, F. Anders, C. Chiappini +27

We combine high-resolution spectroscopic data from APOGEE-2 Survey Data Release 16 (DR16) with broad-band photometric data from several sources, as well as parallaxes from {\it Gai…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 164 cited

Homogeneous Analysis of Globular Clusters from the APOGEE Survey with the BACCHUS Code. II. The Southern Clusters and Overview

Szabolcs Mészáros, Thomas Masseron, D. A. García-Hernández +33

We investigate the Fe, C, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ce and Nd abundances of 2283 red giant stars in 31 globular clusters from high-resolution spectra observed in both the northern a…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1.5k cited

The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida +310

This paper documents the sixteenth data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 56 cited

TOI-677 b: A Warm Jupiter (P=11.2d) on an eccentric orbit transiting a late F-type star

Andrés Jordán, Rafael Brahm, Néstor Espinoza +46

We report the discovery of TOI-677 b, first identified as a candidate in light curves obtained within Sectors 9 and 10 of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission a…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 6 cited

Modelling the quenching of star formation activity from the evolution of the colour-magnitude relation in VIPERS

G. Manzoni, M. Scodeggio, C. M. Baugh +12

We study the evolution of the colour-magnitude relation for galaxies in the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) by introducing the concept of the bright edge, and u…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 38 cited

GRB171010A / SN2017htp: a GRB-SN at z=0.33

A. Melandri, D. B. Malesani, L. Izzo +41

The number of supernovae known to be connected with long-duration gamma-ray bursts is increasing and the link between these events is no longer exclusively found at low redshift ($…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 5 cited

Investigating the nature of the extended structure around the Herbig star RCrA using integral field and high-resolution spectroscopy

E. Rigliaco, R. Gratton, D. Mesa +24

We present a detailed analysis of the extended structure detected around the young and close-by Herbig Ae/Be star RCrA. This is a young triple system with an intermediate mass cent…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 28 cited

A few StePS forward in unveiling the complexity of galaxy evolution: light-weighted stellar ages of intermediate redshift galaxies with WEAVE

L. Costantin, A. Iovino, S. Zibetti +29

The upcoming new generation of optical spectrographs on four-meter-class telescopes will provide invaluable information for reconstructing the history of star formation in individu…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 13 cited

A Color-Excess Extinction map of the Southern Galactic disk from the VVV and GLIMPSE Surveys

M. Soto, R. Barbá, D. Minniti +24

An improved high-resolution and deep A foreground dust extinction map is presented for the Galactic disk area within , $-1.0^{\c…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 20 cited

The Tale of the Milky Way Globular Cluster NGC 6362 -- I. The Orbit and its possible extended star debris features as revealed by Gaia DR2

Richa Kundu, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Dante Minniti +5

We report the identification of possible extended star debris candidates beyond the cluster tidal radius of NGC 6362 based on the second {\it Gaia} data release ({\it Gaia} DR2). W…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 11 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) -- Environment-size relation of massive passive galaxies at 0.5 < z < 0.8

A. Gargiulo, O. Cucciati, B. Garilli +36

We use the statistics of the VIPERS survey to investigate the relation between the surface mean stellar mass density Sigma=Mstar/(2*pi*Re^2) of massive passive galaxies (MPGs, Msta…

gr-qc2019★ 6 cited

Reconstruction and exact solutions for cosmological perturbations from a generalized gravity theory

José Antonio Belinchón, Carlos González, Ramón Herrera

Scalar and tensor cosmological perturbations during an inflationary universe scenario in the context of the a generalized gravity theory are studied. This analyze is carried out co…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 11 cited

First resolved observations of a highly asymmetric debris disc around HD 160305 with VLT/SPHERE

Clément Perrot, Philippe Thebault, Anne-Marie Lagrange +36

Context. Direct imaging of debris discs gives important information about their nature, their global morphology, and allows us to identify specific structures possibly in connectio…

math.CA2019★ 4 cited

On the integrability of the Abel and of the extended Liénard equations

Man Kwong Mak, Tiberiu Harko

We present some exact integrability cases of the extended Liénard equation $y^{\prime \prime }+f\left( y\right) \left(y^{\prime }\right)^{n}+k\left( y\right) \left(y^{\prime }\righ…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 2 cited

Lunar occultations with Aqueye+ and Iqueye

L. Zampieri, A. Richichi, G. Naletto +8

We report the first-time use of the Aqueye+ and Iqueye instruments to record lunar occultation events. High-time resolution recordings in different filters have been acquired for s…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 15 cited

MUSE library of stellar spectra

Valentin D. Ivanov, Lodovico Coccato, Mark J. Neeser +5

Empirical stellar spectral libraries have applications in both extragalactic and stellar studies, and they have an advantage over theoretical libraries because they naturally inclu…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 15 cited

Forming one of the most massive objects in the Universe: The quadruple merger in Abell 1758

Gerrit Schellenberger, Laurence P. David, Ewan O'Sullivan +2

Abell1758 is a system of two galaxy clusters, a more massive, northern cluster and a southern cluster. Both parts are undergoing major merger events at different stages. Although t…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 48 cited

Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VIII. Time Variability of Emission and Absorption in NGC 5548 Based on Modeling the Ultraviolet Spectrum

G. A. Kriss, G. De Rosa, J. Ely +164

We model the ultraviolet spectra of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC~5548 obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope during the 6-month reverberation-mapping campaign in 2014. Our model of t…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 40 cited

Transit timing variations in the WASP-4 planetary system

John Southworth, M. Dominik, U. G. Jorgensen +25

Transits in the planetary system WASP-4 were recently found to occur 80s earlier than expected in observations from the TESS satellite. We present 22 new times of mid-transit that…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 53 cited

SN 2017gmr: An energetic Type II-P supernova with asymmetries

Jennifer E. Andrews, D. J. Sand, S. Valenti +77

We present high-cadence ultraviolet (UV), optical, and near-infrared (NIR) data on the luminous Type II-P supernova SN 2017gmr from hours after discovery through the first 180 days…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 23 cited

Evidence of a fast bar in the weakly-interacting galaxy NGC 4264 with MUSE

V. Cuomo, E. M. Corsini, J. A. L. Aguerri +9

We present surface photometry and stellar kinematics of NGC 4264, a barred lenticular galaxy in the region of the Virgo Cluster undergoing a tidal interaction with one of its neigh…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 27 cited

Determining mass limits around HD163296 through SPHERE direct imaging data

D. Mesa, M. Langlois, A. Garufi +33

HD163296 is a Herbig Ae/Be star known to host a protoplanetary disk with a ringed structure. To explain the disk features, previous works proposed the presence of planets embedded…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 45 cited

Analysis of the physical nature of 22 New VVV Survey Globular Cluster candidates in the Milky Way Bulge

Tali Palma, Dante Minniti, Javier Alonso-García +11

In order to characterize 22 new globular cluster (GC) candidates in the Galactic bulge, we present their colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) and Ks-band luminosity functions (LFs) usi…