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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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astro-ph.GA2026

SMA Observations of the Archetypal Compact Steep-spectrum Radio Source 3C 303.1

Rushikesh Bhutkar, Mark Gurwell, Christopher O'Dea +5

AGN (active galactic nuclei) feedback plays a crucial role in shaping galaxy evolution. Numerical simulations show that the kinetic energy transfer efficiency from radio jets to in…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 3 cited

HST view of NGC 5044: Constraints on Filament Widths, Magnetic Support, Multiphase Structure, and Comparison with Cluster Environments

Prathamesh Tamhane, Ming Sun, William Waldron +12

We present new Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of ionised filaments in the brightest group galaxy NGC 5044. These filaments extend several kiloparsecs and have widths of $\sim…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The shocking features in the closest rich galaxy cluster Norma

Chong Ge, Ming Sun, Mpati Ramatsoku +2

The merger shocks generated by the collision of galaxy clusters elevate the pressure within the intracluster medium, significantly influencing the evolution of embedded cluster gal…

astro-ph.GA2026

The longest known tails of ram-pressure-stripped star-forming galaxies are caused by an intracluster medium shock in Abell 1367

H. W. Edler, M. Hoeft, S. Bhagat +10

The environment plays an important role in shaping the evolution of cluster galaxies through mechanisms such as ram pressure stripping (RPS), whose effect may be enhanced in mergin…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

HE0144-4657: A Carbon-Enhanced Ultra Metal-Poor Star ([Fe/H] ~ -4.1) from the Helmi Stream Disrupted Dwarf Galaxy

Vinicius M. Placco, Guilherme Limberg, Catherine R. Kennedy +1

We present the discovery of HE0144-4657, an ultra metal-poor, CNO-enhanced star dynamically associated with the Helmi Stream disrupted dwarf-galaxy remnant. This star was first ide…

astro-ph.GA2025

The relationship between warm and hot gas-phase metallicity in massive elliptical galaxies and the influence of AGN feedback

Valeria Olivares, Yuanyuan Su, Pasquale Temi +10

Warm ionized gas is ubiquitous at the centers of X-ray bright elliptical galaxies. While it is believed to play a key role in the feeding and feedback processes of supermassive bla…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Solving the cooling flow problem with combined jet-wind AGN feedback

Aoyun He, Feng Yuan, Suoqing Ji +6

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is widely viewed as the most promising solution to the long-standing cooling flow problem in galaxy clusters, yet previous models prescribe j…

astro-ph.GA2025

Constraining star formation in M87 using deep HST UV data

Prathamesh Tamhane, William Waldron, Ming Sun +11

We analyzed the deepest Hubble Space Telescope (HST) F275W ultraviolet (UV) imaging of M87 to obtain the most robust constraints on its star formation rate (SFR) and star formation…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE). XIX. The discovery of a spectacular 230 kpc Halpha tail following NGC 4569 in the Virgo cluster

M. Sun, H. Le, B. Epinat +16

Context. Galaxies fly inside galaxy clusters and ram pressure by the ICM can remove a large amount of the ISM from the galaxy, and deposit the gas in the ICM. The ISM decoupled fro…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Extreme AGN feedback in the fossil galaxy group SDSSTG 4436

D. Eckert, F. Gastaldello, L. Lovisari +20

Supermassive black hole feedback is the currently favoured mechanism to regulate the star formation rate of galaxies and prevent the formation of ultra-massive galaxies ($M_\star>1…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

ALMA-JELLY I: High Resolution CO(2-1) Observations of Ongoing Ram Pressure Stripping in NGC 4858 Reveal Asymmetrical Gas Tail Formation and Fallback

Harrison J. Souchereau, Jeffrey D. P. Kenney, Pavel Jachym +13

We present new CO(2-1) observations (resolution pc) of the Coma cluster jellyfish galaxy NGC 4858 obtained from the ALMA-JELLY large program. Analyzing this data alon…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Introducing the Descriptive Parametric Model: Gaseous Profiles for Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters

Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, G. Mark Voit, Yannick M. Bahé +14

We develop and present the Descriptive Parametric Model (DPM), a tool for generating profiles of gaseous halos (pressure, electron density, and metallicity) as functions of radius,…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Jet-mode feedback in NGC 5972: insights from resolved MUSE, GMRT and VLA observations

Arshi Ali, Biny Sebastian, Darshan Kakkad +10

NGC 5972, a Voorwerp galaxy, features a helical-shaped extended emission-line region (EELR) with a radius > 10 kpc and a S-shaped radio structure spanning about 470 kpc. We use VLT…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

ESO 137-001 -- a jellyfish galaxy model

B. Vollmer, M. Sun, P. Jachym +2

Ram pressure stripping of the spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 within the highly dynamical intracluster medium (ICM) of the Norma cluster lead to spectacular extraplanar CO, optical, H…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

A detached double X-ray tail in the merging galaxy cluster Z8338 with a large double tail

Chong Ge, Ming Sun, Paul E. J. Nulsen +3

When subhalos infall into galaxy clusters, their gas content is ram pressure stripped by the intracluster medium (ICM) and may turn into cometary tails. We report the discovery of…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 15 cited

Hidden Cooling Flows in Clusters of Galaxies III: Accretion onto the Central Black Hole

A. C. Fabian, J. S. Sanders, G. J. Ferland +3

Recently, we have uncovered Hidden Cooling Flows (HCF) in the X-ray spectra of the central Brightest Galaxies of 11 clusters, 1 group and 2 elliptical galaxies. Here we report such…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) XV. The Halpha luminosity function of the Virgo cluster

A. Boselli, M. Fossati, P. Cote +17

We use a complete set of deep narrow-band imaging data for 384 galaxies gathered during the VESTIGE survey to derive the first Halpha luminosity function (LF) of the Virgo cluster…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

An Enigmatic 380 kpc Long Linear Collimated Galactic Tail

Dennis Zaritsky, Jacob P. Crossett, Yara L. Jaffé +7

We present an intriguing, serendipitously-detected system consisting of an S0/a galaxy, which we refer to as the "Kite", and a highly-collimated tail of gas and stars that extends…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 22 cited

The far side of the Galactic bar/bulge revealed through semi-regular variables

Daniel R. Hey, Daniel Huber, Benjamin J. Shappee +8

The Galactic bulge and bar are critical to our understanding of the Milky Way. However, due to the lack of reliable stellar distances, the structure and kinematics of the bulge/bar…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

A deep dive: Chandra observations of the NGC 4839 group falling into the Coma cluster

M. S. Mirakhor, S. A. Walker, J. Runge

Cosmological simulations of structure formation predict that galaxy clusters continue to grow and evolve through ongoing mergers with group-scale systems. During these merging even…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 15 cited

Measuring the ICM velocity structure in the Ophiuchus cluster

Efrain Gatuzz, J. S. Sanders, K. Dennerl +8

We have found evidence of bulk velocities following active galactic nucleus (AGN) bubbles in the Virgo cluster and galaxy motions in the Centaurus cluster. In order to increase the…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 15 cited

Turbulence in the Tail of a Jellyfish Galaxy

Yuan Li, Rongxin Luo, Matteo Fossati +2

When galaxies move through the intracluster medium (ICM) inside galaxy clusters, the ram pressure of the ICM can strip the gas from galaxies. The stripped gas forms tails on the tr…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

HST viewing of spectacular star-forming trails behind ESO 137-001

William Waldron, Ming Sun, Rongxin Luo +8

We present the results from the HST WFC3 and ACS data on an archetypal galaxy undergoing ram pressure stripping (RPS), ESO 137-001, in the nearby cluster Abell 3627. ESO 137-001 is…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

Tracing the kinematics of the whole ram pressure stripped tails in ESO 137-001

Rongxin Luo, Ming Sun, Pavel Jáchym +8

Ram pressure stripping (RPS) is an important process to affect the evolution of cluster galaxies and their surrounding environment. We present a large MUSE mosaic for ESO 137-001 a…