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astro-ph.GA2016★ 109 cited

Double-peaked profiles: ubiquitous signatures of disks in the Broad Emission Lines of Active Galactic Nuclei

Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Jaderson S. Schimoia, Bradley M. Peterson +4

Broad (~10,000 km/s), double-peaked emission-line profiles of Balmer lines emitted by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are thought to originate in the outer parts of an accretion disk…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 64 cited

Optical Depth Estimates and Effective Critical Densities of Dense Gas Tracers in the Inner Parts of Nearby Galaxy Discs

M. J. Jimenez-Donaire, F. Bigiel, A. K. Leroy +17

High critical density molecular lines like HCN(1-0) or HCO+(1-0) represent our best tool to study currently star-forming, dense molecular gas at extragalactic distances. The optica…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 91 cited

Millimeter-Wave Line Ratios and Sub-beam Volume Density Distributions

Adam K. Leroy, Antonio Usero, Andreas Schruba +11

We explore the use of mm-wave emission line ratios to trace molecular gas density when observations integrate over a wide range of volume densities within a single telescope beam.…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 33 cited

Probing the Anisotropy of the Milky Way Gaseous Halo-II: sightline toward Mrk509

Anjali Gupta, Smita Mathur, Yair Krongold

Hot, million degree gas appears to pervade the Milky way halo, containing a large fraction of the Galactic missing baryons. This circumgalactic medium (CGM) is probed effectively i…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 104 cited

Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project VI: reverberating Disk Models for NGC 5548

D. Starkey, Keith Horne, M. M. Fausnaugh +90

We conduct a multiwavelength continuum variability study of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 to investigate the temperature structure of its accretion disk. The 19 overlapping continu…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 249 cited

Cold gas stripping in satellite galaxies: from pairs to clusters

Toby Brown, Barbara Catinella, Luca Cortese +6

In this paper we investigate environment driven gas depletion in satellite galaxies, taking full advantage of the atomic hydrogen (HI) spectral stacking technique to quantify the g…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 28 cited

A Study of Quasar Selection in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova fields

S. S. Tie, P. Martini, D. Mudd +75

We present a study of quasar selection using the DES supernova fields. We used a quasar catalog from an overlapping portion of the SDSS Stripe 82 region to quantify the completenes…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 95 cited

APOGEE Chemical Abundances of Globular Cluster Giants in the Inner Galaxy

Ricardo P. Schiavon, Jennifer A. Johnson, Peter M. Frinchaboy +27

We report chemical abundances obtained by SDSS-III/APOGEE for giant stars in five globular clusters located within 2.2 kpc of the Galactic centre. We detect the presence of multipl…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 112 cited

The Spatially Resolved [CII] Cooling Line Deficit in Galaxies

J. D. T. Smith, Kevin Croxall, Bruce Draine +17

We present [CII] 158um measurements from over 15,000 resolved regions within 54 nearby galaxies of the KINGFISH program to investigate the so-called [CII] "line cooling deficit" lo…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 45 cited

The RESOLVE Survey Atomic Gas Census and Environmental Influences on Galaxy Gas Reservoirs

David V. Stark, Sheila J. Kannappan, Kathleen D. Eckert +17

We present the HI mass inventory for the RESOLVE survey, a volume-limited, multi-wavelength census of >1500 z=0 galaxies spanning diverse environments and complete in baryonic mass…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 14 cited

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury XVII. Examining Obscured Star Formation with Synthetic Ultraviolet Flux Maps in M31

Alexia R. Lewis, Jacob E. Simones, Benjamin D. Johnson +10

We present synthetic far- and near-ultraviolet (FUV and NUV) maps of M31, both with and without dust reddening. These maps were constructed from spatially-resolved star formation h…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 34 cited

H0LiCOW VI. Testing the fidelity of lensed quasar host galaxy reconstruction

Xuheng Ding, Kai Liao, Tommaso Treu +11

The empirical correlation between the mass of a super-massive black hole (MBH) and its host galaxy properties is widely considered to be evidence of their co-evolution. A powerful…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 115 cited

Nearest Neighbor: The Low-Mass Milky Way Satellite Tucana III

J. D. Simon, T. S. Li, A. Drlica-Wagner +56

We present Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of the recently discovered Milky Way satellite Tucana III (Tuc III). We identify 26 member stars in Tuc III, from which we measure a mean rad…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 15 cited

MiNDSTEp differential photometry of the gravitationally lensed quasars WFI2033-4723 and HE0047-1756: Microlensing and a new time delay

E. Giannini, R. W. Schmidt, J. Wambsganß +52

We present V and R photometry of the gravitationally lensed quasars WFI2033-4723 and HE0047-1756. The data were taken by the MiNDSTEp collaboration with the 1.54 m Danish telescope…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 53 cited

MUSE Reveals a Recent Merger in the Post-starburst Host Galaxy of the TDE ASASSN-14li

J. L. Prieto, T. Krühler, J. P. Anderson +13

We present MUSE integral field spectroscopic observations of the host galaxy (PGC 043234) of one of the closest (, Mpc) and best-studied tidal disruption eve…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 55 cited

An observer's guide to the (Local Group) dwarf galaxies: predictions for their own dwarf satellite populations

Gregory A. Dooley, Annika H. G. Peter, Tianyi Yang +3

A recent surge in the discovery of new ultrafaint dwarf satellites of the Milky Way has inspired the idea of searching for faint satellites, $10^3\, \mathrm{M_{\odot}} < M_* < 10^6…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 112 cited

Reverberation Mapping of Optical Emission Lines in Five Active Galaxies

M. M. Fausnaugh, C. J. Grier, M. C. Bentz +68

We present the first results from an optical reverberation mapping campaign executed in 2014, targeting the active galactic nuclei (AGN) MCG+08-11-011, NGC 2617, NGC 4051, 3C 382,…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 19 cited

On the selection of damped Lyman alpha systems using MgII absorption at 2<z<4

T. A. M. Berg, S. L. Ellison, J. X. Prochaska +8

The XQ-100 survey provides optical and near infrared coverage of 36 blindly selected, intervening damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs) at 2 < z < 4, simultaneously covering the MgII d…

astro-ph.GA2016

OGLE Collection of Star Clusters. New Objects in the Outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud

M. Sitek, M. K. Szymański, D. M. Skowron +13

The Magellanic System (MS), consisting of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and the Magellanic Bridge (MBR), contains diverse sample of star cluste…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 46 cited

Chemical abundances of damped Lyman alpha systems in the XQ-100 survey

T. A. M. Berg, S. L. Ellison, R. Sanchez-Ramirez +8

The XQ-100 survey has provided high signal-noise spectra of 100 redshift 3-4.5 quasars with the X-Shooter spectrograph. The metal abundances for 13 elements in the 41 damped Lyman…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 119 cited

Extremely Red Quasars in BOSS

Fred Hamann, Nadia L. Zakamska, Nicholas Ross +11

Red quasars are candidate young objects in an early transition stage of massive galaxy evolution. Our team recently discovered a population of extremely red quasars (ERQs) in the B…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 47 cited

Galactic Bar/Spiral Arm Interactions in NGC3627

H. Beuther, S. Meidt, E. Schinnerer +2

Aims: To gain insight into the expected gas dynamics at the interface of the Galactic bar and spiral arms in our own Milky Way galaxy, we examine as an extragalactic counterpart th…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 40 cited

The Molecular Wind in the Nearest Seyfert Galaxy Circinus Revealed by ALMA

Laura K. Zschaechner, Fabian Walter, Alberto Bolatto +6

We present ALMA observations of the inner 1' (1.2 kpc) of the Circinus galaxy, the nearest Seyfert. We target CO (1-0) in the region associated with a well-known multiphase outflow…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 21 cited

The TDE ASASSN-14li and its host resolved at parsec scales with the EVN

Cristina Romero-Cañizales, Jose L. Prieto, Xian Chen +5

We report European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (EVN) radio continuum observations of ASASSN-14li, one of the best studied tidal disruption events (TDEs) to date. At 1…