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astro-ph.GA2017★ 75 cited

Fast, Collimated Outflow in the Western Nucleus of Arp 220

Loreto Barcos-Muñoz, Susanne Aalto, Todd A. Thompson +6

We present the first spatially and spectrally resolved image of the molecular outflow in the western nucleus of Arp\,220. The outflow, seen in HCN~(1--0) by ALMA, is compact and co…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 103 cited

A Model for the Onset of Self-gravitation and Star Formation in Molecular Gas Governed by Galactic Forces: I. Cloud-scale Gas Motions

Sharon E. Meidt, Adam K. Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky +10

Modern extragalactic molecular gas surveys now reach the scales of star-forming giant molecular clouds (GMCs, 20-50 pc). Systematic variations in GMC properties with galaxy environ…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 61 cited

The EDGE-CALIFA survey: the influence of galactic rotation on the molecular depletion time across the Hubble sequence

D. Colombo, V. Kalinova, D. Utomo +15

We present a kpc-scale analysis of the relationship between the molecular depletion time () and the orbital time () across the field of…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 16 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Composite Lags at

Jennifer I-Hsiu Li, Yue Shen, Keith Horne +13

We present composite broad-line region (BLR) reverberation-mapping lag measurements for \halpha, \hbeta, \HeII\, and \MgII\ for a sample of 144, quasars…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 36 cited

Mapping the Tidal Disruption of the Hercules Dwarf: A Wide-Field DECam Imaging Search for RR Lyrae Stars

Christopher Garling, Beth Willman, David J. Sand +10

We investigate the hypothesized tidal disruption of the Hercules ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD). Previous tidal disruption studies of the Hercules UFD have been hindered by the hig…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 8 cited

The OVI mystery: mismatch between X-ray and UV column densities

Smita Mathur, Fabrizio Nicastro, Anjali Gupta +4

The UV spectra of Galactic and extragalactic sightlines often show OVI absorption lines at a range of redshifts, and from a variety of sources from the Galactic circumgalactic medi…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 92 cited

Quasar Accretion Disk Sizes From Continuum Reverberation Mapping From the Dark Energy Survey

D. Mudd, P. Martini, Y. Zu +69

We present accretion disk size measurements for 15 luminous quasars at derived from light curves from the Dark Energy Survey. We measure the disk sizes…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

AGN photoionization of gas in companion galaxies as a probe of AGN radiation in time and direction

William C. Keel, Vardha N. Bennert, Anna Pancoast +9

We consider AGN photoionization of gas in companion galaxies (cross-ionization) as a way to sample the intensity of AGN radiation in both direction and time, independent of the gas…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 225 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: H and H Reverberation Measurements From First-year Spectroscopy and Photometry

C. J. Grier, J. R. Trump, Yue Shen +39

We present reverberation mapping results from the first year of combined spectroscopic and photometric observations of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project. W…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 21 cited

The Parsec-Scale Relationship Between I_CO and A_V in Local Molecular Clouds

Cheoljong Lee, Adam K. Leroy, Alberto D. Bolatto +4

We measure the parsec-scale relationship between integrated CO intensity (I_CO) and visual extinction (A_V) in 24 local molecular clouds using maps of CO emission and dust optical…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 43 cited

Deep Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam observations of Milky Way satellites Columba I and Triangulum II

Jeffrey L. Carlin, David J. Sand, Ricardo R. Munoz +9

We present deep, wide-field Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam photometry of two recently discovered satellites of the Milky Way (MW): Columba I and Triangulum II. The color magnitude diagra…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 165 cited

Confirming chemical clocks: asteroseismic age dissection of the Milky Way disk(s)

V. Silva Aguirre, M. Bojsen-Hansen, D. Slumstrup +22

Investigations of the origin and evolution of the Milky Way disk have long relied on chemical and kinematic identification of its components to reconstruct our Galactic past. Diffi…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 293 cited

Target Selection for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2 Survey

G. Zasowski, R. E. Cohen, S. D. Chojnowski +34

APOGEE-2 is a high-resolution, near-infrared spectroscopic survey observing roughly 300,000 stars across the entire sky. It is the successor to APOGEE and is part of the Sloan Digi…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 22 cited

Deep SOAR follow-up photometry of two Milky Way outer-halo companions discovered with Dark Energy Survey

E. Luque, B. Santiago, A. Pieres +48

We report the discovery of a new star cluster, DES 3, in the constellation of Indus, and deeper observations of the previously identified satellite DES J0222.75217 (Eridanus III…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 16 cited

CARMA Survey toward Infrared-bright Nearby Galaxies (STING). IV. Spatially Resolved 13CO in Spiral Galaxies

Yixian Cao, Tony Wong, Rui Xue +5

We present a mapping survey of 12 nearby galaxies from the CARMA STING sample. The line intensity ratio $\mathcal{R} \equiv I[^{12}\mathrm{…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 25 cited

The BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey V. Morphology and Substructure of Lensed Lyman- Emitters at redshift in the BELLS GALLERY

Matthew Cornachione, Adam Bolton, Yiping Shu +9

We present a morphological study of the 17 lensed Lyman- emitter (LAE) galaxies of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Emission-Line Lens Survey (BELLS) for the GALaxy-L…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 57 cited

Constraining the HI-Halo Mass Relation From Galaxy Clustering

Hong Guo, Cheng Li, Zheng Zheng +5

We study the dependence of galaxy clustering on atomic gas mass using a sample of 16,000 galaxies with redshift in the range of and HI mass of $M_{\rm HI}>10^…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 26 cited

DES Science Portal: Computing Photometric Redshifts

Julia Gschwend, Aurelio Carnero Rosell, Ricardo Ogando +68

A significant challenge facing photometric surveys for cosmological purposes is the need to produce reliable redshift estimates. The estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-zs)…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 94 cited

The WISSH Quasars Project III. X-ray properties of hyper-luminous quasars

S. Martocchia, E. Piconcelli, L. Zappacosta +14

We perform a survey of the X-ray properties of 41 objects from the WISE/SDSS selected Hyper-luminous (WISSH) quasars sample, composed by 86 broad-line quasars (QSOs) with bolometri…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 21 cited

DES15E2mlf: A Spectroscopically Confirmed Superluminous Supernova that Exploded 3.5 Gyr After the Big Bang

Y. -C. Pan, R. J. Foley, M. Smith +63

We present the Dark Energy Survey (DES) discovery of DES15E2mlf, the most distant superluminous supernova (SLSN) spectroscopically confirmed to date. The light curves and Gemini sp…

astro-ph.GA2017

The age and abundance structure of the stellar populations in the central sub-kpc of the Milky Way

T. Bensby, S. Feltzing, A. Gould +6

The four main findings about the age and abundance structure of the Milky Way bulge based on microlensed dwarf and subgiant stars are: (1) a wide metallicity distribution with dist…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 112 cited

The Origins of [CII] Emission in Local Star-forming Galaxies

Kevin Croxall, J. D. T. Smith, Eric Pellegrini +17

The [CII] 158um fine-structure line is the brightest emission line observed in local star-forming galaxies. As a major coolant of the gas-phase interstellar medium, [CII] balances…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 12 cited

Abundant Methanol Ice toward a Massive Young Stellar Object in the Central Molecular Zone

Deokkeun An, Kris Sellgren, A. C. Adwin Boogert +2

Previous radio observations revealed widespread gas-phase methanol (CHOH) in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) at the Galactic center (GC), but its origin remains unclear. Here,…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 110 cited

Microlensing Makes Lensed Quasar Time Delays Significantly Time Variable

S. S. Tie, C. S. Kochanek

The time delays of gravitationally lensed quasars are generally believed to be unique numbers whose measurement is limited only by the quality of the light curves and the models fo…