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astro-ph.EP2017★ 103 cited

Planet-driven spiral arms in protoplanetary disks: I. Formation mechanism

Jaehan Bae, Zhaohuan Zhu

Protoplanetary disk simulations show that a single planet can excite more than one spiral arm, possibly explaining recent observations of multiple spiral arms in some systems. In t…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 7 cited

Discovery of a Possible Early-T Thick-Disk Subdwarf from the AllWISE2 Motion Survey

Kendra Kellogg, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Stanimir Metchev +2

We have discovered a potential T0 1 subdwarf from a search for sources in the AllWISE2 Motion Survey that do not have counterparts in surveys at shorter wavelengths. With a t…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 7 cited

Spin Quenching Assisted by a Strongly Anisotropic Compression Behavior in MnP

Fei Han, Di Wang, Yonggang Wang +12

We studied the crystal structure and spin state of MnP under high pressure with synchrotron X-ray diffraction and X-ray emission spectroscopy. MnP has an exceedingly strong anisotr…

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.SR2017★ 8 cited

2MASS J11151597+1937266: A Young, Dusty, Isolated, Planetary-Mass Object with a Potential Wide Stellar Companion

Christopher A. Theissen, Adam J. Burgasser, Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi +4

We present 2MASS J11151597+1937266, a recently identified low-surface gravity L dwarf, classified as an L2 based on Sloan Digital Sky Survey optical spectroscopy. We confirm thi…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 131 cited

The origin of the diverse morphologies and kinematics of Milky Way-mass galaxies in the FIRE-2 simulations

Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Philip F. Hopkins, Andrew Wetzel +11

We use hydrodynamic cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project to explore the morphologies and kinematics of fifteen Milky Way (MW)-mass galaxies. Our sample ranges fro…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 102 cited

The Chemical Composition of Mercury

Larry R. Nittler, Nancy L. Chabot, Timothy L. Grove +1

The chemical composition of a planetary body reflects its starting conditions modified by numerous processes during its formation and geological evolution. Measurements by X-ray, g…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 124 cited

Copious Amounts of Dust and Gas in a z=7.5 Quasar Host Galaxy

Bram Venemans, Fabian Walter, Roberto Decarli +10

We present IRAM/NOEMA and JVLA observations of the quasar J1342+0928 at z=7.54 and report detections of copious amounts of dust and [CII] emission in the interstellar medium (ISM)…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 114 cited

Clumpy Galaxies in CANDELS. II. Physical Properties of UV-bright Clumps at

Yicheng Guo, Marc Rafelski, Eric F. Bell +20

Studying giant star-forming clumps in distant galaxies is important to understand galaxy formation and evolution. At present, however, observers and theorists have not reached a co…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 48 cited

Elemental Abundances of Kepler Objects of Interest in APOGEE. I. Two Distinct Orbital Period Regimes Inferred from Host Star Iron Abundances

Robert F. Wilson, Johanna Teske, Steven R. Majewski +13

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has observed 600 transiting exoplanets and exoplanet candidates from \textit{Kepler} (Kepler Objects of In…

physics.hist-ph2017

Cosmological Black Hole Observations and Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic

Juna A. Kollmeier

Kant put forward the notion of the Transcendental Aesthetic (TA) in his manuscript . In this note I review the TA in light of the detection…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 46 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Calibration of redMaGiC Redshift Distributions in DES and SDSS from Cross-Correlations

R. Cawthon, C. Davis, M. Gatti +88

We present calibrations of the redshift distributions of redMaGiC galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR8 data. These results det…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 36 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy Sample for BAO Measurement

M. Crocce, A. J. Ross, I. Sevilla-Noarbe +84

We define and characterise a sample of 1.3 million galaxies extracted from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data, optimised to measure Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the prese…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 190 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +109

We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the BAO scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data. We con…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 61 cited

Reconciling observed and simulated stellar halo masses

Robyn E. Sanderson, Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Andrew Wetzel +6

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies from the FIRE project to evaluate various strategies for estimating the mass of a galaxy's stellar halo fr…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 33 cited

Group quenching and galactic conformity at low redshift

M. Treyer, K. Kraljic, S. Arnouts +13

We quantify the quenching impact of the group environment using the spectroscopic survey Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) to z=0.2. The fraction of red (quiescent) galaxies, whether…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 63 cited

Modeling the Impact of Baryons on Subhalo Populations with Machine Learning

Ethan O. Nadler, Yao-Yuan Mao, Risa H. Wechsler +2

We identify subhalos in dark matter-only (DMO) zoom-in simulations that are likely to be disrupted due to baryonic effects by using a random forest classifier trained on two hydrod…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 23 cited

The ALMA Frontier Fields Survey - IV. Lensing-corrected 1.1 mm number counts in Abell 2744, MACSJ0416.1-2403 and MACSJ1149.5+2223

A. M. Muñoz Arancibia, J. González-López, E. Ibar +15

[abridged] Characterizing the number counts of faint, dusty star-forming galaxies is currently a challenge even for deep, high-resolution observations in the FIR-to-mm regime. They…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 12 cited

Selecting ultra-faint dwarf candidate progenitors in cosmological N-body simulations at high redshifts

Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh, Alexander P. Ji, Gregory A. Dooley +4

The smallest satellites of the Milky Way ceased forming stars during the epoch of reionization and thus provide archaeological access to galaxy formation at . Numerical studie…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 1.1k cited

An 800-million-solar-mass black hole in a significantly neutral Universe at redshift 7.5

E. Bañados, B. P. Venemans, C. Mazzucchelli +15

Quasars are the most luminous non-transient objects known and as a result they enable studies of the Universe at the earliest cosmic epochs. Despite extensive efforts, however, the…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 10 cited

BANYAN. X. Discovery of a wide, low-gravity L-type companion to a fast-rotating M3 dwarf

Marie-Eve Desrochers, Etienne Artigau, Jonathan Gagné +4

We report the discovery of a substellar-mass co-moving companion to 2MASS J22501512+2325342, an M3 candidate member of the young (130--200 Myr) AB Doradus Moving Group (ABDMG). Thi…

astro-ph.HE2017

The Rise and Peak of the Luminous Type IIn SN 2017hcc/ATLAS17lsn from ASAS-SN and Swift UVOT Data

J. L. Prieto, Ping Chen, Subo Dong +7

We present observations of the rise and peak of the Type IIn supernova SN 2017hcc/ATLAS17lsn obtained by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) and Swift UVOT. The l…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 16 cited

ALMA and VLA Observations of the HD 141569 System

Jacob Aaron White, A. C. Boley, M. A. MacGregor +2

We present VLA 9 mm (33 GHz) observations of the HD 141569 system from semester 16A. The observations achieve a resolution of 0.25 arcsec ( au) and a sensitivity of $4.7~μ\…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 29 cited

The Architecture of the GW Ori Young Triple Star System and Its Disk: Dynamical Masses, Mutual Inclinations, and Recurrent Eclipses

Ian Czekala, Sean M. Andrews, Guillermo Torres +15

We present spatially and spectrally resolved Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of gas and dust orbiting the pre-main sequence hierarchical triple sta…