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most citedDark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

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astro-ph.GA2021★ 2 cited

Toward measuring the spin of obscured supermassive black holes: a critical assessment with disk megamasers

Alberto Masini, Annalisa Celotti, Samuele Campitiello

Mass and spin are two fundamental properties of astrophysical black holes. While some established, indirect methods are adopted to measure both these properties of active galactic…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 30 cited

The Simons Observatory: Galactic Science Goals and Forecasts

Brandon S. Hensley, Susan E. Clark, Valentina Fanfani +31

Observing in six frequency bands from 27 to 280 GHz over a large sky area, the Simons Observatory (SO) is poised to address many questions in Galactic astrophysics in addition to i…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

Clash of Titans: a MUSE dynamical study of the extreme cluster merger SPT-CL J0307-6225

D. Hernández-Lang, A. Zenteno, A. Diaz-Ocampo +23

We present VLT/MUSE spectroscopy, along with archival Gemini/GMOS spectroscopy, Magellan/Megacam imaging, and Chandra X-ray emission for SPT-CL J0305-6225, a z=0.58 major merging g…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

Synthesizing Stellar Populations in South Pole Telescope Galaxy Clusters: I. Ages of Quiescent Member Galaxies at 0.3 < z < 1.4

Gourav Khullar, Matthew B. Bayliss, Michael D. Gladders +14

Using stellar population synthesis models to infer star formation histories (SFHs), we analyse photometry and spectroscopy of a large sample of quiescent galaxies which are members…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 41 cited

Dwarf AGNs from Optical Variability for the Origins of Seeds (DAVOS): Insights from the Dark Energy Survey Deep Fields

Colin J. Burke, Xin Liu, Yue Shen +69

We present a sample of 706, active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected from optical photometric variability in three of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) deep fields (E2, C3, and…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 24 cited

The Black Hole Mass Function Across Cosmic Times I. Stellar Black Holes and Light Seed Distribution

Alex Sicilia, Andrea Lapi, Lumen Boco +7

This is the first paper in a series aimed at modeling the black hole (BH) mass function, from the stellar to the intermediate to the (super)massive regime. In the present work we f…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 80 cited

Euclid preparation: XVIII. Cosmic Dawn Survey. Spitzer observations of the Euclid deep fields and calibration fields

Andrea Moneti, H. J. McCracken, M. Shuntov +194

We present a new infrared survey covering the three Euclid deep fields and four other Euclid calibration fields using Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC). We have combined these…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 24 cited

Measuring the Density Fields around Bright Quasars at with XQR-30 Spectra

Huanqing Chen, Anna-Christina Eilers, Sarah E. I. Bosman +10

Measuring the density of the intergalactic medium using quasar sightlines in the epoch of reionization is challenging due to the saturation of Lyman- absorption. Near a luminous…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 30 cited

The space density of ultra-luminous QSOs at the end of reionization epoch by the QUBRICS Survey and the AGN contribution to the hydrogen ionizing background

A. Grazian, E. Giallongo, K. Boutsia +6

Motivated by evidences favoring a rapid and late hydrogen reionization process completing at z~5.2-5.5 and mainly driven by rare and luminous sources, we have reassessed the estima…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 27 cited

Two striking head-tail galaxies in the galaxy cluster IIZW108: insights into transition to turbulence, magnetic fields and particle re-acceleration

Ancla Müller, Christoph Pfrommer, Alessandro Ignesti +12

We present deep JVLA observations at 1.4 GHz and 2.7 GHz (full polarization), as well as optical OmegaWINGS/WINGS and X-ray observations of two extended radio galaxies in the IIZW1…

astro-ph.GA2021

From the Fire: A Deeper Look at the Phoenix Stream

K. Tavangar, P. Ferguson, N. Shipp +64

We use six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey to perform a detailed photometric characterization of the Phoenix stellar stream, a 15-degree long, thin, dynamically cold, low…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 32 cited

The impact of the FMR and starburst galaxies on the (low-metallicity) cosmic star formation history

Martyna Chruslinska, Gijs Nelemans, Lumen Boco +1

The question how much star formation is occurring at low metallicity throughout the cosmic history appears crucial for the discussion of the origin of various energetic transients,…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 36 cited

The GOGREEN survey: Transition Galaxies and The Evolution of Environmental Quenching

Karen McNab, Michael L. Balogh, Remco F. J. van der Burg +25

We measure the rate of environmentally-driven star formation quenching in galaxies at , using eleven massive () galaxy clusters…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 22 cited

Observational Evidence of Evolving Dark Matter Profiles at

Gauri Sharma, Paolo Salucci, Glenn van de Ven

We investigate the dark matter halos of 256 star-forming disc-like galaxies at using the KMOS redshift one spectroscopic survey (KROSS). This sample covers the redshifts…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 35 cited

Isolated and dynamical black hole mergers with \texttt{B-POP}: the role of star formation and dynamics, star cluster evolution, natal kicks, mass and spins, and hierarchical mergers

Manuel Arca Sedda, Michela Mapelli, Matthew Benacquista +1

The current interpretation of LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA data suggests that the primary mass function of merging binary black holes (BBHs) at redshift contains multiple struc…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 58 cited

No strong dependence of Lyman continuum leakage on physical properties of star-forming galaxies at

A. Saxena, L. Pentericci, R. S. Ellis +15

We present Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation escape fraction measurements for 183 spectroscopically confirmed star-forming galaxies in the redshift range $3.11 < z < 3…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 47 cited

CLASH-VLT: Abell~S1063. Cluster assembly history and spectroscopic catalogue

A. Mercurio, P. Rosati, A. Biviano +31

Using the CLASH-VLT survey, we assembled an unprecedented sample of 1234 spectroscopically confirmed members in Abell~S1063, finding a dynamically complex structure at z_cl=0.3457…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 17 cited

Velocity dispersion of the brightest cluster galaxies in cosmological simulations

I. Marini, S. Borgani, A. Saro +7

Using the DIANOGA hydrodynamical zoom-in simulation set of galaxy clusters, we analyze the dynamics traced by stars belonging to the Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and their sur…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

An ALMA view of 11 Dusty Star Forming Galaxies at the peak of Cosmic Star Formation History

L. Pantoni, M. Massardi, A. Lapi +10

We present the ALMA view of 11 main-sequence DSFGs, (sub-)millimeter selected in the GOODS-S field, and spectroscopically confirmed to be at the peak of Cosmic SFH (z = 2-3). Our s…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 40 cited

The stellar metallicities of massive quiescent galaxies at 1.0 < z < 1.3 from KMOS+VANDELS

A. C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop +18

We present a rest-frame UV-optical stacked spectrum representative of massive quiescent galaxies at with log. The stack is constructed using VA…

astro-ph.GA2021

Multi-wavelength Optical and NIR Variability Analysis of the Blazar PKS 0027-426

E. Guise, S. F. Hönig, T. Almeyda +62

We present multi-wavelength spectral and temporal variability analysis of PKS 0027-426 using optical griz observations from DES (Dark Energy Survey) between 2013-2018 and VOILETTE…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

Fossil group origins. XI. The dependence of galaxy orbits on the magnitude gap

Stefano Zarattini, Andrea Biviano, J. Alfonso L. Aguerri +2

We aim to study how the orbits of galaxies in clusters depend on the prominence of the corresponding central galaxies. We divided our data set of 100 clusters and groups int…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 60 cited

Galaxy Morphological Classification Catalogue of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data with Convolutional Neural Networks

Ting-Yun Cheng, Christopher J. Conselice, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca +57

We present in this paper one of the largest galaxy morphological classification catalogues to date, including over 20 million of galaxies, using the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3…

astro-ph.GA2021

UVES analysis of red giants in the bulge globular cluster NGC 6522

B. Barbuy, E. Cantelli, L. Muniz +10

NGC 6522 is a moderately metal-poor bulge globular cluster ([Fe/H]1.0), and it is a well-studied representative among a number of moderately metal-poor blue horizontal bra…