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most citedGaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

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astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Milliarcsecond-scale radio structure of the most distant BL Lac object candidate at redshift 6.57

S. Frey, Y. Zhang, K. Perger +7

The existence of accreting supermassive black holes up to billions of solar masses at early cosmological epochs (in the context of this work, redshifts z>=6) requires very fast gro…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

Observational Evidence of a Centi-parsec Supermassive Black Hole Binary Existing in the Nearby Galaxy M81

Wu Jiang, Zhiqiang Shen, Ivan Martí-Vidal +6

Studying a centi-parsec supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) would allow us to explore a new parameter space in active galactic nuclei, and these objects are also potential sourc…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

Unveiling Luminous Ly Emitters at through JWST/NIRCam Imaging in the COSMOS Field

Yuanhang Ning, Zheng Cai, Xiaojing Lin +7

We study a sample of 14 spectroscopically confirmed Ly Emitters (LAEs) in the late era of reionization (at redshift ) based on the JWST/NIRCam imaging dataset. These…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Spatial distribution of NH2D in massive star-forming regions

Yuqiang Li, Junzhi Wang, Juan Li +4

To understand the relation between NHD and its physical environment, we mapped ortho-NHD at 85.9 GHz toward 24 Galactic late-stage massive star-forming…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 37 cited

An evolutionary continuum from nucleated dwarf galaxies to star clusters

Kaixiang Wang, Eric W. Peng, Chengze Liu +21

Systematic studies have revealed hundreds of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) in the nearby Universe. With half-light radii of approximately 10-100 parsecs and stellar mas…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 44 cited

Project Dinos I: A joint lensing-dynamics constraint on the deviation from the power law in the mass profile of massive ellipticals

Chin Yi Tan, Anowar J. Shajib, Simon Birrer +7

The mass distribution in massive elliptical galaxies encodes their evolutionary history, thus providing an avenue to constrain the baryonic astrophysics in their evolution. The pow…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

Quantifying the stellar ages of dynamically separated bulges and disks of CALIFA spiral galaxies

Yunpeng Jin, Ling Zhu, Stefano Zibetti +3

We employ a recently developed population-orbit superposition technique to simultaneously fit the stellar kinematic and age maps of 82 CALIFA spiral galaxies and obtain the ages of…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Kinematics and Collimation of the Two-Sided Jets in NGC 4261: VLBI Study on Sub-parsec Scales

Xi Yan, Ru-Sen Lu, Wu Jiang +2

We report multi-frequency VLBI studies of the sub-parsec scale structure of the two-sided jet in the nearby radio galaxy NGC 4261. Our analyses include new observations using the S…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

High-resolution APEX/LAsMA CO and CO (3-2) observation of the G333 giant molecular cloud complex : II. Survival and gravitational collapse of dense gas structures under feedback

J. W. Zhou, F. Wyrowski, S. Neupane +4

We investigate the physical properties of gas structures under feedback in the G333 complex using data of the 13CO (3-2) line in the LAsMA observation. We used the Dendrogram algor…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

Chemical evolution of local post-starburst galaxies: Implications for the mass-metallicity relation

Ho-Hin Leung, Vivienne Wild, Michail Papathomas +5

We use the stellar fossil record to constrain the stellar metallicity evolution and star-formation histories of the post-starburst (PSB) regions within 45 local post-starburst gala…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

The Beyond-Halo Mass Effects of the Cosmic Web Environment on Galaxies

Kuan Wang, Camille Avestruz, Hong Guo +2

Galaxy properties primarily depend on their host halo mass. Halo mass, in turn, depends on the cosmic web environment. We explore if the effect of the cosmic web on galaxy properti…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

Characterizing the assembly of dark matter halos with protohalo size histories: I. Redshift evolution, relation to descendant halos, and halo assembly bias

Kai Wang, H. J. Mo, Yangyao Chen +5

We propose a novel method to quantify the assembly histories of dark matter halos with the redshift evolution of the mass-weighted spatial variance of their progenitor halos, i.e.…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 69 cited

The LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS): VI. Optical identifications for the second data release

M. J. Hardcastle, M. A. Horton, W. L. Williams +49

The second data release of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) covers 27% of the northern sky, with a total area of deg. The high angular resolution of LOFAR wi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

JWST reveals widespread CO ice and gas absorption in the Galactic Center cloud G0.253+0.016

Adam Ginsburg, Ashley T. Barnes, Cara D. Battersby +7

We report JWST NIRCam observations of G0.253+0.016, the molecular cloud in the Central Molecular Zone known as The Brick, with the F182M, F187N, F212N, F410M, F405N, and F466N filt…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

Astrometric mass measurement of compact companions in binary systems with Gaia

Yilun Wang, Shilong Liao, Nicola Giacobbo +3

For binary systems with an unseen primary and a luminous secondary, the astrometric wobble of the secondary could be used to study the primary. With Gaia, it is possible to measure…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

ALMA and VLBA views on the outflow associated with an O-type protostar in G26.50+0.28

Gang Wu, Christian Henkel, Ye Xu +6

Protostellar jets and outflows are essential ingredients of the star formation process. A better understanding of this phenomenon is important in its own right as well as for many…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 19 cited

Scientific Objectives of the Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS) Mission

Joel Bregman, Renyue Cen, Yang Chen +51

The Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS) is a proposed space-based X-ray telescope for detecting X-ray emissions from the hot gas content in our universe. With its unprecedented spa…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

Strange Quasar Candidates with Abnormal Astrometric Characteristics from Gaia EDR3 and SDSS (SQUAB-II): Optical Identifications

Xiang Ji, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Qiqi Wu +7

There are some strange quasars with multiple Gaia detections or observed with abnormal astrometric characteristics, such as with large proper motions or significant astrometric noi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

Toward a Physical Understanding of Galaxy-Halo Alignment

Kun Xu, Y. P. Jing, Donghai Zhao

We investigate the alignment of galaxy and halo orientations using the TNG300-1 hydrodynamical simulation. Our analysis reveals that the distribution of the 2D misalignment angle $…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

From binary to singular: the AGN PSO J334.2028+1.4075 under the high-resolution scope

P. Benke, K. É. Gabányi, S. Frey +6

PSO J334.2028+1.4075 (PSO J334) is a luminous quasar located at redshift z=2.06. The source gained attention when periodic flux density variations were discovered in its optical li…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Coronal Line Forest AGN -- II. Analysis of the spectral energy distribution

F. C. Cerqueira-Campos, A. Rodríguez-Ardila, S. Panda +3

Coronal-Line Forest Active Galactic Nuclei (CLiF AGN) are characterized by strong, high-ionization lines, which are in contrast to what is found in typical AGNs. Here, we carry out…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

The OH Megamaser Emission in Arp\,220: the rest of the story

W. A. Baan, J. N. H. S. Aditya, T. An +1

The OH Megamaser emission in the merging galaxy Arp220 has been re-observed with the Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) and the European VLBI Network (EVN).…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Origins of the shocks in high-mass starless clump candidates

Feng-Yao Zhu, Junzhi Wang, Yaoting Yan +2

Shocks are abundant in star-forming regions, and are often related with star formation. In our previous observations toward 100 starless clump candidates (SCCs) in the Galaxy, a sa…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

Spatial distributions and kinematics of shocked and ionized gas in M17

Feng-Yao Zhu, Junzhi Wang, Yaoting Yan +2

Massive stars are formed in molecular clouds, and produce H II regions when they evolve onto the main sequence. The expansion of H II region can both suppress and promote star form…