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astro-ph.CO2012★ 98 cited

Planck Intermediate Results. XI: The gas content of dark matter halos: the Sunyaev-Zeldovich-stellar mass relation for locally brightest galaxies

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +194

We present the scaling relation between Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signal and stellar mass for almost 260,000 locally brightest galaxies (LBGs) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Surv…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 63 cited

Inferring the mass of sub-millimetre galaxies by exploiting their gravitational magnification of background galaxies

H. Hildebrandt, L. van Waerbeke, D. Scott +25

Dust emission at sub-millimetre wavelengths allows us to trace the early phases of star formation in the Universe. In order to understand the physical processes involved in this mo…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 57 cited

H-ATLAS: The cosmic abundance of dust from the far-infrared background power spectrum

Cameron Thacker, Asantha Cooray, Joseph Smidt +22

We present a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic far-infrared background (CFIRB) anisotropies in one of the extragalactic fields of the Herschel Astrophysical T…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 107 cited

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: blank-field number counts of 450um-selected galaxies and their contribution to the cosmic infrared background

J. E. Geach, E. L. Chapin, K. E. K. Coppin +50

The first deep blank-field 450um map (1-sigma~1.3mJy) from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS), conducted with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is presented. Our ma…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 63 cited

Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: a difference between star-formation rates in strong-line and weak-line radio galaxies

M. J. Hardcastle, J. H. Y. Ching, J. S. Virdee +25

We have constructed a sample of radio-loud objects with optical spectroscopy from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) project over the Herschel-ATLAS Phase 1 fields. Classifying th…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 29 cited

The Herschel Fornax Cluster Survey I: The Bright Galaxy Sample

J. I. Davies, S. Bianchi, M. Baes +18

We present Herschel observations of the Fornax cluster at 100, 160, 250, 350 and 500u with a spatial resolution of 7 - 36 arc sec (10" = 1 kpc at d_Fornax=17.9 Mpc). We define a sa…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 35 cited

A blind HI survey in the Ursa Major region

K. Wolfinger, V. A. Kilborn, B. S. Koribalski +5

We have conducted the first blind HI survey covering 480 deg^2 and a heliocentric velocity range from 300-1900 km/s to investigate the HI content of the nearby spiral-rich Ursa Maj…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 27 cited

A Consistent Approach to Falsifying Lambda-CDM with Rare Galaxy Clusters

Ian Harrison, Shaun Hotchkiss

We consider methods with which to answer the question "is any observed galaxy cluster too unusual for Lambda-CDM?" After emphasising that many previous attempts to answer this ques…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 90 cited

The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey XII: FIR properties of optically-selected Virgo Cluster galaxies

R. Auld, S. Bianchi, M. W. L. Smith +24

The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey (HeViCS) is the deepest, confusion-limited survey of the Virgo Cluster at far-infrared (FIR) wavelengths. The entire survey at full depth covers $…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 18 cited

Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: spatial clustering of low-redshift sub-mm galaxies

E. van Kampen, D. J. B. Smith, S. Maddox +44

We have measured the clustering properties of low-redshift (z < 0.3) sub-mm galaxies detected at 250 micron in the Herschel-ATLAS Science Demonstration Phase (SDP) field. We select…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 83 cited

The dust energy balance in the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4565

Ilse De Looze, Maarten Baes, George J. Bendo +20

We combine new dust continuum observations of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4565 in all Herschel/SPIRE (250, 350, 500 micron) wavebands, obtained as part of the Herschel Reference…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 21 cited

Herschel-ATLAS: the far-infrared properties and star-formation rates of broad absorption line quasi-stellar objects

J. M. Cao Orjales, J. A. Stevens, M. J. Jarvis +20

We have used data from the Herschel-ATLAS at 250, 350 and 500 μm to determine the far-infrared (FIR) properties of 50 Broad Absorption Line Quasars (BAL QSOs). Our sample contains…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 157 cited

Herschel-ATLAS: Multi-wavelength SEDs and physical properties of 250 micron-selected galaxies at z < 0.5

D. J. B. Smith, L. Dunne, E. da Cunha +38

We present a pan-chromatic analysis of an unprecedented sample of 1402 250 micron-selected galaxies at z < 0.5 (mean z = 0.24) from the Herschel-ATLAS survey. We complement our Her…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 52 cited

Planck intermediate results. VIII. Filaments between interacting clusters

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +208

About half of the baryons of the Universe are expected to be in the form of filaments of hot and low density intergalactic medium. Most of these baryons remain undetected even by t…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 168 cited

HerMES: Cosmic Infrared Background Anisotropies and the Clustering of Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies

M. P. Viero, L. Wang, M. Zemcov +51

We present measurements of the auto- and cross-frequency power spectra of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) at 250, 350, and 500um (1200, 860, and 600 GHz) from observations tot…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 69 cited

Planck intermediate results. X. Physics of the hot gas in the Coma cluster

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +207

We present an analysis of Planck satellite data on the Coma Cluster observed via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. Planck is able, for the first time, to detect SZ emission up to r ~ 3…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 39 cited

The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey. XI. Environmental effects on molecular gas and dust in spiral disks

Ciro Pappalardo, Simone Bianchi, Edvige Corbelli +19

We investigate the dust-to-gas mass ratio and the environmental effects on the various components of the interstellar medium for a spatially resolved sample of Virgo spirals. We ha…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 180 cited

The role of cold gas and environment on the stellar mass - metallicity relation of nearby galaxies

T. M. Hughes, L. Cortese, A. Boselli +2

We investigate the relationship between stellar mass, metallicity and gas content for a magnitude- and volume-limited sample of 260 nearby late-type galaxies in different environme…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 10 cited

Planck intermediate results. VI: The dynamical structure of PLCKG214.6+37.0, a Planck discovered triple system of galaxy clusters

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +200

The survey of galaxy clusters performed by Planck through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect has already discovered many interesting objects, thanks to the whole coverage of the sky. One…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 58 cited

A Detailed Gravitational Lens Model Based on Submillimeter Array and Keck Adaptive Optics Imaging of a Herschel-ATLAS Sub-millimeter Galaxy at z=4.243

R. S. Bussmann, M. A. Gurwell, Hai Fu +35

We present high-spatial resolution imaging obtained with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) at 880um and the Keck Adaptive Optics (AO) system at Ks-band of a gravitationally lensed sub-…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 39 cited

Planck intermediate results. VII. Statistical properties of infrared and radio extragalactic sources from the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue at frequencies between 100 and 857 GHz

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +188

(abridged for arXiv) We make use of the Planck all-sky survey to derive number counts and spectral indices of extragalactic sources -- infrared and radio sources -- from the Planck…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 203 cited

Planck Intermediate Results. V. Pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +214

Taking advantage of the all-sky coverage and broad frequency range of the Planck satellite, we study the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) and pressure profiles of 62 nearby massive clusters…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 37 cited

The evolutionary connection between QSOs and SMGs: molecular gas in far-infrared luminous QSOs at z ~ 2.5

J. M. Simpson, Ian Smail, A. M. Swinbank +23

We present IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer observations of the 12CO(3-2) emission from two far-infrared luminous QSOs at z ~ 2.5 selected from the Herschel-ATLAS survey. These…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 98 cited

Spatially resolved stellar, dust and gas properties of the post-interacting Whirlpool Galaxy system

Erin Mentuch Cooper, Christine D. Wilson, Kelly Foyle +15

Using infrared imaging from the Herschel Space Observatory, observed as part of the VNGS, we investigate the spatially resolved dust properties of the interacting Whirlpool galaxy…