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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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astro-ph.GA2020★ 84 cited

Dust polarized emission observations of NGC 6334; BISTRO reveals the details of the complex but organized magnetic field structure of the high-mass star-forming hub-filament network

D. Arzoumanian, R. Furuya, T. Hasegawa +145

[Abridged] Filaments and hubs have received special attention recently thanks to studies showing their role in star formation. While the column density and velocity structures of b…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 21 cited

Continuity of accretion from clumps to Class 0 high-mass protostars in SDC335

A. Avison, G. A. Fuller, N. Peretto +6

The IRDC SDC335.579-0.292 (SDC335) is a massive star-forming cloud found to be globally collapsing towards one of the most massive star forming cores in the Galaxy. SDC335 hosts th…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 8 cited

Centrally concentrated molecular gas driving galactic-scale ionised gas outflows in star-forming galaxies

L. M. Hogarth, A. Saintonge, L. Cortese +16

We perform a joint-analysis of high spatial resolution molecular gas and star-formation rate (SFR) maps in main-sequence star-forming galaxies experiencing galactic-scale outflows…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

Observations of magnetic fields surrounding LkH 101 taken by the BISTRO survey with JCMT-POL-2

Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Pham Ngoc Diep, Harriet Parsons +146

We report the first high spatial resolution measurement of magnetic fields surrounding LkH 101, a part of the Auriga-California molecular cloud. The observations were taken with…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 101 cited

The SEDIGISM survey: first data release and overview of the Galactic structure

F. Schuller, J. S. Urquhart, T. Csengeri +57

The SEDIGISM (Structure, Excitation and Dynamics of the Inner Galactic Interstellar Medium) survey used the APEX telescope to map 84 deg^2 of the Galactic plane between l = -60 deg…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 67 cited

The SEDIGISM survey: Molecular clouds in the inner Galaxy

A. Duarte-Cabral, D. Colombo, J. S. Urquhart +57

We use the 13CO(2-1) emission from the SEDIGISM high-resolution spectral-line survey of the inner Galaxy, to extract the molecular cloud population with a large dynamic range in sp…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 35 cited

SEDIGISM-ATLASGAL: Dense Gas Fraction and Star Formation Efficiency Across the Galactic Disk

J. S. Urquhart, C. Figura, J. R. Cross +32

By combining two surveys covering a large fraction of the molecular material in the Galactic disk we investigate the role the spiral arms play in the star formation process. We hav…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 30 cited

The Collapse of Atomically-Cooled Primordial Haloes. I. High Lyman-Werner Backgrounds

Samuel J. Patrick, Daniel J. Whalen, Muhammed A. Latif +1

Pristine, atomically-cooled haloes may be the sites of primordial quasar formation because atomic cooling triggers rapid baryon collapse that can create 10 - 10 M…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 62 cited

The coherent motion of Cen A dwarf satellite galaxies remains a challenge for CDM cosmology

Oliver Müller, Marcel S. Pawlowski, Federico Lelli +6

The plane-of-satellites problem is one of the most severe small-scale challenges for the standard CDM cosmological model: several dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way and Androme…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 31 cited

Simulations of the star-forming molecular gas in an interacting M51-like galaxy: cloud population statistics

Robin G. Tress, Mattia C. Sormani, Rowan J. Smith +5

To investigate how molecular clouds react to different environmental conditions at a galactic scale, we present a catalogue of giant molecular clouds resolved down to masses of $\s…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

S2D2: Small-scale Significant substructure DBSCAN Detection I. NESTs detection in 2D star-forming regions

Marta González, Isabelle Joncour, Anne S. M. Buckner +13

The spatial and dynamical structure of star-forming regions can help provide insights on stellar formation patterns. The amount of data from current and upcoming surveys calls for…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 28 cited

The properties of dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Cen A group: Stellar populations, internal dynamics, and a heart-shaped Halpha ring

Oliver Müller, Katja Fahrion, Marina Rejkuba +7

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) have been extensively investigated in the Local Group, but their low luminosity and surface brightness make similar work in more distant galaxy gr…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 16 cited

The Cloud Factory II: Gravoturbulent Kinematics of Resolved Molecular Clouds in a Galactic Potential

Andres F. Izquierdo, Rowan J. Smith, Simon C. O. Glover +6

We present a statistical analysis of the gravoturbulent velocity fluctuations in molecular cloud complexes extracted from our "Cloud Factory" galactic-scale ISM simulation suite. F…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 15 cited

ALMA Resolves Giant Molecular Clouds in a Tidal Dwarf Galaxy

M. Querejeta, F. Lelli, E. Schinnerer +12

Tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs) are gravitationally bound condensations of gas and stars formed during galaxy interactions. Here we present multi-configuration ALMA observations of J10…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 34 cited

Revisiting the dust destruction efficiency of supernovae

F. D. Priestley, H. Chawner, M. Matsuura +3

Dust destruction by supernovae is one of the main processes removing dust from the interstellar medium (ISM). Estimates of the efficiency of this process, both theoretical and obse…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 25 cited

Simulating the infrared sky with a Spritz

L. Bisigello, C. Gruppioni, A. Feltre +6

Current hydrodynamical and semi-empirical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution have difficulties in reproducing the number densities of IR-detected galaxies. Therefore, a…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 42 cited

Formation of the largest galactic cores through binary scouring and gravitational wave recoil

Imran Nasim, Alessia Gualandris, Justin I. Read +3

Massive elliptical galaxies are typically observed to have central cores in their projected radial light profiles. Such cores have long been thought to form through `binary scourin…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 13 cited

Testing the Black Hole No-hair Theorem with Galactic Center Stellar Orbits

Hong Qi, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Patrick Brady

Theoretical investigations have provided proof-of-principle calculations suggesting measurements of stellar or pulsar orbits near the Galactic Center could strongly constrain the p…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 43 cited

Unveiling early black hole growth with multi-frequency gravitational wave observations

Rosa Valiante, Monica Colpi, Raffaella Schneider +7

Third Generation ground based Gravitational Wave Interferometers, like the Einstein Telescope (ET), Cosmic Explorer (CE), and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will det…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 5 cited

A Herschel mapping of [C ii], [O i] and [O iii] lines from the circumnuclear region of M31

Zongnan Li, Zhiyuan Li, Matthew W. L. Smith +1

The circumnuclear region of M31, consisting of multiphase interstellar medium, provides a close-up view of the interaction of the central supermassive black hole and surrounding ma…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 20 cited

WISDOM project -- VI. Exploring the relation between supermassive black hole mass and galaxy rotation with molecular gas

Mark D. Smith, Martin Bureau, Timothy A. Davis +6

Empirical correlations between the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and properties of their host galaxies are well-established. Among these is the correlation with the fl…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 4 cited

IllustrisTNG and S2COSMOS: possible conflicts in the evolution of neutral gas and dust

Jenifer S. Millard, Benedikt Diemer, Stephen A. Eales +3

We investigate the evolution in galactic dust mass over cosmic time through i) empirically derived dust masses using stacked submillimetre fluxes at 850um in the COSMOS field, and…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

The AGN fuelling/feedback cycle in nearby radio galaxies III. 3D relative orientations of radio jets and CO discs and their interaction

I. Ruffa, R. A. Laing, I. Prandoni +4

This is the third paper of a series exploring the multi-frequency properties of a sample of eleven nearby low-excitation radio galaxies (LERGs) in the southern sky. We are conducti…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 12 cited

Synthetic line and continuum observations of simulated turbulent clouds: the apparent widths of filaments

F. D. Priestley, A. P. Whitworth

Filamentary structures are ubiquitous in observations of real molecular clouds, and also in simulations of turbulent, self-gravitating gas. However, making comparisons between obse…