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astro-ph.GA2013★ 37 cited

A Rare Encounter with Very Massive Stars in NGC 3125-A1

Aida Wofford, Claus Leitherer, Rupali Chandar +1

Super star cluster A1 in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 3125 is characterized by broad He\ii \lam1640 emission (full width at half maximum, km s) of unpreced…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 1 cited

Relative frequencies of supernovae versus properties of spiral hosts

A. A. Hakobyan, T. A. Nazaryan, V. Zh. Adibekyan +8

In this work, we present an analysis of SNe number ratios in spiral galaxies with different morphological subtypes, luminosities, sSFR, and metallicities, to provide important info…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 177 cited

Planck intermediate results. XVII. Emission of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium from the far-infrared to microwave frequencies

Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +196

The dust-HI correlation is used to characterize the emission properties of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium. We cross-correlate sky maps from Planck, WMAP, and DIRBE, at 17…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 1 cited

Close pairs of galaxies with different activity levels

T. A. Nazaryan, A. R. Petrosian, A. A. Hakobyan +2

We selected and studied 180 pairs with dV < 800 km/s and Dp < 60 kpc containing Markarian (MRK) galaxies to investigate the dependence of galaxies' integral parameters, star-format…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 827 cited

Planck 2013 results. XI. All-sky model of thermal dust emission

Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +244

This paper presents an all-sky model of dust emission from the Planck 857, 545 and 353 GHz, and IRAS 100 micron data. Using a modified black-body fit to the data we present all-sky…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 91 cited

On incorporating post-Newtonian effects in N-body dynamics

Clifford M. Will

The increasing role of general relativity in the dynamics of stellar systems with central massive black holes and in the evolution of hierarchical triple systems inspires a close e…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 159 cited

Reconstructing the density and temperature structure of prestellar cores from data: A case study for B68 and L1689B

A. Roy, Ph. Andre', P. Palmeirim +22

Utilizing multi-wavelength dust emission maps acquired with , we reconstruct local volume density and dust temperature profiles for the prestellar cores B68 and L1689B us…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 52 cited

Shock Excited Molecules in NGC 1266: ULIRG conditions at the center of a Bulge Dominated Galaxy

E. W. Pellegrini, J. D. Smith, M. G. Wolfire +28

We investigate the far infrared spectrum of NGC 1266, a S0 galaxy that contains a massive reservoir of highly excited molecular gas. Using the SPIRE-FTS, we detect the CO la…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 51 cited

Pillars and globules at the edges of H ii regions, Confronting Herschel observations and numerical simulations

P. Tremblin, V. Minier, N. Schneider +24

Pillars and globules are present in many high-mass star-forming regions, such as the Eagle nebula (M16) and the Rosette molecular cloud, and understanding their origin will help ch…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 17 cited

A Gemini/GMOS study of the physical conditions and kinematics of the blue compact dwarf galaxy Mrk 996

Eduardo Telles, Trinh X. Thuan, Yuri I. Izotov +1

We present an integral field spectroscopic study with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) of the unusual blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxy Mrk 996. We show through velocity a…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 14 cited

Plan beta: Core or Cusp?

Thomas Richardson, Douglas Spolyar, Matt Lehnert

The inner profile of Dark Matter (DM) halos remains one of the central problems in small-scale cosmology. At present, the problem can not be resolved in dwarf spheroidal galaxies d…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 50 cited

The VMC Survey - X. Cepheids, RR Lyrae stars and binaries as probes of the Magellanic System's structure

M. I. Moretti, G. Clementini, T. Muraveva +12

The VMC survey is obtaining multi-epoch photometry in the Ks band of the Magellanic System down to a limiting magnitude of Ks ~ 19.3 for individual epoch data. The observations are…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 63 cited

Detecting Dark Matter Substructures around the Milky Way with Gaia

Robert Feldmann, Douglas Spolyar

Cold Dark Matter (CDM) theory, a pillar of modern cosmology and astrophysics, predicts the existence of a large number of starless dark matter halos surrounding the Milky Way (MW).…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 53 cited

A kinematic study and membership analysis of the Lupus star-forming region

P. A. B. Galli, C. Bertout, R. Teixeira +1

This paper is dedicated to investigating the kinematic properties of the Lupus moving group of young stars with the primary objective of deriving individual parallaxes for each gro…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 33 cited

21-cm absorption from galaxies at z ~ 0.3

N. Gupta, R. Srianand, P. Noterdaeme +2

We report the detection of 21-cm absorption from foreground galaxies towards quasars, specifically z_gal = 0.3120 towards SDSS J084957.97+510829.0 (z_qso = 0.584; Pair-I) and z_gal…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 5 cited

Planck intermediate results. XV. A study of anomalous microwave emission in Galactic clouds

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +180

Anomalous microwave emission (AME) is believed to be due to electric dipole radiation from small spinning dust grains. The aim of this paper is a statistical study of the basic pro…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 41 cited

A glance at the host galaxy of high-redshift quasars using strong damped Lyman-alpha systems as coronagraphs

Hayley Finley, Patrick Petitjean, Isabelle Pâris +14

We searched quasar spectra from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) for the rare occurrences where a strong damped Lyman-alpha absorber (DLA) blocks the Bro…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 116 cited

Low-velocity shocks traced by extended SiO emission along the W43 ridges: witnessing the formation of young massive clusters

Q. Nguyen Luong, F. Motte, P. Carlhoff +19

The formation of high-mass stars is tightly linked to that of their parental clouds. We here focus on the high-density parts of W43, a molecular cloud undergoing an efficient event…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 80 cited

Planck intermediate results. XIV. Dust emission at millimetre wavelengths in the Galactic plane

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +190

We use Planck HFI data combined with ancillary radio data to study the emissivity index of the interstellar dust emission in the frequency range 10 - 353 GHz, or 3 - 0.8 mm, in the…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 70 cited

Water vapor in nearby infrared galaxies as probed by Herschel

Chentao Yang, Yu Gao, A. Omont +5

We report the first systematic study of the submillimeter water vapor rotational emission lines in infrared (IR) galaxies based on the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) data of…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 258 cited

An Overview of the Dwarf Galaxy Survey

S. C. Madden, A. Remy Ruyer, M. Galametz +38

The Dwarf Galaxy Survey (DGS) program is studying low-metallicity galaxies using 230h of far-infrared (FIR) and submillimetre (submm) photometric and spectroscopic observations of…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 52 cited

Feedback regulated star formation: II. dual constraints on the SFE and the age spread of stars in massive clusters

Sami Dib, Julia Gutkin, Wolfgang Brandner +1

We show that the termination of the star formation process by winds from massive stars in protocluster forming clumps imposes dual constraints on the star formation efficiencies (S…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 244 cited

Dark matter distributions around massive black holes: A general relativistic analysis

Laleh Sadeghian, Francesc Ferrer, Clifford M. Will

The cold dark matter at the center of a galaxy will be redistributed by the presence of a massive black hole. The redistribution may be determined using an approach pioneered by Go…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 535 cited

The age structure of stellar populations in the solar vicinity. Clues of a two-phase formation history of the Milky Way disk

M. Haywood, P. Di Matteo, M. Lehnert +2

We analyze high quality abundances data of solar neighborhood stars and show that there are two distinct regimes of [alpha/Fe] versus age which we identify as the epochs of the thi…