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astro-ph.GA2014★ 13 cited

Seven broad absorption line quasars with excess broad band absorption near 2250 Å

Shaohua Zhang, Jian Ge, Peng Jiang +6

We report the discovery of excess broad band absorption near 2250 A (EBBA) in the spectra of seven broad absorption line (BAL) quasars. By comparing with the statistical results fr…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 5 cited

Recent stellar mass assembly of low-mass star-forming galaxies at redshifts 0.3 < z < 0.9

Lucía Rodríguez-Muñoz, Jesús Gallego, Camilla Pacifici +5

The epoch when low-mass star forming galaxies (LMSFGs) form the bulk of their stellar mass is uncertain. While some models predict an early formation, others favor a delayed scenar…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 17 cited

Galactic nebular lines in the fiber spectra of background QSOs: Reaching a hundred QSO-galaxy pairs with spectroscopic and photometric measurements

Lorrie Straka, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Raghunathan Srianand +6

We present photometric and spectroscopic measurements of 53 QSO-galaxy pairs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, where nebular emission lines from a 0<z<0.84 foreground galaxy are d…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 119 cited

A Critical Look at the Mass-Metallicity-SFR Relation in the Local Universe. I. An Improved Analysis Framework and Confounding Systematics

Samir Salim, Janice C. Lee, Chun Ly +5

It has been proposed that the mass-metallicity relation of galaxies exhibits a secondary dependence on star formation rate (SFR), and that the resulting M-Z-SFR relation may be red…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 25 cited

The evolution of the cluster optical galaxy luminosity function between z=0.4 and 0.9 in the DAFT/FADA survey

Nicolas Martinet, Florence Durret, Loic Guennou +8

We compute optical galaxy luminosity functions (GLFs) in the B, V, R, and I rest-frame bands for one of the largest medium-to-high-redshift (0.4 < z < 0.9) cluster samples to date…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 10 cited

Structure of the nucleus of 1928+738

J. Roland, S. Britzen, E. Kun +3

Modeling of the trajectories of VLBI components ejected by the nucleus of 1928+738 shows the VLBI jet contains three families of trajectories, i.e. VLBI components are ejected from…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 72 cited

Evolution of the Milky Way with radial motions of stars and gas II. The evolution of abundance profiles from H to Ni

M. Kubryk, N. Prantzos, E. Athanassoula

We study the role of radial motions of stars and gas on the evolution of abundance profiles in the Milky Way disk. We investigate, in a parametrized way, the impact of radial flows…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 160 cited

Scaling Relations Between Warm Galactic Outflows and Their Host Galaxies

John Chisholm, Christina A. Tremonti, Claus Leitherer +3

We report on a sample of 51 nearby, star-forming galaxies observed with the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. We calculate Si II kinematics and densities ar…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 35 cited

Disk fragmentation and the formation of population III stars

M. A. Latif, D. R. G. Schleicher

Our understanding of population III star formation is still in its infancy. They are formed in dark matter minihalos of at . Recent high resoluti…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 103 cited

The evolution of the cold interstellar medium in galaxies following a starburst

K. Rowlands, V. Wild, N. Nesvadba +4

We present the evolution of dust and molecular gas properties in a sample of 11 starburst to post-starburst (PSB) galaxies selected to span an age sequence from ongoing…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 184 cited

Evolution of the Milky Way with radial motions of stars and gas I. The solar neighborhood and the thin and thick disk

M. Kubryk, N. Prantzos, E. Athanassoula

We study the role of radial migration of stars on the chemical evolution of the Milky Way disk. In particular, we are interested in the impact of that process on the local properti…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 85 cited

On the importance of using appropriate spectral models to derive physical properties of galaxies at 0.7<z<2.8

Camilla Pacifici, Elisabete da Cunha, Stéphane Charlot +14

Interpreting observations of distant galaxies in terms of constraints on physical parameters - such as stellar mass, star-formation rate (SFR) and dust optical depth - requires spe…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 163 cited

The evolving SFR-M_star relation and sSFR since z~5 from the VUDS spectroscopic survey

L. A. M. Tasca, O. Le Fevre, N. P. Hathi +44

We study the evolution of the star formation rate (SFR) - stellar mass (M_star) relation and specific star formation rate (sSFR) of star forming galaxies (SFGs) since a redshift z~…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 59 cited

Galaxy merger histories and the role of merging in driving star formation at z>1

S. Kaviraj, J. Devriendt, Y. Dubois +5

We use Horizon-AGN, a hydrodynamical cosmological simulation, to explore the role of mergers in the evolution of massive (M > 10^10 MSun) galaxies around the epoch of peak cosmic s…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 56 cited

Exceptional AGN-driven turbulence inhibits star formation in the 3C 326N radio-galaxy

P. Guillard, F. Boulanger, M. D. Lehnert +4

We detect bright [CII]158m line emission from the radio galaxy 3C 326N at z=0.09, which shows weak star formation (M~yr) despite having strong H l…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 190 cited

Reconstructing the star formation history of the Milky Way disc(s) from chemical abundances

O. Snaith, M. Haywood, P. Di Matteo +4

We develop a chemical evolution model in order to study the star formation history of the Milky Way. Our model assumes that the Milky Way is formed from a closed box-like system in…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 75 cited

Why the Milky Way's bulge is not only a bar formed from a cold thin disk

P. Di Matteo, A. Gomez, M. Haywood +6

By analyzing a N-body simulation of a bulge formed simply via a bar instability mechanism operating on a kinematically cold stellar disk, and by comparing the results of this analy…

astro-ph.GA2014

The formation of supermassive black holes in rapidly rotating disks

M. A. Latif, D. R. G. Schleicher

Massive primordial halos exposed to moderate UV backgrounds are the potential birthplaces of supermassive black holes. In such a halo, an initially isothermal collapse will occur,…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 12 cited

Marginal likelihoods of distances and extinctions to stars: computation and compact representation

S. E. Sale, J. Magorrian

We present a method for obtaining the likelihood function of distance and extinction to a star given its photometry. The other properties of the star (its mass, age, metallicity an…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 195 cited

The galaxy luminosity function at z ~ 6 and evidence for rapid evolution in the bright end from z ~ 7 to 5

R. A . A. Bowler, J. S. Dunlop, R. J. McLure +8

We present the results of a search for bright (-22.7 < M_UV < -20.5) Lyman-break galaxies at z ~ 6 within a total of 1.65 square degrees of imaging in the UltraVISTA/COSMOS and UKI…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 111 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXXIII. Signature of the magnetic field geometry of interstellar filaments in dust polarization maps

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +187

Planck observations at 353GHz provide the first fully-sampled maps of the polarized dust emission towards interstellar filaments and their backgrounds. The polarization data provid…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 112 cited

Constraining the primordial initial mass function with stellar archaeology

Tilman Hartwig, Volker Bromm, Ralf S. Klessen +1

We present a new near-field cosmological probe of the initial mass function (IMF) of the first stars. Specifically, we constrain the lower-mass limit of the Population III (Pop III…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 229 cited

Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) with The Hubble Space Telescope. I. Survey Description

D. Calzetti, J. C. Lee, E. Sabbi +46

The Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) is a Cycle 21 Treasury program on the Hubble Space Telescope, aimed at the investigation of star formation and its relation with galactic…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 3 cited

Dark matter inner slope and concentration in galaxies: from the Fornax dwarf to M87

G. A. Mamon, J. Chevalier, A. J. Romanowsky +1

We apply two new state-of-the-art methods that model the distribution of observed tracers in projected phase space to lift the mass / velocity anisotropy (VA) degeneracy and deduce…