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astro-ph.GA2016★ 48 cited

Star formation towards the Galactic HII region RCW120

M. Figueira, A. Zavagno, L. Deharveng +16

The expansion of HII regions can trigger the formation of stars. An overdensity of young stellar objects (YSOs) is observed at the edges of HII regions but the mechanisms that give…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 56 cited

Metallicity-dependendent kinematics and morphology of the Milky Way bulge

E. Athanassoula, S. A. Rodionov, N. Prantzos

We use N-body chemo-dynamic simulations to study the coupling between morphology, kinematics and metallicity of the bar/bulge region of our Galaxy. We make qualitative comparisons…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 104 cited

Molecular Gas in the Halo Fuels the Growth of a Massive Cluster Galaxy at High Redshift

B. H. C. Emonts, M. D. Lehnert, M. Villar-Martin +19

The largest galaxies in the Universe reside in galaxy clusters. Using sensitive observations of carbon-monoxide, we show that the Spiderweb Galaxy -a massive galaxy in a distant pr…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 28 cited

AGN feedback and the origin of the enhancement in early type galaxies - insights from the GAEA model

Gabriella De Lucia, Fabio Fontanot, Michaela Hirschmann

We take advantage of our recently published model for Galaxy Evolution and Assembly (GAEA) to study the origin of the observed correlation between [/Fe] and galaxy stellar mass.…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 231 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Full spectroscopic data and auxiliary information release (PDR-2)

M. Scodeggio, L. Guzzo, B. Garilli +42

We present the full public data release (PDR-2) of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS), performed at the ESO VLT. We release redshifts, spectra, CFHTLS magnitud…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 140 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Galaxy segregation inside filaments at

N. Malavasi, S. Arnouts, D. Vibert +42

We present the first quantitative detection of large-scale filamentary structure at in the large cosmological volume probed by the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshif…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 41 cited

The HDUV Survey: Six Lyman Continuum Emitter Candidates at z~2 Revealed by HST UV Imaging

R. P. Naidu, P. A. Oesch, N. Reddy +14

We present six galaxies at z~2 that show evidence of Lyman continuum (LyC) emission based on the newly acquired UV imaging of the Hubble Deep UV legacy survey (HDUV) conducted with…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 22 cited

Incidence of HI 21-cm absorption in strong FeII systems at

R. Dutta, R. Srianand, N. Gupta +5

We present the results from our search for HI 21-cm absorption in a sample of 16 strong FeII systems ((MgII ) Å and (FeII )…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 28 cited

A Study of Quasar Selection in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova fields

S. S. Tie, P. Martini, D. Mudd +75

We present a study of quasar selection using the DES supernova fields. We used a quasar catalog from an overlapping portion of the SDSS Stripe 82 region to quantify the completenes…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 24 cited

A ghostly damped Ly system revealed by metal absorption lines

Hassan Fathivavsari, Patrick Petitjean, Siwei Zou +4

We report the discovery of the first 'ghostly' damped Ly absorption system (DLA), which is identified by the presence of absorption from strong low-ion species at $z_{\rm abs}=1…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 146 cited

The Herschel-ATLAS: a sample of 500μm-selected lensed galaxies over 600 square degrees

M. Negrello, S. Amber, A. Amvrosiadis +43

We present a sample of 80 candidate strongly lensed galaxies with flux density above 100mJy at 500μm extracted from the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS)…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 50 cited

HI-selected Galaxies in Hierarchical Models of Galaxy Formation and Evolution

Anna Zoldan, Gabriella De Lucia, Lizhi Xie +2

In this work, we study the basic statistical properties of HI-selected galaxies extracted from six different semi-analytic models, all run on the same cosmological N-body simulatio…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 122 cited

The space density of luminous dusty star-forming galaxies at : SCUBA-2 and LABOCA imaging of ultrared galaxies from -ATLAS

R. J. Ivison, A. J. R. Lewis, A. Weiss +28

Until recently, only a handful of dusty, star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) were known at , most of them significantly amplified by gravitational lensing. Here, we have increased t…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 145 cited

Density profile of dark matter haloes and galaxies in the Horizon-AGN simulation: the impact of AGN feedback

S. Peirani, Y. Dubois, M. Volonteri +7

Using a suite of three large cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, Horizon-AGN, Horizon-noAGN (no AGN feedback) and Horizon-DM (no baryons), we investigate how a typical sub-gri…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 89 cited

H-based star formation laws in hierarchical models of galaxy formation

Lizhi Xie, Gabriella De Lucia, Michaela Hirschmann +2

We update our recently published model for GAlaxy Evolution and Assembly (GAEA), to include a self-consistent treatment of the partition of cold gas in atomic and molecular hydroge…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 101 cited

A survey of dual active galactic nuclei in simulations of galaxy mergers: frequency and properties

Pedro R. Capelo, Massimo Dotti, Marta Volonteri +3

We investigate the simultaneous triggering of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in merging galaxies, using a large suite of high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations. We compute dual-A…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 21 cited

The impact of ionizing radiation on the formation of a supermassive star in the early Universe

Sunmyon Chon, Muhammad A. Latif

A massive primordial halo near an intensely star-forming galaxy may collapse into a supermassive star (SMS) and leave a massive black hole seed of about . To invest…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 160 cited

Farthest Neighbor: The Distant Milky Way Satellite Eridanus II

T. S. Li, J. D. Simon, A. Drlica-Wagner +56

We present Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of the recently-discovered Milky Way satellite Eridanus II (Eri II). We identify 28 member stars in Eri II, from which we measure a systemic…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 51 cited

AGN jet-driven stochastic cold accretion in cluster cores

Deovrat Prasad, Prateek Sharma, Arif Babul

Several arguments suggest that stochastic condensation of cold gas and its accretion onto the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) is essential for active galactic nuclei (AGN) f…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 39 cited

Unique probe of dark matter in the core of M87 with the Event Horizon Telescope

Thomas Lacroix, Mansour Karami, Avery E. Broderick +2

We demonstrate the unprecedented capabilities of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to image the innermost dark matter profile in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole at the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 64 cited

On the Accretion Rates and Radiative Efficiencies of the Highest Redshift Quasars

Benny Trakhtenbrot, Marta Volonteri, Priyamvada Natarajan

We estimate the accretion rates onto the supermassive black holes that power 20 of the highest-redshift quasars, at z>5.8, including the quasar with the highest redshift known to d…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 15 cited

The Ly emission from high- galaxies hosting strong Damped Ly systems

Ravi Joshi, Raghunathan Srianand, Pasquier Noterdaeme +1

We study the average Ly emission associated with high- strong (log (H I) 21) damped Ly systems (DLAs). We report Ly luminosities () for the full a…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 30 cited

HI 21-cm absorption survey of quasar-galaxy pairs: Distribution of cold gas around z<0.4 galaxies

R. Dutta, R. Srianand, N. Gupta +4

We present the results from our survey of HI 21-cm absorption, using GMRT, VLA and WSRT, in a sample of 55 z<0.4 galaxies towards radio sources with impact parameters (b) in the ra…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 115 cited

Nearest Neighbor: The Low-Mass Milky Way Satellite Tucana III

J. D. Simon, T. S. Li, A. Drlica-Wagner +56

We present Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of the recently discovered Milky Way satellite Tucana III (Tuc III). We identify 26 member stars in Tuc III, from which we measure a mean rad…