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astro-ph.SR2019★ 18 cited

Be and Bn stars: Balmer discontinuity and stellar-class relationship

Y. R. Cochetti, J. Zorec, L. S. Cidale +5

A significant number of Be stars show a second Balmer discontinuity (sBD) attributed to an extended circumstellar envelope (CE). The fast rotational velocity of Be stars undoubtedl…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 41 cited

Probing the full CO spectral line energy distribution (SLED) in the nuclear region of a quasar-starburst system at

Jianan Li, Ran Wang, Dominik Riechers +14

We report Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of CO , , and and NOrthern Extend…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 5 cited

Gaia-assisted discovery of a detached low-ionisation BAL quasar with very large ejection velocities

J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Møller, K. E. Heintz +10

We report on the discovery of a peculiar Broad Absorption Line (BAL) quasar identified in our Gaia-assisted survey of red quasars. The systemic redshift of this quasar was difficul…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 49 cited

NOEMA redshift measurements of bright Herschel galaxies

R. Neri, P. Cox, A. Omont +31

Using the IRAM NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA), we conducted a program to measure redshifts for 13 bright galaxies detected in the Herschel Astrophysical Large Area Surv…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 11 cited

OGLE-2013-BLG-0911Lb: A Secondary on the Brown-Dwarf Planet Boundary around an M-dwarf

Shota Miyazaki, Takahiro Sumi, David P. Bennett +92

We present the analysis of the binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0911. The best-fit solutions indicate the binary mass ratio of q~0.03 which differs from that reported i…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 56 cited

The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2017/2018 follow-up campaign: Discovery of 10 lensed quasars and 10 quasar pairs

C. Lemon, M. W. Auger, R. McMahon +65

We report the results of the STRong lensing Insights from the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) follow-up campaign of the late 2017/early 2018 season. We obtained spectra of 65 lensed q…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 50 cited

MUSE-ALMA Halos V: Physical properties and environment of z < 1.4 HI quasar absorbers

A. Hamanowicz, C. Peroux, M. A. Zwaan +11

We present results of the MUSE-ALMA Halos, an ongoing study of the Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM) of low redshift galaxies (z < 1.4), currently comprising 14 strong HI absorbers in f…

astro-ph.GA2019

Spatially-resolved analysis of neutral winds, stars and ionized gas kinematics with MEGARA/GTC: new insights on the nearby galaxy UGC 10205

C. Catalán-Torrecilla, Á. Castillo-Morales, A. Gil de Paz +15

We present a comprehensive analysis of the multi-phase structure of the interstellar medium (ISM) and the stellar kinematics in the edge-on nearby galaxy UGC 10205 using integral f…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 6 cited

Observing with NIKA2Pol from the IRAM 30m telescope. Early results on the commissioning phase

A. Ritacco, R. Adam, P. Ade +41

The NIKA2 polarization channel at 260 GHz (1.15 mm) has been proposed primarily to observe galactic star-forming regions and probe the critical scales between 0.01-0.05 pc at which…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 92 cited

Modeling Dust and Starlight in Galaxies Observed by Spitzer and Herschel: The KINGFISH Sample

G. Aniano, B. T. Draine, L. K. Hunt +30

Dust and starlight are modeled for the KINGFISH project galaxies. With data from 3.6 micron to 500 micron, models are strongly constrained. For each pixel in each galaxy we estimat…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 231 cited

Mass-Metallicity Trends in Transiting Exoplanets from Atmospheric Abundances of HO, Na, and K

Luis Welbanks, Nikku Madhusudhan, Nicole F. Allard +3

Atmospheric compositions can provide powerful diagnostics of formation and migration histories of planetary systems. We investigate constraints on atmospheric abundances of HO,…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 10 cited

XO-7 b: A transiting hot Jupiter with a massive companion on a wide orbit

Nicolas Crouzet, Brian F. Healy, Guillaume Hébrard +16

Transiting planets orbiting bright stars are the most favorable targets for follow-up and characterization. We report the discovery of the transiting hot Jupiter XO-7 b and of a se…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 21 cited

Small-scale primordial fluctuations in the 21cm Dark Ages signal

Philippa S. Cole, Joseph Silk

Primordial black hole production in the mass range is motivated respectively by interpretations of the LIGO/Virgo observations of binary black hole merger…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 7 cited

Diagnosing pulsar winds in black-widow, redback, and other binary millisecond pulsar systems

Anne Zilles, Kumiko Kotera, Rene Rohrmann +1

Binary systems composed of a recycled millisecond pulsar and a stellar companion in close orbit could be excellent sites to diagnose pulsar winds. In such systems, the pulsar outfl…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 44 cited

X-shooter Spectroscopy and HST Imaging of 15 Ultra Massive Quiescent Galaxies at

Mikkel Stockmann, Sune Toft, Anna Gallazzi +23

We present a detailed analysis of a large sample of spectroscopically confirmed ultra-massive quiescent galaxies () at . This sam…

gr-qc2019★ 48 cited

Logarithmic tail contributions to the energy function of circular compact binaries

Luc Blanchet, Stefano Foffa, François Larrouturou +1

We combine different techniques to extract information about the logarithmic contributions to the two-body conservative dynamics within the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation of Gen…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 7 cited

Strong and weak lensing of Gravitational Waves: a semi-analytical approach

Giulia Cusin, Ruth Durrer, Irina Dvorkin

In this paper we study gravitational lensing of gravitational wave events. The main point of the present work is to introduce a semi-analytic approach so that each ingredient can b…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 6 cited

SSSpaNG! Stellar Spectra as Sparse, data-driven, Non-Gaussian processes

Stephen M. Feeney, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Melissa K. Ness

Upcoming million-star spectroscopic surveys have the potential to revolutionize our view of the formation and chemical evolution of the Milky Way. Realizing this potential requires…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 113 cited

Cosmic flows in the nearby Universe: new peculiar velocities from SNe and cosmological constraints

Supranta S. Boruah, Michael J. Hudson, Guilhem Lavaux

The peculiar velocity field offers a unique way to probe dark matter density field on large scales at low redshifts. In this work, we have compiled a new sample of 465 peculiar vel…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 25 cited

Incomplete neutrino decoupling effect on big bang nucleosynthesis

Julien Froustey, Cyril Pitrou

In the primordial Universe, neutrino decoupling occurs only slightly before electron-positron annihilations, leading to an increased neutrino energy density with order sp…

gr-qc2019★ 70 cited

Time-dependence of the astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave background

Suvodip Mukherjee, Joseph Silk

The astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is mostly produced from unresolved stellar binary mergers, and the number of events at any moment of time is expec…

quant-ph2019

Collapse models and cosmology

Jerome Martin, Vincent Vennin

Attempts to apply quantum collapse theories to Cosmology and cosmic inflation are reviewed. These attempts are motivated by the fact that the theory of cosmological perturbations o…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 32 cited

Euclid: The reduced shear approximation and magnification bias for Stage IV cosmic shear experiments

A. C. Deshpande, T. D. Kitching, V. F. Cardone +69

Stage IV weak lensing experiments will offer more than an order of magnitude leap in precision. We must therefore ensure that our analyses remain accurate in this new era. Accordin…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 15 cited

The frequency of very young galaxies in the local Universe: II. The view from SDSS spectra

Gary A. Mamon, Marina Trevisan, Trinh X. Thuan +2

Only a handful of galaxies in the local Universe appear to be very young. We estimate the fraction of very young galaxies (VYGs), defined as those with more than half their stellar…