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astro-ph.GA2016★ 73 cited

Ultra-diffuse and Ultra-compact Galaxies in the Frontier Fields Cluster Abell 2744

Steven Janssens, Roberto Abraham, Jean Brodie +3

We report the discovery of a large population of Ultra-diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) in the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (z=0.308) as observed by the Hubble Frontier Fields program.…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 155 cited

CANDELS Multiwavelength Catalogs: Source Identification and Photometry in the CANDELS COSMOS Survey Field

H. Nayyeri, S. Hemmati, B. Mobasher +36

We present a multi-wavelength photometric catalog in the COSMOS field as part of the observations by the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). T…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 12 cited

Testing the Universality of the Stellar IMF with Chandra and HST

D. A. Coulter, B. D. Lehmer, R. T. Eufrasio +8

The stellar initial mass function (IMF), which is often assumed to be universal across unresolved stellar populations, has recently been suggested to be "bottom-heavy" for massive…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 40 cited

SDSS IV MaNGA: Deep observations of extra-planar, diffuse ionized gas around late-type galaxies from stacked IFU spectra

A. Jones, G. Kauffmann, R. D'Souza +16

We have conducted a study of extra-planar diffuse ionized gas using the first year data from the MaNGA IFU survey. We have stacked spectra from 49 edge-on, late-type galaxies as a…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 23 cited

Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope detection of associated HI 21cm absorption at towards TXS1954+513

J. N. H. S. Aditya, Nissim Kanekar, J. Xavier Prochaska +3

We have used the 610 MHz receivers of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) to detect associated HI 21cm absorption from the blazar TXS1954+513. The GMRT HI 21cm…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 23 cited

Chemical enrichment of stars due to accretion from ISM during the Galaxy's assembly

Sijing Shen, Girish Kulkarni, Piero Madau +1

Using the Eris zoom-in cosmological simulation of assembly of a Milky Way analog, we study chemical enrichment of stars due to accretion of metal-enriched gas from the interstellar…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 16 cited

Constraining C iii] Emission in a Sample of Five Luminous z = 5.7 Galaxies

Jiani Ding, Zheng Cai, Xiaohui Fan +6

Recent observations have suggested that the CIII] emission lines could be alternative diagnostic lines for galaxies in the reionization epoch. We use the F128N na…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 65 cited

The Initial Mass Function in the Nearest Strong Lenses from SNELLS: Assessing the Consistency of Lensing, Dynamical, and Spectroscopic Constraints

Andrew B. Newman, Russell J. Smith, Charlie Conroy +2

We present new observations of the three nearest early-type galaxy (ETG) strong lenses discovered in the SINFONI Nearby Elliptical Lens Locator Survey (SNELLS). Based on their lens…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 74 cited

The Stellar Initial Mass Function in Early-Type Galaxies From Absorption Line Spectroscopy. IV. A Super-Salpeter IMF in the center of NGC 1407 from Non-Parametric Models

Charlie Conroy, Pieter van Dokkum, Alexa Villaume

It is now well-established that the stellar initial mass function (IMF) can be determined from the absorption line spectra of old stellar systems, and this has been used to measure…

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★ 34 cited

THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY. XIV. Shell feature early-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster

Sanjaya Paudel, Rory Smith, Pierre-Alain Duc +15

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey is a deep (with a detection limit = 29~mag~arcsec in the band) optical panchromatic survey targeting the Virgo cluste…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 53 cited

The growth of the central region by acquisition of counter-rotating gas in star-forming galaxies

Yan-Mei Chen, Yong Shi, Christy A. Tremonti +29

Galaxies grow through both internal and external processes. In about 10% of nearby red galaxies with little star formation, gas and stars are counter-rotating, demonstrating the im…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 176 cited

The Stellar Initial Mass Function in Early-Type Galaxies from Absorption Line Spectroscopy. III. Radial Gradients

Pieter van Dokkum, Charlie Conroy, Alexa Villaume +2

There is good evidence that the centers of massive early-type galaxies have a bottom-heavy stellar initial mass function (IMF) compared to the IMF of the Milky Way. Here we study t…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 91 cited

The Nature of Massive Transition Galaxies in CANDELS, GAMA, and Cosmological Simulations

Viraj Pandya, Ryan Brennan, Rachel S. Somerville +25

We explore observational and theoretical constraints on how galaxies might transition between the "star-forming main sequence" (SFMS) and varying "degrees of quiescence" out to $z=…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 5 cited

Attenuation from the optical to the extreme ultraviolet by dust associated with broad absorption line quasars: the driving force for outflows

C. Martin Gaskell, Jake J. M. Gill, Japneet Singh

We derive a mean attenuation curve out to the rest-frame extreme ultraviolet (EUV) for 'BAL dust' - the dust causing the additional extinction of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 45 cited

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXIV. The Red Sequence to 10 L and Comparisons with Galaxy Formation Models

Joel C. Roediger, Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Côté +22

We use deep optical photometry from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey [NGVS] to investigate the color-magnitude diagram for the galaxies inhabiting the core of this cluster.…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 10 cited

Spectroscopic confirmation of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy d0944+71 as a member of the M81 group of galaxies

Elisa Toloba, David Sand, Puragra Guhathakurta +3

We use Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy to measure the first velocity and metallicity of a dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy beyond the Local Group using resolved stars. Our target, d0944+71,…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 111 cited

Galaxy Zoo: Quantitative Visual Morphological Classifications for 48,000 galaxies from CANDELS

B. D. Simmons, Chris Lintott, Kyle W. Willett +45

We present quantified visual morphologies of approximately 48,000 galaxies observed in three Hubble Space Telescope legacy fields by the Cosmic And Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 57 cited

The SLUGGS Survey: stellar masses and effective radii of early-type galaxies from Spitzer Space Telescope 3.6m imaging

Duncan A. Forbes, Luciana Sinpetru, Giulia Savorgnan +3

Galaxy starlight at 3.6m is an excellent tracer of stellar mass. Here we use the latest 3.6m imaging from the Spitzer Space Telescope to measure the total stellar mass and ef…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 196 cited

Correcting CIV-Based Virial Black Hole Masses

Liam Coatman, Paul C. Hewett, Manda Banerji +3

The CIV broad emission line is visible in optical spectra to redshifts exceeding z~5. CIV has long been known to exhibit significant displacements to the blue and these `blueshifts…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 143 cited

The AGORA High-Resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. II: Isolated Disk Test

Ji-hoon Kim, Oscar Agertz, Romain Teyssier +40

Using an isolated Milky Way-mass galaxy simulation, we compare results from 9 state-of-the-art gravito-hydrodynamics codes widely used in the numerical community. We utilize the in…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 62 cited

Properties of Dark Matter Halos as a Function of Local Environment Density

Christoph T Lee, Joel R. Primack, Peter Behroozi +3

We study how properties of discrete dark matter halos depend on halo environment, characterized by the mass density around the halos on scales from 0.5 to 16 . We…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 32 cited

How the First Stars Regulated Star Formation. II. Enrichment by Nearby Supernovae

Ke-Jung Chen, Daniel J. Whalen, Katharina M. J. Wollenberg +2

Metals from Population III (Pop III) supernovae led to the formation of less massive Pop II stars in the early universe, altering the course of evolution of primeval galaxies and c…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 245 cited

The z~6 Luminosity Function Fainter than -15 mag from the Hubble Frontier Fields: The Impact of Magnification Uncertainties

R. J. Bouwens, P. A. Oesch, G. D. Illingworth +2

We use the largest sample of z~6 galaxies to date from the first four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters to set constraints on the shape of the z~6 luminosity functions (LFs) to faint…