output
19912026
Showing 2019 · astro-ph.GAShow all

124 papers · 2 filters

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★ 52 cited

The Distribution of Ultra-Diffuse and Ultra-Compact Galaxies in the Frontier Fields

Steven R. Janssens, Roberto Abraham, Jean Brodie +2

Large low surface brightness galaxies have recently been found to be abundant in nearby galaxy clusters. In this paper, we investigate these ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the si…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 23 cited

The Subaru HSC Galaxy Clustering with Photometric Redshift I: Dark Halo Masses Versus Baryonic Properties of Galaxies at 0.3<z<1.4

Shogo Ishikawa, Nobunari Kashikawa, Masayuki Tanaka +8

We present the clustering properties of low- galaxies selected by the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program Wide layer over deg. The wide-field and…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 68 cited

A hidden friend for the galactic center black hole, Sgr A*

Smadar Naoz, Clifford M. Will, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +3

The hierarchical nature of galaxy formation suggests that a supermassive black hole binary could exist in our galactic center. We propose a new approach to constraining the possibl…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 64 cited

Large Scale Structures in the CANDELS Fields: The Role of the Environment in Star Formation Activity

Nima Chartab, Bahram Mobasher, Behnam Darvish +14

We present a robust method, weighted von Mises kernel density estimation, along with boundary correction to reconstruct the underlying number density field of galaxies. We apply th…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 15 cited

The Activation of Galactic Nuclei and Their Accretion Rates are Linked to the Star Formation Rates and Bulge-types of Their Host Galaxies

Hassen M. Yesuf, S. M. Faber, David C. Koo +3

We use bulge-type classifications of 809 representative SDSS galaxies by Gadotti (2009) to classify a large sample of galaxies into real bulges (classical or elliptical) and pseudo…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 64 cited

Elemental Abundances in M31: The Kinematics and Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite Galaxies

Evan N. Kirby, Karoline M. Gilbert, Ivanna Escala +4

We present deep spectroscopy from Keck/DEIMOS of Andromeda I, III, V, VII, and X, all of which are dwarf spheroidal satellites of M31. The sample includes 256 spectroscopic members…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 16 cited

Momentum Injection by Clustered Supernovae: Testing Subgrid Feedback Prescriptions

Eric S. Gentry, Piero Madau, Mark R. Krumholz

Using a 1D Lagrangian code specifically designed to assess the impact of multiple, time-resolved supernovae (SNe) from a single star cluster on the surrounding medium, we test thre…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 7 cited

Globular clusters in the stellar stream surrounding the Milky Way analog NGC 5907

Adebusola B. Alabi, Duncan A. Forbes, Aaron J. Romanowsky +1

We study the globular clusters (GCs) in the spiral galaxy NGC~5907 well-known for its spectacular stellar stream -- to better understand its origin. Using wide-field Subaru/Suprime…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 69 cited

A mass threshold for galactic gas discs by spin flips

Avishai Dekel, Omri Ginzburg, Fangzhou Jiang +4

We predict, analytically and by simulations, that gas discs tend to survive only in haloes above a threshold mass (stellar mass )…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 49 cited

The role of galaxies and AGN in reionising the IGM -- III : IGM-galaxy cross-correlations at z~6 from 8 quasar fields with DEIMOS and MUSE

Romain A. Meyer, Koki Kakiichi, Sarah E. I. Bosman +6

We present improved results of the measurement of the correlation between galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) transmission at the end of reionisation. We have gathered a sa…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 175 cited

Milky Way Satellite Census. I. The Observational Selection Function for Milky Way Satellites in DES Y3 and Pan-STARRS DR1

A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Bechtol, S. Mau +55

We report the results of a systematic search for ultra-faint Milky Way satellite galaxies using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and Pan-STARRS1 (PS1). Together, DES and PS1…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1.5k cited

The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida +310

This paper documents the sixteenth data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 44 cited

How Accurately Can We Detect the Splashback Radius of Dark Matter Halos and its Correlation With Accretion Rate?

Enia Xhakaj, Benedikt Diemer, Alexie Leauthaud +5

The splashback radius () of dark matter halos has recently been detected using weak gravitational lensing and cross-correlations with galaxies. However, different metho…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 138 cited

Are galactic star formation and quenching governed by local, global or environmental phenomena?

Asa F. L. Bluck, Roberto Maiolino, Sebastian Sanchez +5

We present an analysis of star formation and quenching in the SDSS-IV MaNGA-DR15, utilising over 5 million spaxels from 3500 local galaxies. We estimate star formation rate s…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 23 cited

The cold circumgalactic environment of MAMMOTH-I: dynamically cold gas in the core of an Enormous Ly-alpha Nebula

Bjorn Emonts, Zheng Cai, Xavier Prochaska +2

The MAMMOTH-I Nebula at redshift 2.3 is one of the largest known Ly-alpha nebulae in the Universe, spanning ~440 kpc. Enormous Ly-alpha nebulae like MAMMOTH-I typically trace the d…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 27 cited

Probing the galaxy-halo connection with total satellite luminosity

Jeremy L. Tinker, Junzhi Cao, Mehmet Alpaslan +3

We demonstrate how the total luminosity in satellite galaxies is a powerful probe of dark matter halos around central galaxies. The method cross-correlates central galaxies in spec…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 73 cited

Birds of a Feather? Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopy of the Ultra-Faint Satellites Grus II, Tucana IV, and Tucana V

J. D. Simon, T. S. Li, D. Erkal +54

We present Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of three recently discovered ultra-faint Milky Way satellites, Grus II, Tucana IV, and Tucana V. We measure systemic velocities of V_hel = -1…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 51 cited

The Co-Evolution of Galaxies and the Cool Circumgalactic Medium Probed with the SDSS and DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

Ting-Wen Lan

We study the evolution of galaxies and the circumgalactic medium (CGM) through cosmic time by correlating MgII absorbers, tracers of cool gas (~K), detecte…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 62 cited

MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) -- I: Survey design and the environment of a near pristine gas cloud at z~3.5

Emma K. Lofthouse, Michele Fumagalli, Matteo Fossati +9

We present the design, methods, and first results of the MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) survey, a large programme on the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instr…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 13 cited

How to Fuel an AGN: Mapping Circumnuclear Gas in NGC 6240 with ALMA

Anne M. Medling, George C. Privon, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz +15

Dynamical black hole mass measurements in some gas-rich galaxy mergers indicate that they are overmassive relative to their host galaxy properties. Overmassive black holes in these…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 20 cited

High-redshift Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Stellar Feedback and Quasar Growth

Ji-hoon Kim, John H. Wise, Tom Abel +3

As computational resolution of modern cosmological simulations reach ever so close to resolving individual star-forming clumps in a galaxy, a need for "resolution-appropriate" phys…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 8 cited

Black hole feedback and the evolution of massive early-type galaxies

Ignacio Martin-Navarro, Joseph N. Burchett, Mar Mezcua

Observationally, constraining the baryonic cycle within massive galaxies has proven to be quite difficult. In particular, the role of black hole feedback in regulating star formati…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 4 cited

Image Flux Ratios of Gravitationally Lensed HS 0810+2554 with High Resolution Infrared Imaging

Terry Jay Jones, Liliya L. R. Williams, Steve Ertel +4

We report near simultaneous imaging using LMIRCam on the LBTI of the quadruply imaged lensed quasar HS 0810+2554 at wavelengths of 2.16, 3.7 and m with a Full Width Half Ma…