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astro-ph.GA2020★ 19 cited

Unraveling the complex structure of AGN-driven outflows: V. Integral-field spectroscopy of 40 moderate-luminosity Type-2 AGNs

Rongxin Luo, Jong-Hak Woo, Marios Karouzos +6

There is an ongoing debate on whether feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can effectively regulate the star formation activities in their host galaxies. To investigate the…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 3 cited

Anomaly Detection in Astronomical Images with Generative Adversarial Networks

Kate Storey-Fisher, Marc Huertas-Company, Nesar Ramachandra +4

We present an anomaly detection method using Wasserstein generative adversarial networks (WGANs) on optical galaxy images from the wide-field survey conducted with the Hyper Suprim…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

A search for dust and molecular gas in enormous Ly nebulae at

Roberto Decarli, Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia, Joseph F. Hennawi +3

Enormous Ly nebulae, extending over 300-500\,kpc around quasars, represent the pinnacle of galaxy and cluster formation. Here we present IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer obse…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

The Massive M31 Cluster G1: Detailed Chemical Abundances from Integrated Light Spectroscopy

Charli M. Sakari, Matthew D. Shetrone, Andrew McWilliam +1

G1, also known as Mayall II, is one of the most massive star clusters in M31. Its mass, ellipticity, and location in the outer halo make it a compelling candidate for a former nucl…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 96 cited

An Extended Halo-based Group/Cluster finder: application to the DESI legacy imaging surveys DR8

Xiaohu Yang, Haojie Xu, Min He +20

We extend the halo-based group finder developed by \citet[][]{Yang2005a} to use data {\it simultaneously} with either photometric or spectroscopic redshifts. A mock galaxy redshift…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 87 cited

A High-Resolution View of Fast Radio Burst Host Environments

Alexandra G. Mannings, Wen-fai Fong, Sunil Simha +11

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST/WFC3) ultraviolet and infrared observations of eight fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies with sub-arcsecond localizations, including the hos…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 33 cited

Compaction-Driven Black Hole Growth

Sharon Lapiner, Avishai Dekel, Yohan Dubois

We study the interplay between galaxy evolution and central black-hole (BH) growth using the {NewHorizon} cosmological simulation. BH growth is slow when the dark-matter halo is be…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 34 cited

Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Two Faint Dwarf Satellites of Nearby LMC Analogs from MADCASH

Jeffrey L. Carlin, Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil, Denija Crnojevic +11

We present a deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging study of two dwarf galaxies in the halos of Local Volume Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) analogs. These dwarfs were discovered a…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 44 cited

Pushing automated morphological classifications to their limits with the Dark Energy Survey

J. Vega-Ferrero, H. Domínguez Sánchez, M. Bernardi +60

We present morphological classifications of 27 million galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Data Release 1 (DR1) using a supervised deep learning algorithm. The classif…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 46 cited

A machine learning approach to galaxy properties: joint redshift-stellar mass probability distributions with Random Forest

S. Mucesh, W. G. Hartley, A. Palmese +72

We demonstrate that highly accurate joint redshift-stellar mass probability distribution functions (PDFs) can be obtained using the Random Forest (RF) machine learning (ML) algorit…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 29 cited

Orbital Torus Imaging: Using Element Abundances to Map Orbits and Mass in the Milky Way

Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David W. Hogg, Kathryn V. Johnston +9

Many approaches to galaxy dynamics assume that the gravitational potential is simple and the distribution function is time-invariant. Under these assumptions there are traditional…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 46 cited

The COS Absorption Survey of Baryon Harbors: Unveiling the Physical Conditions of Circumgalactic Gas through Multiphase Bayesian Ionization Modeling

Karl J. Haislmaier, Todd M. Tripp, Neal Katz +4

Quasar absorption systems encode a wealth of information about the abundances, ionization structure, and physical conditions in intergalactic and circumgalactic media. Simple (ofte…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

The influence of the secular perturbation of an intermediate-mass companion: I. Eccentricity excitation of disk stars at the Galactic center

Xiaochen Zheng, Douglas N. C. Lin, Shude Mao

There is a dense group of OB and Wolf-Rayet stars within a fraction of a parsec from the super-massive black hole (SMBH) at the Galactic Center. These stars appear to be coeval and…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 9 cited

RELICS-DP7: Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Dichromatic Primeval Galaxy at z ~ 7

Debora Pelliccia, Victoria Strait, Brian C. Lemaux +12

We report the discovery of a spectroscopically-confirmed strong Lyman- emitter at , observed as part of the Reionization Cluster Lensing Survey (RELICS). This…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 17 cited

The nature of giant clumps in high-z discs: a deep-learning comparison of simulations and observations

Omri Ginzburg, Marc Huertas-Company, Avishai Dekel +4

We use deep learning to explore the nature of observed giant clumps in high-redshift disc galaxies, based on their identification and classification in cosmological simulations. Si…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 70 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Refining Strong Line Diagnostic Classifications Using Spatially Resolved Gas Dynamics

David R. Law, Xihan Ji, Francesco Belfiore +8

We use the statistical power of the MaNGA integral-field spectroscopic galaxy survey to improve the definition of strong line diagnostic boundaries used to classify gas ionization…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 19 cited

An Amusing Look at the Host of the Periodic Nuclear Transient ASASSN-14ko Reveals a Second AGN

M. A. Tucker, B. J. Shappee, J. T. Hinkle +10

We present Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) integral-field spectroscopy of ESO 253G003, which hosts a known Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) and the periodic nuclear transi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

Tightly coupled morpho-kinematic evolution for massive star-forming and quiescent galaxies across 7 Gyr of cosmic time

Anna de Graaff, Rachel Bezanson, Marijn Franx +11

We use the Fundamental Plane (FP) to measure the redshift evolution of the dynamical mass-to-light ratio () and the dynamical-to-stellar mass ratio ($M_{\mathrm…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 60 cited

Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Milky Way Survey (MWS)

Carlos Allende Prieto, Andrew P. Cooper, Arjun Dey +31

The DESI Milky Way Survey (MWS) will observe 8 million stars between mag, supplemented by observations of brighter targets under poor observing conditions. The s…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 29 cited

Hubble Space Telescope Observations of [O~III] Emission in Nearby QSO2s: Physical Properties of the Ionised Outflows

Anna Trindade Falcao, S. B. Kraemer, T. C. Fischer +14

We use Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/ Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) long-slit G430M and G750M spectra to analyse the extended [O~III] 5007A emission in a sample of twe…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 28 cited

An extremely metal-deficient globular cluster in the Andromeda Galaxy

S. S. Larsen, A. J. Romanowsky, J. P. Brodie +1

Globular clusters (GCs) are dense, gravitationally bound systems of thousands to millions of stars. They are preferentially associated with the oldest components of galaxies, and m…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 44 cited

Stellar Velocity Dispersion and Dynamical Mass of the Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy NGC 5846_UDG1 from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager

Duncan A. Forbes, Jonah S. Gannon, Aaron J. Romanowsky +4

The ultra-diffuse galaxy in the NGC 5846 group (NGC 5846_UDG1) was shown to have a large number of globular cluster (GC) candidates from deep imaging as part of the VEGAS survey. R…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 239 cited

Host Galaxy Properties and Offset Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts: Implications for their Progenitors

Kasper E. Heintz, J. Xavier Prochaska, Sunil Simha +15

We present observations and detailed characterizations of five new host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) discovered with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 56 cited

ALMaQUEST -- IV. The ALMA-MaNGA QUEnching and STar formation (ALMaQUEST) Survey

Lihwai Lin, Sara L. Ellison, Hsi-An Pan +20

The ALMaQUEST (ALMA-MaNGA QUEnching and STar formation) survey is a program with spatially-resolved CO(1-0) measurements obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (AL…