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astro-ph.GA2021★ 45 cited

The Prevalence of Galaxy Overdensities Around UV-Luminous Lyman Emitters in the Epoch of Reionization

E. Leonova, P. A. Oesch, Y. Qin +19

Before the end of the epoch of reionization, the Hydrogen in the Universe was predominantly neutral. This leads to a strong attenuation of Ly lines of galaxies in th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 26 cited

Fe II emission in active galactic nuclei

C. Martin Gaskell, Neha Thakur, Betsy Tian +1

We review problems raised by Fe II emission in AGNs and address the question of its relationship to other broad-line region (BLR) lines. The self-shielding, stratified, BLR model o…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 30 cited

KODIAQ-Z: Metals and Baryons in the Cool Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Gas at 2.2<z<3.6

Nicolas Lehner, Claire Kopenhafer, John O'Meara +8

We present the KODIAQ-Z survey aimed to characterize the cool, photoionized gas at 2.2<z<3.6 in 202 HI-selected absorbers with 14.6<log N(HI)<20, i.e., the gaseous interface betwee…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 52 cited

Sizes of Lensed Lower-luminosity z=4-8 Galaxies from the Hubble Frontier Field Program

R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, P. G. van Dokkum +3

We constrain the rest-UV size-luminosity relation for star-forming galaxies at z~4 and z~6, 7, and 8 identified behind clusters from the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) program. The s…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 30 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Understanding Ionized Gas Turbulence using Integral Field Spectroscopy of 4500 Star-Forming Disk Galaxies

David R. Law, Francesco Belfiore, Matthew A. Bershady +8

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey MaNGA program has now obtained integral field spectroscopy for over 10,000 galaxies in the nearby universe. We use the final MaNGA data release DR17 to…

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SDSS-IV MaNGA: Cannibalism Caught in the Act -- on the Frequency of Occurrence of Multiple Cores in Brightest Cluster Galaxies

Yun-Hsin Hsu, Yen-Ting Lin, Song Huang +16

Although it is generally accepted that massive galaxies form in a two-phased fashion, beginning with a rapid mass buildup through intense starburst activities, followed by primaril…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 21 cited

Probing Population III Initial Mass Functions with He II/H Intensity Mapping

Jasmine Parsons, Lluis Mas-Ribas, Guochao Sun +3

We demonstrate the potential of line-intensity mapping to place constraints on the initial mass function (IMF) of Population III stars via measurements of the mean He II 1640A/H…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 37 cited

The chemical composition of globular clusters in the Local Group

S. S. Larsen, P. Eitner, E. Magg +5

We present detailed abundance measurements for 45 globular clusters (GCs) in galaxies in (and, in one case, beyond) the Local Group. The measurements are based on new high-resoluti…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 21 cited

A Multiwavelength Study of ELAN Environments (AMUSE). Mass budget, satellites spin alignment and gas infall in a massive quasar host halo

Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia, Chian-Chou Chen, Hau-Yu Baobab Liu +14

The systematic targeting of extended Ly emission around high-redshift quasars resulted in the discovery of rare and bright Enormous Ly Nebulae (ELANe) associated with multipl…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 21 cited

A Multiwavelength Study of ELAN Environments (AMUSE): Detection of a dusty star-forming galaxy within the enormous Lyman nebula at sheds light on its origin

Chian-Chou Chen, Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia, Bjorn H. C. Emonts +2

We present ALMA observations on and around the radio-quiet quasar UM287 at . Together with a companion quasar, UM287 is believed to play a major role in powering the surrou…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 18 cited

A Multiwavelength Study of ELAN Environments (AMUSE): Ubiquitous dusty star-forming galaxies associated with enormous Ly nebulae on megaparsec scales

Marta Nowotka, Chian-Chou Chen, Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia +5

We have been undertaking a systematic survey at 850 m based on a sample of four prototypical enormous Ly nebulae (ELANe) as well as their megaparsec-scale (Mpc-sca…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 72 cited

Inferring the IGM Neutral Fraction at z ~ 6-8 with Low-Luminosity Lyman Break Galaxies

Patricia Bolan, Brian C. Lemaux, Charlotte Mason +6

We present a Bayesian inference on the neutral hydrogen fraction of the intergalactic medium (IGM), , at 6-8 using the properties of Lyman break galaxies…

astro-ph.GA2021

SQuIGGLE: Studying Quenching in Intermediate-z Galaxies -- Gas, AnguLar Momentum, and Evolution

Katherine A. Suess, Mariska Kriek, Rachel Bezanson +12

We describe the SQuIGGLE survey of intermediate-redshift post-starburst galaxies. We leverage the large sky coverage of the SDSS to select ~1300 recently-quenched galaxies at 0.5<z…

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Now you see it, now you don't: Star formation truncation precedes the loss of molecular gas by ~100 Myr in massive post-starburst galaxies at z~0.6

Rachel Bezanson, Justin S. Spilker, Katherine A. Suess +6

We use ALMA observations of CO(2-1) in 13 massive () post-starburst galaxies at to constrain the molecular gas content in galaxies sh…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 68 cited

NGC5846-UDG1: A galaxy formed mostly by star formation in massive, extremely dense clumps of gas

Shany Danieli, Pieter van Dokkum, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez +10

It has been shown that ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have higher specific frequencies of globular clusters on average than other dwarf galaxies with similar luminosities. The UDG N…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 29 cited

Mid-InfraRed Outbursts in Nearby Galaxies (MIRONG). II. Optical Spectroscopic Follow-up

Yibo Wang, Ning Jiang, Tinggui Wang +8

Infrared echo has proven to be an effective means to discover transient accretion events of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), such as tidal disruption events (TDEs) and changing-lo…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 2 cited

MASCOT -- An ESO-ARO legacy survey of molecular gas in nearby SDSS-MaNGA galaxies: I. first data release, and global and resolved relations between H_2 and stellar content

D. Wylezalek, C. Cicone, F. Belfiore +11

We present the first data release of the MaNGA-ARO Survey of CO Targets (MASCOT), an ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey conducted at the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO). We measure th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 45 cited

Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in the Perseus Cluster: Comparing Galaxy Properties with Globular Cluster System Richness

Jonah S. Gannon, Duncan A. Forbes, Aaron J. Romanowsky +6

It is clear that within the class of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) there is an extreme range in the richness of their associated globular cluster (GC) systems. Here, we report the…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 31 cited

The deepest view of RBS 797: evidence for two pairs of equidistant X-ray cavities

Francesco Ubertosi, Myriam Gitti, Fabrizio Brighenti +14

We present the first results of a deep observation of the galaxy cluster RBS 797, whose previous X-ray studies revealed two pronounced X-ray cavities in the east-west (E-…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 32 cited

Reaching for the Edge I: Probing the Outskirts of Massive Galaxies with HSC, DECaLS, SDSS, and Dragonfly

Jiaxuan Li, Song Huang, Alexie Leauthaud +9

The outer light (stellar halos) of massive galaxies has recently emerged as a possible low scatter tracer of dark matter halo mass. To test the robustness of outer light measuremen…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

The central FR0 in the sloshing cluster Abell 795: Indications of mechanical feedback from Chandra data

Francesco Ubertosi, Myriam Gitti, Eleonora Torresi +2

We present a detailed study of the galaxy cluster Abell 795 and of its central Fanaroff-Riley Type 0 (FR0) radio galaxy. From an archival Chandra observation, we found a dynamicall…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

The Distance and Dynamical History of the Virgo Cluster Ultradiffuse Galaxy VCC 615

J. Christopher Mihos, Patrick R. Durrell, Elisa Toloba +6

We use deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging to derive a distance to the Virgo Cluster ultradiffuse galaxy (UDG) VCC 615 using the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) distance estimat…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

Discovery of a protocluster core associated with an enormous Ly Nebula at

Qiong Li, Ran Wang, Helmut Dannerbauer +10

The MAMMOTH-1 nebula at is an enormous Ly nebula (ELAN) extending to a 440 kpc scale at the center of the extreme galaxy overdensity BOSS 1441. In this paper, we…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 25 cited

Galaxy Formation in the Santa Cruz semi-analytic model compared with IllustrisTNG -- I. Galaxy scaling relations, dispersions, and residuals at z=0

Austen Gabrielpillai, Rachel S. Somerville, Shy Genel +4

We present the first results from applying the Santa Cruz semi-analytic model (SAM) for galaxy formation on merger trees extracted from a dark matter only version of the IllustrisT…