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most citedSDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

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astro-ph.GA2026

Wave Cold Dark Matter Can Reproduce the Radial Acceleration Relation in X-ray Elliptical Galaxies

Runyu Meng, Xiaobo Dong

Wave cold dark matter (wave CDM) is a well-motivated variant within the collisionless CDM paradigm, in which the de~Broglie wavelengths of ultralight bosons become relevant on gala…

astro-ph.GA2026

22 Newly Identified Repeating Changing-look AGNs and Evidence for Extreme Broad-line Region Breathing

Litao Zhu, Zhongxiang Wang, Alok C. Gupta +5

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL AGNs) show the appearance or disappearance of broad emission lines on timescales of years. Among them, the repeating CL (RCL) AGNs may prov…

astro-ph.GA2026

Full-polarization millimeter wavelength variability of Sagittarius A* during the 2018 EHT campaign

Ezequiel Albentosa-Ruiz, Jasmin E. Washington, Nicola Marchili +272

Sagittarius A* (Srg A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, provides a unique laboratory to study accretion dynamics and plasma processes near the event ho…

astro-ph.GA2026

AVID: A Near-Major Post-Merger of Late-Type Dwarfs beneath a Regularly Rotating HI Disk (VCC 693)

Fujia Li, Hong-Xin Zhang, Elias Brinks +23

On the periphery of galaxy clusters, moderately high galaxy densities and velocity dispersions favour interactions and mergers that influence galaxy evolution prior to cluster infa…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Deblending the MIGHTEE-COSMOS survey with XID+: The resolved radio source counts to Jy

Eliab D. Malefahlo, Matt J. Jarvis, Mario G. Santos +9

Deep radio continuum surveys provide fundamental constraints on galaxy evolution, but source confusion limits sensitivity to the faintest sources. We present a complete framework f…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey III: First data release of JCMT CO-line observations

S. H. J. Wallström, P. Scicluna, S. Srinivasan +37

Low- to intermediate-mass (0.88 M) evolved stars contribute significantly to the chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium in the local Universe, making accur…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Unveiling the nature and fate of the almost-dark cloud AGC 226178 through HI mapping

Yu-Zhu Sun, Hong-Xin Zhang, Elias Brinks +18

The origin of extragalactic, almost dark HI clouds with extreme gas-to-stellar mass ratios remains poorly understood. We investigate the nature and fate of the "almost dark" cloud…

astro-ph.GA2025

Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. XIV. Long-Duration High-Cadence Reverberation Mapping Results for 11 PG Quasars

Chen Hu, Zhu-Heng Yao, Yong-Jie Chen +20

We report the results of a long-duration high-cadence reverberation mapping campaign of a second batch of 11 PG quasars using the 2.2m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory. This…

astro-ph.GA2025

Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. XII. Reverberation Mapping Results for 15 PG Quasars from a Long-Duration High-Cadence Campaign

Chen Hu, Sha-Sha Li, Sen Yang +15

We present the first results from long-term high-cadence spectroscopic monitoring of 15 PG quasars with relatively strong Fe II emission as a part of a broader reverberation mappin…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

A Morphological Study on AGN-host Dwarf Galaxies

Jie Tian, Yinghe Zhao, Xiejin Li +1

The study of morphology in galaxies offers a convenient and quantitative method to measure the shapes and characteristics of galaxy light distribution that reflect the evolutionary…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

Metallicity dependence of the CO-to-H and the [CI]-to-H conversion factors in galaxies

Thomas G. Bisbas, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Maria-Christina Kyrmanidou +6

Understanding the molecular gas content in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial for studying star formation and galaxy evolution. The CO-to-H () and the [CI]-to…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Optical+NIR analysis of a Newly Confirmed Einstein ring at z1 from the Kilo-Degree Survey: Dark matter fraction, total and dark matter density slope and IMF

Rui Li, Nicola R. Napolitano, Giuseppe D Ago +16

We report the spectroscopic confirmation of a bright blue Einstein ring in the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) footprint: the Einstein ``blue eye''. Spectroscopic data from X-Shooter at…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Two categories of UV-upturn galaxies revealed by semi-analytic models

Zhen Jiang, Cheng Li, Fenghui Zhang +1

UV-upturn galaxies are characterized by unusually excessive flux in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) band, observed in some elliptical galaxies and the bulges of disk galaxies. We examine…

astro-ph.GA2024

Testing Colour-magnitude Pattern as A Method in the Search for Changing-Look AGNs

Li-tao Zhu, Zhongxiang Wang, P. U. Devanand +6

We develop a simple method to search for changing-look (CL) active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates, and conduct a test run. In this method, optical variations of AGNs are monitor…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Moving Groups in the Solar Neighborhood with Gaia, APOGEE, GALAH, and LAMOST: Dynamical Effects Gather Gas and the Ensuing Star Formation Plays an Important Role in Shaping the Stellar Velocity Distributions

Xilong Liang, Suk-Jin Yoon, Jingkun Zhao

With Gaia, APOGEE, GALAH, and LAMOST data, we investigate the positional, kinematic, chemical, and age properties of nine moving groups in the solar neighborhood. We find that each…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 56 cited

Gravitational Wave Astronomy With TianQin

En-Kun Li, Shuai Liu, Alejandro Torres-Orjuela +50

The opening of the gravitational wave window has significantly enhanced our capacity to explore the universe's most extreme and dynamic sector. In the mHz frequency range, a divers…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

Velocity-Resolved Ionization Mapping of Broad Line Region. I. Insights into Diverse Geometry and Kinematics

Sha-Sha Li, Hai-Cheng Feng, H. T. Liu +6

Broad emission lines of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) originate from the broad-line region (BLR), consisting of dense gas clouds in orbit around an accreting supermassive black hol…

astro-ph.GA2024

A high-velocity star recently ejected by an intermediate-mass black hole in M15

Yang Huang, Qingzheng Li, Jifeng Liu +4

The existence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) is crucial for understanding various astrophysical phenomena, yet their existence remains elusive, except for the LIGO-Virgo…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 17 cited

CSST large-scale structure analysis pipeline: I. constructing reference mock galaxy redshift surveys

Yizhou Gu, Xiaohu Yang, Jiaxin Han +29

In this paper, we set out to construct a set of reference mock galaxy redshift surveys (MGRSs) for the future Chinese Space-station Survey Telescope (CSST) observation, where subse…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

On the Scarcity of Dense Cores ( cm) in High Latitude Planck Galactic Cold Clumps

Fengwei Xu, Ke Wang, Tie Liu +34

High-latitude () molecular clouds have virial parameters that exceed 1, but whether these clouds can form stars has not been studied systematically. Using JCMT SCUB…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

CSST Large-scale Structure Analysis Pipeline: II. the CSST Emulator for Slitless Spectroscopy (CESS)

Run Wen, Xian Zhong Zheng, Yunkun Han +9

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) slitless spectroscopic survey will observe objects to a limiting magnitude of ~ 23 mag (5, point sources) in U, V, and I over 17500 de…

astro-ph.GA2024

Correcting the Contamination of Second-order Spectra: Improving Hα Measurements in Reverberation Mapping Campaigns

Wen-Zhe Xi, Kai-Xing Lu, Hai-Cheng Feng +5

Long-term spectroscopic monitoring campaigns on active galactic nuclei (AGNs) provide a wealth of information about its interior structure and kinematics. However, a number of the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

Measuring the Virial Factor in SDSS DR7 AGNs with Redshifted H and H Broad Emission Lines

H. T. Liu, Hai-Cheng Feng, Sha-Sha Li +2

Under the hypothesis of gravitational redshift induced by the central supermassive black hole, and based on line widths and shifts of redward shifted H and H broad emission l…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 28 cited

An ALMA Spectroscopic Survey of the Brightest Submillimeter Galaxies in the SCUBA-2-COSMOS Field (AS2COSPEC): Physical Properties of z=2-5 Ultra- and Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies

Cheng-Lin Liao, Chian-Chou Chen, Wei-Hao Wang +11

We report physical properties of the brightest (-mJy) and not strongly lensed 18 870m selected dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs), also known as…