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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.GA2017★ 32 cited

Herschel and SCUBA-2 observations of dust emission in a sample of Planck cold clumps

Mika Juvela, Jinhua He, Katherine Pattle +26

Analysis of all-sky Planck submillimetre observations and the IRAS 100um data has led to the detection of a population of Galactic cold clumps. The clumps can be used to study star…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 69 cited

The TOP-SCOPE survey of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps: Survey overview and results of an exemplar source, PGCC G26.53+0.17

Tie Liu, Kee-Tae Kim, Mika Juvela +11

The low dust temperatures (<14 K) of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) make them ideal targets to probe the initial conditions and very early phase of star formation. TOP-SCOPE i…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 4 cited

-band host galaxy contamination of TeV -ray blazar Mrk 501: effects of the aperture size and seeing

Hai-Cheng Feng, Hong-Tao Liu, Ying-He Zhao +3

We simulated the -band contribution of the host galaxy of TeV -ray BL Lac object Mrk 501 in different aperture sizes and seeing conditions . The intensive observations were r…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 14 cited

Search for intra-day optical variability in Mrk 501

Hai-Cheng Feng, H. T. Liu, X. L. Fan +5

We present our observations of the optical intra-day variability (IDV) in -ray BL Lac object Mrk 501. The observations were run with the 1.02 m and 2.4 m optical telescopes at Y…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 22 cited

The SCUBA-2 850 follow-up of WISE-selected, luminous dust-obscured quasars

Lulu Fan, Suzy F. Jones, Yunkun Han +1

Hot dust-obscured galaxies (Hot DOGs) are a new population recently discovered in the \wise All-Sky survey. Multiwavelength follow-up observations suggest that they are luminous, d…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 50 cited

Deep Imaging of the HCG 95 Field.I.Ultra-diffuse Galaxies

Dongdong Shi, Xianzhong Zheng, Haibin Zhao +7

We present a detection of 89 candidates of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in a 4.9 degree field centered on the Hickson Compact Group 95 (HCG 95) using deep - and -band im…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 46 cited

Discovery of two new hypervelocity stars from the LAMOST spectroscopic surveys

Yang Huang, Xiaowei Liu, Huawei Zhang +7

We report the discovery of two new unbound hypervelocity stars (HVSs) from the LAMOST spectroscopic surveys. They are respectively a B2V type star of ~ 7 M with a Gal…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 12 cited

Reddening and He I* Absorption Lines in Three Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

Shaohua Zhang, Hongyan Zhou, Xiheng Shi +6

We report the detection of heavy reddening and the He I* absorption lines at the AGNs' redshift in three Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies: SDSS J091848.61+211717.0, SD…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 10 cited

Low-mass Active Galactic Nuclei on the Fundamental Plane of Black Hole Activity

Lei Qian, Xiao-Bo Dong, Fu-Guo Xie +2

It is widely known that in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs), there is a tight correlation among their radio luminosity (), X-ray luminosity…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 18 cited

ALMA [NII] 205 micron Imaging Spectroscopy of the Interacting Galaxy System BRI 1202-0725 at Redshift 4.7

Nanyao Lu, Yinghe Zhao, Tanio Diaz-Santos +9

We present the results from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaging in the [NII] 205 micron fine-structure line (hereafter [NII]) and the underlying continuum o…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 6 cited

Double cyclic variations in orbital period of the eclipsing cataclysmic variable EX Dra

Zhong-tao Han, Sheng-bang Qian, Irina Voloshina +1

EX Dra is a long-period eclipsing dwarf nova with mag amplitude outbursts. This star has been monitored photometrically from November, 2009 to March, 2016 and 29 new mid-…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 1 cited

Long-term photometric behavior of the eclipsing cataclysmic variable V729 Sgr

Han Zhongtao, Qian Shengbang, Lajús +3

We present the analysis results of an eclipsing cataclysmic variable (CV) V729 Sgr, based on our observations and AAVSO data. Some outburst parameters were determined such as outbu…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 7 cited

Long-term photometric behaviour of the eclipsing Z Cam-type dwarf nova AY Psc

Zhong-tao Han, Sheng-bang Qian, Irina Voloshina +1

New eclipse timings of the Z Cam-type dwarf nova AY Psc were measured and the orbital ephemeris was revised. Based on the long-term AAVSO data, moreover, the outburst behaviors wer…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 3 cited

WZ Sge: an eclipsing cataclysmic variable evolving towards the period minimum

Z. -T. Han, S. -B. Qian, Irina Voloshina +1

We present the photometric results of the eclipsing cataclysmic variable (CV) WZ Sge near the period minimum (). Eight new mid-eclipse times were determined and the orbita…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 18 cited

Cyclic period oscillation of the eclipsing dwarf nova DV UMa

Z. -T. Han, S. -B. Qian, Irina Voloshina +1

DV UMa is an eclipsing dwarf nova with an orbital period of h, which lies just at the bottom edge of the period gap. To detect its orbital period changes we present 12 n…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 8 cited

The role of environment on the star formation history of disc galaxies

Xiaoyu Kang, Fenghui Zhang, Ruixiang Chang

NGC\,2403, NGC\,300 and M33 are three nearby pure-disc galaxies with similar stellar mass in different environments, they are benchmarks for understanding late-type spiral galaxies…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 46 cited

Discovery of 16 New z ~ 5.5 Quasars : Filling in the Redshift Gap of Quasar Color Selection

Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan, Xue-Bing Wu +13

We present initial results from the first systematic survey of luminous quasars. Quasars at 5.5, the post-reionization epoch, are crucial tools to explore the…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 24 cited

Photoionization-driven Absorption Lines Variability in Balmer Absorption Line Quasar LBQS 1206+1052

Luming Sun, Hongyan Zhou, Tuo Ji +10

In this paper we present an analysis of absorption line variability in mini-BAL quasar LBQS 1206+1052. The SDSS spectrum demonstrates that the absorption troughs can be divided int…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 6 cited

The physical constraints on a new LoBAL QSO at z=4.82

Weimin Yi, Richard Green, Jin-Ming Bai +26

Very few low-ionization broad absorption line (LoBAL) QSOs have been found at high redshifts to date. One high-redshift LoBAL QSO, J0122+1216, was recently discovered at the Lijian…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 98 cited

A Herschel Space Observatory Spectral Line Survey of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies from 194 to 671 Microns

Nanyao Lu, Yinghe Zhao, Tanio Díaz-Santos +18

We describe a Herschel Space Observatory 194-671 micron spectroscopic survey of a sample of 121 local luminous infrared galaxies and report the fluxes of the CO to -1 rotati…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 4 cited

A Ringed Dwarf LINER 1 Galaxy Hosting an Intermediate-mass Black Hole with Large-scale Rotation-like Hα Emission

Wen-Juan Liu, Lei Qian, Xiao-Bo Dong +7

We report the discovery of a 20-kpc-sized Hα emission in SDSS J083803.68+540642.0, a ringed dwarf galaxy (M = -17.89 mag) hosting an accreting intermediate-mass black hole at z…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 12 cited

Unveiling slim accretion disc in AGN through X-ray and Infrared observations

Núria Castelló-Mor, Shai Kaspi, Hagai Netzer +7

In this work, which is a continuation of Castelló-Mor et al. (2016), we present new X-ray and infrared (IR) data for a sample of active galactic nuclei (AGN) covering a wide range…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 12 cited

Ultraviolet and Optical Emission-line Outflows in the Heavily Obscured Quasar SDSS J000610.67+121501.2: At the Scale of the Dusty Torus and Beyond

Shaohua Zhang, Hongyan Zhou, Xiheng Shi +7

Broad emission-line outflows of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been proposed for many years but are very difficult to quantitatively study because of the coexistence of the gra…