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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.GA2018★ 32 cited

Reddening of the BLR and NLR in AGN From a Systematic Analysis of Balmer Decrement

Kai-Xing Lu, Yinghe Zhao, Jin-Ming Bai +1

We selected an active galactic nuclei (AGN) sample () from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7, and measured the broad- () and narrow-line…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 92 cited

Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. VIII. Structure of the Broad-Line Region and Mass of the Central Black Hole in Mrk 142

Yan-Rong Li, Yu-Yang Songsheng, Jie Qiu +9

This is the eighth in a series of papers reporting on a large reverberation mapping campaign to measure black hole (BH) mass in high accretion rate active galactic nuclei (AGNs). W…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 38 cited

A Comprehensive Bayesian Discrimination of the Simple Stellar Population Model, Star Formation History and Dust Attenuation Law in the Spectral Energy Distribution Modeling of Galaxies

Yunkun Han, Zhanwen Han

When modeling and interpreting the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies, the simple stellar population (SSP) model, star formation history (SFH) and dust attenuation la…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 17 cited

Broad absorption line disappearance/emergence in multiple ions in a weak emission-line quasar

Weimin Yi, M. Vivek, W. N. Brandt +9

We report the discovery of disappearance of Mg ii, Al iii, C iv, and Si iv broad absorption lines (BALs) at the same velocity, accompanied by a new Civ BAL emerging at a higher vel…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 11 cited

A Deeply Buried Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Nucleus Uncovered in Scattered Light

Xiang Pan, Honglin Lu, S. Komossa +13

We present spectropolarimetric and spectrophotometric observations of the peculiar active galactic nucleus (AGN) SDSS J120300.19+162443.7 (hereafter J1203+1624) at . Its…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 104 cited

Kinematics of the Broad-line Region of 3C 273 from a Ten-year Reverberation Mapping Campaign

Zhi-Xiang Zhang, Pu Du, Paul S. Smith +9

Despite many decades of study, the kinematics of the broad-line region of 3C~273 are still poorly understood. We report a new, high signal-to-noise, reverberation mapping campaign…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 35 cited

Determining the core radio luminosity function of radio AGNs via copula

Zunli Yuan, Jiancheng Wang, D. M. Worrall +2

The radio luminosity functions (RLFs) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are traditionally measured based on total emission, which doesn't reflect the current activity of the central…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 81 cited

Monitoring AGNs with Hβ Asymmetry. I. First Results: Velocity-resolved Reverberation Mapping

Pu Du, Michael S. Brotherton, Kai Wang +12

We have started a long-term reverberation mapping project using the Wyoming Infrared Observatory 2.3 meter telescope titled "Monitoring AGNs with Hβ Asymmetry" (MAHA). The motivati…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 11 cited

Discovery of An Active Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidate in the Barred Bulgeless Galaxy NGC 3319

Ning Jiang, Tinggui Wang, Hongyan Zhou +7

We report the discovery of an active intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidate in the center of nearby barred bulgeless galaxy . The point X-ray source revealed b…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 46 cited

JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies: I. Survey overview and first results

Amelie Saintonge, Christine D. Wilson, Ting Xiao +88

JINGLE is a new JCMT legacy survey designed to systematically study the cold interstellar medium of galaxies in the local Universe. As part of the survey we perform 850um continuum…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 32 cited

A High-Quality velocity-delay map of the broad-line region in NGC 5548

Ming Xiao, Pu Du, Kai-Xing Lu +10

NGC 5548 has been well spectroscopically monitored for reverberation mapping of the central kinematics by 19 campaigns. Using the maximum entropy method in this Letter, we build up…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 3 cited

ALMA Observation of NGC5135: The Circumnuclear CO(6-5) and Dust Continuum Emission at 45 Parsec Resolution[]

Tianwen Cao, Nanyao Lu, C. Kevin Xu +10

We present high-resolution (0.17\arcsec 0.14\arcsec) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the CO\,(6-5) line, and 435\um\ dust continuum emi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 2 cited

A unique distant submillimeter galaxy with an X-ray-obscured radio-luminous active galactic nucleus

X. W. Shu, Y. Q. Xue, D. Z. Liu +10

We present a multiwavelength study of an atypical submillimeter galaxy in the GOODS-North field, with the aim to understand its physical properties of stellar and dust emission, as…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 10 cited

Why Are Some Gamma-Ray Bursts Hosted by Oxygen-rich Galaxies?

Tetsuya Hashimoto, Ravi Chaudhary, Kouji Ohta +5

Theoretically long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are expected to happen in low-metallicity environments, because in a single massive star scenario, low iron abundance prevents loss of an…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 25 cited

Supermassive black holes with high accretion rates in active galactic nuclei. VII. Reconstruction of velocity-delay maps by maximum entropy method

Ming Xiao, Pu Du, Keith D. Horne +11

As one of the series of papers reporting on a large reverberation mapping campaign, we apply the maximum entropy method (MEM) to 9 narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies with super-Eddingt…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 65 cited

Far-infrared Herschel SPIRE spectroscopy of lensed starbursts reveals physical conditions of ionised gas

Zhi-Yu Zhang, R. J. Ivison, R. D. George +15

The most intensively star-forming galaxies are extremely luminous at far-infrared (FIR) wavelengths, highly obscured at optical and ultraviolet wavelengths, and lie at .…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 24 cited

CO (7-6), [CI] 370 micron and [NII] 205 micron Line Emission of the QSO BRI 1335-0417 at Redshift 4.407

Nanyao Lu, Tianwen Cao, Tanio Diaz-Santos +12

We present the results from our Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaging observations of the CO (7-6), [CI] 370 um (hereafter [CI]) and [NII] 205 um (hereafter […

astro-ph.GA2018★ 19 cited

Using deep Residual Networks to search for galaxy-Lyα emitter lens candidates based on spectroscopic-selection

Rui Li, Yiping Shu, Jianlin Su +4

More than one hundred galaxy-scale strong gravitational lens systems have been found by searching for the emission lines coming from galaxies with redshifts higher than the lens ga…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 12 cited

Ring Galaxies Through Off-center Minor Collisions by Tuning Bulge-to-disk Mass Ratio of Progenitors

Guangwen Chen, Xufen Wu, Xu Kong +2

Collisional ring galaxies (CRGs) are formed through off-center collisions between a target galaxy and an intruder dwarf galaxy. We study the mass distribution and kinematics of the…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 27 cited

Warm Molecular Hydrogen in Nearby, Luminous Infrared Galaxies

Andreea O. Petric, Lee Armus, Nicolas Flagey +19

Mid-infrared molecular hydrogen (H) emission is a powerful cooling agent in galaxy mergers and in radio galaxies; it is a potential key tracer of gas evolution and energy dissi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 52 cited

The MALATANG Survey: the L_gas-L_IR correlation on sub-kiloparsec scale in six nearby star-forming galaxies as traced by HCN J=4-3 and HCO^+ J=4-3

Qing-Hua Tan, Yu Gao, Zhi-Yu Zhang +43

We present HCN J=4-3 and HCO^+ J=4-3 maps of six nearby star-forming galaxies, NGC 253, NGC 1068, IC 342, M82, M83, and NGC 6946, obtained with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope as…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 48 cited

Strong-lensing Measurement of the Mass-density Profile out to 3 Effective Radii for Early-type Galaxies

Rui Li, Yiping Shu, Jiangcheng Wang

We measure the total mass-density profiles out to three effective radii for a sample of 63 , massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) acting as strong gravitational lenses th…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 18 cited

Interstellar Scintillation observations for PSR B0355+54

Yonghua Xu, Kejia Lee, Longfei Hao +10

In this paper, we report our investigation of pulsar scintillation phenomena by monitoring PSR B035554 at 2.25 GHz for three successive months using \emph{Kunming 40-m radio tel…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 3 cited

The discrepancy between Einstein mass and dynamical mass for SIS and power-law mass models

Rui Li, Jiancheng Wang, Yiping Shu +1

We investigate the discrepancy between the two-dimensional projected lensing mass and the dynam- ical mass for an ensemble of 97 strong gravitational lensing systems discovered by…