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astro-ph.GA2018★ 61 cited

HST/WFC3 grism observations of clusters: The cluster vs. field stellar mass-size relation and evidence for size growth of quiescent galaxies from minor mergers

Jasleen Matharu, Adam Muzzin, Gabriel B. Brammer +13

Minor mergers are thought to be responsible for the size growth of quiescent field galaxies with decreasing redshift. We test this hypothesis using the cluster environment as a lab…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 33 cited

Multiplicity of Galactic Cepheids from long-baseline interferometry. IV. New detected companions from MIRC and PIONIER observations

A. Gallenne, P. Kervella, S. Borgniet +10

We aim at detecting and characterizing the main-sequence companions of a sample of known and suspected Galactic binary Cepheids. We used the multi-telescope interferometric combine…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 21 cited

Multicomponent kinematics in a massive filamentary IRDC

Vlas Sokolov, Ke Wang, Jaime E. Pineda +6

To probe the initial conditions for high-mass star and cluster formation, we investigate the properties of dense filaments within the infrared dark cloud G035.39-00.33 (IRDC G035.3…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 22 cited

Excluding super-soft X-ray sources as progenitors for four Type Ia supernovae in the Large Magellanic Cloud

J. Kuuttila, M. Gilfanov, I. R. Seitenzahl +2

Type Ia supernovae are vital to our understanding of the Universe due to their use in measuring cosmological distances and their significance in enriching the interstellar medium w…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 13 cited

The Neutral Hydrogen Properties of Galaxies in Gas-rich Groups

Robert Džudžar, Virginia Kilborn, Gerhardt Meurer +23

We present an analysis of the integrated neutral hydrogen (HI) properties for 27 galaxies within nine low mass, gas-rich, late-type dominated groups which we denote "Choirs". We fi…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 17 cited

CI Camelopardalis: The first sgB[e]-High Mass X-ray Binary Twenty Years on, a Supernova Imposter in our own Galaxy?

E. S. Bartlett, J. S. Clark, I. Negueruela

The Galactic supergiant B[e] star CI Camelopardalis (CI Cam) was the first sgB[e] star detected during an X-ray outburst. The star brightened to 2 Crab in the X-ray regime wi…

astro-ph.SR2018

ALMA polarimetric studies of rotating jet/disk systems

F. Bacciotti, J. M. Girart, M. Padovani +9

We have recently obtained polarimetric data at mm wavelengths with ALMA for the young systems DG Tau and CW Tau, for which the rotation properties of jet and disk have been investi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 17 cited

The Fornax 3D project: dust mix and gas properties in the center of early-type galaxy FCC 167

S. Viaene, M. Sarzi, N. Zabel +15

Galaxies continuously reprocess their interstellar material. One can therefore expect changing dust grain properties in galaxies which have followed different evolutionary pathways…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 24 cited

Two Orders of Magnitude Variation in the Star Formation Efficiency Across the Pre-Merger Galaxy NGC 2276

Neven Tomicic, Annie Hughes, Kathryn Kreckel +7

We present the first spatially resolved (~0.5 kpc) measurements of the molecular gas depletion time across the disk of the interacting spiral galaxy NGC\,2276, a system…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 31 cited

New Near-Infrared light-curve templates for RR Lyrae variables

V. F. Braga, P. B. Stetson, G. Bono +34

We provide homogeneous optical (UBVRI) and near-infrared (JHK) time series photometry for 254 cluster (omega Cen, M4) and field RR Lyrae (RRL) variables. We ended up with more than…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 9 cited

Why Chromatic Imaging Matters

Joel Sanchez-Bermudez, Florentin Millour, Fabien Baron +15

During the last two decades, the first generation of beam combiners at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer has proved the importance of optical interferometry for high-angular…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 24 cited

The ISM Properties and Gas Kinematics of a Redshift 3 Massive Dusty Star-forming Galaxy

T. K. Daisy Leung, Dominik A. Riechers, Andrew J. Baker +9

We present CO(J= 1-0; 3-2; 5-4; 10-9) and 1.2-kpc resolution [CII] line observations of the dusty star-forming galaxy (SFG) HXMM05 -- carried out with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 20 cited

Systematic investigation of chemical abundances derived using IR spectra obtained with GIANO

E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, E. Oliva +10

Detailed chemical abundances of Galactic stars are needed in order to improve our knowledge of the formation and evolution of our galaxy, the Milky Way. We took advantage of the GI…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 25 cited

Type II Supernovae as Distance Indicators at Near-IR Wavelengths

Ó. Rodríguez, G. Pignata, M. Hamuy +13

Motivated by the advantages of observing at near-IR wavelengths, we investigate Type II supernovae (SNe II) as distance indicators at those wavelengths through the Photospheric Mag…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 25 cited

Evidence for mass accretion driven by spiral shocks onto the white dwarf in SDSS J123813.73-033933.0

A. F. Pala, B. T. Gänsicke, T. R. Marsh +21

We present high-time-resolution photometry and phase-resolved spectroscopy of the short-period () cataclysmic variable SDSS J123813.73-033933.…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 45 cited

Planck's Dusty GEMS. VII. Atomic carbon and molecular gas in dusty starburst galaxies at z=2 to 4

N. Nesvadba, R. Canameras, R. Kneissl +5

The bright [CI] 1-0 and [CI] 2-1 lines of atomic carbon are becoming more and more widely employed tracers of the cold neutral gas in high-redshift galaxies. Here we present observ…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 46 cited

Gas density perturbations induced by forming planet(s) in the AS 209 protoplanetary disk as seen with ALMA

Cécile Favre, Davide Fedele, Luke Maud +6

The formation of planets occurs within protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars, resulting in perturbation of the gas and dust surface densities. Here, we report the first evid…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 356 cited

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida +230

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years o…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 1 cited

On the origin of supergiant fast X-ray transients

Swetlana Hubrig, Lara Sidoli, Konstantin A. Postnov +3

A fraction of high-mass X-ray binaries are supergiant fast X-ray transients. These systems have on average low X-ray luminosities, but display short flares during which their X-ray…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 97 cited

The Soft-Excess in Mrk 509: Warm Corona or Relativistic Reflection?

Javier A. Garcia, Erin Kara, Dominic Walton +15

We present the analysis of the first NuSTAR observations ( ks), simultaneous with the last SUZAKU observations ( ks), of the active galactic nucleus of the brigh…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 7 cited

Hubble flow variations as a test for inhomogeneous cosmology

Christoph Saulder, Steffen Mieske, Eelco van Kampen +1

Context. Backreactions from large-scale inhomogeneities may provide an elegant explanation for the observed accelerated expansion of the universe without the need to introduce dark…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 18 cited

Bright lenses are easy to find: Spectroscopic confirmation of lensed quasars in the Southern Sky

C. Spiniello, A. Agnello, A. V. Sergeyev +4

Gravitationally lensed quasars are valuable, but extremely rare, probes of observational cosmology and extragalactic astrophysics. Progress in these fields has been limited just by…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 8 cited

The VMC Survey - XXXIII. The tip of the red giant branch in the Magellanic Clouds

M. A. T. Groenewegen, M. -R. L. Cioni, L. Girardi +6

In this paper JK_s data from the VISTA Magellanic Cloud (VMC) survey are used to investigate the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) as a distance indicator. A linear fit to recent…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 14 cited

The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey V: Extended Radio Sources in Massive Galaxy Clusters at z~1

Emily Moravec, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Daniel Stern +9

We present the results from a pilot study with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) to determine the radio morphologies of extended radio sources and the properties of their…