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astro-ph.GA2015★ 29 cited

The SPLASH survey: Quiescent galaxies are more strongly clustered but are not necessarily located in high-density environments

Lihwai Lin, P. L. Capak, C. Laigle +10

We use the stellar-mass-selected catalog from the Spitzer Large Area Survey with Hyper-Suprime-Cam (SPLASH) in the COSMOS field to study the environments of galaxies via galaxy den…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 10 cited

Andromeda IV, a solitary gas-rich dwarf galaxy

I. D. Karachentsev, Jayaram. N. Chengalur, R. B. Tully +4

Observations are presented of the isolated dwarf irregular galaxy And IV made with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 2 cited

A Compact Group of Galaxies at z = 2.48 hosting an AGN-Driven Outflow

Hsin-Yi Shih, Alan Stockton

We present observations of a remarkable compact group of galaxies at . Four galaxies, all within 40 kpc of each other, surround a powerful high redshift radio source. Thi…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 38 cited

Herschel Far-Infrared Photometry of the Swift Burst Alert Telescope Active Galactic Nuclei Sample of the Local Universe. II. SPIRE Observations

T. Taro Shimizu, Marcio Melendez, Richard F. Mushotzky +3

We present far-infrared (FIR) and submillimeter photometry from the Herschel Space Observatory's Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) for 313 nearby z<0.05 active gala…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 338 cited

The Chandra COSMOS Legacy survey: optical/IR identifications

S. Marchesi, F. Civano, M. Elvis +27

We present the catalog of optical and infrared counterparts of the Chandra COSMOS-Legacy Survey, a 4.6 Ms Chandra program on the 2.2 square degrees of the COSMOS field, combination…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 8 cited

Globular Cluster Populations: Results Including SG Late-Type Galaxies

Dennis Zaritsky, Kelsey McCabe, Manuel Aravena +18

Using 3.6 and 4.5m images of 73 late-type, edge-on galaxies from the SG survey, we compare the richness of the globular cluster populations of these galaxies to those of ear…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 20 cited

Faint COSMOS AGN at z~3.3 - I. Black Hole Properties and Constraints on Early Black Hole Growth

Benny Trakhtenbrot, Francesca Civano, C. Megan Urry +9

We present new Keck/MOSFIRE K-band spectroscopy for a sample of 14 faint, X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the COSMOS field. The data cover the spectral region surro…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 59 cited

Rest-UV Absorption Lines as Metallicity Estimator: the Metal Content of Star-Forming Galaxies at z~5

A. L. Faisst, P. L. Capak, I. Davidzon +12

We measure a relation between the depth of four prominent rest-UV absorption complexes and metallicity for local galaxies and verify it up to z~3. We then apply this relation to a…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 36 cited

Luminosity Dependence and Redshift Evolution of Strong Emission-line Diagnostics in Star-Forming Galaxies

Lennox L. Cowie, Amy J. Barger, Antoinette Songaila

We examine the redshift evolution of standard strong emission-line diagnostics for Hbeta-selected star-forming galaxies using the local SDSS sample and a new z = 0.2 - 2.3 sample o…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 35 cited

Merger Signatures in the Dynamics of Star-forming Gas

Chao-Ling Hung, Christopher C. Hayward, Howard A. Smith +5

Spatially resolved kinematics have been used to determine the dynamical status of star-forming galaxies with ambiguous morphologies, and constrain the importance of galaxy interact…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 33 cited

Resolving Ionisation and Metallicity on Parsec Scales Across Mrk 71 with HST-WFC3

Bethan L. James, Matthew Auger, Alessandra Aloisi +2

Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) Galaxies in the nearby Universe provide a means for studying feedback mechanisms and star-formation processes in low-metallicity environments in great deta…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 42 cited

Eddington ratio Distribution of X-ray selected broad-line AGNs at 1.0<z<2.2

Hyewon Suh, Guenther Hasinger, Charles Steinhardt +2

We investigate the Eddington ratio distribution of X-ray selected broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the redshift range 1.0<z<2.2, where the number density of AGNs peaks. C…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 16 cited

Spirality: A Novel Way to Measure Spiral Arm Pitch Angle

Douglas W. Shields, Benjamin Boe, Casey Pfountz +6

We present the MATLAB code Spirality, a novel method for measuring spiral arm pitch angles by fitting galaxy images to spiral templates of known pitch. Computation time is typicall…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 524 cited

ISM masses and the star formation law at Z = 1 to 6 // ALMA observations of dust continuum in 145 galaxies in the COSMOS survey field

N. Scoville, K. Sheth, H. Aussel +17

ALMA Cycle 2 observations of the long wavelength dust emission in 145 star-forming galaxies are used to probe the evolution of star-forming ISM. We also develop the physical basis…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 35 cited

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Can we trust aperture corrections to predict star formation?

Samuel Nathan Richards, Julia Bryant, Scott Croom +21

In the low redshift Universe (z<0.3), our view of galaxy evolution is primarily based on fibre optic spectroscopy surveys. Elaborate methods have been developed to address aperture…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 48 cited

A quasar reddened by a sub-parsec sized, metal-rich and dusty cloud in a damped Lyman-alpha absorber at z=2.13

J. -K. Krogager, J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Noterdaeme +5

We present a detailed analysis of a red quasar at z=2.32 with an intervening damped Lyman-alpha absorber (DLA) at z=2.13. Using high quality data from the X-shooter spectrograph at…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 3 cited

Are Ultra-faint Galaxies at z=6-8 Responsible for Cosmic Reionization ? Combined Constraints from the Hubble Frontier Fields Clusters and Parallels

Hakim Atek, Johan Richard, Mathilde Jauzac +8

We use deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the Frontier Fields to accurately measure the galaxy rest-frame ultraviolet luminosity function (UV LF) in the redshift range $z \sim…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 113 cited

The Subaru COSMOS 20: Subaru Optical Imaging of the HST COSMOS Field with 20 Filters

Y. Taniguchi, M. Kajisawa, M. A. R. Kobayashi +27

We present both the observations and the data reduction procedures of the Subaru COSMOS 20 project that is an optical imaging survey of the HST COSMOS field, carried out by using S…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 51 cited

Star Formation Suppression in Compact Group Galaxies: A New Path to Quenching?

K. Alatalo, P. N. Appleton, U. Lisenfeld +16

We present CO(1-0) maps of 12 warm H-selected Hickson Compact Groups (HCGs), covering 14 individually imaged warm H bright galaxies, with CARMA. We found a variety of molec…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 45 cited

Abundance gradients in low surface brightness spirals: clues on the origin of common gradients in galactic discs

Fabio Bresolin, Robert C. Kennicutt

We acquired spectra of 141 HII regions in ten late-type low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs). The analysis of the chemical abundances obtained from the nebular emission lines sh…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 22 cited

Strong variability of the coronal line region in NGC 5548

Hermine Landt, Martin J. Ward, Katrien C. Steenbrugge +1

We present the second extensive study of the coronal line variability in an active galaxy. Our data set for the well-studied Seyfert galaxy NGC 5548 consists of five epochs of quas…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 41 cited

Red Supergiants as cosmic abundance probes: the first direct metallicity determination of NGC 4038 in the Antennae

C. Lardo, B. Davies, R-P. Kudritzki +5

We present a direct determination of the stellar metallicity in the close pair galaxy NGC~4038 (D = 20 Mpc) based on the quantitative analysis of moderate resolution KMOS/VLT spect…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 89 cited

Hubble Frontier Fields: Predictions for the Return of SN Refsdal with the MUSE and GMOS Spectrographs

M. Jauzac, J. Richard, M. Limousin +13

We present a high-precision mass model of the galaxy cluster MACSJ1149.6+2223, based on a strong-gravitational-lensing analysis of Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields (HFF) imag…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 321 cited

A Systematic Search for Changing-Look Quasars in SDSS

Chelsea L. MacLeod, Nicholas P. Ross, Andy Lawrence +10

We present a systematic search for changing-look quasars based on repeat photometry from SDSS and Pan-STARRS1, along with repeat spectra from SDSS and SDSS-III BOSS. Objects with l…