output
19952026
most citedThe Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centres

4k citations

Showing 2015 · astro-ph.GAShow all

37 papers · 2 filters

astro-ph.GA2015★ 20 cited

Satellite accretion in action: a tidally disrupting dwarf spheroidal around the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253

Aaron J. Romanowsky, D. Martinez-Delgado, Nicolas F. Martin +7

We report the discovery of NGC 253-dw2, a dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy candidate undergoing tidal disruption around a nearby spiral galaxy, NGC 253 in the Sculptor group: the fir…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 67 cited

The SLUGGS Survey: stellar kinematics, kinemetry and trends at large radii in 25 early-type galaxies

Caroline Foster, Nicola Pastorello, Joel Roediger +9

Due to longer dynamical timescales, the outskirts of early-type galaxies retain the footprint of their formation and assembly. Under the popular two-phase galaxy formation scenario…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 2 cited

Kinematics and Angular Momentum in Early Type Galaxy Halos

Jean P. Brodie, Aaron Romanowsky, the SLUGGS team

We use the kinematics of discrete tracers, primarily globular clusters (GCs) and planetary nebulae (PNe), along with measurements of the integrated starlight to explore the assembl…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 61 cited

A tidally disrupting dwarf galaxy in the halo of NGC 253

Elisa Toloba, David Sand, Kristine Spekkens +7

We report the discovery of Scl-MM-Dw2, a new dwarf galaxy at a projected separation of 50 kpc from NGC 253, as part of the PISCeS (Panoramic Imaging Survey of Centaurus and S…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 99 cited

Infrared color selection of massive galaxies at z > 3

T. Wang, D. Elbaz, C. Schreiber +29

We introduce a new color-selection technique to identify high-redshift, massive galaxies that are systematically missed by Lyman-break selection. The new selection is based on the…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 71 cited

The AIMSS Project III: The Stellar Populations of Compact Stellar Systems

Joachim Janz, Mark A. Norris, Duncan A. Forbes +11

In recent years, a growing zoo of compact stellar systems (CSSs) have been found whose physical properties (mass, size, velocity dispersion) place them between classical globular c…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 11 cited

The SLUGGS survey: chromo-dynamical modelling of the lenticular galaxy NGC 1023

Arianna Cortesi, Ana L. Chies-Santos, Vincenzo Pota +12

Globular clusters (GCs) can be considered discrete, long-lived, dynamical tracers that retain crucial information about the assembly history of their parent galaxy. In this paper,…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 139 cited

Breaking the Curve with CANDELS: A Bayesian Approach to Reveal the Non-Universality of the Dust-Attenuation Law at High Redshift

Brett Salmon, Casey Papovich, James Long +13

Dust attenuation affects nearly all observational aspects of galaxy evolution, yet very little is known about the form of the dust-attenuation law in the distant Universe. Here, we…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 219 cited

The extended halo of Centaurus A: uncovering satellites, streams, and substructures

D. Crnojević, D. J. Sand, K. Spekkens +7

We present the widest-field resolved stellar map to date of the closest ( Mpc) massive elliptical galaxy NGC 5128 (Centaurus A; Cen A), extending out to a projected galac…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 106 cited

A Deep Search For Faint Galaxies Associated With Very Low-redshift C IV Absorbers: III. The Mass- and Environment-dependent Circumgalactic Medium

Joseph N. Burchett, Todd M. Tripp, Rongmon Bordoloi +6

Using Hubble Space Telescope Cosmic Origins Spectrograph observations of 89 QSO sightlines through the Sloan Digital Sky Survey footprint, we study the relationships between C IV a…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 38 cited

Evidence for the rapid formation of low mass early-type galaxies in dense environments

Yiqing Liu, Eric W. Peng, John Blakeslee +6

We explore the environmental dependence of star formation timescales in low mass galaxies using the [/Fe] abundance ratio as an evolutionary clock. We present integrated [/Fe…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 62 cited

Satellite Quenching and Galactic Conformity at 0.3 < z < 2.5

Lalitwadee Kawinwanichakij, Ryan F. Quadri, Casey Papovich +21

We measure the evolution of the quiescent fraction and quenching efficiency of satellites around star-forming and quiescent central galaxies with stellar mass $\log(M_{\mathrm{cen}…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 103 cited

The physical properties of z>2 Lyman limit systems: new constraints for feedback and accretion models

Michele Fumagalli, John M. O'Meara, J. Xavier Prochaska

We study the physical properties of a homogeneous sample of 157 optically-thick absorption line systems at redshifts ~1.8-4.4, selected from a high-dispersion spectroscopic survey…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 43 cited

Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury XII. Mapping Stellar Metallicity Distributions in M31

Dylan Gregersen, Anil C. Seth, Benjamin F. Williams +14

We present a study of spatial variations in the metallicity of old red giant branch stars in the Andromeda galaxy. Photometric metallicity estimates are derived by interpolating is…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 2 cited

Resolving the extended stellar halos of nearby galaxies: the wide-field PISCeS survey

D. Crnojević, D. J. Sand, N. Caldwell +6

In the wide-field Panoramic Imaging Survey of Centaurus and Sculptor (PISCeS), we investigate the resolved stellar halos of two nearby galaxies (the elliptical Centaurus A and the…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 39 cited

A Deep Search For Faint Galaxies Associated With Very Low-redshift C IV Absorbers: II. Program Design, Absorption-line Measurements, and Absorber Statistics

Joseph N. Burchett, Todd M. Tripp, J. Xavier Prochaska +6

To investigate the evolution of metal-enriched gas over recent cosmic epochs as well as to characterize the diffuse, ionized, metal-enriched circumgalactic medium (CGM), we have co…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 35 cited

The Team Keck Redshift Survey 2: MOSFIRE Spectroscopy of the GOODS-North Field

Gregory D. Wirth, Jonathan R. Trump, Guillermo Barro +9

We present the Team Keck Redshift Survey 2 (TKRS2), a near-infrared spectral observing program targeting selected galaxies within the CANDELS subsection of the GOODS-North Field. T…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 51 cited

The inferred evolution of the cold gas properties of CANDELS galaxies at 0.5 < z < 3.0

G. Popping, K. I. Caputi, S. C. Trager +13

We derive the total cold gas, atomic hydrogen, and molecular gas masses of approximately 24 000 galaxies covering four decades in stellar mass at redshifts 0.5 < z < 3.0, taken fro…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 28 cited

NGC 3628-UCD1: A possible Cen Analog Embedded in a Stellar Stream

Zachary G. Jennings, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jean P. Brodie +6

Using Subaru/Suprime-Cam wide-field imaging and both Keck/ESI and LBT/MODS spectroscopy, we identify and characterize a compact star cluster, which we term NGC 3628-UCD1, embedded…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 25 cited

A highly-ionized region surrounding SN Refsdal revealed by MUSE

W. Karman, C. Grillo, I. Balestra +9

Supernova (SN) Refsdal is the first multiply-imaged, highly-magnified, and spatially-resolved SN ever observed. The SN exploded in a highly-magnified spiral galaxy at z=1.49 behind…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 34 cited

The Most Massive Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster

Chengze Liu, Eric W. Peng, Elisa Toloba +15

We report on the properties of the most massive ultra-compact dwarf galaxy (UCD) in the nearby Virgo Cluster of galaxies using imaging from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 71 cited

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. X. Properties of Ultra-Compact Dwarfs in the M87, M49 and M60 Regions

Chengze Liu, Eric W. Peng, Patrick Cote +18

We use imaging from the Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS) to present a comparative study of ultra-compact dwarf (UCD) galaxies associated with three prominent Virgo sub-c…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 104 cited

Is Main Sequence Galaxy Star Formation Controlled by Halo Mass Accretion?

Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla, Joel R. Primack, Peter Behroozi +1

The galaxy stellar-to-halo mass relation (SHMR) is nearly time-independent for . We therefore construct a time-independent SHMR model for central galaxies, wherein the in-si…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 28 cited

Hiding in plain sight: record-breaking compact stellar systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Michael A. Sandoval, Richard P. Vo, Aaron J. Romanowsky +10

Motivated by the recent, serendipitous discovery of the densest known galaxy, M60-UCD1, we present two initial findings from a follow-up search, using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,…