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most citedThe Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centres

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astro-ph.GA2021

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Cannibalism Caught in the Act -- on the Frequency of Occurrence of Multiple Cores in Brightest Cluster Galaxies

Yun-Hsin Hsu, Yen-Ting Lin, Song Huang +16

Although it is generally accepted that massive galaxies form in a two-phased fashion, beginning with a rapid mass buildup through intense starburst activities, followed by primaril…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 37 cited

The chemical composition of globular clusters in the Local Group

S. S. Larsen, P. Eitner, E. Magg +5

We present detailed abundance measurements for 45 globular clusters (GCs) in galaxies in (and, in one case, beyond) the Local Group. The measurements are based on new high-resoluti…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 68 cited

NGC5846-UDG1: A galaxy formed mostly by star formation in massive, extremely dense clumps of gas

Shany Danieli, Pieter van Dokkum, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez +10

It has been shown that ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have higher specific frequencies of globular clusters on average than other dwarf galaxies with similar luminosities. The UDG N…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 45 cited

Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in the Perseus Cluster: Comparing Galaxy Properties with Globular Cluster System Richness

Jonah S. Gannon, Duncan A. Forbes, Aaron J. Romanowsky +6

It is clear that within the class of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) there is an extreme range in the richness of their associated globular cluster (GC) systems. Here, we report the…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 31 cited

The deepest view of RBS 797: evidence for two pairs of equidistant X-ray cavities

Francesco Ubertosi, Myriam Gitti, Fabrizio Brighenti +14

We present the first results of a deep observation of the galaxy cluster RBS 797, whose previous X-ray studies revealed two pronounced X-ray cavities in the east-west (E-…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

Discovery of a protocluster core associated with an enormous Ly Nebula at

Qiong Li, Ran Wang, Helmut Dannerbauer +10

The MAMMOTH-1 nebula at is an enormous Ly nebula (ELAN) extending to a 440 kpc scale at the center of the extreme galaxy overdensity BOSS 1441. In this paper, we…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

The Baltimore Oriole's Nest: Cool Winds from the Inner and Outer Parts of a Star-Forming Galaxy at z=1.3

Weichen Wang, Susan A. Kassin, S. M. Faber +12

Strong galactic winds are ubiquitous at . However, it is not well known where inside galaxies these winds are launched from. We study the cool winds (\,K) in…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 100 cited

Final Targeting Strategy for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2S Survey

Felipe A. Santana, Rachael L. Beaton, Kevin R. Covey +43

APOGEE is a high-resolution (R sim 22,000), near-infrared, multi-epoch, spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way. The second generation of the APOGEE project, APOGEE-2, includes an ex…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 99 cited

Final Targeting Strategy for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2N Survey

Rachael L. Beaton, Ryan J. Oelkers, Christian R. Hayes +57

APOGEE-2 is a dual-hemisphere, near-infrared (NIR), spectroscopic survey with the goal of producing a chemo-dynamical mapping of the Milky Way Galaxy. The targeting for APOGEE-2 is…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 42 cited

Hubble Space Telescope Observations of NGC 253 Dwarf Satellites: Discovery of Three Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, David J. Sand, Denija Crnojević +8

We present deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging of five faint dwarf galaxies associated with the nearby spiral NGC 253 (D3.5 Mpc). Three of these are newly discovered ultra…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

Optical Spectroscopy of Dual Quasar Candidates from the Subaru HSC-SSP program

Shenli Tang, John D. Silverman, Xuheng Ding +30

We report on a spectroscopic program to search for dual quasars using Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) images of SDSS quasars which represent an important stage during galaxy mergers…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 73 cited

Resolved Dwarf Galaxy Searches within ~5 Mpc with the Vera Rubin Observatory and Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, David J. Sand, Denija Crnojević +7

We present a preview of the faint dwarf galaxy discoveries that will be possible with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam in the next decade. In this work, w…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 85 cited

X-ray bubbles in the circumgalactic medium of TNG50 Milky Way- and M31-like galaxies: signposts of supermassive black hole activity

Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson, Nhut Truong +5

The TNG50 cosmological simulation produces X-ray emitting bubbles, shells, and cavities in the circumgalactic gas above and below the stellar disks of Milky Way- and Andromeda-like…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

A Complete 16 micron-Selected Galaxy Sample at : Mid-infrared Spectral Energy Distributions

J. -S. Huang, Y. -S. Dai, S. P. Willner +21

We describe a complete, flux-density-limited sample of galaxies at redshift selected at 16 micron. At the selection wavelength near 8 micron rest, the observed emis…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

Recovering the origins of the lenticular galaxy NGC 3115 using multi-band imaging

Maria Luisa Buzzo, Arianna Cortesi, Jose A. Hernandez-Jimenez +16

A detailed study of the morphology of lenticular galaxies is an important way to understand how this type of galaxy formed and evolves over time. Decomposing a galaxy into its comp…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

The Stars of the HETDEX Survey. I. Radial Velocities and Metal-Poor Stars from Low-Resolution Stellar Spectra

Keith Hawkins, Greg Zeimann, Chris Sneden +18

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an unbiased, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey, designed to measure the expansion history of the universe thr…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 24 cited

Accurate Identification of Galaxy Mergers with Stellar Kinematics

R. Nevin, L. Blecha, J. Comerford +9

To determine the importance of merging galaxies to galaxy evolution, it is necessary to design classification tools that can identify different types and stages of merging galaxies…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 37 cited

A Photometric and Kinematic Analysis of UDG1137+16 (dw1137+16): Probing Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy Formation in a Group Environment

Jonah S. Gannon, Bililign T. Dullo, Duncan A. Forbes +6

The dominant physical formation mechanism(s) for ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) is still poorly understood. Here, we combine new, deep imaging from the Jeanne Rich Telescope with de…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 31 cited

Spatially Resolved Stellar Spectroscopy of the Ultra-diffuse Galaxy Dragonfly 44. III. Evidence for an Unexpected Star-Formation History

Alexa Villaume, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jean Brodie +6

We use the Keck Cosmic Web Imager integral-field unit spectrograph to: 1) measure the global stellar population parameters for the ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) Dragonfly 44 (DF44) to…