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Ultra-diffuse and Ultra-compact Galaxies in the Frontier Fields Cluster Abell 2744
Steven Janssens, Roberto Abraham, Jean Brodie +3
We report the discovery of a large population of Ultra-diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) in the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (z=0.308) as observed by the Hubble Frontier Fields program.…
The HDUV Survey: Six Lyman Continuum Emitter Candidates at z~2 Revealed by HST UV Imaging
R. P. Naidu, P. A. Oesch, N. Reddy +14
We present six galaxies at z~2 that show evidence of Lyman continuum (LyC) emission based on the newly acquired UV imaging of the Hubble Deep UV legacy survey (HDUV) conducted with…
The Stellar Initial Mass Function in Early-Type Galaxies from Absorption Line Spectroscopy. III. Radial Gradients
Pieter van Dokkum, Charlie Conroy, Alexa Villaume +2
There is good evidence that the centers of massive early-type galaxies have a bottom-heavy stellar initial mass function (IMF) compared to the IMF of the Milky Way. Here we study t…
The Nature of Massive Transition Galaxies in CANDELS, GAMA, and Cosmological Simulations
Viraj Pandya, Ryan Brennan, Rachel S. Somerville +25
We explore observational and theoretical constraints on how galaxies might transition between the "star-forming main sequence" (SFMS) and varying "degrees of quiescence" out to $z=…
The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
SDSS Collaboration, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto +335
The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in July 2014. It pursues three core programs: APOGEE-2, MaNGA, and eBOSS. In addition, eBOSS cont…
A Goldilocks principle for modeling radial velocity noise
Fabo Feng, M. Tuomi, H. R. A. Jones +2
The doppler measurements of stars are diluted and distorted by stellar activity noise. Different choices of noise models and statistical methods have led to much controversy in the…
Mass assembly and morphological transformations since from CANDELS
M. Huertas-Company, M. Bernardi, P. G. Pérez-González +14
[abridged] We quantify the evolution of the stellar mass functions of star-forming and quiescent galaxies as a function of morphology from to the present. Our sample cons…
Kinematic Downsizing at z~2
Raymond C. Simons, Susan A. Kassin, Jonathan R. Trump +8
We present results from a survey of the internal kinematics of 49 star-forming galaxies at z2 in the CANDELS fields with the Keck/MOSFIRE spectrograph (SIGMA, Survey in t…
Free-floating planets from core accretion theory: microlensing predictions
Sizheng Ma, Shude Mao, Shigeru Ida +2
We calculate the microlensing event rate and typical time-scales for the free-floating planet (FFP) population that is predicted by the core accretion theory of planet formation. T…
The SLUGGS Survey: The mass distribution in early-type galaxies within five effective radii and beyond
Adebusola B. Alabi, Duncan A. Forbes, Aaron J. Romanowsky +11
We study mass distributions within and beyond 5~effective radii () in 23 early-type galaxies from the SLUGGS survey, using their globular cluster (GC) kinematic data. Th…
New Surface Brightness Fluctuations Spectroscopic Technique: NGC4449 and its Stellar Tidal Stream
Elisa Toloba, Puragra Guhathakurta, Aaron Romanowsky +5
We present a new spectroscopic technique based in part on targeting the upward fluctuations of the surface brightness for studying the internal stellar kinematics and metallicities…
Globular Cluster Scale Sizes in Giant Galaxies: Orbital Anisotropy and Tidally Under-filling Clusters in M87, NGC 1399, and NGC 5128
Jeremy J. Webb, Alison Sills, William E. Harris +4
We investigate the shallow increase in globular cluster half-light radii with projected galactocentric distance observed in the giant galaxies M87, NGC 1399, and NGC 5128.…
Time-Varying Sodium Absorption in the Type Ia Supernova 2013gh
R. Ferretti, R. Amanullah, A. Goobar +18
Temporal variability of narrow absorption lines in high-resolution spectra of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is studied to search for circumstellar matter. Time series which resolve t…
The UV-optical Color Gradients in Star-Forming Galaxies at 0.5<z<1.5: Origins and Link to Galaxy Assembly
F. S. Liu, Dongfei Jiang, Yicheng Guo +10
The rest-frame UV-optical (i.e., NUV-B) color index is sensitive to the low-level recent star formation and dust extinction, but it is insensitive to the metallicity. In this Lette…
The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XIII. The Luminosity and Mass Function of Galaxies in the Core of the Virgo Cluster and the Contribution from Disrupted Satellites
Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Cote, Ruben Sanchez-Janssen +21
We present measurements of the galaxy luminosity and stellar mass function in a 3.71 deg (0.3 Mpc) area in the core of the Virgo cluster, based on data from the Nex…
The Stacked Lyman-Alpha Emission Profile from the Circum-Galactic Medium of z~2 Quasars
Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia, Joseph F. Hennawi, Sebastiano Cantalupo +1
In the context of the FLASHLIGHT survey, we obtained deep narrow band images of 15 quasars with GMOS on Gemini-South in an effort to measure Ly emission from circum- an…
On the connection between the metal-enriched intergalactic medium and galaxies: an OVI-galaxy cross-correlation study at
Charles W. Finn, Simon L. Morris, Nicolas Tejos +10
We present new results on the auto- and cross-correlation functions of galaxies and OVI absorbers in a comoving volume at . We use a sample of 51,29…
Star Clusters in M31: VII. Global Kinematics and Metallicity Subpopulations of the Globular Clusters
Nelson Caldwell, Aaron J. Romanowsky
We carry out a joint spatial-kinematical-metallicity analysis of globular clusters (GCs) around the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), using a homogeneous, high-quality spectroscopic dataset.…
Recent Results from SPLASH: Chemical Abundances and Kinematics of Andromeda's Stellar Halo
Karoline M. Gilbert, Rachael L. Beaton, Claire Dorman +1
Large scale surveys of Andromeda's resolved stellar populations have revolutionized our view of this galaxy over the past decade. The combination of large-scale, contiguous photome…
Characterizing the SHARDS of Disrupted Milky Way Satellites with LAMOST
Jeffrey L. Carlin, Chao Liu, Heidi Jo Newberg +7
We derive the fraction of substructure in the Galactic halo using a sample of over 10,000 spectroscopically-confirmed halo giant stars from the LAMOST spectroscopic survey. By obse…
Discovery of the Candidate Off-nuclear Ultrasoft Hyper-luminous X-ray Source 3XMM J141711.1+522541
Dacheng Lin, Eleazar R. Carrasco, Natalie A. Webb +8
We report the discovery of an off-nuclear ultrasoft hyper-luminous X-ray source candidate 3XMM J141711.1+522541 in the inactive S0 galaxy SDSS J141711.07+522540.8 (z=0.41827, d_L=2…
An overmassive Dark Halo around an Ultra-diffuse Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster
Michael A. Beasley, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Vincenzo Pota +4
Ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have the sizes of giant galaxies but the luminosities of dwarfs. A key to understanding their origins comes from their total masses, but their low sur…
Evolution of Intrinsic Scatter in the SFR-Stellar Mass Correlation at 0.5<z<3
Peter Kurczynski, Eric Gawiser, Viviana Acquaviva +16
We present estimates of intrinsic scatter in the Star Formation Rate (SFR) - Stellar Mass (M*) correlation in the redshift range 0.5 < z < 3.0 and in the mass range 10^7 < M* < 10^…
The SLUGGS survey: Exploring the globular cluster systems of the Leo II group and their global relationships
Sreeja S. Kartha, Duncan A. Forbes, Adebusola B. Alabi +6
We present an investigation of the globular cluster (GC) systems of NGC 3607 and NGC 3608 as part of the ongoing SLUGGS survey. We use wide-field imaging data from the Subaru teles…