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astro-ph.GA2014

SKA studies of nearby galaxies: star-formation, accretion processes and molecular gas across all environments

R. J. Beswick, E. Brinks, M. A. Perez-Torres +15

The SKA will be a transformational instrument in the study of our local Universe. In particular, by virtue of its high sensitivity (both to point sources and diffuse low surface br…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 16 cited

The inhomogeneous ISM toward PKS1830-211 SW - A detailed view on molecular gas at a look-back time of 7.5 Gyr

A. Schulz, C. Henkel, K. M. Menten +4

Based on measurements with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope, a multi-line study of molecular species is presented toward the south-western source of the gravitational lens system PKS…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 272 cited

Herschel Survey of Galactic OH+, H2O+, and H3O+: Probing the Molecular Hydrogen Fraction and Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate

Nick Indriolo, D. A. Neufeld, M. Gerin +19

In diffuse interstellar clouds the chemistry that leads to the formation of the oxygen bearing ions OH+, H2O+, and H3O+ begins with the ionization of atomic hydrogen by cosmic rays…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 56 cited

Subarcsecond international LOFAR radio images of the M82 nucleus at 118 MHz and 154 MHz

E. Varenius, J. E. Conway, I. Martí-Vidal +25

The nuclear starburst in the nearby galaxy M82 provides an excellent laboratory for understanding the physics of star formation. This galaxy has been extensively observed in the pa…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 125 cited

High resolution observations of HCN and HCO+ J=3-2 in the disk and outflow of Mrk231 -Detection of vibrationally excited HCN in the warped nucleus

S. Aalto, S. Garcia-Burillo, S. Muller +6

We obtained high resolution (0."25 to 0."90) observations of HCN and HCO+ J=3-2 of the ultraluminous QSO galaxy Mrk231 with the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer. We find luminou…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 43 cited

Stacking of large interferometric data sets in the image- and uv-domain -- a comparative study

Lukas Lindroos, K. K. Knudsen, W. Vlemmings +2

We present a new algorithm for stacking radio interferometric data in the uv-domain. The performance of uv-stacking is compared to the stacking of fully imaged data using simulated…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 67 cited

ALMA Observations of Warm Dense Gas in NGC 1614 --- Breaking of Star Formation Law in the Central kpc

C. K. Xu, C. Cao, N. Lu +20

We present ALMA Cycle-0 observations of the CO (6-5) line emission and of the 435um dust continuum emission in the central kpc of NGC 1614, a local luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG)…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 58 cited

The first estimate of radio jet proper motion at z>5

S. Frey, Z. Paragi, J. O. Fogasy +1

The extremely high redshift (z=5.3) radio source SDSS J102623.61+254259.5 (J1026+2542) is among the most distant and most luminous radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) known to…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 45 cited

Resolving the Bright HCN(1-0) Emission toward the Seyfert 2 Nucleus of M51: Shock Enhancement by Radio Jets and Weak Masing by Infrared Pumping?

Satoki Matsushita, Dinh-V-Trung, Frédéric Boone +3

We present high angular resolution observations of the HCN(1-0) emission (at ~1" or ~34 pc), together with CO J = 1-0, 2-1, and 3-2 observations, toward the Seyfert 2 nucleus of M5…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 26 cited

Discovery of Carbon Radio Recombination Lines in M82

Leah K. Morabito, J. B. R. Oonk, Francisco Salgado +30

Carbon radio recombination lines (RRLs) at low frequencies (<=500 MHz) trace the cold, diffuse phase of the interstellar medium, which is otherwise difficult to observe. We present…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 3 cited

Resolving the shocked gas in HH54 with Herschel: CO line mapping at high spatial and spectral resolution

P. Bjerkeli, R. Liseau, C. Brinch +11

The HH54 shock is a Herbig-Haro object, located in the nearby Chamaeleon II cloud. Observed CO line profiles are due to a complex distribution in density, temperature, velocity, an…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 34 cited

LOFAR low-band antenna observations of the 3C295 and Bootes fields: source counts and ultra-steep spectrum sources

R. J. van Weeren, W. L. Williams, C. Tasse +98

We present LOFAR Low Band observations of the Bootes and 3C295 fields. Our images made at 34, 46, and 62 MHz reach noise levels of 12, 8, and 5 mJy beam, making them the dee…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 15 cited

First spectrally-resolved H observations towards HH 54 / Low HO abundance in shocks

G. Santangelo, S. Antoniucci, B. Nisini +11

Context: Herschel observations suggest that the HO distribution in outflows from low-mass stars resembles the H emission. It is still unclear which of the different excitat…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 46 cited

Herschel HIFI observations of O toward Orion: special conditions for shock enhanced emission

Jo-Hsin Chen, Paul F. Goldsmith, Serena Viti +18

We report observations of molecular oxygen (O) rotational transitions at 487 GHz, 774 GHz, and 1121 GHz toward Orion Peak A. The O2 lines at 487 GHz and 774 GHz are detected at…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 9 cited

Molecular tendrils feeding star formation in the Eye of the Medusa - The Medusa merger in high resolution 12CO 2-1 maps

S. König, S. Aalto, L. Lindroos +5

Studying molecular gas properties in merging galaxies gives us important clues to the onset and evolution of interaction-triggered starbursts. NGC4194 is particularly interesting t…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 54 cited

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: the submillimetre properties of Lyman break galaxies at z=3-5

K. E. K. Coppin, J. E. Geach, O. Almaini +28

We present statistically significant detections at 850um of the Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) population at z=3, 4, and 5 using data from the Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array 2…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 104 cited

The nature of the low-frequency emission of M51: First observations of a nearby galaxy with LOFAR

D. D. Mulcahy, A. Horneffer, R. Beck +25

The grand-design spiral galaxy M51 was observed with the LOFAR High Frequency Antennas (HBA) and imaged in total intensity and polarisation. This observation covered the frequencie…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 157 cited

Molecular line emission in NGC1068 imaged with ALMA: II. The chemistry of the dense molecular gas

S. Viti, S. García-Burillo, A. Fuente +19

We present a detailed analysis of ALMA Bands 7 and 9 data of CO, HCO+, HCN and CS, augmented with Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) data of the ~ 200 pc circumnuclear disk (CND…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 178 cited

Star formation relations and CO SLEDs across the J-ladder and redshift

T. R. Greve, I. Leonidaki, E. M. Xilouris +19

We present FIR-CO luminosity relations () for the full CO rotational ladder from J=1-0 to J=13-12 for 62 local (z < 0.1) (Ultra) Luminous…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 82 cited

Initial LOFAR observations of Epoch of Reionization windows: II. Diffuse polarized emission in the ELAIS-N1 field

V. Jelic, A. G. de Bruyn, M. Mevius +106

This study aims to characterise the polarized foreground emission in the ELAIS-N1 field and to address its possible implications for the extraction of the cosmological 21-cm signal…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 18 cited

Upper limits to interstellar NH+ and para-NH2- abundances. Herschel-HIFI observations towards Sgr B2 (M) and G10.6-0.4 (W31C)

C. M. Persson, M. Hajigholi, G. E. Hassel +12

The understanding of interstellar nitrogen chemistry has improved significantly with recent results from the Herschel Space Observatory. To set even better constraints, we report h…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 9 cited

Characterizing the chemical pathways for water formation -- A deep search for hydrogen peroxide

B. Parise, P. Bergman, K. Menten

In 2011, hydrogen peroxide (HOOH) was observed for the first time outside the solar system (Bergman et al., A&A, 2011, 531, L8). This detection appeared a posteriori quite natural,…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 6 cited

First detection of [N II] 205 micrometer absorption in interstellar gas

C. M. Persson, M. Gerin, B. Mookerjea +8

We present high resolution [NII] 205 micrometer ^3P_1-^3P_0 spectra obtained with Herschel-HIFI towards a small sample of far-infrared bright star forming regions in the Galactic p…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 27 cited

Water distribution in shocked regions of the NGC1333-IRAS4A protostellar outflow

G. Santangelo, B. Nisini, C. Codella +11

We present the study of the H2O spatial distribution at two bright shocked regions along IRAS4A, one of the strongest H2O emitters among the Class 0 outflows. We obtained Herschel-…