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astro-ph.GA2017★ 75 cited

Fast, Collimated Outflow in the Western Nucleus of Arp 220

Loreto Barcos-Muñoz, Susanne Aalto, Todd A. Thompson +6

We present the first spatially and spectrally resolved image of the molecular outflow in the western nucleus of Arp\,220. The outflow, seen in HCN~(1--0) by ALMA, is compact and co…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 62 cited

Identifying the subtle signatures of feedback from distant AGN using ALMA observations and the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations

J. Scholtz, D. M. Alexander, C. M. Harrison +10

We present sensitive 870m continuum measurements from our ALMA programmes of 114 X-ray selected AGN in the CDF-S and COSMOS fields. We use these observations in combination with…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 5 cited

An Infrared Study of the Circumstellar Material Associated with the Carbon Star R Sculptoris

Matthew J. Hankins, Terry L. Herter, Matthias Maercker +2

The asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star R Sculptoris (R Scl) is one of the most extensively studied stars on the AGB. R Scl is a carbon star with a massive circumstellar shell ($M_{…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 11 cited

Major impact from a minor merger - The extraordinary hot molecular gas flow in the Eye of the NGC 4194 Medusa galaxy

S. König, S. Aalto, S. Muller +6

Minor mergers are important processes contributing significantly to how galaxies evolve across the age of the Universe. Their impact on supermassive black hole growth and star form…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 23 cited

Deep ALMA photometry of distant X-ray AGN: improvements in star formation rate constraints, and AGN identification

F. Stanley, C. M. Harrison, D. M. Alexander +5

We present the star formation rates (SFRs) of a sample of 109 galaxies with X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) with moderate to high X-ray luminosities (L(2-8keV)= 10^42-1…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

ALMA Observations of the Physical and Chemical Conditions in Centaurus A

Mark McCoy, Jürgen Ott, David S. Meier +13

Centaurus A, with its gas-rich elliptical host galaxy, NGC 5128, is the nearest radio galaxy at a distance of 3.8 Mpc. Its proximity allows us to study the interaction between an a…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 50 cited

Revised Models of Interstellar Nitrogen Isotopic Fractionation

E. S. Wirström, S. B. Charnley

Nitrogen-bearing molecules in cold molecular clouds exhibit a range of isotopic fractionation ratios and these molecules may be the precursors of N enrichments found in come…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 72 cited

The ALMA-PILS survey: Formaldehyde deuteration in warm gas on small scales toward IRAS 16293-2422 B

M. V. Persson, J. K. Jørgensen, H. S. P. Müller +7

[abridged] The enhanced degrees of deuterium fractionation observed in envelopes around protostars demonstrate the importance of chemistry at low temperatures, relevant in pre- and…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 19 cited

A hidden molecular outflow in the LIRG Zw 049.057

N. Falstad, S. Aalto, J. G. Mangum +8

Feedback in the form of mass outflows driven by star formation or active galactic nuclei is a key component of galaxy evolution. The luminous infrared galaxy Zw 049.057 harbours a…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 30 cited

Relationship between turbulence energy and density variance in the Solar neighbourhood molecular clouds

Jouni Kainulainen, Christoph Federrath

[abridged] We determine the relationship between turbulence energy and gas density variance for 15 molecular clouds in the Solar neighbourhood. We use the linewidths of the CO mole…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 1 cited

Fire from Ice - Massive Star Birth from Infrared Dark Clouds

Jonathan C. Tan

I review massive star formation in our Galaxy, focusing on initial conditions in Infrared Dark Clouds (IRDCs), including the search for massive pre-stellar cores (PSCs), and modeli…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 11 cited

Molecular gas in high-mass filament WB673

M. S. Kirsanova, S. V. Salii, A. M. Sobolev +3

We studied the distribution of dense gas in a filamentary molecular cloud containing several dense clumps. The center of the filament is given by the dense clump WB673. The clumps…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 71 cited

ALMA detections of CO emission in the most luminous, heavily dust-obscured quasars at z>3

Lulu Fan, Kirsten K. Knudsen, Judit Fogasy +1

We report the results of a pilot study of CO emission line of three {\it WISE}-selected hyper-luminous, dust-obscured quasars (QSOs) with sensitive ALMA Band 3 observations.…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

The XXL Survey: XXII. The XXL-North spectrophotometric sample and galaxy stellar mass function in X-ray detected groups and clusters

V. Guglielmo, B. M. Poggianti, B. Vulcani +42

The fraction of galaxies bound in groups in the nearby Universe is high (50% at z~0). Systematic studies of galaxy properties in groups are important in order to improve our unders…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 11 cited

The ortho-to-para ratio of HCl: Quasi-classical trajectory calculations and new simulations in light of new observations

Romane Le Gal, Changjian Xie, Eric Herbst +3

Multi-hydrogenated species with proper symmetry properties can present different spin configurations, and thus exist under different spin symmetry forms, labeled as para and ortho…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 44 cited

Resolved Structure of Arp 220 Nuclei at λ~3 mm

Kazushi Sakamoto, Susanne Aalto, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz +6

We analyze 3 mm emission of the ultraluminous infrared galaxy Arp 220 for spatially-resolved structure and spectral properties of the merger nuclei. ALMA archival data at ~0.05" re…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 22 cited

The SCUBA-2 850 follow-up of WISE-selected, luminous dust-obscured quasars

Lulu Fan, Suzy F. Jones, Yunkun Han +1

Hot dust-obscured galaxies (Hot DOGs) are a new population recently discovered in the \wise All-Sky survey. Multiwavelength follow-up observations suggest that they are luminous, d…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 45 cited

ALMA imaging of C2H emission in the disk of NGC1068

S. Garcia-Burillo, S. Viti, F. Combes +16

We study the feedback of star formation and nuclear activity on the chemistry of molecular gas in NGC1068, a nearby (D=14Mpc) Seyfert 2 barred galaxy, by analyzing if the abundance…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 18 cited

Gas and dust in the star-forming region rho Oph A: II. The gas in the PDR and in the dense cores

Bengt Larsson, Rene Liseau

We investigate to what degree local physical and chemical conditions are related to the evolutionary status of various objects in star-forming media. rho Oph A displays the entire…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 101 cited

A spatially resolved study of cold dust, molecular gas, HII regions, and stars in the submillimeter galaxy ALESS67.1

Chian-Chou Chen, J. A. Hodge, Ian Smail +17

We present detailed studies of a submillimeter galaxy, ALESS67.1, using sub-arcsecond resolution ALMA, AO-aided VLT/SINFONI, and HST/CANDELS data to investigate the kinema…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 10 cited

A CO survey on a sample of Herschel cold clumps

O. Fehér, M. Juvela, T. Lunttila +4

The physical state of cold cloud clumps has a great impact on the process and efficiency of star formation and the masses of the forming stars inside these objects. The sub-millime…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 2 cited

The ALMA view of UV irradiated cloud edges: unexpected structures and processes

Javier R. Goicoechea, S. Cuadrado, J. Pety +8

Far-UV photons (E<13.6 eV) from hot massive stars regulate, or at least influence, the heating, ionization, and chemistry of most of the neutral interstellar medium. Investigating…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 27 cited

Detection of CH+, SH+, and their 13C- and 34S- isotopologues toward PKS1830-211

S. Muller, H. S. P. M"uller, J. H. Black +13

The z=0.89 molecular absorber toward PKS1830-211 provides us with the opportunity to probe the chemical and physical properties of the interstellar medium in the disk of a galaxy a…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 20 cited

On the disappearance of a cold molecular torus around the low-luminosity active galactic nucleus of NGC 1097

T. Izumi, K. Kohno, K. Fathi +15

We used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to map the CO(3-2) and the underlying continuum emissions around the type 1 low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (…