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astro-ph.GA2014★ 41 cited

Abell 1033: birth of a radio phoenix

F. de Gasperin, G. A. Ogrean, R. J. van Weeren +4

Extended steep-spectrum radio emission in a galaxy cluster is usually associated with a recent merger. However, given the complex scenario of galaxy cluster mergers, many of the di…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 20 cited

A Newly Recognized Very Young Supernova Remnant in M83

William P. Blair, P. Frank Winkler, Knox S. Long +7

As part of a spectroscopic survey of supernova remnant candidates in M83 using the Gemini-South telescope and GMOS, we have discovered one object whose spectrum shows very broad li…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 13 cited

Revised Mass-to-Light Ratios For Nearby Galaxy Groups and Clusters

Yutong Shan, Michael McDonald, Stephane Courteau

We present a detailed investigation of the cluster stellar mass-to-light (M*/L) ratio and cumulative stellar masses, derived on a galaxy-by-galaxy basis, for 12 massive (M500 ~ 10^…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 84 cited

Dust Attenuation in High Redshift Galaxies -- 'Diamonds in the Sky'

Nick Scoville, Andreas Faisst, Peter Capak +3

We use observed optical to near infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 266 galaxies in the COSMOS survey to derive the wavelength dependence of the dust attenuation at hi…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 66 cited

Parallaxes of Star Forming Regions in the Outer Spiral Arm of the Milky Way

K. Hachisuka, Y. K. Choi, M. J. Reid +4

We report parallaxes and proper motions of three water maser sources in high-mass star-forming regions in the Outer Spiral Arm of the Milky Way. The observations were conducted wit…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 1 cited

PRIMUS: Effect of Galaxy Environment on the Quiescent Fraction Evolution at z < 0.8

ChangHoon Hahn, Michael R. Blanton, John Moustakas +6

We investigate the effects of galaxy environment on the evolution of the quiescent fraction () from z =0.8 to 0.0 using spectroscopic redshifts and multi-wavelength i…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 12 cited

Estimating Black Hole Masses in Hundreds of Quasars

Nina Hernitschek, Hans-Walter Rix, Jo Bovy +1

We explore the practical feasibility of AGN broad-band reverberation mapping and present first results. We lay out and apply a rigorous approach for stochastic reverberation mappin…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 9 cited

Diffuse radio emission in the complex merging galaxy cluster Abell 2069

A. Drabent, M. Hoeft, R. F. Pizzo +3

Galaxy clusters with signs for a recent merger show in many cases extended diffuse radio features. This emission originates from relativistic electrons which suffer synchrotron los…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 114 cited

ALMA Imaging of HCN, CS and dust in Arp 220 and NGC 6240

Nick Scoville, Kartik Sheth, Fabian Walter +19

We report ALMA Band 7 (350 GHz) imaging at 0.4 - 0.6arcsec resolution and Band 9 (696 GHz) at ~0.25arcsec resolution of the luminous IR galaxies Arp 220 and NGC 6240. The long wave…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 44 cited

The Spectral Variability of the GHz-Peaked Spectrum Radio Source PKS 1718-649 and a Comparison of Absorption Models

S. J. Tingay, J. -P. Macquart, J. D. Collier +42

Using the new wideband capabilities of the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), we obtain spectra for PKS 1718-649, a well-known gigahertz-peaked spectrum radio source. The ob…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 38 cited

Serendipitous discovery of a dying Giant Radio Galaxy associated with NGC 1534, using the Murchison Widefield Array

Natasha Hurley-Walker, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, Ron Ekers +41

Recent observations with the Murchison Widefield Array at 185~MHz have serendipitously unveiled a heretofore unknown giant and relatively nearby () radio galaxy associa…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 149 cited

ZFOURGE/CANDELS: On the Evolution of M* Galaxy Progenitors from z=3 to 0.5

Casey Papovich, I. Labbé, R. Quadri +38

Galaxies with stellar masses near M* contain the majority of stellar mass in the universe, and are therefore of special interest in the study of galaxy evolution. The Milky Way (MW…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 47 cited

Alfvenic Turbulence Beyond the Ambipolar Diffusion Scale

Blakesley Burkhart, A. Lazarian, D. Balsara +2

We investigate the nature of the Alfvénic turbulence cascade in two fluid MHD simulations in order to determine if turbulence is damped once the ion and neutral species become deco…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 33 cited

A Focused, Hard X-ray Look at Arp 299 with NuSTAR

A. Ptak, A. Hornschemeier, A. Zezas +19

We report on simultaneous observations of the local starburst system Arp 299 with NuSTAR and Chandra, which provides the first resolved images of this galaxy up to energies of ~ 45…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 36 cited

Low-resolution Spectroscopy for the Globular Clusters with Signs of Supernova Enrichment: M22, NGC 1851 and NGC 288

Dongwook Lim, Sang-Il Han, Young-Wook Lee +5

There is increasing evidence for the presence of multiple red giant branches (RGBs) in the color-magnitude diagrams of massive globular clusters (GCs). In order to investigate the…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 49 cited

Characteristics of Spiral Arms in Late-type Galaxies

Z. N. Honig, M. J. Reid

We have measured the positions of large numbers of H II regions in four nearly face-on, late-type, spiral galaxies: NGC 628 (M 74), NGC 1232, NGC 3184 and NGC 5194 (M 51). Fitting…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 282 cited

Stellar masses from the CANDELS survey: the GOODS-South and UDS fields

P. Santini, H. C. Ferguson, A. Fontana +35

We present the public release of the stellar mass catalogs for the GOODS-S and UDS fields obtained using some of the deepest near-IR images available, achieved as part of the Cosmi…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 6 cited

Variations of the ISM Compactness Across the Main Sequence of Star-Forming Galaxies: Observations and Simulations

Juan R. Martínez-Galarza, Howard A. Smith, Lauranne Lanz +7

(abridged) The majority of star-forming galaxies follow a simple empirical correlation in the star formation rate (SFR) versus stellar mass () plane, usually referred to as th…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 442 cited

The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey: Rest-Frame Optical Spectroscopy for ~1500 H-Selected Galaxies at 1.37 < z < 3.8

Mariska Kriek, Alice E. Shapley, Naveen A. Reddy +21

In this paper we present the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey. The MOSDEF survey aims to obtain moderate-resolution (R=3000-3650) rest-frame optical spectra (~3700-7000…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 173 cited

High-precision Photometric Redshifts from Spitzer/IRAC: Extreme [3.6]-[4.5] Colors Identify Galaxies in the Redshift Range z~6.6-6.9

Renske Smit, Rychard J. Bouwens, Marijn Franx +7

One of the most challenging aspects of studying galaxies in the z>~7 universe is the infrequent confirmation of their redshifts through spectroscopy, a phenomenon thought to occur…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 297 cited

The galaxy stellar mass function at 3.5<z<7.5 in the CANDELS/UDS, GOODS-South, and HUDF fields

A. Grazian, A. Fontana, P. Santini +38

The galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) at high-z provides key information on star-formation history and mass assembly in the young Universe. We aimed to use the unique combination…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 25 cited

New insights from deep VLA data on the potentially recoiling black hole CID-42 in the COSMOS field

Mladen Novak, Vernesa Smolcic, Francesca Civano +12

We present deep 3 GHz VLA observations of the potentially recoiling black hole CID-42 in the COSMOS field. This galaxy shows two optical nuclei in the HST/ACS image and a large vel…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 24 cited

Evidence for (and Against) Progenitor Bias in the Size Growth of Compact Red Galaxies

Stephanie K. Keating, Roberto G. Abraham, Ricardo P. Schiavon +5

Most massive passive galaxies are compact at high redshifts, but similarly compact massive galaxies are rare in the local universe. The most common interpretation of this phenomeno…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 6 cited

The Q/U Imaging Experiment: Polarization Measurements of Radio Sources at 43 and 95 GHz

QUIET Collaboration, K. M. Huffenberger, D. Araujo +24

We present polarization measurements of extragalactic radio sources observed during the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization survey of the Q/U Imaging Experiment (QUIET), opera…