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astro-ph.GA2016★ 63 cited

Relics in galaxy clusters at high radio frequencies

Maja Kierdorf, Rainer Beck, Matthias Hoeft +4

We observed three radio relics in galaxy clusters and one radio relic candidate at 4.85 and 8.35 GHz in total emission and linearly polarized emission with the Effelsberg 100-m tel…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 155 cited

CANDELS Multiwavelength Catalogs: Source Identification and Photometry in the CANDELS COSMOS Survey Field

H. Nayyeri, S. Hemmati, B. Mobasher +36

We present a multi-wavelength photometric catalog in the COSMOS field as part of the observations by the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). T…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 32 cited

Spatially resolved CO SLED of the Luminous Merger Remnant NGC 1614 with ALMA

Toshiki Saito, Daisuke Iono, Cong K. Xu +13

We present high-resolution (1".0) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of CO (1-0) and CO (2- 1) rotational transitions toward the nearby IR-luminous me…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 109 cited

Double-peaked profiles: ubiquitous signatures of disks in the Broad Emission Lines of Active Galactic Nuclei

Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Jaderson S. Schimoia, Bradley M. Peterson +4

Broad (~10,000 km/s), double-peaked emission-line profiles of Balmer lines emitted by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are thought to originate in the outer parts of an accretion disk…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 41 cited

Synthetic Observations of Magnetic Fields in Protostellar Cores

Joyce W. Y. Lee, Charles L. H. Hull, Stella S. R. Offner

The role of magnetic fields in the early stages of star formation is not well constrained. In order to discriminate between different star formation models, we analyze 3D magnetohy…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 6 cited

Future Prospects: Deep Imaging of Galaxy Outskirts using Telescopes Large and Small

Roberto Abraham, Pieter van Dokkum, Charlie Conroy +5

The Universe is almost totally unexplored at low surface brightness levels. In spite of great progress in the construction of large telescopes and improvements in the sensitivity o…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 129 cited

Crater 2: An Extremely Cold Dark Matter Halo

Nelson Caldwell, Matthew G. Walker, Mario Mateo +6

We present results from MMT/Hectochelle spectroscopy of red giant candidate stars along the line of sight to the recently-discovered Galactic satellite Crater 2. Modelling the join…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 86 cited

Fading AGN Candidates: AGN Histories and Outflow Signatures

William C. Keel, Chris J. Lintott, W. Peter Maksym +12

We consider energy budgets and radiative history of 8 fading AGN, identified from mismatch between the ionizion of very extended (>10 kpc) ionized clouds and the luminosity of the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 14 cited

Probes of turbulent driving mechanisms in molecular clouds from fluctuations in synchrotron intensity

C. A. Herron, C. Federrath, B. M. Gaensler +3

Previous studies have shown that star formation depends on the driving of molecular cloud turbulence, and differences in the driving can produce an order of magnitude difference in…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 99 cited

ALMA observations of massive molecular gas filaments encasing radio bubbles in the Phoenix cluster

H. R. Russell, M. McDonald, B. R. McNamara +11

We report new ALMA observations of the CO(3-2) line emission from the molecular gas reservoir in the central galaxy of the Phoenix c…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 31 cited

Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei triggered in compact star-forming galaxies

Yu-Yen Chang, Emeric Le Floc'h, Stéphanie Juneau +10

We present a structural study of 182 obscured Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) at z<=1.5, selected in the COSMOS field from their extreme infrared to X-ray luminosity ratio and their…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 50 cited

Increasing blackhole feedback induced quenching with anisotropic thermal conduction

Rahul Kannan, Mark Vogelsberger, Christoph Pfrommer +5

Feedback from central supermassive blackholes is often invoked to explain the low star formation rates in massive galaxies at the centers of galaxy clusters. However, the detailed…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 44 cited

The sub-galactic and nuclear main sequences for local star-forming galaxies

A. Maragkoudakis, A. Zezas, M. L. N. Ashby +1

We describe a sub-galactic main sequence (SGMS) relating star formation rate surface density () and stellar mass density () for distinct regions within…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 47 cited

Following The Cosmic Evolution Of Pristine Gas I: Implications For Milky Way Halo Stars

Richard Sarmento, Evan Scannapieco, Liubin Pan

We make use of new subgrid model of turbulent mixing to accurately follow the cosmological evolution of the first stars, the mixing of their supernova ejecta, and the impact on the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 164 cited

Molecular outflows in local ULIRGs: energetics from multi-transition OH analysis

E. González-Alfonso, J. Fischer, H. W. W. Spoon +11

We report on the energetics of molecular outflows in 14 local Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs) that show unambiguous outflow signatures (P-Cygni profiles or high-velocity a…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 55 cited

AGN-Host Connection at 0.5 < z < 2.5: A rapid evolution of AGN fraction in red galaxies during the last 10 Gyr

Tao Wang, D. Elbaz, D. M. Alexander +13

We explore the dependence of the incidence of moderate-luminosity ( erg s) AGNs and the distribution of their accretion rates on host color at 0.5 <…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 46 cited

Mapping the Extinction Curve in 3D: Structure on Kiloparsec Scales

E. F. Schlafly, J. E. G. Peek, D. P. Finkbeiner +1

Near-infrared spectroscopy from APOGEE and wide-field optical photometry from Pan-STARRS1 have recently made possible precise measurements of the shape of the extinction curve for…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 45 cited

A large H survey of star formation in relaxed and merging galaxy cluster environments at

Andra Stroe, David Sobral, Ana Afonso +4

We present the first results from the largest H survey of star formation and AGN activity in galaxy clusters. Using 9 different narrow band filters, we select H emitt…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 32 cited

Spectral Evolution in High Redshift Quasars from the Final BOSS Sample

Trey W. Jensen, M. Vivek, Kyle S. Dawson +17

We report on the diversity in quasar spectra from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. After filtering the spectra to mitigate selection effects and Malmquist bias associat…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 104 cited

Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project VI: reverberating Disk Models for NGC 5548

D. Starkey, Keith Horne, M. M. Fausnaugh +90

We conduct a multiwavelength continuum variability study of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 to investigate the temperature structure of its accretion disk. The 19 overlapping continu…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 15 cited

Dust Attenuation in Clumpy, Star-Forming Galaxies at 0.07 < z < 0.14

Robert Bassett, Karl Glazebrook, David B. Fisher +7

Dust attenuation in galaxies has been extensively studied nearby, however, there are still many unknowns regarding attenuation in distant galaxies. We contribute to this effort usi…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 206 cited

The anatomy of the Orion B Giant Molecular Cloud: A local template for studies of nearby galaxies

Jérôme Pety, Viviana V. Guzmán, Jan H. Orkisz +11

We aim to develop the Orion B Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) as a local template for interpreting extra-galactic molecular line observations. We use the wide-band receiver at the IRAM…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 146 cited

The Herschel-ATLAS: a sample of 500μm-selected lensed galaxies over 600 square degrees

M. Negrello, S. Amber, A. Amvrosiadis +43

We present a sample of 80 candidate strongly lensed galaxies with flux density above 100mJy at 500μm extracted from the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS)…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 5 cited

Integer Lattice Dynamics for Vlasov-Poisson

Philip Mocz, Sauro Succi

We revisit the integer lattice (IL) method to numerically solve the Vlasov-Poisson equations, and show that a slight variant of the method is a very easy, viable, and efficient num…