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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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astro-ph.GA2026

LeMMINGs VII: 5 GHz, 50 mas e-MERLIN observations of a statistically complete sample of nearby AGN

D. R. A. Williams-Baldwin, R. D. Baldi, R. J. Beswick +36

We present 5 GHz e-MERLIN radio images at 50 mas resolution of the nuclear regions of the Legacy e-MERLIN Multi-band Imaging of Nearby Galaxies survey (LeMMINGs), the deepest stati…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

The Diffuse Ionized Gas of the Large Magellanic Cloud

B. M. Smart, L. M. Haffner, K. A. Barger +4

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has an extensive H emission halo that traces an extended, warm ionized component of its interstellar medium. Using the Wisconsin H Mapper (…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

Extinction towards the cluster R136 in the Large Magellanic Cloud: An extinction law from the near-infrared to the ultraviolet

Sarah A. Brands, Alex de Koter, Joachim M. Bestenlehner +4

The cluster R136 in the giant star-forming region 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) offers a unique opportunity to resolve a stellar population in a starburst-like env…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 9 cited

Revisit of open clusters UPK 39, UPK 41 and PHOC 39 : a new binary open cluster found

Xianhao Ye, Jingkun Zhao, Terry D. Oswalt +2

We investigate the three open clusters near Aquila Rift cloud, named as UPK 39 (\texttt{c1} hereafter), UPK 41 (\texttt{c2} hereafter) in Sim et al. (2019) and PHOC 39 (\texttt{c3}…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 3 cited

Gas accretion onto galaxies and Kelvin-Helmholtz turbulence

Itzhak Goldman, Robert Fleck

Continued star formation over the lifetime of a galaxy suggests that low metalicity gas is steadily flowing in from the circumgalactic medium. Also, cosmological simulations of lar…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

The TELPERION Survey for Distant [O III] Clouds around Luminous and Hibernating AGN

William C. Keel, Alexei Moiseev, D. V. Kozlova +5

We present a narrowband [O III] imaging survey of 111 AGN hosts and 17 merging-galaxy systems, in search of distant extended emission-line regions (EELRs) around AGN (either extant…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 26 cited

The GBT Diffuse Ionized Gas Survey (GDIGS): Survey Overview and First Data Release

L. D. Anderson, Matteo Luisi, Bin Liu +6

The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) Diffuse Ionized Gas Survey (GDIGS) traces ionized gas in the Galactic midplane by measuring GHz radio recombination line (RRL) emission. The nom…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

Mapping the Supernovae Driven Winds of the Large Magellanic Cloud in H Emission I

Drew A. Ciampa, Kathleen A. Barger, Nicolas Lehner +7

We present the first spectroscopically resolved \ha\ emission map of the Large Magellanic Cloud's (LMC) galactic wind. By combining new Wisconsin H-alpha Mapper (WHAM) observations…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 2 cited

Nearly 30,000 late-type main-sequence stars with stellar age from LAMOST DR5

Jiajun Zhang, Jingkun Zhao, Terry D. Oswalt +3

We construct a sample of nearly 30,000 main-sequence stars with 4500K 5000K and stellar ages estimated by the chromospheric activityage relation. This sample is u…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 9 cited

Two Portions of Sagittarius Stream in the LAMOST Complete Spectroscopic Survey of Pointing Area at Southern Galactic Cap

J. K. Zhao, X. H. Ye, H. Wu +6

We constructed a sample of 13,798 stars with , log , [Fe/H], radial velocity, proper motions and parallaxes from LAMOST DR5 and Gaia DR2 in the LAMOST Complete Spect…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 3 cited

The dynamics of the broad-line region in NGC 3227

Nick Devereux

Archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the Seyfert 1 nucleus of NGC 3227 obtained with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) are re-examined in order to co…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 17 cited

The Effect of Bars on the Ionized ISM: Optical Emission Lines from Milky Way Analogs

Dhanesh Krishnarao, Christy Tremonti, Amelia Fraser-McKelvie +15

Gas interior to the bar of the Milky Way has recently been shown as the closest example of a Low Ionization (Nuclear) Emission Region--LI(N)ER--in the universe. To better understan…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 7 cited

Discovery of diffuse optical emission lines from the inner Galaxy: Evidence for LI(N)ER-like gas

Dhanesh Krishnarao, Robert A. Benjamin, L. Matthew Haffner

Optical emission lines are used to categorize galaxies into three groups according to their dominant central radiation source: active galactic nuclei, star formation, or low-ioniza…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 15 cited

Discovery of High-Velocity H Emission in the Direction of the Fermi Bubble

Dhanesh Krishnarao, Robert A. Benjamin, L. Matthew Haffner

Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) observations reveal high-velocity and [NII] emission lines in the same direction and velocity as ultraviolet absorption-line features t…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

H Distances to the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream

Jacqueline Antwi-Danso, Kathleen A. Barger, L. Matthew Haffner

The Leading Arm is a tidal feature that is in front of the Magellanic Clouds on their orbit through the Galaxy's halo. Many physical properties of the Leading Arm, such as its mass…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 24 cited

A minimum-hypothesis explanation for the Radcliffe Wave: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

Robert Fleck

It is suggested that the wavelike character of the recently discovered 2.7-kiloparsec spatially and kinematically coherent complex of interstellar clouds in the solar neighborhood-…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 12 cited

The GBT Diffuse Ionized Gas Survey: Tracing the Diffuse Ionized Gas around the Giant HII Region W43

Matteo Luisi, L. D. Anderson, Bin Liu +4

The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) Diffuse Ionized Gas Survey (GDIGS) is a fully-sampled radio recombination line (RRL) survey of the inner Galaxy at C-band (4-8 GHz). We average toget…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 14 cited

The Diffuse Ionized Gas Halo of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Brianna M Smart, Lawrence M Haffner, Kat Barger +2

Observations with the Wisconsin H-alpha Mapper (WHAM) reveal a large, diffuse ionized halo that surrounds the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We present the first kinematic H-alpha s…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 6 cited

Inflowing Gas in the Central Parsec of M81

Nick Devereux

Spectroscopic observations of the Seyfert 1/Liner nucleus of M81, obtained recently with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), ha…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 8 cited

An [O III] search for extended emission around AGN with H I mapping: a distant cloud ionized by Mkn 1

Erin Darnell Knese, William C. Keel, Greg Knese +4

Motivated by the discovery of large-scale ionized clouds around AGN host galaxies, and particularly the large fraction of those which are consistent with photoionized gaseous tidal…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 98 cited

The Apache Point Observatory Catalog of Optical Diffuse Interstellar Bands

Haoyu Fan, L. M. Hobbs, Julie A. Dahlstrom +7

Aiming for a new and more comprehensive DIB catalog between 4,000 and 9,000Å, we revisited the Atlas Catalog based on the observations of HD 183143 and HD 204827 (Hobbs et al. 2008…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 4 cited

Optical Detection of Star Formation in a Cold Dust Cloud in the Counterjet Direction of Centaurus A

William C. Keel, Julie K. Banfield, Anne Medling +1

We identify optical emission-line features 700" (12 kpc) southwest of the nucleus of Centaurus A, roughly opposite the radio jet and well-known optical emission filaments associate…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

AGN photoionization of gas in companion galaxies as a probe of AGN radiation in time and direction

William C. Keel, Vardha N. Bennert, Anna Pancoast +9

We consider AGN photoionization of gas in companion galaxies (cross-ionization) as a way to sample the intensity of AGN radiation in both direction and time, independent of the gas…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 33 cited

The Behavior of Selected Diffuse Interstellar Bands with Molecular Fraction in Diffuse Atomic and Molecular Clouds

Haoyu Fan, Daniel E. Welty, Donald G. York +10

We study the behavior of eight diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in different interstellar environments, as characterized by the fraction of hydrogen in molecular form [(H)]…