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astro-ph.GA2016★ 46 cited

Astrochemical Properties of Planck Cold Clumps

Ken'ichi Tatematsu, Tie Liu, Satoshi Ohashi +25

We observed thirteen Planck cold clumps with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope/SCUBA-2 and with the Nobeyama 45 m radio telescope. The NH distribution obtained with the Nob…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 26 cited

Accurate OH maser positions from the SPLASH pilot region

Hai-Hua Qiao, Andrew J. Walsh, James A. Green +8

We report on high spatial resolution observations, using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), of ground-state OH masers. These observations were carried out toward 196 poi…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 95 cited

APOGEE Chemical Abundances of Globular Cluster Giants in the Inner Galaxy

Ricardo P. Schiavon, Jennifer A. Johnson, Peter M. Frinchaboy +27

We report chemical abundances obtained by SDSS-III/APOGEE for giant stars in five globular clusters located within 2.2 kpc of the Galactic centre. We detect the presence of multipl…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 13 cited

The segregation of starless and protostellar clumps in the Hi-GAL l=224deg region

L. Olmi, M. Cunningham, D. Elia +1

Stars form in dense, dusty structures, which are embedded in larger clumps of molecular clouds often showing a clear filamentary structure on large scales (> 1pc). One of the best-…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 1 cited

The Chemistry and Kinematics of Two Molecular Clouds near Sagittarius A*

John A. P. Lopez, Maria R. Cunningham, Paul A. Jones +4

We have analysed the chemical and kinematic properties of the 20 and 50 km s molecular clouds in the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way Galaxy, as well as those of the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 509 cited

The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

SDSS Collaboration, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto +335

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in July 2014. It pursues three core programs: APOGEE-2, MaNGA, and eBOSS. In addition, eBOSS cont…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 14 cited

On the nature of the enigmatic object IRAS 19312+1950: A rare phase of massive star formation?

M. A. Cordiner, A. C. A. Boogert, S. B. Charnley +7

IRAS 19312+1950 is a peculiar object that has eluded firm characterization since its discovery, with combined maser properties similar to an evolved star and a young stellar object…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 16 cited

New halo stars of the Galactic globular clusters M3 and M13 in the LAMOST DR1 Catalog

Colin A. Navin, Sarah L. Martell, Daniel B. Zucker

M3 and M13 are Galactic globular clusters with previous reports of surrounding stellar halos. We present the results of a search for members and extratidal cluster halo stars withi…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 205 cited

Chemical tagging with APOGEE: Discovery of a large population of N-rich stars in the inner Galaxy

Ricardo P. Schiavon, Olga Zamora, Ricardo Carrera +42

Formation of globular clusters (GCs), the Galactic bulge, or galaxy bulges in general, are important unsolved problems in Galactic astronomy. Homogeneous infrared observations of l…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 89 cited

Chemical tagging in the SDSS-III/APOGEE survey: new identifications of halo stars with globular cluster origins

Sarah Martell, Matthew Shetrone, Sara Lucatello +6

We present new identifications of five red giant stars in the Galactic halo with chemical abundance patterns that indicate they originally formed in globular clusters. Using data f…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 54 cited

Star formation laws in both Galactic massive clumps and external galaxies: An extensive study with dust continuum, HCN (4-3), and CS (7-6)

Tie Liu, Kee-Tae Kim, Hyunju Yoo +20

We observed 146 Galactic clumps in HCN (4-3) and CS (7-6) with the Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment (ASTE) 10-m telescope. A tight linear relationship between star format…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 8 cited

Scaled up low-mass star formation in massive star-forming cores in the G333 giant molecular cloud

B. Wiles, N. Lo, M. P. Redman +4

Three bright molecular line sources in G333 have recently been shown to exhibit signatures of infall. We describe a molecular line radiative transfer modelling process which is req…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 11 cited

Highly Excited H2 in Herbig-Haro 7: Formation Pumping in Shocked Molecular Gas?

R. E. Pike, T. R. Geballe, M. G. Burton +1

We have obtained K-band spectra at R~5,000 and angular resolution 0.3" of a section of the Herbig-Haro 7 (HH7) bow shock, using the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph at Gem…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 231 cited

Molecular gas kinematics within the central 250 pc of the Milky Way

J. D. Henshaw, S. N. Longmore, J. M. D. Kruijssen +23

Using spectral-line observations of HNCO, N2H+, and HNC, we investigate the kinematics of dense gas in the central ~250 pc of the Galaxy. We present SCOUSE (Semi-automated multi-CO…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 12 cited

Dense circum-nuclear molecular gas in starburst galaxies

Claire-Elise Green, Maria R. Cunningham, James A. Green +7

We present results from a study of the dense circum-nuclear molecular gas of starburst galaxies. The study aims to investigate the interplay between starbursts, active galactic nuc…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 71 cited

Chemical tagging can work: Identification of stellar phase-space structures purely by chemical-abundance similarity

David W. Hogg, Andrew R. Casey, Melissa Ness +10

Chemical tagging promises to use detailed abundance measurements to identify spatially separated stars that were in fact born together (in the same molecular cloud), long ago. This…