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astro-ph.GA2019★ 32 cited

Radio Observations of Supernova Remnant G1.9+0.3

Kieran J. Luken, Miroslav D. Filipović, Nigel I. Maxted +18

We present 1 to 10GHz radio continuum flux density, spectral index, polarisation and Rotation Measure (RM) images of the youngest known Galactic Supernova Remnant (SNR) G1.9+0.3, u…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1.5k cited

The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida +310

This paper documents the sixteenth data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 26 cited

The GALAH Survey: Chemically tagging the Fimbulthul stream to the globular cluster Centauri

Jeffrey D. Simpson, Sarah L. Martell, Gary Da Costa +17

Using kinematics from Gaia and the large elemental abundance space of the second data release of the GALAH survey, we identify two new members of the Fimbulthul stellar stream, and…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 9 cited

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: The contribution of different kinematic classes to the stellar mass function of nearby galaxies

Kexin Guo, Luca Cortese, Danail Obreschkow +10

We use the complete Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey to determine the contribution of slow rotators, as well as different types of fast rota…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 20 cited

Star-gas misalignment in galaxies: I. The properties of galaxies from the Horizon-AGN simulation and comparisons to SAMI

Donghyeon J. Khim, Sukyoung K. Yi, Yohan Dubois +12

Recent integral field spectroscopy observations have found that about 11% of galaxies show star-gas misalignment. The misalignment possibly results from external effects such as ga…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 22 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Properties and evolution of red spiral galaxies

Smriti Mahajan, Kriti Kamal Gupta, Rahul Rana +10

We use multi-wavelength data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to explore the cause of red optical colours in nearby (0.002<z<0.06) spiral galaxies. We show that the…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 54 cited

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final Data Release and the Metallicity of UV-Luminous Galaxies

Michael J. Drinkwater, Zachary J. Byrne, Chris Blake +24

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey measured the redshifts of over 200,000 UV-selected (NUV<22.8 mag) galaxies on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The survey detected the baryon acoustic…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 84 cited

The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) I: Tracing the kinematics of metal-poor stars in the Galactic bulge

Anke Arentsen, Else Starkenburg, Nicolas F. Martin +20

Our Galaxy is known to contain a central boxy/peanut-shaped bulge, yet the importance of a classical, pressure-supported component within the central part of the Milky Way is still…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 6 cited

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: rules of behaviour for spin-ellipticity radial tracks in galaxies

Alexander Rawlings, Caroline Foster, Jesse van de Sande +18

We study the behaviour of the spin-ellipticity radial tracks for 507 galaxies from the Sydney AAO Multi-object Integral Field (SAMI) Galaxy Survey with stellar kinematics out to $\…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 29 cited

The ASKAP-EMU Early Science Project:Radio Continuum Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud

T. D. Joseph, M. D. Filipović, E. J. Crawford +53

We present two new radio continuum images from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) survey in the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). These images ar…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 13 cited

Star-Forming, Rotating Spheroidal Galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI Surveys

Amanda J. Moffett, Steven Phillipps, Aaron S. G. Robotham +23

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has morphologically identified a class of "Little Blue Spheroid" (LBS) galaxies whose relationship to other classes of galaxies we now ex…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 14 cited

A Nitrogen-Enhanced Metal-Poor star discovered in the globular cluster ESO280-SC06

Jeffrey D. Simpson, Sarah L. Martell

We report the discovery of the only very nitrogen-enhanced metal-poor star known in a Galactic globular cluster. This star, in the very metal-poor cluster ESO280-SC06, has [N/Fe]$>…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1 cited

Exploring the pattern of the Galactic HI foreground of GRBs with the ATCA

H. Denes, P. A. Jones, L. V. Toth +12

The afterglow of a gamma ray burst (GRB) can give us valuable insight into the properties of its host galaxy. To correctly interpret the spectra of the afterglow we need to have a…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 10 cited

A Tale of Two Clusters: An Analysis of Gas-Phase Metallicity and Nebular Gas Conditions in Proto-cluster Galaxies at z~2

Leo Y. Alcorn, Anshu Gupta, Kim-Vy Tran +12

The ZFIRE survey has spectroscopically confirmed two proto-clusters using the MOSFIRE instrument on Keck 1: one at z=2.095 in COSMOS and another at z=1.62 in UDS. Here we use an up…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 27 cited

ALMA CO Observations of a Giant Molecular Cloud in M33: Evidence for High-Mass Star Formation Triggered by Cloud-Cloud Collisions

Hidetoshi Sano, Kisetsu Tsuge, Kazuki Tokuda +14

We report the first evidence for high-mass star formation triggered by collisions of molecular clouds in M33. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, we spatially r…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 72 cited

Proper Motions of Stellar Streams Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey

N. Shipp, T. S. Li, A. B. Pace +12

We cross-match high-precision astrometric data from Gaia DR2 with accurate multi-band photometry from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) DR1 to confidently measure proper motions for nin…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 64 cited

The Gaia-ESO survey: Calibrating a relationship between Age and the [C/N] abundance ratio with open clusters

G. Casali, L. Magrini, E. Tognelli +51

In the era of large high-resolution spectroscopic surveys, high-quality spectra can contribute to our understanding of the Galactic chemical evolution, providing chemical abundance…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 133 cited

The Great Escape: Discovery of a nearby 1700 km/s star ejected from the Milky Way by Sgr A*

Sergey E. Koposov, Douglas Boubert, Ting S. Li +17

We present the serendipitous discovery of the fastest Main Sequence hyper-velocity star (HVS) by the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5). The star S5-HVS1 is a $\sim…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 123 cited

The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (): Overview, Target Selection, Data Reduction, Validation, and Early Science

T. S. Li, S. E. Koposov, D. B. Zucker +29

We introduce the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopy Survey (), an on-going program to map the kinematics and chemistry of stellar streams in the Southern Hemisphere. The i…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 48 cited

Identifying Stellar Streams in Gaia DR2 with Data Mining Techniques

Nicholas W. Borsato, Sarah L. Martell, Jeffrey D. Simpson

Streams of stars from captured dwarf galaxies and dissolved globular clusters are identifiable through the similarity of their orbital parameters, a fact that remains true long aft…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 119 cited

Galactic cirri in deep optical imaging

Javier Román, Ignacio Trujillo, Mireia Montes

The ubiquitous presence of Galactic cirri in deep optical images represents a major obstacle to study the low surface brightness features of extragalactic sources. To address this…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 30 cited

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: mass-kinematics scaling relations

Dilyar Barat, Francesco D'Eugenio, Matthew Colless +17

We use data from the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral-field spectroscopy (SAMI) Galaxy Survey to study the dynamical scaling relation between galaxy stellar mass and the gene…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 7 cited

Assembly bias evidence in close galaxy pairs

Ignacio Ferreras, Andrew M. Hopkins, Claudia Lagos +4

The growth channel of massive galaxies involving mergers can be studied via close pairs as putative merger progenitors, where the stellar populations of the satellite galaxies will…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 45 cited

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Stellar population radial gradients in early-type galaxies

I. Ferreras, N. Scott, F. La Barbera +16

We study the internal radial gradients of the stellar populations in a sample comprising 522 early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the SAMI (Sydney- AAO Multi-object Integral field spect…