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astro-ph.GA2015★ 28 cited

On R-W1 as A Diagnostic to Discover Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei in Wide-Area X-ray Surveys

Stephanie M. LaMassa, Francesca Civano, Marcella Brusa +18

Capitalizing on the all-sky coverage of {\it WISE}, and the 35\% and 50\% sky coverage from SDSS and Pan-STARRS, respectively, we explore the efficacy of (optical) - $m_{3.…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 93 cited

Measures of galaxy dust and gas mass with Herschel photometry and prospects for ALMA

S. Berta, D. Lutz, R. Genzel +2

(Abridged) Combining the deepest Herschel extragalactic surveys (PEP, GOODS-H, HerMES), and Monte Carlo mock catalogs, we explore the robustness of dust mass estimates based on mod…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 17 cited

The XXL Survey X: K-band luminosity - weak-lensing mass relation for groups and clusters of galaxies

F. Ziparo, G. P. Smith, S. L. Mulroy +15

We present the K-band luminosity-halo mass relation, , for a subsample of 20 of the 100 brightest clusters in the XXL Survey observed with WIRCam at the Canad…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 29 cited

How chemistry influences cloud structure, star formation, and the IMF

S. Hocuk, S. Cazaux, M. Spaans +1

In the earliest phases of star-forming clouds, stable molecular species, such as CO, are important coolants in the gas phase. Depletion of these molecules on dust surfaces affects…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 18 cited

Mid-J CO shock tracing observations of infrared dark clouds II Low-J CO constraints on excitation, depletion, and kinematics

A. Pon, D. Johnstone, P. Caselli +6

Infrared dark clouds are kinematically complex molecular structures in the interstellar medium that can host sites of massive star formation. We present 4 square arcminute maps of…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 85 cited

Reconstructing the history of water ice formation from HDO/H2O and D2O/HDO ratios in protostellar cores

K. Furuya, E. F. van Dishoeck, Y. Aikawa

Recent interferometer observations have found that the D2O/HDO abundance ratio is higher than that of HDO/H2O by about one order of magnitude in the vicinity of low-mass protostar…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 101 cited

Gas expulsion in massive star clusters? Constraints from observations of young and gas-free objects

Martin G. H. Krause, Corinne Charbonnel, Nate Bastian +1

Gas expulsion is a central concept in some of the models for multiple populations and the light-element anticorrelations in globular clusters. If the star formation efficiency was…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 23 cited

Stratified NH and ND emission in the prestellar core 16293E in L1689N

A. Bacmann, F. Daniel, P. Caselli +6

High degrees of deuterium fractionation are commonly found in cold prestellar cores and in the envelopes around young protostars. As it brings strong constraints to chemical models…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 338 cited

The Chandra COSMOS Legacy survey: optical/IR identifications

S. Marchesi, F. Civano, M. Elvis +27

We present the catalog of optical and infrared counterparts of the Chandra COSMOS-Legacy Survey, a 4.6 Ms Chandra program on the 2.2 square degrees of the COSMOS field, combination…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 20 cited

Faint COSMOS AGN at z~3.3 - I. Black Hole Properties and Constraints on Early Black Hole Growth

Benny Trakhtenbrot, Francesca Civano, C. Megan Urry +9

We present new Keck/MOSFIRE K-band spectroscopy for a sample of 14 faint, X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the COSMOS field. The data cover the spectral region surro…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 59 cited

Clusters of Small Clumps Can Explain The Peculiar Properties of Giant Clumps in High-Redshift Galaxies

Manuel Behrendt, Andreas Burkert, Marc Schartmann

Giant clumps are a characteristic feature of observed high-redshift disk galaxies. We propose that these kpc-sized clumps have a complex substructure and are the result of many sma…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 26 cited

Stellar Mass to Halo Mass Scaling Relation for X-ray Selected Low Mass Galaxy Clusters and Groups out to Redshift

I. Chiu, A. Saro, J. Mohr +6

We present the stellar mass-halo mass scaling relation for 46 X-ray selected low-mass clusters or groups detected in the XMM-BCS survey with masses $2\times10^{13}M_{\odot}\lesssim…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 41 cited

Molecular Gas Velocity Dispersions in the Andromeda Galaxy

Anahi Caldu-Primo, Andreas Schruba

In order to characterize the distribution of molecular gas in spiral galaxies, we study the line profiles of CO:1-0 emission in Andromeda, our nearest massive spiral galaxy. We com…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 59 cited

Rest-UV Absorption Lines as Metallicity Estimator: the Metal Content of Star-Forming Galaxies at z~5

A. L. Faisst, P. L. Capak, I. Davidzon +12

We measure a relation between the depth of four prominent rest-UV absorption complexes and metallicity for local galaxies and verify it up to z~3. We then apply this relation to a…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 90 cited

The 31 Deg Release of the Stripe 82 X-ray Survey: The Point Source Catalog

Stephanie M. LaMassa, C. Megan Urry, Nico Cappelluti +23

We release the next installment of the Stripe 82 X-ray survey point-source catalog, which currently covers 31.3 deg of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82 Legacy fiel…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 138 cited

High-Mass X-ray binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Frank Haberl, Richard Sturm

The last comprehensive catalogue of high-mass X-ray binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) was published about ten years ago. Since then new such systems were discovered, mai…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 113 cited

A Spectroscopic Survey of X-ray Selected AGN in the Northern XMM-XXL Field

Marie-Luise Menzel, Andrea Merloni, Antonis Georgakakis +10

This paper presents a survey of X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) with optical spectroscopic follow-up in a area of the equatorial XMM-XXL north fi…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 128 cited

Evidence for a change in the dominant satellite galaxy quenching mechanism at z=1

Michael L. Balogh, Sean L. McGee, Angus Mok +14

We present an analysis of galaxies in groups and clusters at , from the GCLASS and GEEC2 spectroscopic surveys. We compute a "conversion fraction" that…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 87 cited

Water deuteration and ortho-to-para nuclear spin ratio of H2 in molecular clouds formed via the accumulation of HI gas

K. Furuya, Y. Aikawa, U. Hincelin +4

We investigate the water deuteration ratio and ortho-to-para nuclear spin ratio of H2 (OPR(H2)) during the formation and early evolution of a molecular cloud, following the scenari…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 52 cited

CHANG-ES VI: Probing Supernova Energy Deposition in Spiral Galaxies Through Multi-Wavelength Relationships

Jiang-Tao Li, Rainer Beck, Ralf-Jurgen Dettmar +13

How a galaxy regulates its SNe energy into different interstellar/circumgalactic medium components strongly affects galaxy evolution. Based on the JVLA D-configuration C- (6 GHz) a…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 21 cited

Quantum Calculation of Inelastic CO Collisions with H. III. Rate Coefficients for Ro-vibrational Transitions

L. Song, N. Balakrishnan, K. M. Walker +5

We present calculated rate coefficients for ro-vibrational transitions of CO in collisions with H atoms for a gas temperature range of 10 K 3000 K, based on the recen…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 39 cited

The Influence of a Kinematically Cold Young Component on Disc-Halo Decompositions in Spiral Galaxies: Insights from Solar Neighbourhood K-giants

S. Aniyan, K. C. Freeman, O. E. Gerhard +2

In decomposing the HI rotation curves of disc galaxies, it is necessary to break a degeneracy between the gravitational fields of the disc and the dark halo by estimating the disc…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 96 cited

Stellar feedback efficiencies: supernovae versus stellar winds

Katharina M. Fierlinger, Andreas Burkert, Evangelia Ntormousi +5

Stellar winds and supernova (SN) explosions of massive stars ("stellar feedback") create bubbles in the interstellar medium (ISM) and insert newly produced heavy elements and kinet…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 76 cited

A mature galaxy cluster at z=1.58 around the radio galaxy 7C1753+6311

E. A. Cooke, N. A. Hatch, D. Stern +9

We report on the discovery of a z=1.58 mature cluster around the high-redshift radio galaxy 7C1753+6311, first identified in the Clusters Around Radio-Loud AGN survey. Two-thirds o…