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astro-ph.GA2016★ 48 cited

Star formation towards the Galactic HII region RCW120

M. Figueira, A. Zavagno, L. Deharveng +16

The expansion of HII regions can trigger the formation of stars. An overdensity of young stellar objects (YSOs) is observed at the edges of HII regions but the mechanisms that give…

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

Dynamical modelling of galactic disc outskirts

E. Athanassoula

I review briefly some dynamical models of structures in the outer parts of disc galaxies, including models of polar rings, tidal tails and bridges. I then discuss the density distr…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 56 cited

Metallicity-dependendent kinematics and morphology of the Milky Way bulge

E. Athanassoula, S. A. Rodionov, N. Prantzos

We use N-body chemo-dynamic simulations to study the coupling between morphology, kinematics and metallicity of the bar/bulge region of our Galaxy. We make qualitative comparisons…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 14 cited

HI in the Outskirts of Nearby Galaxies

A. Bosma

The HI in disk galaxies frequently extends beyond the optical image, and can trace the dark matter there. I briefly highlight the history of high spatial resolution HI imaging, the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 24 cited

An analysis of star formation with Herschel in the Hi-GAL Survey. II. The tips of the Galactic bar

M. Veneziani, E. Schisano, D. Elia +20

We present the physical and evolutionary properties of prestellar and protostellar clumps in the Herschel Infrared GALactic plane survey (Hi-GAL) in two large areas centered in the…

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★ 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★ 63 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Downsizing of the blue cloud and the influence of galaxy size on mass quenching over the last eight billion years

C. P. Haines, A. Iovino, J. Krywult +37

We use the full VIPERS redshift survey in combination with SDSS-DR7 to explore the relationships between star-formation history (using d4000), stellar mass and galaxy structure, an…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 134 cited

Host galaxies of luminous z0.6 quasars: Major mergers are not prevalent at the highest AGN luminosities

C. Villforth, T. Hamilton, M. M. Pawlik +10

Galaxy interactions are thought to be one of the main triggers of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), especially at high luminosities, where the accreted gas mass during the AGN lifetime…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 231 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Full spectroscopic data and auxiliary information release (PDR-2)

M. Scodeggio, L. Guzzo, B. Garilli +42

We present the full public data release (PDR-2) of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS), performed at the ESO VLT. We release redshifts, spectra, CFHTLS magnitud…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 28 cited

VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). The distinct build-up of dense and normal massive passive galaxies

A. Gargiulo, M. Bolzonella, M. Scodeggio +36

We use the final data from the VIPERS redshift survey to extract an unparalleled sample of more than 2000 massive M > 10^11 M_sun passive galaxies (MPGs) at redshift 0.5 < z < 1.0,…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 140 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Galaxy segregation inside filaments at

N. Malavasi, S. Arnouts, D. Vibert +42

We present the first quantitative detection of large-scale filamentary structure at in the large cosmological volume probed by the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshif…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 34 cited

THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY. XIV. Shell feature early-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster

Sanjaya Paudel, Rory Smith, Pierre-Alain Duc +15

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey is a deep (with a detection limit = 29~mag~arcsec in the band) optical panchromatic survey targeting the Virgo cluste…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 44 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). The decline of cosmic star formation: quenching, mass, and environment connections

O. Cucciati, I. Davidzon, M. Bolzonella +37

[Abridged] We use the final data of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) to investigate the effect of environment on the evolution of galaxies between an…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 44 cited

AGN-enhanced outflows of low-ionization gas in star-forming galaxies at 1.7<z<4.6

M. Talia, M. Brusa, A. Cimatti +20

Fast and energetic winds are invoked by galaxy formation models as essential processes in the evolution of galaxies. These outflows can be powered either by star-formation and/or A…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 57 cited

New constraints on the average escape fraction of Lyman continuum radiation in z~4 galaxies from the VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey (VUDS)

F. Marchi, L. Pentericci, L. Guaita +20

Determining the average fraction of Lyman continuum (LyC) photons escaping high redshift galaxies is essential for understanding how reionization proceeded in the z>6 Universe. We…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 43 cited

The VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey: A major merger origin for the high fraction of galaxies at with two bright clump

B. Ribeiro, O. Le Fèvre, P. Cassata +12

(Abridged) The properties of stellar clumps in star forming galaxies and their evolution over the redshift range are presented and discussed in the context…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 13 cited

The ESO UVES Advanced Data Products Quasar Sample-V. Identifying the Galaxy Counterpart to the sub-Damped Ly-alpha System towards Q2239-2949

Tayyaba Zafar, Palle Møller, Céline Péroux +4

Gas flows in and out of galaxies are one of the key unknowns in todays' galaxy evolution studies. Because gas flows carry mass, energy and metals, they are believed to be closely c…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 45 cited

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXIV. The Red Sequence to 10 L and Comparisons with Galaxy Formation Models

Joel C. Roediger, Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Côté +22

We use deep optical photometry from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey [NGVS] to investigate the color-magnitude diagram for the galaxies inhabiting the core of this cluster.…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 30 cited

HI 21-cm absorption survey of quasar-galaxy pairs: Distribution of cold gas around z<0.4 galaxies

R. Dutta, R. Srianand, N. Gupta +4

We present the results from our survey of HI 21-cm absorption, using GMRT, VLA and WSRT, in a sample of 55 z<0.4 galaxies towards radio sources with impact parameters (b) in the ra…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 105 cited

Gas Fraction and Depletion Time of Massive Star Forming Galaxies at z~3.2: No Change in Global Star Formation Process out to z>3

E. Schinnerer, B. Groves, M. T. Sargent +8

The observed evolution of the gas fraction and its associated depletion time in main sequence (MS) galaxies provides insights on how star formation proceeds over cosmic time. We re…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 111 cited

Galaxy Zoo: Quantitative Visual Morphological Classifications for 48,000 galaxies from CANDELS

B. D. Simmons, Chris Lintott, Kyle W. Willett +45

We present quantified visual morphologies of approximately 48,000 galaxies observed in three Hubble Space Telescope legacy fields by the Cosmic And Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 19 cited

Planck's Dusty GEMS. II. Extended [CII] emission and absorption in the Garnet at z=3.4 seen with ALMA

N. Nesvadba, R. Kneissl, R. Canameras +9

We present spatially resolved ALMA [CII] observations of the bright (flux density S=400 mJy at 350 microns), gravitationally lensed, starburst galaxy PLCK G045.1+61.1 at z=3.427, t…