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astro-ph.GA2017★ 26 cited

The continuous rise of bulges out of galactic disks

I. Breda, P. Papaderos

(abridged) This study revolves around dmB, a new distance- and extinction-independent measure of the contribution by stellar populations older than 9 Gyr to the mean r-band surface…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 20 cited

The MUSE 3D view of feedback in a high-metallicity radio galaxy at z = 2.9

M. Silva, A. Humphrey, P. Lagos +8

We present a detailed study of the kinematic, chemical and excitation properties of the giant Ly emitting nebula and the giant \ion{H}{I} absorber associated with the …

astro-ph.GA2017★ 45 cited

Ionised gas structure of 100 kpc in an over-dense region of the galaxy group COSMOS-Gr30 at z ~ 0.7

Benoît Epinat, Thierry Contini, Hayley Finley +16

We report the discovery of a 10^4 kpc^2 gaseous structure detected in [OII] in an over-dense region of the COSMOS-Gr30 galaxy group at z~0.725 thanks to deep MUSE Guaranteed Time O…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 27 cited

A 100 kpc nebula associated with the "Teacup" fading quasar

Montserrat Villar Martin, Antonio Cabrera Lavers, Andrew Humphrey +4

We report the discovery of a ~100 kpc ionized nebula associated with the radio quiet type 2 quasar (QSO2) nicknamed the "Teacup" (z=0.085). The giant nebula is among the largest kn…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 80 cited

The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey X. Ly Equivalent Widths at

Takuya Hashimoto, Thibault Garel, Bruno Guiderdoni +17

We present rest-frame Ly equivalent widths (EW) of 417 Ly emitters (LAEs) detected with Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at $2.9 < z…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 45 cited

The Gaia -ESO Survey: Lithium enrichment histories of the Galactic thick and thin disc

Xiaoting. Fu, D. Romano, A. Bragaglia +32

Lithium abundance in most of the warm metal-poor main sequence stars shows a constant plateau (A(Li)~2.2 dex) and then the upper envelope of the lithium vs. metallicity distributio…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 81 cited

The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey. IX. Evolution of galaxy merger fraction since z~6

E. Ventou, T. Contini, N. Bouché +13

We provide, for the first time, robust observational constraints on the galaxy major merger fraction up to using spectroscopic close pair counts. Deep Multi Unit Spect…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 45 cited

The MUSE-Wide survey: A measurement of the Ly emitting fraction among galaxies

Joseph Caruana, Lutz Wisotzki, Edmund Christian Herenz +15

We present a measurement of the fraction of Lyman (Ly) emitters () amongst HST continuum-selected galaxies at with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explor…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 72 cited

The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey VIII : Extended Lyman-alpha haloes around high-redshift star-forming galaxies

Floriane Leclercq, Roland Bacon, Lutz Wisotzki +17

We report the detection of extended Lyman-alpha (Lya) haloes around 145 individual star-forming galaxies at redshifts 3<z<6 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field observed with the Multi-U…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 37 cited

The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey: VII. FeII* Emission in Star-Forming Galaxies

Hayley Finley, Nicolas Bouché, Thierry Contini +15

Non-resonant FeII* 2365, 2396, 2612, 2626 emission can potentially trace galactic winds in emission and provide useful constraints to wind models. From the 3'x3' mosaic of the Hubb…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 58 cited

The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey: IV. Global properties of C III] emitters

Michael V. Maseda, Jarle Brinchmann, Marijn Franx +12

The C III] 1907,1909 emission doublet has been proposed as an alternative to Lyman-alpha in redshift confirmations of galaxies at z > 6 since it is not attenuated by the largely ne…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 35 cited

The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey: III. Testing photometric redshifts to 30th magnitude

J. Brinchmann, H. Inami, R. Bacon +14

We tested the performance of photometric redshifts for galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep field down to 30th magnitude. We compared photometric redshift estimates from three spectra…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 180 cited

The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey: II. Spectroscopic redshifts and comparisons to color selections of high-redshift galaxies

H. Inami, R. Bacon, J. Brinchmann +22

We have conducted a two-layered spectroscopic survey (1'x1' ultra deep and 3'x3' deep regions) in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUS…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 348 cited

The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey: I. Survey description, data reduction and source detection

Roland Bacon, Simon Conseil, David Mary +24

We present the MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Survey, a mosaic of nine MUSE fields covering 90\% of the entire HUDF region with a 10-hour deep exposure time, plus a deeper 31-hour exposure…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 6 cited

Environmental effects on galaxy evolution. II: quantifying the tidal features in NIR-images of the cluster Abell 85

Y. Venkatapathy, H. Bravo-Alfaro, Y. D. Mayya +6

This work is part of a series of papers devoted to investigate the evolution of cluster galaxies during their infall. In the present article we imaged in NIR a selected sample of g…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 42 cited

Dark Galaxy Candidates at Redshift ~3.5 Detected with MUSE

Raffaella Anna Marino, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Simon J. Lilly +18

Recent theoretical models suggest that the early phase of galaxy formation could involve an epoch when galaxies are gas-rich but inefficient at forming stars: a "dark galaxy" phase…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 11 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Matching Chemo-Dynamical Simulations to Observations of the Milky Way

B. B. Thompson, C. G. Few, M. Bergemann +39

The typical methodology for comparing simulated galaxies with observational surveys is usually to apply a spatial selection to the simulation to mimic the region of interest covere…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 35 cited

Galaxy wide radio induced feedback in a radio quiet quasar

Montse Villar Martin, Bjorn Emonts, Antonio Cabrera Lavers +7

We report the discovery of a radio quiet type 2 quasar (SDSS J165315.06+234943.0 nicknamed the "Beetle" at z=0.103) with unambiguous evidence for active galactic nucleus (AGN) radi…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 61 cited

Probing changes of dust properties along a chain of solar-type prestellar and protostellar cores in Taurus with NIKA

A. Bracco, P. Palmeirim, Ph. André +45

The characterization of dust properties in the interstellar medium (ISM) is key for star formation. Mass estimates are crucial to determine gravitational collapse conditions for th…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 24 cited

Supernovae and their host galaxies - V. The vertical distribution of supernovae in disc galaxies

A. A. Hakobyan, L. V. Barkhudaryan, A. G. Karapetyan +6

We present an analysis of the height distributions of the different types of supernovae (SNe) from the plane of their host galaxies. We use a well-defined sample of 102 nearby SNe…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 201 cited

Properties of Hi-GAL clumps in the inner Galaxy]{The Hi-GAL compact source catalogue. I. The physical properties of the clumps in the inner Galaxy ()

D. Elia, S. Molinari, E. Schisano +83

Hi-GAL is a large-scale survey of the Galactic plane, performed with Herschel in five infrared continuum bands between 70 and 500 m. We present a band-merged catalogue of spatia…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 12 cited

Metallicity calibrations of low star-forming galaxies: the influence of a stochastic IMF

Mieke Paalvast, Jarle Brinchmann

We present a study of the consequences of an initial mass function that is stochastically sampled on the main emission lines used for gas-phase metallicity estimates in extra-galac…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 36 cited

Spatial distribution of star formation related to ionized regions throughout the inner Galactic plane

P. Palmeirim, A. Zavagno, D. Elia +35

We present a comprehensive statistical analysis of star-forming objects located in the vicinities of 1 360 bubble structures throughout the Galactic Plane and their local environme…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 31 cited

Are we seeing accretion flows in a 250kpc-sized Ly-alpha halo at z=3?

J. Vernet, M. D. Lehnert, C. De Breuck +8

Using MUSE on the ESO-VLT, we obtained a 4 hour exposure of the z=3.12 radio galaxy MRC0316-257. We detect features down to ~10^-19 erg/s/cm^2/arcsec^2 with the highest surface bri…