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48 papers · 2 filters

astro-ph.GA2017★ 151 cited

Diffuse ionized gas in galaxies across the Hubble sequence at the CALIFA resolution

E. A. D. Lacerda, R. Cid Fernandes, G. S. Couto +7

We use spatially resolved spectroscopy from the Calar Alto Legacy Field Area (CALIFA) survey to study the nature of the line emitting gas in galaxies of different Hubble types, foc…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 87 cited

Deep learning for galaxy surface brightness profile fitting

D. Tuccillo, M. Huertas-Company, E. Decencière +3

Numerous ongoing and future large area surveys (e.g. DES, EUCLID, LSST, WFIRST), will increase by several orders of magnitude the volume of data that can be exploited for galaxy mo…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 36 cited

Revisiting Stephan's Quintet with deep optical images

Pierre-Alain Duc, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Florent Renaud

Stephan's Quintet, a compact group of galaxies, is often used as a laboratory to study a number of phenomena, including physical processes in the interstellar medium, star formatio…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 39 cited

The relativistic jet of the gamma-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0323+342

Daniel Kynoch, Hermine Landt, Martin J. Ward +7

The detection of several radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope hints at the existence of a rare, new class of gamma-ray emitting a…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 35 cited

Far-infrared observations of a massive cluster forming in the Monoceros R2 filament hub

T. S. M. Rayner, M. J. Griffin, N. Schneider +29

We present far-infrared observations of Monoceros R2 (a giant molecular cloud at approximately 830 pc distance, containing several sites of active star formation), as observed at 7…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 68 cited

LOFAR-Boötes: Properties of high- and low-excitation radio galaxies at

W. L. Williams, G. Calistro Rivera, P. N. Best +13

This paper presents a study of the redshift evolution of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) as a function of the properties of their galaxy hosts in the Boötes field. To achie…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 5 cited

Pair-matching of radio-loud and radio-quiet AGNs

D. Kozieł-Wierzbowska, G. Stasińska, N. Vale Asari +3

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are known to cover an extremely broad range of radio luminosities and the spread of their radio-loudness is very large at any value of the Eddington r…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 18 cited

What is the Milky Way outer halo made of? High resolution spectroscopy of distant red giants

G. Battaglia, P. North, P. Jablonka +5

In a framework where galaxies form hierarchically, extended stellar haloes are predicted to be an ubiquitous feature around Milky Way-like galaxies and to consist mainly of the shr…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 14 cited

SHARDS Frontier Fields: Physical properties of a low mass Lyman-alpha emitter at z=5.75

Antonio Hernán-Caballero, Pablo G. Pérez-González, José M. Diego +20

We analyze the properties of a multiply-imaged Lyman-alpha (Lya) emitter at z=5.75 identified through SHARDS Frontier Fields intermediate-band imaging of the Hubble Frontier Fields…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 28 cited

Stellar mass functions and implications for a variable IMF

M. Bernardi, R. K. Sheth, J. -L. Fischer +6

Spatially resolved kinematics of nearby galaxies has shown that the ratio of dynamical- to stellar population-based estimates of the mass of a galaxy () correlat…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 18 cited

The diversity of assembly histories leading to disc galaxy formation in a LambdaCDM model

Andreea S. Font, Ian G. McCarthy, Amandine M. C. Le Brun +2

[Abridged] Typical disc galaxies forming in a LambdaCDM cosmology encounter a violent environment, where they often experience mergers with massive satellites. The fact that disc g…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 14 cited

What distinguishes the host galaxies of radio-loud and radio-quiet AGNs?

D. Kozieł-Wierzbowska, N. Vale Asari, G. Stasińska +3

We compare the optical properties of the host galaxies of radio-quiet (RQ) and radio-loud (RL) Type 2 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to infer whether the jet production efficiency d…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 40 cited

Mass and metallicity scaling relations of high redshift star-forming galaxies selected by GRBs

M. Arabsalmani, P. Møller, D. A. Perley +19

We present a comprehensive study of the relations between gas kinematics, metallicity, and stellar mass in a sample of 82 GRB-selected galaxies using absorption and emission method…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 16 cited

The XXL Survey XIX. A realistic population of simulated X-ray AGN: Comparison of models with observations

E. Koulouridis, L. Faccioli, A. M. C. Le Brun +11

Modern cosmological simulations rely heavily on feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) in order to stave off overcooling in massive galaxies and galaxy groups and clusters. An…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

Mapping diffuse interstellar bands in the local ISM on small scales via MUSE 3D spectroscopy

Martin Wendt, Tim-Oliver Husser, Sebastian Kamann +6

We map the interstellar medium (ISM) including the diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in absorption toward the globular cluster NGC 6397 using VLT/MUSE. This pilot study demonstrate…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 23 cited

Determining the Halo Mass Scale where Galaxies Lose Their Gas

Gregory Rudnick, Pascale Jablonka, John Moustakas +9

A major question in galaxy formation is how the gas supply that fuels activity in galaxies is modulated by their environment. We use spectroscopy of a set of well characterized clu…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 33 cited

Detailed chemical composition of classical Cepheids in the LMC cluster NGC 1866 and in the field of the SMC

B. Lemasle, M. A. T. Groenewegen, E. K. Grebel +11

Context: Cepheids are excellent tracers of young stellar populations. They play a crucial role in astrophysics as standard candles. The chemistry of classical Cepheids in the Milky…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 44 cited

Morphology and enhanced star formation in a Cartwheel-like ring galaxy

F. Renaud, E. Athanassoula, P. Amram +8

We use hydrodynamical simulations of a Cartwheel-like ring galaxy, modelled as a nearly head-on collision of a small companion with a larger disc galaxy, to probe the evolution of…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 86 cited

An ALMA survey of submillimeter galaxies in the COSMOS field: Multiwavelength counterparts and redshift distribution

Drew Brisbin, Oskari Miettinen, Manuel Aravena +28

We carried out targeted ALMA observations of 129 fields in the COSMOS region at 1.25 mm, detecting 152 galaxies at S/N5 with an average continuum RMS of 150 Jy. These fiel…

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★ 32 cited

Analytical core mass function (CMF) from filaments: Under which circumstances can filament fragmentation reproduce the CMF?

Yueh-Ning Lee, Patrick Hennebelle, Gilles Chabrier

Observations suggest that star formation in filamentary molecular clouds occurs in a two-step process, with the formation of filaments preceding that of prestellar cores and stars.…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

Solving the conundrum of intervening strong MgII absorbers towards GRBs and quasars

L. Christensen, S. D. Vergani, S. Schulze +33

Previous studies have shown that the incidence rate of intervening strong MgII absorbers towards GRBs were a factor of 2 - 4 higher than towards quasars. Exploring the similar size…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 58 cited

Virgo Redux: The Masses and Stellar Content of Nuclei in Early-Type Galaxies from Multi-Band Photometry and Spectroscopy

Chelsea Spengler, Patrick Côté, Joel Roediger +14

We present an analysis of 39 nuclei and their early-type hosts in the Virgo Cluster using ten broadband filters: F300W, F475W, F850LP, F160W, , and . We describe the…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 60 cited

Glimpsing the Imprint of Local Environment on the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function

Adam R. Tomczak, Brian C. Lemaux, Lori M. Lubin +8

We investigate the impact of local environment on the galaxy stellar mass function (SMF) spanning a wide range of galaxy densities from the field up to dense cores of massive galax…