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astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

Dust Extinction Law in Nearby Star-Resolved Galaxies. I. M31 Traced by Supergiants

Yuxi Wang, Jian Gao, Yi Ren

The dust extinction laws and dust properties in M31 are explored with a sample of reddened O-type and B-type supergiants obtained from the LGGS. The observed spectral energy distri…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 16 cited

Where have all the interstellar silicon carbides gone?

Tao Chen, C. Y. Xiao, Aigen Li +1

The detection of the 11.3-micron emission feature characteristic of the Si--C stretch in carbon-rich evolved stars reveals that silicon carbide (SiC) dust grains are condensed in t…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 3 cited

The Dust Mass of Supernova Remnants in M31

Ye Wang, Biwei Jiang, Jun Li +2

The dust temperature and mass of the supernova remnants (SNRs) in M31 are estimated by fitting the infrared spectral energy distribution calculated from the images in the Spitzer/I…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

Identification of new M31 star cluster candidates from PAndAS images using convolutional neural networks

Shoucheng Wang, Bingqiu Chen, Jun Ma +7

Context.Identification of new star cluster candidates in M31 is fundamental for the study of the M31 stellar cluster system. The machine-learning method convolutional neural networ…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 32 cited

The Sample of Red Supergiants in Twelve Low-Mass Galaxies of the Local Group

Yi Ren, Biwei Jiang, Ming Yang +2

This work establishes the most complete sample of red supergiants (RSGs) in twelve low-mass galaxies (WLM, IC 10, NGC 147, NGC 185, IC 1613, Leo A, Sextans B, Sextans A, NGC 6822,…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

The JCMT BISTRO Survey: An 850/450m Polarization Study of NGC 2071IR in OrionB

A-Ran Lyo, Jongsoo Kim, Sarah Sadavoy +143

We present the results of simultaneous 450 m and 850 m polarization observations toward the massive star forming region NGC 2071IR, a target of the BISTRO (B-fields in Star-F…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

The Fe(n, γ)Fe Cross Section from the Surrogate Ratio Method and Its Effect on the Fe Nucleosynthesis

S. Q. Yan, X. Y. Li, K. Nishio +39

The long-lived Fe (with a half-life of 2.62 Myr) is a crucial diagnostic of active nucleosynthesis in the Milky Way galaxy and in supernovae near the solar system. The neutr…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

Intra-day variability of BL Lacertae from 2016 to 2018

Tian Li, Jianghua Wu, Nankun Meng +2

We monitored BL Lacertae in the B, V, R and I bands for 14 nights during the period of 2016-2018. The source showed significant intraday variability on 12 nights. We performed colo…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 86 cited

A hard X-ray view of Luminous and Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies in GOALS: I - AGN obscuration along the merger sequence

C. Ricci, G. C. Privon, R. W. Pfeifle +25

The merger of two or more galaxies can enhance the inflow of material from galactic scales into the close environments of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), obscuring and feeding the su…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

Massive molecular gas reservoir in a luminous sub-millimeter galaxy during cosmic noon

Bin Liu, N. Chartab, H. Nayyeri +11

We present multi-band observations of an extremely dusty star-forming lensed galaxy (HERS1) at . High-resolution maps of \textit{HST}/WFC3, SMA, and ALMA show a partial Ei…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

The Extinction and Distance of the MBM Molecular Clouds at High Galactic Latitude

Mingxu Sun, Biwei Jiang, He Zhao +1

Based on the accurate color excess of more than 4 million stars and of more than 1 million stars from \citet{2021ApJS..254...38S}, the…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 39 cited

Mapping the Galactic Disk with the LAMOST and Gaia Red Clump Sample VII: the Stellar Disk Structure Revealed by the Mono-abundance Populations

Zheng Yu, Ji Li, Bingqiu Chen +7

Using a sample of 96,201 primary red clump (RC) stars selected from the LAMOST and Gaia surveys, we investigate the stellar structure of the Galactic disk. The sample stars show tw…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 8 cited

Element abundance analysis of the metal-rich stellar halo and high-velocitythick disk in the galaxy

Haifan Zhu, Cuihua Du, Yepeng Yan +3

Based on the second Gaia data release (DR2) and APOGEE (DR16) spectroscopic surveys, wedefined two kinds of star sample: high-velocity thick disk (HVTD) with and metal-…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 36 cited

Event rate predictions of strongly lensed gravitational waves with detector networks and more realistic templates

Lilan Yang, Shichao Wu, Kai Liao +5

Strong lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) is attracting growing attention of the community. The event rates of lensed GWs by galaxies were predicted in numerous papers, which use…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 2 cited

Catalog of One-side Head-Tail Galaxies in the FIRST Survey

Tong Pan, Heng Yu, Reinout J. van Weeren +3

One-side head-tail (OHT) galaxies are radio galaxies with a peculiar shape. They usually appear in galaxy clusters, but they have never been cataloged systematically. We design an…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

Optical properties of elongated conducting grains

X. M. Huang, Qi Li, Aigen Li +3

Extremely elongated, conducting dust particles (also known as metallic "needles" or "whiskers") are seen in carbonaceous chondrites and in samples brought back from the Itokawa ast…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 32 cited

The velocity dispersion function of early-type galaxies and its redshift evolution: the newest results from lens redshift test

Shuaibo Geng, Shuo Cao, Yuting Liu +3

The redshift distribution of galactic-scale lensing systems provides a laboratory to probe the velocity dispersion function (VDF) of early-type galaxies (ETGs) and measure the evol…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 59 cited

The Parallax Zero-Point of Gaia Early Data Release 3 from LAMOST Primary Red Clump Stars

Yang Huang, Haibo Yuan, Timothy C. Beers +1

We present an independent examination of the parallax zero-point of the Third Gaia Early Data Release (hereafter EDR3), using the LAMOST primary red clump (PRC) stellar sample. A m…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 25 cited

The Flare and Warp of the Young Stellar Disk traced with LAMOST DR5 OB-type stars

Yang Yu, Hai-Feng Wang, Wen-Yuan Cui +9

We present analysis of the spatial density structure for the outer disk from 814 \,kpc with the LAMOST DR5 13534 OB-type stars and observe similar flaring on north and south sid…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

Exploring the Galactic Anticenter substructure with LAMOST & Gaia DR2

Jing Li, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Chao Liu +12

We characterize the kinematic and chemical properties of 589 Galactic Anticenter Substructure Stars (GASS) with K-/M- giants in Integrals-of-Motion space. These stars likely includ…

astro-ph.GA2021

J-PLUS: Systematic impact of metallicity on photometric calibration with the stellar locus

C. López-Sanjuan, H. Yuan, H. Vázquez Ramió +19

We present the updated photometric calibration of the twelve optical passbands for the Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS) second data release (DR2), comprising 1…