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most citedGaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

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astro-ph.GA2016★ 42 cited

Absorption and scattering by interstellar dust in the silicon K-edge of GX 5-1

S. T. Zeegers, E. Costantini, C. P. de Vries +6

We study the absorption and scattering of X-ray radiation by interstellar dust particles, which allows us to access the physical and chemical properties of dust. The interstellar d…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 42 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Gas Fuelling of Spiral Galaxies in the Local Universe I. - The Effect of the Group Environment on Star Formation in Spiral Galaxies

M. W. Grootes, R. J. Tuffs, C. C. Popescu +20

Abridged - We quantify the effect of the galaxy group environment (for 12.5 < log(M_group/Msun) < 14.0) on the star formation rates of the (morphologically-selected) population of…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 27 cited

Importance of tunneling in H-abstraction reactions by OH radicals: The case of CH4 + OH studied through isotope-substituted analogs

Thanja Lamberts, Gleb Fedoseev, Johannes Kästner +2

We present a combined experimental and theoretical study focussing on the quantum tunneling of atoms in the reaction between CH4 and OH. The importance of this reaction pathway is…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 36 cited

The Dense Molecular Gas and Nuclear Activity in the ULIRG IRAS 13120-5453

G. C. Privon, S. Aalto, N. Falstad +12

We present new ALMA Band 7 ( GHz) observations of the dense gas tracers HCN, HCO, and CS in the local, single-nucleus, ultraluminous infrared galaxy IRAS 13120-5453. W…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 82 cited

The environmental dependence of gas accretion onto galaxies: quenching satellites through starvation

Freeke van de Voort, Yannick M. Bahé, Richard G. Bower +4

Galaxies that have fallen into massive haloes may no longer be able to accrete gas from their surroundings, a process referred to as 'starvation' or 'strangulation' of satellites.…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 83 cited

The Size Evolution of Star-forming Galaxies Since z~7 Using ZFOURGE

Rebecca J. Allen, Glenn G. Kacprzak, Karl Glazebrook +10

For the first time, we present the size evolution of a mass-complete (log(M*/Msol)>10) sample of star-forming galaxies over redshifts z=1-7, selected from the FourStar Galaxy Evolu…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 13 cited

Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing in EAGLE: comparison with data from 180 square degrees of the KiDS and GAMA surveys

Marco Velliscig, Marcello Cacciato, Henk Hoekstra +14

We present predictions for the galaxy-galaxy lensing profile from the EAGLE hydrodynamical cosmological simulation at redshift z=0.18, in the spatial range 0.02 < R/(Mpc/h) < 2, an…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 25 cited

Implications of an updated ultraviolet background for the ionization mechanisms of intervening Ne VIII absorbers

Tanvir Hussain, Vikram Khaire, Raghunathan Srianand +2

Ne VIII absorbers seen in QSO spectra are useful tracers of warm ionized gas, when collisional ionization is the dominant ionization process. While photoionization by the ultraviol…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 22 cited

ZFIRE: Similar Stellar Growth in H-emitting Cluster and Field Galaxies at z~2

Kim-Vy H. Tran, Leo Y. Alcorn, Glenn G. Kacprzak +13

We compare galaxy scaling relations as a function of environment at with our ZFIRE survey where we have measured H fluxes for 90 star-forming galaxies selected from a m…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 90 cited

Faraday tomography of the local interstellar medium with LOFAR: Galactic foregrounds towards IC342

C. L. Van Eck, M. Haverkorn, M. I. R. Alves +18

The new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, such as the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR: a Square Kilometre Array-low pathfinder), provides advancements in our capability of p…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 55 cited

AGN-Host Connection at 0.5 < z < 2.5: A rapid evolution of AGN fraction in red galaxies during the last 10 Gyr

Tao Wang, D. Elbaz, D. M. Alexander +13

We explore the dependence of the incidence of moderate-luminosity ( erg s) AGNs and the distribution of their accretion rates on host color at 0.5 <…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 46 cited

On the galaxy-halo connection in the EAGLE simulation

Harry Desmond, Yao-Yuan Mao, Risa Wechsler +2

Empirical models of galaxy formation require assumptions about the correlations between galaxy and halo properties. These may be calibrated against observations or inferred from ph…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 51 cited

SINFONI-HiZELS: The dynamics, merger rates & metallicity gradients of `typical' star-forming galaxies at = 0.8-2.2

J. Molina, E. Ibar, A. M. Swinbank +5

We present adaptive optics (AO) assisted SINFONI integral field unit (IFU) spectroscopy of eleven H emitting galaxies selected from the High-Z Emission Line Survey (HiZELS). We…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 104 cited

Molecular Gas in the Halo Fuels the Growth of a Massive Cluster Galaxy at High Redshift

B. H. C. Emonts, M. D. Lehnert, M. Villar-Martin +19

The largest galaxies in the Universe reside in galaxy clusters. Using sensitive observations of carbon-monoxide, we show that the Spiderweb Galaxy -a massive galaxy in a distant pr…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 19 cited

An Upper Limit on the Mass of a Central Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud from the Stellar Rotation Field

H. Boyce, N. Lützgendorf, R. P. van der Marel +4

We constrain the possible presence of a central black hole (BH) in the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This requires spectroscopic measurements over an area of order a…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 50 cited

Characterizing the properties of cluster precursors in the MALT90 survey

Yanett Contreras, Jill M. Rathborne, Andres Guzman +4

In the Milky Way there are thousands of stellar clusters each harboring from a hundred to a million stars. Although clusters are common, the initial conditions of cluster formation…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 45 cited

A large H survey of star formation in relaxed and merging galaxy cluster environments at

Andra Stroe, David Sobral, Ana Afonso +4

We present the first results from the largest H survey of star formation and AGN activity in galaxy clusters. Using 9 different narrow band filters, we select H emitt…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 20 cited

The ALHAMBRA survey : band luminosity function of quiescent and star-forming galaxies at by PDF analysis

C. López-Sanjuan, E. Tempel, N. Benítez +34

Our goal is to study the evolution of the band luminosity function (LF) since using ALHAMBRA data. We used the photometric redshift and the band selection magnitude p…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 39 cited

Probing the Radio Loud/Quiet AGN dichotomy with quasar clustering

E. Retana-Montenegro, H. J. A. Röttgering

We investigate the clustering properties of 45441 radio-quiet quasars (RQQs) and 3493 radio-loud quasars (RLQs) drawn from a joint use of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Fa…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 37 cited

A search for long-timescale, low-frequency radio transients

Tara Murphy, David L. Kaplan, Steve Croft +30

We present a search for transient and highly variable sources at low radio frequencies (150-200 MHz) that explores long timescales of 1-3 years. We conducted this search by compari…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 104 cited

Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project VI: reverberating Disk Models for NGC 5548

D. Starkey, Keith Horne, M. M. Fausnaugh +90

We conduct a multiwavelength continuum variability study of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 to investigate the temperature structure of its accretion disk. The 19 overlapping continu…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 37 cited

The Highly Ionized Circumgalactic Medium is Kinematically Uniform Around Galaxies

Nikole M. Nielsen, Glenn G. Kacprzak, Sowgat Muzahid +3

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) traced by OVI doublet absorption has been found to concentrate along the projected major and minor axes of the host galaxies. This su…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 41 cited

The HDUV Survey: Six Lyman Continuum Emitter Candidates at z~2 Revealed by HST UV Imaging

R. P. Naidu, P. A. Oesch, N. Reddy +14

We present six galaxies at z~2 that show evidence of Lyman continuum (LyC) emission based on the newly acquired UV imaging of the Hubble Deep UV legacy survey (HDUV) conducted with…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 15 cited

Discovery of five low luminosity active galactic nuclei at the centre of the Perseus cluster

Songyoun Park, Jun Yang, J. B. Raymond Oonk +1

According to optical stellar kinematics observations, an over-massive black hole candidate has been reported by van den Bosch et al. (2012) in the normal early-type galaxy NGC 1277…