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astro-ph.GA2020★ 49 cited

Physical insights from the spectrum of the radio halo in MACS J0717.5+3745

K. Rajpurohit, G. Brunetti, A. Bonafede +18

We present new LOFAR observations of the massive merging galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745. The cluster hosts the most powerful radio halo known to date. These new observations, in…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 9 cited

MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) VII. A NOEMA pilot program to probe molecular gas in galaxies with measured circumgalactic gas flows

Jonathan Freundlich, Nicolas F. Bouché, Thierry Contini +5

We present a pilot program using IRAM's NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) to probe the molecular gas reservoirs of six star-forming galaxies whose circumgalact…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

Gas-phase Elemental abundances in Molecular cloudS (GEMS) III. Unlocking the CS chemistry: the CS+O reaction

N. Bulut, O. Roncero, A. Aguado +36

CS is among the most abundant gas-phase S-bearing molecules in cold dark molecular clouds. It is easily observable with several transitions in the millimeter wavelength range, and…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 19 cited

Dust, gas, and metal content in star-forming galaxies at revealed with ALMA and Near-IR spectroscopy

Tomoko L. Suzuki, Masato Onodera, Tadayuki Kodama +8

We conducted sub-millimeter observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) of star-forming galaxies at , whose gas-phase metallicities have be…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 15 cited

COLDz: Deep 34 GHz Continuum Observations and Free-free Emission in High-redshift Star-forming Galaxies

H. S. B. Algera, J. A. Hodge, D. Riechers +9

The high-frequency radio sky has historically remained largely unexplored due to the typical faintness of sources in this regime, and the modest survey speed compared to observatio…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 20 cited

The survival of globular clusters in a cuspy Fornax

Shi Shao, Marius Cautun, Carlos S. Frenk +5

It has long been argued that the radial distribution of globular clusters (GCs) in the Fornax dwarf galaxy requires its dark matter halo to have a core of size kpc. We rev…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 12 cited

Optical emission lines in the most massive galaxies: morphology, kinematics and ionisation properties

I. Pagotto, D. Krajnović, M. den Brok +5

To better characterize the upper end of the galaxy stellar mass range, the MUSE Most Massive Galaxies (M3G) Survey targeted the most massive galaxies (M M) foun…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

Dwarf Galaxies and the Black-Hole Scaling Relations

Andrew King, Rebecca Nealon

The sample of dwarf galaxies with measured central black hole masses and velocity dispersions has recently doubled, and gives a close fit to the extrapolation of the $M \pr…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 48 cited

The Rapid Build-up of Massive Early-type Galaxies. Supersolar Metallicity, High Velocity Dispersion and Young Age for an ETG at z=3.35

Paolo Saracco, Danilo Marchesini, Francesco La Barbera +8

Thanks to very deep spectroscopic observations carried out at the Large Binocular Telescope, we measured simultaneously stellar age, metallicity and velocity dispersion for C1-2315…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 112 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: Acceleration of the solar system from Gaia astrometry

Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, F. Mignard +414

Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which have the best-quali…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 26 cited

Spectral Variability of Radio Sources at Low Frequencies

K. Ross, J. R. Callingham, N. Hurley-Walker +7

Spectral variability of radio sources encodes information about the conditions of intervening media, source structure, and emission processes. With new low-frequency radio interfer…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 31 cited

Too dense to go through: The importance of low-mass clusters for satellite quenching

Diego Pallero, Facundo A. Gómez, Nelson D. Padilla +3

We study the evolution of satellite galaxies in clusters of the \textsc{c-eagle} simulations, a suite of 30 high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations based on…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 29 cited

MusE GAs Flow and Wind (MEGAFLOW) VI. A study of CIV and MgII absorbing gas surrounding [OII] emitting galaxies

Ilane Schroetter, Nicolas F. Bouché, Johannes Zabl +7

Using the MEGAFLOW survey, which consists of a combination of MUSE and UVES observations of 22 quasar fields selected to contain strong MgII absorbers, we measure covering fraction…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 85 cited

Sphenix: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for the next generation of galaxy formation simulations

Josh Borrow, Matthieu Schaller, Richard G. Bower +1

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a ubiquitous numerical method for solving the fluid equations, and is prized for its conservation properties, natural adaptivity, and simpl…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 31 cited

Deviations from tidal torque theory: evolution of the halo spin-filament alignment

Pablo López, Marius Cautun, Dante Paz +2

The alignment between halo spins and the cosmic web is still poorly understood despite being a widely studied topic. Here, we study this alignment within the context of tidal torqu…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 219 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: Summary of the contents and survey properties

Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A Brown, A. Vallenari +423

We present the early installment of the third Gaia data release, Gaia EDR3, consisting of astrometry and photometry for 1.8 billion sources brighter than magnitude 21, complemented…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 37 cited

A Spitzer survey of Deep Drilling Fields to be targeted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time

M. Lacy, J. A. Surace, D. Farrah +60

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will observe several Deep Drilling Fields (DDFs) to a greater depth and with a more rapid cadence than the main…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 36 cited

Understanding the radio relic emission in the galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745: spectral analysis

K. Rajpurohit, D. Wittor, R. J. van Weeren +21

Radio relics are diffuse, extended synchrotron sources that originate from shock fronts generated during cluster mergers. The massive merging galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 hosts…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 39 cited

Stellar splashback: the edge of the intracluster light

Alis J. Deason, Kyle A. Oman, Azadeh Fattahi +8

We examine the outskirts of galaxy clusters in the C-EAGLE simulations to quantify the `edges' of the stellar and dark matter distribution. The radius of the steepest slope in the…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 3 cited

A low [CII]/[NII] ratio in the center of a massive galaxy at z=3.7: witnessing the transition to quiescence at high-redshift?

C. Schreiber, K. Glazebrook, C. Papovich +11

Understanding the process of quenching is one of the major open questions in galaxy evolution, and crucial insights may be obtained by studying quenched galaxies at high redshifts,…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 15 cited

Diagnosing the interstellar medium of galaxies with far-infrared emission lines I. The [C II] 158 microns line at z~0

Andrés Felipe Ramos Padilla, Lingyu Wang, Sylvia Ploeckinger +2

Atomic fine structure lines have been detected in the local Universe and at high redshifts over the past decades. The [C II] emission line at 158 m is an important observable as…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 12 cited

Inconsistencies arising from the coupling of galaxy formation sub-grid models to Pressure-Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Josh Borrow, Matthieu Schaller, Richard G. Bower

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method for solving the fluid equations that is commonplace in astrophysics, prized for its natural adaptivity and stability. T…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

S2D2: Small-scale Significant substructure DBSCAN Detection I. NESTs detection in 2D star-forming regions

Marta González, Isabelle Joncour, Anne S. M. Buckner +13

The spatial and dynamical structure of star-forming regions can help provide insights on stellar formation patterns. The amount of data from current and upcoming surveys calls for…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

Discovery of two Einstein crosses from massive post--blue nugget galaxies at z>1 in KiDS

N. R. Napolitano, R. Li, C. Spiniello +18

We report the discovery of two Einstein Crosses (ECs) in the footprint of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS): KIDS J232940-340922 and KIDS J122456+005048. Using integral field spectrosc…