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astro-ph.GA2021★ 52 cited

Molecular Gas Properties and CO-to-H2 Conversion Factors in the Central Kiloparsec of NGC 3351

Yu-Hsuan Teng, Karin M. Sandstrom, Jiayi Sun +16

The CO-to-H conversion factor ($α_\rm{CO}$) is critical to studying molecular gas and star formation in galaxies. The value of $α_\rm{CO}$ has been found to vary within and bet…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 96 cited

Thermal imaging of dust hiding the black hole in the Active Galaxy NGC 1068

Violeta Gamez Rosas, Jacob W. Isbell, Walter Jaffe +49

In the widely accepted 'Unified Model' solution of the classification puzzle of Active Galactic Nuclei, the orientation of a dusty accretion torus around the central black hole dom…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

VLA Snapshot Continuum Survey of FRI Quasar Candidates Selected from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS)

Gülay Gürkan, Judith Croston, Martin Hardcastle +3

The radiative and jet power in active galactic nuclei is generated by accretion of material on to supermassive galactic-centre black holes. For quasars, where the radiative power i…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 18 cited

Deep XMM-Newton Observations of an X-ray Weak, Broad Absorption Line Quasar at

Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan, Feige Wang +14

We report X-ray observations of the most distant known gravitationally lensed quasar, J0439+1634 at , which is also a broad absorption line (BAL) quasar, using the XMM-Newt…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 2 cited

HARMONI view of the host galaxies of active galactic nuclei around cosmic noon: Resolved stellar morpho-kinematics and the M- relation

Begoña Garcia-Lorenzo, Ana Monreal-Ibero, Miguel Pereira-Santaella +4

Context. The formation and evolution of galaxies appear linked to the growth of supermassive black holes, as evidenced by empirical scaling relations in nearby galaxies. Understand…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

The MUSE-Faint survey. III. No large dark-matter cores and no significant tidal stripping in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies

Sebastiaan L. Zoutendijk, Mariana P. Júlio, Jarle Brinchmann +8

[Abridged] Aims. The lowest-mass galaxies, ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, promise unparalleled constraints on how feedback regulates galaxy formation, and on the small-scale matter po…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

Methoxymethanol Formation Starting from CO-Hydrogenation

Jiao He, Mart Simons, Gleb Fedoseev +7

Methoxymethanol (CH3OCH2OH, MM) has been identified through gas-phase signatures in both high- and low-mass star-forming regions. This molecule is expected to form upon hydrogen ad…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 38 cited

LoTSS Jellyfish Galaxies III. The first identification of jellyfish galaxies in the Perseus cluster

Ian D. Roberts, Reinout J. van Weeren, Roland Timmerman +4

In this paper we report the first identification of jellyfish galaxies in the Perseus cluster (Abell 426). We identified four jellyfish galaxies (LEDA 2191078, MCG +07-07-070, UGC…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

Baryonic mass budgets for haloes in the EAGLE simulation, including ejected and prevented gas

Peter D. Mitchell, Joop Schaye

Feedback processes are expected to shape galaxy evolution by ejecting gas from galaxies and their associated dark matter haloes, and also by preventing diffuse gas from ever being…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 45 cited

The Prevalence of Galaxy Overdensities Around UV-Luminous Lyman Emitters in the Epoch of Reionization

E. Leonova, P. A. Oesch, Y. Qin +19

Before the end of the epoch of reionization, the Hydrogen in the Universe was predominantly neutral. This leads to a strong attenuation of Ly lines of galaxies in th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 287 cited

The mass distribution in the Galactic Centre from interferometric astrometry of multiple stellar orbits

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +62

The stars orbiting the compact radio source Sgr A* in the Galactic Centre are precision probes of the gravitational field around the closest massive black hole. In addition to adap…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 35 cited

Deep Images of the Galactic Center with GRAVITY

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +65

Stellar orbits at the Galactic Center provide a very clean probe of the gravitational potential of the supermassive black hole. They can be studied with unique precision, beyond th…

astro-ph.GA2021

Families and Clusters of Diffuse Interstellar Bands: a Data-Driven Correlation Analysis

Haoyu Fan, Madison Schwartz, Amin Farhang +9

More than 500 diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) have been observed in astronomical spectra, and their signatures and correlations in different environments have been studied over t…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

C diffuse interstellar band correlations and environmental variations

Leander Schlarmann, Bernard Foing, Jan Cami +1

The Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) are absorption features seen in the spectra of astronomical objects, that arise in the interstellar medium. Today more than 500 DIBs have been…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Weak Environmental Dependence of Quasar Activity at 0.1<z<0.35

Clare F. Wethers, Nischal Acharya, Roberto De Propris +13

Understanding the connection between nuclear activity and galaxy environment remains critical in constraining models of galaxy evolution. By exploiting extensive catalogued data fr…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

The radio spectral turnover of radio-loud quasars at

Yali Shao, Jeff Wagg, Ran Wang +8

We present Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) S- (2--4 GHz), C- (4--8 GHz), and X-band (8--12 GHz) continuum observations toward seven radio-loud quasars at . This sample h…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 52 cited

Sizes of Lensed Lower-luminosity z=4-8 Galaxies from the Hubble Frontier Field Program

R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, P. G. van Dokkum +3

We constrain the rest-UV size-luminosity relation for star-forming galaxies at z~4 and z~6, 7, and 8 identified behind clusters from the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) program. The s…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 10 cited

The detection of a massive chain of dark HI clouds in the GAMA G23 Field

Gyula I. G. Jozsa, T. H. Jarrett, Michelle Cluver +18

We report on the detection of a large, extended HI cloud complex in the GAMA G23 field, located at a redshift of , observed as part of the MeerHOGS campaign (a pilot…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 25 cited

The evolution of temperature and density structures of OB cluster-forming molecular clumps

Yuxin Lin, Friedrich Wyrowski, Hauyu Baobab Liu +4

OB star clusters originate from parsec-scale massive molecular clumps. We aim to understand the evolution of temperature and density structures on the intermediate-scale ($\lesssim…

astro-ph.GA2021

Observed structural parameters of EAGLE galaxies: reconciling the mass-size relation in simulations with local observations

Anna de Graaff, James Trayford, Marijn Franx +3

We use mock images of galaxies in the 100 Mpc EAGLE simulation to establish the differences between the sizes and morphologies inferred from the stellar mass distributions…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 33 cited

Self-absorption in [CII], CO, and HI in RCW120. Building up a geometrical and physical model of the region

S. Kabanovic, N. Schneider, V. Ossenkopf-Okada +19

Revealing the 3D dynamics of HII regions and their associated molecular clouds is important for understanding the longstanding problem as to how stellar feedback affects the densit…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

Reconciling the Results of the z~2 MOSDEF and KBSS-MOSFIRE Surveys

Jordan N. Runco, Naveen A. Reddy, Alice E. Shapley +21

The combination of the MOSDEF and KBSS-MOSFIRE surveys represents the largest joint investment of Keck/MOSFIRE time to date, with ~3000 galaxies at 1.4<=z<=3.8, roughly half of whi…

astro-ph.GA2021

The effect of spiral arms on the Sérsic photometry of galaxies

Alessandro Sonnenfeld

Context. The Sérsic profile is a widely-used model to describe the surface brightness distribution of galaxies. Spiral galaxies, however, are qualitatively different from a Sérsic…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers in Star-forming Galaxies at z < 0.15 Detected with the Hubble Space Telescope and Implications for Galaxy Evolution

Varsha P. Kulkarni, David V. Bowen, Lorrie A. Straka +4

We report {\it HST} COS spectroscopy of 10 quasars with foreground star-forming galaxies at 0.02 0.14 within impact parameters of 1-7 kpc. We detect damped/sub-dampe…