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astro-ph.GA2016★ 12 cited

Abundances of disk and bulge giants from hi-res optical spectra: I. O, Mg, Ca, and Ti in the Solar neighborhood and Kepler field samples

H. Jönsson, N. Ryde, T. Nordlander +4

The galactic bulge is a significant part of our galaxy, but it is hard to observe, being both distant and covered by dust in the disk. Therefore there do not exist many hi-res opti…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 4 cited

A Multiply-Imaged z 6.3 Lyman Alpha Emitter candidate behind Abell 2261

Claes-Erik Rydberg, Adi Zitrin, Erik Zackrisson +6

While the Lyman- () emission line serves as an important tool in the study of galaxies at , finding Ly emitters (LAE) at significantly higher redsh…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 128 cited

Unveiling the first black holes with JWST: multi-wavelength spectral predictions

Priyamvada Natarajan, Fabio Pacucci, Andrea Ferrara +4

Growing the supermassive black holes (~10^9 Msun) that power the detected luminous, highest redshift quasars (z > 6) from light seeds - the remnants of the first stars - within ~ 1…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 11 cited

The XXL survey: first results and future

M. Pierre, C. Adami, M. Birkinshaw +108

The XXL survey currently covers two 25 sq. deg. patches with XMM observations of ~10ks. We summarise the scientific results associated with the first release of the XXL data set, t…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 31 cited

The Minimum Halo Mass for Star Formation at z = 6 - 8

K. Finlator, M. K. M. Prescott, B. D. Oppenheimer +6

Recent analysis of strongly-lensed sources in the Hubble Frontier Fields indicates that the rest-frame UV luminosity function of galaxies at 6--8 rises as a power law down to $…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 15 cited

Detection of HI in Emission in the Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxy Haro 11

Stephen A. Pardy, John M. Cannon, Göran Östlin +2

We present the first robust detection of HI 21 cm emission in the blue compact galaxy Haro 11 using the 100m Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Haro 11 is a luminous blue c…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 102 cited

The Hamburg/ESO R-process Enhanced Star survey (HERES) XI. The highly -process-enhanced star CS 29497-004

V. Hill, N. Christlieb, T. C. Beers +5

We report an abundance analysis for the highly r-process-enhanced (r-II) star CS 29497-004, a very metal-poor giant with Teff = 5013K and [Fe/H]=-2.85, whose nature was initially d…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 1 cited

Data-driven dissection of emission-line regions in Seyfert galaxies

Beatriz Villarroel, Andreas J. Korn

Indirectly resolving the line-emitting gas regions in distant Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) requires both high-resolution photometry and spectroscopy (i.e. through reverberation map…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 69 cited

The spectral evolution of the first Galaxies. III. Simulated James Webb Space Telescope spectra of reionization-epoch galaxies with Lyman continuum leakage

E. Zackrisson, C. Binggeli, K. Finlator +8

Using four different suites of cosmological simulations, we generate synthetic spectra for galaxies with different Lyman continuum escape fractions (fesc) at redshifts z=7-9, in th…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 20 cited

Our Sky now and then searches for lost stars and impossible effects as probes of advanced extra-terrestrial civilisations

Beatriz Villarroel, Iñigo Imaz, Josefine Bergstedt

Searches for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) using large survey data often look for possible signatures of astroengineering. We propose to search for physically impossible ef…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 228 cited

Detection of an oxygen emission line from a high redshift galaxy in the reionization epoch

Akio K. Inoue, Yoichi Tamura, Hiroshi Matsuo +14

The physical properties and elemental abundances of the interstellar medium in galaxies during cosmic reionization are important for understanding the role of galaxies in this proc…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 44 cited

Gravitational scattering of stars and clusters and the heating of the Galactic disk

Bengt Gustafsson, Ross Church, Melvyn B. Davies +1

Could the velocity spread, increasing with time, in the Galactic disk be explained as a result of gravitational interactions of stars with giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and spiral…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 78 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Probes of the inner disk abundance gradient

H. R. Jacobson, E. D. Friel, L. Jilkova +41

The nature of the metallicity gradient inside the solar circle (R_GC < 8 kpc) is poorly understood, but studies of Cepheids and a small sample of open clusters suggest that it stee…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 40 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: the selection function of the Milky Way field stars

E. Stonkute, S. E. Koposov, L. M. Howes +26

The Gaia-ESO Survey was designed to target all major Galactic components (i.e., bulge, thin and thick discs, halo and clusters), with the goal of constraining the chemical and dyna…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 109 cited

The EMBLA Survey -- Metal-poor stars in the Galactic bulge

Louise M. Howes, Martin Asplund, Stefan C. Keller +14

Cosmological models predict the oldest stars in the Galaxy should be found closest to the centre of the potential well, in the bulge. The EMBLA Survey successfully searched for the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 12 cited

A machine-learning approach to measuring the escape of ionizing radiation from galaxies in the reionization epoch

Hannes Jensen, Erik Zackrisson, Kristiaan Pelckmans +3

Recent observations of galaxies at , along with the low value of the electron scattering optical depth measured by the Planck mission, make galaxies plausible as domin…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 53 cited

Terrestrial planets across space and time

E. Zackrisson, P. Calissendorff, J. Gonzalez +3

The study of cosmology, galaxy formation and exoplanets has now advanced to a stage where a cosmic inventory of terrestrial planets may be attempted. By coupling semi-analytic mode…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 74 cited

A Comprehensive Comparative Test of Seven Widely-Used Spectral Synthesis Models Against Multi-Band Photometry of Young Massive Star Clusters

A. Wofford, S. Charlot, G. Bruzual +13

We test the predictions of spectral synthesis models based on seven different massive-star prescriptions against Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) observations of eight young…