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astro-ph.GA2018★ 32 cited

On the Detection of Supermassive Primordial Stars

Marco Surace, Daniel J. Whalen, Tilman Hartwig +6

The collapse of supermassive primordial stars in hot, atomically-cooled halos may have given birth to the first quasars at 15 - 20. Recent numerical simulations of these r…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 2 cited

The case for gravitational millilensing in the multiply--imaged quasar B1152+199

Saghar Asadi, Erik Zackrisson, Eskil Varenius +3

Previous Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations of the quasar B1152+199 at 5GHz has revealed two images of a strongly lensed jet with seemingly discordant morphologi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 27 cited

Clustering and dynamic decoupling of dust grains in turbulent molecular clouds

Lars Mattsson, Akshay Bhatnagar, Fred A. Gent +1

We present high resolution () simulations of super-/hyper-sonic isothermal hydrodynamic turbulence inside an interstellar molecular cloud (resolving scales of typically 20…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 227 cited

The GALAH survey and Gaia DR2: dissecting the stellar disc's phase space by age, action, chemistry and location

Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Sanjib Sharma, Thor Tepper-Garcia +24

We use the second data releases of the ESA Gaia astrometric survey and the high-resolution GALAH spectroscopic survey to analyse the structure of our Galaxy's disc components. With…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 281 cited

APOGEE Data Releases 13 and 14: Data and Analysis

Jon A. Holtzman, Sten Hasselquist, Matthew Shetrone +23

Data and analysis methodology used for the SDSS/APOGEE Data Releases 13 and 14 are described, highlighting differences from the DR12 analysis presented in Holtzman (2015). Some imp…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 30 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: the N/O abundance ratio in the Milky Way

L. Magrini, F. Vincenzo, S. Randich +31

The abundance ratio N/O is a useful tool to study the interplay of galactic processes, e.g. star formation efficiency, time-scale of infall and outflow loading factor We aim to tra…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 41 cited

The GALAH Survey and Gaia DR2: (Non)existence of five sparse high-latitude open clusters

Janez Kos, Gayandhi de Silva, Joss Bland-Hawthorn +21

Sparse open clusters can be found at high galactic latitudes where loosely populated clusters are more easily detected against the lower stellar background. Because most star forma…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 54 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: the origin and evolution of s-process elements

L. Magrini, L. Spina, S. Randich +45

Several works have found an increase of the abundances of the s-process neutron-capture elements in the youngest Galactic stellar populations, giving important constraints to stell…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 223 cited

Detection of the Far-infrared [O III] and Dust Emission in a Galaxy at Redshift 8.312: Early Metal Enrichment in the Heart of the Reionization Era

Yoichi Tamura, Ken Mawatari, Takuya Hashimoto +19

We present the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) detection of the [O III] 88 m line and rest-frame 90 m dust continuum emission in a Y-dropout Lyman break g…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 242 cited

"Big Three Dragons": a z = 7.15 Lyman BreakGalaxy Detected in [OIII] 88 m, [CII] 158 m, and Dust Continuum with ALMA

Takuya Hashimoto, Akio K. Inoue, Ken Mawatari +18

We present new ALMA observations and physical properties of a Lyman Break Galaxy at z=7.15. Our target, B14-65666, has a bright ultra-violet (UV) absolute magnitude, $M_{\rm UV}\ap…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 8.6k cited

Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A. Brown, A. Vallenari +4

We present the second Gaia data release, Gaia DR2, consisting of astrometry, photometry, radial velocities, and information on astrophysical parameters and variability, for sources…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 25 cited

Chemical Characterization of the Inner Galactic bulge:North-South Symmetry

G. Nandakumar, N. Ryde, M. Schultheis +5

While the number of stars in the Galactic bulge with detailed chemical abundance measurements is increasingly rapidly, the inner Galactic bulge ( |b| < 2) remains poorly st…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 18 cited

Dust cleansing of star-forming gas I: Did radiation from bright stars affect the chemical composition of the Sun and of M67?

Bengt Gustafsson

The possibility that the solar chemical composition, as well as the similar composition of the rich open cluster M67, have been affected by dust cleansing of the pre-solar/pre-clus…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 423 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Mapping the Milky Way disc kinematics

Gaia Collaboration, D. Katz, T. Antoja +12

To illustrate the potential of GDR2, we provide a first look at the kinematics of the Milky Way disc, within a radius of several kiloparsecs around the Sun. We benefit for the firs…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 194 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: The Celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF2)

F. Mignard, S. Klioner, L. Lindegren +3

The second release of Gaia data (Gaia DR2) contains the astrometric parameters for more than half a million quasars. This set defines a kinematically non-rotating reference frame i…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 57 cited

Exploring the production and depletion of lithium in the Milky Way stellar disk

Thomas Bensby, Karin Lind

[ABRIDGED] We determine Li abundances for a well-studied sample of 714 F and G dwarf, turn-off, and subgiant stars in the solar neighbourhood. The analysis is based on line synthes…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 37 cited

The GALAH Survey: Stellar streams and how stellar velocity distributions vary with Galactic longitude, hemisphere and metallicity

Alice C. Quillen, Gayandhi De Silva, Sanjib Sharma +30

Using GALAH survey data of nearby stars, we look at how structure in the planar (u,v) velocity distribution depends on metallicity and on viewing direction within the Galaxy. In ne…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 637 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Kinematics of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way

Gaia Collaboration, A. Helmi, F. van Leeuwen +7

The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the outstanding quality of the second data release of the Gaia mission and its power for constraining many different aspects of the dynamic…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 6 cited

Lyman continuum leakage versus quenching with the James Webb Space Telescope: The spectral signatures of quenched star formation activity in reionization-epoch galaxies

C. Binggeli, E. Zackrisson, K. Pelckmans +3

In this paper, we study the effects of a recent drop in star formation rate (SFR) on the spectra of epoch of reionization (EoR) galaxies, and the resulting degeneracy with the spec…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 17 cited

The GALAH survey: Co-orbiting stars and chemical tagging

Jeffrey D. Simpson, Sarah L. Martell, Gary Da Costa +24

We present a study using the second data release of the GALAH survey of stellar parameters and elemental abundances of 15 pairs of stars identified by Oh et al 2017. They identifie…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 7 cited

The Lyman Alpha Reference Sample IX: Revelations from deep surface photometry

Genoveva Micheva, Göran Östlin, Erik Zackrisson +7

The Lyman Alpha Reference Sample (LARS) of 14 star-forming galaxies offers a wealth of insight into the workings of these local analogs to high-redshift star-forming galaxies. The…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 44 cited

The GALAH survey: properties of the Galactic disk(s) in the solar neighbourhood

L. Duong, K. C. Freeman, M. Asplund +26

Using data from the GALAH pilot survey, we determine properties of the Galactic thin and thick disks near the solar neighbourhood. The data cover a small range of Galactocentric ra…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 19 cited

Aligned metal absorbers and the ultraviolet background at the end of reionization

Caitlin Doughty, Kristian Finlator, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer +2

We use observations of spatially-aligned C II, C IV, Si II, Si IV, and O I absorbers to probe the slope and intensity of the ultraviolet background (UVB) at . We accompli…