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astro-ph.GA2021★ 3 cited

The Color Gradients of the Globular Cluster Systems in M87 and M49

Yiming Wu, Chengze Liu, Eric W. Peng +8

Combining data from the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey (ACSVCS) and the Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS), we extend previous studies of color gradients of the globular cluster…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 44 cited

A systematic study of the escape of LyC and Ly photons from star-forming, magnetized turbulent clouds

Taysun Kimm, Rebekka Bieri, Sam Geen +4

Understanding the escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) and Lyman (Ly) photons from giant molecular clouds (GMCs) is crucial if we are to study the reionization of the Universe an…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 18 cited

HI observations of the MATLAS dwarf and ultra-diffuse galaxies

Melina Poulain, Francine R. Marleau, Rebecca Habas +8

The presence of HI gas in galaxies is inextricably linked to their morphology and evolution. This paper aims to understand the HI content of the already identified 2210 dwarfs loca…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 139 cited

Event Horizon Telescope observations of the jet launching and collimation in Centaurus A

Michael Janssen, Heino Falcke, Matthias Kadler +236

Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of active galactic nuclei at millimeter wavelengths have the power to reveal the launching and initial collimation region of e…

astro-ph.GA2021

Cross-checking SMBH mass estimates in NGC 6958 -- I: Stellar dynamics from adaptive optics-assisted MUSE observations

Sabine Thater, Davor Krajnović, Peter M. Weilbacher +9

Supermassive black hole masses (MBH) can dynamically be estimated with various methods and using different kinematic tracers. Different methods have only been cross-checked for a s…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

The Distance and Dynamical History of the Virgo Cluster Ultradiffuse Galaxy VCC 615

J. Christopher Mihos, Patrick R. Durrell, Elisa Toloba +6

We use deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging to derive a distance to the Virgo Cluster ultradiffuse galaxy (UDG) VCC 615 using the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) distance estimat…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 3 cited

How the Galaxy Stellar Spins Acquire a Peculiar Tidal Connection?

Jounghun Lee, Jun-Sung Moon, Suk-Jin Yoon

We explore how the galaxy stellar spins acquire a peculiar tendency of being aligned with the major principal axes of the local tidal fields, in contrast to their DM counterparts w…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 68 cited

VERTICO: The Virgo Environment Traced In CO Survey

Toby Brown, Christine D. Wilson, Nikki Zabel +33

We present the Virgo Environment Traced in CO (VERTICO) survey, a new effort to map CO(), CO(), and CO() in 51 Virgo Cluster galaxies with the A…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 24 cited

The MBHBM Project -- II. Molecular Gas Kinematics in the Lenticular Galaxy NGC 3593 Reveal a Supermassive Black Hole

Dieu D. Nguyen, Martin Bureau, Sabine Thater +15

As part of the Measuring Black Holes in Below Milky Way-mass (M) galaxies (MBHBM) Project, we present a dynamical measurement of the supermassive black hole (SMBH)…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 2 cited

The HASHTAG project: The First Submillimeter Images of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Ground

Matthew W. L. Smith, Stephen A. Eales, Thomas G. Williams +46

Observing nearby galaxies with submillimeter telescopes on the ground has two major challenges. First, the brightness is significantly reduced at long submillimeter wavelengths com…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

Evolution of the Ultraviolet Upturn at : exploring helium rich stellar populations

S. S. Ali, R. De Propris, C. Chung +2

We measure the near-UV (rest-frame Å) to optical color for early-type galaxies in 12 clusters at . We show that this is a suitable proxy for the more comm…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 64 cited

Ultra diffuse galaxies in the MATLAS low-to-moderate density fields

Francine R. Marleau, Rebecca Habas, Melina Poulain +10

Recent advances in deep dedicated imaging surveys over the past decade have uncovered a surprisingly large number of extremely faint low surface brightness galaxies with large phys…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 3 cited

Nonlinear Color-Metallicity Relations of Globular Clusters. X. Subaru/FOCAS Multi-object Spectroscopy of M87 Globular Clusters

Sooyoung Kim, Suk-Jin Yoon, Sang-Yoon Lee +2

We obtained spectra of some 140 globular clusters (GCs) associated with the Virgo central cD galaxy M87 with the Subaru/FOCAS MOS mode. The fundamental properties of GCs such as ag…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 10 cited

The variability of brightest cluster galaxies at high radio frequencies

Tom Rose, Alastair Edge, Sebastian Kiehlmann +6

Variability of a galaxy's core radio source can be a significant consequence of AGN accretion. However, this variability has not been well studied, particularly at high radio frequ…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 30 cited

Flattened structures of dwarf satellites around massive host galaxies in the MATLAS low-to-moderate density fields

N. Heesters, R. Habas, F. R. Marleau +6

It was first observed in the 1970s that the dwarf galaxies surrounding our Milky Way, so-called satellites, appear to be arranged in a thin, vast plane. Similar discoveries have be…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

Modeling the unresolved NIR-MIR SEDs of local () QSOs

M. Martínez-Paredes, O. González-Martín, K. HyeongHan +8

To study the nuclear (kpc) dust of nearby () type 1 Quasi Stellar Objects (QSOs) we obtained new near-infrared (NIR) high angular resolution ( arcsec)…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 67 cited

Structure and morphology of the MATLAS dwarf galaxies and their central nuclei

Melina Poulain, Francine R. Marleau, Rebecca Habas +10

We present a photometric study of the dwarf galaxy population in the low to moderate density environments of the MATLAS (Mass Assembly of early-Type gaLAxies with their fine Struct…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 59 cited

The Nature of High / Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization: Low Carbon Abundance and a Top-Heavy IMF?

Harley Katz, Joakim Rosdahl, Taysun Kimm +11

ALMA observations of galaxies have revealed abnormally high [OIII]/[CII] ratios and [CII] deficits compared to local galaxies. Numero…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

Integrated photometry of multiple stellar populations in Globular Clusters

S. Jang, A. P. Milone, E. P. Lagioia +8

Evidence that the multiple populations (MPs) are common properties of globular clusters (GCs) is accumulated over the past decades from clusters in the Milky Way and in its satelli…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 18 cited

Evidence for strong progenitor age dependence of type Ia supernova luminosity standardization process

Young-Wook Lee, Chul Chung, Pierre Demarque +3

Supernova (SN) cosmology is based on the assumption that the width-luminosity relation (WLR) and the color-luminosity relation (CLR) in the type Ia SN luminosity standardization wo…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

New sub-grouping of multiple stellar populations in NGC 2808 based on low-resolution spectroscopy

Seungsoo Hong, Dongwook Lim, Chul Chung +3

We performed low-resolution spectroscopy for the red giant branch stars in an intriguing globular cluster (GC) NGC 2808, which hosts subpopulations with extreme helium and light-el…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 44 cited

WISDOM Project -- IX Giant Molecular Clouds in the Lenticular Galaxy NGC4429: Effects of Shear and Tidal Forces on Clouds

Lijie Liu, Martin Bureau, Leo Blitz +5

We present high spatial resolution (12pc) Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array CO(J=3-2) observations of the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC4429. We identify 217 giant molecu…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

The NewHorizon Simulation -- To Bar Or Not To Bar

J. Reddish, K. Kraljic, M. S. Petersen +12

We use the NewHorizon simulation to study the redshift evolution of bar properties and fractions within galaxies in the stellar masses range $M_{\star} = 10^{7.25} - 10^{11.4} \ \r…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

Living with Neighbors. IV. Dissecting the SpinOrbit Alignment of Dark Matter Halos: Interacting Neighbors and the Local Large-scale Structure

Sung-Ho An, Juhan Kim, Jun-Sung Moon +1

Spinorbit alignment (SOA; i.e., the vector alignment between the halo spin and the orbital angular momentum of neighboring halos) provides an important clue to how galactic angu…