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astro-ph.GA2014★ 4 cited

A Statistical Study of H I Gas in Nearby Narrow-Line AGN-Hosting Galaxies

Yi-Nan Zhu, Hong Wu

As a quenching mechanism, AGN feedback could suppress on-going star formation in their host galaxies. On the basis of a sample of galaxies selected from ALFALFA HI survey, the depe…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 3 cited

The discrepancy in the mid-infrared continuum and the features of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for Spitzer and Herschel SWIRE-field galaxies

Yi-Nan Zhu, Hong Wu

On the basis of observations by Spitzer and Herschel, we present and analyse the correlations between various monochromatic infrared (IR) luminosities for star-forming galaxies, se…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 26 cited

Dependence of the bright end of galaxy luminosity function on cluster dynamical state

Z. L. Wen, J. L. Han

Luminosity function of cluster galaxies provides a fundamental constraint on galaxy evolution in cluster environments. By using the bright member galaxies of a large sample of rich…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 170 cited

The LAMOST Stellar Parameter Pipeline at Peking University --- LSP3

Maosheng Xiang, Xiaowei Liu, Haibo Yuan +17

We introduce the LAMOST Stellar Parameter Pipeline at Peking University --- LSP3, developed and implemented for the determinations of radial velocity and stellar atmosp…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 26 cited

Relative Flux Calibration of the LAMOST Spectroscopic Survey of the Galactic Anti-center

Maosheng Xiang, Xiaowei Liu, Haibo Yuan +17

We have developed and implemented an iterative algorithm of flux calibration for the LAMOST Spectroscopic Survey of the Galactic anti-center (LSS-GAC). For a given LSS-GAC plate, t…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 64 cited

Scaling relations between black holes and their host galaxies: comparing theoretical and observational measurements, and the impact of selection effects

Colin DeGraf, Tiziana Di Matteo, Tommaso Treu +3

We use the high-resolution simulation MassiveBlackII to examine scaling relations between black hole mass (MBH) and host galaxy properties (sigma, M*, and LV), finding good agreeme…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 13 cited

The velocity distribution in the solar neighbourhood from the LAMOST pilot survey

Qiran Xia, Chao Liu, Yan Xu +5

We use about 15,000 F/G nearby dwarf stars selected from the LAMOST pilot survey to map the U-V velocity distribution in the solar neighbourhood. An extreme deconvolution algorithm…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 58 cited

The Structure and Stellar Content of the Outer Disks of Galaxies: A New View from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey

Z. Zheng, D. Thilker, T. Heckman +11

We present the results of an analysis of Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey multi-band (g,r,i,z,y) images of a sample of 698 low-redshift disk galaxies that span broad ranges in stella…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 22 cited

Unshifted Metastable He I* Mini-Broad Absorption Line System in the Narrow Line Type 1 Quasar SDSS J080248.18551328.9

Tuo Ji, Hongyan Zhou, Peng Jiang +11

We report the identification of an unusual absorption line system in the quasar SDSS J080248.18551328.9 and present a detailed study of the system, incorporating follow-up optic…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 29 cited

Ongoing growth of the brightest cluster galaxies via major dry mergers in the last ~6 Gyr

F. S. Liu, F. J. Lei, X. M. Meng +1

Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) might have been assembled relatively late (z<1) via mergers. By exploiting the high-resolution HST/ACS imaging, we find four BCGs (COSMOS-P 125516…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 1.7k cited

Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Kevin Bundy, Matthew A. Bershady, David R. Law +65

We present an overview of a new integral field spectroscopic survey called MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory), one of three core programs in the fourth-gen…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 6 cited

Three-dimensional Tomography of the Galactic and Extragalactic Magnetoionic Medium with the SKA

J. L. Han, W. van Straten, T. J. W. Lazio +9

The magneto-ionic structures of the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and the intergalactic medium are still poorly understood, especially at distances larger than a few kilopar…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 3 cited

The HI dominated Low Surface Brightness Galaxy KKR17

Man I. Lam, Hong Wu, Ming Yang +3

We present new narrow-band (H and [OIII]) imagings and optical spectrophotometry of HII regions for a gas-rich low surface brightness irregular galaxy, KKR 17. The central surfa…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 10 cited

Role of Feedback in AGN-HOST Coevolution: A Study from Partially Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei

J. Wang

Partially obscured AGNs within a redshift range are used to re-study the role of feedback in the AGN-host coevolution issue in terms of their [OIII]5007 emiss…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 9 cited

Spectral Energy Distributions and Masses of 304 M31 Old Star Clusters

Jun Ma, Song Wang, Zhenyu Wu +8

This paper presents CCD multicolor photometry for 304 old star clusters in the nearby spiral galaxy M31. Of which photometry of 55 star clusters is first obtained. The observations…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 8 cited

Star cluster disruption in the starburst galaxy Messier 82

Shuo Li, Richard de Grijs, Peter Anders +1

Using high-resolution, multiple-passband Hubble Space Telescope images spanning the entire optical/near-infrared wavelength range, we obtained a statistically complete sample, -…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 13 cited

Identifying AGN's Balmer-Absorptions and stratified NLR kinematics in SDSSJ112611.63+425246.4

J. Wang, D. W. Xu

Balmer absorption is a rare phenomenon in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). So far, only seven Balmer-absorption AGNs have been reported in literature. We here report the identificati…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 113 cited

Self-shadowing Effects of Slim Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei: Diverse Appearance of the Broad-line Region

J. -M. Wang, J. Qiu, P. Du +1

Supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) undergo a wide range of accretion rates, which lead to diversity of appearance. We consider the effects of anisotropic rad…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 31 cited

A search for open cluster Cepheids in the Galactic plane

Xiaodian Chen, Richard de Grijs, Licai Deng

We analyse all potential combinations of Galactic Cepheids and open clusters (OCs) in the most up-to-date catalogues available. Isochrone fitting and proper-motion calcula- tion ar…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 16 cited

Quantifying the Heating Sources for Mid-infrared Dust Emissions in Galaxies: The Case of M 81

Nanyao Lu, G. J. Bendo, A. Boselli +12

With the newly available SPIRE images at 250 and 500 micron from Herschel Space Observatory, we study quantitative correlations over a sub-kpc scale among three distinct emission c…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 11 cited

The Size Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies

Lizhi Xie, Qi Guo, Andrew P. Cooper +3

Recent work has suggested that the amplitude of the size mass relation of massive early type galaxies evolves with redshift. Here we use a semi-analytical galaxy formation model to…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 680 cited

Galaxy formation in the Planck Cosmology - I. Matching the observed evolution of star formation rates, colours and stellar masses

Bruno Henriques, Simon White, Peter Thomas +5

We have updated the Munich galaxy formation model to the Planck first-year cosmology, while modifying the treatment of baryonic processes to reproduce recent data on the abundance…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 81 cited

A Far-Infrared Spectroscopic Survey of Intermediate Redshift (Ultra) Luminous Infrared Galaxies

Georgios E. Magdis, D. Rigopoulou, R. Hopwood +16

We present Herschel far-IR photometry and spectroscopy as well as ground based CO observations of an intermediate redshift (0.21 < z < 0.88) sample of Herschel-selected (ultra)-lum…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 3 cited

A Search for Spectral Galaxy Pairs of Overlapping Galaxies based on Fuzzy Recognition

Haifeng Yang, Ali Luo, Xiaoyan Chen +7

The Spectral Galaxy Pairs (SGPs) are defined as the composite galaxy spectra which contain two independent redshift systems. These spectra are useful for studying dust properties o…