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astro-ph.GA2015★ 117 cited

CHIMPS: the CO/CO (J=3-2) Heterodyne Inner Milky Way Plane Survey

A. J. Rigby, T. J. T. Moore, R. Plume +17

We present the CO/CO (J=3-2) Heterodyne Inner Milky Way Plane Survey (CHIMPS) which has been carried out using the Heterodyne Array Receiver Program on the 15 m James…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 41 cited

Herschel Observations of Major Merger Pairs at z=0: Dust Mass and Star Formation

Chen Cao, Cong Kevin Xu, Donovan Domingue +13

We present Herschel PACS SPIRE far-infrared (FIR) and sub-mm imaging observations for a large K-band selected sample of 88 close major-merger pairs of galaxies (H-KPAIRs) in 6…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 34 cited

Planck cold clumps in the Orionis complex: I. Discovery of an extremely young Class 0 protostellar object and a proto-brown dwarf candidate in a bright rimmed clump PGCC G192.32-11.88

Tie Liu, Qizhou Zhang, Kee-Tae Kim +37

We are performing a series of observations with ground-based telescopes toward Planck Galactic cold clumps (PGCCs) in the Orionis complex in order to systematically investigate…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 2 cited

LAMOST 1: A Disrupted Satellite in the Constellation Draco

John J. Vickers, Martin C. Smith, Yonghui Hou +2

Using LAMOST spectroscopic data, we find a strong signal of a comoving group of stars in the constellation of Draco. The group, observed near the apocenter of its orbit, is 2.6 kpc…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 99 cited

Infrared color selection of massive galaxies at z > 3

T. Wang, D. Elbaz, C. Schreiber +29

We introduce a new color-selection technique to identify high-redshift, massive galaxies that are systematically missed by Lyman-break selection. The new selection is based on the…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 2 cited

An Isolated Compact Galaxy Triplet

Shuai Feng, Zheng-Yi Shao, Shi-Yin Shen +5

We report the discovery of an isolated compact galaxy triplet SDSS J084843.45+164417.3, which is first detected by the LAMOST spectral survey and then confirmed by the spectroscopi…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 33 cited

A sample of galaxy pairs identified from the LAMOST spectral survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Shiyin Shen, M. Argudo-Fernández, Li Chen +23

A small fraction() of SDSS main sample galaxies(MGs) have not been targeted with spectroscopy due to the the fiber collision effect. These galaxies have been compiled into t…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 9 cited

A Direct Linkage Between AGN Outflows in The Narrow-line Regions and The X-ray Emission From The Accretion disks

J. Wang, D. W. Xu, J. Y. Wei

The origin of outflow in narrow-line region (NLR) of active galactic nucleus (AGN) is studied in this paper by focusing on the relationship between the [\ion{O}{3}]5007 line pro…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 38 cited

Evidence for the rapid formation of low mass early-type galaxies in dense environments

Yiqing Liu, Eric W. Peng, John Blakeslee +6

We explore the environmental dependence of star formation timescales in low mass galaxies using the [/Fe] abundance ratio as an evolutionary clock. We present integrated [/Fe…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 98 cited

Galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation and in the Durham and Munich semi-analytical models

Quan Guo, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Qi Guo +12

We compare global predictions from the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation, and two semi-analytic (SA) models of galaxy formation, L-GALAXIES and GALFORM. All three models include the…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 5 cited

Clumpy tori illuminated by the anisotropic radiation of accretion discs in active galactic nuclei

Jian-Jian He, Yuan Liu, Shuang-Nan Zhang

In this paper, we try to explain the observed correlation between the covering factor (CF) of hot dust and the properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), e.g., the bolometric lum…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 13 cited

The star cluster mass--galactocentric radius relation: Implications for cluster formation

Weijia Sun, Richard de Grijs, Zhou Fan +1

Whether or not the initial star cluster mass function is established through a universal, galactocentric-distance-independent stochastic process, on the scales of individual galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 28 cited

Discovery of Extremely Broad Balmer Absorption Lines in SDSS J152350.42+391405.2

Shaohua Zhang, Hongyan Zhou, Xiheng Shi +7

We present the discovery of Balmer line absorption from H to H in an iron low-ionization broad absorption line (FeLoBAL) quasar SDSS J152350.42+391405.2 (hereafter J1523), by…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 35 cited

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope Quasar Survey: Quasar Properties from First Data Release

Y. L. Ai, Xue-Bing Wu, Jinyi Yang +20

We present preliminary results of the quasar survey in Large Sky Area Multi- Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) first data release (DR1), which includes pilot survey and…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 58 cited

Assessing the Jeans Anisotropic Multi-Gaussian Expansion method with the Illustris simulation

Hongyu Li, Ran Li, Shude Mao +3

We assess the effectiveness of the Jeans-Anisotropic-MGE (JAM) technique with a state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, the Illustris project. We perform JAM modelli…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 28 cited

South Galactic Cap u-band Sky Survey (SCUSS): Data Release

Hu Zou, Xu Zhou, Zhaoji Jiang +15

The SCUSS is a deep -band imaging survey in the south Galactic cap using the 2.3m Bok telescope. The survey observations were completed in the end of 2013, covering an area of a…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 19 cited

Galaxy alignment as a probe of large-scale filaments

Yu Rong, Yuan Liu, Shuang-Nan Zhang

The orientations of the red galaxies in a filament are aligned with the orientation of the filament. We thus develop a location-alignment-method (LAM) of detecting filaments around…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 52 cited

Determining the local dark matter density with LAMOST data

Qiran Xia, Chao Liu, Shude Mao +7

Measurement of the local dark matter density plays an important role in both Galactic dynamics and dark matter direct detection experiments. However, the estimated values from prev…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 6 cited

The grey extinction of the ionizing cluster in NGC 3603 from ultraviolet to optical wavelengths

Xiaoying Pang, Anna Pasquali, Eva K. Grebel

We use photometry in the F220W, F250W, F330W, F435W filters from the High Resolution Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys and photometry in the F555W, F675W, and F814W filter…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 11 cited

Quiescent luminous red galaxies (LRGs) as cosmic chronometers: on the significance of mass and environmental dependence

Gaochao Liu, Youjun Lu, Lizhi Xie +2

Massive luminous red galaxies (LRGs) are believed to be evolving passively and can be used as cosmic chronometers to estimate the Hubble constant. However, different LRGs may be lo…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 30 cited

Evolution of star clusters on eccentric orbits

Maxwell Xu Cai, Mark Gieles, Douglas C. Heggie +1

We study the evolution of star clusters on circular and eccentric orbits using direct -body simulations. We model clusters with initially and single s…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 13 cited

GalevNB: a conversion from N-BODY simulations to observations

Xiaoying Pang, Christoph Olczak, Difeng Guo +2

We present (Galev for -body simulations), an utility that converts fundamental stellar properties of -body simulations into observational properties using the $GALE…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 5 cited

On the IMF in a Triggered Star Formation Context

Tingtao Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang, D. N. C. Lin +2

The origin of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is a fundamental issue in the theory of star formation. It is generally fit with a composite power law. Some clues on the prog…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 27 cited

South Galactic Cap u-band Sky Survey (SCUSS): Data Reduction

Hu Zou, Zhaoji Jiang, Xu Zhou +13

The South Galactic Cap u-band Sky Survey (SCUSS) is a deep u-band imaging survey in the Southern Galactic Cap, using the 90Prime wide-field imager on the 2.3m Bok telescope at Kitt…