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astro-ph.GA2017★ 32 cited

Herschel and SCUBA-2 observations of dust emission in a sample of Planck cold clumps

Mika Juvela, Jinhua He, Katherine Pattle +26

Analysis of all-sky Planck submillimetre observations and the IRAS 100um data has led to the detection of a population of Galactic cold clumps. The clumps can be used to study star…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 29 cited

Imaging the Molecular Outflows of the Prototypical ULIRG NGC 6240 with ALMA

T. Saito, D. Iono, J. Ueda +12

We present 0".97 0".53 (470 pc 250 pc) resolution CO ( = 2-1) observations toward the nearby luminous merging galaxy NGC 6240 with the Atacama Large Millimeter…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 69 cited

The TOP-SCOPE survey of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps: Survey overview and results of an exemplar source, PGCC G26.53+0.17

Tie Liu, Kee-Tae Kim, Mika Juvela +11

The low dust temperatures (<14 K) of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) make them ideal targets to probe the initial conditions and very early phase of star formation. TOP-SCOPE i…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 10 cited

VALES: IV. Exploring the transition of star formation efficiencies between normal and starburst galaxies using APEX/SEPIA Band-5 and ALMA at low redshift

C. Cheng, E. Ibar, T. M. Hughes +12

In this work we present new APEX/SEPIA Band-5 observations targeting the CO () emission line of 24 Herschel-detected galaxies at . Combining this sample {w…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 24 cited

Diffuse X-ray-emitting Gas in Major Mergers

Beverly J. Smith, Kristen Campbell, Curtis Struck +5

Using archived data from the Chandra X-ray telescope, we have extracted the diffuse X-ray emission from 49 equal-mass interacting/merging galaxy pairs in a merger sequence, from wi…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 5 cited

Rediscovering the Galactic outer disk with LAMOST data

Chao Liu, Yan Xu, Haifeng Wang +1

From the derived stellar density profile using LAMOST giant stars, we find that the Galactic disk does not show truncation or break, but smoothly transit to the halo from 19 kpc. T…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 86 cited

The age-velocity dispersion relation of the Galactic discs from LAMOST-Gaia data

Jincheng Yu, Chao Liu

We present the age-velocity dispersion relation (AVR) in three dimensions in the solar neighbourhood using 3,564 commonly observed sub-giant/red-giant branch stars selected from LA…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 7 cited

Probing satellite galaxies in the Local Group by using FAST

Jing Li, Yougang Wang, Minzhi Kong +3

The abundance of neutral hydrogen (HI) in satellite galaxies in the Local Group is important for studying the formation history of our Local Group. In this work, we generated mock…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 129 cited

Pulsar Rotation Measures and Large-scale Magnetic Field Reversals in the Galactic Disk

J. L. Han, R. N. Manchester, W. van Straten +1

We present the measurements of Faraday rotation for 477 pulsars observed by the Parkes 64-m radio telescope and the Green Bank 100-m radio telescope. Using these results along with…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 24 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: A Distinct Mass Distribution Explored in Slow-Rotating Early-type Galaxies

Yu Rong, Hongyu Li, Jie Wang +8

We study the radial acceleration relation (RAR) for early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the SDSS MaNGA MPL5 dataset. The complete ETG sample show a slightly offset RAR from the relation…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 34 cited

Supermassive black holes coalescence mediated by massive perturbers: implications for gravitational waves emission and nuclear cluster formation

Manuel Arca Sedda, Peter Berczik, Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta +3

A large fraction of galactic nuclei is expected to host supermassive black hole binaries (BHB), likely formed during the early phase of galaxies assembly and merging. In this paper…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 58 cited

Massive outflows associated with ATLASGAL clumps

Aiyuan Yang, Mark Thompson, James Urquhart +1

We have undertaken the largest survey for outflows within the Galactic Plane using simultaneously observed 13CO and C18O data. 325 out of a total of 919 ATLASGAL clumps have data s…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 23 cited

The ALMA Frontier Fields Survey - IV. Lensing-corrected 1.1 mm number counts in Abell 2744, MACSJ0416.1-2403 and MACSJ1149.5+2223

A. M. Muñoz Arancibia, J. González-López, E. Ibar +15

[abridged] Characterizing the number counts of faint, dusty star-forming galaxies is currently a challenge even for deep, high-resolution observations in the FIR-to-mm regime. They…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 66 cited

Heavy X-ray obscuration in the most-luminous galaxies discovered by WISE

F. Vito, W. N. Brandt, D. Stern +11

Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies (Hot DOGs) are hyperluminous () infrared galaxies with extremely high (up to hundreds of K) dust tempe…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 1 cited

Filamentary Flows and Clump-fed High-mass Star Formation in G22

Jinghua Yuan, Jin-Zeng Li, Yuefang Wu

G22 is a hub-filament system composed of four supercritical filaments. Velocity gradients are detected along three filaments. A total mass infall rate of 440 ~Myr w…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 56 cited

Host galaxy properties of mergers of stellar binary black holes and their implications for advanced LIGO gravitational wave sources

Liang Cao, Youjun Lu, Yuetong Zhao

Understanding the host galaxy properties of stellar binary black hole (SBBH) mergers is important for revealing the origin of the SBBH gravitational-wave sources detected by advanc…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 25 cited

A Study of Outflows in Luminous Quasars at Redshift

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

We perform a systematic study of outflow in the narrow-line region (NLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at basing upon a large sample of quasars at $z\si…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 87 cited

High-mass Star Formation through Filamentary Collapse and Clump-fed Accretion in G22

Jinghua Yuan, Jin-Zeng Li, Yuefang Wu +8

How mass is accumulated from cloud-scale down to individual stars is a key open question in understanding high-mass star formation. Here, we present the mass accumulation process i…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 36 cited

Mapping the Tidal Disruption of the Hercules Dwarf: A Wide-Field DECam Imaging Search for RR Lyrae Stars

Christopher Garling, Beth Willman, David J. Sand +10

We investigate the hypothesized tidal disruption of the Hercules ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD). Previous tidal disruption studies of the Hercules UFD have been hindered by the hig…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 10 cited

HNCO: A Molecule Traces Low-velocity Shock

Naiping Yu, Jinglong Xu, Jun-Jie Wang

Using data from MALT90 (Millimetre Astronomy Legacy Team Survey at 90 GHz), we present molecular line study of a sample of ATLASGAL (APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy)…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 11 cited

Disentangling the radio emission of the supernova remnant W51C

M. F. Zhang, W. W. Tian, D. A. Leahy +3

We simulate the evolution of supernova remnant (SNR) W51C. The simulation shows the existence of a new northeast edge. We present magnetic field structure of the W51 complex (SNR W…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 1 cited

The stellar orbit distribution in present-day galaxies inferred from the CALIFA survey

Ling Zhu, Glenn van de Ven, Remco van den Bosch +16

Galaxy formation entails the hierarchical assembly of mass, along with the condensation of baryons and the ensuing, self-regulating star formation. The stars form a collisionless s…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 42 cited

Spectral classification and composites of galaxies in LAMOST DR4

Li-Li Wang, A-Li Luo, Shi-Yin Shen +10

We study the classification and composite spectra of galaxy in the fourth data release (DR4) of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). We select 40…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 55 cited

The Impact of Star Formation Histories on Stellar Mass Estimation: Implications from the Local Group Dwarf Galaxies

Hong-Xin Zhang, Thomas H. Puzia, Daniel R. Weisz

Local Group (LG) galaxies have relatively accurate SFHs and metallicity evolution derived from resolved CMD modeling, and thus offer a unique opportunity to explore the efficacy of…