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astro-ph.GA2018★ 9 cited

Near-Infrared Survey and Photometric Redshifts in the Extended GOODS-North field

Li-Ting Hsu, Lihwai Lin, Mark Dickinson +22

We present deep and -band images in the extended Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-N) field covering an area of 0.22 . The observations were…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 2 cited

Star formation and gas in the minor merger UGC 10214

D. Rosado-Belza, U. Lisenfeld, J. Hibbard +6

UGC 10214 is a minor merger in which a dwarf galaxy has interacted with a large spiral galaxy 250 Myr ago and produced a perturbed disk and a giant tidal tail. We use a multi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 29 cited

Chemical and kinematic analysis of CN-strong Metal-poor Field Stars in LAMOST DR3

Baitian Tang, Chao Liu, J. G. Fernandez-Trincado +5

The large amount of chemical and kinematic information available in large spectroscopic surveys have inspired the search for chemically peculiar stars in the field. Though these me…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 23 cited

Ionization Profiles of Galactic HII Regions

Matteo Luisi, L. D. Anderson, Bin Liu +2

Using Green Bank Telescope radio recombination line (RRL) data, we analyze the role of leaking radiation from HII regions in maintaining the ionization of the interstellar medium.…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 5 cited

Orbit properties of massive prolate galaxies in the Illustris simulation

Yougang Wang, Shude Mao, Hongyu Li +3

We explore orbit properties of 35 prolate-triaxial galaxies selected from the Illustris cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. We present a detailed study of their orbit families, a…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 17 cited

The origin of high velocity stars from Gaia and LAMOST

Cuihua Du, Hefan Li, Heidi Jo Newberg +4

Based on the second Gaia data (Gaia DR2) and spectroscopy from the LAMOST Data Release 5, we defined the high-velocity (HiVel) stars sample as those stars with $v_{\mathrm{gc}} > 0…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 25 cited

On the absence of dark matter in dwarf galaxies surrounding the Milky Way

Francois Hammer, Yanbin Yang, Jianling Wang +3

This paper presents an alternative scenario to explain the observed properties of the Milky Way dwarf Spheroidals (MW dSphs). We show that instead of resulting from large amounts o…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 13 cited

Polarimetric and photometric investigation of a dark globule LDN 1225: distance, extinction law, and magnetic fields

Chakali Eswaraiah, Shih-Ping Lai, Yuehui Ma +7

We present the results based on the optical -band polarization observations of 280 stars distributed towards the dark globule LDN\,1225. {\it Gaia} data release 2 parallaxes alo…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 58 cited

A Machine Learning Based Morphological Classification of 14,245 Radio AGNs Selected From The Best-Heckman Sample

Zhixian Ma, Haiguang Xu, Jie Zhu +8

We present a morphological classification of 14,245 radio active galactic nuclei (AGNs) into six types, i.e., typical Fanaroff--Riley Class I / II (FRI/II), FRI/II-like bent-tailed…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 63 cited

JCMT BISTRO survey: Magnetic Fields within the Hub-Filament Structure in IC 5146

Jia-Wei Wang, Shih-Ping Lai, Chakali Eswaraiah +130

We present the 850 m polarization observations toward the IC5146 filamentary cloud taken using the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) and its associated polar…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 8 cited

Comparing galaxy morphology in hydrodynamical simulation and in semi-analytic model

Lan Wang, Dandan Xu, Liang Gao +3

We compare galaxy morphology predicted by the Illustris hydrodynamical simulation and a semi-analytic model (SAM) grafted in the halo merger trees from the Illustris-Dark matter si…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 5 cited

The Origins of Young Stars in the Direction of the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream: Abundances, Kinematics, and Orbits

Lan Zhang, Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu, Christian Moni Bidin +6

We explore the origins of the young B-type stars found by Casetti-Dinescu et al.(2014) at the outskirts of the Milky-Way disk in the sky region of Leading Arm of the Magellanic Str…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 65 cited

The spiral structure of the Milky Way

Ye Xu, Ligang Hou, Yuanwei Wu

The morphology and kinematics of the spiral structure of the Milky Way is a long-standing problem in astrophysics. In this review we firstly summarize various methods with differen…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 10 cited

The Environments of Luminous Radio - WISE Selected Infrared Galaxies

J. I. Penney, A. W. Blain, D. Wylezalek +17

We have observed the environments of a population of 33 heavily dust obscured, ultra-luminous, high-redshift galaxies, selected using WISE and NVSS at 1.3 with the Infra-Red Ar…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 14 cited

GD-1: the relic of an old metal-poor globular cluster

Guang-Wei Li, Brian Yanny, Yue Wu

Combining data from Gaia DR2, SDSS DR14 and LAMOST DR6, we update the fit to model of the properties of the stellar stream GD-1 and find that it has an age of Gyr, [Fe/H]…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 92 cited

Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. VIII. Structure of the Broad-Line Region and Mass of the Central Black Hole in Mrk 142

Yan-Rong Li, Yu-Yang Songsheng, Jie Qiu +9

This is the eighth in a series of papers reporting on a large reverberation mapping campaign to measure black hole (BH) mass in high accretion rate active galactic nuclei (AGNs). W…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 67 cited

The Multiple Merger Assembly of a Hyper-luminous Obscured Quasar at redshift 4.6

T. Diaz-Santos, R. J. Assef, A. W. Blain +10

Galaxy mergers and gas accretion from the cosmic web drove the growth of galaxies and their central black holes at early epochs. We report spectroscopic imaging of a multiple merge…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 28 cited

Low Surface Brightness Galaxy catalogue selected from the alpha.40-SDSS DR7 Survey and Tully-Fisher relation

Wei Du, Cheng Cheng, Hong Wu +2

We present a catalogue of an HI-selected sample of 1129 low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) searched from the alpha.40-SDSS DR7 survey. This sample, consisting of various types…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 49 cited

Machine learning Applied to Star-Galaxy-QSO Classification and Stellar Effective Temperature Regression

Yu Bai, JiFeng Liu, Song Wang +1

In modern astrophysics, the machine learning has increasingly gained more popularity with its incredibly powerful ability to make predictions or calculated suggestions for large am…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 50 cited

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Quasar Survey: the 4th and 5th Data Release

Su Yao, Xue-Bing Wu, Y. L. Ai +15

We present the Data Release 4&5 quasar catalog from the quasar survey by Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), which includes quasars observed between…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 17 cited

Broad absorption line disappearance/emergence in multiple ions in a weak emission-line quasar

Weimin Yi, M. Vivek, W. N. Brandt +9

We report the discovery of disappearance of Mg ii, Al iii, C iv, and Si iv broad absorption lines (BALs) at the same velocity, accompanied by a new Civ BAL emerging at a higher vel…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 46 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Stellar initial mass function variation inferred from Bayesian analysis of the integral field spectroscopy of early type galaxies

Shuang Zhou, H. J. Mo, Cheng Li +7

We analyze the stellar initial mass functions (IMF) of a large sample of early type galaxies (ETGs) provided by MaNGA. The large number of IFU spectra of individual galaxies provid…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 121 cited

The echo of the bar buckling: phase-space spirals in Gaia DR2

Sergey Khoperskov, Paola Di Matteo, Ortwin Gerhard +5

Using a single N-body simulation () we explore the formation, evolution and spatial variation of the phase-space spirals similar to those recently discovered by…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 24 cited

Dark-matter-deficient galaxies in hydrodynamical simulations

Yingjie Jing, Chunxiang Wang, Ran Li +4

Low mass galaxies are expected to be dark matter dominated even within their centrals. Recently two observations reported two dwarf galaxies in group environment with very little d…