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astro-ph.GA2020★ 38 cited

Reverberation Mapping of Changing-look Active Galactic Nucleus NGC 3516

Hai-Cheng. Feng, Chen. Hu, Sha-Sha. Li +7

The changes of broad emission lines should be a crucial issue to understanding the physical properties of changing-look active galactic nucleus (CL-AGN). Here, we present the resul…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 18 cited

Age-metallicity dependent stellar kinematics of the Milky Way disc from LAMOST and Gaia

Yaqian Wu, Maosheng Xiang, Yuqin Chen +5

We investigate the stellar kinematics of the Galactic disc in 7 13\,kpc using a sample of 118\,945 red giant branch (RGB) stars from LAMOST and Gaia. We characterize th…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 84 cited

Dust polarized emission observations of NGC 6334; BISTRO reveals the details of the complex but organized magnetic field structure of the high-mass star-forming hub-filament network

D. Arzoumanian, R. Furuya, T. Hasegawa +145

[Abridged] Filaments and hubs have received special attention recently thanks to studies showing their role in star formation. While the column density and velocity structures of b…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

Multiple populations in low mass globular clusters: Palomar 13

Baitian Tang, Yue Wang, Ruoyun Huang +7

Since the discovery of chemically peculiar stars in globular clusters in the last century, the study of multiple populations has become increasingly important, given that chemical…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 24 cited

The Arecibo Ultra-Deep Survey

Hongwei Xi, Lister Staveley-Smith, Bi-Qing For +5

The Arecibo Ultra Deep Survey (AUDS) is a blind HI survey aimed at detecting galaxies beyond the local Universe in the 21-cm emission line of neutral hydrogen (HI). The Arecibo …

astro-ph.GA2020★ 21 cited

Discovery of A candidate Hypervelocity star originated from the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal galaxy

Yang Huang, Qingzheng Li, Huawei Zhang +5

In this letter, we report the discovery of an intriguing HVS (J1443+1453) candidate that is probably from the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph). The star is an old and…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 12 cited

Extended HNCO, SiO, and HCN emission in 43 southern star-forming regions

Yu-Xin He, Christian Henkel, Jian-Jun Zhou +9

We have selected 43 southern massive star-forming regions to study the spatial distribution of HNCO 4-3, SiO 2-1 and HCN 10-9 line emission and to investigate t…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

Observations of magnetic fields surrounding LkH 101 taken by the BISTRO survey with JCMT-POL-2

Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Pham Ngoc Diep, Harriet Parsons +146

We report the first high spatial resolution measurement of magnetic fields surrounding LkH 101, a part of the Auriga-California molecular cloud. The observations were taken with…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 6 cited

New Determination of Fundamental Properties of Palomar 5 Using Deep DESI Imaging Data

Xin Xu, Hu Zou, Xu Zhou +6

The legacy imaging surveys for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument project provides multiplecolor photometric data, which are about 2 mag deeper than the SDSS. In this study,…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

Predictions for the FAST telescope's CRAFTS Extra-Galactic HI Survey

Kai Zhang, Jingwen Wu, Di Li +7

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has started the Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey (CRAFTS). In this paper, we use the technical parameters of F…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 96 cited

An Extended Halo-based Group/Cluster finder: application to the DESI legacy imaging surveys DR8

Xiaohu Yang, Haojie Xu, Min He +20

We extend the halo-based group finder developed by \citet[][]{Yang2005a} to use data {\it simultaneously} with either photometric or spectroscopic redshifts. A mock galaxy redshift…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 23 cited

Hosts and triggers of AGNs in the Local Universe

Ziwen Zhang, Huiyuan Wang, Wentao Luo +11

Based on the spectroscopic and shear catalogs for SDSS galaxies in the local Universe, we compare optically-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with control star-forming and qui…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

ALMA Survey of Orion Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (ALMASOP): Detection of extremely high density compact structure of prestellar cores and multiple substructures within

Dipen Sahu, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Tie Liu +38

Prestellar cores are self-gravitating dense and cold structures within molecular clouds where future stars are born. They are expected, at the stage of transitioning to the protost…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 18 cited

Auto-identification of unphysical source reconstructions in strong gravitational lens modelling

Jacob Maresca, Simon Dye, Nan Li

With the advent of next-generation surveys and the expectation of discovering huge numbers of strong gravitational lens systems, much effort is being invested into developing autom…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 37 cited

A Spitzer survey of Deep Drilling Fields to be targeted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time

M. Lacy, J. A. Surace, D. Farrah +60

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will observe several Deep Drilling Fields (DDFs) to a greater depth and with a more rapid cadence than the main…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

Estimating ages and metallicities of M31 star clusters from LAMOST DR6

Shoucheng Wang, Bingqiu Chen, Jun Ma

Context. Determining the metallicities and ages of M31 clusters is fundamental to the study of the formation and evolution of M31 itself. The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spec…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 9 cited

Understanding the velocity distribution of the Galactic Bulge with APOGEE and Gaia

Yingying Zhou, Zhao-Yu Li, Iulia Simion +5

We revisit the stellar velocity distribution in the Galactic bulge/bar region with APOGEE DR16 and {\it Gaia} DR2, focusing in particular on the possible high-velocity (HV) peaks a…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 3 cited

A low [CII]/[NII] ratio in the center of a massive galaxy at z=3.7: witnessing the transition to quiescence at high-redshift?

C. Schreiber, K. Glazebrook, C. Papovich +11

Understanding the process of quenching is one of the major open questions in galaxy evolution, and crucial insights may be obtained by studying quenched galaxies at high redshifts,…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 40 cited

A population of hypercompact HII regions identified from young HII regions

Aiyuan Yang, James Urquhart, Mark Thompson +8

Context. The derived physical parameters for young HII regions are normally determined assuming the emission region to be optically thin. However, this assumption is unlikely to ho…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 2 cited

Nearly 30,000 late-type main-sequence stars with stellar age from LAMOST DR5

Jiajun Zhang, Jingkun Zhao, Terry D. Oswalt +3

We construct a sample of nearly 30,000 main-sequence stars with 4500K 5000K and stellar ages estimated by the chromospheric activityage relation. This sample is u…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 51 cited

JCMT POL-2 and BISTRO Survey observations of magnetic fields in the L1689 molecular cloud

Kate Pattle, Shih-Ping Lai, James Di Francesco +26

We present 850m polarization observations of the L1689 molecular cloud, part of the nearby Ophiuchus molecular cloud complex, taken with the POL-2 polarimeter on the James Clerk…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 20 cited

Interstellar Extinction and Elemental Abundances

W. B. Zuo, Aigen Li, Gang Zhao

Elements in the interstellar medium (ISM) exist in the form of gas or dust. The interstellar extinction and elemental abundances provide crucial constraints on the composition, siz…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 13 cited

Broad-line region configuration of the supermassive binary black hole candidate PG1302-102 in the relativistic Doppler boosting scenario

Zihao Song, Junqiang Ge, Youjun Lu +2

PG1302-102 is thought to be a supermassive binary black hole (BBH) system according to the periodical variations of its optical and UV photometry, which may be interpreted as being…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 4 cited

Effects of spin on constraining the seeds and growth of supermassive black holes in Quasars

Xiaoxia Zhang, Youjun Lu, Taotao Fang

The existence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at redshift raises the problem of how such SMBHs can grow up within the cosmic time (\,Gyr) from sm…