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astro-ph.GA2021★ 10 cited

A FAST Survey of HINSA in PGCCs Guided by HC3N

Xunchuan Liu, Yuefang Wu, Chao Zhang +11

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we search for HI narrow-line self-absorption (HINSA) features in twelve Planck Galactic cold clumps (PGCCs),…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 49 cited

An Early Transition to Magnetic Supercriticality in Star Formation

Tao-Chung Ching, Di Li, Carl Heiles +5

Magnetic fields play an important role in the evolution of interstellar medium and star formation. As the only direct probe of interstellar field strength, credible Zeeman measurem…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 3 cited

Measuring the Metallicity of Early-type Galaxies. I. Composite Region

Wu Yuzhong

We present the data of 9,739 early-type galaxies (ETGs), cross-matching the Galaxy Zoo 1 with our sample selected from the catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 of…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

Estimating The Metallicity of Star-forming Early-type Galaxies

Wu Yuzhong, Zhang Wei

We derive data of 4615 star-forming early-type galaxies (ETGs), which come from cross-match of the and the catalogue of the MPA-JHU emission-line measurements for th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

The Metallicity measurement of Early-type Galaxies

Wu Yuzhong

We use data for 6048 early-type galaxies (ETGs) from Galaxy Zoo 1 that have been cross-matched with the catalog of the MPA-JHU emission-line measurements for the Sloan Digital Sky…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 26 cited

WALLABY Pre-Pilot Survey: The effects of tidal interaction on radial distribution of color in galaxies of the Eridanus supergroup

Shun Wang, Jing Wang, Bi-Qing For +21

We study the tidal interaction of galaxies in the Eridanus supergroup, using HI data from the pre-pilot survey of WALLABY (Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY). We o…

astro-ph.GA2021

The cosmic environment overtakes the local density in shaping galaxy star formation

Jian Ren, Zhizheng Pan, XianZhong Zheng +11

The gas supply from the cosmic web is the key to sustain star formation in galaxies. It remains to be explored how the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS) effects on galaxy evolutio…

astro-ph.GA2021

Galactic Star Formation with NIKA2 (GASTON): Evidence of mass accretion onto dense clumps

A. J. Rigby, R. Adam, P. Ade +49

High-mass stars () play a crucial role in the evolution of galaxies, and so it is imperative that we understand how they are formed. We have used the New…

astro-ph.GA2021

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Cannibalism Caught in the Act -- on the Frequency of Occurrence of Multiple Cores in Brightest Cluster Galaxies

Yun-Hsin Hsu, Yen-Ting Lin, Song Huang +16

Although it is generally accepted that massive galaxies form in a two-phased fashion, beginning with a rapid mass buildup through intense starburst activities, followed by primaril…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 29 cited

WALLABY Pilot Survey: HI gas disc truncation and star formation of galaxies falling into the Hydra I cluster

T. N. Reynolds, B. Catinella, L. Cortese +25

We present results from our analysis of the Hydra I cluster observed in neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) as part of the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey (WALLABY). Th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 44 cited

Milky Way total Mass derived by Rotation Curve and Globular Cluster kinematics from Gaia EDR3

Jianling Wang, Francois Hammer, Yanbin Yang

Using action-based distribution function for the dynamical model of the Milky Way we have estimated its total mass and its density profile. Constraints are coming from the globular…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 32 cited

ALMA observations of NGC 6334S. II. Subsonic and Transonic Narrow Filaments in a High-mass Star Formation Cloud

Shanghuo Li, Patricio Sanhueza, Chang Won Lee +22

We present a study of narrow filaments toward a massive infrared dark cloud, NGC 6334S, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Thirteen gas filaments are id…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 32 cited

Systematic errors induced by the elliptical power-law model in galaxy-galaxy strong lens modeling

Xiaoyue Cao, Ran Li, J. W. Nightingale +9

The elliptical power-law (EPL) model of the mass in a galaxy is widely used in strong gravitational lensing analyses. However, the distribution of mass in real galaxies is more com…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

Interstellar Extinction and Elemental Abundances: Individual Sight Lines

W. B. Zuo, Aigen Li, Gang Zhao

While it is well recognized that both the Galactic interstellar extinction curves and the gas-phase abundances of dust-forming elements exhibit considerable variations from one sig…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 139 cited

Event Horizon Telescope observations of the jet launching and collimation in Centaurus A

Michael Janssen, Heino Falcke, Matthias Kadler +236

Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of active galactic nuclei at millimeter wavelengths have the power to reveal the launching and initial collimation region of e…

astro-ph.GA2021

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -- V. Hierarchical fragmentation and gas dynamics in IRDC G034.43+00.24

Hong-Li Liu, Anandmayee Tej, Tie Liu +35

We present new 3-mm continuum and molecular lines observations from the ATOMS survey towards the massive protostellar clump, MM1, located in the filamentary infrared dark cloud (IR…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

Identification of new M31 star cluster candidates from PAndAS images using convolutional neural networks

Shoucheng Wang, Bingqiu Chen, Jun Ma +7

Context.Identification of new star cluster candidates in M31 is fundamental for the study of the M31 stellar cluster system. The machine-learning method convolutional neural networ…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 26 cited

GAlaxy Light profile convolutional neural NETworks (GaLNets). I. fast and accurate structural parameters for billion galaxy samples

R. Li, N. R. Napolitano, N. Roy +5

Next generation large sky surveys will observe up to billions of galaxies for which basic structural parameters are needed to study their evolution. This is a challenging task that…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

The Formation and Evolution of Massive Galaxies

Yingjie Jing, Yu Rong, Jie Wang +2

The discovery of massive galaxies at high redshifts, especially the passive ones, poses a big challenge for the current standard galaxy formation models. Here we use the semi-analy…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

The Milky Way Revealed by Variable Stars I: Sample Selection of RR Lyrae stars, and Evidence for the Merger History

I. Ablimit, G. Zhao, U. Teklimakan +2

In order to study the Milky Way, RR Lyrae (RRL) variable stars identified by Gaia, ASAS-SN and ZTF sky survey projects have been analyzed as tracers in this work. Photometric and s…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 25 cited

An IFU View of the Active Galactic Nuclei in MaNGA Galaxy Pairs

Gaoxiang Jin, Y. Sophia Dai, Hsi-An Pan +10

The role of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) during galaxy interactions and how they influence the star formation in the system are still under debate. We use a sample of 1156 galaxie…

astro-ph.GA2021

The extreme properties of the nearby hyper-Eddington accreting Active Galactic Nucleus in IRAS 04416+1215

Alessia Tortosa, Claudio Ricci, Francesco Tombesi +6

The physical properties of the accretion flow and of the X-ray emitting plasma, in supermassive black holes accreting at extreme Eddington rates, are still very unclear. Here we pr…

astro-ph.GA2021

The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey II: Constructing a volume-limited sample and first results from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

P. Scicluna, F. Kemper, I. McDonald +89

The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey (NESS) is a volume-complete sample of 850 Galactic evolved stars within 3\,kpc at (sub-)mm wavelengths, observed in the CO (21) and…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

Stellar populations of galaxies in the LAMOST spectral survey

Li-Li Wang, Shi-Yin Shen, A-Li Luo +7

We firstly derive the stellar population properties: age and metallicity for 43,000 low redshift galaxies in the seventh data release (DR7) of the Large Sky Area Multi-Objec…