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astro-ph.GA2022★ 38 cited

The Large Sky Area Multi-object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Quasar Survey: Quasar Properties from Data Release Six to Nine

Jun-Jie Jin, Xue-Bing Wu, Yuming Fu +10

We report the fourth installment in the series of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Quasar Survey, which includes quasars observed between Sept…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 3 cited

Rarefied Broad-Line Regions in Active Galactic Nuclei: Anomalous Responses in Reverberation Mapping and Implications for Weak Emission-Line Quasars

Pu Du, Shuo Zhai, Jian-Min Wang

Reverberation mapping (RM) is a widely-used method for probing the physics of broad-line regions (BLRs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). There are increasing preliminary evidences…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 24 cited

JCMT BISTRO Observations: Magnetic Field Morphology of Bubbles Associated with NGC 6334

Mehrnoosh Tahani, Pierre Bastien, Ray S. Furuya +142

We study the HII regions associated with the NGC 6334 molecular cloud observed in the sub-millimeter and taken as part of the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO)…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 80 cited

The Circular Velocity Curve of the Milky Way from 5 to 25 kpc using luminous red giant branch star

Yuan Zhou, Xinyi Li, Yang Huang +1

We present a sample of 254,882 luminous red giant branch (LRGB) stars selected from the APOGEE and LAMOST surveys. By combining photometric and astrometric information from the 2MA…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 3 cited

Investigating the vertical distribution of the disk as a function of radial action

Yunpeng Jia, Yuqin Chen, Cuihua Du +1

As heating processes can broaden the distributions of radial actions and the vertical distributions of the Galactic disks, we investigate the vertical distribution of the Galactic…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

NOEMA Detection of Circumnuclear Molecular Gas in X-ray Weak Dual Active Galactic Nuclei: No Evidence for Heavy Obscuration

Meicun Hou, Zhiyuan Li, Xin Liu +5

Dual active galactic nuclei (AGN), which are the manifestation of two actively accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) hosted by a pair of merging galaxies, are a unique laborat…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 28 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: How Galaxy Interactions Influence Active Galactic Nuclei

Joshua L. Steffen, Hai Fu, Joel R. Brownstein +7

We present a comparative study of active galactic nuclei (AGN) between galaxy pairs and isolated galaxies with the final data release of the MaNGA integral field spectroscopic surv…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

Formation of hub-filament structure triggered by cloud-cloud collision in W33 complex

Jian-Wen Zhou, Shanghuo Li, Hong-Li Liu +6

Hub-filament systems are suggested to be birth cradles of high-mass stars and clusters, but the formation of hub-filament structure is still unclear. Using the survey data FUGIN $^…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

The JCMT BISTRO-2 Survey: Magnetic Fields of the Massive DR21 Filament

Tao-Chung Ching, Keping Qiu, Di Li +154

We present 850 m dust polarization observations of the massive DR21 filament from the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey, using the POL-2 polarimeter a…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 4 cited

Radio continuum and OH line emission of high-z OH megamaser galaxies

Zhongzu Wu, Yu. V. Sotnikova, Bo Zhang +8

We present the study of arcsecond scale radio continuum and OH line emission of a sample of known OH megamaser galaxies with 0.15 using archival Very Large Array (VLA) dat…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

Local Group Dwarf Galaxy Detection Limit in the CSST survey

Han Qu, Zhen Yuan, Amandine Doliva-Dolinsky +9

We predict the dwarf galaxy detection limits for the upcoming Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) survey that will cover 17,500 deg of the sky with a wide field of view of…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 21 cited

JWST's PEARLS: TN J1338-1942 -- I. Extreme jet triggered star-formation in a luminous radio galaxy

Kenneth J. Duncan, Rogier A. Windhorst, Anton M. Koekemoer +25

We present the first JWST observations of the luminous radio galaxy TN J1338-1942, obtained as part of the ``Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

Discovery of a radio jet in the Cloverleaf Quasar at z = 2.56

Lei Zhang, Zhi-Yu Zhang, James. W. Nightingale +10

The fast growth of supermassive black holes and their feedback to the host galaxies play an important role in regulating the evolution of galaxies, especially in the early Universe…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 123 cited

Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XIX: A High Density of Bright Galaxies at in the Abell 2744 Region

Marco Castellano, Adriano Fontana, Tommaso Treu +38

We report the detection of a high density of redshift galaxies behind the foreground cluster Abell 2744, selected from imaging data obtained recently with NIRCam onbo…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

DESI Survey Validation Spectra Reveal an Increasing Fraction of Recently Quenched Galaxies at

David J. Setton, Biprateep Dey, Gourav Khullar +24

We utilize bright Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the novel Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Survey Validation spectroscopic sample, leveraging its deep ($\sim2.5…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 9 cited

Dark against luminous matter around isolated central galaxies: a comparative study between modern surveys and Illustris-TNG

Pedro Alonso, Wenting Wang, Jun Zhang +6

Based on independent shear measurements using the DECaLS/DR8 imaging data, we measure the weak lensing signals around isolated central galaxies (ICGs) from SDSS/DR7 at .…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 34 cited

A strong He II 1640 emitter with extremely blue UV spectral slope at : presence of Pop III stars?

Xin Wang, Cheng Cheng, Junqiang Ge +12

Cosmic hydrogen reionization and cosmic production of first metals are major phase transitions of the universe occurring during the first billion years after the Big Bang, however…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

Discovery of a New Molecular Bubble-Outflow Structure in the Taurus B18 Cloud

Yan Duan, Di Li, Paul F. Goldsmith +5

Star formation can produce bubbles and outflows, as a result of stellar feedback. Outflows and bubbles inject momentum and energy into the surrounding interstellar medium, and so a…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

Peering into the Milky Way by FAST: IV. Identification of two new Galactic supernova remnants G203.1+6.6 and G206.7+5.9

X. Y. Gao, W. Reich, X. H. Sun +5

A 5 7 sky area containing two large radio structures of G203.1+6.6 and G206.7+5.9 with a size of about 2.5 and 3.5 respectively is…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

Peering into the Milky Way by FAST: III. Magnetic fields in the Galactic halo and farther spiral arms revealed by the Faraday effect of faint pulsars

Jun Xu, Jinlin Han, Pengfei Wang +1

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the most sensitive radio telescope for pulsar observations. We make polarimetric measurements of a large number…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 17 cited

Peering into the Milky Way by FAST: II. Ionized gas in the inner Galactic disk revealed by the piggyback line observations of the FAST GPPS survey

L. G. Hou, J. L. Han, Tao Hong +2

As one of the major components of the interstellar medium, the ionized gas in our Milky Way, especially the low-density diffuse component, has not been extensively observed in the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 14 cited

Peering into the Milky Way by FAST: I. Exquisite HI structures in the inner Galactic disk from the piggyback line observations of the FAST GPPS survey

Tao Hong, J. L. Han, L. G. Hou +3

Neutral hydrogen (HI) is the fundamental component of the interstellar medium. The Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey is designed for hunting pulsars by using the Five-hu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

Dependence of Chemical Abundance on the Cosmic Ray Ionization Rate in IC 348

Gan Luo, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Thomas G. Bisbas +8

Ions (e.g., H, HO) have been used extensively to quantify the cosmic-ray ionization rate (CRIR) in diffuse sightlines. However, measurements of CRIR in low-to-interme…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 14 cited

How Close Dark Matter Halos and MOND Are to Each Other: Three-Dimensional Tests Based on Gaia DR2

Yongda Zhu, Hai-Xia Ma, Xiao-Bo Dong +7

Aiming at discriminating different gravitational potential models of the Milky Way, we perform tests based on the kinematic data powered by the Gaia DR2 astrometry, over a large ra…