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astro-ph.GA2016★ 48 cited

Mass-to-Light versus Color Relations for Dwarf Irregular Galaxies

Kimberly A. Herrmann, Deidre A. Hunter, Hong-Xin Zhang +1

We have determined new relations between colors and mass-to-light ratios () for dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxies, as well as for transformed . These…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 66 cited

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon in Protoplanetary Disks around Herbig Ae/Be and T Tauri Stars

Ji Yeon Seok, Aigen Li

A distinct set of broad emission features at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, 11.3, and 12.7 m, is often detected in protoplanetary disks (PPDs). These features are commonly attributed to po…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 6 cited

SCUSS u-Band Emission as a Star-Formation-Rate Indicator

Zhimin Zhou, Xu Zhou, Hong Wu +14

We present and analyze the possibility of using optical -band luminosities to estimate star-formation rates (SFRs) of galaxies based on the data from the South Galactic Ca…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 111 cited

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) Project

Di Li, Zhichen Pan

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is a Chinese mega-science project funded by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of the People's R…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 29 cited

Lithium in CEMP-no stars: A new constraint on the lithium depletion mechanism in the early universe

Tadafumi Matsuno, Wako Aoki, Takuma Suda +1

Most of relatively warm, unevolved metal-poor stars ( and ) exhibit almost constant lithium abundances, irrespective…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 70 cited

Projection effects in the strong lensing study of subhaloes

Ran Li, Carlos S. Frenk, Shaun Cole +2

The defining characteristic of the cold dark matter (CDM) hypothesis is the presence of a very large number of low-mass haloes, too small to have made a visible galaxy. Other hypot…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 21 cited

IslandFAST: A Semi-numerical Tool for Simulating the Late Epoch of Reionization

Yidong Xu, Bin Yue, Xuelei Chen

We present the algorithm and main results of our semi-numerical simulation, islandFAST, which is developed from the 21cmFAST and designed for the late stage of reionization. The is…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 6 cited

High-resolution spectroscopy of the extremely iron-poor post-AGB star CC Lyr

Wako Aoki, Tadafumi Matsuno, Satoshi Honda +3

High-resolution optical spectroscopy was conducted for the metal-poor post-AGB star CC Lyr to determine its chemical abundances and spectral line profiles. Our standard abundance a…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 26 cited

CH as a Molecular Gas Tracer and C-Shock Tracer Across a Molecular Cloud Boundary in Taurus

Duo Xu, Di Li

We present new observations of all three ground-state transitions of the methylidyne (CH) radical and all four ground-state transitions of the hydroxyl (OH) radical toward a sharp…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 19 cited

Young stars in the periphery of the Large Magellanic Cloud

C. Moni Bidin, D. I. Casetti-Dinescu, T. M. Girard +5

Despite their close proximity, the complex interplay between the two Magellanic Clouds, the Milky Way, and the resulting tidal features, is still poorly understood. Recent studies…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 9 cited

The Broken Lane of a Type II Radio Burst Caused by Collision of a Coronal Shock with a Flare Current Sheet

Guannan Gao, Min Wang, Ning Wu +3

We investigated a peculiar metric type II solar radio burst with a broken lane structure, which was observed on November 13, 2012. In addition to the radio data, we also studied th…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 13 cited

Ages of 70 dwarfs of three populations in the solar neighborhood: considering O and C abundances in stellar models

Z. S. Ge, S. L. Bi, Y. Q. Chen +5

Oxygen and carbon are important elements in stellar populations. Their behavior refers to the formation history of the stellar populations. C and O abundances would also obviously…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 195 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Spatially resolved star formation histories in galaxies as a function of galaxy mass and type

Daniel Goddard, Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston +25

We study the internal gradients of stellar population properties within for a representative sample of 721 galaxies with stellar masses ranging between $10^{9}\;M_…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 91 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: stellar population gradients as a function of galaxy environment

Daniel Goddard, Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston +23

We study the internal radial gradients of stellar population properties within and analyse the impact of galaxy environment. We use a representative sample of 721…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 126 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: environmental dependence of stellar age and metallicity gradients in nearby galaxies

Zheng Zheng, Huiyuan Wang, Junqiang Ge +20

We present a study on the stellar age and metallicity distributions for 1105 galaxies using the STARLIGHT software on MaNGA integral field spectra. We derive age and metallicity gr…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 15 cited

Asteroseismic analysis of two alpha-enhanced stars KIC 7976303 and KIC 8694723

Z. S. Ge, S. L. Bi, T. D. Li +5

We intent to use stellar models with and without alpha-enhancement, as well as asteroseismic analysis, to study two alpha-enhanced stars, KIC 7976303 and KIC 8694723. For the alpha…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 59 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: constraining modified gravity

Eva-Maria Mueller, Will Percival, Eric Linder +4

We use baryon acoustic oscillation and redshift space distortion from the completed Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, corresponding to data release 12 of the Sloan Digital S…

hep-th2016★ 48 cited

Stable solutions of inflation driven by vector fields

Razieh Emami, Shinji Mukohyama, Ryo Namba +1

Many models of inflation driven by vector fields alone have been known to be plagued by pathological behaviors, namely ghost and/or gradient instabilities. In this work, we seek a…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 12 cited

Triggering the formation of direct collapse black holes by their congeners

Bin Yue, Andrea Ferrara, Fabio Pacucci +1

Direct collapse black holes (DCBHs) are excellent candidates as seeds of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) observed at $z \gsim 6$. The formation of a DCBH requires a strong externa…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 46 cited

Clustering of quasars in the First Year of the SDSS-IV eBOSS survey: Interpretation and halo occupation distribution

Sergio A. Rodríguez-Torres, Johan Comparat, Francisco Prada +10

In current and future surveys, quasars play a key role. The new data will extend our knowledge of the Universe as it will be used to better constrain the cosmological model at reds…

gr-qc2016

Model-independent traversable wormholes from baryon acoustic oscillations

Deng Wang

In this paper, we investigate the model-independent traversable wormholes from baryon acoustic oscillations. Firstly, we place the statistical constraints on the average dark energ…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 6 cited

Testing the axion-conversion hypothesis of 3.5 keV emission with polarization

Yan Gong, Xuelei Chen, Hua Feng

The recently measured 3.5 keV line in a number of galaxy clusters, the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and the Milky Way (MW) center can be well accounted for by a scenario in which dark ma…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 26 cited

The galaxy population in cold and warm dark matter cosmologies

Lan Wang, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Lizhi Xie +7

We use a pair of high resolution N-body simulations implementing two dark matter models, namely the standard cold dark matter (CDM) cosmogony and a warm dark matter (WDM) alternati…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 55 cited

AGN-Host Connection at 0.5 < z < 2.5: A rapid evolution of AGN fraction in red galaxies during the last 10 Gyr

Tao Wang, D. Elbaz, D. M. Alexander +13

We explore the dependence of the incidence of moderate-luminosity ( erg s) AGNs and the distribution of their accretion rates on host color at 0.5 <…