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astro-ph.GA2021★ 30 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Understanding Ionized Gas Turbulence using Integral Field Spectroscopy of 4500 Star-Forming Disk Galaxies

David R. Law, Francesco Belfiore, Matthew A. Bershady +8

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey MaNGA program has now obtained integral field spectroscopy for over 10,000 galaxies in the nearby universe. We use the final MaNGA data release DR17 to…

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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★ 5 cited

Temperature Discrepancy with Photoionization Models of the Narrow Line Region

Luc Binette, Montserrat Villar Martín, Gladis Magris C. +4

Using published work on the Narrow Line Region of Active Nuclei, we make a comparison of the observed [O III] ratio observed among quasars, Seyfert 2's and spatially…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 22 cited

CLEAR: Boosted Ly Transmission of the Intergalactic Medium in UV bright Galaxies

Intae Jung, Casey Papovich, Steven L. Finkelstein +11

Reionization is an inhomogeneous process, thought to begin in small ionized bubbles of the intergalactic medium (IGM) around overdense regions of galaxies. Recent Lyman-alpha (Ly$α…

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SDSS-IV MaStar: Theoretical Atmospheric Parameters for the MaNGA Stellar Library

Lewis Hill, Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston +16

We calculate the fundamental stellar parameters effective temperature, surface gravity and iron abundance - T, log g, [Fe/H] - for the final release of the Mapping Near…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 3 cited

Merging Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies: Calculating Binary Black Hole Coalescence Timescales from Simulations for LISA Detection

Victoria I. De Cun, Jillian M. Bellovary, Michael L. Katz

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) merging in dwarf galaxies will be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) in the mid-2030s. Previous cosmological hydrodynamic…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

Mapping the Morphology and Kinematics of a Lyman-alpha-selected Nebula at z=3.15 with MUSE

Kelly N. Sanderson, Moire K. M. Prescott, Lise Christensen +2

Recent wide-field integral field spectroscopy has revealed the detailed properties of high redshift Lyman-alpha (Lya) nebulae, most often targeted due to the presence of an active…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 38 cited

The CGM Survey: Circumgalactic O VI from dwarf to massive star-forming galaxies

K. Tchernyshyov, J. K. Werk, M. C. Wilde +9

We combine 126 new galaxy-O VI absorber pairs from the CGM survey with 123 pairs drawn from the literature to examine the simultaneous dependence of the column density of O VI…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 152 cited

APOGEE Chemical Abundance Patterns of the Massive Milky Way Satellites

Sten Hasselquist, Christian R. Hayes, Jianhui Lian +42

The SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey has obtained high-resolution spectra for thousands of red giant stars distributed among the massi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

A [C II] 158m Emitter Associated with an OI Absorber at the End of the Reionization Epoch

Yunjing Wu, Zheng Cai, Marcel Neeleman +12

The physical and chemical properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) at have been studied successfully through the absorption in the spectra of background Quasi-Stel…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 54 cited

Metal-enriched halo gas across galaxy overdensities over the last 10 billion years

Rajeshwari Dutta, Michele Fumagalli, Matteo Fossati +15

We present a study of metal-enriched halo gas traced by MgII and CIV absorption at z<2 in the MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies survey and the Quasar Sightline and Galaxy Evolut…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

APOGEE-2 Discovery of a Large Population of Relatively High-Metallicity Globular Cluster Debris

José G. Fernández-Trincado, Timothy C. Beers, Anna. B. A. Queiroz +13

We report the discovery of a new, chemically distinct population of relatively high-metallicity ([Fe/H] ) red giant stars with super-solar [N/Fe] () identifi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 100 cited

Final Targeting Strategy for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2S Survey

Felipe A. Santana, Rachael L. Beaton, Kevin R. Covey +43

APOGEE is a high-resolution (R sim 22,000), near-infrared, multi-epoch, spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way. The second generation of the APOGEE project, APOGEE-2, includes an ex…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 99 cited

Final Targeting Strategy for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2N Survey

Rachael L. Beaton, Ryan J. Oelkers, Christian R. Hayes +57

APOGEE-2 is a dual-hemisphere, near-infrared (NIR), spectroscopic survey with the goal of producing a chemo-dynamical mapping of the Milky Way Galaxy. The targeting for APOGEE-2 is…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 48 cited

Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Mapping Disk Populations with a Two-Process Model and Residual Abundances

David H. Weinberg, Jon A. Holtzman, Jennifer A. Johnson +33

We apply a novel statistical analysis to measurements of 16 elemental abundances in 34,410 Milky Way disk stars from the final data release (DR17) of APOGEE-2. Building on recent w…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

Evolution of CIV Absorbers. II. Where does CIV live?

Farhanul Hasan, Christopher W Churchill, Bryson Stemock +4

We use the observed cumulative statistics of CIV absorbers and dark matter halos to infer the distribution of CIV-absorbing gas relative to galaxies at redshifts $0\!\leq\!z\!\leq\…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 16 cited

Using cosmological simulations and synthetic absorption spectra to assess the accuracy of observationally derived CGM metallicities

Rachel Marra, Christopher W. Churchill, Caitlin Doughty +6

We used adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamic cosmological simulations of a Milky Way-type galaxy and a Dwarf galaxy and generated synthetic quasar absorption-line spec…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 44 cited

The cold circumgalactic medium in emission: MgII halos in TNG50

Dylan Nelson, Chris Byrohl, Celine Peroux +2

We outline theoretical predictions for extended emission from MgII, tracing cool ~10^4 K gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of star-forming galaxies in the high-resolution TNG5…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

Discovery of extremely low-metallicity circumgalactic gas at toward Q0454-220

Jackson M. Norris, Sowgat Muzahid, Jane C. Charlton +3

We have obtained new observations of the absorption system at toward QSO Q0454-220, which we use to constrain its chemical and physical conditions. The system…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 24 cited

The Impact of Cosmic Rays on the Kinematics of the Circumgalactic Medium

Iryna S. Butsky, Jessica K. Werk, Kirill Tchernyshyov +9

We use hydrodynamical simulations of two Milky Way-mass galaxies to demonstrate the impact of cosmic-ray pressure on the kinematics of cool and warm circumgalactic gas. Consistent…

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Spectral Observations of Superthin Galaxies

Dmitry Bizyaev, D. I. Makarov, V. P. Reshetnikov +3

We conduct spectral observations of 138 superthin galaxies (STGs) with high radial-to-vertical stellar disk scales ratio with the Dual Imaging Spectrograph (DIS) on the 3.5m telesc…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

The effects of binary stars on galaxies and metal-enriched gas during reionization

Caitlin C. Doughty, Kristian M. Finlator

Binary stars are abundant in nearby galaxies, but are typically unaccounted for in simulations of the high redshift Universe. Stellar population synthesis models that include the e…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Enhanced Star Formation in Galactic-scale Outflows

Min Bao, Yanmei Chen, Qirong Yuan +8

Using the integral field unit (IFU) data from Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, we collect a sample of 36 star forming galaxies that host galactic…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 51 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: 3D spin alignment of spiral and S0 galaxies

Katarina Kraljic, Christopher Duckworth, Rita Tojeiro +5

We investigate the 3D spin alignment of galaxies with respect to the large-scale filaments using the MaNGA survey. The cosmic web is reconstructed from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…