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astro-ph.GA2016★ 86 cited

Fading AGN Candidates: AGN Histories and Outflow Signatures

William C. Keel, Chris J. Lintott, W. Peter Maksym +12

We consider energy budgets and radiative history of 8 fading AGN, identified from mismatch between the ionizion of very extended (>10 kpc) ionized clouds and the luminosity of the…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 34 cited

Internal Gravity Waves in the Magnetized Solar Atmosphere. I. Magnetic Field Effects

G. Vigeesh, J. Jackiewicz, O. Steiner

Observations of the solar atmosphere show that internal gravity waves are generated by overshooting convection, but are suppressed at locations of magnetic flux, which is thought t…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 13 cited

A Distant Mirror: Solar Oscillations Observed on Neptune by the Kepler K2 Mission

P. Gaulme, J. F. Rowe, T. R. Bedding +24

Starting in December 2014, Kepler K2 observed Neptune continuously for 49 days at a 1-minute cadence. The goals consisted of studying its atmospheric dynamics (Simon et al. 2016),…

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.GA2016★ 29 cited

Very Thin Disc Galaxies in The SDSS Catalog of Edge-on Galaxies

D. V. Bizyaev, S. J. Kautsch, N. Ya. Sotnikova +2

We study the properties of galaxies with very thin discs using a sample of 85 objects whose stellar disc radial-to-vertical scale ratio determined from photometric decomposition, e…

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…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 17 cited

Gas Accretion and Galactic Chemical Evolution: Theory and Observations

Kristian Finlator

This chapter reviews how galactic inflows influence galaxy metallicity. The goal is to discuss predictions from theoretical models, but particular emphasis is placed on the insight…

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…

hep-ex2016★ 3 cited

Angular decay coefficients of mesons at forward rapidity from collisions at GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +387

We report the first measurement of the full angular distribution for inclusive decays in collisions at GeV. The measurements are…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 36 cited

Epoch of Reionisation 21cm Forecasting From MCMC-Constrained Semi-Numerical Models

Sultan Hassan, Romeel Dave, Kristian Finlator +1

The recent low value of Planck (2016) integrated optical depth to Thomson scattering suggests that the reionization occurred fairly suddenly, disfavoring extended reionization scen…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 60 cited

Chemical Abundances of M-dwarfs from the APOGEE Survey. I. The Exoplanet Hosting Stars Kepler-138 and Kepler-186

Diogo Souto, Katia Cunha, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez +18

We report the first detailed chemical abundance analysis of the exoplanet-hosting M-dwarf stars Kepler-138 and Kepler-186 from the analysis of high-resolution ( 22,500) $…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 32 cited

Spectral Evolution in High Redshift Quasars from the Final BOSS Sample

Trey W. Jensen, M. Vivek, Kyle S. Dawson +17

We report on the diversity in quasar spectra from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. After filtering the spectra to mitigate selection effects and Malmquist bias associat…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 37 cited

The Highly Ionized Circumgalactic Medium is Kinematically Uniform Around Galaxies

Nikole M. Nielsen, Glenn G. Kacprzak, Sowgat Muzahid +3

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) traced by OVI doublet absorption has been found to concentrate along the projected major and minor axes of the host galaxies. This su…

physics.ins-det2016★ 110 cited

Convolutional Neural Networks Applied to Neutrino Events in a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

MicroBooNE collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +136

We present several studies of convolutional neural networks applied to data coming from the MicroBooNE detector, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). The algorithms stu…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 14 cited

Mapping the Polarization of the Radio-Loud Ly Nebula B3 J2330+3927

Chang You, Ann Zabludoff, Paul Smith +6

Lya nebulae, or "Lya blobs", are extended (up to ~100 kpc), bright (L[Lya] > 10^43 erg/s) clouds of Lya emitting gas that tend to lie in overdense regions at z ~ 2--5. The origin o…

hep-lat2016★ 4 cited

Polyakov line actions from SU(3) lattice gauge theory with dynamical fermions via relative weights

Roman Höllwieser, Jeff Greensite

We extract an effective Polyakov line action from an underlying SU(3) lattice gauge theory with dynamical fermions via the relative weights method. The center-symmetry breaking ter…

math.GT2016★ 3 cited

How efficiently can one untangle a double-twist? Waving is believing!

David Pengelley, Daniel Ramras

It has long been known to mathematicians and physicists that while a full rotation in three-dimensional Euclidean space causes tangling, two rotations can be untangled. Formally, a…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 95 cited

APOGEE Chemical Abundances of Globular Cluster Giants in the Inner Galaxy

Ricardo P. Schiavon, Jennifer A. Johnson, Peter M. Frinchaboy +27

We report chemical abundances obtained by SDSS-III/APOGEE for giant stars in five globular clusters located within 2.2 kpc of the Galactic centre. We detect the presence of multipl…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 3 cited

On the non-Kolmogorov nature of flare-productive solar active regions

Revati S. Mandage, R. T. James McAteer

A magnetic power spectral analysis is performed on 53 solar active regions, observed from August 2011 to July 2012. Magnetic field data obtained from the Helioseismic and Magnetic…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 90 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Properties of galaxies with kinematically decoupled stellar and gaseous components

Yifei Jin, Yanmei Chen, Yong Shi +30

We study the properties of 66 galaxies with kinematically misaligned gas and stars from MaNGA survey. The fraction of kinematically misaligned galaxies varies with galaxy physical…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 53 cited

The growth of the central region by acquisition of counter-rotating gas in star-forming galaxies

Yan-Mei Chen, Yong Shi, Christy A. Tremonti +29

Galaxies grow through both internal and external processes. In about 10% of nearby red galaxies with little star formation, gas and stars are counter-rotating, demonstrating the im…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 28 cited

Galaxy clustering dependence on the emission line luminosity in the local Universe

Ginevra Favole, Sergio A. Rodríguez-Torres, Johan Comparat +4

We study the galaxy clustering dependence on the emission line luminosity in the SDSS DR7 Main galaxy sample at mean redshift . W…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 120 cited

Quasars Probing Galaxies: I. Signatures of Gas Accretion at Redshift Approximately 0.2

Stephanie H. Ho, Crystal L. Martin, Glenn G. Kacprzak +1

We describe the kinematics of circumgalactic gas near the galactic plane, combining new measurements of galaxy rotation curves and spectroscopy of background quasars. The sightline…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 52 cited

The Diversity of Diffuse Ly Nebulae around Star-Forming Galaxies at High Redshift

Rui Xue, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Arjun Dey +6

We report the detection of diffuse Ly emission, or Ly halos (LAHs), around star-forming galaxies at and in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey Boötes field.…