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most citedSloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

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astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Recovering the properties of the interstellar medium through integrated spectroscopy: application to the z~0 ECO volume-limited star-forming galaxy sample

V. Lebouteiller, C. T. Richardson, M. S. Polimera +7

Deriving physical parameters from integrated galaxy spectra is paramount to interpret the cosmic evolution of star formation, chemical enrichment, and energetic sources. We develop…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

Dust attenuation, dust content and geometry of star-forming galaxies

Junkai Zhang, Stijn Wuyts, Sam E. Cutler +11

We analyse the joint distribution of dust attenuation and projected axis ratios, together with galaxy size and surface brightness profile information, to infer lessons on the dust…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

The H luminosity and stellar mass dependent clustering of star-forming galaxies at with 3D-HST

Callie Clontz, David Wake, Zheng Zheng

We present measurements of the dependence of the clustering amplitude of galaxies on their star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass () at to assess the exten…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

3D-DASH: The Widest Near-Infrared Hubble Space Telescope Survey

Lamiya A. Mowla, Sam E. Cutler, Gabriel B. Brammer +15

The 3D-Drift And SHift (3D-DASH) program is a \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} WFC3 F160W imaging and G141 grism survey of the equatorial COSMOS field. 3D-DASH extends the legacy of…

astro-ph.GA2022

SDSS-IV MaNGA: How the stellar populations of passive central galaxies depend on stellar and halo mass

Grecco A. Oyarzun, Kevin Bundy, Kyle B. Westfall +23

We analyze spatially resolved and co-added SDSS-IV MaNGA spectra with signal-to-noise ~100 from 2200 passive central galaxies (z~0.05) to understand how central galaxy assembly dep…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 33 cited

The Geometry of Cold, Metal-Enriched Gas Around Galaxies at

Britt F. Lundgren, Samantha Creech, Gabriel Brammer +10

We present the first results from a Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/IR program, which obtained direct imaging and grism observations of galaxies near quasar sightlines with a high freq…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 46 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: the indispensable role of bars in enhancing the central star formation of low- galaxies

Lin Lin, Cheng Li, Cheng Du +8

We analyse two-dimensional maps and radial profiles of EW(H), EW(H), and D(4000) of low-redshift galaxies using integral field spectroscopy from the MaNGA survey. Out o…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1.5k cited

The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida +310

This paper documents the sixteenth data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 25 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Evidence for enriched accretion onto satellite galaxies in dense environments

Adam L. Schaefer, Christy Tremonti, Zachary Pace +9

We investigate the environmental dependence of the local gas-phase metallicity in a sample of star-forming galaxies from the MaNGA survey. Satellite galaxies with stellar masses in…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 19 cited

Resolved and Integrated Stellar Masses in the SDSS-IV/MaNGA Survey, Paper II: Applications of PCA-based stellar mass estimates

Zachary J. Pace, Christy Tremonti, Yanmei Chen +9

A galaxy's stellar mass is one of its most fundamental properties, but it remains challenging to measure reliably. With the advent of very large optical spectroscopic surveys, effi…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 14 cited

Resolved and Integrated Stellar Masses in the SDSS-IV/MaNGA Survey, Paper I: PCA spectral fitting & stellar mass-to-light ratio estimates

Zachary J. Pace, Christy Tremonti, Yanmei Chen +9

We present a method of fitting optical spectra of galaxies using a basis set of six vectors obtained from principal component analysis (PCA) of a library of synthetic spectra of 40…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 13 cited

Complete IRAC mapping of the CFHTLS-DEEP, MUSYC AND NMBS-II FIELDS

Marianna Annunziatella, Danilo Marchesini, Mauro Stefanon +19

The IRAC mapping of the NMBS-II fields program is an imaging survey at 3.6 and 4.5m with the Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC). The observations cover three Canada-France-Haw…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 3 cited

Spatially Extended Low Ionization Emission Regions (LIERs) at

R. E. Hviding, G. B. Brammer, I. G. Momcheva +9

We present spatially resolved emission diagnostics for eight galaxies that demonstrate extended low ionization emission-line regions (LIERs) over kpc scales. Eight candi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 14 cited

HST F160W Imaging of Very Massive Galaxies at : Diversity of Structures and the Effect of Close Pairs on Number Density Estimates

Z. Cemile Marsan, Danilo Marchesini, Adam Muzzin +10

We present a targeted follow-up Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 F160W imaging study of very massive galaxies selected from a combination of grou…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 10 cited

Revealing the host galaxy of a quasar 2175 Å dust absorber at z = 2.12

Jingzhe Ma, Gabriel Brammer, Jian Ge +2

We report the first detection of the host galaxy of a strong 2175 Å dust absorber at z = 2.12 towards the background quasar SDSS J121143.42+083349.7 using HST/WFC3 IR F140W dire…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 122 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: The Spatially Resolved Stellar Initial Mass Function in 400 Early-Type Galaxies

Taniya Parikh, Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston +20

MaNGA provides the opportunity to make precise spatially resolved measurements of the IMF slope in galaxies owing to its unique combination of spatial resolution, wavelength covera…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 29 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: The Spectroscopic Discovery of Strongly Lensed Galaxies

Michael S. Talbot, Joel R. Brownstein, Adam S. Bolton +11

We present a catalogue of 38 spectroscopically detected strong galaxy-galaxy gravitational lens candidates identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV). We were able to…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 161 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Stellar angular momentum of about 2300 galaxies: unveiling the bimodality of massive galaxy properties

Mark T. Graham, Michele Cappellari, Hongyu Li +14

We measure , a proxy for galaxy specific stellar angular momentum within one effective radius, and the ellipticity, , for about 2300 galaxies of all morphological types…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 40 cited

The dependence of galaxy clustering on stellar mass, star-formation rate and redshift at z = 0.8-2.2, with HiZELS

R. K. Cochrane, P. N. Best, D. Sobral +3

The deep, near-infrared narrow-band survey HiZELS has yielded robust samples of H-alpha emitting star-forming galaxies within narrow redshift slices at z = 0.8, 1.47 and 2.23. In t…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 63 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: The Spatial Distribution of Star Formation and its Dependence on Mass, Structure and Environment

Ashley Spindler, David Wake, Francesco Belfiore +9

We study the spatially resolved star formation of 1494 galaxies in the SDSSIV-MaNGA Survey. SFRs are calculated using a two-step process, using in star forming regions and $D…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 180 cited

SDSS IV MaNGA - sSFR profiles and the slow quenching of discs in green valley galaxies

Francesco Belfiore, Roberto Maiolino, Kevin Bundy +11

We study radial profiles in H equivalent width and specific star formation rate (sSFR) derived from spatially-resolved SDSS-IV MaNGA spectroscopy to gain insight on the physical…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 40 cited

Probing the kinematic morphology-density relation of early-type galaxies with MaNGA

J. E. Greene, A. Leauthaud, E. Emsellem +17

The "kinematic" morphology-density relation for early-type galaxies posits that those galaxies with low angular momentum are preferentially found in the highest-density regions of…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 33 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Uncovering the Angular Momentum Content of Central and Satellite Early-type Galaxies

Jenny E. Greene, Alexie Leauthaud, Eric Emsellem +18

We study 379 central and 159 satellite early-type galaxies with two-dimensional kinematics from the integral-field survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) to determine how th…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 380 cited

The SDSS-IV MaNGA Sample: Design, Optimization, and Usage Considerations

David A. Wake, Kevin Bundy, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic +15

We describe the sample design for the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey and present the final properties of the main samples along with important considerations for using these samples for scie…