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most citedDeep Imaging of the HCG 95 Field.I.Ultra-diffuse Galaxies

50 citations · 316 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Physical Origins of Scatter in the Dust Attenuation Scaling Relation of Star-Forming Galaxies: Star--Dust Geometry

Zongfei Lyu, Xian Zhong Zheng, Zhizheng Pan +11

Characterising the physical drivers of dust attenuation in star-forming galaxies (SFGs) is essential for interpreting their spectral energy distributions and star formation histori…

astro-ph.GA2025

MAMMOTH-LyC: Investigating the Role of Galaxy Mergers in a Strong Lyman Continuum Leaker at

Shengzhe Wang, Xin Wang, Matthew A. Malkan +16

The MAMMOTH-LyC survey is a cycle 30 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) medium program obtaining 18-orbit-deep WFC3/UVIS F225W imaging in two massive galaxy protocluster fields at $z\sim…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

MAMMOTH-Grism: Revisiting the Mass-Metallicity Relation in Protocluster Environments at Cosmic Noon

Yiming Yang, Xin Wang, Xianlong He +12

We present one of the first measurements of the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) in multiple massive protoclusters at cosmic noon, using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) G141 slitless s…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

MAMMOTH-MOSFIRE: Environmental Effects on Galaxy Interstellar Medium at

Hang Zhou, Xin Wang, Matthew A. Malkan +16

The MAMMOTH-MOSFIRE program is a deep Keck/MOSFIRE K-band spectroscopic follow-up of emission-line galaxies identified in the MAMMOTH-Grism HST/WFC3 G141 slitless spectroscopic sur…

astro-ph.GA2024

A first measurement of galaxy merger rate increasing in dynamically colder protoclusters at cosmic noon

Shuang Liu, Xian Zhong Zheng, Valentino Gonzalez +10

The process of galaxy cluster formation likely leaves an imprint on the properties of its individual member galaxies. Understanding this process is essential for uncovering the evo…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium X. Flash spectral features in the Type Ibn SN 2019cj and observations of SN 2018jmt

Z. -Y. Wang, A. Pastorello, K. Maeda +48

We present optical and near-infrared observations of two Type Ibn supernovae (SNe), SN 2018jmt and SN 2019cj. Their light curves have rise times of about 10 days, reaching an absol…

astro-ph.GA2024

Cosmic Himalayas: The Highest Quasar Density Peak Identified in a 10,000 deg Sky with Spatial Discrepancies between Galaxies, Quasars, and IGM HI

Yongming Liang, Masami Ouchi, Dongsheng Sun +27

We report the identification of a quasar overdensity in the BOSSJ0210 field, dubbed Cosmic Himalayas, consisting of 11 quasars at , the densest overdensity of quasars…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

Understanding the Universal Dust Attenuation Scaling Relation of Star-Forming Galaxies

J. Qin, X. Z. Zheng, S. Wuyts +17

Star-forming galaxies (SFGs) adhere to a surprisingly tight scaling relation of dust attenuation parameterized by the infrared excess (IRX=), being jointly d…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

CSST Large-scale Structure Analysis Pipeline: II. the CSST Emulator for Slitless Spectroscopy (CESS)

Run Wen, Xian Zhong Zheng, Yunkun Han +9

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) slitless spectroscopic survey will observe objects to a limiting magnitude of ~ 23 mag (5, point sources) in U, V, and I over 17500 de…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Dust Attenuation Scaling Relation of Star-Forming Galaxies in the EAGLE Simulations

Man Qiao, Xian Zhong Zheng, Antonios Katsianis +11

Dust attenuation in star-forming galaxies (SFGs), as parameterized by the infrared excess (IRX ), is found to be tightly correlated with star formatio…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 23 cited

What boost galaxy mergers in two massive galaxy protoclusters at z = 2.24

Shuang Liu, Xianzhong Zheng, Dongdong Shi +10

Characterizing the structural properties of galaxies in high-redshift protoclusters is key to our understanding of the environmental effects on galaxy evolution in the early stages…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

The Emergence of Brightest Cluster Galaxy in a Protocluster Core at

Dongdong Shi, Xin Wang, XianZhong Zheng +4

We report the detection of a pair of massive quiescent galaxies likely in the process of merging at the center of the spectroscopically confirmed, extremely massive protocluster BO…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 30 cited

Limiting Magnitudes of the Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST)

Lei Lei, Qing-Feng Zhu, Xu Kong +5

Expected to be of the highest survey power telescope in the northern hemisphere, the Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) will begin its routine observations of the northern sky sinc…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 1 cited

The Physical Properties of Star-Forming Galaxies with Strong [O III] Lines at z=3.25

Run Wen, FangXia An, Xian Zhong Zheng +13

We present an analysis of physical properties of 34 [O III] emission-line galaxies (ELGs) at z=3.2540.029 in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS). These ELGs are sele…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 27 cited

First Census of Gas-phase Metallicity Gradients of Star-forming Galaxies in Overdense Environments at Cosmic Noon

Zihao Li, Xin Wang, Zheng Cai +8

We report the first spatially resolved measurements of gas-phase metallicity radial gradients in star-forming galaxies in overdense environments at . The spectroscopic d…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

Submillimetre galaxies in two massive protoclusters at z = 2.24: witnessing the enrichment of extreme starbursts in the outskirts of HAE density peaks

Yuheng Zhang, Xian Zhong Zheng, Dong Dong Shi +18

Submillimetre galaxies represent a rapid growth phase of both star formation and massive galaxies. Mapping SMGs in galaxy protoclusters provides key insights into where and how the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 23 cited

Systematic biases in determining dust attenuation curves through galaxy SED fitting

Jianbo Qin, Xian Zhong Zheng, Min Fang +16

While the slope of the dust attenuation curve () is found to correlate with effective dust attenuation () as obtained through spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting, it…

astro-ph.GA2021

The cosmic environment overtakes the local density in shaping galaxy star formation

Jian Ren, Zhizheng Pan, XianZhong Zheng +11

The gas supply from the cosmic web is the key to sustain star formation in galaxies. It remains to be explored how the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS) effects on galaxy evolutio…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 26 cited

Spectroscopic Confirmation of two Extremely Massive Protoclusters BOSS1244 and BOSS1542 at

Dongdong Shi, Zheng Cai, Xiaohui Fan +3

We present spectroscopic confirmation of two new massive galaxy protoclusters at , BOSS1244 and BOSS1542, traced by groups of Coherently Strong Ly Absorption (CoS…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

Long Tidal Tails in Merging Galaxies and Their Implications

Jian Ren, Xian Zhong Zheng, David Valls-Gabaud +8

We investigate the properties of long tidal tails using the largest to date sample of 461 merging galaxies with within from th…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 25 cited

MAMMOTH: Confirmation of Two Massive Galaxy Overdensities at with H Emitters

XianZhong Zheng, Zheng Cai, FangXia An +2

Massive galaxy overdensities at the peak epoch of cosmic star formation provide ideal testbeds for the formation theories of galaxies and large-scale structure. We report the confi…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 34 cited

The Third Data Release of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey

Hu Zou, Xu Zhou, Xiaohui Fan +45

The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) is a wide and deep imaging survey to cover a 5400 deg area in the Northern Galactic Cap with the 2.3m Bok telescope using two filters (…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 50 cited

Deep Imaging of the HCG 95 Field.I.Ultra-diffuse Galaxies

Dongdong Shi, Xianzhong Zheng, Haibin Zhao +7

We present a detection of 89 candidates of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in a 4.9 degree field centered on the Hickson Compact Group 95 (HCG 95) using deep - and -band im…