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most citedThe Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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astro-ph.GA2016★ 11 cited

Magnetohydrodynamic DiscWinds and LineWidth Distributions.II

L. S. Chajet, P. B. Hall

We study AGN emission line profiles combining an improved version of the accretion disc-wind model of Murray & Chiang with the magneto-hydrodynamic model of Emmering et al. (1992).…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 5 cited

The Astropy Problem

Demitri Muna, Michael Alexander, Alice Allen +151

The Astropy Project (http://astropy.org) is, in its own words, "a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Pyth…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 445 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: twelfth data release

Isabelle Pâris, Patrick Petitjean, Nicholas P. Ross +43

We present the Data Release 12 Quasar catalog (DR12Q) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the SDSS-III. This catalog includes all SDSS-III/BOSS objects that…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 31 cited

The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: the Composition and Dynamics of the Faint Universe

Alan McConnachie, Carine Babusiaux, Michael Balogh +173

MSE is an 11.25m aperture observatory with a 1.5 square degree field of view that will be fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy. More than 3200 fibres will feed spectrograph…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 52 cited

CIV Broad Absorption Line Acceleration in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars

C. J. Grier, W. N. Brandt, P. B. Hall +10

We present results from the largest systematic investigation of broad absorption line (BAL) acceleration to date. We use spectra of 140 quasars from three Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 16 cited

Vanishing Absorption and Blueshifted Emission in FeLoBAL Quasars

Alireza Rafiee, Patrik Pirkola, Patrick B. Hall +3

We study the dramatic decrease in iron absorption strength in the iron low-ionization broad absorption line quasar SDSS J084133.15+200525.8. We report on the continued weakening of…