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most citedThermal imaging of dust hiding the black hole in the Active Galaxy NGC 1068

96 citations · 375 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

VLTI/MATISSE observations of the hot dust around Pictoris: Observing faint objects with MATISSE

P. Priolet, J. -C. Augereau, J. Milli +32

Context: Hot exozodiacal dust has been detected around approximately 20% of nearby main-sequence stars, indicating that it is a common feature of extrasolar planetary systems. Howe…

astro-ph.SR2025

The complex inner disk of the Herbig Ae star HD 100453 with VLTI/MATISSE

L. N. A. van Haastere, J. Varga, M. R. Hogerheijde +35

The inner regions of planet-forming disks hold invaluable insights for our understanding of planet formation. The disk around the Herbig star HD 100453 presents one such environmen…

astro-ph.EP2025

The MATISSE view of the inner region of the RY Tau protoplanetary disk

J. S. Martin, J. Kobus, J. Varga +44

The T-Tauri type young stellar object RY Tau exhibits a dust depleted inner cavity characteristic of a transition disk. We constrain the spatial distribution and mineralogy of dust…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 10 cited

Images of Betelgeuse with VLTI/MATISSE across the Great Dimming

J. Drevon, F. Millour, P. Cruzalèbes +31

From Nov. 2019 to May 2020, the red supergiant star Betelgeuse experienced an unprecedented drop of brightness in the visible domain called the great dimming event. Large atmospher…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 10 cited

Mid-infrared evidence for iron-rich dust in the multi-ringed inner disk of HD 144432

J. Varga, L. B. F. M. Waters, M. Hogerheijde +40

Context. Rocky planets form by the concentration of solid particles in the inner few au regions of planet-forming disks. Their chemical composition reflects the materials in the di…

astro-ph.GA2023

The dusty heart of Circinus II. Scrutinizing the LM-band dust morphology using MATISSE

Jacob W. Isbell, Jörg-Uwe Pott, Klaus Meisenheimer +11

In this paper we present the first-ever - and -band interferometric observations of Circinus, building upon a recent -band analysis. We used these observations to reconstr…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 5 cited

Locating dust and molecules in the inner circumstellar environment of R~Sculptoris with MATISSE

Julien Drevon, Florentin Millour, Pierre Cruzalèbes +49

AGB stars are one of the main sources of dust production in the Galaxy. However, it is not clear what this process looks like and where the dust is condensing in the circumstellar…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 51 cited

The dusty heart of Circinus: I. Imaging the circumnuclear dust in N-band

Jacob W. Isbell, Klaus Meisenheimer, Jörg-Uwe Pott +28

Active galactic nuclei play a key role in the evolution of galaxies, but their inner workings and physical connection to the host are poorly understood due to a lack of angular res…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 96 cited

Thermal imaging of dust hiding the black hole in the Active Galaxy NGC 1068

Violeta Gamez Rosas, Jacob W. Isbell, Walter Jaffe +49

In the widely accepted 'Unified Model' solution of the classification puzzle of Active Galactic Nuclei, the orientation of a dusty accretion torus around the central black hole dom…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

The extended atmosphere and circumstellar environment of the cool evolved star VX Sagittarii as seen by MATISSE

A. Chiavassa, K. Kravchenko, M. Montargès +50

Context. VX Sgr is a cool, evolved, and luminous red star whose stellar parameters are difficult to determine, which affects its classification. Aims. We aim to spatially resolve t…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 14 cited

VLTI-MATISSE L- and N-band aperture-synthesis imaging of the unclassified B[e] star FS Canis Majoris

K. -H. Hofmann, A. Bensberg, D. Schertl +58

Context: FS Canis Majoris (FS CMa, HD 45677) is an unclassified B[e] star surrounded by an inclined dust disk. The evolutionary stage of FS CMa is still debated. Perpendicular to t…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 12 cited

First MATISSE L-band observations of HD 179218. Is the inner 10 au region rich in carbon dust particles?

E. Kokoulina, A. Matter, B. Lopez +58

Carbon is one of the most abundant components in the Universe. While silicates have been the main focus of solid phase studies in protoplanetary discs (PPDs), little is known about…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

Mid-infrared circumstellar emission of the long-period Cepheid l Carinae resolved with VLTI/MATISSE

V. Hocdé, N. Nardetto, A. Matter +149

The nature of circumstellar envelopes (CSE) around Cepheids is still a matter of debate. The physical origin of their infrared (IR) excess could be either a shell of ionized gas, o…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 43 cited

The asymmetric inner disk of the Herbig Ae star HD 163296 in the eyes of VLTI/MATISSE: evidence for a vortex?

J. Varga, M. Hogerheijde, R. van Boekel +133

Context. The inner few au region of planet-forming disks is a complex environment. High angular resolution observations have a key role in understanding the disk structure and the…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 9 cited

Why Chromatic Imaging Matters

Joel Sanchez-Bermudez, Florentin Millour, Fabien Baron +15

During the last two decades, the first generation of beam combiners at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer has proved the importance of optical interferometry for high-angular…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 11 cited

The Evolution of Molecular Gas Fraction Traced by the CO Tully-Fisher Relation

Jacob W. Isbell, Rui Xue, Hai Fu

Carbon monoxide (CO) observations show a luminosityline-width correlation that evolves with redshift. We present a method to use CO measurements alone to infer the molecular gas…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 11 cited

Flat Rotation Curves found in Merging Dusty Starbursts at through Tilted-Ring Modeling

Rui Xue, Hai Fu, Jacob Isbell +3

The brightest 500m source in the XMM field, HXMM01, is a rare merger of luminous starburst galaxies at with a dust-obscured star-formation rate of 2,000$\,M_{\odot}\,{…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 43 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Galaxy Pair Fraction and Correlated Active Galactic Nuclei

Hai Fu, Joshua L. Steffen, Arran C. Gross +7

We have identified 105 galaxy pairs at z ~ 0.04 with the MaNGA integral-field spectroscopic data. The pairs have projected separations between 1 kpc and 30 kpc, and are selected to…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 12 cited

Classifying Complex Faraday Spectra with Convolutional Neural Networks

Shea Brown, Brandon Bergerud, Allison Costa +7

Advances in radio spectro-polarimetry offer the possibility to disentangle complex regions where relativistic and thermal plasmas mix in the interstellar and intergalactic media. R…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 9 cited

The Circumgalactic Medium of Submillimeter Galaxies. II. Unobscured QSOs within Dusty Starbursts and QSO Sightlines with Impact Parameters below 100 Kiloparsec

Hai Fu, Jacob Isbell, Caitlin M. Casey +4

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) 870um observations of 29 bright Herschel sources near high-redshift QSOs. The observations confirm that 20 of the Her…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 15 cited

The Circumgalactic Medium of Submillimeter Galaxies. I. First Results from a Radio-Identified Sample

Hai Fu, J. F. Hennawi, J. X. Prochaska +14

We present the first results from an on-going survey to characterize the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of the massive high-redshift galaxies detected as submillimeter galaxies (SMGs)…