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Multiphase Analysis of (U)LIRG Nuclear Activity (MAUNA). I. Spatially Resolved Optical Emission-Line Diagnostics
Justin A. Kader, Vivian U, Marina Bianchin +33
We present resolved optical integral-field spectroscopy of the 32 luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxy systems of the Multiphase Analysis of (U)LIRG Nuclear Activity (MAUNA)…
End-to-end ground calibration and in-flight performance of the FIREBall-2 instrument
Vincent Picouet, Bruno Milliard, Gillian Kyne +18
The payload of the Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall-2), the second generation of the FIREBall instrument (PI: C. Martin, Caltech), has been calibrated and…
Spatially Resolved Stellar Spectroscopy of the Ultra-diffuse Galaxy Dragonfly 44. III. Evidence for an Unexpected Star-Formation History
Alexa Villaume, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jean Brodie +6
We use the Keck Cosmic Web Imager integral-field unit spectrograph to: 1) measure the global stellar population parameters for the ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) Dragonfly 44 (DF44) to…
Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Coma Cluster Progenitor at z ~ 2.2
Behnam Darvish, Nick Z. Scoville, Christopher Martin +17
We report the spectroscopic confirmation of a new protocluster in the COSMOS field at 2.2, COSMOS Cluster 2.2 (CC2.2), originally identified as an overdensity of narrowb…
The Dark Matter Distributions in Low-Mass Disk Galaxies. II. The Inner Density Profiles
Nicole C. Relatores, Andrew B. Newman, Joshua D. Simon +8
Dark matter-only simulations predict that dark matter halos have steep, cuspy inner density profiles, while observations of dwarf galaxies find a range of inner slopes that are oft…
The FLASHES Survey I: Integral Field Spectroscopy of the CGM around 48 QSOs
Donal O'Sullivan, Christopher Martin, Mateusz Matuszewski +5
We present the pilot study component of the Fluorescent Lyman-Alpha Structures in High-z Environments (FLASHES) Survey; the largest integral-field spectroscopy survey to date of th…
Spatially Resolved Stellar Kinematics of the Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy Dragonfly 44: II. Constraints on Fuzzy Dark Matter
Asher Wasserman, Pieter van Dokkum, Aaron J. Romanowsky +9
Given the absence of directly detected dark matter (DM) as weakly interacting massive particles, there is strong interest in the possibility that DM is an ultra-light scalar field,…
FIREBall-2: advancing TRL while doing proof-of-concept astrophysics on a suborbital platform
Erika T. Hamden, Keri Hoadley, D. Christopher Martin +32
Here we discuss advances in UV technology over the last decade, with an emphasis on photon counting, low noise, high efficiency detectors in sub-orbital programs. We focus on the u…
Spatially-resolved stellar kinematics of the ultra diffuse galaxy Dragonfly 44. I. Observations, kinematics, and cold dark matter halo fits
Pieter van Dokkum, Asher Wasserman, Shany Danieli +8
We present spatially-resolved stellar kinematics of the well-studied ultra diffuse galaxy (UDG) Dragonfly 44, as determined from 25.3 hrs of observations with the Keck Cosmic Web I…
The Dark Matter Distributions in Low-Mass Disk Galaxies. I. H Observations Using the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager
Nicole C. Relatores, Andrew B. Newman, Joshua D. Simon +6
Dark-matter-only simulations predict that dark matter halos have cusp-like inner density profiles, while observations of low-mass galaxies have found a range of inner slopes that a…
Supernova PTF12glz: a possible shock breakout driven through an aspherical wind
Maayane T. Soumagnac, Eran O. Ofek, Avishay Gal-Yam +21
We present visible-light and ultraviolet (UV) observations of the supernova PTF12glz. The SN was discovered and monitored in near-UV and R bands as part of a joint GALEX and Paloma…
Similar Scaling Relations for the Gas Content of Galaxies across Environments to z ~ 3.5
Behnam Darvish, Nick Z. Scoville, Christopher Martin +3
We study the effects of the local environment on the molecular gas content of a large sample of log(/) 10 star-forming and starburst galaxies with speci…
Keck/Palomar Cosmic Web Imagers (KCWI/PCWI) Reveal an Enormous Ly Nebula in an Extremely Overdense QSO Pair Field at
Zheng Cai, Erika Hamden, Matt Matuszewski +10
Enormous Ly nebulae (ELANe) represent the extrema of Ly nebulosities. They have detected extents of kpc in Ly and Ly luminosities erg s. The EL…
Quenching or Bursting: the Role of Stellar Mass, Environment, and Specific Star Formation Rate to 1
Behnam Darvish, Christopher Martin, Thiago S. Gonçalves +3
Using a novel approach, we study the quenching and bursting of galaxies as a function of stellar mass (), local environment (), and specific star-formation rate (sSFR) us…
AT Cnc: A Second Dwarf Nova with a Classical Nova Shell
Michael M. Shara, Trisha Mizusawa, Peter Wehinger +5
We are systematically surveying all known and suspected Z Cam-type dwarf novae for classical nova shells. This survey is motivated by the discovery of the largest known classical n…
Halo Occupation Distribution Modeling of Green Valley Galaxies
Elisabeth Krause, Christopher M. Hirata, Christopher Martin +2
We present a clustering analysis of near ultraviolet (NUV) - optical color selected luminosity bin samples of green valley galaxies. These galaxy samples are constructed by matchin…
The Inter-Eruption Timescale of Classical Novae from Expansion of the Z Camelopardalis Shell
Michael M. Shara, Trisha Mizusawa, David Zurek +3
The dwarf nova Z Camelopardalis is surrounded by the largest known classical nova shell. This shell demonstrates that at least some dwarf novae must have undergone classical nova e…
SSGSS: The Spitzer-SDSS-GALEX Spectroscopic Survey
Matthew J. O'Dowd, David Schiminovich, Benjamin D. Johnson +8
The Spitzer-SDSS-GALEX Spectroscopic Survey (SSGSS) provides a new sample of 101 star-forming galaxies at z < 0.2 with unprecedented multi-wavelength coverage. New mid- to far-infr…
Catalogs of Hot White Dwarfs in the Milky Way from GALEX's Ultraviolet Sky Surveys. Constraining Stellar Evolution
Luciana Bianchi, Boryana Efremova, James Herald +4
We present comprehensive catalogs of hot star candidates in the Milky Way, selected from GALEX far-UV (FUV, 1344-1786 AA) and near-UV (NUV, 1771-2831 AA) imaging. The FUV and NUV p…
The GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey II: The Star Formation Efficiency of Massive Galaxies
David Schiminovich, Barbara Catinella, Guinevere Kauffmann +23
We use measurements of the HI content, stellar mass and star formation rates in ~190 massive galaxies with stellar masses greater than 10^10 Msun, obtained from the Galex Arecibo S…
The GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey. I. Gas Fraction Scaling Relations of Massive Galaxies and First Data Release
Barbara Catinella, David Schiminovich, Guinevere Kauffmann +23
We introduce the GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey (GASS), an on-going large program that is gathering high quality HI-line spectra using the Arecibo radio telescope for an unbiased sample…
A Vigorous Explorer Program
Martin Elvis, Matthew Beasley, Roger Brissenden +47
Explorers have made breakthroughs in many fields of astrophysics. The science from both these missions contributed to three Nobel Prizes - Giacconi (2002), Mather, and Smoot (2006)…
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Galaxies at z~0.1: the Effect of Star Formation and AGN
Matthew J. O'Dowd, David Schiminovich, Benjamin D. Johnson +8
We present the analysis of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) spectra of a sample of 92 typical star forming galaxies at 0.03 < z < 0.2 observed with the Spitzer IRS. We com…
Spitzer view on the evolution of star-forming galaxies from z=0 to z~3
Pablo G. Perez-Gonzalez, George H. Rieke, Eiichi Egami +11
We use a 24 micron selected sample containing more than 8,000 sources to study the evolution of star-forming galaxies in the redshift range from z=0 to z~3. We obtain photometric r…