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most citedFirst Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

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astro-ph.GA2016★ 99 cited

ALMA observations of massive molecular gas filaments encasing radio bubbles in the Phoenix cluster

H. R. Russell, M. McDonald, B. R. McNamara +11

We report new ALMA observations of the CO(3-2) line emission from the molecular gas reservoir in the central galaxy of the Phoenix c…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 133 cited

ALMA observations of atomic carbon in z~4 dusty star-forming galaxies

M. S. Bothwell, J. E. Aguirre, M. Aravena +15

We present ALMA [CI]() (rest frequency 492 GHz) observations for a sample of 13 strongly-lensed dusty star-forming galaxies originally discovered at 1.4mm in a blank-field sur…

astro-ph.IM2016

The Case for a Publicly Available, Well-Instrumented GBT Operating at 20-115 GHz

J. Bally, G. Blake, A. Bolatto +16

A well-instrumented Green Bank Telescope (GBT) operating at high frequency represents a unique scientific resource for the US community. As a filled-aperture, 100m-diameter telesco…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 27 cited

Variability in GRMHD simulations of Sgr A: Implications for EHT closure phase observations

Lia Medeiros, Chi-kwan Chan, Feryal Özel +4

The observable quantities that carry the most information regarding the structures of the images of black holes in the interferometric observations with the Event Horizon Telescope…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 38 cited

SPT0346-52: Negligible AGN Activity in a Compact, Hyper-starburst Galaxy at z = 5.7

Jingzhe Ma, A. H. Gonzalez, J. D. Vieira +20

We present Chandra ACIS-S and ATCA radio continuum observations of the strongly lensed dusty, star-forming galaxy SPT-S J034640-5204.9 (hereafter SPT0346-52) at = 5.656. This g…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 52 cited

SPT-GMOS: A Gemini/GMOS-South Spectroscopic Survey of Galaxy Clusters in the SPT-SZ Survey

M. B. Bayliss, J. Ruel, C. W. Stubbs +75

We present the results of SPT-GMOS, a spectroscopic survey with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South. The targets of SPT-GMOS are galaxy clusters identified…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 54 cited

Low Gas Fractions Connect Compact Star-Forming Galaxies to their z ~ 2 Quiescent Descendants

Justin S. Spilker, Rachel Bezanson, Daniel P. Marrone +3

Early quiescent galaxies at z~2 are known to be remarkably compact compared to their nearby counterparts. Possible progenitors of these systems include galaxies that are structural…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 21 cited

Far Infrared Variability of Sagittarius A*: 25.5 Hours of Monitoring with

Jordan M. Stone, D. P. Marrone, C. D. Dowell +3

Variable emission from Sgr~A*, the luminous counterpart to the super-massive black hole at the center of our Galaxy, arises from the innermost portions of the accretion flow. Bette…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 101 cited

COPSS II: The Molecular Gas Content of Ten Million Cubic Megaparsecs at

Garrett K. Keating, Daniel P. Marrone, Geoffrey C. Bower +3

We present a measurement of the abundance of carbon monoxide in the early Universe, utilizing the final results from the CO Power Spectrum Survey (COPSS). Between 2013 and 2015, we…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 15 cited

Maps of the Magellanic Clouds from Combined South Pole Telescope and Planck Data

T. M. Crawford, R. Chown, G. P. Holder +39

We present maps of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds from combined South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck data. The Planck satellite observes in nine bands, while the SPT data u…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 215 cited

ALMA Imaging and Gravitational Lens Models of South Pole Telescope-Selected Dusty, Star-Forming Galaxies at High Redshifts

Justin Spilker, Daniel Marrone, Manuel Aravena +18

The South Pole Telescope has discovered one hundred gravitationally lensed, high-redshift, dusty, star-forming galaxies (DSFGs). We present 0.5" resolution 870um Atacama Large Mill…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 262 cited

Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clusters in the 2500 square-degree SPT-SZ Survey

T. de Haan, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem +74

(abridged) We present cosmological constraints obtained from galaxy clusters identified by their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect signature in the 2500 square degree South Pole Telescope…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 149 cited

The redshift distribution of dusty star forming galaxies from the SPT survey

M. L. Strandet, A. Weiß, J. D. Vieira +28

We use the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Cycle 1 to determine spectroscopic redshifts of high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) selected by thei…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 88 cited

Persistent Asymmetric Structure of Sagittarius A* on Event Horizon Scales

Vincent L. Fish, Michael D. Johnson, Sheperd S. Doeleman +69

The Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a prime observing target for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which can resolve the 1.3 mm emission from this source on…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 28 cited

Bayesian techniques for comparing time-dependent GRMHD simulations to variable Event Horizon Telescope observations

Junhan Kim, Daniel P. Marrone, Chi-kwan Chan +3

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a millimeter-wavelength, very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiment that is capable of observing black holes with horizon-scale resolu…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 169 cited

A survey of the cold molecular gas in gravitationally lensed star-forming galaxies at z>2

M. Aravena, J. S. Spilker, M. Bethermin +18

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), we conducted a survey of CO J=1-0 and J=2-1 line emission towards strongly lensed high-redshift dusty star forming galaxies (DSF…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 12 cited

IDCS J1426.5+3508: Weak Lensing Analysis of a Massive Galaxy Cluster at

Wenli Mo, Anthony H. Gonzalez, M. James Jee +7

We present a weak lensing study of the galaxy cluster IDCS J1426.5+3508 at , which is the highest redshift strong lensing cluster known and the most distant cluster for whi…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 37 cited

An ALMA view of the interstellar medium of the z=4.77 lensed starburst SPT-S J213242-5802.9

M. Béthermin, C. De Breuck, B. Gullberg +16

We present ALMA detections of the [NII] 205m and CO(12-11) emission lines, and the tentative detection of [CI] P - P for the strongly lensed (=5.70.5) du…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 327 cited

Detection of lensing substructure using ALMA observations of the dusty galaxy SDP.81

Yashar D. Hezaveh, Neal Dalal, Daniel P. Marrone +13

We study the abundance of substructure in the matter density near galaxies using ALMA Science Verification observations of the strong lensing system SDP.81. We present a method to…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 28 cited

GRMHD simulations of visibility amplitude variability for Event Horizon Telescope images of Sgr A*

Lia Medeiros, Chi-kwan Chan, Feryal Ozel +4

Synthesis imaging of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way, Sgr A*, with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) rests on the assumption of a stationary image. We explore the lim…