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most citedThe Atlas3D project -- I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria

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astro-ph.GA2024

The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: An Extragalactic Database for Galaxy Evolution Studies

Tony Wong, Yixian Cao, Yufeng Luo +22

The EDGE-CALIFA survey provides spatially resolved optical integral field unit (IFU) and CO spectroscopy for 125 galaxies selected from the CALIFA Data Release 3 sample. The Extrag…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: Spatially Resolved 13CO(1-0) Observations and Variations in 12CO(1-0)/13CO(1-0) in Nearby Galaxies on kpc Scales

Yixian Cao, Tony Wong, Alberto D. Bolatto +12

We present 13CO(1-0) observations for the EDGE-CALIFA survey, which is a mapping survey of 126 nearby galaxies at a typical spatial resolution of 1.5 kpc. Using detected 12CO(1-0)…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

Atmospheric pressure and molecular cloud formation in early-type galaxies

Iurii Babyk, Brian McNamara, Paul Nulsen +3

A strong correlation between atmospheric pressure and molecular gas mass is found in central cluster galaxies and early-type galaxies. This trend and a similar trend with atmospher…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 16 cited

The EDGE-CALIFA survey: The resolved star formation efficiency and local physical conditions

V. Villanueva, A. Bolatto, S. Vogel +14

We measure the star formation rate (SFR) per unit gas mass and the star formation efficiency (SFE for total gas, SFE for the molecular gas) in 81 nearby gal…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 44 cited

WISDOM Project -- IX Giant Molecular Clouds in the Lenticular Galaxy NGC4429: Effects of Shear and Tidal Forces on Clouds

Lijie Liu, Martin Bureau, Leo Blitz +5

We present high spatial resolution (12pc) Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array CO(J=3-2) observations of the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC4429. We identify 217 giant molecu…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 54 cited

The EDGE-CALIFA survey: exploring the role of the molecular gas on the galaxy star formation quenching

D. Colombo, S. F. Sanchez, A. D. Bolatto +11

Understanding how galaxies cease to form stars represents an outstanding challenge for galaxy evolution theories. This process of "star formation quenching" has been related to var…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 64 cited

The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: Using Optical Extinction to Probe the Spatially-Resolved Distribution of Gas in Nearby Galaxies

Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Dyas Utomo, Alberto D. Bolatto +11

We present an empirical relation between the cold gas surface density () and the optical extinction () in a sample of 103 galaxies from the Extragalactic Da…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 40 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 40 cited

The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: Exploring the Star Formation Law through Variable Selection

Biprateep Dey, Erik Rosolowsky, Yixian Cao +10

We present a multilinear analysis to determine the significant predictors of star formation in galaxies using the combined EDGE-CALIFA sample of galaxies. We analyze 1845 kpc-scale…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 20 cited

Antlia2's role in driving the ripples in the outer gas disk of the Galaxy

Sukanya Chakrabarti, Philip Chang, Adrian Price-Whelan +3

We employ the earlier published proper motions of the newly discovered Antlia 2 dwarf galaxy derived from Gaia data to calculate its orbital distribution in the cosmologically rece…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 69 cited

The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: Evidence for Pervasive Extraplanar Diffuse Ionized Gas in Nearby Edge-On Galaxies

Rebecca C. Levy, Alberto D. Bolatto, Sebastián F. Sánchez +9

We investigate the prevalence, properties, and kinematics of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas (eDIG) in a sample of 25 edge-on galaxies selected from the CALIFA survey. We measure i…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 10 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 35 cited

The Origin of Interstellar Turbulence in M33

Dyas Utomo, Leo Blitz, Edith Falgarone

We utilize the multi-wavelength data of M33 to study the origin of turbulence in its interstellar medium. We find that the HI turbulent energy surface density inside 8 kpc is $\sim…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 90 cited

The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: Molecular and Ionized Gas Kinematics in Nearby Galaxies

Rebecca C. Levy, Alberto D. Bolatto, Peter Teuben +15

We present a comparative study of molecular and ionized gas kinematics in nearby galaxies. These results are based on observations from the EDGE survey, which measured spatially re…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 61 cited

The EDGE-CALIFA survey: validating stellar dynamical mass models with CO kinematics

Gigi Y. C. Leung, Ryan Leaman, Glenn van de Ven +13

Deriving circular velocities of galaxies from stellar kinematics can provide an estimate of their total dynamical mass, provided a contribution from the velocity dispersion of the…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 3 cited

The First Detection of Neutral Hydrogen in Emission in a Strong Spiral Lens

Andrew Lipnicky, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Melvyn C. H. Wright +7

We report HI observations of eight spiral galaxies that are strongly lensing background sources. Our targets were selected from the Sloan WFC (Wide Field Camera) Edge-on Late-type…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 61 cited

The EDGE-CALIFA survey: the influence of galactic rotation on the molecular depletion time across the Hubble sequence

D. Colombo, V. Kalinova, D. Utomo +15

We present a kpc-scale analysis of the relationship between the molecular depletion time () and the orbital time () across the field of…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 16 cited

CARMA Survey toward Infrared-bright Nearby Galaxies (STING). IV. Spatially Resolved 13CO in Spiral Galaxies

Yixian Cao, Tony Wong, Rui Xue +5

We present a mapping survey of 12 nearby galaxies from the CARMA STING sample. The line intensity ratio $\mathcal{R} \equiv I[^{12}\mathrm{…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 76 cited

The EDGE-CALIFA survey: Variations in the Molecular Gas Depletion Time in Local Galaxies

Dyas Utomo, Alberto D. Bolatto, Tony Wong +14

We present results from the EDGE survey, a spatially resolved CO(1-0) follow-up to CALIFA, an optical Integral Field Unit (IFU) survey of local galaxies. By combining the data prod…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 177 cited

The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: Interferometric Observations of 126 Galaxies with CARMA

Alberto D. Bolatto, Tony Wong, Dyas Utomo +21

We present interferometric CO observations made with the Combined Array for Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) of galaxies from the Extragalactic Database for Galaxy Evolution surve…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 66 cited

WISDOM Project - I: Black Hole Mass Measurement Using Molecular Gas Kinematics in NGC 3665

K. Onishi, S. Iguchi, T. A. Davis +4

As a part of the mm-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses (WISDOM) project, we present an estimate of the mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the nearby fast-…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 32 cited

Molecular gas at supernova local environments unveiled by EDGE

L. Galbany, L. Mora, S. González-Gaitán +13

CO observations allow estimations of the gas content of molecular clouds, which trace the reservoir of cold gas fuelling star formation, as well as to determine extinction via H$_2…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 71 cited

The Atlas3D project -- XXXI. Nuclear radio emission in nearby early-type galaxies

Kristina Nyland, Lisa M. Young, Joan M. Wrobel +22

We present the results of a high-resolution, 5 GHz, Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array study of the nuclear radio emission in a representative subset of the Atlas3D survey of early-ty…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 1 cited

Galactoseismology: Discovery of a cluster of receding, variable halo stars

Sukanya Chakrabarti, Rodolfo Angeloni, Kenneth Freeman +13

A dynamical characterization of dark matter dominated dwarf galaxies from their observed effects on galactic disks (i.e. Galactoseismology) has remained an elusive goal. Here, we p…