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most citedRevealing the intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the dwarf galaxy NGC 404 with sub-parsec resolution ALMA observations

69 citations · 628 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

WISDOM Project - XXVII. Giant molecular clouds of the lenticular galaxy NGC 1387: similarities with spiral galaxy clouds

Fu-Heng Liang, Martin Bureau, Lijie Liu +10

Molecular gas is crucial to understanding star formation and galaxy evolution, but the giant molecular clouds (GMCs) of early-type galaxies (ETGs) have rarely been studied. Here, w…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

WISDOM project XX -- Strong shear tearing molecular clouds apart in NGC 524

Anan Lu, Daryl Haggard, Martin Bureau +17

Early-type galaxies (ETGs) are known to harbour dense spheroids of stars but scarce star formation (SF). Approximately a quarter of these galaxies have rich molecular gas reservoir…

astro-ph.GA2024

WISDOM Project -- XXI. Giant molecular clouds in the central region of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 613: a steep size -- linewidth relation

Woorak Choi, Martin Bureau, Lijie Liu +9

NGC~613 is a nearby barred spiral galaxy with a nuclear ring. Exploiting high spatial resolution ( pc) Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array CO(1-0) obser…

astro-ph.GA2023

WISDOM Project -- XVI. The link between circumnuclear molecular gas reservoirs and active galactic nucleus fuelling

Jacob S. Elford, Timothy A. Davis, Ilaria Ruffa +8

We use high-resolution data from the millimetre-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses (WISDOM) project to investigate the connection between circumnuclear gas reservoir…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

A fundamental plane of black hole accretion at millimetre wavelengths

Ilaria Ruffa, Timothy A. Davis, Jacob S. Elford +11

We report the discovery of the ``mm fundamental plane of black-hole accretion'', which is a tight correlation between the nuclear 1 mm luminosity (), the intrinsic $…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

WISDOM Project -- XV. Giant Molecular Clouds in the Central Region of the Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 5806

Woorak Choi, Lijie Liu, Martin Bureau +7

We present high spatial resolution ( pc) Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array CO(2-1) observations of the central region of the nearby barred spiral gala…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 26 cited

WISDOM project -- XIV. SMBH mass in the early-type galaxies NGC0612, NGC1574, and NGC4261 from CO dynamical modelling

Ilaria Ruffa, Timothy A. Davis, Michele Cappellari +9

We present a CO dynamical estimate of the mass of the super-massive black hole (SMBH) in three nearby early-type galaxies: NGC0612, NGC1574 and NGC4261. Our analysis is based on At…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

WISDOM Project -- XIII. Feeding molecular gas to the supermassive black hole in the starburst AGN-host galaxy Fairall 49

Federico Lelli, Timothy A. Davis, Martin Bureau +5

The mm-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses (WISDOM) is probing supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galaxies across the Hubble sequence via molecular gas dynamics. We…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

WISDOM Project XII. Clump properties and turbulence regulated by clump-clump collisions in the dwarf galaxy NGC404

Lijie Liu, Martin Bureau, Guang-Xing Li +6

We present a study of molecular structures (clumps and clouds) in the dwarf galaxy NGC 404 using high-resolution (0.86x0.51 pc^2) Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array ^{12…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

WISDOM project -- XI. Star Formation Efficiency in the Bulge of the AGN-host Galaxy NGC 3169 with SITELLE and ALMA

Anan Lu, Hope Boyce, Daryl Haggard +19

The star formation efficiency (SFE) has been shown to vary across different environments, particularly within galactic starbursts and deep within the bulges of galaxies. Various qu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 48 cited

WISDOM Project -- X. The morphology of the molecular ISM in galaxy centres and its dependence on galaxy structure

Timothy A. Davis, Jindra Gensior, Martin Bureau +12

We use high-resolution maps of the molecular interstellar medium (ISM) in the centres of eighty-six nearby galaxies from the millimetre-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object M…

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.GA2021★ 22 cited

WISDOM project -- VIII. Multi-scale feedback cycles in the brightest cluster galaxy NGC 0708

Eve V. North, Timothy A. Davis, Martin Bureau +8

We present high-resolution (synthesised beam size 0."088x0."083 or 25x23 pc) Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) CO(2-1) line and 236 GHz continuum obser…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 27 cited

WISDOM Project -- VII. Molecular gas measurement of the supermassive black hole mass in NGC 7052

Mark D. Smith, Martin Bureau, Timothy A. Davis +7

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses can be measured by resolving the dynamical influences of the SMBHs on spatially-resolved tracers of the central potentials. Modern long-baseli…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 20 cited

WISDOM project -- VI. Exploring the relation between supermassive black hole mass and galaxy rotation with molecular gas

Mark D. Smith, Martin Bureau, Timothy A. Davis +6

Empirical correlations between the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and properties of their host galaxies are well-established. Among these is the correlation with the fl…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 69 cited

Revealing the intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the dwarf galaxy NGC 404 with sub-parsec resolution ALMA observations

Timothy A. Davis, Dieu D. Nguyen, Anil C. Seth +15

We estimate the mass of the intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 404 using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 25 cited

Estimating the molecular gas mass of low-redshift galaxies from a combination of mid-infrared luminosity and optical properties

Yang Gao, Ting Xiao, Cheng Li +17

We present CO(J=1-0) and/or CO(J=2-1) spectroscopy for 31 galaxies selected from the ongoing MaNGA survey, obtained with multiple telescopes. This sample is combined with CO observ…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 49 cited

WISDOM project -- V. Resolving molecular gas in Keplerian rotation around the supermassive black hole in NGC 0383

Eve V. North, Timothy A. Davis, Martin Bureau +7

As part of the mm-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses (WISDOM), we present a measurement of the mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the nearby early-type ga…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 19 cited

JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies: II. SCUBA-2 850 μm data reduction and dust flux density catalogues

Matthew W. L. Smith, Christopher J. R. Clark, Ilse De Looze +33

We present the SCUBA-2 850 component of JINGLE, the new JCMT large survey for dust and gas in nearby galaxies, which with 193 galaxies is the largest targeted survey of nearby…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 46 cited

WISDOM project - IV. A molecular gas dynamical measurement of the supermassive black hole mass in NGC 524

Mark D. Smith, Martin Bureau, Timothy A. Davis +6

We present high angular resolution (0.3" or 37 pc) Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the CO(2-1) line emission from a central disc in the early-t…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 64 cited

WISDOM Project - III: Molecular gas measurement of the supermassive black hole mass in the barred lenticular galaxy NGC4429

Timothy A. Davis, Martin Bureau, Kyoko Onishi +7

As 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-rot…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 39 cited

Measuring Star-formation Rate and Far-Infrared Color in High-redshift Galaxies Using the CO (7-6) and [NII] 205 micron Lines

Nanyao Lu, Yinghe Zhao, C. Kevin Xu +13

To better characterize the global star formation (SF) activity in a galaxy, one needs to know not only the star formation rate (SFR) but also the rest-frame, far-infrared (FIR) col…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 68 cited

The Global Star Formation Laws of Galaxies from a Radio Continuum Perspective

Lijie Liu, Yu Gao, Thomas R. Greve

We study the global SF law - the relation between gas and SFRs in a sample of 181 local galaxies with L_IR spanning almost five orders of magnitude, which includes 115 normal galax…

astro-ph.CO2011

The Global Star Formation Law of Galaxies Revisited in the Radio Continuum

Lijie Liu, Yu Gao

We study the global star formation law - the relation between the gas and star formation rate (SFR) in a sample of 130 local galaxies with infrared (IR) luminosities spanning over…