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most citedLSD: Lyman-break galaxies Stellar populations and Dynamics. I: Mass, metallicity and gas at z~3.1

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38 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

GA-NIFS: sRMS, a new method for disentangling resolved and unresolved emission in integral field spectroscopy. Application to distant quasars

Michele Perna, Santiago Arribas, Carlota Prieto-Jiménez +28

The interpretation of AGN emission-line profiles in type1 AGN is often complicated by the dominance of bright, spatially unresolved nuclear continuum and broad-line region (BLR) em…

astro-ph.GA2026

Unsupervised selection and characterisation of Little Red Dots in JWST surveys with manifold learning

Michele Ginolfi, Filippo Mannucci, Alessandro Marconi +9

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are compact, red sources discovered at high redshift by JWST whose physical nature and selection function remain debated. We investigate whether an unsupervi…

astro-ph.HE2026

Dual AGN and Multiple SMBH Systems in the Era of SKAO

Q. D'Amato, L. Cui, R. Deane +23

We present a radio-oriented review of current strategies for the detection and characterization of dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) and supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs),…

astro-ph.GA2025

Resolving stellar populations, star formation, and interstellar medium conditions with JWST in a large spiral galaxy at

Eleonora Parlanti, Giulia Tozzi, Natascha M. Förster Schreiber +30

Cosmic noon represents the prime epoch of galaxy assembly, and a sweet spot for observations with the James Webb Telescope (JWST) and ground-based near-IR integral-field unit (IFU)…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 18 cited

Unveiling the Fast Acceleration of AGN-Driven Winds at Kiloparsec Scales

Cosimo Marconcini, Alessandro Marconi, Giovanni Cresci +18

Supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies gain mass through accretion disks. Models predict that quasi-spherical winds, expelled by the black hole during active accretion…

astro-ph.GA2023

From Halos to Galaxies. VII. The Connections Between Stellar Mass Growth History, Quenching History and Halo Assembly History for Central Galaxies

Cheqiu Lyu, Yingjie Peng, Yipeng Jing +12

The assembly of galaxies over cosmic time is tightly connected to the assembly of their host dark matter halos. We investigate the stellar mass growth history and the chemical enri…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 3 cited

An irradiated-Jupiter analogue hotter than the Sun

Na'ama Hallakoun, Dan Maoz, Alina G. Istrate +10

Planets orbiting close to hot stars experience intense extreme-ultraviolet radiation, potentially leading to atmosphere evaporation and to thermal dissociation of molecules. Howeve…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 27 cited

Unveiling hidden active nuclei in MaNGA star-forming galaxies with HeII4686 line emission

Giulia Tozzi, Roberto Maiolino, Giovanni Cresci +5

Nebular HeII4686Å~line emission is useful to unveil active galactic nuclei (AGN) residing in actively star-forming (SF) galaxies, typically missed by the standard BPT classifica…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

SUPER VII. Morphology and kinematics of H emission in AGN host galaxies at Cosmic noon using SINFONI

D. Kakkad, V. Mainieri, G. Vietri +19

We present spatially resolved H properties of 21 type 1 AGN host galaxies at z2 derived from the SUPER survey. These targets were observed with the adaptive optics capabil…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 281 cited

The chemical enrichment in the early Universe as probed by JWST via direct metallicity measurements at z~8

M. Curti, F. D'Eugenio, S. Carniani +30

We analyse the chemical properties of three z~8 galaxies behind the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327, observed as part of the Early Release Observations programme of the James Web…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 66 cited

Being KLEVER at cosmic noon: ionised gas outflows are inconspicuous in low-mass star-forming galaxies but prominent in massive AGN hosts

Alice Concas, Roberto Maiolino, Mirko Curti +13

We investigate the presence of ionised gas outflows in a sample of 141 main-sequence star-forming galaxies at from the KLEVER (KMOS Lensed Emission Lines and VElocity R…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

Cold Gas in Massive Galaxies as A Critical Test of Black Hole Feedback Models

Jingjing Shi, Yingjie Peng, Benedikt Diemer +15

Black hole feedback has been widely implemented as the key recipe to quench star formation in massive galaxies in modern semi-analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations. As the…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 46 cited

The KLEVER survey: Nitrogen abundances at 2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation

Connor Hayden-Pawson, Mirko Curti, Roberto Maiolino +14

We present a comparison of the nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio (N/O) in 37 high-redshift galaxies at 2 taken from the KMOS Lensed Emission Lines and VElocity Review (KLEVER) Survey…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 35 cited

SUPER. VI. A giant molecular halo around a z~2 quasar

C. Cicone, V. Mainieri, C. Circosta +16

We present the discovery of copious molecular gas in the halo of cid_346, a quasar studied as part of the SINFONI survey for Unveiling the Physics and Effect of Radiative f…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 35 cited

The diffuse ionized gas (DIG) in star-forming galaxies: the influence of aperture effects on local HII regions

F. Mannucci, F. Belfiore, M. Curti +7

The Diffuse Ionized Gas (DIG) contributes to the nebular emission of galaxies, resulting in emission line flux ratios that can be significantly different from those produced by HII…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 30 cited

SUPER V. ALMA continuum observations of z~2 AGN and the elusive evidence of outflows influencing star formation

I. Lamperti, C. M. Harrison, V. Mainieri +24

We study the impact of AGN ionised outflows on star formation in high-redshift AGN hosts, by combining NIR IFS observations, mapping the H emission and [OIII] outflows, with mat…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 40 cited

The stellar metallicities of massive quiescent galaxies at 1.0 < z < 1.3 from KMOS+VANDELS

A. C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop +18

We present a rest-frame UV-optical stacked spectrum representative of massive quiescent galaxies at with log. The stack is constructed using VA…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 8 cited

From haloes to galaxies. III. The gas cycle of local galaxy populations

Jing Dou, Yingjie Peng, Alvio Renzini +12

In Dou et al. (2021), we introduced the Fundamental Formation Relation (FFR), a tight relation between specific SFR (sSFR), H star formation efficiency (SFE), and t…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 17 cited

Mass and Environment as Drivers of Galaxy Evolution. IV. On the Quenching of Massive Central Disk Galaxies in The Local Universe

Chengpeng Zhang, Yingjie Peng, Luis C. Ho +13

The phenomenological study of evolving galaxy populations has shown that star forming galaxies can be quenched by two distinct processes: mass quenching and environment quenching (…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

Dense and warm neutral gas in BR1202-0725 at z = 4.7 as traced by the [O I] 145 um line

Minju M. Lee, Tohru Nagao, Carlos De Breuck +11

We report the detection of [O I]145.5um in the BR 1202-0725 system, a compact group at z=4.7 consisting of a quasar (QSO), a submillimeter-bright galaxy (SMG), and three faint Lya…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

Heavy elements unveil the non primordial origin of the giant HI ring in Leo

Edvige Corbelli, Giovanni Cresci, Filippo Mannucci +2

The origin and fate of the most extended extragalactic neutral cloud known in the local Universe, the Leo ring, is still debated 38 years after its discovery. Its existence is alte…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 142 cited

MAGNUM survey: Compact jets causing large turmoil in galaxies -- Enhanced line widths perpendicular to radio jets as tracers of jet-ISM interaction

G. Venturi, G. Cresci, A. Marconi +10

Outflows accelerated by AGN are commonly observed in the form of coherent, mildly collimated high-velocity gas directed along the AGN ionisation cones and kinetically powerful (>$1…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

From haloes to galaxies -- II. The fundamental relations in star formation and quenching

Jing Dou, Yingjie Peng, Alvio Renzini +10

Star formation and quenching are two of the most important processes in galaxy formation and evolution. We explore in the local Universe the interrelationships among key integrated…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 60 cited

Nearly all Massive Quiescent Disk Galaxies have a Surprisingly Large Atomic Gas Reservoir

Chengpeng Zhang, Yingjie Peng, Luis C. Ho +11

The massive galaxy population above the characteristic Schechter mass M*~10^10.6 Msun contributes to about half of the total stellar mass in the local Universe. These massive galax…