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Recognizing Blazars Using Radio Morphology from the VLA Sky Survey: Blazars are radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) whose jets have a very small angle to our line of sight. Observationally, the radio emission are mostly compact or a compact-core with a 1-sided jet. With 2.5$^{\prime\prime}$ resolution at 3 GHz, the...
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Probing the initial conditions of high-mass star formation -- IV. Gas dynamics and NH$_2$D chemistry in high-mass precluster and protocluster clumps: The initial stage of star formation is a complex area study because of its high density and low temperature. Under such conditions, many molecules become depleted fro...
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The numbers of z~2 star-forming and passive galaxies in 2.5 square degrees of deep CFHT imaging: We use an adaptation of the BzKs technique to select ~40,000 z~2 galaxies (to K(AB) = 24), including ~5,000 passively evolving (PE) objects (to K(AB) = 23), from 2.5 deg^2 of deep CFTH imaging. The passive galaxy luminosi...
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The dragonfly nearby galaxies survey. Iv. A giant stellar disk in ngc 2841: Neutral gas is commonly believed to dominate over stars in the outskirts of galaxies, and investigations of the disk-halo interface are generally considered to be in the domain of radio astronomy. This may simply be a consequence of the fact ...
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Toward an Empirical Theory of Pulsar Emission. X. On the Precursor and Postcursor Emission: Precursors and postcursors (PPCs) are rare emission components detected in a handful of pulsars that appear beyond the main pulse emission, in some cases far away from it. In this paper we attempt to characterize the PPC emiss...
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ALMA unveils a triple merger and gas exchange in a hyper-luminous radio galaxy at z=2: the Dragonfly Galaxy (II): The Dragonfly Galaxy (MRC0152-209), at redshift z~2, is one of the most vigorously star-forming radio galaxies in the Universe. What triggered its activity? We present ALMA Cycle 2 observations of cold mo...
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ATLASGAL --- properties of compact HII regions and their natal clumps: We present a complete sample of molecular clumps containing compact and ultra-compact (UC) HII regions between \ell=10\degr and 60\degr\ and $|b|<1\degr, identified by combining the the ATLASGAL submm and CORNISH radio continuum surveys with visual ...
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A phase-space view of cold-gas properties of Virgo-cluster galaxies: multiple quenching processes at work?: We investigate the cold-gas properties of massive Virgo galaxies ($>10^9$ M$_\odot$) at $<3R_{200}$ ($R_{200}$ is the radius where the mean interior density is 200 times the critical density) on the projected p...
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Unresolved z~8 point sources and their impact on the bright end of the galaxy luminosity function: The distribution and properties of the first galaxies and quasars are critical pieces of the puzzle in understanding galaxy evolution and cosmic reionization. Previous studies have often excluded unresolved sources as p...
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Better Together: The Complex Interplay Between Radiative Cooling and Magnetic Draping: Rapidly outflowing cold H-I gas is ubiquitously observed to be co-spatial with a hot phase in galactic winds, yet the ablation time of cold gas by the hot phase should be much shorter than the acceleration time. Previous work showe...
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Variations of the initial mass function in semi-analytical models: implications for the mass assembly and the chemical enrichment of galaxies in the GAEA model: In this work, we investigate the implications of the Integrated Galaxy-wide stellar Initial Mass Function (IGIMF) approach in the framework of the semi-ana...
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How does star formation proceed in the circumnuclear starburst ring of NGC 6951?: Gas inflowing along stellar bars is often stalled at the location of circumnuclear rings, that form an effective reservoir for massive star formation and thus shape the central regions of galaxies. However, how exactly star formation is...
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Galactic Chemical Evolution and the Oxygen Isotopic Composition of the Solar System: We review current observational and theoretical constraints on the Galactic chemical evolution (GCE) of oxygen isotopes in order to explore whether GCE plays a role in explaining the lower 17O/18O ratio of the Sun, relative to the pr...
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Confirmation and refutation of very luminous galaxies in the early universe: During the first 500 million years of cosmic history, the first stars and galaxies formed, seeding the Universe with heavy elements and eventually reionizing the intergalactic medium. Observations with JWST have uncovered a surprisingly high...
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Spatially-resolved spectroscopy of narrow-line Seyfert 1 host galaxies: We present optical integral field spectroscopy for five $z<0.062$ narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) host galaxies, probing their host galaxies at $\gtrsim 2-3$ kpc scales. Emission lines in the nuclear AGN spectra and the large-scale host gala...
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An infrared view of AGN feedback in a type-2 quasar: the case of the Teacup galaxy: We present near-infrared integral field spectroscopy data obtained with VLT/SINFONI of "the Teacup galaxy". The nuclear K-band (1.95-2.45 micron) spectrum of this radio-quiet type-2 quasar reveals a blueshifted broad component of FWHM...
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Chemical Evolution of R-process Elements in Stars (CERES). I. Stellar parameters and chemical abundances from Na to Zr: Aims. The Chemical Evolution of R-process Elements in Stars (CERES) project aims to provide a homogeneous analysis of a sample of metal-poor stars ([Fe/H]<-1.5). We present the stellar parameters an...
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Spectral scaling laws in MHD turbulence simulations and in the solar wind: The question is addressed to what extent incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can describe random magnetic and velocity fluctuations measured in the solar wind. It is demonstrated that distributions of spectral indices for the velocity, m...
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An uncertainty principle for star formation -- III. The characteristic emission time-scales of star formation rate tracers: We recently presented a new statistical method to constrain the physics of star formation and feedback on the cloud scale by reconstructing the underlying evolutionary timeline. However, by itse...
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WALLABY Early Science - III. An HI Study of the Spiral Galaxy NGC 1566: This paper reports on the atomic hydrogen gas (HI) observations of the spiral galaxy NGC 1566 using the newly commissioned Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope. We measure an integrated HI flux density of $180.2$ Jy ...
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Red Clump stars from LAMOST II: the outer disc of the Milky Way: We present stellar density maps of the Galactic outer disc with red clump stars from the LAMOST data. These samples are separated into younger (mean age ~ 2.7 Gyr) and older (mean age ~ 4.6 Gyr) populations so that they can trace the variation of the stru...
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A comparison of the distribution of satellite galaxies around Andromeda and the results of $Λ$CDM simulations: Ibata et al. (2013) recently reported the existence of a vast thin plane of dwarf galaxies (VTPD) orbiting around Andromeda. We investigate whether such a configuration can be reproduced within the standard ...
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High velocity stars from the interaction of a globular cluster and a massive black hole binary: High velocity stars are stars moving at velocities so high to require an acceleration mechanism involving binary systems or the presence of a massive central black hole. In the frame of a galaxy hosting a supermassive blac...
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The Optical to Mid-Infrared Extinction Law Based on the APOGEE, Gaia DR2, Pan-STARRS1, SDSS, APASS, 2MASS and WISE Surveys: A precise interstellar dust extinction law is critically important to interpret observations. There are two indicators of extinction: the color excess ratio (CER) and the relative extinction. Co...
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Dark Matter In Disk Galaxies II: Density Profiles as Constraints on Feedback Scenarios: The disparity between the density profiles of galactic dark matter haloes predicted by dark matter only cosmological simulations and those inferred from rotation curve decomposition, the so-called cusp-core problem, suggests that ...
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Gaia FGK Benchmark Stars - Metallicity: To calibrate automatic pipelines that determine atmospheric parameters of stars, one needs a sample of stars -- ``benchmark stars'' -- with well defined parameters to be used as a reference We provide a detailed documentation of the determination of the iron abundance of the 34 F...
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A Bayesian Approach to the Vertical Structure of the Disk of the Milky Way: This work investigates the vertical profile of the stars in the disk of the Milky Way. The models investigated are of the form $sech^{2/n}(nz/(2H))$ where, setting $\alpha = 2/n$, the three functions of the sequence $\alpha = 0,1,2$ correspon...
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Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models to Predict the Density of Molecular Clouds: We introduce the state-of-the-art deep learning Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) as a method to infer the volume or number density of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) from projected mass surface density maps. We adopt magn...
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Resolved Star Formation on Sub-galactic Scales in a Merger at z=1.7: We present a detailed analysis of Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) G141 grism spectroscopy for seven star-forming regions of the highly magnified lensed starburst galaxy RCSGA 032727-132609 at z=1.704. We measure the spatial va...
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The Spitzer Space Telescope Survey of the Orion A and B Molecular Clouds II: the Spatial Distribution and Demographics of Dusty Young Stellar Objects: We analyze the spatial distribution of dusty young stellar objects (YSOs) identified in the Spitzer Survey of the Orion Molecular clouds, augmenting these data with Ch...
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Searching for new observational signatures of the dynamical evolution of star clusters: We present a numerical study, based on Monte Carlo simulations, aimed at defining new empirical parameters measurable from observations and able to trace the different phases of star cluster dynamical evolution. As expected, a cen...
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N-body simulations of the Carina dSph in MOND: The classical dwarf spheroidals (dSphs) provide a critical test for Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) because they are observable satellite galactic systems with low internal accelerations and low, but periodically varying, external acceleration. This varying external gra...
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High-velocity stars in the cores of globular clusters: The illustrative case of NGC 2808: We report the detection of five high-velocity stars in the core of the globular cluster NGC 2808. The stars lie on the the red giant branch and show total velocities between 40 and 45 km/s. For a core velocity dispersion sigma_c...
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Tracing the Milky Way Nuclear Wind with 21cm Atomic Hydrogen Emission: There is evidence in 21cm HI emission for voids several kpc in size centered approximately on the Galactic centre, both above and below the Galactic plane. These appear to map the boundaries of the Galactic nuclear wind. An analysis of HI at the tan...
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The formation of the Milky Way halo and its dwarf satellites: a NLTE-1D abundance analysis. IV. Segue 1, Triangulum II, and Coma Berenices UFDs: We present atmospheric parameters and abundances for chemical elements from carbon to barium in metal-poor stars in Segue 1 (seven stars), Coma Berenices (three stars), and ...
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Radio Imaging of the NGC 2024 FIR 5/6 Region: a Hypercompact H II Region Candidate in Orion: The NGC 2024 FIR 5/6 region was observed in the 6.9 mm continuum with an angular resolution of about 1.5 arcsec. The 6.9 mm continuum map shows four compact sources, FIR 5w, 5e, 6c, and 6n, as well as an extended structure of...
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Properties of dense molecular gas along the major axis of M 82: Dense gas is important for galaxy evolution and star formation. Optically-thin dense-gas tracers, such as isotopologues of HCN, HCO+, etc., are very helpful to diagnose excitation conditions of dense molecular gas. However, previous studies of optically-th...
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VINTERGATAN III: how to reset the metallicity of the Milky Way: Using the cosmological zoom simulation VINTERGATAN, we present a new scenario for the onset of star formation at the metal-poor end of the low-[$\alpha$/Fe] sequence in a Milky Way-like galaxy. In this scenario, the galaxy is fueled by two distinct gas flo...
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Effects of radial flows on the chemical evolution of the Milky Way disk: The majority of chemical evolution models assume that the Galactic disk forms by means of infall of gas and divide the disk into several independent rings without exchange of matter between them. However, if gas infall is important, radial gas flo...
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Galactic disk winds driven by cosmic ray pressure: Cosmic ray pressure gradients transfer energy and momentum to extraplanar gas in disk galaxies, potentially driving significant mass loss as galactic winds. This may be particularly important for launching high-velocity outflows of "cool" (T < 10^4 K) gas. We study cos...
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VERA astrometry toward the Perseus arm gap: The Perseus arm has a gap in Galactic longitudes (l) between 50 and 80 deg (hereafter the Perseus arm gap) where the arm has little star formation activity. To better understand the gap, we conducted astrometric observations with VERA and analyzed archival H I data. We report...
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Universes without the Weak Force: Astrophysical Processes with Stable Neutrons: We investigate a class of universes in which the weak interaction is not in operation. We consider how astrophysical processes are altered in the absence of weak forces, including Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), galaxy formation, molecula...
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Star Formation in CALIFA survey perturbed galaxies. I. Effects of Tidal Interactions: We explore the effects of tidal interactions on star formation (SF) by analysing a sample of CALIFA survey galaxies. The sample consists of tidally and non-tidally perturbed galaxies, paired at the closest stellar mass densities for...
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Tracing the general structure of Galactic molecular clouds using Planck data: I. The Perseus region as a test case: We present an analysis of probability distribution functions (pdfs) of column density in different zones of the star-forming region Perseus and its diffuse environment based on the map of dust opacity a...
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Galactic planetary nebulae in the AKARI far-infrared surveyor bright source catalog: We present the results of our preliminary study of all known Galactic PNe (included in the Kerber 2003 catalog) which are detected by the AKARI/FIS All-Sky Survey as identified in the AKARI/FIS Bright Source Catalog (BSC) Version Bet...
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Predicting the hypervelocity star population in Gaia: Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) are amongst the fastest objects in our Milky Way. These stars are predicted to come from the Galactic center (GC) and travel along unbound orbits across the Galaxy. In the coming years, the ESA satellite Gaia will provide the most complete...
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The Faint Satellite System of NGC 253: Insights into Low-Density Environments and No Satellite Plane: We have conducted a systematic search around the Milky Way (MW) analog NGC 253 (D=3.5 Mpc), as a part of the Panoramic Imaging Survey of Centaurus and Sculptor (PISCeS) - a Magellan+Megacam survey to identify dwarfs ...
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Optical Properties of High-Frequency Radio Sources from the Australia Telescope 20 GHz (AT20G) Survey: Our current understanding of radio-loud AGN comes predominantly from studies at frequencies of 5 GHz and below. With the recent completion of the Australia Telescope 20 GHz (AT20G) survey, we can now gain insight in...
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Aligned Grains and Scattered Light Found in Gaps of Planet-Forming Disk: Polarized (sub)millimeter emission from dust grains in circumstellar disks was initially thought to be due to grains aligned with the magnetic field. However, higher resolution multi-wavelength observations along with improved models found that th...
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The destruction and survival of dust in the shell around SN 2008S: SN 2008S erupted in early 2008 in the grand design spiral galaxy NGC 6946. The progenitor was detected by Prieto et al. in Spitzer Space Telescope images taken over the four years prior to the explosion, but was not detected in deep optical images, from...
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Constraints on the assembly history of the Milky Way's smooth, diffuse stellar halo from the metallicity-dependent, radially-dominated velocity anisotropy profiles probed with K giants and BHB stars using LAMOST, SDSS/SEGUE, and Gaia: We analyze the anisotropy profile of the Milky Way's smooth, diffuse stellar ha...
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Kiloparsec-scale jets in three radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies: We have discovered kiloparsec-scale extended radio emission in three narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) in sub-arcsecond resolution 9 GHz images from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). We find all sources show two-sided, mildly core-d...
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AlFoCS + Fornax3D: resolved star formation in the Fornax cluster with ALMA and MUSE: We combine data from ALMA and MUSE to study the resolved (~300 pc scale) star formation relation (star formation rate vs. molecular gas surface density) in cluster galaxies. Our sample consists of 9 Fornax cluster galaxies, including...
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Molecular outflows in local ULIRGs: energetics from multi-transition OH analysis: We report on the energetics of molecular outflows in 14 local Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs) that show unambiguous outflow signatures (P-Cygni profiles or high-velocity absorption wings) in the far-infrared lines of OH measure...
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The anti-correlation between the hard X-ray photon index and the Eddington ratio in LLAGNs: We find a significant anti-correlation between the hard X-ray photon index and the Eddington ratio L_Bol/L_Edd for a sample of Low-Ionization Nuclear Emission-line Regions (LINERs) and local Seyfert galaxies, compiled from lit...
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Missing dark matter in dwarf galaxies?: We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the APOSTLE project along with high-quality rotation curve observations to examine the fraction of baryons in {\Lambda}CDM haloes that collect into galaxies. This 'galaxy formation efficiency' correlates strongly and with little s...
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GASP XXXIII. The ability of spatially resolved data to distinguish among the different physical mechanisms affecting galaxies in low-density environments: Galaxies inhabit a wide range of environments and therefore are affected by different physical mechanisms. Spatially resolved maps combined with the knowledge of...
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Mass and Magnetic distributions in Self Gravitating Super Alfvenic Turbulence with AMR: In this work, we present the mass and magnetic distributions found in a recent Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) MHD simulation of supersonic, \sa, self gravitating turbulence. Powerlaw tails are found in both volume density and magn...
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Constraining the Galactic millisecond pulsar population using Fermi Large Area Telescope: The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) has recently revealed a large population of gamma-ray emitting millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in our Galaxy. We aim to infer the properties of the Galactic population of gamma-ray emitting ...
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Hierarchical structures in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds: We investigate the degree of spatial correlation among extended structures in the LMC and SMC. To this purpose we work with sub-samples characterised by different properties such as age and size, taken from the updated catalogue of Bica et al. or gathere...
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New insights from deep VLA data on the potentially recoiling black hole CID-42 in the COSMOS field: We present deep 3 GHz VLA observations of the potentially recoiling black hole CID-42 in the COSMOS field. This galaxy shows two optical nuclei in the HST/ACS image and a large velocity offset of ~ 1300 km/s between th...
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The Catalogue for Astrophysical Turbulence Simulations (CATS): Turbulence is a key process in many fields of astrophysics. Advances in numerical simulations of fluids over the last several decades have revolutionized our understanding of turbulence and related processes such as star formation and cosmic ray propagation...
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Exploring the Galactic Anticenter substructure with LAMOST & Gaia DR2: We characterize the kinematic and chemical properties of 589 Galactic Anticenter Substructure Stars (GASS) with K-/M- giants in Integrals-of-Motion space. These stars likely include members of previously identified substructures such as Monoceros, A...
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The GLASS James Webb Space Telescope Early Release Science Program. I. Survey Design and Release Plans: The GLASS James Webb Space Telescope Early Release Science (hereafter GLASS-JWST-ERS) Program will obtain and make publicly available the deepest extragalactic data of the ERS campaign. It is primarily designed to ...
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The effect of primordial mass segregation on the size scale of globular clusters: We use direct $N$-body calculations to investigate the impact of primordial mass segregation on the size scale and mass-loss rate of star clusters in a galactic tidal field. We run a set of simulations of clusters with varying degrees o...
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Gas expulsion in massive star clusters? Constraints from observations of young and gas-free objects: Gas expulsion is a central concept in some of the models for multiple populations and the light-element anticorrelations in globular clusters. If the star formation efficiency was around 30 per cent and the gas expuls...
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Polarization, Polarizing Efficiency, and Grain alignment towards the direction of the cluster NGC 2345: We have investigated the grain alignment and dust properties towards the direction of the cluster NGC 2345 using the multi-band optical polarimetric observations. For the majority of the stars, the observed polariz...
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The rapid transition from star-formation to AGN dominated rest-frame UV light at z ~ 4: With the advent of deep optical-to-near-infrared extragalactic imaging on the degree scale, samples of high-redshift sources are being selected that contain both bright star-forming (SF) galaxies and faint active galactic nuclei (...
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Evidence for photoionization-driven variability in narrow absorption lines: In this Letter, we report the discovery of a strong correlation between the variability of narrow absorption lines (NALs) and the ionizing continuum from a two-epoch spectra sample of 40 quasars containing 52 variable C iv {\lambda}{\lambda}1...
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Local Stability of Galactic Discs in Modified Dynamics: The local stability of stellar and fluid discs, under a new modified dynamical model, is surveyed by using WKB approximation. The exact form of the modified Toomre criterion is derived for both types of systems and it is shown that the new model is, in all situati...
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Multivariate Approaches to Classification in Extragalactic Astronomy: Clustering objects into synthetic groups is a natural activity of any science. Astrophysics is not an exception and is now facing a deluge of data. For galaxies, the one-century old Hubble classification and the Hubble tuning fork are still largely i...
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Systematic variations of interstellar linear polarization and growth of dust grains: A quantitative interpretation of the observed relation between the interstellar linear polarization curve parameters $K$ and $\lambda_{\max}$ characterizing the width and the wavelength of a polarization maximum, respectively, is giv...
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Detecting the effect of non-thermal sources on the warm-hot Galactic halo: We report the first detection of non-thermal broadening of OVII lines in the warm-hot $\approx 10^6$ K circumgalactic medium (CGM) of the Milky Way. We use $z$=0 absorption of OVII K$\alpha$, OVII K$\beta$, and OVIII K$\alpha$ lines in archiva...
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Dust-depletion sequences in damped Ly-α absorbers II. The composition of cosmic dust, from low-metallicity systems to the Galaxy: We aim at assessing what are the most dominant dust species or types, including silicate and iron oxide grains present in the ISM, by using recent observations of dust depletion of galaxie...
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Galaxy Zoo: constraining the origin of spiral arms: Since the discovery that the majority of low-redshift galaxies exhibit some level of spiral structure, a number of theories have been proposed as to why these patterns exist. A popular explanation is a process known as swing amplification, yet there is no observationa...
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Gas Dynamics in the Galaxy: Total Mass Distribution and the Bar Pattern Speed: Gas morphology and kinematics in the Milky Way contain key information for understanding the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. We present a high resolution hydrodynamical simulation based on a realistic barred Milky Way potential cons...
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Rapid Black Hole Growth under Anisotropic Radiation Feedback: Discovery of high-redshift (z > 6) supermassive black holes (BHs) may indicate that the rapid (or super-Eddington) gas accretion has aided their quick growth. Here, we study such rapid accretion of the primordial gas on to intermediate-mass (10^2 - 10^5 M_su...
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Spectroscopic confirmation of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy d0944+71 as a member of the M81 group of galaxies: We use Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy to measure the first velocity and metallicity of a dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy beyond the Local Group using resolved stars. Our target, d0944+71, is a faint dSph found in the...
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The Relation Between [OIII]/H$β$ and Specific Star Formation Rate in Galaxies at $z \sim 2$: Recent surveys have identified a seemingly ubiquitous population of galaxies with elevated [OIII]/H$\beta$ emission line ratios at $z > 1$, though the nature of this phenomenon continues to be debated. The [OIII]/H$\beta$ lin...
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JWST Reveals Widespread AGN-Driven Neutral Gas Outflows in Massive z ~ 2 Galaxies: We use deep JWST/NIRSpec R~1000 slit spectra of 113 galaxies at 1.7 < z < 3.5, selected from the mass-complete Blue Jay survey, to investigate the prevalence and typical properties of neutral gas outflows at cosmic noon. We detect exce...
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SDSS-IV MaNGA: the indispensable role of bars in enhancing the central star formation of low-$z$ galaxies: We analyse two-dimensional maps and radial profiles of EW(H$\alpha$), EW(H$\delta_A$), and D$_n$(4000) of low-redshift galaxies using integral field spectroscopy from the MaNGA survey. Out of $\approx1400$ nearl...
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Constraints on interstellar dust models from extinction and spectro-polarimetry: We present polarisation spectra of seven stars in the lines-of-sight towards the Sco OB1 association. Our spectra were obtained within the framework of the Large Interstellar Polarization Survey carried out with the FORS instrument of th...
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Sub-arcsecond imaging of the water emission in Arp 220: Extragalactic observations of water emission can provide valuable insights into the excitation of the interstellar medium. In addition, extragalactic megamasers are powerful probes of kinematics close to active nuclei. Therefore, it is paramount to determine the t...
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KMOS LENsing Survey (KLENS) : morpho-kinematic analysis of star-forming galaxies at $z \sim 2$: We present results from the KMOS lensing survey-KLENS which is exploiting gravitational lensing to study the kinematics of 24 star forming galaxies at $1.4<z<3.5$ with a median mass of $\rm log(M_\star/M_\odot)=9.6$ and me...
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Radio Loud and Radio Quiet Quasars: We discuss 6 GHz JVLA observations covering a volume-limited sample of 178 low redshift ($0.2 < z < 0.3$) optically selected QSOs. Our 176 radio detections fall into two clear categories: (1) About $20$\% are radio-loud QSOs (RLQs) having spectral luminosities $L_6 \gtrsim 10^{\,23.2...
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Molecular gas and a new young stellar cluster in the far outer Galaxy: We investigate the star-formation ocurring in the region towards IRAS07527-3446 in the molecular cloud [MAB97]250.63-3.63, in the far outer Galaxy. We report the discovery of a new young stellar cluster, and describe its properties and those of its ...
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The impact of baryonic physics on the subhalo mass function and implications for gravitational lensing: We investigate the impact of baryonic physics on the subhalo population by analyzing the results of two recent hydrodynamical simulations (EAGLE and Illustris), which have very similar configuration, but a differen...
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Unlocking the Full Potential of Extragalactic Ly$α$ through Its Polarization Properties: Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) is a powerful astrophysical probe. Not only is it ubiquitous at high redshifts, it is also a resonant line, making Ly$\alpha$ photons scatter. This scattering process depends on the physical conditions...
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The Evolution of Environmental Quenching Timescales to $z\sim1.6$: Using a sample of 4 galaxy clusters at $1.35 < z < 1.65$ and 10 galaxy clusters at $0.85 < z < 1.35$, we measure the environmental quenching timescale, $t_Q$, corresponding to the time required after a galaxy is accreted by a cluster for it to fully cea...
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Science with an ngVLA: Understanding Massive Star Formation through Maser Imaging: Imaging the bright maser emission produced by several molecular species at centimeter wavelengths is an essential tool for understanding the process of massive star formation because it provides a way to probe the kinematics of dense m...
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Spatial variations of magnetic field along active galactic nuclei jets on sub-pc to Mpc scales: We report the systematic analysis of knots, hotspots, and lobes in 57 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to investigate the variation of the magnetic field along with the jet from the sub-pc base to the terminus in kpc-to-Mpc s...
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Disruption of the Orion Molecular Core 1 by the stellar wind of the massive star $θ^1$ Ori C: Massive stars inject mechanical and radiative energy into the surrounding environment, which stirs it up, heats the gas, produces cloud and intercloud phases in the interstellar medium, and disrupts molecular clouds (the bir...
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Probabilities for Solar Siblings: We have shown previously (Bobylev et al 2011) that some of the stars in the Solar neighborhood today may have originated in the same star cluster as the Sun, and could thus be called Solar Siblings. In this work we investigate the sensitivity of this result to Galactic models and to pa...
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The Optically Unbiased Gamma-Ray Burst Host (TOUGH) Survey. VII. The Host Galaxy Luminosity Function: Probing the Relationship Between GRBs and Star Formation to Redshift $\sim6$: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offer a route to characterizing star-forming galaxies and quantifying high-$z$ star formation that is distinct f...
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Optical Discovery of an Apparent Galactic Supernova Remnant G159.6+7.3: Deep Halpha images of portions of a faint 3 x 4 degree Halpha shell centered at l = 159.6 deg, b = 7.3 deg seen on the Virginia Tech Spectral Line Survey images revealed the presence of several thin emission filaments along its eastern limb. Low-di...
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Morpho-kinematic properties of field S0 bulges in the CALIFA survey: We study a sample of 28 S0 galaxies extracted from the integral-field spectroscopic (IFS) survey CALIFA. We combine an accurate two-dimensional (2D) multi-component photometric decomposition with the IFS kinematic properties of their bulges to underst...
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Evidence for gravitational quadrupole moment variations in the companion of PSR J2051-0827: We have conducted radio timing observations of the eclipsing millisecond binary pulsar J2051-0827 with the European Pulsar Timing Array network of telescopes and the Parkes radio telescope, spanning over 13 years. The increase...
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Simulating radio synchrotron emission in star-forming galaxies: small-scale magnetic dynamo and the origin of the far infrared-radio correlation: In star-forming galaxies, the far-infrared (FIR) and radio-continuum luminosities obey a tight empirical relation over a large range of star-formation rates (SFR). We exa...
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The effect of the deforming dark matter haloes of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Orphan-Chenab stream: It has recently been shown that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has a substantial effect on the Milky Way's stellar halo and stellar streams. Here, we explore how deformations of the Milky Way ...
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Note on fundamental physics tests from black hole imaging: Comment on "Hunting for extra dimensions in the shadow of Sagittarius A$^*$": Several works over the past years have discussed the possibility of testing fundamental physics using Very Long Baseline Interferometry horizon-scale black hole (BH) images, such as...
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