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ALMA imaging of SDP.81 - II. A pixelated reconstruction of the CO emission lines
Andreani, P.; Rybak, M.; Vegetti, S. +2 more
We present a sub-100 pc-scale analysis of the CO molecular gas emission and kinematics of the gravitational lens system SDP.81 at redshift 3.042 using Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) science verification data and a visibility-plane lens reconstruction technique. We find clear evidence for an excitation-dependent structure in th…
Spitzer infrared spectrograph point source classification in the Small Magellanic Cloud
van Loon, J. Th.; Antoniou, V.; Szczerba, R. +16 more
The Magellanic Clouds are uniquely placed to study the stellar contribution to dust emission. Individual stars can be resolved in these systems even in the mid-infrared, and they are close enough to allow detection of infrared excess caused by dust. We have searched the Spitzer Space Telescope data archive for all Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) stari…
The initial conditions of stellar protocluster formation - II. A catalogue of starless and protostellar clumps embedded in IRDCs in the Galactic longitude range 15° ≤ l ≤ 55°
Peretto, N.; Fuller, G. A.; Molinari, S. +2 more
We present a catalogue of starless and protostellar clumps associated with infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) in a 40° wide region of the inner Galactic plane (|b| ≤ 1°). We have extracted the far-infrared (FIR) counterparts of 3493 IRDCs with known distance in the Galactic longitude range 15° ≤ l ≤ 55° and searched for the young clumps using Herschel i…
The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters - IV. Helium content and relative age of multiple stellar populations within NGC 6352
Salaris, M.; Anderson, J.; Milone, A. P. +14 more
In this paper, we combine Wide Field Camera3/UVIS F275W, F336W, and F438W data from the `UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters: Shedding Light on Their Populations and Formation' (GO 13297) Hubble Space Telescope Treasury programme with F606W, F625W, F658N, and F814W Advanced Camera for Surveys archive data for a multiwavelength study of …
Galaxy Zoo: Are bars responsible for the feeding of active galactic nuclei at 0.2 < z < 1.0?
Bell, Eric F.; Kocevski, Dale D.; Trump, Jonathan R. +19 more
We present a new study investigating whether active galactic nuclei (AGN) beyond the local universe are preferentially fed via large-scale bars. Our investigation combines data from Chandra and Galaxy Zoo: Hubble (GZH) in the AEGIS (All-wavelength Extended Groth strip International Survey), COSMOS (Cosmological Evolution Survey), and (Great Observ…
A transition mass in the local Tully-Fisher relation
Weiner, Benjamin J.; Heckman, Timothy M.; Lotz, Jennifer M. +5 more
We study the stellar mass Tully-Fisher relation (TFR; stellar mass versus rotation velocity) for a morphologically blind selection of emission line galaxies in the field at redshifts 0.1 < z < 0.375. Kinematics (σg, Vrot) are measured from emission lines in Keck/DEIMOS spectra and quantitative morphology is measured fro…
Suzaku broad-band spectrum of 4U 1705-44: probing the reflection component in the hard state
Robba, N. R.; Egron, E.; Papitto, A. +7 more
Iron emission lines at 6.4-6.97 keV, identified with Kα radiative transitions, are among the strongest discrete features in the X-ray band. These are one of the most powerful probes to infer the properties of the plasma in the innermost part of the accretion disc around a compact object. In this paper, we present a recent Suzaku observation, 100-k…
MRK 1216 and NGC 1277 - an orbit-based dynamical analysis of compact, high-velocity dispersion galaxies
Gebhardt, Karl; van de Ven, Glenn; Husemann, Bernd +5 more
We present a dynamical analysis to infer the structural parameters and properties of the two nearby, compact, high-velocity dispersion galaxies MRK 1216 and NGC 1277. Combining deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging, wide-field integral field unit stellar kinematics, and complementary long-slit spectroscopic data out to three effective radii, we cons…
New binaries among UV-selected, hot subdwarf stars and population properties
Buckley, D. A. H.; Vennes, S.; Németh, P. +4 more
We have measured the orbital parameters of seven close binaries, including six new objects, in a radial velocity survey of 38 objects comprising a hot subdwarf star with orbital periods ranging from ∼0.17 to 3 d. One new system, GALEX J2205-3141, shows reflection on an M dwarf companion. Three other objects show significant short-period variations…
Modelling the extreme X-ray spectrum of IRAS 13224-3809
Fabian, A. C.; Gallo, L. C.; Wilkins, D. R. +2 more
The extreme narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy IRAS 13224-3809 shows significant variability, frequency-dependent time lags, and strong Fe K line and Fe L features in the long 2011 XMM-Newton observation. In this work, we study the spectral properties of IRAS 13224-3809 in detail, and carry out a series of analyses to probe the nature of the source, foc…