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Probing the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies Using Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Hosts
Rix, Hans-Walter; Keeton, Charles R.; Kochanek, Christopher S. +5 more
In the present-day universe, supermassive black hole masses (MBH) appear to be strongly correlated with their galaxy's bulge luminosity, among other properties. In this study we explore the analogous relationship between MBH, derived using the virial method, and the stellar R-band bulge luminosity (LR) or stellar b…
The Radius-Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei: The Effect of Host-Galaxy Starlight on Luminosity Measurements
Peterson, Bradley M.; Pogge, Richard W.; Vestergaard, Marianne +2 more
We have obtained high-resolution images of the central regions of 14 reverberation-mapped active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys High Resolution Camera to account for host-galaxy starlight contamination of measured AGN luminosities. We measure the host-galaxy starlight contribution to the continu…
Evidence for TP-AGB Stars in High-Redshift Galaxies, and Their Effect on Deriving Stellar Population Parameters
Cimatti, A.; Daddi, E.; Dickinson, M. +5 more
We explore the effects of using different stellar population models on estimates of star formation histories, ages, and masses of high-redshift galaxies by fitting the SEDs with models by Maraston (hereafter M05) and by Bruzual & Charlot (hereafter BC03). We focus on the thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB) phase of stellar evolu…
The Nucleosynthesis of 26Al and 60Fe in Solar Metallicity Stars Extending in Mass from 11 to 120 Msolar: The Hydrostatic and Explosive Contributions
Limongi, Marco; Chieffi, Alessandro
We present the 26Al and 60Fe yields produced by a generation of solar metallicity stars ranging in mass between 11 and 120 Msolar. We discuss the production sites of these γ-ray emitters and quantify the relative contributions of the various components. We provide the contributions of the wind, the C convective she…
A Fundamental Relation between Compact Stellar Nuclei, Supermassive Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies
Jordán, Andrés; Tonry, John L.; Côté, Patrick +9 more
Imaging surveys with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have shown that ~50%-80% of low- and intermediate-luminosity galaxies contain a compact stellar nucleus at their center, regardless of host galaxy morphological type. We combine HST imaging for early-type galaxies from the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey with ground-based long-slit spectra from KPNO t…
Galaxies at z ~ 6: The UV Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density from 506 HUDF, HUDF Parallel ACS Field, and GOODS i-Dropouts
Bouwens, R. J.; Illingworth, G. D.; Blakeslee, J. P. +1 more
We have detected 506 i-dropouts (z~6 galaxies) in deep, wide-area HST ACS fields: HUDF, enhanced GOODS, and HUDF parallel ACS fields (HUDF-Ps). The contamination levels are <~8% (i.e., >~92% are at z~6). With these samples, we present the most comprehensive, quantitative analyses of z~6 galaxies yet and provide optimal measures of the UV lum…
Robust Dark Energy Constraints from Supernovae, Galaxy Clustering, and 3 yr Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Observations
Wang, Yun; Mukherjee, Pia
Type Ia supernova (SN Ia), galaxy clustering, and cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data provide complementary constraints on the nature of the dark energy in the universe. We find that the 3 yr Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations give a CMB shift parameter of R≡(ΩmH20)1/2…
Spitzer Observations of Massive, Red Galaxies at High Redshift
Daddi, E.; Elbaz, D.; Le Floc'h, E. +18 more
We study massive galaxies at z~1-3.5 using HST optical imaging, ground-based near-IR imaging, and Spitzer observations at 3-24 µm. From Ks-selected galaxies in the ~=130 arcmin2 GOODS-S field, we identify 153 distant red galaxies (DRGs) with (J-Ks)Vega>=2.3. This sample is approximately complete…
The Proper Motion of the Large Magellanic Cloud Using HST
Drake, A. J.; Geha, M.; van der Marel, Roeland P. +4 more
We present a measurement of the systemic proper motion of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) from astrometry with the High Resolution Camera (HRC) of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We observed LMC fields centered on 21 background QSOs that were discovered from their optical variability in the MACHO databas…
Dry Mergers in GEMS: The Dynamical Evolution of Massive Early-Type Galaxies
Bell, Eric F.; Somerville, Rachel S.; Wisotzki, Lutz +16 more
We have used the 28'×28' Hubble Space Telescope image mosaic from the GEMS (Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and SEDs) survey in conjunction with the COMBO-17 photometric redshift survey to constrain the incidence of major mergers between spheroid-dominated galaxies with little cold gas (dry mergers) since z=0.7. A set of N-b…