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Sub-kiloparsec ALMA Imaging of Compact Star-forming Galaxies at z ~ 2.5: Revealing the Formation of Dense Galactic Cores in the Progenitors of Compact Quiescent Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/827/2/L32 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...827L..32B

Rujopakarn, W.; Faber, S. M.; Guo, Y. +10 more

We present spatially resolved Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) 870 µm dust continuum maps of six massive, compact, dusty star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 2.5. These galaxies are selected for their small rest-frame optical sizes ({r}{{e,F160W}}∼ 1.6 kpc) and high stellar mass densities that suggest that they are dire…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 134
The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Continuum Number Counts, Resolved 1.2 mm Extragalactic Background, and Properties of the Faintest Dusty Star-forming Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/68 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...833...68A

Smail, I.; Magnelli, B.; Daddi, E. +31 more

We present an analysis of a deep (1σ = 13 µJy) cosmological 1.2 mm continuum map based on ASPECS, the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. In the 1 arcmin2 covered by ASPECS we detect nine sources at \gt 3.5σ significance at 1.2 mm. Our ALMA-selected sample has a median redshift of z=1.6+/- 0.4, with only one …

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Planck eHST 134
Estimating Distances from Parallaxes. II. Performance of Bayesian Distance Estimators on a Gaia-like Catalogue
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/137 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...832..137A

Bailer-Jones, Coryn A. L.; Astraatmadja, Tri L.

Estimating a distance by inverting a parallax is only valid in the absence of noise. As most stars in the Gaia catalog will have non-negligible fractional parallax errors, we must treat distance estimation as a constrained inference problem. Here we investigate the performance of various priors for estimating distances, using a simulated Gaia cata…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 133
Estimating Distances from Parallaxes. III. Distances of Two Million Stars in the Gaia DR1 Catalogue
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/119 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...833..119A

Bailer-Jones, Coryn A. L.; Astraatmadja, Tri L.

We infer distances and their asymmetric uncertainties for two million stars using the parallaxes published in the Gaia DR1 (GDR1) catalogue. We do this with two distance priors: A minimalist, isotropic prior assuming an exponentially decreasing space density with increasing distance, and an anisotropic prior derived from the observability of stars…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia 130
L‧CO/LFIR Relations with CO Rotational Ladders of Galaxies Across the Herschel SPIRE Archive
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/829/2/93 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...829...93K

Conley, A.; Glenn, J.; Kamenetzky, J. +2 more

We present a catalog of all CO (J = 4-3 through J = 13-12), [C I], and [N II] lines available from extragalactic spectra from the Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) archive combined with observations of the low-J CO lines from the literature and from the Arizona Radio Observatory. This work examines the relationships between L

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 129
ISM Excitation and Metallicity of Star-forming Galaxies at z ≃ 3.3 from Near-IR Spectroscopy
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/822/1/42 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...822...42O

Daddi, E.; Capak, P.; Carollo, C. M. +8 more

We study the relationship between stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR), ionization state, and gas-phase metallicity for a sample of 41 normal star-forming galaxies at 3 ≲ z ≲ 3.7. The gas-phase oxygen abundance, ionization parameter, and electron density of ionized gas are derived from rest-frame optical strong emission lines measured on near-i…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 129
Morphologies of ~190,000 Galaxies at z = 0-10 Revealed with HST Legacy Data. II. Evolution of Clumpy Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/821/2/72 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...821...72S

Ouchi, Masami; Harikane, Yuichi; Shibuya, Takatoshi +1 more

We investigate the evolution of clumpy galaxies with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) samples of ∼17,000 photo-z and Lyman break galaxies at z ≃ 0-8. We detect clumpy galaxies with off-center clumps in a self-consistent algorithm that is well tested with previous study results, and we measure the number fraction of clumpy galaxies at the rest-frame UV…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 129
Measurements of Extragalactic Background Light from the Far UV to the Far IR from Deep Ground- and Space-based Galaxy Counts
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/827/2/108 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...827..108D

Cohen, Seth; Driver, Simon P.; Robotham, Aaron S. G. +7 more

We combine wide and deep galaxy number-count data from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly, COSMOS/G10, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Early Release Science, HST UVUDF, and various near-, mid-, and far-IR data sets from ESO, Spitzer, and Herschel. The combined data range from the far UV (0.15 µm) to far-IR (500 µm), and in all cases the contrib…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel eHST 128
The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxy Legacy Survey. I. Sample Selection and Redshift Distribution
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/817/1/7 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...817....7P

Cenko, S. B.; Greiner, J.; Berger, E. +20 more

We introduce the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxy Legacy Survey (“SHOALS”), a multi-observatory high-redshift galaxy survey targeting the largest unbiased sample of long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) hosts yet assembled (119 in total). We describe the motivations of the survey and the development of our selection criteria, including an assessmen…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 126
VLA and ALMA Imaging of Intense Galaxy-wide Star Formation in z ∼ 2 Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/833/1/12 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...833...12R

Elbaz, D.; Ivison, R. J.; Scott, D. +30 more

We present ≃0.″4 resolution extinction-independent distributions of star formation and dust in 11 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at z = 1.3-3.0. These galaxies are selected from sensitive blank-field surveys of the 2‧ × 2‧ Hubble Ultra-Deep Field at λ = 5 cm and 1.3 mm using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillime…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 122