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ALMA Census of Faint 1.2 mm Sources Down to ~ 0.02 mJy: Extragalactic Background Light and Dust-poor, High-z Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/0067-0049/222/1/1 Bibcode: 2016ApJS..222....1F

Ono, Yoshiaki; Ouchi, Masami; Momose, Rieko +4 more

We present statistics of 133 faint 1.2 mm continuum sources detected in about 120 deep Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) pointing data that include all the archival deep data available by 2015 June. We derive number counts of 1.2 mm continuum sources down to 0.02 mJy partly with the assistance of gravitational lensing, and find t…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
eHST 124
CLASH-VLT: A highly precise strong lensing model of the galaxy cluster RXC J2248.7-4431 (Abell S1063) and prospects for cosmography
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527670 Bibcode: 2016A&A...587A..80C

Zitrin, A.; Grillo, C.; Tozzi, P. +32 more


Aims: We perform a comprehensive study of the total mass distribution of the galaxy cluster RXC J2248.7-4431 (z = 0.348) with a set of high-precision strong lensing models, which take advantage of extensive spectroscopic information on many multiply lensed systems. In the effort to understand and quantify inherent systematics in parametric st…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck eHST 124
Typology of dust particles collected by the COSIMA mass spectrometer in the inner coma of 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.01.027 Bibcode: 2016Icar..271...76L

Langevin, Y.; Schulz, R.; Hilchenbach, M. +7 more

The COSIMA mass spectrometer on board the ROSETTA orbiter has collected dust in the near coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko since August 11, 2014. The collected dust particles are identified by taking images with a microscope (COSISCOPE) under grazing incidence illumination before and after exposure of the target to cometary dust. More than 1…

2016 Icarus
Rosetta 123
A 17-billion-solar-mass black hole in a group galaxy with a diffuse core
DOI: 10.1038/nature17197 Bibcode: 2016Natur.532..340T

Ma, Chung-Pei; Greene, Jenny E.; Blakeslee, John P. +3 more

Quasars are associated with and powered by the accretion of material onto massive black holes; the detection of highly luminous quasars with redshifts greater than z = 6 suggests that black holes of up to ten billion solar masses already existed 13 billion years ago. Two possible present-day ‘dormant’ descendants of this population of ‘active’ bla…

2016 Nature
eHST 122
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
Breaking the Curve with CANDELS: A Bayesian Approach to Reveal the Non-Universality of the Dust-Attenuation Law at High Redshift
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/20 Bibcode: 2016ApJ...827...20S

Papovich, Casey; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Pérez-González, Pablo G. +13 more

Dust attenuation affects nearly all observational aspects of galaxy evolution, yet very little is known about the form of the dust-attenuation law in the distant universe. Here, we model the spectral energy distributions of galaxies at z ∼ 1.5-3 from CANDELS with rest-frame UV to near-IR imaging under different assumptions about the dust law, and …

2016 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 122
The physical and chemical structure of Sagittarius B2. I. Three-dimensional thermal dust and free-free continuum modeling on 100 au to 45 pc scales
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527311 Bibcode: 2016A&A...588A.143S

Csengeri, T.; Comito, C.; Schilke, P. +8 more

Context. We model the dust and free-free continuum emission in the high-mass star-forming region Sagittarius B2.
Aims: We want to reconstruct the 3D density and dust temperature distribution, as a crucial input to follow-up studies of the gas velocity field and molecular abundances.
Methods: We employ the 3D radiative transfer program RA…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 122
Planck intermediate results. XXXVII. Evidence of unbound gas from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526328 Bibcode: 2016A&A...586A.140P

Kneissl, R.; Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Wang, W. +189 more

By looking at the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (kSZ) in Planck nominal mission data, we present a significant detection of baryons participating in large-scale bulk flows around central galaxies (CGs) at redshift z ≈ 0.1. We estimate the pairwise momentum of the kSZ temperature fluctuations at the positions of the Central Galaxy Catalogue (CGC…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 122
The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS). Mrk 1018 returns to the shadows after 30 years as a Seyfert 1
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629102 Bibcode: 2016A&A...593L...8M

Combes, F.; Scharwächter, J.; Eckart, A. +10 more

We report the discovery that the known "changing look" AGN Mrk 1018 has changed spectral type for a second time. New VLT-MUSE data taken in 2015 as part of the Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS) shows that the AGN has returned to its original Seyfert 1.9 classification. The CARS sample is selected to contain only bright type 1 AGN, but Mrk 1018's b…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 121
Summer fireworks on comet 67P
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2409 Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.462S.184V

Jorda, L.; Lamy, P. L.; Lara, L. M. +52 more

During its 2 yr mission around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft had the unique opportunity to follow closely a comet in the most active part of its orbit. Many studies have presented the typical features associated with the activity of the nucleus, such as localized dust and gas jets. Here, we report on series of more ener…

2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosetta 121