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COSMOS-DASH: The Evolution of the Galaxy Size-Mass Relation since z ∼ 3 from New Wide-field WFC3 Imaging Combined with CANDELS/3D-HST
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab290a Bibcode: 2019ApJ...880...57M

Franx, Marijn; Muzzin, Adam; van Dokkum, Pieter +11 more

We present COSMOS-Drift And SHift (DASH), a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) imaging survey of the COSMOS field in the H 160 filter. The survey comprises 456 individual WFC3 pointings corresponding to an area of 0.49 deg2 (0.66 deg2 when including archival data) and reaches a 5σ point-source …

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 182
A SHARP view of H0LiCOW: H0 from three time-delay gravitational lens systems with adaptive optics imaging
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2547 Bibcode: 2019MNRAS.490.1743C

Treu, Tommaso; Sonnenfeld, Alessandro; Lagattuta, David J. +20 more

We present the measurement of the Hubble constant, H0, with three strong gravitational lens systems. We describe a blind analysis of both PG 1115+080 and HE 0435-1223 as well as an extension of our previous analysis of RXJ 1131-1231. For each lens, we combine new adaptive optics (AO) imaging from the Keck Telescope, obtained as part of …

2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 181
Universal thermodynamic properties of the intracluster medium over two decades in radius in the X-COP sample
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833325 Bibcode: 2019A&A...621A..41G

Pointecouteau, E.; Rossetti, M.; Rasia, E. +10 more

Context. The hot plasma in a galaxy cluster is expected to be heated to high temperatures through shocks and adiabatic compression. The thermodynamical properties of the gas encode information on the processes leading to the thermalization of the gas in the cluster's potential well and on non-gravitational processes such as gas cooling, AGN feedba…

2019 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 180
Abundance Estimates for 16 Elements in 6 Million Stars from LAMOST DR5 Low-Resolution Spectra
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ab5364 Bibcode: 2019ApJS..245...34X

Xiang, Maosheng; Ting, Yuan-Sen; Rix, Hans-Walter +6 more

We present the determination of stellar parameters and individual elemental abundances for 6 million stars from ∼8 million low-resolution (R ∼ 1800) spectra from LAMOST DR5. This is based on a modeling approach that we dub the data-driven Payne (DD-Payne), which inherits essential ingredients from both the Payne and the Cannon. It is a data-driven…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia 179
ALMA observations of molecular tori around massive black holes
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834560 Bibcode: 2019A&A...623A..79C

Krips, M.; van der Werf, P.; Combes, F. +12 more

We report Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of CO(3-2) emission in a sample of seven Seyfert/LINER galaxies at the unprecedented spatial resolution of 0.1 = 4-8 pc. Our aim is to explore the close environment of active galactic nuclei (AGN), and the dynamical structures leading to their fueling…

2019 Astronomy and Astrophysics
INTEGRAL eHST 178
Consistent Calibration of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch in the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Hubble Space Telescope Photometric System and a Redetermination of the Hubble Constant
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4bc9 Bibcode: 2019ApJ...886...61Y

Casertano, Stefano; Riess, Adam G.; Yuan, Wenlong +2 more

We present a calibration of the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/ACS F814W system. We use archival HST observations to derive blending corrections and photometric transformations for two ground-based wide-area imaging surveys of the Magellanic Clouds. We show that these surv…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 178
The Lyman Continuum Escape Survey: Ionizing Radiation from [O III]-strong Sources at a Redshift of 3.1
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2045 Bibcode: 2019ApJ...878...87F

Tang, Mengtao; Stark, Daniel P.; Ellis, Richard S. +4 more

We present results from the LymAn Continuum Escape Survey (LACES), a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) program designed to characterize the ionizing radiation emerging from a sample of Lyα-emitting galaxies at redshift z ≃ 3.1. As many show intense [O III] emission characteristic of z > 6.5 star-forming galaxies, they may represent valuable low-reds…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 177
A Catalog of Newly Identified Star Clusters in Gaia DR2
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ab530a Bibcode: 2019ApJS..245...32L

Pang, Xiaoying; Liu, Lei

We present the Star cluster Hunting Pipeline (SHiP) that can identify star clusters in Gaia second data release (DR2) data and establish a star cluster catalog for the Galactic disk. A friend-of-friend-based cluster finder method is used to identify star clusters using five-dimensional stellar parameters, l,b,\varpi ,{µ }α \cos δ …

2019 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Gaia 177
Evidence for an Intermediate-mass Milky Way from Gaia DR2 Halo Globular Cluster Motions
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab089f Bibcode: 2019ApJ...873..118W

van der Marel, Roeland P.; Watkins, Laura L.; Evans, N. Wyn +1 more

We estimate the mass of the Milky Way (MW) within 21.1 kpc using the kinematics of halo globular clusters (GCs) determined by Gaia. The second Gaia data release (DR2) contained a catalog of absolute proper motions (PMs) for a set of Galactic GCs and satellite galaxies. We select from the catalog only halo GCs, identifying a total of 34 GCs spannin…

2019 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST 176
Characterizing the properties of nearby molecular filaments observed with Herschel
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201832725 Bibcode: 2019A&A...621A..42A

André, Ph.; Arzoumanian, D.; Könyves, V. +8 more

Context. Molecular filaments have received special attention recently thanks to new observational results on their properties. In particular, our early analysis of filament properties from Herschel imaging data in three nearby molecular clouds revealed a narrow distribution of median inner widths centered at a characteristic value of about 0.1 pc.…

2019 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 175