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Accounting for baryonic effects in cosmic shear tomography: determining a minimal set of nuisance parameters using PCA
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2000 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.454.2451E

Gnedin, Nickolay Y.; Eifler, Tim; Hearin, Andrew P. +3 more

Systematic uncertainties that have been subdominant in past large-scale structure (LSS) surveys are likely to exceed statistical uncertainties of current and future LSS data sets, potentially limiting the extraction of cosmological information. Here we present a general framework (Principal Component Analysis - PCA - marginalization) to consistent…

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Planck 112
Planck's dusty GEMS: The brightest gravitationally lensed galaxies discovered with the Planck all-sky survey
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425128 Bibcode: 2015A&A...581A.105C

Kneissl, R.; Altieri, B.; Le Floc'h, E. +30 more

We present an analysis of CO spectroscopy and infrared-to-millimetre dust photometry of 11 exceptionally bright far-infrared (FIR) and sub-mm sources discovered through a combination of the Planck all-sky survey and follow-up Herschel-SPIRE imaging - "Planck's Dusty Gravitationally Enhanced subMillimetre Sources". Each source has a secure spectros…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel Planck 112
The Ages, Metallicities, and Element Abundance Ratios of Massive Quenched Galaxies at z ≈ 1.6
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/808/2/161 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...808..161O

Daddi, E.; Carollo, C. M.; Gobat, R. +8 more

We investigate the stellar population properties of a sample of 24 massive quenched galaxies at 1.25< zspec< 2.09 identified in the COSMOS field with our Subaru/Multi-object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph near-IR spectroscopic observations. Tracing the stellar population properties as close to their major formation epoch as poss…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 112
Measuring the Mass of the Central Black Hole in the Bulgeless Galaxy NGC 4395 from Gas Dynamical Modeling
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/101 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...809..101D

Ho, Luis C.; Neumayer, Nadine; Barth, Aaron J. +7 more

NGC 4395 is a bulgeless spiral galaxy, harboring one of the nearest known type 1 Seyfert nuclei. Although there is no consensus on the mass of its central engine, several estimates suggest it is one of the lightest massive black holes (MBHs) known. We present the first direct dynamical measurement of the mass of this MBH from a combination of two-…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 112
The Origin of Double-peaked Narrow Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei. I. Very Large Array Detections of Dual AGNs and AGN Outflows
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/813/2/103 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...813..103M

Cooper, M. C.; Comerford, J. M.; Greene, J. E. +3 more

We have examined a subset of 18 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) drawn from a sample of 81 galaxies that possess double-peaked narrow optical emission line spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, have 2 optical AGN emission components separated by >0.″2, and are detected in the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters survey. Without f…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 112
High-J CO versus Far-infrared Relations in Normal and Starburst Galaxies
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/810/2/L14 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...810L..14L

Daddi, Emanuele; van der Werf, Paul; Liu, Daizhong +4 more

We present correlations between 9 CO transitions (J=4-3 to 12-11) and beam-matched far-infrared (far-IR) luminosities ({L}{FIR,b}) among 167 local galaxies, using Herschel Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver Fourier Transform Spectrometer (SPIRE; FTS) spectroscopic data and Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) photo…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
Herschel 111
The ACS LCID Project: On the Origin of Dwarf Galaxy Types—A Manifestation of the Halo Assembly Bias?
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/811/2/L18 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...811L..18G

Dolphin, Andrew E.; Skillman, Evan D.; Cole, Andrew A. +13 more

We discuss how knowledge of the whole evolutionary history of dwarf galaxies, including details on the early star formation events, can provide insight on the origin of the different dwarf galaxy types. We suggest that these types may be imprinted by the early conditions of formation rather than only being the result of a recent morphological tran…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 111
Galaxy Structure as a Driver of the Star Formation Sequence Slope and Scatter
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/811/1/L12 Bibcode: 2015ApJ...811L..12W

van Dokkum, Pieter G.; Franx, Marijn; Labbé, Ivo +12 more

It is well established that (1) star-forming galaxies follow a relation between their star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass ({M}\star ), the “star formation sequence,” and (2) the SFRs of galaxies correlate with their structure, where star-forming galaxies are less concentrated than quiescent galaxies at fixed mass. Here, we consid…

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 110
Molecular clouds have power-law probability distribution functions
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525650 Bibcode: 2015A&A...576L...1L

Alves, João; Lada, Charles J.; Lombardi, Marco

In this Letter we investigate the shape of the probability distribution of column densities (PDF) in molecular clouds. Through the use of low-noise, extinction-calibrated Herschel/Planck emission data for eight molecular clouds, we demonstrate that, contrary to common belief, the PDFs of molecular clouds are not described well by log-normal functi…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 110
Excitation of kink oscillations of coronal loops: statistical study
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201424960 Bibcode: 2015A&A...577A...4Z

Zimovets, I. V.; Nakariakov, V. M.

Context. Solar flares are often accompanied by kink (transverse) oscillations of coronal loops. Despite intensive study of these oscillations in recent years, the mechanisms that excite them are still not known.
Aims: We aim to clarify the excitation mechanisms for these kink oscillations of coronal loops.
Methods: We analysed 58 kink-os…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 109