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NuSTAR observations of WISE J1036+0449, a Galaxy at z ∼ 1 obscured by hot dust (2017)
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Ricci, C., Assef, R., Stern, D., Nikutta, R., Alexander, D., Asmus, D., …Zhang, W. (2017). NuSTAR observations of WISE J1036+0449, a Galaxy at z ∼ 1 obscured by hot dust. Astrophysical Journal, 835(1), Article 105. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/105

Hot dust-obscured galaxies (hot DOGs), selected from Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer's all-sky infrared survey, host some of the most powerful active galactic nuclei known and may represent an important stage in the evolution of galaxies. Most kn... Read More about NuSTAR observations of WISE J1036+0449, a Galaxy at z ∼ 1 obscured by hot dust.

ALMA Deep Field in SSA22: Source Catalog and Number Counts (2017)
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Umehata, H., Tamura, Y., Kohno, K., Ivison, R., Smail, I., Hatsukade, B., …Kubo, M. (2017). ALMA Deep Field in SSA22: Source Catalog and Number Counts. Astrophysical Journal, 835(1), Article 98. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/98

We present results from a deep 2' × 3' (comoving scale of 3.7 Mpc × 5.5 Mpc at z = 3) survey at 1.1 mm, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the SSA22 field. We observe the core region of a z = 3.09 protocluster, achi... Read More about ALMA Deep Field in SSA22: Source Catalog and Number Counts.

The distribution of radioactive 44Ti in Cassiopeia A (2016)
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Grefenstette, B. W., Fryer, C. L., Harrison, F. A., Boggs, S. E., DeLaney, T., Laming, J. M., …Zoglauer, A. (2017). The distribution of radioactive 44Ti in Cassiopeia A. Astrophysical Journal, 834(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/834/1/19

The distribution of elements produced in the innermost layers of a supernova explosion is a key diagnostic for studying the collapse of massive stars. Here we present the results of a 2.4 Ms NuSTAR observing campaign aimed at studying the supernova r... Read More about The distribution of radioactive 44Ti in Cassiopeia A.

The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs (2016)
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Luo, B., Brandt, W., Xue, Y., Lehmer, B., Alexander, D., Bauer, F., …Wang, J. (2017). The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 228(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/228/1/2

We present X-ray source catalogs for the ≈7 Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S), which covers a total area of 484.2 arcmin2. Utilizing wavdetect for initial source detection and ACIS Extract for photometric extraction and significance... Read More about The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs.

IC 3639 - A new bona fide Compton-thick AGN unveiled by NuSTAR (2016)
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Boorman, P., Gandhi, P., Alexander, D., Annuar, A., Ballantyne, D., Bauer, F., …Zhang, W. (2016). IC 3639 - A new bona fide Compton-thick AGN unveiled by NuSTAR. Astrophysical Journal, 833(2), 245-262. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/245

We analyze high-quality NuSTAR observations of the local (z = 0.011) Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus (AGN) IC 3639, in conjunction with archival Suzaku and Chandra data. This provides the first broadband X-ray spectral analysis of the source, spann... Read More about IC 3639 - A new bona fide Compton-thick AGN unveiled by NuSTAR.

Kiloparsec-scale Dust Disks in High-redshift Luminous Submillimeter Galaxies (2016)
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Hodge, J., Swinbank, A., Simpson, J., Smail, I., Walter, F., Alexander, D., …van der Werf, P. (2016). Kiloparsec-scale Dust Disks in High-redshift Luminous Submillimeter Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 103. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/103

We present high-resolution (0farcs16) 870 μm Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaging of 16 luminous (${L}_{\mathrm{IR}}\sim 4\times {10}^{12}\,{L}_{\odot }$) submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) from the ALESS survey of the Extended Chan... Read More about Kiloparsec-scale Dust Disks in High-redshift Luminous Submillimeter Galaxies.

VLA and ALMA Imaging of Intense Galaxy-wide Star Formation in z ~ 2 Galaxies (2016)
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Rujopakarn, W., Dunlop, J., Rieke, G., Ivison, R., Cibinel, A., Nyland, K., …Windhorst, R. (2016). VLA and ALMA Imaging of Intense Galaxy-wide Star Formation in z ~ 2 Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/833/1/12

We present sime0farcs4 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... Read More about VLA and ALMA Imaging of Intense Galaxy-wide Star Formation in z ~ 2 Galaxies.

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: 850 μm maps, catalogues and number counts (2016)
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Geach, J., Dunlop, J., Halpern, M., Smail, I., van der Werf, P., Alexander, D., …Zemcov, M. (2017). The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: 850 μm maps, catalogues and number counts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(2), 1789-1806. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2721

We present a catalogue of ∼3000 submillimetre sources detected (≥3.5σ) at 850 μm over ∼5 deg2 surveyed as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS). This is the largest survey of its kind at 850 μm, incr... Read More about The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: 850 μm maps, catalogues and number counts.

The NuSTAR extragalactic surveys: The number counts of active galactic nuclei and the resolved fraction of the cosmic X-ray background (2016)
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Harrison, F., Aird, J., Civano, F., Lansbury, G., Mullaney, J., Ballantyne, D., …Zoglauer, A. (2016). The NuSTAR extragalactic surveys: The number counts of active galactic nuclei and the resolved fraction of the cosmic X-ray background. Astrophysical Journal, 831(2), Article 185. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/831/2/185

We present the 3–8 keV and 8–24 keV number counts of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) identified in the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) extragalactic surveys. NuSTAR has now resolved 33%–39% of the X-ray background in the 8–24 keV band, d... Read More about The NuSTAR extragalactic surveys: The number counts of active galactic nuclei and the resolved fraction of the cosmic X-ray background.

First NuSTAR observations of the BL Lac-type blazar PKS 2155-304: constraints on the jet content and distribution of radiating particles (2016)
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Madejski, G., Nalewajko, K., Madsen, K., Chiang, J., Baloković, M., Paneque, D., …Zoglauer, A. (2016). First NuSTAR observations of the BL Lac-type blazar PKS 2155-304: constraints on the jet content and distribution of radiating particles. Astrophysical Journal, 831(2), Article 142. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/831/2/142

We report the first hard X-ray observations with NuSTAR of the BL Lac-type blazar PKS 2155-304, augmented with soft X-ray data from XMM-Newton and γ-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, obtained in 2013 April when the source was in a very lo... Read More about First NuSTAR observations of the BL Lac-type blazar PKS 2155-304: constraints on the jet content and distribution of radiating particles.

The geometry of the infrared and X-ray obscurer in a dusty hyperluminous quasar (2016)
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Farrah, D., Baloković, M., Stern, D., Harris, K., Kunimoto, M., Walton, D. J., …Zhang, W. (2016). The geometry of the infrared and X-ray obscurer in a dusty hyperluminous quasar. Astrophysical Journal, 831(1), Article 76. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/831/1/76

We study the geometry of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) obscurer in IRAS 09104+4109, an IR-luminous, radio-intermediate FR-I source at z = 0.442, using infrared data from Spitzer and Herschel, X-ray data from NuSTAR, Swift, Suzaku, and Chandra, an... Read More about The geometry of the infrared and X-ray obscurer in a dusty hyperluminous quasar.

NuSTAR Hard X-ray Survey of the Galactic Center Region. II. X-ray Point Sources (2016)
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Hong, J., Mori, K., Hailey, C. J., Nynka, M., Zhang, S., Gotthelf, E., …Zoglauer, A. (2016). NuSTAR Hard X-ray Survey of the Galactic Center Region. II. X-ray Point Sources. Astrophysical Journal, 825(2), Article 132. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/825/2/132

We present the first survey results of hard X-ray point sources in the Galactic Center (GC) region by NuSTAR. We have discovered 70 hard (3–79 keV) X-ray point sources in a 0.6 deg${}^{2}$ region around Sgr A* with a total exposure of 1.7 Ms, and 7 s... Read More about NuSTAR Hard X-ray Survey of the Galactic Center Region. II. X-ray Point Sources.

A New Population of Compton-Thick AGN Identified Using the Spectral Curvature Above 10 keV (2016)
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Koss, M. J., Assef, R., Baloković, M., Stern, D., Gandhi, P., Lamperti, I., …Urry, C. M. (2016). A New Population of Compton-Thick AGN Identified Using the Spectral Curvature Above 10 keV. Astrophysical Journal, 825(2), Article 85. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/825/2/85

We present a new metric that uses the spectral curvature (SC) above 10 keV to identify Compton-thick active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in low-quality Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) X-ray data. Using NuSTAR, we observe nine high SC-selected AGNs. We fi... Read More about A New Population of Compton-Thick AGN Identified Using the Spectral Curvature Above 10 keV.

ALMA observations of a z ≈ 3.1 protocluster: star formation from active galactic nuclei and Lyman-alpha blobs in an overdense environment (2016)
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Alexander, D., Simpson, J., Harrison, C., Mullaney, J., Smail, I., Geach, J., …Yamada, T. (2016). ALMA observations of a z ≈ 3.1 protocluster: star formation from active galactic nuclei and Lyman-alpha blobs in an overdense environment. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(3), 2944-2952. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1509

We exploit Atacama Large Interferometer Array (ALMA) 870 μm observations to measure the star formation rates (SFRs) of eight X-ray detected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in a z ≈ 3.1 protocluster, four of which reside in extended Lyα haloes (often te... Read More about ALMA observations of a z ≈ 3.1 protocluster: star formation from active galactic nuclei and Lyman-alpha blobs in an overdense environment.

The average submillimetre properties of Lyman α blobs at z = 3 (2016)
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Hine, N., Geach, J., Matsuda, Y., Lehmer, B., Michałowski, M., Farrah, D., …van der Werf, P. (2016). The average submillimetre properties of Lyman α blobs at z = 3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(4), 4075-4085. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1185

Ly α blobs (LABs) offer insight into the complex interface between galaxies and their circumgalactic medium. Whilst some LABs have been found to contain luminous star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei that could potentially power the Ly α e... Read More about The average submillimetre properties of Lyman α blobs at z = 3.

The 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North Survey and the 250 ks Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: Improved Point-Source Catalogs (2016)
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Xue, Y., Luo, B., Brandt, W., Alexander, D., Bauer, F., Lehmer, B., & Yang, G. (2016). The 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North Survey and the 250 ks Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: Improved Point-Source Catalogs. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 224(2), Article 15. https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/224/2/15

Abstract We present improved point-source catalogs for the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North (CDF-N) and the 250 ks Extended Chandra Deep Field-South (E-CDF-S) Surveys, implementing a number of recent improvements in Chandra source-cataloging methodology... Read More about The 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North Survey and the 250 ks Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: Improved Point-Source Catalogs.

Herschel protocluster survey: a search for dusty star-forming galaxies in protoclusters at z = 2–3 (2016)
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Kato, Y., Matsuda, Y., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Hatsukade, B., Umehata, H., …Hayashino, T. (2016). Herschel protocluster survey: a search for dusty star-forming galaxies in protoclusters at z = 2–3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(4), 3861-3872. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1237

We present a Herschel/SPIRE survey of three protoclusters at z = 2 − 3 (2QZCluster, HS1700, SSA22). Based on the SPIRE colours (S350/S250 and S500/S350) of 250 μm sources, we selected high redshift dusty star-forming galaxies potentially associated w... Read More about Herschel protocluster survey: a search for dusty star-forming galaxies in protoclusters at z = 2–3.

Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013 (2016)
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Baloković, M., Paneque, D., Madejski, G., Furniss, A., Chiang, J., team:, T. N., …Zensus, J. (2016). Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013. Astrophysical Journal, 819(2), Article 156. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/819/2/156

We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the bright, nearby BL Lacertae object Mrk 421 taken in 2013 January–March, involving GASP-WEBT, Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, VERITAS, and other collaborations and instruments, providing data... Read More about Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013.

The Chandra Cosmos Legacy Survey: Overview and Point Source Catalog (2016)
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Civano, F., Marchesi, S., Comastri, A., Urry, M., Elvis, M., Cappelluti, N., …Vignali, C. (2016). The Chandra Cosmos Legacy Survey: Overview and Point Source Catalog. Astrophysical Journal, 819(1), Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/819/1/62

The COSMOS-Legacy survey is a 4.6 Ms Chandra program that has imaged 2.2 deg2 of the COSMOS field with an effective exposure of $\simeq 160$ ks over the central 1.5 deg2 and of $\simeq 80$ ks in the remaining area. The survey is the combination of 56... Read More about The Chandra Cosmos Legacy Survey: Overview and Point Source Catalog.

A SCUBA-2 survey of FeLoBAL QSOs. Are FeLoBALs in a ‘transition phase’ between ULIRGs and QSOs? (2016)
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Violino, G., Coppin, K., Stevens, J., Farrah, D., Geach, J., Alexander, D., …Wardlow, J. (2016). A SCUBA-2 survey of FeLoBAL QSOs. Are FeLoBALs in a ‘transition phase’ between ULIRGs and QSOs?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457(2), 1371-1384. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2937

It is thought that a class of broad absorption line (BAL) QSOs, characterized by Fe absorption features in their UV spectra (called ‘FeLoBALs’), could mark a transition stage between the end of an obscured starburst event and a youthful QSO beginning... Read More about A SCUBA-2 survey of FeLoBAL QSOs. Are FeLoBALs in a ‘transition phase’ between ULIRGs and QSOs?.