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Compact molecular gas emission in local LIRGs among low- and high-z galaxies (2022)
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Bellocchi, E., Pereira-Santaella, M., Colina, L., Labiano, A., Sánchez-García, M., Alonso-Herrero, A., Arribas, S., García-Burillo, S., Villar-Martín, M., Rigopoulou, D., Valentino, F., Puglisi, A., Díaz-Santos, T., Cazzoli, S., & Usero, A. (2022). Compact molecular gas emission in local LIRGs among low- and high-z galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 664, Article A60. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142802

We present new CO(2–1) observations of a representative sample of 24 local (z < 0.02) luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) at high spatial resolution (< 100 pc) from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Our LIRGs lie above the main...

The resolved chemical abundance properties within the interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies at z≈ 1.5 (2022)
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Gillman, S., Puglisi, A., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Swinbank, A., Tiley, A., Harrison, C., Molina, J., Sharples, R., Bower, R., Cirasuolo, M., Ibar, E., & Obreschkow, D. (2022). The resolved chemical abundance properties within the interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies at z≈ 1.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(3), 3480-3499. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac580

We exploit the unprecedented depth of integral field data from the KMOS Ultra-deep Rotational Velocity Survey (KURVS) to analyse the strong (Hα) and forbidden ([NII], [SII]) emission line ratios in 22 main-sequence galaxies at z ≈ 1.5. Using the [NII... Read More about The resolved chemical abundance properties within the interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies at z≈ 1.5.

Differential attenuation in star-forming galaxies at 0.3 ≲ z ≲ 1.5 in the SHARDS/CANDELS field (2021)
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Rodríguez-Muñoz, L., Rodighiero, G., Pérez-González, P., Talia, M., Baronchelli, I., Morselli, L., Renzini, A., Puglisi, A., Grazian, A., Zanella, A., Mancini, C., Feltre, A., Romano, M., Vidal García, A., Franceschini, A., Alcalde Pampliega, B., Cassata, P., Costantin, L., Domínguez Sánchez, H., Espino-Briones, N., …Rodríguez-Espinosa, J. (2022). Differential attenuation in star-forming galaxies at 0.3 ≲ z ≲ 1.5 in the SHARDS/CANDELS field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(2), 2061-2083. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3558

We use a sample of 706 galaxies, selected as [O II]λ3727 ([O II]) emitters in the Survey for High-z Absorption Red and Dead Sources (SHARDS) on the CANDELS/GOODS-N field, to study the differential attenuation of the nebular emission with respect to t... Read More about Differential attenuation in star-forming galaxies at 0.3 ≲ z ≲ 1.5 in the SHARDS/CANDELS field.

The effect of active galactic nuclei on the cold interstellar medium in distant star-forming galaxies (2021)
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Valentino, F., Daddi, E., Puglisi, A., Magdis, G., Kokorev, V., Liu, D., Madden, S., Gómez-Guijarro, C., Lee, M.-Y., Cortzen, I., Circosta, C., Delvecchio, I., Mullaney, J., Gao, Y., Gobat, R., Aravena, M., Jin, S., Fujimoto, S., Silverman, J., & Dannerbauer, H. (2021). The effect of active galactic nuclei on the cold interstellar medium in distant star-forming galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 654, Article A165. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141417

In the framework of a systematic study with the ALMA interferometer of IR-selected main-sequence and starburst galaxies at z ∼ 1 − 1.7 at typical ∼1″ resolution, we report on the effects of mid-IR- and X-ray-detected active galactic nuclei (AGN) on t... Read More about The effect of active galactic nuclei on the cold interstellar medium in distant star-forming galaxies.

SUPER V. ALMA continuum observations of z ∼ 2 AGN and the elusive evidence of outflows influencing star formation (2021)
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Lamperti, I., Harrison, C., Mainieri, V., Kakkad, D., Perna, M., Circosta, C., Scholtz, J., Carniani, S., Cicone, C., Alexander, D., Bischetti, M., Calistro Rivera, G., Chen, C.-C., Cresci, G., Feruglio, C., Fiore, F., Mannucci, F., Marconi, A., Martínez-Ramírez, L., Netzer, H., …Zappacosta, L. (2021). SUPER V. ALMA continuum observations of z ∼ 2 AGN and the elusive evidence of outflows influencing star formation. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 654, Article A90. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141363

We study the impact of active galactic nuclei (AGN) ionised outflows on star formation in high-redshift AGN host galaxies, by combining near-infrared integral field spectroscopic (IFS) observations, mapping the Hα emission and [O III]λ5007 outflows,... Read More about SUPER V. ALMA continuum observations of z ∼ 2 AGN and the elusive evidence of outflows influencing star formation.

SUPER VI. A giant molecular halo around a z∼2 quasar (2021)
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Cicone, C., Mainieri, V., Circosta, C., Kakkad, D., Vietri, G., Perna, M., Bischetti, M., Carniani, S., Cresci, G., Harrison, C., Mannucci, F., Marconi, A., Piconcelli, E., Puglisi, A., Scholtz, J., Vignali, C., Zamorani, G., Zappacosta, L., & Arrigoni Battaia, F. (2021). SUPER VI. A giant molecular halo around a z∼2 quasar. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 654, Article L8. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141611

We present the discovery of copious molecular gas in the halo of cid_346, a z = 2.2 quasar studied as part of the SINFONI survey for Unveiling the Physics and Effect of Radiative feedback (SUPER). New Atacama Compact Array (ACA) CO(3−2) observations... Read More about SUPER VI. A giant molecular halo around a z∼2 quasar.

Submillimetre compactness as a critical dimension to understand the Main Sequence of star-forming galaxies (2021)
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Puglisi, A., Daddi, E., Valentino, F., Magdis, G., Liu, D., Kokorev, V., Circosta, C., Elbaz, D. E., Bournard, F., Gomez-Guijarro, C., Jin, S., Madden, S., Sargent, M. T., & Swinbank, M. (2021). Submillimetre compactness as a critical dimension to understand the Main Sequence of star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(4), 5217-5238. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2914

We study the interstellar medium (ISM) properties as a function of the molecular gas size for 77 infrared-selected galaxies at z ∼ 1.3, having stellar masses 109.4 . M? . 1012.0 M and star formation rates 12 . SFRFIR . 1000 M yr−1 . Molecular gas siz... Read More about Submillimetre compactness as a critical dimension to understand the Main Sequence of star-forming galaxies.

An Ancient Massive Quiescent Galaxy Found in a Gas-rich z ∼ 3 Group (2021)
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Kalita, B. S., Daddi, E., D’Eugenio, C., Valentino, F., Rich, R. M., Gómez-Guijarro, C., Coogan, R. T., Delvecchio, I., Elbaz, D., Neill, J. D., Puglisi, A., & Strazzullo, V. (2021). An Ancient Massive Quiescent Galaxy Found in a Gas-rich z ∼ 3 Group. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 917(2), Article L17. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac16dc

Deep Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and Hubble Space Telescope observations reveal the presence of a quenched massive galaxy within the z = 2.91 galaxy group RO-1001. With a mass-weighted stellar age of 1.6 ± 0.4 Gyr this galaxy is one... Read More about An Ancient Massive Quiescent Galaxy Found in a Gas-rich z ∼ 3 Group.

The KMOS galaxy evolution survey (KGES): the angular momentum of star-forming galaxies over the last ≍10 Gyr (2021)
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Tiley, A. L., Gillman, S., Cortese, L., Swinbank, A., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Harrison, C., Smail, I., Obreschkow, D., Croom, S., Sharples, R., & Puglisi, A. (2021). The KMOS galaxy evolution survey (KGES): the angular momentum of star-forming galaxies over the last ≍10 Gyr. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506(1), 323-342. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1692

We present the KMOS Galaxy Evolution Survey (KGES), a K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph (KMOS) study of the H α and [N II] emission from 288 K-band-selected galaxies at 1.2 ≲ z ≲ 1.8, with stellar masses in the range log10(M∗/M⊙)≈9 – 11.5. In this pap... Read More about The KMOS galaxy evolution survey (KGES): the angular momentum of star-forming galaxies over the last ≍10 Gyr.

The evolution of compact massive quiescent and star-forming galaxies derived from the Re–Rh and Mstar–Mh relations (2021)
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Zanisi, L., Shankar, F., Fu, H., Rodriguez-Puebla, A., Avila-Reese, V., Faisst, A., Daddi, E., Boco, L., Lapi, A., Giavalisco, M., Saracco, P., Buitrago, F., Huertas-Company, M., Puglisi, A., & Dekel, A. (2021). The evolution of compact massive quiescent and star-forming galaxies derived from the Re–Rh and Mstar–Mh relations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505(3), 4555-4570. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1472

The mean size (effective radius Re) of massive galaxies (MGs; Mstar > 1011.2M⊙) is observed to increase steadily with cosmic time. It is still unclear whether this trend originates from the size growth of individual galaxies (via, e.g. mergers and/or... Read More about The evolution of compact massive quiescent and star-forming galaxies derived from the Re–Rh and Mstar–Mh relations.

Three Lyman-α-emitting filaments converging to a massive galaxy group at z = 2.91: discussing the case for cold gas infall (2021)
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Daddi, E., Valentino, F., Rich, R., Neill, J., Gronke, M., O’Sullivan, D., Elbaz, D., Bournaud, F., Finoguenov, A., Marchal, A., Delvecchio, I., Jin, S., Liu, D., Strazzullo, V., Calabro, A., Coogan, R., D’Eugenio, C., Gobat, R., Kalita, B., Laursen, P., …Wang, T. (2021). Three Lyman-α-emitting filaments converging to a massive galaxy group at z = 2.91: discussing the case for cold gas infall. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 649, Article A78. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038700

We have discovered a 300 kpc-wide giant Lyman-α (Lyα) nebula centered on the massive galaxy group RO-1001 at z = 2.91 in the Cosmic Evolution Survey field. Keck Cosmic Web Imager observations reveal three cold gas filaments converging into the center... Read More about Three Lyman-α-emitting filaments converging to a massive galaxy group at z = 2.91: discussing the case for cold gas infall.

CO Excitation, Molecular Gas Density, and Interstellar Radiation Field in Local and High-redshift Galaxies (2021)
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Liu, D., Daddi, E., Schinnerer, E., Saito, T., Leroy, A., Silverman, J. D., Valentino, F., Magdis, G. E., Gao, Y., Jin, S., Puglisi, A., & Groves, B. (2021). CO Excitation, Molecular Gas Density, and Interstellar Radiation Field in Local and High-redshift Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 909(1), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abd801

We study the carbon monoxide (CO) excitation, mean molecular gas density, and interstellar radiation field (ISRF) intensity in a comprehensive sample of 76 galaxies from local to high redshift (z ∼ 0–6), selected based on detections of their CO trans... Read More about CO Excitation, Molecular Gas Density, and Interstellar Radiation Field in Local and High-redshift Galaxies.

SUPER - IV. CO(J = 3-2) properties of active galactic nucleus hosts at cosmic noon revealed by ALMA (2021)
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Circosta, C., Mainieri, V., Lamperti, I., Padovani, P., Bischetti, M., Harrison, C., Kakkad, D., Zanella, A., Vietri, G., Lanzuisi, G., Salvato, M., Brusa, M., Carniani, S., Cicone, C., Cresci, G., Feruglio, C., Husemann, B., Mannucci, F., Marconi, A., Perna, M., …Zappacosta, L. (2021). SUPER - IV. CO(J = 3-2) properties of active galactic nucleus hosts at cosmic noon revealed by ALMA. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 646, Article A96. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039270

A titanic interstellar medium ejection from a massive starburst galaxy at redshift 1.4 (2021)
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Puglisi, A., Daddi, E., Brusa, M., Bournaud, F., Fensch, J., Liu, D., Delvecchio, I., Calabrò, A., Circosta, C., Valentino, F., Perna, M., Jin, S., Enia, A., Mancini, C., & Rodighiero, G. (2021). A titanic interstellar medium ejection from a massive starburst galaxy at redshift 1.4. Nature Astronomy, 5(3), 319-330. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01268-x

Feedback-driven winds from star formation or active galactic nuclei might be a relevant channel for the abrupt quenching of star formation in massive galaxies. However, both observations and simulations support the idea that these processes are non-c... Read More about A titanic interstellar medium ejection from a massive starburst galaxy at redshift 1.4.

Coevolution of black hole accretion and star formation in galaxies up to z = 3.5 (2020)
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Carraro, R., Rodighiero, G., Cassata, P., Brusa, M., Shankar, F., Baronchelli, I., Daddi, E., Delvecchio, I., Franceschini, A., Griffiths, R., Gruppioni, C., López-Navas, E., Mancini, C., Marchesi, S., Negrello, M., Puglisi, A., Sani, E., & Suh, H. (2020). Coevolution of black hole accretion and star formation in galaxies up to z = 3.5. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 642, Article A65. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936649

Aims. We study the coevolution between the black hole accretion rate (BHAR) and the star formation rate (SFR) in different phases of galaxy life: main-sequence star-forming galaxies, quiescent galaxies, and starburst galaxies at different cosmic epoc... Read More about Coevolution of black hole accretion and star formation in galaxies up to z = 3.5.

CO emission in distant galaxies on and above the main sequence (2020)
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Valentino, F., Daddi, E., Puglisi, A., Magdis, G., Liu, D., Kokorev, V., Cortzen, I., Madden, S., Aravena, M., Gómez-Guijarro, C., Lee, M.-Y., Le Floc’h, E., Gao, Y., Gobat, R., Bournaud, F., Dannerbauer, H., Jin, S., Dickinson, M., Kartaltepe, J., & Sanders, D. (2020). CO emission in distant galaxies on and above the main sequence. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 641, Article A155. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038322

We present the detection of multiple carbon monoxide CO line transitions with ALMA in a few tens of infrared-selected galaxies on and above the main sequence at z = 1.1−1.7. We reliably detected the emission of CO (5−4), CO (2−1), and CO (7−6)+[C I](... Read More about CO emission in distant galaxies on and above the main sequence.

The Typical Massive Quiescent Galaxy at z ∼ 3 is a Post-starburst (2020)
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D’Eugenio, C., Daddi, E., Gobat, R., Strazzullo, V., Lustig, P., Delvecchio, I., Jin, S., Puglisi, A., Calabró, A., Mancini, C., Dickinson, M., Cimatti, A., & Onodera, M. (2020). The Typical Massive Quiescent Galaxy at z ∼ 3 is a Post-starburst. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 892(1), Article L2. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7a96

We have obtained spectroscopic confirmation with Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/G141 of a first sizeable sample of nine quiescent galaxies at 2.4 < z < 3.3. Their average near-UV/optical rest-frame spectrum is characterized by low attenuation (AV ~ 0.6... Read More about The Typical Massive Quiescent Galaxy at z ∼ 3 is a Post-starburst.