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Nature of the warm absorber outflow in NGC 4051 (2016)
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Mizumoto, M., & Ebisawa, K. (2017). Nature of the warm absorber outflow in NGC 4051. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466(3), 3259-3271. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3364

The narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 is known to exhibit significant X-ray spectral/flux variations and have a number of emission/absorption features. X-ray observations have revealed that these absorption features are blueshifted, which indicat... Read More about Nature of the warm absorber outflow in NGC 4051.

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.

The cosmic evolution of the metallicity distribution of ionized gas traced by Lyman limit systems (2016)
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Lehner, N., O'Meara, J., Howk, J., Prochaska, J., & Fumagalli, M. (2016). The cosmic evolution of the metallicity distribution of ionized gas traced by Lyman limit systems. Astrophysical Journal, 833(2), Article 283. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/283

We present the first results from our KODIAQ Z survey aimed to determine the metallicity distribution and physical properties of the z>2 partial and full Lyman limit systems (pLLSs and LLSs; 16.2

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.

The evolution of the galaxy content of dark matter haloes (2016)
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Contreras, S., Zehavi, I., Baugh, C., Padilla, N., & Norberg, P. (2017). The evolution of the galaxy content of dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(3), 2833-2848. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2826

We use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework to characterize the predictions from two independent galaxy formation models for the galactic content of dark matter haloes and its evolution with redshift. Our galaxy samples correspond to a ra... Read More about The evolution of the galaxy content of dark matter haloes.

AGNfitter: a Bayesian MCMC approach to fitting spectral energy distributions of AGNs (2016)
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Calistro Rivera, G., Lusso, E., Hennawi, J. F., & Hogg, D. W. (2016). AGNfitter: a Bayesian MCMC approach to fitting spectral energy distributions of AGNs. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 98. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/98

We present AGNfitter, a publicly available open-source algorithm implementing a fully Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to fit the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the submillimeter to the UV, allowing... Read More about AGNfitter: a Bayesian MCMC approach to fitting spectral energy distributions of AGNs.

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.

A new catalog of homogenised absorption line indices for Milky Way globular clusters from high-resolution integrated spectroscopy (2016)
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Kim, H., Cho, J., Sharples, R., Vazdekis, A., Beasley, M., & Yoon, S. (2016). A new catalog of homogenised absorption line indices for Milky Way globular clusters from high-resolution integrated spectroscopy. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 227(2), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/227/2/24

We perform integrated spectroscopy of 24 Galactic globular clusters (GGCs). Spectra are observed from one core radius for each cluster with a high wavelength resolution of ~2.0 Å FWHM. In combination with two existing data sets from Puzia et al. and... Read More about A new catalog of homogenised absorption line indices for Milky Way globular clusters from high-resolution integrated spectroscopy.

ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: CO Luminosity Functions and the Evolution of the Cosmic Density of Molecular Gas (2016)
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Decarli, R., Walter, F., Aravena, M., Carilli, C., Bouwens, R., da Cunha, E., …Wagg, J. (2016). ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: CO Luminosity Functions and the Evolution of the Cosmic Density of Molecular Gas. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/69

In this paper we use ASPECS, the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field in band 3 and band 6, to place blind constraints on the CO luminosity function and the evolution of the cosmic molecular gas density as a function of redshift u... Read More about ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: CO Luminosity Functions and the Evolution of the Cosmic Density of Molecular Gas.

ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Survey Description (2016)
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Walter, F., Decarli, R., Aravena, M., Carilli, C., Bouwens, R., da Cunha, E., …Wagg, J. (2016). ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Survey Description. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 67. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/67

We present the rationale for and the observational description of ASPECS: The ALMA SPECtroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (UDF), the cosmological deep field that has the deepest multi-wavelength data available. Our overarching goal is to... Read More about ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Survey Description.

The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Molecular Gas Reservoirs in High-redshift Galaxies (2016)
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Decarli, R., Walter, F., Aravena, M., Carilli, C., Bouwens, R., da Cunha, E., …van der Werf, P. (2016). The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Molecular Gas Reservoirs in High-redshift Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 70. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/70

We study the molecular gas properties of high-z galaxies observed in the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey (ASPECS) that targets an ˜1 arcmin2 region in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF), a blind survey of CO emission (tracing molecular gas) in the 3 and 1 m... Read More about The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Molecular Gas Reservoirs in High-redshift Galaxies.

The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Search for [CII] Line and Dust Emission in 6 < z < 8 Galaxies (2016)
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Aravena, M., Decarli, R., Walter, F., Bouwens, R., Oesch, P., Carilli, C., …Fudamoto, Y. (2016). The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Search for [CII] Line and Dust Emission in 6 < z < 8 Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 71. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/71

We present a search for [C ii] line and dust continuum emission from optical dropout galaxies at z > 6 using ASPECS, our Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra-deep Field (UDF). Our observations, which c... Read More about The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Search for [CII] Line and Dust Emission in 6 < z < 8 Galaxies.

The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Continuum Number Counts, Resolved 1.2 mm Extragalactic Background, and Properties of the Faintest Dusty Star-forming Galaxies (2016)
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Aravena, M., Decarli, R., Walter, F., Da Cunha, E., Bauer, F., Carilli, C., …Wagg, J. (2016). The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Continuum Number Counts, Resolved 1.2 mm Extragalactic Background, and Properties of the Faintest Dusty Star-forming Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 68. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/68

We present an analysis of a deep (1σ = 13 μJy) cosmological 1.2 mm continuum map based on ASPECS, the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. In the 1 arcmin2 covered by ASPECS we detect nine sources at \gt 3.5σ significance at 1.2... Read More about The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Continuum Number Counts, Resolved 1.2 mm Extragalactic Background, and Properties of the Faintest Dusty Star-forming Galaxies.

ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: The Infrared Excess of UV-Selected z = 2-10 Galaxies as a Function of UV-Continuum Slope and Stellar Mass (2016)
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Bouwens, R., Aravena, M., Decarli, R., Walter, F., da Cunha, E., Labbé, I., …Wilkins, S. (2016). ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: The Infrared Excess of UV-Selected z = 2-10 Galaxies as a Function of UV-Continuum Slope and Stellar Mass. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/72

We make use of deep 1.2 mm continuum observations (12.7 μJy beam-1 rms) of a 1 arcmin2 region in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field to probe dust-enshrouded star formation from 330 Lyman-break galaxies spanning the redshift range z = 2-10 (to ˜2-3 M ⊙ yr-1... Read More about ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: The Infrared Excess of UV-Selected z = 2-10 Galaxies as a Function of UV-Continuum Slope and Stellar Mass.

A Systematic Search for Periodically Varying Quasars in Pan-STARRS1: An Extended Baseline Test in Medium Deep Survey Field MD09 (2016)
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Liu, T., Gezari, S., Burgett, W., Chambers, K., Draper, P., Hodapp, K., …Waters, C. (2016). A Systematic Search for Periodically Varying Quasars in Pan-STARRS1: An Extended Baseline Test in Medium Deep Survey Field MD09. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/833/1/6

We present a systematic search for periodically varying quasars and supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) candidates in the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Medium Deep Survey's MD09 field. From a color-selected sample of 670 quasars extracted from a multi-band de... Read More about A Systematic Search for Periodically Varying Quasars in Pan-STARRS1: An Extended Baseline Test in Medium Deep Survey Field MD09.

SINFONI-HiZELS: the dynamics, merger rates and metallicity gradients of `typical' star-forming galaxies at z = 0.8-2.2 (2016)
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Molina, J., Ibar, E., Swinbank, A., Sobral, D., Best, P., Smail, I., …Cirasuolo, M. (2017). SINFONI-HiZELS: the dynamics, merger rates and metallicity gradients of `typical' star-forming galaxies at z = 0.8-2.2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466(1), 892-905. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3120

We present adaptive optics (AO) assisted SINFONI integral field unit (IFU) spectroscopy of 11 Hα emitting galaxies selected from the High-Z Emission Line Survey (HiZELS). We obtain spatially resolved dynamics on ∼kpc-scales of star-forming galaxies [... Read More about SINFONI-HiZELS: the dynamics, merger rates and metallicity gradients of `typical' star-forming galaxies at z = 0.8-2.2.