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1. Power spectrum response of large-scale structure in 1D and in 3D: tests of prescriptions for post-collapse dynamics

Author: Atsushi Taruya, Anaelle Halle, Francis Bernardeau, Stéphane Colombi, Takahiro Nishimichi, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France (CdF), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681 (IPHT), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: Physics, Coupling, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Function (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Gravitation, Amplitude, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Mode coupling, large-scale structure of Universe, Statistical physics, Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The power spectrum response function of the large-scale structure of the Universe describes how the evolved power spectrum is modified by a small change in initial power through non-linear mode coupling of gravitational evolution. It was previously found that the response function for the coupling from small to large scales is strongly suppressed in amplitude, especially at late times, compared to predictions from perturbation theory (PT) based on the single-stream approximation. One obvious explanation for this is that PT fails to describe the dynamics beyond shell-crossing. We test this idea by comparing measurements in $N$-body simulations to prescriptions based on PT but augmented with adaptive smoothing to account for the formation of non-linear structures of various sizes in the multi-stream regime. We first start with one-dimensional (1D) cosmology, where the Zel'dovich approximation provides the exact solution in the single stream regime. Similarly to the 3D case, the response function of the large-scale modes exhibits a strong suppression in amplitude at small scales which cannot be explained by the Zel'dovich solution alone. However, by performing adaptive smoothing of initial conditions to identify haloes of different sizes and solving approximately post-collapse dynamics in the 3-streams regime, agreement between theory and simulations drastically improves. We extend our analyses to the 3D case using PINOCCHIO algorithm, in which similar adaptive smoothing is implemented on the Lagrangian PT fields to identify haloes and is combined with a spherical halo prescription to account for post-collapse dynamics. Again, a suppression is found in the coupling between small- and large-scale modes and the agreement with simulations is improved., Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Published: 2020
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2. A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission. VESTIGE VIII. Bridging the cluster-ICM-galaxy evolution at small scales

Author: Liu, Chengze, Côté, Patrick, Peng, Eric W., Roediger, Joel, Zhang, Hongxin, Ferrarese, Laura, Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén, Guhathakurta, Puragra, Yang, Xiaohu, Jing, Yipeng, Alamo-Martinez, Karla, Blakeslee, John P., Boselli, Alessandro, Cuilandre, Jean-Charles, Duc, Pierre-Alain, Durrell, Patrick, Gwyn, Stephen, Jordán, Andres, Ko, Youkyung, Lançon, Ariane, Lim, Sungsoon, Longobardi, Alessia, Mei, Simona, Mihos, J. Christopher, Munoz, Roberto, Powalka, Mathieu, Puzia, Thomas, Spengler, Chelsea, Toloba, Elisa, Boselli, Alessandro, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), University of Vienna [Vienna], NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada (NRC), FORMATION STELLAIRE 2019, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence (OAMP), Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Longobardi, A, Boselli, A, Fossati, M, Villa-Velez, J, Bianchi, S, Casasola, V, Sarpa, E, Combes, F, Hensler, G, Burgarella, D, Schimd, C, Nanni, A, Cote, P, Buat, V, Amram, P, Ferrarese, L, Braine, J, Trinchieri, G, Boissier, S, Boquien, M, Andreani, P, Gwyn, S, and Cuillandre, J
Subjects: galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium, Metallicity, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Isophote, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Spatial distribution, 01 natural sciences, galaxies: clusters: individual: Virgo cluster, [SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics], 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, galaxies: interactions, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mass ratio, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Ram pressure, Interstellar medium, Galaxies: interaction, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], galaxies: clusters: general, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], galaxies: ISM
Abstract: We measure FIR emission from tails of stripped dust following the ionised and atomic gas components in galaxies undergoing ram pressure stripping. We study the dust-to-gas relative distribution and mass ratio in the stripped interstellar medium and relate them to those of the intra-cluster medium, thus linking the cluster-ICM-galaxy evolution at small-scales. The galaxy sample consists of three Scd Virgo galaxies with stellar masses in the range $10^9\lesssim \mathrm{M_{*}} \lesssim 10^{10}\, \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$, and within 1 Mpc from the cluster centre, namely NGC 4330, NGC 4522, and NGC 4654. Through the analysis of VESTIGE H$\alpha$, $Herschel$ SPIRE far-infrared, and VIVA HI data, we trace the spatial distribution of the tails and infer the dust and gas masses from the measured far-infrared 250 $\mu$m and HI flux densities. Dust-to-gas mass ratios (DGRs) in the tails are analysed as a function of the galaxy mass, metallicity, and dust temperature. Along the stripped component, the dust distribution closely follows the HI and H$\alpha$ emitting gas, all extending beyond the optical disc. In these regions, the DGRs are $2.0\pm0.6\times10^{-3}$, $0.7\pm0.1\times10^{-3}$, and $0.4\pm0.03\times10^{-3}$, for NGC 4330, NGC 4522, and NGC 4654, respectively, i.e. up to a factor of 15 less than the values measured in the main body of nearby galaxies. We also find a negative trend in the DGR as a function of the metallicity that can be explained in terms of a dust component more centrally concentrated in more metal-rich systems. Together with the finding that the stripped dust is cold, $T_{d} \lesssim 25\, K$, our results support an outside-in stripping scenario of the galaxy interstellar medium. This study shows that ram pressure stripping is a key mechanism in the building up of the Virgo intra-cluster component injecting dust grains into the ICM, thus contributing to its metal enrichment., Comment: 15 pages, 7 images, 4 tables. Accepted on A\&A
Published: 2020
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3. Astronomy & Astrophysics ALMA captures feeding and feedback from the active galactic nucleus in NGC 613

Author: Audibert, A., Combes, F., Garcia-Burillo, S., Hunt, L., Eckart, A., Aalto, S., Casasola, V., Boone, F., Krips, M., Viti, S., Muller, S., Dasyra, K., Van Der Werf, P., Martin, S., Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Physikalisches Institut [Köln], Universität zu Köln = University of Cologne, Chalmers University of Technology [Göteborg], INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics and Astronomy [UCL London], University College of London [London] (UCL), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Leiden Observatory [Leiden], Universiteit Leiden, Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO), European Southern Observatory (ESO)-National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Universität zu Köln, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Universiteit Leiden [Leiden]
Subjects: ISM: jets and outflows, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, submillimeter: ISM, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, galaxies: individual: NGC 613
Abstract: International audience; We report ALMA observations of CO(3-2) emission in the Seyfert/nuclear starburst galaxy NGC 613, at a spatial resolution of 17 pc, as part of our NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA) sample. Our aim is to investigate the morphology and dynamics of the gas inside the central kiloparsec, and to probe nuclear fueling and feedback phenomena. The morphology of CO(3-2) line emission reveals a two-arm trailing nuclear spiral at r 100 pc and a circumnuclear ring at a radius of ∼350 pc that is coincident with the star-forming ring seen in the optical images. Also, we find evidence for a filamentary structure connecting the ring and the nuclear spiral. The ring reveals two breaks into two winding spiral arms corresponding to the dust lanes in the optical images. The molecular gas in the galaxy disk is in a remarkably regular rotation, however the kinematics in the nuclear region are very skewed. The nuclear spectrum of CO and dense gas tracers HCN(4-3), HCO + (4-3), and CS(7-6) show broad wings up to ±300 km s −1 , associated with a molecular outflow emanating from the nucleus (r ∼ 25 pc). We derive a molecular outflow mass M out = 2 × 10 6 M and a mass outflow rate ofṀ out = 27 M yr −1. The molecular outflow energetics exceed the values predicted by AGN feedback models: the kinetic power of the outflow corresponds to P K,out = 20%L AGN and the momentum rate isṀ out v ∼ 400L AGN /c. The outflow is mainly boosted by the AGN through entrainment by the radio jet, but given the weak nuclear activity of NGC 613, we might be witnessing a fossil outflow resulting from a previously strong AGN that has now faded. Furthermore, the nuclear trailing spiral observed in CO emission is inside the inner Lindblad resonance ring of the bar. We compute the gravitational torques exerted in the gas to estimate the efficiency of the angular momentum exchange. The gravity torques are negative from 25 to 100 pc and the gas loses its angular momentum in a rotation period, providing evidence for a highly efficient inflow towards the center. This phenomenon shows that the massive central black hole has significant dynamical influence on the gas, triggering the inflowing of molecular gas to feed the black hole.
Published: 2019
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4. SIGNALS: I. Survey description

Author: Roberto Cid Fernandes, M. Girard, A. Luiz de Amorim, I. Millan, Martin Bureau, P. Amram, Eric W. Pellegrini, Gilles Joncas, Anne Pellerin, Francoise Combes, Hugo Martel, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Dimitrios A. Gouliermis, B. Mazzilli-Ciraulo, Thomas Martin, Jorge Iglesias-Páramo, Christophe Morisset, Andreea Petric, S. Duarte Puertas, Marianne Takamiya, Rieko Momose, T. Ruiz Lara, Pauline Barmby, A. F. McLeod, I-Ting Ho, Fumi Egusa, Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, Ralf S. Klessen, Benoît Epinat, Mercedes Mollá, Angela Adamo, C. Robert, Isabel Pérez, Alexandre Alarie, A. K. Pati, Alessandro Boselli, Laurent Chemin, Grazyna Stasinska, L. Sánchez-Menguiano, Lijie Liu, Simon Prunet, Zacharie Sie Kam, Victor F. Ksoll, Kathryn Grasha, Clare Higgs, J. D. Lyman, Q. Liu, L. Della Bruna, Henri Plana, I. Moumen, N. Vale Asari, V. Gómez Llanos, Daniel Rahner, Hsi-An Pan, Fabio Bresolin, Anne-Laure Melchior, Laurent Drissen, José M. Vílchez, Robert C. Kennicutt, Kristine Spekkens, C. Crowder, R. P. Martin, Sophia Lianou, P. Karera, Génétique moléculaire, génomique, microbiologie (GMGM), Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), D´epartement de Physique, de G´enie Physique et d'Optique and Observatoire du mont M´egantic, Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT), National Research Council of Canada (NRC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-University of Hawai'i [Honolulu] (UH), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Harvard University-Smithsonian Institution, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory (CAL), Columbia University [New York], Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Département de Physique [Montréal], Université de Montréal (UdeM), Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Investigation Clinique 1432 (Dijon) - Module Plurithématique : Périnatalité Cancérologie Handicap et Ophtalmologie (CIC-P803), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Direction Générale de l'Organisation des Soins (DGOS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Laboratorio de Astrofísica Teórica e Observacional, Universidade Estadual De Santa Cruz [Brazil] (UESC), Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH (UMR_8102)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Harvard University [Cambridge]-Smithsonian Institution, Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), ILL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Canada Foundation for Innovation, National Research Council of Canada, Fonds de la Recherche en Sante du Québec, Newton Fund, Université Laval, Smithsonian Institution-Harvard University [Cambridge], Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Montréal [Montréal], Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Direction Générale de l'Organisation des Soins (DGOS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC)
Subjects: Physics, HII regions, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Star formation, Library science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, surveys, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: star formation, 0103 physical sciences, H II regions, star formation [galaxies], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract: SIGNALS, the Star formation, Ionized Gas, and Nebular Abundances Legacy Survey, is a large observing programme designed to investigate massive star formation and HII regions in a sample of local extended galaxies. The programme will use the imaging Fourier transform spectrograph SITELLE at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Over 355 h (54.7 nights) have been allocated beginning in fall 2018 for eight consecutive semesters. Once completed, SIGNALS will provide a statistically reliable laboratory to investigate massive star formation, including over 50 000 resolved HII regions: the largest, most complete, and homogeneous data base of spectroscopically and spatially resolved extragalactic HII regions ever assembled. For each field observed, three datacubes covering the spectral bands of the filters SN1 (363386 nm), SN2 (482-513 nm), and SN3 (647-685 nm) are gathered. The spectral resolution selected for each spectral band is 1000, 1000, and 5000, respectively. As defined, the project sample will facilitate the study of small-scale nebular physics and many other phenomena linked to star formation at a mean spatial resolution of similar to 20 pc. This survey also has considerable legacy value for additional topics, including planetary nebulae, diffuse ionized gas, and supernova remnants. The purpose of this paper is to present a general outlook of the survey, notably the observing strategy, galaxy sample, and science requirements.© 2019 The Author(s).Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, This research was based on observations obtained at the CFHT, which is operated from the summit of Mauna Kea by the National Research Council of Canada, the Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France, and the University of Hawaii. The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role that the summit of Mauna Kea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community. The authors are most grateful to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain. The observations were obtained with SITELLE, a joint project between Universite Laval, ABB-Bomem, Universite deMontreal, and the CFHT, with funding support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Fonds de Recherche du Quebec -Nature et Technologies (FRQNT), and CFHT. The collaboration is grateful to the FRQNT, CFHT, the Canada Research Chair programme, the NSERC, the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet), the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB), the Royal Society and the Newton Fund via the award of a Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship (NAF\R1\180403), FAPESC, CNPq, FAPESP (2014/11156-4), FAPESB (7916/2015), and CONACyT (CB2015-254132).
Published: 2019
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5. Probing the merger history of red early-type galaxies with their faint stellar substructures

Author: Francoise Combes, L. Michel-Dansac, Eric Emsellem, Pierre-Alain Duc, Frédéric Bournaud, Brisa Mancillas, Marie Martig, Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg (ObAS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), CONACYT grant, CVU 420397, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France (CDF), and Collège de France (CdF)
Subjects: [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], FOS: Physical sciences, Scale (descriptive set theory), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, cD, Photometry (optics), Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, galaxies: interactions, Surface brightness, galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, Visibility, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Observational techniques, Astronomy and Astrophysics, galaxies: peculiar, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Early type, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: structure, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Several deep observations such as those carried out at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) have revealed prominent Low Surface Brightness (LSB) fine structures that change the apparent morphology of galaxies. Previous photometry surveys have developed observational techniques which exploit the diffuse light detected in the external regions of galaxies. In these studies the outer perturbations have been identified and classified like tidal tails, stellar streams, and shells. These structures are tracers of interacting and merging events and they keep a memory of the mass assembly of galaxies. Cosmological numerical simulations are needed to estimate their visibility time-scale (among other properties) in order to reconstruct the past merger history of galaxies. In the present work, we analyze a hydrodynamical cosmological simulation to build a comprehensive interpretation of the properties of fine structures. We make a census of several types of LSB fine structures by visual inspection of individual snapshots at various time. We reconstruct the evolution of the number of fine structures detected around an early-type galaxy and we compare with the merger history of the galaxy. We find that most of fine structures are associated with major and intermediate mass merger events. Their survival time scale ranges between 0.7 and 4 Gyr. Shells and streams remain visible for a longer time than tidal tails. These estimates of survival times provide clues to interpret the shape and frequency of fine structures observed in deep images in terms of mass assembly. We find that the detectability of stellar streams is the most sensitive to the surface brightness limit. We see 2-3 times more streams with a surface brightness cut of 33 mag arcsec$^{-2}$ than with 29 mag arcsec$^{-2}$. The detection of shells display a strong dependence on the projection angle., 16 pages, 14 figures, accepted in A&A (v2 after language editing)
Published: 2019
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6. A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) : V. properties of the ionised gas filament of M 87

Author: Francoise Combes, A. Longobardi, Joel Roediger, Matteo Fossati, Alessandro Boselli, P. Amram, Pierre-Alain Duc, Jonathan Braine, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Patrick Côté, Ming Sun, Paola Andreani, Paolo Serra, Gerhard Hensler, Henri Plana, Marc Sarzi, G. Consolandi, Laura Ferrarese, Giuseppe Gavazzi, Rubén Sánchez-Janssen, Ginevra Trinchieri, Eric Emsellem, Stephen Gwyn, Médéric Boquien, Eric W. Peng, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Department of Civil Engineering, Università degli Studi di Salerno = University of Salerno (UNISA), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China (MOA), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), FORMATION STELLAIRE 2019, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics, Conseil National de Recherches Canada (CNRC), Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT), National Research Council of Canada (NRC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-University of Hawai'i [Honolulu] (UH), Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Vienna [Vienna], Laboratorio de Astrofísica Teórica e Observacional, Universidade Estadual De Santa Cruz [Brazil] (UESC), Boselli, A, Fossati, M, Longobardi, A, Consolandi, G, Amram, P, Sun, M, Andreani, P, Boquien, M, Braine, J, Combes, F, Cote, P, Cuillandre, J, Duc, P, Emsellem, E, Ferrarese, L, Gavazzi, G, Gwyn, S, Hensler, G, Peng, E, Plana, H, Roediger, J, Sanchez-Janssen, R, Sarzi, M, Serra, P, Trinchieri, G, Università degli Studi di Salerno (UNISA), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), University of Salerno (UNISA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP)
Subjects: [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, galaxies: individual: M 87, Protein filament, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, galaxies: interactions, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Line (formation), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Velocity dispersion, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Virgo Cluster, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Galaxies: interaction, galaxies: clusters: general, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Elliptical galaxy, galaxies: clusters: individual: Virgo, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], galaxies: ISM
Abstract: We have observed the giant elliptical galaxy M87 during the Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Galaxy Evolution (VESTIGE), a blind narrow-band Halpha+[NII] imaging survey of the Virgo cluster carried out with MegaCam at the Canada French Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). The deep narrow-band image confirmed the presence of a filament of ionised gas extending up to ~ 3 kpc in the north-western direction and ~ 8 kpc to the south-east, with a couple of plumes of ionised gas, the weakest of which, at ~ 18 kpc from the nucleus, was previously unknown. The analysis of deep optical images taken from the NGVS survey confirms that this gas filament is associated with dust seen in absorption which is now detected up to ~ 2.4 kpc from the nucleus. We have also analysed the physical and kinematical properties of the ionised gas filament using deep IFU MUSE data covering the central 4.8 x 4.8 kpc^2 of the galaxy. The spectroscopic data confirms a perturbed kinematics of the ionised gas, with differences in velocity of ~ 700-800 km s^-1 on scales of < 1 kpc. The analysis of 2D diagnostic diagrams and the observed relationship between the shock-sensitive [OI]/Halpha line ratio and the velocity dispersion of the gas suggest that the gas is shock-ionised., Accepted for publication to Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2019
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7. PHIBSS2: survey design and z = 0.5 – 0.8 results

Author: Freundlich, J., Combes, F., Tacconi, L., Genzel, R., García-Burillo, S., Neri, R., Contini, T., Bolatto, A., Lilly, S., Salomé, P., Bicalho, I., Boissier, J., Boone, F., Bouché, N., Bournaud, F., Burkert, A., Carollo, M., Cooper, M., Cox, P., Feruglio, C., Schreiber, N, Juneau, S., Lippa, M., Lutz, D., Naab, T., Renzini, A., Saintonge, A., Sternberg, A., Walter, F., Weiner, B., Weiß, A., Wuyts, S., Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN), oan, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Astronomy [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, AUTRES, Biologie et écologie tropicale et méditerranéenne [2007-2010] (BETM), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Nanotechnologies Nanosystèmes (LN2 ), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS)-École supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon (CPE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institute for Astronomy [Zürich], Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Universitätssternwarte der Ludwig-Maximiliansuniversität, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Institut of Physics - Riga, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Steward observatory, University of Arizona, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon (CPE)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatorio Astronomico Nacional [Madrid] (OAN), Instituto Geografico Nacional (IGN), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Interactions Hôtes-Pathogènes-Environnements (IHPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Innovation Technologique (3IT), Université de Sherbrooke [Sherbrooke], Ludwig-Maximiliansuniversität, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), University of São Paulo, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (OAR), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie (VAW), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Biologie et écologie tropicale et méditerranéenne (BETM), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Nanotechnologies Nanosystèmes (LN2), Université de Sherbrooke [Sherbrooke]-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon (CPE)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), and Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
Subjects: [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: International audience; Following the success of the Plateau de Bure high-z Blue Sequence Survey (PHIBSS), we present the PHIBSS2 legacy program, a survey of the molecular gas properties of star-forming galaxies on and around the star-formation main sequence (MS) at different redshifts using IRAM's NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA). This survey significantly extends the existing sample of star-forming galaxies with CO molecular gas measurements, probing the peak epoch of star formation (z = 1 − 1.6) as well as its building-up (z = 2 − 3) and winding-down (z = 0.5 − 0.8) phases. The targets are drawn from the well-studied GOODS, COSMOS, and AEGIS cosmological deep fields and uniformly sample the MS in the stellar mass (M)-star formation rate (SFR) plane with log(M /M) = 10 − 11.8 and SFR = 3.5 − 500 M yr −1 without morphological selection, thus providing a statistically meaningful census of star-forming galaxies at different epochs. We describe the survey strategy and sample selection before focusing on the results obtained at redshift z = 0.5 − 0.8, where we report 60 CO(2-1) detections out of 61 targets. We determine molecular gas masses between 2 × 10 9 and 5 × 10 10 M and separately obtain disc sizes and bulge-to-total (B/T) luminosity ratios from HST I-band images. The median molecular gas-to-stellar mass ratio µ gas = 0.28 ± 0.04, gas fraction f gas = 0.22 ± 0.02, and depletion time t depl = 0.84 ± 0.07 Gyr as well as their dependence with stellar mass and offset from the MS follow published scaling relations for a much larger sample of galaxies spanning a significantly wider range of redshifts, the cosmic evolution of the SFR being mainly driven by that of the molecular gas fraction. The galaxy-averaged molecular Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) relation between molecular gas and SFR surface densities is strikingly linear, pointing towards similar star formation timescales within galaxies at any given epoch. In terms of morphology, the molecular gas content, the SFR, the disc stellar mass, and the disc molecular gas fraction do not seem to correlate with B/T and the stellar surface density, which suggests an ongoing supply of fresh molecular gas to compensate for the build-up of the bulge. Our measurements do not yield any significant variation of the depletion time with B/T and hence no strong evidence for morphological quenching within the scatter of the MS.
Published: 2019
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8. Ubiquitous cold and massive filaments in cool core clusters

Author: Megan Donahue, Pierre Guillard, F. L. Polles, A. N. Vantyghem, Francoise Combes, Grant R. Tremblay, Yohan Dubois, Alastair C. Edge, Stephen Hamer, Matthew D. Lehnert, V. Olivares, Gary J. Ferland, Tom Rose, P. Salomé, Helen Russell, B. Godard, Rebecca E. A. Canning, Brian R. McNamara, Sébastien Peirani, G. Pineau des Forêts, R. S. Beckmann, A. C. Fabian, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), University of Oxford [Oxford], University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System, Department of Physics, University of Wales, Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Oxford, and ANR-16-CE31-0011,LYRICS,Le cycle du gaz autour des galaxies : origine et conditions physiques des flots de gaz froid(2016)
Subjects: Physics, Nebula, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Turbulence, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Escape velocity, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Submillimeter Array, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Gravitational potential, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, Cluster (physics), Millimeter, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: Multi-phase filamentary structures around Brightest Cluster Galaxies are likely a key step of AGN-feedback. We observed molecular gas in 3 cool cluster cores: Centaurus, Abell S1101, and RXJ1539.5 and gathered ALMA and MUSE data for 12 other clusters. Those observations show clumpy, massive and long, 3--25 kpc, molecular filaments, preferentially located around the radio bubbles inflated by the AGN (Active Galactic Nucleus). Two objects show nuclear molecular disks. The optical nebula is certainly tracing the warm envelopes of cold molecular filaments. Surprisingly, the radial profile of the H$\alpha$/CO flux ratio is roughly constant for most of the objects, suggesting that (i) between 1.2 to 7 times more cold gas could be present and (ii) local processes must be responsible for the excitation. Projected velocities are between 100--400 km s$^{-1}$, with disturbed kinematics and sometimes coherent gradients. This is likely due to the mixing in projection of several thin unresolved filaments. The velocity fields may be stirred by turbulence induced by bubbles, jets or merger-induced sloshing. Velocity and dispersions are low, below the escape velocity. Cold clouds should eventually fall back and fuel the AGN. We compare the filament's radial extent, r$_{fil}$, with the region where the X-ray gas can become thermally unstable. The filaments are always inside the low-entropy and short cooling time region, where t$_{cool}$/t$_{ff}$, Comment: 33 Pages, 17 Figures, submitted to A&A
Published: 2019
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9. A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE).I. Introduction to the Survey

Author: Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes, T. Burdullis, Bernd Vollmer, Kanoa Withington, Stephanie Cote, Joel Roediger, Carmelle Robert, Stephen Gwyn, Michael L. Balogh, Simon Prunet, William E. Harris, A. Longobardi, M. Marcelin, J. A. Gómez-López, P. Salome, D. Russeil, Francoise Combes, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Patrick Côté, Médéric Boquien, Jamilah Taylor, Benoît Epinat, B. Mahoney, David R. Patton, Thierry Contini, Eric W. Peng, Matteo Fossati, Rubén Sánchez-Janssen, Ming Sun, N. Manset, Yannick Roehlly, F. Boulanger, Samuel Boissier, Laura Ferrarese, Alan W. McConnachie, Baerbel Koribalski, Daniel Devost, Kristine Spekkens, Julio F. Navarro, Paolo Serra, Michele Fumagalli, Andreea Petric, Nikos Prantzos, Pauline Barmby, P. Amram, Gerhard Hensler, Denis Burgarella, Henri Plana, V. Buat, Herve Wozniak, G. Consolandi, Laurent Drissen, Stephanie Tonnesen, Sarah Gallagher, Luca Cortese, Giuseppe Gavazzi, Jon Willis, Jonathan Braine, Alessandro Boselli, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics, Conseil National de Recherches Canada (CNRC), Observatories [Carnegie Institution], Carnegie Institution for Science, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Department of Civil Engineering, Università degli Studi di Salerno = University of Salerno (UNISA), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Harvard University-Smithsonian Institution, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), FORMATION STELLAIRE 2018, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT), National Research Council of Canada (NRC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-University of Hawai'i [Honolulu] (UH), D´epartement de Physique, de G´enie Physique et d'Optique and Observatoire du mont M´egantic, Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval), Department of Philosophy [University of Memphis], University of Memphis, CHU Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-CHU Grenoble, University of Vienna [Vienna], Australia Telescope National Facility, Australian National University (ANU), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Peterborough], Trent University, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert Giffard (CRULRG), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China (MOA), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Departments of Medicine, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Programme National de Cosmologie and Galaxies' (PNCG) funded by CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP, CEA and CNES, France, Carnegie Institution for Science [Washington], Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB), Università degli Studi di Salerno (UNISA), Smithsonian Institution-Harvard University [Cambridge], Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Boselli, A, Fossati, M, Ferrarese, L, Boissier, S, Consolandi, G, Longobardi, A, Amram, P, Balogh, M, Barmby, P, Boquien, M, Boulanger, F, Braine, J, Buat, V, Burgarella, D, Combes, F, Contini, T, Cortese, L, Cote, P, Cote, S, Cuillandre, J, Drissen, L, Epinat, B, Fumagalli, M, Gallagher, S, Gavazzi, G, Gomez-Lopez, J, Gwyn, S, Harris, W, Hensler, G, Koribalski, B, Marcelin, M, Mcconnachie, A, Miville-Deschenes, M, Navarro, J, Patton, D, Peng, E, Plana, H, Prantzos, N, Robert, C, Roediger, J, Roehlly, Y, Russeil, D, Salome, P, Sanchez-Janssen, R, Serra, P, Spekkens, K, Sun, M, Taylor, J, Tonnesen, S, Vollmer, B, Willis, J, Wozniak, H, Burdullis, T, Devost, D, Mahoney, B, Manset, N, Petric, A, Prunet, S, Withington, K, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), University of Salerno (UNISA), Harvard University [Cambridge]-Smithsonian Institution, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Laval, Geography Department, University of Dundee, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), McGill University, Telescope CFH (TCFH), and Telescope CFH
Subjects: Stellar mass, clusters: individual: Virgo [Galaxies], Milky Way, FOS: Physical sciences, interactions [Galaxies], Astrophysics, clusters: general [Galaxies], 01 natural sciences, ISM [Galaxies], 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, Emission spectrum, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Galaxies: evolution, Astronomy and Astrophysics, evolution [Galaxies], Galaxies: clusters: individual: Virgo, Virgo Cluster, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, Galaxies: interactions, Galaxies: ISM, [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Galaxies: interaction, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Galaxies: clusters: general, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: The Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) is a blind narrow-band Halpha+[NII] imaging survey carried out with MegaCam at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The survey covers the whole Virgo cluster region from its core to one virial radius (104 deg^2). The sensitivity of the survey is of f(Halpha) ~ 4 x 10^-17 erg sec-1 cm^-2 (5 sigma detection limit) for point sources and Sigma (Halpha) ~ 2 x 10^-18 erg sec^-1 cm^-2 arcsec^-2 (1 sigma detection limit at 3 arcsec resolution) for extended sources, making VESTIGE the deepest and largest blind narrow-band survey of a nearby cluster. This paper presents the survey in all its technical aspects, including the survey design, the observing strategy, the achieved sensitivity in both the narrow-band Halpha+[NII] and in the broad-band r filter used for the stellar continuum subtraction, the data reduction, calibration, and products, as well as its status after the first observing semester. We briefly describe the Halpha properties of galaxies located in a 4x1 deg^2 strip in the core of the cluster north of M87, where several extended tails of ionised gas are detected. This paper also lists the main scientific motivations of VESTIGE, which include the study of the effects of the environment on galaxy evolution, the fate of the stripped gas in cluster objects, the star formation process in nearby galaxies of different type and stellar mass, the determination of the Halpha luminosity function and of the Halpha scaling relations down to ~ 10^6 Mo stellar mass objects, and the reconstruction of the dynamical structure of the Virgo cluster. This unique set of data will also be used to study the HII luminosity function in hundreds of galaxies, the diffuse Halpha+[NII] emission of the Milky Way at high Galactic latitude, and the properties of emission line galaxies at high redshift., Accepted for publication on Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2018
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10. French SKA White Book - The French Community towards the Square Kilometre Array

Author: Acero, F., T Acquaviva, J., Adam, R., Aghanim, N., Allen, Mark G., Alves, M., Ammanouil, R., Ansari, R., Araudo, A., Armengaud, E., Ascaso, B., Athanassaoula, E., Aubert, D., Babak, S., Bacmann, A., Banday, A., Barriere, K., Bellossi, F., P Bernard, J., Bernardini, M. G., Bethermin, M., Blanc, E., Blanchet, L., Bobin, J., Samuel Boissier, Boisson, C., Boselli, A., Bosma, A., Bosse, S., Bottinelli, S., Boulanger, F., Remy Boyer, Bracco, A., Briand, C., Bucher, M., Buat, V., Cambresy, L., Caillat, M., M Casandjian, J., Caux, E., Celestin, S., Cerruti, M., Charlot, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chaty, S., Christensen, N., Ciesla, L., Clerc, N., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Ismaël Cognard, Combes, F., Comis, B., Corbel, S., Cordier, B., Coriat, M., Courtin, R., Courtois, H., Da Silva, B., Emanuele Daddi, Richard Dallier, Dartois, E., Demyk, K., M Denis, J., Denis, L., Djannati-Atai, A., F Donati, J., Douspis, M., Driel, W., El Korso, M. N., Falgarone, E., Fantina, A. F., Farges, T., Anthony Ferrari, Ferrari, C., Ferrière, K., Flamary, R., Gac, N., Gauffre, S., Genova, F., Girard, J., Grenier, I., Jean-Mathias Grießmeier, Guillard, P., Lucas Guillemot, Gulminelli, F., Gusdorf, A., Habart, E., Hammer, F., Hennebelle, P., Fabrice Herpin, Hervet, O., Hughes, A., Ilbert, O., Janvier, M., Eric Josselin, Julier, A., Lachaud, C., Guilaine Lagache, Lallement, R., Lambert, S., Lamy, L., Pascal Larzabal, Lavaux, G., Le Bertre, T., Le Fèvre, O., Le Tiec, A., Lefloch, B., Lehnert, M., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Levrier, F., Limousin, M., Lis, D., López-Sepulcre, A., Macías-Pérez, J., Magneville, C., Marcowith, A., Jérôme Margueron, Marquette, G., Marshall, D., Martin, L., Mary, D., Masson, S., Maurogordato, S., Mazauric, C., Mellier, Y., A Miville-Deschênes, M., Montier, L., Mottez, F., Mourard, D., Nesvadba, N., F Nezan, J., Noterdaeme, P., Novak, J., Ocvirk, P., Oertel, M., Xavier Olive, Ollier, V., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Pandey-Pommier, M., Pennec, Y., Perault, M., Peroux, C., Petit, P., Petri, J., Petiteau, A., Pety, J., Pratt, G. W., Puech, M., Benjamin Quertier, Erwan Raffin, Rakotozafy Harison, S., Rawson, S., Renaud, M., Benoît Revenu, Richard, C., Richard, J., Rincon, F., Ristorcelli, I., Rodriguez, J., Schultheis, M., Schimd, C., Semelin, B., Sol, H., L Starck, J., Michel Tagger, Tasse, C., Gilles Theureau, Torchinsky, S., Vastel, C., Vergani, S. D., Verstraete, L., Vigouroux, X., Vilmer, N., P Vilotte, J., Webb, N., Ysard, N., Philippe Zarka, Mathieu Langer, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The MITRE corporation, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire sur les Interactions Véhicules-Infrastructure-Conducteurs (LIVIC), Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (LCPC)-Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité (INRETS), Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Laboratoire des Bio-Indicateurs Actuels et Fossiles (BIAF), Université d'Angers (UA), Département d'Electronique, des Détecteurs et d'Informatique (ex SEDI) (DEDI), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Observatories [Carnegie Institution], Carnegie Institution for Science [Washington], Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH (UMR_8102)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189 (CRIStAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille-Ecole Centrale de Lille, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - 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CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Carnegie Institution for Science, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), Laboratoire Hubert Curien (LHC), Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Thales Alenia Space [Toulouse] (TAS), THALES [France], Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), C. Ferrari, G. Lagache, S. Gauffre, G. Marquette, J.-M. Martin, B. Semelin, M. Alves, K. Ferrière, M.-A. Miville-Deschenes, L. Montier, E. Josselin, N. Vilmer, P. Zarka, S. Corbel, S. Vergani, S. Lambert, G. Theureau, S. Bosse, A. Ferrari, and Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM]
Abstract: Editor in chief: C. Ferrari; Editors: M. Alves, S. Bosse, S. Corbel, A. Ferrari, K. Ferri\`ere, S. Gauffre, E. Josselin, G. Lagache, S. Lambert, G. Marquette, J.-M. Martin, M.-A. Miville-Desch\^enes, L. Montier, B. Semelin, G. Theureau, S. Vergani, N. Vilmer, P. Zarka; Original file with high resolution figures at SKA-France link: https://ska-france.oca.eu/images/SKA-France-Media/FWB_051017.pdf; International audience; The "Square Kilometre Array" (SKA) is a large international radio telescope project characterised, as suggested by its name, by a total collecting area of approximately one square kilometre, and consisting of several interferometric arrays to observe at metric and centimetric wavelengths. The deployment of the SKA will take place in two sites, in South Africa and Australia, and in two successive phases. From its Phase 1, the SKA will be one of the most formidable scientific machines ever deployed by mankind, and by far the most impressive in terms of data throughput and required computing power. With the participation of almost 200 authors from forty research institutes and six private companies, the publication of this French SKA white paper illustrates the strong involvement in the SKA project of the French astronomical community and of a rapidly growing number of major scientific and technological players in the fields of Big Data, high performance computing, energy production and storage, as well as system integration.
Published: 2018
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11. Polar-ring galaxies: the SDSS view on the symbiotic galaxies

Author: Francoise Combes, V. P. Reshetnikov, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: [PHYS]Physics [physics], Physics, Luminous infrared galaxy, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Radio galaxy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Galaxy merger, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Peculiar galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Galaxy group, Elliptical galaxy, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Disc, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Lenticular galaxy, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Polar-ring galaxies are multi-spin systems, showing star formation in a blue late-type component, perpendicular to a red early-type one, revealing how galaxy formation can sometimes occur in successive steps. We perform two-dimensional decomposition in the $g$, $r$, $i$ bandpasses of 50 polar-ring galaxies (PRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Each object was fit with a S\'ersic host galaxy and a S\'ersic ring. Our general results are: (i) The central (host) galaxies of the PRGs are non-dwarf sub-$L^{\ast}$ galaxies with colors typical for early-type galaxies. (ii) Polar structures in our sample are, on average, fainter and bluer than their host galaxies. (iii) In most galaxies, the stellar mass M$_*$ of the polar component is not negligible in comparison with that of the host. (iv) The distributions of the host galaxies on the size -- luminosity and Kormendy diagrams are shifted by $\sim 1^m$ to fainter magnitudes in comparison with E/S0 galaxies. It means that the PRGs hosts are more similar to quenched disks than to ordinary early-type galaxies. (v) All the PRGs in our sample are detected in mid-infrared by WISE, and we derive from the 22$\mu$m luminosity their star formation rate (SFR). Their SFR/M$_*$ ratio is larger than for the early-type galaxy sample of Atlas$^{\rm 3D}$, showing that the star forming disk brings a significant contribution to the new stars. Globally, PRGs appear frequently on the green valley in the mass-color diagram, revealing the symbiotic character between a red-sequence host and a blue cloud ring., Comment: 8 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2015
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12. Inefficient jet-induced star formation in Centaurus A: High resolution ALMA observations of the northern filaments

Author: Quentin Salomé, Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes, Stephen Hamer, Philippe Salomé, Francoise Combes, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ANR-16-CE31-0011,LYRICS,Le cycle du gaz autour des galaxies : origine et conditions physiques des flots de gaz froid(2016)
Subjects: astro-ph.GA, Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Centaurus A, FOS: Physical sciences, galaxies:evolution, radio lines:galaxies, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Submillimeter Array, 12. Responsible consumption, 0103 physical sciences, galaxies: interactions, methods:data analysis, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, radio lines: galaxies, galaxies:star formation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Molecular cloud, Velocity dispersion, galaxies:individual:Centaurus A, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Radius, galaxies:interactions, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, methods: data analysis, Galaxy, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: star formation, galaxies: individual: Centaurus A, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], addenda, errata
Abstract: NGC 5128 is one of the best targets to study AGN-feedback in the local Universe. At 13.5 kpc from the galaxy, optical filaments with recent star formation lie along the radio-jet direction. It is a testbed region for positive feedback (jet-induced star formation). APEX revealed strong CO emission in star-forming regions but also in regions with no detected tracers of star formation. When observed, star formation appears to be inefficient compared to the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation. We used ALMA to map the 12CO(1-0) emission all along the filaments at 1.3"~ 23.8 pc resolution. The CO emission is clumpy and distributed in two main structures: (i) the Horseshoe complex, outside the HI cloud, where gas is mostly excited by shocks and no star formation is observed; (ii) the Vertical filament, at the edge of the HI shell, which is a region of moderate star formation. We identified 140 molecular clouds. A statistical study reveals that they have very similar physical properties that in the inner Milky Way. However, the range of radius available with the present observations does not enable to investigate whether the clouds follow the Larson relation or not. The large virial parameter of the clouds suggests that gravity is not dominant. Finally, the total energy injection in the filaments is of the same order as in the inner part of the Milky Way. The strong CO emission detected in the filaments is an indication that the energy injected by the jet acts positively in the formation of dense molecular gas. The relatively high virial parameter of the molecular clouds suggests that the injected kinetic energy is too strong for star formation to be efficient. This is particularly the case in the Horseshoe complex where the virial parameter is the largest and where strong CO is detected with no associated star formation. This is the first evidence of inefficient AGN positive feedback., A&A in press (language editing, fixed typo)
Published: 2017
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13. A 13 CO Detection in a Brightest Cluster Galaxy

Author: Alastair C. Edge, P. Salomé, M. T. Hogan, Francoise Combes, Andrew C. Fabian, Paul Nulsen, A. N. Vantyghem, Helen Russell, Brian R. McNamara, Michael McDonald, Department of Physics, University of Wales, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space (mathematics), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 01 natural sciences, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, Brightest cluster galaxy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: We present ALMA Cycle 4 observations of CO(1-0), CO(3-2), and $^{13}$CO(3-2) line emission in the brightest cluster galaxy of RXJ0821+0752. This is one of the first detections of $^{13}$CO line emission in a galaxy cluster. Half of the CO(3-2) line emission originates from two clumps of molecular gas that are spatially offset from the galactic center. These clumps are surrounded by diffuse emission that extends $8~{\rm kpc}$ in length. The detected $^{13}$CO emission is confined entirely to the two bright clumps, with any emission outside of this region lying below our detection threshold. Two distinct velocity components with similar integrated fluxes are detected in the $^{12}$CO spectra. The narrower component ($60~{\rm km}~{\rm s}^{-1}$ FWHM) is consistent in both velocity centroid and linewidth with $^{13}$CO(3-2) emission, while the broader ($130-160~{\rm km}~{\rm s}^{-1}$), slightly blueshifted wing has no associated $^{13}$CO(3-2) emission. A simple local thermodynamic model indicates that the $^{13}$CO emission traces $2.1\times 10^{9}~{\rm M}_\odot$ of molecular gas. Isolating the $^{12}$CO velocity component that accompanies the $^{13}$CO emission yields a CO-to-H$_2$ conversion factor of $\alpha_{\rm CO}=2.3~{\rm M}_{\odot}~({\rm K~km~s^{-1}})^{-1}$, which is a factor of two lower than the Galactic value. Adopting the Galactic CO-to-H$_2$ conversion factor in brightest cluster galaxies may therefore overestimate their molecular gas masses by a factor of two. This is within the object-to-object scatter from extragalactic sources, so calibrations in a larger sample of clusters are necessary in order to confirm a sub-Galactic conversion factor., Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted by ApJ
Published: 2017
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14. Detection of CH + , SH + , and their 13 C- and 34 S-isotopologues toward PKS 1830−211

Author: Tommy Wiklind, Karl M. Menten, Susanne Aalto, S. J. Curran, Martin Zwaan, Sergio Martín, Francoise Combes, Maryvonne Gerin, Holger S. P. Müller, Evelyne Roueff, M. Guelin, Edith Falgarone, Sebastien Muller, John H. Black, Alexandre Beelen, Carsten Henkel, Onsala Space Observatory (OSO), Chalmers University of Technology [Göteborg], Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut für Physik (Institut für Physik), Universität Potsdam, European Southern Observatory [Santiago] (ESO), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO), European Southern Observatory (ESO)-National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH (UMR_8102)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics [CUA], Catholic University of America, General Electric Medical Systems [Buc] (GE Healthcare), General Electric Medical Systems, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Laboratoire de Biophotonique et Pharmacologie - UMR 7213 (LBP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Réseau nanophotonique et optique, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Onsala Space Observatory, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam, and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES)
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Line-of-sight, Analytical chemistry, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Radius, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Interstellar medium, Stellar nucleosynthesis, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, Isotopologue, Absorption (chemistry), 010306 general physics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: The z=0.89 molecular absorber toward PKS1830-211 provides us with the opportunity to probe the chemical and physical properties of the interstellar medium in the disk of a galaxy at a look-back time of half the present age of the Universe. Recent ALMA observations of hydrides have unveiled the multi-phase composition of this source's interstellar medium along two absorbing sightlines. Here, we report ALMA observations of CH+ and SH+, and of their 13C- and 34S- isotopologues, as potential tracers of energetic processes in the interstellar medium. CH+ and 13CH+ are detected toward both images of PKS1830-211, CH+ showing the deepest and broadest absorption among all species observed so far. The [CH+]/[13CH+] abundance ratio is ~100 in the south-west line of sight. [...] Toward the north-east image, we find an even larger value of [CH+]/[13CH+], 146 +/- 43, although with a large uncertainty. This sightline intercepts the absorber at a larger galactocentric radius than the southwestern one, where material might be less processed in stellar nucleosynthesis. In contrast to CH+ and its 13C isotopologue, SH+ and 34SH+ are only detected on the south-west sightline. These are the first detections of extragalactic SH+ and interstellar 34SH+. The spectroscopic parameters of SH+ are reevaluated and improved rest frequencies of 34SH+ are obtained. The [CH+]/[SH+] column density ratios show a large difference between the two lines of sight: ~25 and >600 toward the SW and NE image, respectively. We are not able to shed light on the formation process of CH+ and SH+ with these data, but the differences in the two sightlines toward PKS1830-211 suggest that their absorptions arise from gas with molecular fraction gtrsim 10%, with SH+ tracing significantly higher molecular fractions than CH+., accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2017
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15. PLATO as it is: a legacy mission for Galactic archaeology

Author: A. Miglio, C. Chiappini, B. Mosser, G. R. Davies, K. Freeman, L. Girardi, P. Jofré, D. Kawata, B. M. Rendle, M. Valentini, L. Casagrande, W. J. Chaplin, G. Gilmore, K. Hawkins, B. Holl, T. Appourchaux, K. Belkacem, D. Bossini, K. Brogaard, M.‐J. Goupil, J. Montalbán, A. Noels, F. Anders, T. Rodrigues, G. Piotto, D. Pollacco, H. Rauer, C. Allende Prieto, P. P. Avelino, C. Babusiaux, C. Barban, B. Barbuy, S. Basu, F. Baudin, O. Benomar, O. Bienaymé, J. Binney, J. Bland‐Hawthorn, A. Bressan, C. Cacciari, T. L. Campante, S. Cassisi, J. Christensen‐Dalsgaard, F. Combes, O. Creevey, M. S. Cunha, R. S. Jong, P. Laverny, S. Degl'Innocenti, S. Deheuvels, É. Depagne, J. Ridder, P. Di Matteo, M. P. Di Mauro, M.‐A. Dupret, P. Eggenberger, Y. Elsworth, B. Famaey, S. Feltzing, R. A. García, O. Gerhard, B. K. Gibson, L. Gizon, M. Haywood, R. Handberg, U. Heiter, S. Hekker, D. Huber, R. Ibata, D. Katz, S. D. Kawaler, H. Kjeldsen, D. W. Kurtz, N. Lagarde, Y. Lebreton, M. N. Lund, S. R. Majewski, P. Marigo, M. Martig, S. Mathur, I. Minchev, T. Morel, S. Ortolani, M. H. Pinsonneault, B. Plez, P. G. Prada Moroni, D. Pricopi, A. Recio‐Blanco, C. Reylé, A. Robin, I. W. Roxburgh, M. Salaris, B. X. Santiago, R. Schiavon, A. Serenelli, S. Sharma, V. Silva Aguirre, C. Soubiran, M. Steinmetz, D. Stello, K. G. Strassmeier, P. Ventura, R. Ventura, N. A. Walton, C. C. Worley, Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège], Université de Liège, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Aarhus], Aarhus University [Aarhus], School of Physics and Astronomy [Birmingham], University of Birmingham [Birmingham], Heckscher-Klinikum, Danish AsteroSeismology Centre (DASC), Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), Department of Astronomy [New Haven], Yale University [New Haven], Evolution et Modélisation des Bassins Sédimentaires (EMBS), Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (iSTeP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences [Modena], Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidade de Aveiro, Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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CNRS), Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Space Science Institute [Boulder] (SSI), Department of Astronomy (Ohio State University), Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysical Research Institute [Liverpool], Liverpool John Moore University (ljmu), Institute of Space Sciences [Barcelona] (ICE-CSIC), Spanish National Research Council [Madrid] (CSIC), Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), The University of Sydney, M2A 2017, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), Symbiose Marine (SM), Evolution Paris Seine, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DNRF106, The Danish National Research Foundation, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, PRIN INAF 2014 - CRA 1.05.01.94.05, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Programme National Cosmologie et Galaxies (CNRS/INSU, France), IF/00894/2012/, Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras, CNES Fellowship, 615604, ERC Consolidator (STARKEY), Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid, ESP2015-66134-R, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme, Swedish National Space Board, European Commission, DLR, FT1400147, Australian Research Council, NNX16AI09G, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, European Cooperation in Science and Technology, CH1188/2-1, DFG, CA16117, ChETEC COST Action, 10118, Villum Fonden, European Union FP7 program, 320360, ERC, UID/FIS/04434/2013, FCT, G1502, NYUAD Institute, Programme National de Physique Stellaire (PNPS), ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, Federal University of Sao Paulo (Unifesp), Université Paris-Saclay, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, University of Illinois System, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), Miglio A., Chiappini C., Mosser B., Davies G.R., Freeman K., Girardi L., Jofre P., Kawata D., Rendle B.M., Valentini M., Casagrande L., Chaplin W.J., Gilmore G., Hawkins K., Holl B., Appourchaux T., Belkacem K., Bossini D., Brogaard K., Goupil M.-J., Montalban J., Noels A., Anders F., Rodrigues T., Piotto G., Pollacco D., Rauer H., Prieto C.A., Avelino P.P., Babusiaux C., Barban C., Barbuy B., Basu S., Baudin F., Benomar O., Bienayme O., Binney J., Bland-Hawthorn J., Bressan A., Cacciari C., Campante T.L., Cassisi S., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Combes F., Creevey O., Cunha M.S., Jong R.S., Laverny P., Degl'Innocenti S., Deheuvels S., Depagne E., Ridder J., Matteo P.D., Mauro M.P.D., Dupret M.-A., Eggenberger P., Elsworth Y., Famaey B., Feltzing S., Garcia R.A., Gerhard O., Gibson B.K., Gizon L., Haywood M., Handberg R., Heiter U., Hekker S., Huber D., Ibata R., Katz D., Kawaler S.D., Kjeldsen H., Kurtz D.W., Lagarde N., Lebreton Y., Lund M.N., Majewski S.R., Marigo P., Martig M., Mathur S., Minchev I., Morel T., Ortolani S., Pinsonneault M.H., Plez B., Moroni P.G.P., Pricopi D., Recio-Blanco A., Reyle C., Robin A., Roxburgh I.W., Salaris M., Santiago B.X., Schiavon R., Serenelli A., Sharma S., Aguirre V.S., Soubiran C., Steinmetz M., Stello D., Strassmeier K.G., Ventura P., Ventura R., Walton N.A., Worley C.C., Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), and COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
Subjects: RED-GIANT STARS, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, COROT ASTEROSEISMOLOGY FIELDS, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, VELOCITY EXPERIMENT RAVE, Galaxy: structure, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, SUN-LIKE STAR, QC, QB, Physics, structure - stars: abundances - stars: fundamental parameters - stars: oscillations - surveys [Galaxy], Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, stars: fundamental parameters, stars: oscillations, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, SOLAR-LIKE OSCILLATIONS, THICK DISK, stars: abundances, Relation (database), DATA RELEASE, Milky Way, surveys, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, FOS: Physical sciences, MILKY-WAY DISK, F500, Kepler, Asteroseismology, ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Quality (philosophy), Galaxy: structure â stars: abundances â stars: fundamental parameters â stars: oscillations â surveys, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxy: structure – stars: abundances – stars: fundamental parameters – stars: oscillations – surveys, [PHYS.ASTR.SR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], Data science, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, COLD DARK-MATTER, Stars, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Stellar physics, Galaxy: structure â stars: abundances â stars: fundamental parameters â stars: oscillations â surveys, Galaxy: structure - stars: abundances - stars: fundamental parameters - stars: oscillations - surveys
Abstract: Deciphering the assembly history of the Milky Way is a formidable task, which becomes possible only if one can produce high-resolution chrono-chemo-kinematical maps of the Galaxy. Data from large-scale astrometric and spectroscopic surveys will soon provide us with a well-defined view of the current chemo-kinematical structure of the Milky Way, but will only enable a blurred view on the temporal sequence that led to the present-day Galaxy. As demonstrated by the (ongoing) exploitation of data from the pioneering photometric missions CoRoT, Kepler, and K2, asteroseismology provides the way forward: solar-like oscillating giants are excellent evolutionary clocks thanks to the availability of seismic constraints on their mass and to the tight age-initial-mass relation they adhere to. In this paper we identify five key outstanding questions relating to the formation and evolution of the Milky Way that will need precise and accurate ages for large samples of stars to be addressed, and we identify the requirements in terms of number of targets and the precision on the stellar properties that are needed to tackle such questions. By quantifying the asteroseismic yields expected from PLATO for red-giant stars, we demonstrate that these requirements are within the capabilities of the current instrument design, provided that observations are sufficiently long to identify the evolutionary state and allow robust and precise determination of acoustic-mode frequencies. This will allow us to harvest data of sufficient quality to reach a 10% precision in age. This is a fundamental pre-requisite to then reach the more ambitious goal of a similar level of accuracy, which will only be possible if we have to hand a careful appraisal of systematic uncertainties on age deriving from our limited understanding of stellar physics, a goal which conveniently falls within the main aims of PLATO's core science., 17 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomical Notes
Published: 2017
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16. Physical conditions of the molecular gas in metal-poor galaxies

Author: Leonardo Testi, Carsten Henkel, Axel Weiß, L. K. Hunt, Andreas Lundgren, Santiago García-Burillo, Karl M. Menten, Viviana Casasola, Roberto Maiolino, Paola Caselli, Francoise Combes, Hunt, LK [0000-0001-9162-2371], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Institut für Physik (Institut für Physik), Universität Potsdam, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Observatorio Astronomico Nacional [Madrid] (OAN), Instituto Geografico Nacional (IGN), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Roma (IASF-Roma), Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIFR), European Southern Observatory (ESO), ITA, University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, and Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid
Subjects: Mean kinetic temperature, FOS: Physical sciences, galaxies: starburst, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0103 physical sciences, Isotopologue, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Physics, radio lines: ISM, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galactic Center, Astronomy and Astrophysics, galaxies: dwarf, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, ISM: molecules, 3. Good health, Interstellar medium, Stars, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: star formation, Atomic carbon, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], galaxies: ISM, Carbon monoxide
Abstract: Studying the molecular component of the interstellar medium in metal-poor galaxies has been challenging because of the faintness of carbon monoxide emission, the most common proxy of H2. Here we present new detections of molecular gas at low metallicities, and assess the physical conditions in the gas through various CO transitions for 8 galaxies. For one, NGC 1140 (Z/Zsun ~ 0.3), two detections of 13CO isotopologues and atomic carbon, [CI](1-0), and an upper limit for HCN(1-0) are also reported. After correcting to a common beam size, we compared 12CO(2-1)/12CO(1-0) (R21) and 12CO(3-2)/12CO(1-0) (R31) line ratios of our sample with galaxies from the literature and find that only NGC 1140 shows extreme values (R21 ~ R31 ~ 2). Fitting physical models to the 12CO and 13CO emission in NGC 1140 suggests that the molecular gas is cool (kinetic temperature Tkin= $10^6$ cm$^{-3}$), with moderate CO column density (NCO ~ $10^{16}$ cm$^{-2}$) and low filling factor. Surprisingly, the [12CO]/[13CO] abundance ratio in NGC 1140 is very low (~ 8-20), lower even than the value of 24 found in the Galactic Center. The young age of the starburst in NGC 1140 precludes 13C enrichment from evolved intermediate-mass stars; instead we attribute the low ratio to charge-exchange reactions and fractionation, because of the enhanced efficiency of these processes in cool gas at moderate column densities. Fitting physical models to 12CO and [CI](1-0) emission in NGC 1140 gives an unusually low [12CO]/[12C] abundance ratio, suggesting that in this galaxy atomic carbon is at least 10 times more abundant than 12CO., 26 pages, 21 figures, 2 appendices, A&A, in press
Published: 2017
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17. High-redshift major mergers weakly enhance star formation

Author: Pierre-Alain Duc, Romain Teyssier, Curtis Struck, Eric Emsellem, Jeremy Fensch, Philippe Amram, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Florent Renaud, V. Perret, P. Di Matteo, Frédéric Bournaud, Oscar Agertz, Francoise Combes, Chanda J. Jog, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École supérieure d'ingénieurs et de techniciens pour l'agriculture (ESITPA), Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Lund Observatory, Lund University [Lund], Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), University of Zurich, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)
Subjects: 530 Physics, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy merger, 01 natural sciences, Peculiar galaxy, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, media_common, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Fragmentation (computing), Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, Universe, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 10231 Institute for Computational Science, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Galaxy mergers are believed to trigger strong starbursts. This is well assessed by observations in the local Universe. However the efficiency of this mechanism has poorly been tested so far for high redshift, actively star forming, galaxies. We present a suite of pc-resolution hydrodynamical numerical simulations to compare the star formation process along a merging sequence of high and low z galaxies, by varying the gas mass fraction between the two models. We show that, for the same orbit, high-redshift gas-rich mergers are less efficient than low-redshift ones at producing starbursts: the star formation rate excess induced by the merger and its duration are both around 10 times lower than in the low gas fraction case. The mechanisms that account for the star formation triggering at low redshift - the increased compressive turbulence, gas fragmentation, and central gas inflows - are only mildly, if not at all, enhanced for high gas fraction galaxy encounters. Furthermore, we show that the strong stellar feedback from the initially high star formation rate in high redshift galaxies does not prevent an increase of the star formation during the merger. Our results are consistent with the observed increase of the number of major mergers with increasing redshift being faster than the respective increase in the number of starburst galaxies., 17 pages, 15 figures, accepted for pubication in MNRAS
Published: 2017
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18. Molecular gas properties of a lensed star‐forming galaxy at z similar to 3.6: a case study

Author: Dessauges‐Zavadsky, M., Zamojski, M., Rujopakarn, W., Richard, J., Sklias, P., Schaerer, D., Combes, F., Ebeling, H., Rawle, T. D., Egami, E., Boone, F., Clement, B., Kneib, J. ‐P., Nyland, K., Walth, G., Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: International audience; We report on the galaxy MACSJ0032‐arc at z(CO) = 3.6314 discovered during the Herschel Lensing snapshot Survey of massive galaxy clusters, and strongly lensed by the cluster MACSJ0032.1+1808. The successful detections of its rest‐frame ultraviolet (UV), optical, far‐infrared (FIR), millimeter, and radio continua, and of its CO emission enable us to characterize, for the first time at such a high redshift, the stellar, dust, and molecular gas properties of a compact star‐forming galaxy with a size smaller than 2.5 kpc, a fairly low stellar mass of 4.8(‐1.0)(+0.5) x 10(9) M circle dot, and a moderate IR luminosity of 4.8(‐0.6)(+1.2) x 10(11) L circle dot. By combining the stretching effect of the lens with the high angular resolution imaging of the CO(10) line emission and the radio continuum at 5 GHz, we find that the bulk of the molecular gas mass and star formation seems to be spatially decoupled from the rest‐frame UV emission. About 90% of the total star formation rate is undetected at rest‐frame UV wavelengths because of severe obscuration by dust, but is seen through the thermal FIR dust emission and the radio synchrotron radiation. The observed CO(43) and CO(65) lines demonstrate that high‐J transitions, at least up to J = 6, remain excited in this galaxy, whose CO spectral line energy distribution resembles that of high‐redshift submm galaxies, even though the IR luminosity of MACSJ0032‐arc is ten times lower. This high CO excitation is possibly due to the compactness of the galaxy. We find evidence that this high CO excitation has to be considered in the balance when estimating the CO‐to‐H‐2 conversion factor. Indeed, the respective CO‐to‐H‐2 conversion factors as derived from the correlation with metallicity and the FIR dust continuum can only be reconciled if excitation is accounted for. The inferred depletion time of the molecular gas in MACSJ0032‐arc supports the decrease in the gas depletion timescale of galaxies with redshift, although to a lesser degree than predicted by galaxy evolution models. Instead, the measured molecular gas fraction as high as 6079% in MACSJ0032‐arc favors the continued increase in the gas fraction of galaxies with redshift as expected, despite the plateau observed between z similar to 1.5 and z similar to 2.5.
Published: 2017
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19. ALMA observations of molecular tori around massive black holes

Author: Francoise Combes, P. van der Werf, Viviana Casasola, Susanne Aalto, Sergio Martín, Sebastien Muller, Melanie Krips, Kalliopi Dasyra, L. K. Hunt, Kazushi Sakamoto, Santiago García-Burillo, Andreas Eckart, A. Audibert, Frédéric Boone, Serena Viti, FRA, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France (CdF), Chalmers University of Technology [Göteborg], Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Leiden Observatory [Leiden], Universiteit Leiden [Leiden], European Southern Observatory [Santiago] (ESO), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Universiteit Leiden
Subjects: galaxies: spiral, Active galactic nucleus, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Submillimeter Array, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Line-of-sight, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Torus, Radius, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Black hole, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Center of mass, galaxies: nuclei, galaxies: ISM
Abstract: We report ALMA observations of CO(3-2) emission in a sample of 7 Seyfert/LINER galaxies at the unprecedented spatial resolution of 0.1'' = 4-9 pc. Our aim is to explore the close environment of AGN, and the dynamical structures leading to its fueling. The selected galaxies host low-luminosity AGN, and have a wide range of activity types, and barred or ringed morphologies. The observed maps reveal the existence of circum-nuclear disk structures, defined by their morphology and decoupled kinematics. We call these structures "molecular tori", even though they appear often as disks, without holes in the center. They have varied orientations, unaligned with their host galaxy. The radius of the tori ranges from 6 to 27 pc, and their mass from 0.7 10$^7$ to 3.9 10$^7$ Msun. At larger scale, the gas is always piled up in a few 100~pc scale resonant rings, that play the role of a reservoir to fuel the nucleus. In some cases, a trailing spiral is observed inside the ring, providing evidence for feeding processes. Most frequently, the torus and the AGN are slightly off-centered, with respect to the bar-resonant ring position, implying that the black hole is wandering by a few 10~pc amplitude around the center of mass of the galaxy. Our spatial resolution allows us to measure gas velocities inside the sphere of influence of the central black holes. By fitting the observations with different simulated cubes, varying the torus inclination and the black hole mass, it is possible to estimate the mass of the central black hole, which is in general difficult for such late-type galaxies, with only a pseudo-bulge., Comment: 20 pages, 21 figures, accepted in Astron. and Astrophys
Published: 2019
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20. Molecular gas along a bright H$\alpha$ filament in 2A 0335+096 revealed by ALMA

Author: Robert Main, P. E. J. Nulsen, Jeremy S. Sanders, Francoise Combes, A. C. Edge, Christopher P. O'Dea, Stefi A. Baum, J. B. R. Oonk, A. C. Fabian, P. Salomé, I. J. Parrish, Brian R. McNamara, A. N. Vantyghem, Grant R. Tremblay, Norm Murray, Megan Donahue, M. T. Hogan, G. M. Voit, Robert W. O'Connell, Helen Russell, Fabian, Andrew [0000-0002-9378-4072], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Stanford University, Department of Physics, University of Wales, Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Protein filament, Intracluster medium, 0103 physical sciences, galaxies: clusters: individual (2A 0335+096), Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Brightest cluster galaxy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Nebula, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), H-alpha, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], galaxies: ISM
Abstract: We present ALMA CO(1-0) and CO(3-2) observations of the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in the 2A 0335+096 galaxy cluster (z = 0.0346). The total molecular gas mass of (1.13+/-0.15) x 10^9 M_sun is divided into two components: a nuclear region and a 7 kpc long dusty filament. The central molecular gas component accounts for (3.2+/-0.4) x 10^8 M_sun of the total supply of cold gas. Instead of forming a rotationally-supported ring or disk, it is composed of two distinct, blueshifted clumps south of the nucleus and a series of low-significance redshifted clumps extending toward a nearby companion galaxy. The velocity of the redshifted clouds increases with radius to a value consistent with the companion galaxy, suggesting that an interaction between these galaxies, 21 pages, 14 figures, accepted to ApJ
Published: 2016
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21. ALMA reveals optically thin, highly excited CO gas in the jet-driven winds of the galaxy IC 5063

Author: J. B. R. Oonk, P. Salomé, Tom Oosterloo, Francoise Combes, Kalliopi Dasyra, Nektarios Vlahakis, R. Morganti, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics [Athens], National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Astronomy, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens = University of Athens (NKUA | UoA), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: galaxies: active, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, ISM: kinematics and dynamics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Jet (fluid), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atacama Large Millimeter Array, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Flux ratio, Galaxy, ISM: molecules, ISM: jets and outflows, Space and Planetary Science, Excited state, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), submillimeter: ISM, galaxies: nuclei, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Excitation, Order of magnitude
Abstract: Using CO (4-3) and (2-1) Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) data, we prove that the molecular gas in the jet-driven winds of the galaxy IC5063 is more highly excited than the rest of the molecular gas in the disk of the same galaxy. On average, the CO(4-3)/CO(2-1) flux ratio is 1 for the disk and 5 for the jet accelerated or impacted gas. Spatially-resolved maps reveal that in regions associated with winds, the CO(4-3)/CO(2-1) flux ratio significantly exceeds the upper limit of 4 for optically thick gas. It frequently takes values between 5 and 11, and it occasionally further approaches the upper limit of 16 for optically thin gas. Excitation temperatures of 30-100 K are common for the molecules in these regions. If all of the outflowing molecular gas is optically thin, at 30-50 K, then its mass is 2*10^6 M_sun. This lower mass limit is an order of magnitude below the mass derived from the CO(2-1) flux in the case of optically thick gas. Molecular winds can thus be less massive, but more easily detectable at high z than they were previously thought to be., A&A, in press
Published: 2016
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22. OH + and H 2 O + absorption toward PKS 1830–211

Author: S. J. Curran, Martin Zwaan, Sebastien Muller, M. Guelin, Susanne Aalto, Sergio Martín, Carsten Henkel, Alexandre Beelen, John H. Black, Edith Falgarone, Tommy Wiklind, Karl M. Menten, Maryvonne Gerin, Holger S. P. Müller, Peter Schilke, Francoise Combes, Immunologie et chimie thérapeutiques (ICT), Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cell Research (ZBMZ), University of Freiburg [Freiburg], Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut für Physik, University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam, European Southern Observatory [Santiago] (ESO), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Chalmers University of Technology [Göteborg], Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIFR), Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO), European Southern Observatory (ESO)-National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, and Universität Potsdam
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010304 chemical physics, Hydrogen, Star formation, Milky Way, Hydrogen molecule, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 01 natural sciences, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Ionization, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: We report the detection of OH+ and H2O+ in the z=0.89 absorber toward the lensed quasar PKS1830-211. The abundance ratio of OH+ and H2O+ is used to quantify the molecular hydrogen fraction (fH2) and the cosmic-ray ionization rate of atomic hydrogen (zH) along two lines of sight, located at ~2 kpc and ~4 kpc to either side of the absorber's center. The molecular fraction decreases outwards, from ~0.04 to ~0.02, comparable to values measured in the Milky Way at similar galactocentric radii. For zH, we find values of ~2x10^-14 s^-1 and ~3x10^-15 s^-1, respectively, which are slightly higher than in the Milky Way at comparable galactocentric radii, possibly due to a higher average star formation activity in the z=0.89 absorber. The ALMA observations of OH+, H2O+, and other hydrides toward PKS1830-211 reveal the multi-phase composition of the absorbing gas. Taking the column density ratios along the southwest and northeast lines of sight as a proxy of molecular fraction, we classify the species ArH+, OH+, H2Cl+, H2O+, CH, and HF as tracing gases increasingly more molecular. Incidentally, our data allow us to improve the accuracy of H2O+ rest frequencies and thus refine the spectroscopic parameters., Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2016
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23. Exploring the GalMer database: bar properties and non-circular motions

Author: Claude Carignan, T. H. Randriamampandry, Francoise Combes, N. Deg, Kristine Spekkens, Département de Physique [Montréal], Université de Montréal (UdeM), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Department of Astronomy, and Faculty of Science
Subjects: galaxies: spiral, Bar (music), Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, computer.software_genre, Rotation, 01 natural sciences, dark matter, Gravitation, 0103 physical sciences, Range (statistics), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy rotation curve, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Database, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Symmetry (physics), Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: structure, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], computer
Abstract: We use Tree-SPH simulations from the GalMer database by Chilingarian et al. to characterize and quantify the non-circular motions induced by the presence of bar-like structures on the observed rotation curve of barred galaxies derived from empirical models of their line-of-sight velocity maps. The GalMer database consists of SPH simulations of galaxies spanning a wide range of morphological types and sizes. The aim is to compare the intrinsic velocities and bar properties from the simulations with those derived from pseudo-observations. This allows us to estimate the amount of non-circularity and to test the various methods used to derive the bar properties and rotation curves. The intrinsic velocities in the simulations are calculated from the gravitational forces whereas the observed rotation velocities are derived by applying the ROTCUR and DiskFit algorithms to well-resolved observations of intermediate-inclination, strongly barred galaxies. Our results confirm that the tilted ring method implemented in ROTCUR systematically underestimates/overestimates the rotational velocities by up to 40 percent in the inner part of the galaxy when the bar is aligned with one of the symmetry axes for all the models. For the DiskFit analysis, we find that it produces unrealistic values for all the models used in this work when the bar is within $\sim$10 degrees of the major or minor axis., Comment: 12 pages, 11 figures, Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2016
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24. Erratum: Environmental regulation of cloud and star formation in galactic bars

Author: Bruce G. Elmegreen, Frédéric Bournaud, Eric Emsellem, E. Athanassoula, K. Kraljic, Oscar Agertz, François Renaud, Frédérique Motte, Francoise Combes, Romain Teyssier, Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Lund Observatory, Lund University [Lund], Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP)
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, business.industry, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cloud computing, 01 natural sciences, Astrobiology, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Environmental regulation, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: International audience
Published: 2016
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25. The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS)

Author: McElroy, R., Husemann, B., Croom, S., Davis, T., Bennert, V., Busch, G., Combes, F., Eckart, A., Perez-Torres, M., Powell, M., Scharwächter, J., Tremblay, G., Urrutia, T., CSA, Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIFR), Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: [PHYS]Physics [physics], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: International audience
Published: 2016
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26. Star formation efficiency along the radio jet in Centaurus A (Corrigendum)

Author: P. Salomé, Ian Heywood, Stephen Hamer, Francoise Combes, Quentin Salomé, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Radio galaxy, Metallicity, Centaurus A, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Table (information), 01 natural sciences, Peculiar galaxy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Elliptical galaxy, Emission spectrum, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: In Sect. 2.5, we did not take into account the CO(2−1)/CO(1−0) ratio to derive the mass of the clumps observed by ALMA. This corresponds to an error of a factor of about two, compared with that obtained when using the ratio of 0.55 given by Charmandaris et al. (2000). With such a factor, the total molecular gas mass of the clumps is MHS ∼ 1.6 × 105 M . We provide a new version of Table 2, which shows the corrected values of the molecular gas mass for the clumps. Table 2. CO(2−1) emission line properties for each clump (central velocity, FWHM, and molecular gas mass estimated with a standard and fixed conversion factor with no metallicity correction).
Published: 2016
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27. The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS)

Author: Husemann, B., Urrutia, T., Tremblay, G., Krumpe, M., Dexter, J., Busch, G., Combes, F., Croom, S., Davis, T., Eckart, A., McElroy, R., Perez-Torres, M., Powell, M., Scharwächter, J., Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIFR), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: [PHYS]Physics [physics], [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: International audience; We recently discovered that the active galactic nucleus (AGN) of Mrk 1018 has changed optical type again after 30 yr as a type 1 AGN. Here we combine Chandra, NuStar, Swift, Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observations to explore the cause of this change. The 2-10 keV flux declines by a factor of ~8 between 2010 and 2016. We show with our X-ray observation that this is not caused by varying neutral hydrogen absorption along the line-of-sight up to the Compton-thick level. The optical-UV spectral energy distributions are well fit with a standard geometrically thin optically thick accretion disc model that seems to obey the expected L ~ T4 relation. It confirms that a decline in accretion disc luminosity is the primary origin for the type change. We detect a new narrow-line absorber in Lyalpha blue-shifted by ~700 km s-1 with respect to the systemic velocity of the galaxy. This new Lyalpha absorber could be evidence for the onset of an outflow or a companion black hole with associated gas that could be related to the accretion rate change. However, the low column density of the absorber means that it is not the direct cause for Mrk 1018's changing-look nature.
Published: 2016
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28. veRTIGE: Using simulation data to teach about galaxies

Author: Boissel, Yannick, Lemercier, Mikaël, Neyret, Fabrice, Arnerin, Reynald, Arenou, Frédéric, Combes, Francoise, Cabut, Benjamin, Guehl, Pascal, Di Matteo, Paola, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL), RSA Cosmos, Models and Algorithms for Visualization and Rendering (MAVERICK), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Projet ANR-10-CORD-006,veRTIGE / Galaxy, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Models and Algorithms for Visualization and Rendering (MAVERICK ), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), ANR-10-CORD-0006,Real-Time & Interactive Galaxy for Edutainment,Représentations 3D temps réels & Interactive de galaxies pour applications ludo-éducatives(2010), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Arenou, Frédéric, and CONTENUS ET INTERACTIONS - Représentations 3D temps réels & Interactive de galaxies pour applications ludo-éducatives - - Real-Time & Interactive Galaxy for Edutainment2010 - ANR-10-CORD-0006 - CONTINT - VALID
Subjects: [SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], [SDU.ASTR.SR] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], [INFO.INFO-GR] Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], [INFO.INFO-MO] Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation, [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], [SDU.ASTR.GA] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], [INFO.INFO-MO]Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation, [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR]
Abstract: See online proceeding ( p 42 ) https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ips-planetarium.org/resource/resmgr/pdf-conf/2016IPSproceedingsWarsaw.pdf+ supplementary video ( live-capture of the demonstration ), also available on youtube.; International audience; After a five year R&D program, the veRTIGE project is leading up to a world premiere: Visualising the result of the simulation of galaxy formation (GALMER) in real-time in a planetarium. Using physics calculations rather than an artist’s CG representation allows much more to be explained, by giving access with a single model to different instruments’ views and the internal structure of the represented galaxies.
Published: 2016

29. HST imaging of the dusty filaments and nucleus swirl in NGC4696 at the centre of the Centaurus Cluster

Author: G. B. Taylor, Francoise Combes, Christopher S. Reynolds, Nina A. Hatch, R. M. Johnstone, C. J. Conselice, A. C. Fabian, Helen Russell, P. Salomé, Gary J. Ferland, Stephen Walker, Ciro Pinto, Jeremy S. Sanders, C. S. Crawford, John S. Gallagher, Rebecca E. A. Canning, Ellen G. Zweibel, Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Université de Montréal (UdeM)-Université de Montréal (UdeM), Institut de biologie et chimie des protéines [Lyon] (IBCP), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Fabian, Andrew [0000-0002-9378-4072], Pinto, Ciro [0000-0003-2532-7379], Reynolds, Christopher [0000-0002-1510-4860], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Active galactic nucleus, galaxies: clusters: individual: NGC4696, galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium, Bondi accretion, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, black hole physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Intracluster medium, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Radius, black hole physics, galaxies:clusters:individual:GGC4696, galaxies:clusters:intracluster medium, x-rays:galaxies, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Accretion (astrophysics), Galaxy, Black hole, X-rays: galaxies, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Elliptical galaxy, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Narrow-band HST imaging has resolved the detailed internal structure of the 10 kpc diameter H alpha+[NII] emission line nebulosity in NGC4696, the central galaxy in the nearby Centaurus cluster, showing that the dusty, molecular, filaments have a width of about 60pc. Optical morphology and velocity measurements indicate that the filaments are dragged out by the bubbling action of the radio source as part of the AGN feedback cycle. Using the drag force we find that the magnetic field in the filaments is in approximate pressure equipartition with the hot gas. The filamentary nature of the cold gas continues inward, swirling around and within the Bondi accretion radius of the central black hole, revealing the magnetic nature of the gas flows in massive elliptical galaxies. HST imaging resolves the magnetic, dusty, molecular filaments at the centre of the Centaurus cluster to a swirl around and within the Bondi radius., This is the accepted manuscript. It is currently embargoed pending publication.
Published: 2016
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30. A precessing molecular jet signaling an obscured, growing supermassive black hole in NGC 1377?

Author: Aaron S. Evans, P. van der Werf, Francesco Costagliola, Kalliopi Dasyra, Jari Kotilainen, Santiago García-Burillo, Francoise Combes, Keiichi Wada, Lars E. Kristensen, Kazushi Sakamoto, Sebastien Muller, Jay Gallagher, Susanne Aalto, Sergio Martín, Chalmers University of Technology [Göteborg], Immunologie et chimie thérapeutiques (ICT), Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de biologie et chimie des protéines [Lyon] (IBCP), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Observatorio Astronomico Nacional [Madrid] (OAN), Instituto Geografico Nacional (IGN), Danish Meat Research Institute (DMRI), Leiden Observatory [Leiden], Universiteit Leiden [Leiden], Aberystwyth University, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid, Universiteit Leiden, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP)
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Protostar, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Jet (fluid), Supermassive black hole, Accretion (meteorology), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Radius, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Outflow, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: With high resolution (0."25 x 0."18) ALMA CO 3-2 observations of the nearby (D=21 Mpc, 1"=102 pc), extremely radio-quiet galaxy NGC1377, we have discovered a high-velocity, very collimated nuclear outflow which we interpret as a molecular jet with a projected length of +-150 pc. Along the jet axis we find strong velocity reversals where the projected velocity swings from -150 km/s to +150 km/s. A simple model of a molecular jet precessing around an axis close to the plane of the sky can reproduce the observations. The velocity of the outflowing gas is difficult to constrain due to the velocity reversals but we estimate it to be between 240 and 850 km/s and the jet to precess with a period P=0.3-1.1 Myr. The CO emission is clumpy along the jet and the total molecular mass in the high-velocity (+-(60 to 150 km/s)) gas lies between 2e6 Msun (light jet) and 2e7 Msun (massive jet). There is also CO emission extending along the minor axis of NGC1377. It holds >40% of the flux in NGC1377 and may be a slower, wide-angle molecular outflow which is partially entrained by the molecular jet. We discuss the driving mechanism of the molecular jet and suggest that it is either powered by a very faint radio jet or by an accretion disk-wind similar to those found towards protostars. The nucleus of NGC1377 harbours intense embedded activity and we detect emission from vibrationally excited HCN J=4-3 v_2=1f which is consistent with hot gas and dust. We find large columns of H2 in the centre of NGC1377 which may be a sign of a high rate of recent gas infall. The dynamical age of the molecular jet is short (, This is a revised and expanded version of a previous submission which now has 13 pages, 6 figures (+ 4 in the Appendix) and is accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2016
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31. Alma resolves the Torus of NGC 1068: continuum and molecular line emission

Author: Isabel Márquez, Viviana Casasola, Asunción Fuente, Roberto Neri, Linda J. Tacconi, P. van der Werf, Francesco Costagliola, Francoise Combes, Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Melanie Krips, Andreas Eckart, Antonio Usero, Christian Henkel, S. Viti, C. Ramos Almeida, Luis Colina, Susanne Aalto, Santiago García-Burillo, Eva Schinnerer, Sergio Martín, Leslie K. Hunt, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Observatorio Astronomico Nacional [Madrid] (OAN), Instituto Geografico Nacional (IGN), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN), oan, Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chalmers University of Technology [Göteborg], Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Laboratoire de Biophotonique et Pharmacologie - UMR 7213 (LBP), Réseau nanophotonique et optique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics, Durham University, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIFR), Institut für Physik (Institut für Physik), Universität Potsdam, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Réseau nanophotonique et optique, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam
Subjects: Seyfert [Galaxies], Active galactic nucleus, Galaxies: Seyfert, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Continuum (design consultancy), Megamaser, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, ISM [Galaxies], 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Galaxies: nuclei, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], kinematics and dynamics [Galaxies], Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Torus, Radius, Atacama Large Millimeter Array, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Galaxies: ISM, Galaxies: individual (NGC 1068), Space and Planetary Science, nuclei [Galaxies], Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Spectral energy distribution, individual (NGC 1068) [Galaxies], Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Garcia-Burillo, S. et. al., We used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to map the emission of the CO(6-5) molecular line and the 432 μm continuum emission from the 300 pc sized circumnuclear disk (CND) of the nearby Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 with a spatial resolution of ∼4 pc. These observations spatially resolve the CND and, for the first time, image the dust emission, the molecular gas distribution, and the kinematics from a 7-10 pc diameter disk that represents the submillimeter counterpart of the putative torus of NGC 1068. We fitted the nuclear spectral energy distribution of the torus using ALMA and near- and mid-infrared (NIR/MIR) data with CLUMPY torus models. The mass and radius of the best-fit solution for the torus are both consistent with the values derived from the ALMA data alone: and R torus = 3.5 ± 0.5 pc. The dynamics of the molecular gas in the torus show strong non-circular motions and enhanced turbulence superposed on a surprisingly slow rotation pattern of the disk. By contrast with the nearly edge-on orientation of the H2O megamaser disk, we found evidence suggesting that the molecular torus is less inclined (i = 34°-66°) at larger radii. The lopsided morphology and complex kinematics of the torus could be the signature of the Papaloizou-Pringle instability, long predicted to likely drive the dynamical evolution of active galactic nuclei tori. © 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved., S.G.B., A.U., L.C., I.M., and A.F. acknowledge support from Spanish grants AYA2012-32295 and AYA2013-42227-P
Published: 2016
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32. ALMA observations of cold molecular gas filaments trailing rising radio bubbles in PKS 0745−191

Author: G. M. Voit, Robert Main, A. C. Fabian, A. N. Vantyghem, Alastair C. Edge, I. J. Parrish, Christopher P. O'Dea, Brian R. McNamara, Stefi A. Baum, J. B. R. Oonk, Robert W. O'Connell, Helen Russell, Norm Murray, Grant R. Tremblay, Paul Nulsen, Megan Donahue, Francoise Combes, P. Salomé, Jeremy S. Sanders, Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Department of Physics, University of Wales, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Protein filament, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Spiral galaxy, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Molecular cloud, Velocity dispersion, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Type-cD galaxy, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Dust lane, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Dark galaxy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: We present ALMA observations of the CO(1-0) and CO(3-2) line emission tracing filaments of cold molecular gas in the central galaxy of the cluster PKS0745-191. The total molecular gas mass of 4.6 +/- 0.3 x 10^9 solar masses, assuming a Galactic X_{CO} factor, is divided roughly equally between three filaments each extending radially 3-5 kpc from the galaxy centre. The emission peak is located in the SE filament roughly 1 arcsec (2 kpc) from the nucleus. The velocities of the molecular clouds in the filaments are low, lying within +/-100 km/s of the galaxy's systemic velocity. Their FWHMs are less than 150 km/s, which is significantly below the stellar velocity dispersion. Although the molecular mass of each filament is comparable to a rich spiral galaxy, such low velocities show that the filaments are transient and the clouds would disperse on, 16 pages, 10 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Published: 2016
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33. A search for H i and OH absorption in z ≳ 3 CO emitters

Author: Michael Pracy, R. Athreya, James R. Allison, Stephen J. Curran, Matthew Whiting, Elaine M. Sadler, C. Bignell, Francoise Combes, The Royal College Sciences, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: Luminous infrared galaxy, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Radio galaxy, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Radiation, Disc galaxy, Critical value, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 01 natural sciences, Redshift, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Disc, 010306 general physics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the results of a survey for HI 21-cm and OH 18-cm absorption in seven strong CO emitters at z > 3. Despite reaching limits comparable to those required to detect 21-cm absorption at lower redshifts, we do not detect either transition in any of the objects searched. We believe that this is due to the high redshift selection causing all of our targets to have ultra-violet luminosities above the critical value, where all of the atomic gas in the host galaxy disk is suspected to be ionised. However, not only are all of our targets bright in CO emission, but detection of CO above the critical UV luminosity is generally not uncommon. This suggests that the molecular gas is shielded from the radiation or is physically remote from the source of the continuum emission, as it appears to be from CO observations of high redshift radio galaxies., Comment: 12 pages, accepted by MNRAS
Published: 2016
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34. AGN feedback and star formation in young and old radio galaxies

Author: Labiano, A., García-Burillo, S., Combes, F., Usero, A., Soria-Ruiz, R., Piqueras López, J., Tremblay, G., Hunt, L., Fuente, A., Neri, R., Oosterloo, T., Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN), oan, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid, Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astronomy, ESP, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: [PHYS]Physics [physics], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, galaxies: individual: (3C 236, Galaxies: ISM, ISM: jets and outflows, galaxies: star formation, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, 3C 293), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: Powerful radio galaxies show evidence of ongoing active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback, mainly in the form of fast, massive outflows. Yet, it is not clear how these outflows affect the star formation of their hosts. We investigated the different manifestations of AGN feedback in the evolved 3C 293 radio source, and in the young, reactivated 3C 236. Both sources harbor young star-forming regions and fast outflows of \hi and ionized gas. Due to the different evolution stages of these sources, they are expected to be at different phases of the AGNISM interaction process. Using high spatial resolution observations of CO lines taken with the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer, we studied the distribution and kinematics of the molecular gas in these sources, and compared the results with the dust and star-formation images of the host. We searched for signatures of outflow motions in the CO kinematics, and derived the star formation rate (SFR) and star formation efficiency (SFE) of the host with all available SFR tracers. Based on the gas mass derived from our observations and on the SFR estimates, we compared the star-formation efficiency of 3C 236 and 3C 293 against a sample of powerful radio galaxies. Our results suggest that the apparently low SFE of evolved radio galaxies is not necessarily due to AGN feedback, but may be caused by an underestimation of the SFR and/or an overestimation of the molecular gas densities in radio galaxies. Based on observations carried out with the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer. IRAM is supported by INSU/CNRS (France), MPG (Germany) and IGN (Spain).
Published: 2016
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35. Optical Emission Line Nebulae in Galaxy Cluster Cores 1: The Morphological, Kinematic and Spectral Properties of the Sample

Author: A. M. Swinbank, Francoise Combes, A. C. Fabian, R. J. Wilman, Helen Russell, Alastair C. Edge, Stephen Hamer, P. Salomé, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Brian R. McNamara, Malcolm N. Bremer, C. S. Crawford, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics, University of Wales, Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Département de Physique [Montréal], Université de Montréal (UdeM), Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: Stellar kinematics, Active galactic nucleus, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), astro-ph.GA, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy merger, 01 natural sciences, Intracluster medium, 0103 physical sciences, clusters: general [galaxies], Brightest cluster galaxy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Lenticular galaxy, Galaxy cluster, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Velocity dispersion, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Space and Planetary Science, ) cooling flows [(galaxies], Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), astro-ph.CO, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], elliptical and lenticular, cD [galaxies], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present an Integral Field Unit survey of 73 galaxy clusters and groups with the VIsible Multi Object Spectrograph (VIMOS) on VLT. We exploit the data to determine the H$\alpha$ gas dynamics on kpc-scales to study the feedback processes occurring within the dense cluster cores. We determine the kinematic state of the ionised gas and show that the majority of systems ($\sim$ 2/3) have relatively ordered velocity fields on kpc scales that are similar to the kinematics of rotating discs and are decoupled from the stellar kinematics of the Brightest Cluster Galaxy. The majority of the H$\alpha$ flux ($>$ 50%) is typically associated with these ordered kinematics and most systems show relatively simple morphologies suggesting they have not been disturbed by a recent merger or interaction. Approximately 20% of the sample (13/73) have disturbed morphologies which can typically be attributed to AGN activity disrupting the gas. Only one system shows any evidence of an interaction with another cluster member. A spectral analysis of the gas suggests that the ionisation of the gas within cluster cores is dominated by non stellar processes, possibly originating from the intracluster medium itself., Comment: 36 pages, 25 figures. Appendices available at http://aramis.obspm.fr/~hamer/igigcc/ionised_gas_in_cluster_cores_appendices.pdf (75 pages, supplementary figures and data tables)
Published: 2016
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36. The overmassive black hole in NGC 1277: new constraints from molecular gas kinematics

Author: M. Krips, Francoise Combes, P. Salomé, Mouyuan Sun, Julia Scharwächter, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Physics Department [Huntsville], University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Kinematics, 01 natural sciences, Bulge, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Plateau de Bure Interferometer, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, galaxies: general, Dust lane, Galaxy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: individual: NGC 1277, Spectral energy distribution, galaxies: nuclei, Fundamental plane (elliptical galaxies)
Abstract: We report the detection of CO(1-0) emission from NGC 1277, a lenticular galaxy in the Perseus Cluster. NGC 1277 has previously been proposed to host an overmassive black hole (BH) compared to the galaxy bulge luminosity (mass), based on stellar-kinematic measurements. The CO(1-0) emission, observed with the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) using both, a more compact (2.9-arcsec resolution) and a more extended (1-arcsec resolution) configuration, is likely to originate from the dust lane encompassing the galaxy nucleus at a distance of 0.9 arcsec (~320 pc). The double-horned CO(1-0) profile found at 2.9-arcsec resolution traces $1.5\times 10^8\ M_\odot$ of molecular gas, likely orbiting in the dust lane at $\sim 550\ \mathrm{km\ s^{-1}}$, which suggests a total enclosed mass of $\sim 2\times 10^{10}\ M_\odot$. At 1-arcsec resolution, the CO(1-0) emission appears spatially resolved along the dust lane in east-west direction, though at a low signal-to-noise ratio. In agreement with the previous stellar-kinematic measurements, the CO(1-0) kinematics is found to be consistent with an $\sim 1.7\times 10^{10}\ M_\odot$ BH for a stellar mass-to-light ratio of $M/L_V=6.3$, while a less massive BH of $\sim 5\times 10^{9}\ M_\odot$ is possible when assuming a larger $M/L_V=10$. While the molecular gas reservoir may be associated with a low level of star formation activity, the extended 2.6-mm continuum emission is likely to originate from a weak AGN, possibly characterized by an inverted radio-to-millimetre spectral energy distribution. Literature radio and X-ray data indicate that the BH in NGC 1277 is also overmassive with respect to the Fundamental Plane of BH activity., Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS on 20 January 2016; updated version including minor changes and note added in proof
Published: 2016
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37. The molecular gas mass of M33

Author: F. F. S. van der Tak, P. van der Werf, J. Braine, Martina C. Wiedner, K. F. Schuster, B. S. Koribalski, Pierre Gratier, Erik Rosolowsky, Markus Röllig, Bhaswati Mookerjea, C. Kramer, Francoise Combes, Fabrice Herpin, Daniela Calzetti, M. Boquien, Frank P. Israel, Fatemeh Tabatabaei, Carsten Henkel, Astronomy, AMOR 2017, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), FORMATION STELLAIRE 2017, Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of British Columbia (UBC), PSA Peugeot-Citroen, PSA Peugeot Citroën (PSA), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Instituto de Radio Astronomía Milimétrica, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIFR), Department of Astronomy [Jeddah], King Abdulaziz University, foreign laboratories (FL), CERN [Genève], Physikalisches Institut [Köln], Universität zu Köln = University of Cologne, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, and Universität zu Köln
Subjects: Metallicity, ISM: structure, Large population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, EXTENDED SURVEY HERM33ES, 01 natural sciences, STAR-FORMATION, CO-TO-H-2 CONVERSION FACTOR, 0103 physical sciences, NEARBY GALAXIES, Density ratio, DUST EMISSION, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ISM: general, Physics, M33, radio lines: ISM, HERSCHEL, Spiral galaxy, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, SUBMILLIMETER EXCESS, CLOUDS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, galaxies: individual: M 33, Stars, Formalism (philosophy of mathematics), 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Local Group, submillimeter: ISM, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Dust emission
Abstract: [Abridged] Do some environments favor efficient conversion of molecular gas into stars? To answer this, we need to be able to estimate the H2 mass. Traditionally, this is done using CO and a few assumptions but the Herschel observations in the FIR make it possible to estimate the molecular gas mass independently of CO. Previous attempts to derive gas masses from dust emission suffered from biases. Generally, dust surface densities, HI column densities, and CO intensities are used to derive a gas-to-dust ratio (GDR) and the local CO intensity to H2 column density ratio (XCO), sometimes allowing for an additional CO-dark gas component (Kdark). We tested earlier methods, revealing degeneracies among the parameters, and then used a Bayesian formalism to derive the most likely values for each of the parameters mentioned above as a function of position in the nearby low metallicity spiral galaxy M33. The data are from the IRAM 30m CO(2-1) line, high-resolution HI and Herschel dust continuum observations. Solving for GDR, XCO, and Kdark in macro pixels 500 pc in size, we find that (i) allowing for CO-dark gas significantly improves fits; (ii) Kdark decreases with galactocentric distance; (iii) GDR is slightly higher than initially expected and increases with galactocentric distance; (iv) the total amount of dark gas closely follows the radially decreasing CO emission, as might be expected if the dark gas is H2 where CO is photodissociated. The total amount of H2, including dark gas, yields an average XCO of twice the galactic value of 2e20 cm^-2/(K km/s), 55% of this traced directly through CO. The rather constant fraction of dark gas suggests that there is no large population of diffuse H2 clouds (unrelated to GMCs) without CO emission. Unlike in large spirals, we detect no systematic radial trend in XCO, possibly linked to the absence of a radial decrease in CO line ratios., Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2016
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38. Molecular gas in galaxies: much more than just the fuel of star formation

Author: Francois Boulanger, Matt Lehnert, C. N. Herrera, Philippe Salomé, Pierre Guillard, Nicole P. H. Nesvadba, Edith Falgarone, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology (SSC), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Physique des Galaxies et Cosmologie, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Galaxies et cosmologie, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Dynamique des milieux interstellaires et plasmas stellaires, Wong, Tony, Ott, and Jürgen
Subjects: Physics, Space and Planetary Science, Star formation, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Galaxy
Abstract: It is well known that shocks can heat molecular gas, but we are only starting to understand what the consequences might be for galaxy evolution. Observations are now revealing a growing number of galaxies undergoing phases of strong injection of kinetic energy through galaxy interactions or feedback from powerful AGN, which have bright line emission from shock-heated molecular gas that is likely powered by the dissipation of turbulent energy. These observations demonstrate that turbulence – now recognized as an important mechanism regulating star formation – may also be key in regulating galaxy growth. We report on our on-going efforts to quantify the role of molecular gas for the dissipation of kinetic energy through observations on two very different examples, the Antennae galaxy merger and the radio galaxy 3C326 N, a site of strong mechanical AGN feedback. Both galaxies show signatures of strong dissipation of kinetic energy through shocks. We will illustrate how key parameters of these processes like bulk and turbulent velocities, gas masses, and dissipation timescales can be measured with multi-wavelength data, and how this furthers our understanding of how galaxy evolution and star formation in galaxies depend on each other.
Published: 2012
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39. The simulated 21 cm signal during the epoch of reionization: full modeling of the Ly-αpumping

Author: B. Semelin, Yves Revaz, Sunghye Baek, Francoise Combes, P. Di Matteo, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Galaxies et cosmologie, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Physique des Galaxies et Cosmologie, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Subjects: Mean kinetic temperature, Cosmic Reionization, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Spectral line, methods: numerical, cosmology: early Universe, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Intergalactic Medium, Starbursting Galaxies, Radiative transfer, Reionization, Radiative-Transfer, Physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Spin Temperature, ISM: HII regions, Amplitude, radiative transfer, Space and Planetary Science, Centimeter Fluctuations, Hydrogen Reionization, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], ISM: bubbles, Cosmological Simulations, High-Redshift Universe
Abstract: The 21 cm emission of neutral hydrogen is the most promising probe of the epoch of reionization(EoR). In the next few years, the SKA pathfinders will provide statistical measurements of this signal. Numerical simulations predicting these observations are necessary to optimize the design of the instruments. The main difficulty is the computation of the spin temperature of neutral hydrogen which depends on the gas kinetic temperature and on the level of the local Lyman-alpha flux. A T_s >> T_cmb assumption is usual. However, this assumption does not apply early in the reionization history, or even later in the history as long as the sources of X-rays are too weak to heat the intergalactic medium significantly. This work presents the first EoR numerical simulations including, beside dynamics and ionizing continuum radiative transfer, a self-consistent treatment of the Ly-alpha radiative transfer. This allows us to compute the spin temperature more accurately. We use two different box sizes, 20 Mpc/h and 100 Mpc/h, and a star source model. Using the redshift dependence of average quantities, maps, and power spectra, we quantify the effect of using different assumptions to compute the spin temperature and the influence of the box size. The first effect comes from allowing for a signal in absorption. The magnitude of this effect depends on the amount of heating by hydrodynamic shocks and X-rays in the intergalactic medium(IGM). The second effects comes from using the real, local, Lyman-alpha flux. This effect is important for an average ionization fraction of less than 10%: it changes the overall amplitude of the 21 cm signal, and adds its own fluctuations to the power spectrum., 20 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables, To be publish A&A. High resolution version available at http://aramis.obspm.fr/~baek/21cm_Lya.pdf
Published: 2008
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40. Environmental regulation of cloud and star formation in galactic bars

Author: K. Kraljic, E. Athanassoula, Oscar Agertz, Romain Teyssier, Frédéric Bournaud, Francoise Combes, Eric Emsellem, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Florent Renaud, Frédérique Motte, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Institute for Computational science, Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich (UZH), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, AUTRES, and Universität Zürich [Zürich] (UZH)
Subjects: Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Turbulence, Molecular cloud, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Interstellar medium, symbols.namesake, Stars, Mach number, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, symbols, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: The strong time-dependence of the dynamics of galactic bars yields a complex and rapidly evolving distribution of dense gas and star forming regions. Although bars mainly host regions void of any star formation activity, their extremities can gather the physical conditions for the formation of molecular complexes and mini-starbursts. Using a sub-parsec resolution hydrodynamical simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy, we probe these conditions to explore how and where bar (hydro-)dynamics favours the formation or destruction of molecular clouds and stars. The interplay between the kpc-scale dynamics (gas flows, shear) and the parsec-scale (turbulence) is key to this problem. We find a strong dichotomy between the leading and trailing sides of the bar, in term of cloud fragmentation and in the age distribution of the young stars. After orbiting along the bar edge, these young structures slow down at the extremities of the bar, where orbital crowding increases the probability of cloud-cloud collision. We find that such events increase the Mach number of the cloud, leading to an enhanced star formation efficiency and finally the formation of massive stellar associations, in a fashion similar to galaxy-galaxy interactions. We highlight the role of bar dynamics in decoupling young stars from the clouds in which they form, and discuss the implications on the injection of feedback into the interstellar medium, in particular in the context of galaxy formation., Comment: MNRAS accepted
Published: 2015
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41. Probing highly obscured, self-absorbed galaxy nuclei with vibrationally excited HCN

Author: Roberto Neri, Carsten Henkel, Francoise Combes, Thomas R. Greve, Gary A. Fuller, P. van der Werf, Francesco Costagliola, Eduardo González-Alfonso, Susanne Aalto, Sergio Martín, Eckhard Sturm, José Cernicharo, Lee Armus, Santiago García-Burillo, S. Muhle, Aaron S. Evans, M. Spaans, K. Sakamoto, Sebastien Muller, S. Viti, Chalmers University of Technology [Göteborg], Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées (CRSSA), Service de Santé des Armées, Universidad de Alcalá - University of Alcalá (UAH), General Electric Medical Systems [Buc] (GE Healthcare), General Electric Medical Systems, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (JBCA), University of Manchester [Manchester], Observatorio Astronomico Nacional [Madrid] (OAN), Instituto Geografico Nacional (IGN), Leiden Observatory [Leiden], Universiteit Leiden [Leiden], Kapteyn Astronomical Institute [Groningen], University of Groningen [Groningen], Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Institut für Physik (Institut für Physik), Universität Potsdam, Astronomy, Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid, Universiteit Leiden, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), and University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam
Subjects: Continuum absorption, Active galactic nucleus, active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, High resolution, FOS: Physical sciences, Self-absorbed, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, ISM [Galaxies], molecules [ISM], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, Luminous infrared galaxy, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Supermassive black hole, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, evolution [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, ISM: molecules, Space and Planetary Science, nuclei [Galaxies], Excited state, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, galaxies: nuclei, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], galaxies: ISM
Abstract: We present high resolution (0."4) IRAM PdBI and ALMA mm and submm observations of the (ultra) luminous infrared galaxies ((U)LIRGs) IRAS17208-0014, Arp220, IC860 and Zw049.057 that reveal intense line emission from vibrationally excited ($��_2$=1) J=3-2 and 4-3 HCN. The emission is emerging from buried, compact (r$$5\times 10^{13}$ L$_{\odot}$ kpc$^{-2}$. These nuclei are likely powered by accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and/or hot (>200 K) extreme starbursts. Vibrational, $��_2$=1, lines of HCN are excited by intense 14 micron mid-infrared emission and are excellent probes of the dynamics, masses, and physical conditions of (U)LIRG nuclei when H$_2$ column densities exceed $10^{24}$ cm$^{-2}$. It is clear that these lines open up a new interesting avenue to gain access to the most obscured AGNs and starbursts. Vibrationally excited HCN acts as a proxy for the absorbed mid-infrared emission from the embedded nuclei, which allows for reconstruction of the intrinsic, hotter dust SED. In contrast, we show strong evidence that the ground vibrational state ($��$=0), J=3-2 and 4-3 rotational lines of HCN and HCO$^+$ fail to probe the highly enshrouded, compact nuclear regions owing to strong self- and continuum absorption. The HCN and HCO$^+$ line profiles are double-peaked because of the absorption and show evidence of non-circular motions - possibly in the form of in- or outflows. Detections of vibrationally excited HCN in external galaxies are so far limited to ULIRGs and early-type spiral LIRGs, and we discuss possible causes for this. We tentatively suggest that the peak of vibrationally excited HCN emission is connected to a rapid stage of nuclear growth, before the phase of strong feedback., 13 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2015
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42. Molecular depletion times and the CO-to-H 2 conversion factor in metal-poor galaxies

Author: Francoise Combes, Achim Weiss, Andreas Lundgren, V. Casasola, L. K. Hunt, Leonardo Testi, Paola Caselli, Santiago García-Burillo, Karl M. Menten, Roberto Maiolino, Christian Henkel, Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), RTM - Alpes de Haute Provence - Digne les Bains, ONF - RTM - Alpes de Haute Provence - Digne les Bains, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Institut für Physik (Institut für Physik), University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam, Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN), oan, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, and Universität Potsdam
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Metallicity, Conversion factor, Local Group, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, 3. Good health, Baryon, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Low Mass, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Dwarf galaxy, Carbon monoxide
Abstract: Tracing molecular hydrogen content with carbon monoxide in low-metallicity galaxies has been exceedingly difficult. Here we present a new effort, with IRAM 30-m observations of 12CO(1-0) of a sample of 8 dwarf galaxies having oxygen abundances ranging from 12+logO/H=7.7 to 8.4. CO emission is detected in all galaxies, including the most metal-poor galaxy of our sample (0.1 Zsun); to our knowledge this is the largest number of 12CO(1-0) detections ever reported for galaxies with 12+logO/H, 18 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2015
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43. Mapping the inner regions of the polar disk galaxy NGC 4650A with MUSE

Author: Iodice, E., Coccato, L., Combes, F., De Zeeuw, T., Arnaboldi, M., Weilbacher, P., Bacon, R., Kuntschner, H., Spavone, M., Gerin, Maryvonne, Falgarone, Edith, Godard, Benjamin, Lis, Darek, RTM - Alpes de Haute Provence - Digne les Bains, ONF - RTM - Alpes de Haute Provence - Digne les Bains, Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ITA, FRA, DEU, NLD, INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte, via Moiariello 16, 80131, Naples, Italy, European Southern Observatory (ESO), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, Polar, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: [abridged] The polar disk galaxy NGC4650A was observed during the commissioning of the MUSE at the ESO VLT to obtain the first 2D map of the velocity and velocity dispersion for both stars and gas. The new MUSE data allow the analysis of the structure and kinematics towards the central regions of NGC4650A, where the two components co-exist. These regions were unexplored by the previous long-slit literature data available for this galaxy. The extended view of NGC~4650A given by the MUSE data is a galaxy made of two perpendicular disks that remain distinct and drive the kinematics right into the very centre of this object. In order to match this observed structure for NGC4650A, we constructed a multicomponent mass model made by the combined projection of two disks. By comparing the observations with the 2D kinematics derived from the model, we found that the modelled mass distribution in these two disks can, on average, account for the complex kinematics revealed by the MUSE data, also in the central regions of the galaxy where the two components coexist. This result is a strong constraint on the dynamics and formation history of this galaxy; it further supports the idea that polar disk galaxies like NGC~4650A were formed through the accretion of material that has different angular momentum., 14 pages, 10 figures; accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2015
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44. Estimating non-circular motions in barred galaxies using numerical N-body simulations

Author: N. Deg, T. H. Randriamampandry, Claude Carignan, Francoise Combes, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Département de Physique [Montréal], Université de Montréal (UdeM), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Computer simulation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bar (music), Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geometry, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Barred spiral galaxy, Circular motion, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, Perpendicular, 10. No inequality, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy rotation curve, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: The observed velocities of the gas in barred galaxies are a combination of the azimuthally-averaged circular velocity and non-circular motions, primarily caused by gas streaming along the bar. These non-circular flows must be accounted for before the observed velocities can be used in mass modeling. In this work, we examine the performance of the tilted-ring method and the DiskFit algorithm for transforming velocity maps of barred spiral galaxies into rotation curves (RCs) using simulated data. We find that the tilted-ring method, which does not account for streaming motions, under/over-estimates the circular motions when the bar is parallel/perpendicular to the projected major axis. DiskFit, which does include streaming motions, is limited to orientations where the bar is not-aligned with either the major or minor axis of the image. Therefore, we propose a method of correcting RCs based on numerical simulations of galaxies. We correct the RC derived from the tilted-ring method based on a numerical simulation of a galaxy with similar properties and projections as the observed galaxy. Using observations of NGC 3319, which has a bar aligned with the major axis, as a test case, we show that the inferred mass models from the uncorrected and corrected RCs are significantly different. These results show the importance of correcting for the non-circular motions and demonstrate that new methods of accounting for these motions are necessary as current methods fail for specific bar alignments., 18 pages, 15 figures, MNRAS accepted
Published: 2015
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45. HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF PHIBSS z ∼ 2 MAIN-SEQUENCE GALAXIES IN CO J = 1 → 0

Author: Alberto D. Bolatto, N. M. Förster Schreiber, Linda J. Tacconi, Andreas Burkert, David Fisher, Steven R. Warren, Amélie Saintonge, Stijn Wuyts, Achim Weiss, Reinhard Genzel, F. Bournaud, Francoise Combes, Adam Leroy, Santiago García-Burillo, M. C. Cooper, Nicolas Bouché, Amiel Sternberg, Department of Astronomy [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Departamento de Ciência do Solo, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), University College of London [London] (UCL), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Observatorio Astronomico Nacional [Madrid] (OAN), Instituto Geografico Nacional (IGN), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Institut of Physics - Riga, Latvian Academy of Sciences, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo (USP), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Star formation, Sigma, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, Projection (relational algebra), Space and Planetary Science, Brightness temperature, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Excitation, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Line (formation)
Abstract: We present Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array observations of the CO J=1-0 transition in a sample of four $z\sim2$ main sequence galaxies. These galaxies are in the blue sequence of star-forming galaxies at their redshift, and are part of the IRAM Plateau de Bure HIgh-$z$ Blue Sequence Survey (PHIBSS) which imaged them in CO J=3-2. Two galaxies are imaged here at high signal-to-noise, allowing determinations of their disk sizes, line profiles, molecular surface densities, and excitation. Using these and published measurements, we show that the CO and optical disks have similar sizes in main-sequence galaxies, and in the galaxy where we can compare CO J=1-0 and J=3-2 sizes we find these are also very similar. Assuming a Galactic CO-to-H$_2$ conversion, we measure surface densities of $\Sigma_{mol}\sim1200$ M$_\odot$pc$^{-2}$ in projection and estimate $\Sigma_{mol}\sim500-900$ M$_\odot$pc$^{-2}$ deprojected. Finally, our data yields velocity-integrated Rayleigh-Jeans brightness temperature line ratios $r_{31}$ that are approximately unity. In addition to the similar disk sizes, the very similar line profiles in J=1-0 and J=3-2 indicate that both transitions sample the same kinematics, implying that their emission is coextensive. We conclude that in these two main sequence galaxies there is no evidence for significant excitation gradients or a large molecular reservoir that is diffuse or cold and not involved in active star-formation. We suggest that $r_{31}$ in very actively star-forming galaxies is likely an indicator of how well mixed the star formation activity and the molecular reservoir are., Comment: To appear in ApJ
Published: 2015
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46. The nuclear gas disk of NGC 1566 dissected by SINFONI and ALMA

Author: Francoise Combes, Gerold Busch, Andreas Eckart, Santiago García-Burillo, Lydia Moser, Monica Valencia-S., Semir Smajic, Matthew Horrobin, RTM - Alpes de Haute Provence - Digne les Bains, ONF - RTM - Alpes de Haute Provence - Digne les Bains, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN), oan, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, and Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid
Subjects: Hydrogen, Stellar population, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Spiral galaxy, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Torus, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, chemistry, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Equivalent width, Excitation
Abstract: We present the results of near-infrared H- and K-band European Southern Observatory SINFONI integral field spectroscopy of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1566. We investigate the central kpc of this nearby galaxy, concentrating on excitation conditions, morphology, and stellar content. NGC 1566 was selected from our NUGA (-south) sample and is a ringed, spiral galaxy with a stellar bar. We present emission and absorption line measurements in the central kpc of NGC 1566. Broad and narrow Br{\gamma} lines were detected. The detection of a broad Br{\gamma} component is a clear sign of a super-massive black hole in the center. Blackbody emission temperatures of ~1000 K are indicative of a hot dust component, the torus, in the nuclear region. The molecular hydrogen lines, hydrogen recombination lines, and [FeII] indicate that the excitation at the center is coming from an AGN. The central region is predominantly inhabited by molecular gas, dust, and an old K-M type giant stellar population. The molecular gas and stellar velocity maps both show a rotation pattern. The molecular gas velocity field shows a perturbation toward the center that is typical for bars or spiral density waves. The molecular gas species of warm H_2(1-0)S(1) and cold ^{12}CO(3-2) gas trace a nuclear gas disk of about 3" in radius with a nuclear spiral reaching toward the nucleus. From the equivalent width of H_2(1-0)S(1) a molecular ring with r, Comment: 20 pages, 16 figures, NUGA, Active Galaxies, AGN
Published: 2015
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47. Ram Pressure Stripping in the Virgo Cluster

Author: P. Salomé, Jonathan Braine, Kalliopi Dasyra, C. Verdugo, Francoise Combes, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), FORMATION STELLAIRE 2015, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: Physics, galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium, Star formation, Molecular cloud, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Virgo Cluster, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Ram pressure, Plume, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Intracluster medium, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: interactions, galaxies: clusters: individual: Virgo, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], galaxies: evolution, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: ISM
Abstract: International audience; Gas can be violently stripped from their galaxy disks in rich clusters, and be dispersed over 100kpc-scale tails or plumes. Young stars have been observed in these tails, suggesting they are formed in situ. This will contribute to the intracluster light, in addition to tidal stripping of old stars. We want to quantify the efficiency of intracluster star formation. We present CO(1--0) and CO(2--1) observations, made with the IRAM-30m telescope, towards the ram-pressure stripped tail northeast of NGC4388 in Virgo. HII regions found all along the tails, together with dust patches have been targeted. We detect molecular gas in 4 positions along the tail, with masses between 7x10$^5$ to 2x10$^6$ M$_\odot$. Given the large distance from the NGC 4388 galaxy, the molecular clouds must have formed in situ, from the HI gas plume. We compute the relation between surface densities of star formation and molecular gas in these regions, and find that the star formation has very low efficiency. The corresponding depletion time of the molecular gas can be up to 500 Gyr and more. Since this value exceeds a by far Hubble time, this gas will not be converted into stars, and will stay in a gaseous phase to join the intracluster medium.
Published: 2015
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48. Reconstructing the star formation history of the Milky Way disc(s) from chemical abundances

Author: Misha Haywood, A. E. Gomez, O. Snaith, D. Katz, P. Di Matteo, Francoise Combes, Matthew D. Lehnert, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Stellar mass, Star formation, Milky Way, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Accretion (astrophysics), Galaxy, Interstellar medium, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Galaxy formation and evolution, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Disc, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: We develop a chemical evolution model in order to study the star formation history of the Milky Way. Our model assumes that the Milky Way is formed from a closed box-like system in the inner regions, while the outer parts of the disc experience some accretion. Unlike the usual procedure, we do not fix the star formation prescription (e.g. Kennicutt law) in order to reproduce the chemical abundance trends. Instead, we fit the abundance trends with age in order to recover the star formation history of the Galaxy. Our method enables one to recover with unprecedented accuracy the star formation history of the Milky Way in the first Gyrs, in both the inner (R9-10kpc) discs as sampled in the solar vicinity. We show that, in the inner disc, half of the stellar mass formed during the thick disc phase, in the first 4-5 Gyr. This phase was followed by a significant dip in the star formation activity (at 8-9 Gyr) and a period of roughly constant lower level star formation for the remaining 8 Gyr. The thick disc phase has produced as many metals in 4 Gyr as the thin disc in the remaining 8 Gyr. Our results suggest that a closed box model is able to fit all the available constraints in the inner disc. A closed box system is qualitatively equivalent to a regime where the accretion rate, at high redshift, maintains a high gas fraction in the inner disc. In such conditions, the SFR is mainly governed by the high turbulence of the ISM. By z~1 it is possible that most of the accretion takes place in the outer disc, while the star formation activity in the inner disc is mostly sustained by the gas not consumed during the thick disc phase, and the continuous ejecta from earlier generations of stars. The outer disc follows a star formation history very similar to that of the inner disc, although initiated at z~2, about 2 Gyr before the onset of the thin disc formation in the inner disc., 30 pages, 18 figures, 3 tables, accepted by A&A - minor stylistic changes
Published: 2015
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49. Quantifying stellar radial migration in an N -body simulation: blurring, churning, and the outer regions of galaxy discs

Author: Misha Haywood, Francoise Combes, A. Halle, P. Di Matteo, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie
Subjects: Angular momentum, N-body simulation, Milky Way, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Churning, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], education.field_of_study, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Radius, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Lindblad resonance
Abstract: Radial stellar migration in galactic discs has received much attention in studies of galactic dynamics and chemical evolution, but remains a dynamical phenomenon that needs to be fully quantified. In this work, using a Tree-SPH simulation of an Sb-type disc galaxy, we quantify the effects of blurring (epicyclic excursions) and churning (change of guiding radius). We quantify migration (either blurring or churning) both in terms of flux (the number of migrators passing at a given radius), and by estimating the population of migrators at a given radius at the end of the simulation compared to non-migrators, but also by giving the distance over which the migration is effective at all radii. We confirm that the corotation of the bar is the main source of migrators by churning in a bar-dominated galaxy, its intensity being directly linked to the episode of a strong bar, in the first 1-3 Gyr of the simulation. We show that within the outer Lindblad resonance (OLR), migration is strongly dominated by churning, while blurring gains progressively more importance towards the outer disc and at later times. Most importantly, we show that the OLR limits the exchange of angular momentum, separating the disc in two distinct parts with minimal or null exchange, except in the transition zone, which is delimited by the position of the OLR at the epoch of the formation of the bar, and at the final epoch. We discuss the consequences of these findings for our understanding of the structure of the Milky Way disc. Because the Sun is situated slightly outside the OLR, we suggest that the solar vicinity may have experienced very limited churning from the inner disc., Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics (acceptance date: 27/04/15), 24 pages, 24 figures
Published: 2015
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50. Molecular gas content in strongly lensed z similar to 1.5-3 star-forming galaxies with low infrared luminosities

Author: Dessauges-Zavadsky, M., Zamojski, M., Schaerer, D., Combes, F., Egami, E., Swinbank, A. M., Richard, J., Sklias, P., Rawle, T. D., Rex, M., Kneib, J-P., Boone, F., Blain, A., Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genève (ObsGE), Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France - Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Department of Physics, Durham University, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Herschel Science Centre, Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Services communs OMP (UMS 831), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AUTRES, Department of Physics and Astronomy [Leicester], University of Leicester, Université de Genève (UNIGE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Galaxies et cosmologie, École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), European Space Agency (ESA), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)
Subjects: galaxies: high-redshift, cosmology: observations, gravitational lensing: strong, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ISM: molecules
Abstract: International audience; To extend the molecular gas measurements to more typical star-forming galaxies (SFGs) with star formation rates SFR \textless 40 M-circle dot yr(-1) and stellar masses M-* \textless 2.5 x 10(10) M-circle dot at z similar to 1.5-3, we have observed CO emission with the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer and the IRAM 30 m telescope for five strongly lensed galaxies, selected from the Herschel Lensing Survey. These observations are combined with a compilation of CO measurements from the literature. From this, we infer the CO luminosity correction factors r(2,1) = 0.81 +/- 0.20 and r(3,1) = 0.57 +/- 0.15 for the J = 2 and J = 3 CO transitions, respectively, valid for SFGs at z \textgreater 1. The combined sample of CO-detected SFGs at z \textgreater 1 shows a large spread in star formation efficiency (SFE) with a dispersion of 0.33 dex, such that the SFE extends well beyond the low values of local spirals and overlaps the distribution of z \textgreater 1 submm galaxies. We find that the spread in SFE (or equivalently in molecular gas depletion timescale) is due to the variations of several physical parameters, primarily the specific star formation rate, and also stellar mass and redshift. The dependence of SFE on the offset from the main sequence and the compactness of the starburst is less clear. The possible increase of the molecular gas depletion timescale with stellar mass, now revealed by low M-* SFGs at z \textgreater 1 and also observed at z = 0, contrasts with the generally acknowledged constant molecular gas depletion timescale and refutes the linearity of the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation. A net rise of the molecular gas fraction (f(gas)) is observed from z similar to 0.2 to z similar to 1.2, followed by a very mild increase toward higher redshifts, as found in earlier studies. At each redshift the molecular gas fraction shows a large dispersion, mainly due to the dependence of f(gas) on stellar mass, producing a gradient of increasing f(gas) with decreasing M-*. We provide the first measurement of the molecular gas fraction of z \textgreater 1 SFGs at the low-M-* end between 10(9.4) \textless M-*/M-circle dot \textless 10(9.9), reaching a mean af(gas)o = 0.69 +/- 0.18, which shows a clear f(gas) upturn at these lower stellar masses. Finally, we find evidence for a nonuniversal dust-to-gas ratio among high-redshift SFGs, high-redshift submm galaxies, local spirals, and local ultraluminous IR galaxies with near-solar metallicities, as inferred from a homogeneous analysis of their rest-frame 850 mu m luminosity per unit gas mass. The SFGs with z \textgreater 1 show a trend for a lower L-nu(850 mu m)/M-gas mean by 0.33 dex compared to the other galaxy populations.
Published: 2015
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