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We present the luminosity function of [OII]-emitting galaxies at a median redshift of z=0.9, as measured in the deep spectroscopic data in the STIS Parallel Survey (SPS). The luminosity function shows strong evolution from the local value,…

Deep multi-color galaxy surveys with photometric redshifts will provide a large number of two-point correlation observables: galaxy-galaxy angular correlations, galaxy-shear cross correlations, and shear-shear correlations between all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wayne Hu , Bhuvnesh Jain

We present the catalog of ~31500 extragalactic HI line sources detected by the completed ALFALFA survey out to z < 0.06 including both high signal-to-noise ratio (> 6.5) detections and ones of lower quality which coincide in both position…

Giant radio halos (RH) are Mpc-scale synchrotron sources detected in a significant fraction of massive and merging galaxy clusters.Their statistical properties can be used to discriminate among various models for their origin. Theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. Cassano , G. Brunetti , Ray P. Norris , H. J. A. Roettgering , M. Johnston-Hollitt , M. Trasatti

We present results from VLBI observations of continuum and OH line emission in IRAS 02524+2046 and also arcsecond-scale radio properties of this galaxy using VLA archive data. We found that there is no significant detection of radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Hao Peng , Zhongzu Wu , Bo Zhang , Yongjun Chen , Xingwu Zheng , Dongrong Jiang , Zhiqiang Shen , Xi Chen , Sotnikova , Yu. V

We report the results of a search for 6.7 GHz methanol (CH3OH) maser emission in OH megamaser galaxies at 0.11<z<0.27. No detections were made in the 25 objects observed down to rms noise levels of roughly 0.6 mJy in 150 kHz channels. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeremy Darling , Paul Goldsmith , Di Li , Riccardo Giovanelli

We use the HI-selected galaxy sample from the Arecibo Dual-Beam Survey (Rosenberg & Schneider 2000) to determine the shape of the HI mass function of galaxies in the local universe using both the step-wise maximum likelihood and the 1/V_tot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jessica L. Rosenberg , Stephen E. Schneider

We have obtained OH spectra of four transitions in the $^2\Pi_{3/2}$ ground state, at 1612, 1665, 1667, and 1720 MHz, toward 51 sightlines that were observed in the Herschel project Galactic Observations of Terahertz C+. The observations…

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) coalescence in galaxy mergers is believed to be one of the primary sources of very low frequency gravitational waves (GWs). Significant contribution of the GWs comes from mergers of massive galaxies with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Z. L. Wen , F. S. Liu , J. L. Han

OH masers at 1720 MHz have proven to be excellent indicators of interactions between supernova remnants and molecular clouds. OH excitation calculations suggest that the 6049 MHz OH maser line is excited for higher column densities than for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-28 Korinne E. McDonnell , Mark Wardle , Alan E. Vaughan

Supermassive black holes presumably grow through numerous mergers throughout cosmic time. During each merger, supermassive black hole binaries are surrounded by a circumbinary accretion disk that imposes a significant (~1e4 G for a binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 David L. Kaplan , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Alberto Sesana , Marta Volonteri

We present detailed simulations of black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) mergers kilonova and gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow and kilonova luminosity function, and discuss the detectability of electromagnetic (EM) counterpart in connection with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-12 Jin-Ping Zhu , Shichao Wu , Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang , He Gao , Yun-Wei Yu , Zhuo Li , Zhoujian Cao , Liang-Duan Liu , Yan Huang , Xing-Han Zhang

We select a close "major-merger candidate" galaxy pair sample in order to calculate the K_{s} luminosity function (LF) and pair fraction representative of the merger/interaction component of galaxy evolution in the local universe. The pair…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-29 Donovan L. Domingue , C. K. Xu , T. H. Jarrett , Y. Cheng

We used Arecibo Observatory and the Green Bank Telescope to observe OH in twelve early-type galaxies with known reservoirs of dense gas. We present three new detections of OH in absorption in the 1667 MHz line. One objective of our survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 James McBride , Katherine Alatalo , Kristina Nyland

We analyze the distribution of galaxy HI masses detected in a large, deep HI survey conducted at the Arecibo observatory, and we find possible evidence of a faint-end steepening of the mass function similar to what has been found optically.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen E. Schneider , John G. Spitzak , Jessica L. Rosenberg

Context: OH masers trace diverse physical processes, from the expanding envelopes around evolved stars to star-forming regions or supernovae remnants. Aims: We identify the ground-state OH masers at 18cm wavelength in the area covered by…

A Square Kilometer Array radio telescope will detect tens of thousands of galaxies per square degree in the 21cm emission line of neutral hydrogen. The telescope will be sensitive to ordinary galaxy populations at redshifts z>3 when the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. H. Briggs

There is growing evidence that intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), defined here as having a mass in the range M=500-10^5 Msun, are present in the dense centers of certain globular clusters (GCs). Gravitational waves (GWs) from their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-20 Ely D. Kovetz , Ilias Cholis , Marc Kamionkowski , Joseph Silk

We carried out the largest ($>3.5\times10^5$ Mpc$^3$, 26 deg$^2$) H$\alpha$ narrow band survey to date at $z\sim0.2$ in the SA22, W2 and XMMLSS extragalactic fields. Our survey covers a large enough volume to overcome cosmic variance and to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 Andra Stroe , David Sobral

We present the results of our observations using the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) to investigate the radio continuum and OH line emission of 10 OHM candidates from the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey. Among these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-07 Shouzhi Wang , Zhongzu Wu , Bo Zhang , Yu. Sotnikova , T. Mufakharov , Zhiqiang Shen , Yongjun Chen , Jianfeng Wu