Browsing by Author "Weiss, A."

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    A. survey of the cold molecular gas in gravitationally lensed star-forming galaxies at z > 2
    (2016) Aravena, M.; Spilker, J.; Bethermin, M.; Bothwell, M.; Chapman, S.; De Breuck, C.; Furstenau, R.; González López, Jorge; Greve, T.; Litke, K.; Ma, J.; Malkan, M.; Marrone, D.; Murphy, E.; Stark, A.; Strandet, M.; Vieira, J.; Weiss, A.; Welikala, N.; Wong, G.; Collier, J.
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    ALMA spectroscopic survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Continuum number counts, resolved 1.2-mm extragalactic background, and properties of the faintest dusty star forming galaxies
    (2016) Bauer, Franz Erik; Aravena, M.; Decarli, R.; Walter, F.; Da Cunha, E.; Carilli, C.; Daddi, E.; Elbaz, D.; Ivison, R.; Riechers, D.; Smail, I.; Weiss, A.; Anguita, T.; Bell, E.; Bertoldi, F.; Bacon, R.
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    ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Search for [CII] line and dust emission in 6 < z < 8 galaxies
    (2016) Aravena, M.; Decarli, R.; Walter, F.; Bouwens, R.; Oesch, P.; Carilli, C.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Da Cunha, E.; Daddi, E.; González, J.; Ivison, R.; Riechers, D.; Smail, I.; Swinbank, A.; Weiss, A.; Anguita, T.; Bacon, R.
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    Gas, dust, and the CO-to-molecular gas conversion factor in low-metallicity starbursts⋆
    (2023) Hunt, L. K.; Belfiore, F.; Lelli, F.; Draine, B. T.; Marasco, A.; Garcia-Burillo, S.; Venturi, G.; Combes, F.; Weiss, A.; Henkel, C.; Menten, K. M.; Annibali, F.; Casasola, V.; Cignoni, M.; McLeod, A.; Tosi, M.; Beltran, M.; Concas, A.; Cresci, G.; Ginolfi, M.; Kumari, N.; Mannucci, F.
    The factor relating CO emission to molecular hydrogen column density, X-CO, is still subject to uncertainty, in particular at low metallicity. In this paper, to quantify X-CO at two different spatial resolutions, we exploited a dust-based method together with ALMA 12-m and ACA data and H I maps of three nearby metal-poor starbursts, NGC 625, NGC 1705, and NGC 5253. Dust opacity at 250 pc resolution was derived based on dust temperatures estimated by fitting two-temperature modified blackbodies to Herschel PACS data. By using the HI maps, we were then able to estimate dust-to-gas ratios in the regions dominated by atomic gas, and, throughout the galaxy, to infer total gas column densities and H-2 column densities as the difference with HI. Finally, from the ACA CO(1-0) maps, we derived X-CO. We used a similar technique with 40 pc ALMA 12-m data for the three galaxies, but instead derived dust attenuation at 40 pc resolution from reddening maps based on VLT/MUSE data. At 250 pc resolution, we find X-CO  & SIM; 10(22) - 10(23) cm(-2)/K km s(-1), 5-1000 times the Milky Way value, with much larger values than would be expected from a simple metallicity dependence. Instead, at 40 pc resolution, X-CO again shows large variation, but is roughly consistent with a power-law metallicity dependence, given the Z  & SIM; 1/3 Z(& ODOT;) metal abundances of our targets. The large scatter in both estimations could imply additional parameter dependence, which we have investigated by comparing X-CO with the observed velocity-integrated brightness temperatures, I-CO, as predicted by recent simulations. Indeed, larger X-CO is significantly correlated with smaller I-CO, but with slightly different slopes and normalizations than predicted by theory. Such behavior can be attributed to the increasing fraction of CO-faint (or dark) H-2 gas with lower spatial resolution (larger beams). This confirms the idea the X-CO is multivariate, depending not only on metallicity but also on the CO brightness temperature and beam size. Future work is needed to consolidate these empirical results by sampling galaxies with different metal abundances observed at varying spatial resolutions.
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    H2O emission in high-z ultra-luminous infrared galaxies
    (2013) Omont, A.; Yang, C.; Cox, P.; Neri, R.; Beelen, A.; Bussmann, R. S.; Gavazzi, R.; van der Werf, P.; Riechers, D.; Downes, D.; Krips, M.; Dye, S.; Ivison, R.; Vieira, J. D.; Weiss, A.; Aguirre, J. E.; Baes, M.; Baker, A. J.; Bertoldi, F.; Cooray, A.; Dannerbauer, H.; De Zotti, G.; Eales, S. A.; Fu, H.; Gao, Y.; Guelin, M.; Harris, A. I.; Jarvis, M.; Lehnert, M.; Leeuw, L.; Lupu, R.; Menten, K.; Michalowski, M. J.; Negrello, M.; Serjeant, S.; Temi, P.; Auld, R.; Dariush, A.; Dunne, L.; Fritz, J.; Hopwood, R.; Hoyos, C.; Ibar, E.; Maddox, S.; Smith, M. W. L.; Valiante, E.; Bock, J.; Bradford, C. M.; Glenn, J.; Scott, K. S.
    Using the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer (PdBI), we report the detection of water vapor in six new lensed ultra-luminous starburst galaxies at high redshift, discovered in the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS). The sources are detected either in the 2(02)-1(11) or 2(11)-2(02) H2O emission lines with integrated line fluxes ranging from 1.8 to 14 Jy km s(-1). The corresponding apparent luminosities are mu L-H2O similar to 3-12 x 10(8) L-circle dot, where mu is the lensing magnification factor (3 < mu < 12). These results confirm that H2O lines are among the strongest molecular lines in high-z ultra-luminous starburst galaxies, with intensities almost comparable to those of the high-J CO lines, and similar profiles and line widths (similar to 200-900 km s(-1)). With the current sensitivity of the PdBI, the water lines can therefore easily be detected in high-z lensed galaxies (with F(500 mu m) > 100 mJy) discovered in the Herschel surveys. Correcting the luminosities for amplification, using existing lensing models, L-H2O is found to have a strong dependence on the infrared luminosity, varying as similar to L-IR(1.2). This relation, which needs to be confirmed with better statistics, may indicate a role of radiative (infrared) excitation of the H2O lines, and implies that high-z galaxies with L-IR greater than or similar to 10(13) L-circle dot tend to be very strong emitters in water vapor, that have no equivalent in the local universe.
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    Mapping the stellar age of the Milky Way bulge with the VVV I. The method
    (2019) Surot, F.; Valenti, E.; Hidalgo, S.L.; Zoccali, Manuela; Sokmen, E.; Rejkuba, M.; Minniti, D.; Gonzalez, O.A.; Cassisi, S.; Renzini, O.; Weiss, A.
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    SPT 0538-50: PHYSICAL CONDITIONS IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM OF A STRONGLY LENSED DUSTY STAR-FORMING GALAXY AT z=2.8
    (2013) Bothwell, M. S.; Aguirre, J. E.; Chapman, S. C.; Marrone, D. P.; Vieira, J. D.; Ashby, M. L. N.; Aravena, M.; Benson, B. A.; Bock, J. J.; Bradford, C. M.; Brodwin, M.; Carlstrom, J. E.; Crawford, T. M.; De Breuck, C.; Downes, T. P.; Fassnacht, C. D.; Gonzalez, A. H.; Greve, T. R.; Gullberg, B.; Hezaveh, Y.; Holder, G. P.; Holzapfel, W. L.; Ibar, E.; Ivison, R.; Kamenetzky, J.; Keisler, R.; Lupu, R. E.; Ma, J.; Malkan, M.; McIntyre, V.; Murphy, E. J.; Nguyen, H. T.; Reichardt, C. L.; Rosenman, M.; Spilker, J. S.; Stalder, B.; Stark, A. A.; Strandet, M.; Vernet, J.; Weiss, A.; Welikala, N.
    We present observations of SPT-S J053816-5030.8, a gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxy (DSFG) at z = 2.7817 that was first discovered at millimeter wavelengths by the South Pole Telescope. SPT 0538-50 is typical of the brightest sources found by wide-field millimeter-wavelength surveys, being lensed by an intervening galaxy at moderate redshift (in this instance, at z = 0.441). We present a wide array of multi-wavelength spectroscopic and photometric data on SPT 0538-50, including data from ALMA, Herschel PACS and SPIRE, Hubble, Spitzer, the Very Large Telescope, ATCA, APEX, and the Submillimeter Array. We use high-resolution imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope to de-blend SPT 0538-50, separating DSFG emission from that of the foreground lens. Combined with a source model derived from ALMA imaging (which suggests a magnification factor of 21+/-4), we derive the intrinsic properties of SPT 0538-50, including the stellar mass, far-IR luminosity, star formation rate, molecular gas mass, and-using molecular line fluxes-the excitation conditions within the interstellar medium. The derived physical properties argue that we arewitnessing compact, merger-driven star formation in SPT 0538-50 similar to local starburst galaxies and unlike that seen in some other DSFGs at this epoch.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field : CO Excitation and Atomic Carbon in Star-forming Galaxies at z=1-3
    (2020) Boogaard, L. A.; van der Werf, P.; Weiss, A.; Popping, G.; Decarli, R.; Walter, F.; Aravena, M.; Bouwens, R.; Riechers, D.; González López, Jorge; Smail, I.; Carilli, C.; Kaasinen, M.; Daddi, E.; Cox, P.; Diaz Santos, T.; Inami, H.; Cortes, P. C.; Wagg, J.
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    The ALMA spectroscopic survey in the hubble ultra deep field : evolution of the molecular gas in CO-selected galaxies
    (2019) Aravena, M.; Decarli, R.; González López, Jorge; Boogaard, L.; Walter, F.; Carilli, C.; Popping, G.; Weiss, A.; Assef, R.J.; Bacon, R.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field : The Nature of the Faintest Dusty Star-forming Galaxies
    (2020) Aravena, M.; Boogaard, L.; Gonzalez-Lopez, J.; Decarli, R.; Walter, F.; Carilli, C. L.; Smail, I.; Weiss, A.; Assef, R. J.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Bouwens, R. J.; Cortes, P. C.; Cox, P.; da Cunha, E.; Daddi, E.; Diaz Santos, T.; Inami, H.; Ivison, R.; Novak, M.; Popping, G.; Riechers, D.; van der Werf, P.; Wagg, J.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Constraining the Molecular Content at log (M-*/M-circle dot) ∼ 9.5 with CO Stacking of MUSE-detected z ∼ 1.5 Galaxies
    (2020) Inami, H.; Decarli, R.; Walter, F.; Weiss, A.; Carilli, C.; Aravena, M.; Boogaard, L.; González López, Jorge; Popping, G.; Bauer, Franz Erik; da Cunha, E.; Bacon, R.; Contini, T.; Cortes, P. C.; Cox, P.; Daddi, E.; Diaz Santos, T.; Kaasinen, M.; Riechers, D. A.; Wagg, J.; van der Werf, P.; Wisotzki, L.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the HUDF : A Model to Explain Observed 1.1 and 0.85 mm Dust Continuum Number Counts
    (2020) Popping, G.; Walter, F.; Behroozi, P.; Gozález López, José Ignacio; Hayward, C. C.; Somerville, R. S.; van der Werf, P.; Aravena, M.; Assef, R. J.; Boogaard, L.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Cortes, P. C.; Cox, P.; Díaz Santos, T.; Decarli, R.; Franco, M.; Ivison, R.; Riechers, D.; Rix, H. W.; Weiss, A.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the HUDF : Deep 1.2 mm Continuum Number Counts
    (2020) Gonzalez Lopez, J.; Novak, M.; Decarli, R.; Walter, F.; Aravena, M.; Carilli, C.; Boogaard, L.; Popping, G.; Weiss, A.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Assef, R. J.; Bouwens, R.; Cortes, P. C.; Cox, P.; Daddi, E.; Cunha, E.; Diaz Santos, T.; Ivison, R.; Magnelli, B.; Riechers, D.; Smail, I.; van der Werf, P.; Wagg, J.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the HUDF : The Cosmic Dust and Gas Mass Densities in Galaxies up to z ∼ 3
    (2020) Magnelli, B.; Boogaard, L.; Decarli, R.; Gonzalez Lopez, J.; Novak, M.; Popping, G.; Smail, I.; Walter, F.; Aravena, M.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Assef, R. J.; Bertoldi, F.; Carilli, C.; Cortes, P. C.; da Cunha, E.; Daddi, E.; Diaz Santos, T.; Inami, H.; Ivison, R. J.; Le Fevre, O.; Oesch, P.; Riechers, D.; Rix, H. W.; Sargent, M. T.; van der Werf, P.; Wagg, J.; Weiss, A.
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    The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: CO Emission Lines and 3 mm Continuum Sources
    (2019) González López, Jorge; Decarli, R.; Pavesi, R.; Walter, F.; Aravena, M.; Carilli, C.; Boogaard, L.; Popping, G.; Weiss, A.; Assef, R.J.
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    The evolution of the Baryons associated with Galaxies averaged over cosmic time and space
    (2020) Walter, F.; Carilli, C.; Neeleman, M.; Decarli, R.; Popping, G.; Somerville, R. S.; Aravena, M.; Bertoldi, F.; Boogaard, L.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Cox, P.; Cunha, E. da; Magnelli, B.; Obreschkow, D.; Riechers, D.; Rix, H. W.; Smail, I.; Weiss, A.; Assef, R. J.; Bouwens, R.; Contini, T.; Cortés, P. C.; Daddi, E.; Díaz Santos, T.; González López, Jorge; Hennawi, J.; Hodge, J. A.; Inami, H.; Ivison, R.; Oesch, P.; Sargent, M.; Werf, P. van der; Wagg, J.; Yung, L. Y. A.