Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 154:1 (2017) ARTN 28

Authors:

MR Blanton, MA Bershady, B Abolfathi, FD Albareti, C Allende Prieto, A Almeida, J Alonso-Garcia, F Anders, SF Anderson, B Andrews, E Aquino-Ortiz, A Aragon-Salamanca, M Argudo-Fernandez, E Armengaud, E Aubourg, V Avila-Reese, C Badenes, S Bailey, KA Barger, J Barrera-Ballesteros, C Bartosz, D Bates, F Baumgarten, J Bautista, R Beaton, TC Beers, F Belfiore, CF Bender, AA Berlind, M Bernardi, F Beutler, JC Bird, D Bizyaev, GA Blanc, M Blomqvist, AS Bolton, M Boquien, J Borissova, R Van den Bosch, J Bovy, WN Brandt, J Brinkmann, JR Brownstein, K Bundy, AJ Burgasser, E Burtin, NG Busca, M Cappellari, ML Delgado Carigi, JK Carlberg, AC Rosell, R Carrera, NJ Chanover, B Cherinka, E Cheung, YG Maqueo Chew, C Chiappini, PD Choi, D Chojnowski, C-H Chuang, H Chung, RF Cirolini, N Clerc, RE Cohen, J Comparat, L da Costa, M-C Cousinou, K Covey, JD Crane, RAC Croft, I Cruz-Gonzalez, D Garrido Cuadra, K Cunha, GJ Damke, J Darling, R Davies, K Dawson, A de la Macorra, F Dell'Agli, N De Lee, T Delubac, F Di Mille, A Diamond-Stanic, M Cano-Diaz, J Donor, J Jose Downes, N Drory, HDM des Bourboux, CJ Duckworth, T Dwelly, J Dyer, G Ebelke, AD Eigenbrot, DJ Eisenstein, E Emsellem, M Eracleous, S Escoffier, ML Evans, X Fan, E Fernandez-Alvar, JG Fernandez-Trincado, DK Feuillet, A Finoguenov, SW Fleming, A Font-Ribera, A Fredrickson, G Freischlad, PM Frinchaboy, CE Fuentes, L Galbany, R Garcia-Dias, DA Garcia-Hernandez, P Gaulme, D Geisler, JD Gelfand, H Gil-Marin, BA Gillespie, D Goddard, V Gonzalez-Perez, K Grabowski, PJ Green, CJ Grier, JE Gunn, H Guo, J Guy, A Hagen, C Hahn, M Hall, P Harding, S Hasselquist, SL Hawley, F Hearty, JI Gonzalez Hernandez, S Ho, DW Hogg, K Holley-Bockelmann, JA Holtzman, PH Holzer, J Huehnerhoff, TA Hutchinson, HS Hwang, HJ Ibarra-Medel, GDS Ilha, II Ivans, K Ivory, K Jackson, TW Jensen, JA Johnson, A Jones, H Jonsson, E Jullo, V Kamble, K Kinemuchi, D Kirkby, F-S Kitaura, M Klaene, GR Knapp, J-P Kneib, JA Kollmeier, I Lacerna, RR Lane, D Lang, DR Law, D Lazarz, Y Lee, J-M Le Goff, F-H Liang, C Li, H Li, J Lian, M Lima, L Lin, Y-T Lin, SB de Lis, C Liu, MAC de Icaza Lizaola, D Long, S Lucatello, B Lundgren, NK MacDonald, AD Machado, CL MacLeod, S Mahadevan, MA Geimba Maia, R Maiolino, SR Majewski, E Malanushenko, V Malanushenko, A Manchado, S Mao, C Maraston, R Marques-Chaves, T Masseron, KL Masters, CK McBride, RM McDermid, B McGrath, ID McGreer, N Medina Pena, M Melendez, A Merloni, MR Merrifield, S Meszaros, A Meza, I Minchev, D Minniti, T Miyaji, S More, J Mulchaey, F Muller-Sanchez, D Muna, RR Munoz, AD Myers, P Nair, K Nandra, JC do Nascimento, A Negrete, M Ness, JA Newman, RC Nichol, DL Nidever, C Nitschelm, P Ntelis, JE O'Connell, RJ Oelkers, A Oravetz, D Oravetz, Z Pace, N Padilla, N Palanque-Delabrouille, P Alonso Palicio, K Pan, JK Parejko, T Parikh, I Paris, C Park, AY Patten, S Peirani, M Pellejero-Ibanez, S Penny, WJ Percival, I Perez-Fournon, P Petitjean, MM Pieri, M Pinsonneault, A Pisani, R Poleski, F Prada, A Prakash, AB de Andrade Queiroz, MJ Raddick, A Raichoor, SB Rembold, H Richstein, RA Riffel, R Riffel, H-W Rix, AC Robin, CM Rockosi, S Rodriguez-Torres, A Roman-Lopes, C Roman-Zuniga, M Rosado, AJ Ross, G Rossi, J Ruan, R Ruggeri, ES Rykoff, S Salazar-Albornoz, M Salvato, AG Sanchez, DS Aguado, JR Sanchez-Gallego, FA Santana, BX Santiago, C Sayres, RP Schiavon, JDS Schimoia, EF Schlafly, DJ Schlegel, DP Schneider, M Schultheis, WJ Schuster, A Schwope, H-J Seo, Z Shao, S Shen, M Shetrone, M Shull, JD Simon, D Skinner, MF Skrutskie, A Slosar, VV Smith, JS Sobeck, F Sobreira, G Somers, D Souto, DV Stark, K Stassun, F Stauffer, M Steinmetz, T Storchi-Bergmann, A Streblyanska, GS Stringfellow, G Suarez, J Sun, N Suzuki, L Szigeti, M Taghizadeh-Popp, B Tang, C Tao, J Tayar, M Tembe, J Teske, AR Thakar, D Thomas, BA Thompson, JL Tinker, P Tissera, R Tojeiro, H Hernandez Toledo, S de la Torre, C Tremonti, NW Troup, O Valenzuela, I Martinez Valpuesta, J Vargas-Gonzalez, M Vargas-Magana, J Alberto Vazquez, S Villanova, M Vivek, N Vogt, D Wake, R Walterbos, Y Wang, BA Weaver, A-M Weijmans, DH Weinberg, KB Westfall, DG Whelan, V Wild, J Wilson, WM Wood-Vasey, D Wylezalek, T Xiao, R Yan, M Yang, JE Ybarra, C Yeche, N Zakamska, O Zamora, P Zarrouk, G Zasowski, K Zhang, G-B Zhao, Z Zheng, Z Zheng, X Zhou, Z-M Zhou, GB Zhu, M Zoccali, H Zou

WISDOM Project - II. Molecular gas measurement of the supermassive black hole mass in NGC 4697

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 468:4 (2017) 4675-4690

Authors:

TA Davis, M Bureau, K Onishi, M Cappellari, S Iguchi, M Sarzi

WISDOM project - I. Black hole mass measurement using molecular gas kinematics in NGC 3665

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 468:4 (2017) 4663-4674

Authors:

K Onishi, S Iguchi, TA Davis, M Bureau, M Cappellari, M Sarzi, L Blitz

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the cluster redshift survey, target selection and cluster properties

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 468:2 (2017) 1824-1849

Authors:

MS Owers, JT Allen, I Baldry, JJ Bryant, GN Cecil, L Cortese, SM Croom, SP Driver, LMR Fogarty, AW Green, E Helmich, JTA De Jong, K Kuijken, S Mahajan, J McFarland, MB Pracy, AGS Robotham, G Sikkema, S Sweet, EN Taylor, GV Kleijn, AE Bauer, J Bland-Hawthorn, S Brough, M Colless, WJ Couch, RL Davies, MJ Drinkwater, M Goodwin, AM Hopkins, IS Konstantopoulos, C Foster, JS Lawrence, NPF Lorente, AM Medling, N Metcalfe, SN Richards, JV De Sande, N Scott, T Shanks, R Sharp, AD Thomas, C Tonini

DES15E2mlf: a spectroscopically confirmed superluminous supernova that exploded 3.5 Gyr after the big bang

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 470:4 (2017) 4241-4250

Authors:

Y-C Pan, RJ Foley, M Smith, L Galbany, CB D’Andrea, S Gonzalez-Gaitan, Matthew J Jarvis, R Kessler, E Kovacs, C Lidman, RC Nichol, A Papadopoulos, M Sako, M Sullivan, TMC Abbott, FB Abdalla, J Annis, K Bechtol, A Benoit-Lévy, D Brooks, E Buckley-Geer, DL Burke, AC Rosell, M Carrasco Kind, J Carretero, FJ Castander, CE Cunha, LN da Costa, S Desai, HT Diehl, P Doel, TF Eifler, DA Finley, B Flaugher, J Frieman, J García-Bellido, DA Goldstein, D Gruen, RA Gruendl, J Gschwend, G Gutierrez, DJ James, AG Kim, E Krause, K Kuehn, N Kuropatkin, O Lahav, M Lima, M March

Abstract:

We present the Dark Energy Survey (DES) discovery of DES15E2mlf, the most distant superluminous supernova (SLSN) spectroscopically confirmed to date. The light curves and Gemini spectroscopy of DES15E2mlf indicate that it is a Type I superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) at z = 1.861 (a lookback time of ~10 Gyr) and peaking at M_AB = -22.3 +/- 0.1 mag. Given the high redshift, our data probe the rest-frame ultraviolet (1400-3500 A) properties of the SN, finding velocity of the C III feature changes by ~5600 km/s over 14 days around maximum light. We find the host galaxy of DES15E2mlf has a stellar mass of 3.5^+3.6_-2.4 x 10^9 M_sun, which is more massive than the typical SLSN-I host galaxy.