The astrophysics of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays

K Kotera, AV Olinto - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The origin of the highest energy cosmic rays is still unknown. The discovery of their sources
is expected to reveal the workings of the most energetic astrophysical accelerators in the …

UV luminosity functions at redshifts z∼ 4 to z∼ 10: 10,000 galaxies from HST legacy fields

RJ Bouwens, GD Illingworth, PA Oesch… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The remarkable Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data sets from the CANDELS,
HUDF09, HUDF12, ERS, and BoRG/HIPPIES programs have allowed us to map the …

A repeating fast radio burst source localized to a nearby spiral galaxy

B Marcote, K Nimmo, JWT Hessels, SP Tendulkar… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, bright, extragalactic radio flashes,. Their physical origin
remains unknown, but dozens of possible models have been postulated. Some FRB sources …

The physical properties of star-forming galaxies in the low-redshift Universe

J Brinchmann, S Charlot, SDM White… - Monthly notices of …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We present a comprehensive study of the physical properties of∼ 105 galaxies with
measurable star formation in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). By comparing physical …

Mass and Environment as Drivers of Galaxy Evolution in SDSS and zCOSMOS and the Origin of the Schechter Function

Y Peng, SJ Lilly, K Kovač, M Bolzonella… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the simple inter-relationships between mass, star formation rate, and
environment in the SDSS, zCOSMOS, and other deep surveys. We take a purely empirical …

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from cosmic shear

MA Troxel, N MacCrann, J Zuntz, TF Eifler, E Krause… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
We use 26× 10 6 galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 shape catalogs over
1321 deg 2 of the sky to produce the most significant measurement of cosmic shear in a …

How do galaxies get their gas?

D Kereš, N Katz, DH Weinberg… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We examine the temperature history of gas accreted by forming galaxies in smoothed
particle hydrodynamics simulations. About half of the gas follows the track expected in the …

Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 7 galaxy sample

WJ Percival, BA Reid, DJ Eisenstein… - Monthly Notices of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) galaxy
sample represents the final set of galaxies observed using the original SDSS target …

The M–σ and M–L relations in galactic bulges, and determinations of their intrinsic scatter

K Gültekin, DO Richstone, K Gebhardt… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We derive improved versions of the relations between supermassive black hole mass (M
BH) and host-galaxy bulge velocity dispersion (σ) and luminosity (L; the M–σ and M–L …

The three-dimensional power spectrum of galaxies from the sloan digital sky survey

M Tegmark, MR Blanton, MA Strauss… - The Astrophysical …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P (k) by using a sample of 205,443
galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, covering 2417 effective square degrees with …