Astrophysical: Galaxies

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    Bright submillimeter galaxies do trace galaxy protoclusters
    There is controversy in the literature regarding whether distant, massive, and dusty starbursts selected at (sub)millimeter wavelengths can trace galaxy...
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    Broad absorption line quasars with redshifted troughs: high-velocity infall or rotationally dominated outflows?
    We report the discovery in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of 17 broad absorption line (BAL)...
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    Broad Components in Optical Emission Lines from the Ultra-luminous X-ray Source NGC 5408 X-1
    High-resolution optical spectra of the ultra-luminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 5408 X-1 show a broad component with a width of ~750 km s-1 in the He II and Hβ...
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    Broad Low-Intensity Wings in the Emission-Line Profiles of Four Wolf-Rayet Galaxies
    High-resolution spectroscopic observations have been obtained for the Wolf-Rayet galaxies He 2-10, II Zw 40, POX 4, and Tol 35. Several subregions have been...
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    Broad-band continuum and line emission of the gamma-ray blazar PKS 0537-441
    PKS 0537-441, a bright gamma -ray emitting blazar, was observed at radio, optical, UV and X-ray frequencies during various EGRET pointings, often quasi...
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    Broadband characterisation of the very intense TeV flares of the blazar 1ES 1959+650 in 2016
    1ES 1959+650 is a bright TeV high-frequency-peaked BL Lac object exhibiting interesting features like "orphan" TeV flares and broad emission in the high-energy...
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    Broadband multi-wavelength properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT campaign including a very high energy flaring episode
    Context. The nearby elliptical galaxy M87 contains one of only two supermassive black holes whose emission surrounding the event horizon has been imaged by the...
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    BUBBLY: a method for detecting and characterizing interstellar bubbles using Fabry-Perot spectroscopy
    We present a new method for the detection and characterization of expansion in galaxy discs based on Hα Fabry-Perot spectroscopy, taking advantage of the high...
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    Building galaxies, stars, planets and the ingredients for life between the stars. The science behind the European Ultraviolet-Visible Observatory
    This contribution gathers the contents of the white paper submitted by the UV community to the Call issued by the European Space Agency in March 2013, for the...