# 16 Jun 2017

• (abs, pdf) Stefanon et al., HST imaging of the brightest z~8-9 galaxies from UltraVISTA: the extreme bright end of the UV luminosity function
• (abs, pdf) Smit et al., Measurement of rotation in two galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization from ALMA-detected [CII] emission
• (abs, pdf) Rey & Pontzen, Quadratic genetic modifications: a streamlined route to cosmological simulations with controlled merger history
• (abs, pdf) Matsuno et al., High-resolution spectroscopy of extremely metal-poor stars from SDSS/SEGUE. III. Unevolved Stars with $[\mathrm{Fe/H}]\lesssim -3.5$

# 15 Jun 2017

• (abs, pdf) Schon et al., Dark Matter Annihilation in the Circumgalactic Medium at High Redshifts
• (abs, pdf) Nakatani et al., Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of Photoevaporation of Protoplanetary Disks: Metallicity Dependence

# 14 Jun 2017

• (abs, pdf) Hull et al., Unveiling the Role of the Magnetic Field at the Smallest Scales of Star Formation
• (abs, pdf) Pfister et al., The birth of a supermassive black hole binary
• (abs, pdf) Harries et al., Radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of massive star formation using Monte Carlo radiative transfer II. The formation of a 25 solar-mass star

# 12 Jun 2017

• (abs, pdf) van der Burg et al., The abundance of ultra-diffuse galaxies from groups to clusters: UDGs are relatively more common in more massive haloes
• (abs, pdf) Peñarrubia et al., Stellar envelopes of globular clusters embedded in dark mini-haloes
• (abs, pdf) Smith et al., Radiative effects during the assembly of direct collapse black holes
• (abs, pdf) Placco et al., RAVE J203843.2-002333: The first highly r-process-enhanced star identified in the RAVE survey

# New Paper: Lyman-alpha trapping in massive BH formation

Last week, Qi Ge and I submitted a new paper (arXiv) on the importance of Lyman-alpha radiation trapping during the initial phases of massive black hole (BH) formation. Here we used a Monte Carlo method to trace photons in a pre-galactic cloud to see how they can suppress cooling that aids the gravitational collapse. We found that gas temporarily heats to 50,000 K from 10,000 K as it collapses, only to cool back down to its original 10,000 K temperature. This heating could change the characteristic mass scales of massive BH seeds and perhaps the initial BH spin. Continue reading New Paper: Lyman-alpha trapping in massive BH formation

# 09 Jun 2017

• (abs, pdf) Lee et al., Detection of a Large Population of Ultra Diffuse Galaxies in Massive Galaxy Clusters: Abell S1063 and Abell 2744

# 08 Jun 2017

• (abs, pdf) Oyarzún et al., A Comprehensive Study of Ly$\alpha$ Emission in the High-redshift Galaxy Population
• (abs, pdf) Carlberg, Globular Clusters in a Cosmological N-body Simulation

# 07 Jun 2017

• (abs, pdf) Ge & Wise, On the effect of Lyman alpha trapping during the initial collapse of massive black hole seeds
• (abs, pdf) Foucart et al., How important is non-ideal physics in simulations of sub-Eddington accretion onto spinning black holes?

# 06 Jun 2017

• (abs, pdf) Lamers et al., The difference in metallicity distribution functions of halo stars and globular clusters as a function of galaxy type: A tracer of globular cluster formation and evolution
• (abs, pdf) Garcia et al., Simulated metal and HI absorption lines at the conclusion of Reionization
• (abs, pdf) Sanders et al., Incorporating Current Research into Formal Higher Education Settings using Astrobites
• (abs, pdf) Bekki & Tsujimoto, Formation of globular clusters with internal abundance spreads in r-process elements: strong evidence for prolonged star formation

# 05 Jun 2017

• (abs, pdf) Jones et al., Do you see what I see? Exploring the consequences of luminosity limits in black hole-galaxy evolution studies
• (abs, pdf) Hirano et al., First star formation in ultra-light particle dark matter cosmology
• (abs, pdf) Howard et al., Simulating radiative feedback and star cluster formation in GMCs: II. Mass dependence of cloud destruction and cluster properties