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Redshift measurement through star formation (2019)
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Lindholmer, M. O., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2019). Redshift measurement through star formation. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 629, Article A7. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833046

© ESO 2019. In this work we use the property that, on average, star formation rate increases with redshift for objects with the same mass - the so called galaxy main sequence - to measure the redshift of galaxy clusters. We use the fact that the gene... Read More about Redshift measurement through star formation.

Star-Forming, Rotating Spheroidal Galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI Surveys (2019)
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Moffett, A. J., Phillipps, S., Robotham, A. S. G., Driver, S. P., Bremer, M. N., Cortese, L., Wong, O. I., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Bryant, J. J., Conselice, C. J., Croom, S. M., George, K., Goldstein, G., Goodwin, M., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., Konstantopoulos, I. S., Lawrence, J. S., Lorente, N. P. F., …Van De Sande, J. (2019). Star-Forming, Rotating Spheroidal Galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI Surveys. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489(2), 2830–2843. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2237

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has morphologically identified a class of ‘Little Blue Spheroid’ (LBS) galaxies whose relationship to other classes of galaxies we now examine in detail. Considering a sample of 868 LBSs, we find that such g... Read More about Star-Forming, Rotating Spheroidal Galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI Surveys.

The frequency of dust lanes in edge-on spiral galaxies identified by galaxy Zoo in KiDS Imaging of GAMA Targets (2019)
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Holwerda, B. W., Kelvin, L., Baldry, I., Lintott, C., Alpaslan, M., Pimbblet, K. A., Liske, J., Kitching, T., Bamford, S., De Jong, J., Bilicki, M., Hopkins, A., Bridge, J., Steele, R., Jacques, A., Goswami, S., Kusmic, S., Roemer, W., Kruk, S., Popescu, C. C., …Kitching, T. (2019). The frequency of dust lanes in edge-on spiral galaxies identified by galaxy Zoo in KiDS Imaging of GAMA Targets. Astronomical Journal, 158(3), Article 103. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2886

Dust lanes bisect the plane of a typical edge-on spiral galaxy as a dark optical absorption feature. Their appearance is linked to the gravitational stability of spiral disks; the fraction of edge-on galaxies that displays a dust lane is a direct ind... Read More about The frequency of dust lanes in edge-on spiral galaxies identified by galaxy Zoo in KiDS Imaging of GAMA Targets.

ASKAP commissioning observations of the GAMA 23 field (2019)
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Leahy, D. A., Hopkins, A. M., Norris, R. P., Marvil, J., Collier, J. D., Taylor, E. N., Allison, J. R., Anderson, C., Bell, M., Bilicki, M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Brown, M. J., Driver, S., Gurkan, G., Harvey-Smith, L., Heywood, I., Holwerda, B. W., Liske, J., Lopez-Sanchez, A. R., …Wang, L. (2019). ASKAP commissioning observations of the GAMA 23 field. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 36, Article e024. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2019.16

© Astronomical Society of Australia 2019. We have observed the G23 field of the Galaxy AndMass Assembly (GAMA) survey using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) in its commissioning phase to validate the performance of the telesco... Read More about ASKAP commissioning observations of the GAMA 23 field.

The effect of minor and major mergers on the evolution of low excitation radio galaxies (2019)
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Gordon, Y. A., Pimbblet, K. A., Kaviraj, S., Owers, M. S., O'Dea, C. P., Walmsley, M., Baum, S. A., Crossett, J. P., Fraser-Mckelvie, A., Lintott, C. J., & Pierce, J. C. (2019). The effect of minor and major mergers on the evolution of low excitation radio galaxies. The Astrophysical journal, 878(2), Article 88. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab203f

We use deep, μ r lesssim 28 mag arcsec−2, r-band imaging from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey to search for past, or ongoing, merger activity in a sample of 282 low-excitation radio galaxies (LERGs) at z < 0.07. Our principal aim is to assess t... Read More about The effect of minor and major mergers on the evolution of low excitation radio galaxies.

Evolution of the stellar mass function and infrared luminosity function of galaxies since z = 1.2 (2019)
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Beare, R., Brown, M. J., Pimbblet, K., & Taylor, E. N. (2019). Evolution of the stellar mass function and infrared luminosity function of galaxies since z = 1.2. The Astrophysical journal, 873(1), Article 78. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab041a

© 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We measured evolution of the K-band luminosity function and stellar mass function (SMF) for red and blue galaxies at z < 1.2 using a sample of 353 594 I < 24 galaxies in 8.26 square degr... Read More about Evolution of the stellar mass function and infrared luminosity function of galaxies since z = 1.2.

The kinematics of cluster galaxies via velocity dispersion profiles (2018)
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Bilton, L. E., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2018). The kinematics of cluster galaxies via velocity dispersion profiles. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(2), 1507-1521. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2379

© 2018 The Author(s). We present an analysis of the kinematics of a sample of 14 galaxy clusters via velocity dispersion profiles (VDPs), compiled using cluster parameters defined within the X-Ray Galaxy Clusters Database (BAX) cross-matched with dat... Read More about The kinematics of cluster galaxies via velocity dispersion profiles.

Shapley Supercluster Survey: Mapping the filamentary network connecting the clusters (2018)
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Haines, C. P., Busarello, G., Merluzzi, P., Pimbblet, K. A., Vogt, F. P., Dopita, M. A., Mercurio, A., Grado, A., & Limatola, L. (2018). Shapley Supercluster Survey: Mapping the filamentary network connecting the clusters. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(1), 1055-1074. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY2338

We have mapped the structure and connectivity of the Shapley supercluster core and its surroundings as traced by its member galaxies. To achieve this, we have carried out a new redshift survey of galaxies across a 21 square degree region (17×17 Mpc2)... Read More about Shapley Supercluster Survey: Mapping the filamentary network connecting the clusters.

Evolution of starburst galaxies in the Illustris simulation (2018)
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Wilkinson, C. L., Pimbblet, K. A., Stott, J. P., Few, C. G., & Gibson, B. K. (2018). Evolution of starburst galaxies in the Illustris simulation. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(1), 758-767. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1493

© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society. There is a consensus in the literature that starburst galaxies are triggered by interaction events. However, it remains an open question as to wha... Read More about Evolution of starburst galaxies in the Illustris simulation.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Impact of the group environment on galaxy star formation (2018)
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Barsanti, S., Owers, M. S., Brough, S., Davies, L. J. M., Driver, S. P., Gunawardhana, M. L. P., Holwerda, B. W., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Pimbblet, K. A., Robotham, A. S. G., & Taylor, E. N. (2018). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Impact of the group environment on galaxy star formation. The Astrophysical journal, 857(1), 71. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aab61a

© 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We explore how the group environment may affect the evolution of star-forming galaxies. We select 1197 Galaxy And Mass Assembly groups at 0.05 ≤ z ≤ 0.2 and analyze the projected phase s... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Impact of the group environment on galaxy star formation.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the effect of galaxy group environment on active galactic nuclei (2018)
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Gordon, Y. A., Pimbblet, K. A., Owers, M. S., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Cluver, M. E., Croom, S. M., Holwerda, B. W., Loveday, J., Mahajan, S., & Wang, L. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the effect of galaxy group environment on active galactic nuclei. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(3), 4223-4234. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty115

© 2017 The Author(s). In galaxy clusters, efficiently accreting active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are preferentially located in the infall regions of the cluster projected phase-space, and are rarely found in the cluster core. This has been attributed to... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the effect of galaxy group environment on active galactic nuclei.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): blue spheroids within 87 Mpc (2017)
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Mahajan, S., Drinkwater, M. J., Driver, S., Hopkins, A. M., Graham, A. W., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Holwerda, B. W., Owers, M. S., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): blue spheroids within 87 Mpc. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(1), 788-799. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3202

© 2017 The Author(s). In this paper, we test if nearby blue spheroid (BSph) galaxies may become the progenitors of star-forming spiral galaxies or passively evolving elliptical galaxies. Our sample comprises 428 galaxies of various morphologies in th... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): blue spheroids within 87 Mpc.

GAMA/G10-COSMOS/3D-HST: the 0 < z < 5 cosmic star formation history, stellar-mass, and dust-mass densities (2017)
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Driver, S. P., Andrews, S. K., Davies, L. J., Robotham, A. S., Wright, A. H., Bremer, M. N., Conselice, C. J., Eales, S. A., Hopkins, A. M., Kafle, P. R., Kelvin, L. S., Maddox, S. J., Sansom, A. E., Wilkins, S. M., Driver, S. P., Andrews, S. K., Da Cunha, E., Davies, L. J., Lagos, C., Robotham, A. S. G., …Wilkins, S. M. (2018). GAMA/G10-COSMOS/3D-HST: the 0 < z < 5 cosmic star formation history, stellar-mass, and dust-mass densities. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(3), 2891-2935. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2728

We use the energy-balance code MAGPHYS to determine stellar and dust masses, and dust corrected star formation rates for over 200 000 GAMA galaxies, 170 000 G10-COSMOS galaxies, and 200 000 3D-HST galaxies. Our values agree well with previously repor... Read More about GAMA/G10-COSMOS/3D-HST: the 0 < z < 5 cosmic star formation history, stellar-mass, and dust-mass densities.

Triggering active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters (2017)
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Marshall, M. A., Shabala, S. S., Krause, M. G. H., Pimbblet, K. A., Croton, D. J., & Owers, M. S. (2018). Triggering active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(3), 3615-3628. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2996

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We model the triggering of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in galaxy clusters using the semianalytic galaxy formation model SAGE. We prescribe trigge... Read More about Triggering active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies (2017)
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Drinkwater, M. J., Byrne, Z. J., Blake, C., Glazebrook, K., Brough, S., Colless, M., Couch, W., Croton, D. J., Croom, S. M., Davis, T. M., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Hinton, S. R., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I.-H., Christopher Martin, D., Pimbblet, K., Poole, G. B., Pracy, M., …Yee, H. K. C. (2018). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(3), 4151-4168. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2963

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey measured the redshifts of over 200 000 ultraviolet (UV)- selected (NUV < 22.8 mag) galaxies on the Anglo-Australi... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning (2017)
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Sreejith, S., Pereverzyev Jr, S., Kelvin, L. S., Marleau, F. R., Haltmeier, M., Ebner, J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Driver, S. P., Graham, A. W., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Moffett, A. J., Pimbblet, K. A., Taylor, E. N., Wang, L., & Wright, A. H. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(4), 5232-5258. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2976

© 2018 The Author(s). We apply four statistical learning methods to a sample of 7941 galaxies (z < 0.06) from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey to test the feasibility of using automated algorithms to classify galaxies. Using 10 features measured... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning.

Multiple mechanisms quench passive spiral galaxies (2017)
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Fraser-McKelvie, A., Brown, M. J. I., Pimbblet, K., Dolley, T., & Bonne, N. J. (2018). Multiple mechanisms quench passive spiral galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(2), 1909-1921. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2823

© 2017 The Author(s). We examine the properties of a sample of 35 nearby passive spiral galaxies in order to determine their dominant quenching mechanism(s). All five low-mass (M * < 1 × 10 10 M ⊙ ) passive spiral galaxies are located in the rich Vi... Read More about Multiple mechanisms quench passive spiral galaxies.

The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy (2017)
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Driver, S. P., Taylor, E. N., Lagos, C., White, M., Bilicki, M., Brown, M. J. I., Bryant, J., Croom, S., Jones, D. H., Koribalski, B., Lorente, N., Tinney, C. G., Tothill, N. F. H., Koribalski, B., Lima Da Cunha, E., Hopkins, A. M., Colless, M., Taylor, E. N. C., Blake, C., Howlett, C., …Watson, F. (2017). The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 34, Article ARTN e047. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2017.41

© Astronomical Society of Australia 2017; published by Cambridge University Press. The Taipan galaxy survey (hereafter simply 'Taipan') is a multi-object spectroscopic survey starting in 2017 that will cover 2π steradians over the southern sky (δ ≲ 1... Read More about The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at z<1 (2017)
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Wild, V., Bremer, M., Brough, S., Driver, S. P., Hopkins, A. M., Owers, M. S., Phillipps, S., Sansom, A. E., Wang, L., Pimbblet, K., Alpaslan, M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bourne, N., Bremer, M. N., Brough, S., Colless, M., Driver, S., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A., Owers, M., …Wild, V. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at z

© 2016 The Authors. One key problem in astrophysics is understanding how and why galaxies switch off their star formation, building the quiescent population that we observe in the local Universe. From the Galaxy And Mass Assembly and VIsible MultiObj... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at z<1.

The evolutionary sequence of post-starburst galaxies (2017)
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Wilkinson, C. L., Pimbblet, K. A., & Stott, J. P. (2017). The evolutionary sequence of post-starburst galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(2), 1447-1457. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2034

© 2017 The Authors. There are multiple ways in which to select post-starburst galaxies in the literature. In this work, we present a study into how two well-used selection techniques have consequences on observable post-starburst galaxy parameters, s... Read More about The evolutionary sequence of post-starburst galaxies.