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Erratum: The stellar masses of ~40 000 UV-selected galaxies from the WiggleZ survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman break galaxies? (2014)
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Banerji, M., Glazebrook, K., Blake, C., Brough, S., Colless, M., Contreras, C., …Yee, H. K. C. (2015). Erratum: The stellar masses of ~40 000 UV-selected galaxies from the WiggleZ survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman break galaxies?. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(1), 325-325. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2478

The clustering and halo masses of star-forming galaxies at z<1 (2014)
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Dolley, T., Brown, M. J. I., Weiner, B. J., Brodwin, M., Kochanek, C. S., Pimbblet, K. A., …Beare, R. (2014). The clustering and halo masses of star-forming galaxies at z

We present clustering measurements and halo masses of star-forming galaxies at 0.2 < z < 1.0. After excluding active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we construct a sample of 22,553 24 μm sources selected from 8.42 deg2 of the Spitzer MIPS AGN and Galaxy Evol... Read More about The clustering and halo masses of star-forming galaxies at z<1.

An accurate new method of calculating absolute magnitudes and K-corrections applied to the Sloan filter set (2014)
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Beare, R., Brown, M. J. I., & Pimbblet, K. (2014). An accurate new method of calculating absolute magnitudes and K-corrections applied to the Sloan filter set. The Astrophysical journal, 797(2), Article ARTN 104. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/797/2/104

We describe an accurate new method for determining absolute magnitudes, and hence also K-corrections, that is simpler than most previous methods, being based on a quadratic function of just one suitably chosen observed color. The method relies on the... Read More about An accurate new method of calculating absolute magnitudes and K-corrections applied to the Sloan filter set.

Shapley Supercluster Survey: Galaxy evolution from filaments to cluster cores (2014)
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Merluzzi, P., Busarello, G., Haines, C. P., Mercurio, A., Okabe, N., Pimbblet, K. J., …Schipani, P. (2015). Shapley Supercluster Survey: Galaxy evolution from filaments to cluster cores. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446(1), 803-822. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2085

We present an overview of a multiwavelength survey of the Shapley Supercluster (SSC; z ∼ 0.05) covering a contiguous area of 260 h−2 70 Mpc² including the supercluster core. The project main aim is to quantify the influence of cluster-scale mass asse... Read More about Shapley Supercluster Survey: Galaxy evolution from filaments to cluster cores.

The frequency of anomalously red galaxies in SDSS clusters (2014)
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Shearman, O., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2014). The frequency of anomalously red galaxies in SDSS clusters. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 31, Article ARTN e038. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2014.34

We present a systematic photometric search for spectroscopically confirmed anomalously red galaxies members of 748 low redshift clusters between 0.03 < z < 0.17 from the SDSS-C4 cluster catalogue (Miller et al. 2005). For each cluster we spectroscopi... Read More about The frequency of anomalously red galaxies in SDSS clusters.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): galaxy close pairs, mergers and the future fate of stellar mass (2014)
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Robotham, A. S. G., Driver, S. P., Davies, L. J. M., Hopkins, A. M., Baldry, I. K., Agius, N. K., …Wilkins, S. M. (2014). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): galaxy close pairs, mergers and the future fate of stellar mass. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444(4), 3986-4008. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1604

We use a highly complete subset of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly II (GAMA-II) redshift sample to fully describe the stellar mass dependence of close pairs and mergers between 10⁸ and 10¹² Mʘ. Using the analytic form of this fit we investigate the tota... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): galaxy close pairs, mergers and the future fate of stellar mass.

The rarity of star formation in brightest cluster galaxies as measured by WISE (2014)
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Fraser-McKelvie, A., Brown, M. J. I., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2014). The rarity of star formation in brightest cluster galaxies as measured by WISE. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 444(1), L63-L67. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slu117

We present the mid-infrared star formation rates of 245 X-ray selected, nearby (z < 0.1) brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs). A homogeneous and volume limited sample of BCGs was created by X-ray selecting clusters with Lx > 1 × 1044 erg s⁻ ¹. The Wide-... Read More about The rarity of star formation in brightest cluster galaxies as measured by WISE.

Dwarf galaxies in the Perseus Cluster: further evidence for a disc origin for dwarf ellipticals (2014)
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Penny, S. J., Forbes, D. A., Pimbblet, K. A., & Floyd, D. J. E. (2014). Dwarf galaxies in the Perseus Cluster: further evidence for a disc origin for dwarf ellipticals. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443(4), 3381-3387. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1397

We present the results of a Keck-ESI (Echellette Spectrograph and Imager) spectroscopic study of six dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxies in the Perseus Cluster core, and confirm two dwarfs as cluster members for the first time. All six dEs follow the size... Read More about Dwarf galaxies in the Perseus Cluster: further evidence for a disc origin for dwarf ellipticals.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: improved distance measurements to z = 1 with reconstruction of the baryonic acoustic feature (2014)
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Kazin, E. A., Koda, J., Blake, C., Padmanabhan, N., Brough, S., Colless, M., …Yee, H. K. C. (2014). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: improved distance measurements to z = 1 with reconstruction of the baryonic acoustic feature. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 441(4), 3524-3542. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu778

We present significant improvements in cosmic distance measurements from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey, achieved by applying the reconstruction of the baryonic acoustic feature technique. We show using both data and simulations that the reconstructi... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: improved distance measurements to z = 1 with reconstruction of the baryonic acoustic feature.

Distribution of slow and fast rotators in the Fornax cluster (2014)
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Scott, N., Davies, R. L., Houghton, R. C. W., Cappellari, M., Graham, A. W., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2014). Distribution of slow and fast rotators in the Fornax cluster. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 441(1), 274-288. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu472

We present integral field spectroscopy of 10 early-type galaxies in the nearby, low-mass, Fornax cluster, from which we derive spatially resolved stellar kinematics. Based on the morphologies of their stellar velocity maps we classify 2/10 galaxies a... Read More about Distribution of slow and fast rotators in the Fornax cluster.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): testing galaxy formation models through the most massive galaxies in the Universe (2014)
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Oliva-Altamirano, P., Brough, S., Lidman, C., Couch, W. J., Hopkins, A. M., Colless, M., …Sharp, R. G. (2014). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): testing galaxy formation models through the most massive galaxies in the Universe. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 440(1), 762-775. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu277

We have analysed the growth of Brightest Group Galaxies and Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BGGs/BCGs) over the last 3 billion years using a large sample of 883 galaxies from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey. By comparing the stellar mass of BGGs and... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): testing galaxy formation models through the most massive galaxies in the Universe.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) : fine filaments of galaxies detected within voids (2014)
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Alpaslan, M., Robotham, A. S., Obreschkow, D., Penny, S., Driver, S., Norberg, P., …Pimbblet, K. (2014). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) : fine filaments of galaxies detected within voids. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 440(1), L106-L110. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slu019

Based on data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, we report on the discovery of structures that we refer to as ‘tendrils’ of galaxies: coherent, thin chains of galaxies that are rooted in filaments and terminate in neighbouring filaments... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) : fine filaments of galaxies detected within voids.

Photometric studies of Abell 1664: the subtle effect a minor merger has on cluster galaxies (2014)
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Kleiner, D., Pimbblet, K. A., Owers, M. S., Jones, D. H., & Stephenson, A. P. (2014). Photometric studies of Abell 1664: the subtle effect a minor merger has on cluster galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439(3), 2755-2764. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu131

A combination of BRI photometry and archival Chandra X-ray data have been used to analyse the effects a minor merger has on the galaxy population of A1664. We utilize adaptive smoothing techniques in the 2D spatial distribution of cluster galaxies to... Read More about Photometric studies of Abell 1664: the subtle effect a minor merger has on cluster galaxies.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): UgrizYJHK sérsic luminosity functions and the cosmic spectral energy distribution by hubble type (2014)
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Kelvin, L. S., Driver, S. P., Robotham, A. S. G., Graham, A. W., Phillipps, S., Agius, N. K., …Tuffs, R. J. (2014). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): UgrizYJHK sérsic luminosity functions and the cosmic spectral energy distribution by hubble type. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439(2), 1245-1269. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2391

We report the morphological classification of 3727 galaxies from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly survey with M r < -17.4 mag and in the redshift range 0.025 < z < 0.06 (2.1 × 10 5 Mpc 3 ) into E, S0-Sa, SB0-SBa, Sab-Scd, SBab-SBcd, Sd-Irr and little... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): UgrizYJHK sérsic luminosity functions and the cosmic spectral energy distribution by hubble type.

How typical is the Coma cluster? (2014)
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Pimbblet, K. A., Penny, S. J., & Davies, R. L. (2014). How typical is the Coma cluster?. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(4), 3049-3057. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2411

Coma is frequently used as the archetype z ∼ 0 galaxy cluster to compare higher redshift work against. It is not clear, however, how representative the Coma cluster is for galaxy clusters of its mass or X-ray luminosity, and significantly, recent wor... Read More about How typical is the Coma cluster?.