All Outputs (97)

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: star formation in UV-luminous galaxies from their luminosity functions (2013)
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Jurek, R. J., Drinkwater, M. J., Pimbblet, K., Glazebrook, K., Blake, C., Brough, S., Colless, M., Contreras, C., Couch, W., Croom, S., Croton, D., Davis, T. M., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Gladders, M., Jelliffe, B., Li, I.-H., Madore, B., Martin, D. C., Poole, G. B., …Yee, H. K. C. (2013). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: star formation in UV-luminous galaxies from their luminosity functions. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 434(1), 257-281. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1015

We present the ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function of galaxies from the GALEX Medium Imaging Survey with measured spectroscopic redshifts from the first data release of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. Our sample consists of 39 996 NUV < 22.8 emiss... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: star formation in UV-luminous galaxies from their luminosity functions.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Linking star formation histories and stellar mass growth (2013)
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Bauer, A. E., Hopkins, A. M., Gunawardhana, M., Taylor, E. N., Baldry, I., Bamford, S. P., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Cluver, M. E., Colless, M., Conselice, C. J., Croom, S., Driver, S., Foster, C., Jones, D. H., Lara-Lopez, M. A., Liske, J., López-Sánchez, Á. R., Loveday, J., …Sharp, R. (2013). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Linking star formation histories and stellar mass growth. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 434(1), 209-221. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1011

WWe present evidence for stochastic star formation histories in low-mass (M * < 10 10 M ⊙ ) galaxies from observations within the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. For ̃73 000 galaxies between 0.05 < z < 0.32, we calculate star formation ra... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Linking star formation histories and stellar mass growth.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: constraining galaxy bias and cosmic growth with three-point correlation functions (2013)
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Marín, F. A., Blake, C., Poole, G. B., McBride, C. K., Brough, S., Colless, M., Contreras, C., Couch, W., Croton, D. J., Croom, S., Davis, T., Drinkwater, M. J., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Gladders, M., Glazebrook, K., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I.-H., Madore, B., …Yee, H. K. C. (2013). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: constraining galaxy bias and cosmic growth with three-point correlation functions. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 432(4), 2654-2668. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt520

Higher order statistics are a useful and complementary tool for measuring the clustering of galaxies, containing information on the non-Gaussian evolution and morphology of large-scale structure in the Universe. In this work we present measurements o... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: constraining galaxy bias and cosmic growth with three-point correlation functions.

The stellar masses of ~40 000 uv selected galaxies from the wigglez survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman Break galaxies? (2013)
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Banerji, M., Glazebrook, K., Blake, C., Brough, S., Colless, M., Contreras, C., Couch, W., Croton, D. J., Croom, S., Davis, T. M., Drinkwater, M. J., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Gladders, M., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I.-H., Madore, B., Martin, D. C., Pimbblet, K., …Yee, H. K. C. (2013). 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, 431(3), 2209-2229. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt320

We characterize the stellar masses and star formation rates in a sample of ̃40 000 spectroscopically confirmed UV-luminous galaxies at 0.3 < z < 1.0 selected from within theWiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. In particular, we match this UV bright population... Read More about The stellar masses of ~40 000 uv selected galaxies from the wigglez survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman Break galaxies?.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: measuring the cosmic growth rate with the two-point galaxy correlation function (2013)
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Contreras, C., Blake, C., Poole, G. B., Marin, F., Brough, S., Colless, M., Couch, W., Croom, S., Croton, D., Davis, T. M., Drinkwater, M. J., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Gladders, M., Glazebrook, K., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I.-H., Madore, B., Martin, D. C., …Yee, H. K. C. (2013). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: measuring the cosmic growth rate with the two-point galaxy correlation function. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430(2), 924-933. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts608

The growth history of large-scale structure in the Universe is a powerful probe of the cosmological model, including the nature of dark energy. We study the growth rate of cosmic structure to redshift z = 0.9 using more than 162 000 galaxy redshifts... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: measuring the cosmic growth rate with the two-point galaxy correlation function.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis (2013)
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Hopkins, A. M., Driver, S. P., Brough, S., Owers, M. S., Bauer, A. E., Gunawardhana, M. L. P., Cluver, M. E., Colless, M., Foster, C., Lara-López, M. A., Roseboom, I., Sharp, R., Steele, O., Thomas, D., Baldry, I. K., Brown, M. J. I., Liske, J., Norberg, P., Robotham, A. S. G., Bamford, S., …Wilkins, S. (2013). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430(3), 2047-2066. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt030

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is a multiwavelength photometric and spectroscopic survey, using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain spectra for up to ~300 000 galaxies over 280 deg2, to a limiting magnitud... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis.

The clustering of extremely red objects (2013)
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Palamara, D. P., Brown, M. J. I., Jannuzi, B. T., Dey, A., Stern, D., Pimbblet, K. A., Weiner, B. J., Ashby, M. L. N., Kochanek, C. S., Gonzalez, A., Brodwin, M., Le Floc'h, E., & Rieke, M. (2013). The clustering of extremely red objects. The Astrophysical journal, 764(1), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/764/1/31

We measure the clustering of extremely red objects (EROs) in 8 deg 2 of the NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey Boötes field in order to establish robust links between ERO (z 1.2) and local galaxy (z < 0.1) populations. Three different color selection cr... Read More about The clustering of extremely red objects.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: probing the epoch of radiation domination using large-scale structure (2013)
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Poole, G. B., Blake, C., Parkinson, D., Brough, S., Colless, M., Contreras, C., Couch, W., Croton, D. J., Croom, S., Davis, T., Drinkwater, M. J., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Gladders, M., Glazebrook, K., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I.-H., Madore, B., Martin, D. C., …Yee, H. K. C. (2013). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: probing the epoch of radiation domination using large-scale structure. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(3), 1902-1912. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts431

We place the most robust constraint to date on the scale of the turnover in the cosmological matter power spectrum using data from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We find this feature to lie at a scale of k 0 = 0.0160 +0.0035 -0.0041 (h Mpc -1 ) (6... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: probing the epoch of radiation domination using large-scale structure.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1  m to 1 mm (2012)
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Driver, S. P., Robotham, A. S. G., Kelvin, L., Alpaslan, M., Baldry, I. K., Bamford, S. P., Brough, S., Brown, M., Hopkins, A. M., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Norberg, P., Peacock, J. A., Andrae, E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bourne, N., Cameron, E., Colless, M., Conselice, C. J., Croom, S. M., …Wilkins, S. (2012). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1  m to 1 mm. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(4), 3244-3264. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.22036.x

We use the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey (GAMA) I data set combined with GALEX, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) imaging to construct the low-redshift (z < 0.1) galaxy luminosity functions in FUV, NUV, u... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1  m to 1 mm.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1 μm to 1 mm (2012)
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Driver, S. P., Robotham, A. S., Kelvin, L., Alpaslan, M., Baldry, I. K., Bamford, S. P., Brough, S., Brown, M., Hopkins, A. M., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Norberg, P., Peacock, J. A., Andrae, E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bourne, N., Cameron, E., Colless, M., Conselice, C. J., Croom, S. M., …Wilkins, S. (2012). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1 μm to 1 mm. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(4), 3244-3264. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.22036.x

We use the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey (GAMA) I data set combined with GALEX, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) imaging to construct the low-redshift (z < 0.1) galaxy luminosity functions in FUV, NUV, u... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1 μm to 1 mm.

The drivers of AGN activity in galaxy clusters: AGN fraction as a function of mass and environment (2012)
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Pimbblet, K. A., Shabala, S. S., Haines, C. P., Fraser-McKelvie, A., & Floyd, D. J. E. (2013). The drivers of AGN activity in galaxy clusters: AGN fraction as a function of mass and environment. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(2), 1827-1839. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts470

We present an analysis of optical spectroscopically identified active galactic nuclei (AGN) down to a cluster magnitude of M * + 1 in a sample of six self-similar Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxy clusters at z ~ 0.07. These clusters are specifically s... Read More about The drivers of AGN activity in galaxy clusters: AGN fraction as a function of mass and environment.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and cosmological results (2012)
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Parkinson, D., Riemer-Sørensen, S., Blake, C., Poole, G. B., Davis, T. M., Brough, S., Colless, M., Contreras, C., Couch, W., Croom, S., Croton, D., Drinkwater, M. J., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Gladders, M., Glazebrook, K., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I. H., Madore, B., …Yee, H. K. (2012). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and cosmological results. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 86(10), Article 103518. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.103518

This paper presents cosmological results from the final data release of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We perform full analyses of different cosmological models using the WiggleZ power spectra measured at z=0.22, 0.41, 0.60, and 0.78, combined with... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and cosmological results.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Estimating galaxy group masses via caustic analysis (2012)
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Alpaslan, M., Robotham, A. S., Driver, S., Norberg, P., Peacock, J. A., Baldry, I., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Hopkins, A. M., Kelvin, L. S., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Merson, A., Nichol, R. C., & Pimbblet, K. (2012). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Estimating galaxy group masses via caustic analysis. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426(4), 2832-2846. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21020.x

We have generated complementary halo mass estimates for all the groups in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly Galaxy Group Catalogue (GAMA G 3 Cv1) using a modified caustic mass estimation algorithm, originally developed by Diaferio & Geller. We calibrate... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Estimating galaxy group masses via caustic analysis.

Plunging fireworks: why do infalling galaxies light up on the outskirts of clusters? (2012)
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Mahajan, S., Raychaudhury, S., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2012). Plunging fireworks: why do infalling galaxies light up on the outskirts of clusters?. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(2), 1252-1265. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.22059.x

Integrated star formation rate (SFR) and specific star formation rate (SFR/M*), derived from the spectroscopic data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 4 (DR4), are used to show that the star formation activity in galaxies (M... Read More about Plunging fireworks: why do infalling galaxies light up on the outskirts of clusters?.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The mass-metallicity relationship (2012)
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Foster, C., Hopkins, A. M., Gunawardhana, M., Lara-López, M. A., Sharp, R. G., Steele, O., Taylor, E. N., Driver, S. P., Baldry, I. K., Bamford, S. P., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Norberg, P., Peacock, J. A., Alpaslan, M., Bauer, A. E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Cameron, E., Colless, M., …Wijesinghe, D. (2012). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The mass-metallicity relationship. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 547, Article A79. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220050

Context. The mass-metallicity relationship (MMR) of star-forming galaxies is well-established, however there is still some disagreement with respect to its exact shape and its possible dependence on other observables. Aims.We measure the MMR in the G... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The mass-metallicity relationship.

The role of stellar mass and environment for cluster blue fraction, AGN fraction and star formation indicators from a targeted analysis of Abell 1691 (2012)
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Pimbblet, K. A., & Jensen, P. C. (2012). The role of stellar mass and environment for cluster blue fraction, AGN fraction and star formation indicators from a targeted analysis of Abell 1691. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426(2), 1632-1646. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21855.x

We present an analysis of the galaxy population of the intermediate X-ray luminosity galaxy cluster, Abell 1691, from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Galaxy Zoo data to elucidate the relationships between environment and galaxy stellar mass for a... Read More about The role of stellar mass and environment for cluster blue fraction, AGN fraction and star formation indicators from a targeted analysis of Abell 1691.

Tidal interactions at the edge of the Local Group: New evidence for tidal features in the antlia Dwarf galaxy (2012)
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Penny, S. J., Pimbblet, K. A., Conselice, C. J., Brown, M. J., Grützbauch, R., & Floyd, D. J. (2012). Tidal interactions at the edge of the Local Group: New evidence for tidal features in the antlia Dwarf galaxy. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 758(2), Article L32. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/758/2/L32

Using deep B-band imaging down to μ B = 26 mag arcsec -2 , we present evidence for tidal tails in the Antlia Dwarf galaxy, one of the most distant members of the Local Group. This elongation is in the direction of Antlia's nearest neighbor, the Magel... Read More about Tidal interactions at the edge of the Local Group: New evidence for tidal features in the antlia Dwarf galaxy.