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Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Defining passive galaxy samples and searching for the UV upturn (2019)
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Phillipps, S., Ali, S. S., Bremer, M. N., de Propris, R., Sansom, A. E., Cluver, M. E., Alpaslan, M., Brough, S., Brown, M. J., Davies, L. J., Driver, S. P., Grootes, M. W., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., James, P. A., Pimbblet, K., Robotham, A. S., Taylor, E. N., & Wang, L. (2020). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Defining passive galaxy samples and searching for the UV upturn. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(2), 2128-2139. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3552

© 2019 The Author(s) We use data from the GAMA and GALEX surveys to demonstrate that the UV upturn, an unexpected excess of ultraviolet flux from a hot stellar component, seen in the spectra of many early-type galaxies, arises from processes internal... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Defining passive galaxy samples and searching for the UV upturn.