Professor Kevin Pimbblet's Outputs (97)

Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees (2024)
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Pimbblet, K., & Morrell, L. (2025). Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees. European Journal of Physics, 46(1), Article 015702. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/ad9874

The emergence of conversational natural language processing models presents a significant challenge for Higher Education. In this work, we use the entirety of a UK Physics undergraduate (BSc with Honours) degree including all examinations and coursew... Read More about Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees.

A search for H i absorption in distant star-forming galaxies with ASKAP-FLASH -I. Selection and analysis of the radio sample (2024)
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Eden, S. L., Sadler, E. M., Pimbblet, K. A., Mahony, E. K., & Yoon, H. (2025). A search for H i absorption in distant star-forming galaxies with ASKAP-FLASH -I. Selection and analysis of the radio sample. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(1), 387-407. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2581

We present and discuss two catalogues of UV-selected (NUV < 22.8 mag) galaxies that lie within a 200 deg 2 area of sky covered by the ASKAP FLASH survey and have an impact parameter of less than 20 arcsec to a FLASH radio continuum source. These cata... Read More about A search for H i absorption in distant star-forming galaxies with ASKAP-FLASH -I. Selection and analysis of the radio sample.

Predicting the ages of galaxies with an artificial neural network (2024)
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Hunt, L. J., Pimbblet, K. A., & Benoit, D. M. (2024). Predicting the ages of galaxies with an artificial neural network. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529(1), 479-498. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae479

We present a new method of predicting the ages of galaxies using a machine learning (ML) algorithm with the goal of providing an alternative to traditional methods. We aim to match the ability of traditional models to predict the ages of galaxies by... Read More about Predicting the ages of galaxies with an artificial neural network.

The loneliest galaxies in the Universe: a GAMA and Galaxy Zoo study on void galaxy morphology (2023)
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Porter, L. E., Holwerda, B. W., Kruk, S., Lara-López, M., Pimbblet, K. A., Henry, C. P., Casura, S., & Kelvin, L. S. (2023). The loneliest galaxies in the Universe: a GAMA and Galaxy Zoo study on void galaxy morphology. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(4), 5768-5780. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1125

The large-scale structure of the Universe is comprised of galaxy filaments, tendrils, and voids. The majority of the Universe's volume is taken up by these voids, which exist as underdense, but not empty, regions. The galaxies found inside these void... Read More about The loneliest galaxies in the Universe: a GAMA and Galaxy Zoo study on void galaxy morphology.

Noise reduction in single-shot images using an auto-encoder (2023)
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Bartlett, O. J., Benoit, D. M., Pimbblet, K. A., Simmons, B., & Hunt, L. (2023). Noise reduction in single-shot images using an auto-encoder. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(4), 6318-6329. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad665

We present an application of auto-encoders to the problem of noise reduction in single-shot astronomical images and explore its suitability for upcoming large-scale surveys. Auto-encoders are a machine learning model that summarizes an input to ident... Read More about Noise reduction in single-shot images using an auto-encoder.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Extended intragroup light in a group at z = 0.2 from deep Hyper Suprime-Cam images (2022)
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Pimbblet, K. A., Martínez-Lombilla, C., Brough, S., Montes, M., Baena-Gallé, R., Akhlaghi, M., Infante-Sainz, R., Driver, S. P., Holwerda, B. W., & Robotham, A. S. (2023). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Extended intragroup light in a group at z = 0.2 from deep Hyper Suprime-Cam images. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(1), 1195-1213. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3119

We present a pilot study to assess the potential of Hyper Suprime-Cam Public Data Release 2 (HSC-PDR2) images for the analysis of extended faint structures within groups of galaxies. We examine the intragroup light (IGL) of the group 400138 (Mdyn = 1... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Extended intragroup light in a group at z = 0.2 from deep Hyper Suprime-Cam images.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: galaxy morphology in the green valley, prominent rings, and looser spiral arms (2022)
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Smith, D., Haberzettl, L., Porter, L. E., Porter-Temple, R., Henry, C. P., Holwerda, B., López-Sánchez, R., Phillipps, S., Graham, A. W., Brough, S., Pimbblet, K. A., Liske, J., Kelvin, L. S., Robertson, C. D., Roemer, W., Walmsley, M., O’Ryan, D., & Géron, T. (2022). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: galaxy morphology in the green valley, prominent rings, and looser spiral arms. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517(3), 4575-4589. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2258

Galaxies fall broadly into two categories: star-forming (blue) galaxies and quiescent (red) galaxies. In between, one finds the less populated 'green valley'. Some of these galaxies are suspected to be in the process of ceasing their star formation t... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly: galaxy morphology in the green valley, prominent rings, and looser spiral arms.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map application on nearby galaxies (2022)
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Holwerda, B. W., Smith, D., Porter, L., Henry, C., Porter-Temple, R., Cook, K., Pimbblet, K. A., Hopkins, A. M., Bilicki, M., Turner, S., Acquaviva, V., Wang, L., Wright, A. H., Kelvin, L. S., & Grootes, M. W. (2022). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map application on nearby galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(2), 1972-1984. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac889

Galaxy populations show bimodality in a variety of properties: stellar mass, colour, specific star-formation rate, size, and Sérsic index. These parameters are our feature space. We use an existing sample of 7556 galaxies from the Galaxy and Mass Ass... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map application on nearby galaxies.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Weak Environmental Dependence of Quasar Activity at 0.1< z <0.35 (2022)
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Wethers, C. F., Acharya, N., De Propris, R., Kotilainen, J., Baldry, I. K., Brough, S., Driver, S. P., Graham, A. W., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., López-Sánchez, A. R., Loveday, J., Phillipps, S., Pimbblet, K. A., Taylor, E., Wang, L., & Wright, A. H. (2022). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Weak Environmental Dependence of Quasar Activity at 0.1< z

Understanding the connection between nuclear activity and galaxy environment remains critical in constraining models of galaxy evolution. By exploiting extensive catalogued data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, we identify a represent... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Weak Environmental Dependence of Quasar Activity at 0.1< z <0.35.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions (2022)
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Driver, S. P., Bellstedt, S., Robotham, A. S. G., Baldry, I. K., Davies, L. J., Liske, J., Obreschkow, D., Taylor, E. N., Wright, A. H., Alpaslan, M., Bamford, S. P., Bauer, A. E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bilicki, M., Bravo, M., Brough, S., Casura, S., Cluver, M. E., Colless, M., Conselice, C. J., …Wilkins, S. M. (2022). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(1), 439-467. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac472

In Galaxy And Mass Assembly Data Release 4 (GAMA DR4), we make available our full spectroscopic redshift sample. This includes 248 682 galaxy spectra, and, in combination with earlier surveys, results in 330 542 redshifts across five sky regions cove... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions.

The Detection of a Massive Chain of Dark H i Clouds in the GAMA G23 Field (2022)
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Józsa, G. I., Jarrett, T. H., Cluver, M. E., Wong, O. I., Havenga, O., Yao, H. F., Marchetti, L., Taylor, E. N., Kamphuis, P., MacCagni, F. M., Ramaila, A. J., Serra, P., Smirnov, O. M., White, S. V., Kilborn, V., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., Brough, S., Pimbblet, K. A., Driver, S. P., & Kuijken, K. (2022). The Detection of a Massive Chain of Dark H i Clouds in the GAMA G23 Field. The Astrophysical journal, 926(2), Article 167. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac402b

We report on the detection of a large, extended H i cloud complex in the Galaxy and Mass Survey G23 field, located at a redshift of z ∼0.03, observed as part of the MeerKAT Habitat of Galaxies Survey campaign (a pilot survey to explore the mosaicing... Read More about The Detection of a Massive Chain of Dark H i Clouds in the GAMA G23 Field.

The First Large Absorption Survey in H i (FLASH): I. Science goals and survey design (2022)
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Allison, J. R., Sadler, E. M., Amaral, A. D., An, T., Curran, S. J., Darling, J., Edge, A. C., Ellison, S. L., Emig, K. L., Gaensler, B. M., Garratt-Smithson, L., Glowacki, M., Grasha, K., Koribalski, B. S., Lagos, C. D. P., Lah, P., Mahony, E. K., Mao, S. A., Morganti, R., Moss, V. A., …Zwaan, M. A. (2022). The First Large Absorption Survey in H i (FLASH): I. Science goals and survey design. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 39, Article e010. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2022.3

We describe the scientific goals and survey design of the First Large Absorption Survey in H i (FLASH), a wide field survey for 21-cm line absorption in neutral atomic hydrogen (H i) at intermediate cosmological redshifts. FLASH will be carried out w... Read More about The First Large Absorption Survey in H i (FLASH): I. Science goals and survey design.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The merging potential of brightest group galaxies (2021)
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Banks, K., Brough, S., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., López-Sánchez, R., Phillipps, S., Pimbblet, K. A., & Robotham, A. S. (2021). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The merging potential of brightest group galaxies. The Astrophysical journal, 921(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1c0a

Using a volume-limited sample of 550 groups from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly Galaxy Group Catalogue spanning the halo mass range 12.8 < log[Mh M?] < 14.2, we investigate the merging potential of central Brightest Group Galaxies (BGGs). We use spectr... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The merging potential of brightest group galaxies.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The environmental impact on SFR and metallicity in galaxy groups (2021)
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Sotillo-Ramos, D., Lara-López, M. A., Pérez-García, A. M., Pérez-Martínez, R., Hopkins, A. M., Holwerda, B. W., Liske, J., López-Sánchez, A. R., Owers, M. S., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2021). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The environmental impact on SFR and metallicity in galaxy groups. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(2), 1817-1830. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2641

We present a study of the relationships and environmental dependencies between stellar mass, star formation rate, and gas metallicity for more than 700 galaxies in groups up to redshift 0.35 from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. To identif... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The environmental impact on SFR and metallicity in galaxy groups.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The interplay between galaxy mass, SFR, and heavy element abundance in paired galaxy sets (2020)
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Garduño, L. E., Lara-López, M. A., López-Cruz, O., Hopkins, A. M., Owers, M. S., Pimbblet, K. A., & Holwerda, B. W. (2021). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The interplay between galaxy mass, SFR, and heavy element abundance in paired galaxy sets. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501(2), 2969-2982. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3799

© 2021 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. We study the star formation rate (SFR), stellar mass (M∗), and the gas metallicity (Z) for 4636 galaxy pairs using the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (G... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The interplay between galaxy mass, SFR, and heavy element abundance in paired galaxy sets.

The impact of disturbed galaxy clusters on the kinematics of active galactic nuclei (2020)
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Bilton, L. E., Pimbblet, K. A., & Gordon, Y. A. (2020). The impact of disturbed galaxy clusters on the kinematics of active galactic nuclei. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499(3), 3792-3805. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3154

© 2020 The Author(s) We produce a kinematic analysis of AGN-hosting cluster galaxies from a sample of 33 galaxy clusters selected using the X-ray Clusters Database (BAX) and populated with galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 8. Th... Read More about The impact of disturbed galaxy clusters on the kinematics of active galactic nuclei.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Demonstrating the Power of WISE in the Study of Galaxy Groups to z < 0.1 (2020)
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Cluver, M. E., Jarrett, T. H., Taylor, E. N., Hopkins, A. M., Brough, S., Casura, S., Holwerda, B. W., Liske, J., Pimbblet, K. A., & Wright, A. H. (2020). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Demonstrating the Power of WISE in the Study of Galaxy Groups to z < 0.1. The Astrophysical journal, 898(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9cb8

© 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Combining high-fidelity group characterization from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly survey and source-tailored z < 0.1 photometry from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) survey,... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Demonstrating the Power of WISE in the Study of Galaxy Groups to z < 0.1.

Environments of dwarf galaxies with optical AGN characteristics (2020)
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Kristensen, M., Pimbblet, K., & Penny, S. (2020). Environments of dwarf galaxies with optical AGN characteristics. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496(3), 2577-2590. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1719

© 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This study aims to explore the relation between dwarf galaxies (M∗ ≤ 5 × 109 M·) with active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and their environment by compar... Read More about Environments of dwarf galaxies with optical AGN characteristics.

FLASH early science - Discovery of an intervening H I 21-cm absorber from an ASKAP survey of the GAMA 23 field (2020)
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Allison, J. R., Sadler, E. M., Bellstedt, S., Davies, L. J., Driver, S. P., Ellison, S. L., Huynh, M., Kapinska, A. D., Mahony, E. K., Moss, V. A., Robotham, A. S., Whiting, M. T., Curran, S. J., Darling, J., Hotan, A. W., Hunstead, R. W., Koribalski, B. S., Lagos, C. D., Pettini, M., Pimbblet, K. A., & Voronkov, M. A. (2020). FLASH early science - Discovery of an intervening H I 21-cm absorber from an ASKAP survey of the GAMA 23 field. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(3), 3627-3641. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STAA949

© 2020 The Author(s) We present early science results from the First Large Absorption Survey in H I (FLASH), a spectroscopically blind survey for 21-cm absorption lines in cold hydrogen (H I) gas at cosmological distances using the Australian Square... Read More about FLASH early science - Discovery of an intervening H I 21-cm absorber from an ASKAP survey of the GAMA 23 field.

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.