Professor Kevin Pimbblet's Outputs (102)

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Panchromatic data release (far-UV-far-IR) and the low-z energy budget (2015)
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Driver, S. P., Wright, A. H., Andrews, S. K., Davies, L. J., Kafle, P. R., Lange, R., Moffett, A. J., Mannering, E., Robotham, A. S. G., Vinsen, K., Alpaslan, M., Andrae, E., Baldry, I. K., Bauer, A. E., Bamford, S. P., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bourne, N., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Cluver, M. E., …Williams, R. (2016). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Panchromatic data release (far-UV-far-IR) and the low-z energy budget. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(4), 3911-3942. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2505

We present the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) Panchromatic Data Release (PDR) constituting over 230 deg2 of imaging with photometry in 21 bands extending from the far-UV to the far-IR. These data complement our spectroscopic campaign of over 300k ga... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Panchromatic data release (far-UV-far-IR) and the low-z energy budget.

Shapley Supercluster Survey: Construction of the photometric catalogues and i-band data release (2015)
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Mercurio, A., Merluzzi, P., Busarello, G., Grado, A., Limatola, L., Haines, C. P., Brescia, M., Cavuoti, S., Dopita, M., Dall'Ora, M., Capaccioli, M., Napolitano, N., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2015). Shapley Supercluster Survey: Construction of the photometric catalogues and i-band data release. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(4), 3685-3698. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1905

The Shapley Supercluster Survey is a multi-wavelength survey covering an area of ∼23 deg² (∼260 Mpc² at z = 0.048) around the supercluster core, including nine Abell and two poor clusters, having redshifts in the range 0.045–0.050. The survey aims to... Read More about Shapley Supercluster Survey: Construction of the photometric catalogues and i-band data release.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the bright void galaxy population in the optical and mid-IR (2015)
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Penny, S. J., Brown, M. J. I., Pimbblet, K. A., Cluver, M. E., Croton, D. J., Owers, M. S., Lange, R., Alpaslan, M., Baldry, I., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Driver, S. P., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., Jarrett, T. H., Heath Jones, D., Kelvin, L. S., Lara-López, M. A., Liske, J., López-Sánchez, A. R., …Rodrigues, M. (2015). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the bright void galaxy population in the optical and mid-IR. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(4), 3519-3539. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1926

© 2015 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We examine the properties of galaxies in the Galaxies and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey located in voids with radii > 10 h -1 Mpc. Utilizing the GAM... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the bright void galaxy population in the optical and mid-IR.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2 (2015)
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Vázquez-Mata, J. A., López-Sánchez, Á. R., Lara-López, M. A., Häußler, B., Liske, J., Baldry, I. K., Driver, S. P., Tuffs, R. J., Alpaslan, M., Andrae, E., Brough, S., Cluver, M. E., Grootes, M. W., Gunawardhana, M. L. P., Kelvin, L. S., Loveday, J., Robotham, A. S. G., Taylor, E. N., Bamford, S. P., Bland-Hawthorn, J., …Wright, A. H. (2015). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(2), 2087-2126. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1436

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is one of the largest contemporary spectroscopic surveys of low redshift galaxies. Covering an area of ∼286 deg² (split among five survey regions) down to a limiting magnitude of r < 19.8 mag, we have collec... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): trends in galaxy colours, morphology, and stellar populations with large-scale structure, group, and pair environments (2015)
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Alpaslan, M., Driver, S., Robotham, A. S. G., Obreschkow, D., Andrae, E., Cluver, M., Kelvin, L. S., Lange, R., Owers, M., Taylor, E. N., Andrews, S. K., Bamford, S., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Colless, M., Davies, L. J. M., Eardley, E., Grootes, M. W., Hopkins, A. M., …Tuffs, R. (2015). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): trends in galaxy colours, morphology, and stellar populations with large-scale structure, group, and pair environments. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451(3), 3249-3268. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1176

© 2015 The Authors. We explore trends in galaxy properties with Mpc-scale structures using catalogues of environment and large-scale structure from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. Existing GAMA catalogues of large-scale structure, group,... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): trends in galaxy colours, morphology, and stellar populations with large-scale structure, group, and pair environments.

The influence of red spiral galaxies on the shape of the local K-band luminosity function (2015)
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Bonne, N. J., Brown, M. J. I., Jones, H., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2015). The influence of red spiral galaxies on the shape of the local K-band luminosity function. The Astrophysical journal, 799(2), Article ARTN 160. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/799/2/160

We have determined K-band luminosity functions for 13,325 local universe galaxies as a function of morphology and color (for Ktot ≤ 10.75). Our sample is drawn from the Two Micron All Sky Survey Extended Source Catalog, with all sample galaxies havin... Read More about The influence of red spiral galaxies on the shape of the local K-band luminosity function.

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., 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., Christopher Martin, D., Pimbblet, K., …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., Palamara, D. P., Jannuzi, B. T., Dey, A., Atlee, D. W., & 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., Dopita, M. A., Grado, A., Limatola, L., Bourdin, H., Mazzotta, P., Capaccioli, M., Napolitano, N. R., & 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., Bauer, A. E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Cluver, M., De Propris, R., Drinkwater, M. J., Holwerda, B. W., Kelvin, L. S., Lara-Lopez, M. A., Liske, J., López-Sánchez, Á. R., Loveday, J., Mahajan, S., …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., Contreras, C., Couch, W., Croom, S., Croton, D. J., Davis, T. M., 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. (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., Taylor, E., Robotham, A. S. G., Gunawardhana, M. L. P., Ponman, T., Baldry, I., Bauer, A. E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Cluver, M., Cameron, E., Conselice, C. J., Driver, S., Edge, A. C., Graham, A. W., van Kampen, E., …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., Brough, S., Brown, M., Cluver, M., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., van Kampen, E., Kelvin, L. S., Lara-Lopez, M. A., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Mahajan, S., & 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., Alpaslan, M., Baldry, I., Bamford, S. P., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Colless, M., Conselice, C. J., Hopkins, A. M., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Norberg, P., Pimbblet, K. A., Popescu, C. C., …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.