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Professor Kevin Pimbblet's Outputs (103)

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.

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?.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The large-scale structure of galaxies and comparison to mock universes (2013)
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Alpaslan, M., Robotham, A. S. G., Driver, S., Norberg, P., Baldry, I., Bauer, A. E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brown, M., Cluver, M., Colless, M., Foster, C., Hopkins, A., Van kampen, E., Kelvin, L., Lara-Lopez, M. A., Liske, J., Lopez-Sanchez, A. R., Loveday, J., Mcnaught-Roberts, T., Merson, A., & Pimbblet, K. (2014). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The large-scale structure of galaxies and comparison to mock universes. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(1), 177-194. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2136

From a volume-limited sample of 45 542 galaxies and 6000 groups with z ≤ 0.213, we use an adapted minimal spanning tree algorithm to identify and classify large-scale structures within the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. Using galaxy groups,... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The large-scale structure of galaxies and comparison to mock universes.

Environments and morphologies of red sequence galaxies with residual star formation in massive clusters (2013)
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Crossett, J. P., Pimbblet, K. A., Stott, J. P., & Jones, D. H. (2014). Environments and morphologies of red sequence galaxies with residual star formation in massive clusters. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437(3), 2521-2530. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2065

We present a photometric investigation into recent star formation in galaxy clusters at z ∼ 0.1. We use spectral energy distribution templates to quantify recent star formation in large Xray-selected clusters from the LARCS survey using matched GALEX... Read More about Environments and morphologies of red sequence galaxies with residual star formation in massive clusters.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: resolving the role of environment in galaxy evolution (2013)
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Brough, S., Croom, S., Sharp, R., Hopkins, A. M., Taylor, E. N., Baldry, I. K., Gunawardhana, M. L. P., Liske, J., Norberg, P., Robotham, A. S. G., Bauer, A. E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Colless, M., Foster, C., Kelvin, L. S., Lara-Lopez, M. A., López-Sánchez, Á. R., Loveday, J., Owers, M., Pimbblet, K. A., & Prescott, M. (2013). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: resolving the role of environment in galaxy evolution. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 435(4), 2903-2917. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1489

We present observations of 18 galaxies from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey made with the SPIRAL optical integral field unit (IFU) on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The galaxies are selected to have a narrow range in stellar mass (6 × 10... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly: resolving the role of environment in galaxy evolution.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Witnessing the assembly of the cluster Abell 1882 (2013)
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Owers, M. S., Baldry, I. K., Bauer, A. E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brown, M. J. I., Cluver, M. E., Colless, M., Driver, S. P., Edge, A. C., Hopkins, A. M., Van Kampen, E., Lara-Lopez, M. A., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Pimbblet, K. A., Ponman, T., & Robotham, A. S. G. (2013). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Witnessing the assembly of the cluster Abell 1882. The Astrophysical journal, 772(2), 104. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/772/2/104

We present a combined optical and X-ray analysis of the rich cluster ABELL 1882 (A1882) with the aim of identifying merging substructure and understanding the recent assembly history of this system. Our optical data consist of spectra drawn from the... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Witnessing the assembly of the cluster Abell 1882.

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?.

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 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.

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?.