Publications (45)
FAST Ultra-Deep Survey: the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation in FUDS0 field
Hongwei Xi, Lister Staveley-Smith, Bo Peng +4
The Baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR) is one of the tightest scaling relations for disk galaxies in the local Universe, and therefore is an important tool for studying the foma…
Baryonic Masses and Properties of Gaseous Satellite Galaxies
Jingyao Zhu, Yasmeen Asali, Mary Putman +12
We present a sample of 127 gas-bearing dwarf galaxies around 56 late-type host galaxies within 30 Mpc using 21-cm HI data from the WALLABY, MHONGOOSE, and ALFALFA surveys. We chara…
The VMC Survey - XII. Star cluster candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud
André E. Piatti, Roald Guandalini, Valentin D. Ivanov +8
In this work we analyse Colour-Magnitude Diagrams (CMDs) of catalogued star clusters located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), from a YJKs photometric data set obtained by the V…
The FAST Ultra-Deep Survey (FUDS): observational strategy, calibration and data reduction
Hongwei Xi, Bo Peng, Lister Staveley-Smith +2
The FAST Ultra-Deep Survey (FUDS) is a blind survey that aims for the direct detection of HI in galaxies at redshifts . The survey uses the multibeam receiver on the Five H…
A discovery of young stellar objects in older clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Bi-Qing For, Kenji Bekki
Recent studies have shown that an extended main-sequence turn-off is a common feature among intermediate-age clusters (1--3 Gyr) in the Magellanic Clouds. Multiple-generation star…
ALMA/ACA CO Survey of the IC 1459 and NGC 4636 Groups: Environmental Effects on the Molecular Gas of Group Galaxies
Bumhyun Lee, Jing Wang, Aeree Chung +30
We present new results of a 12CO(J=1-0) imaging survey using the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) for 31 HI detected galaxies in the IC 1459 and NGC 4636 groups. This is the first CO im…
Searching for Dark Matter Signals from Local Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies at Low Radio Frequencies in the GLEAM Survey
Robin H. W. Cook, Nick Seymour, Kristine Spekkens +18
The search for emission from weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter annihilation and decay has become a multi-pronged area of research not only targeting a diverse…
GASS High Velocity Clouds in the Region of the Magellanic Leading Arm
Bi-Qing For, Lister Staveley-Smith, Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths
We present a catalog of high-velocity clouds in the region of the Magellanic Leading Arm. The catalog is based on neutral hydrogen (\HI) observations from the Parkes Galactic All-S…
A high resolution foreground model for the MWA EoR1 field: model and implications for EoR power spectrum analysis
P. Procopio, R. B. Wayth, J. Line +23
The current generation of experiments aiming to detect the neutral hydrogen signal from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) is likely to be limited by systematic effects associated wit…
Gas and Star Formation in the Circinus Galaxy
Bi-Qing For, Bärbel Koribalski, Tom Jarrett
We present a detailed study of the Circinus Galaxy, investigating its star formation, dust and gas properties both in the inner and outer disk. To achieve this, we obtained high-re…
Complex distribution and velocity field of molecular gas in NGC 1316 as revealed by Morita Array of ALMA
Kana Morokuma-Matsui, Paolo Serra, Filippo M. Maccagni +11
We present the results of CO(=1-0) mosaicing observations of the cD galaxy NGC 1316 at kpc-resolution performed with the Morita Array of the Atacama Large Millimeter/subm…
New quasars behind the Magellanic Clouds. Spectroscopic confirmation of near-infrared selected candidates
Valentin D. Ivanov, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Kenji Bekki +7
Quasi--stellar objects (quasars) located behind nearby galaxies provide an excellent absolute reference system for astrometric studies, but they are difficult to identify because o…
WALLABY Pilot Survey: HI gas kinematics of galaxy pairs in cluster environment
Shin-Jeong Kim, Se-Heon Oh, Jing Wang +22
We examine the HI gas kinematics of galaxy pairs in two clusters and a group using Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) WALLABY pilot survey observations. We compar…
The VMC Survey. XI. Radial Stellar Population Gradients in the Galactic Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
Chengyuan Li, Richard de Grijs, Licai Deng +15
We present a deep near-infrared color--magnitude diagram of the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae, obtained with the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA)…
Calibration and Stokes Imaging with Full Embedded Element Primary Beam Model for the Murchison Widefield Array
M. Sokolowski, T. Colegate, A. T. Sutinjo +22
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), located in Western Australia, is one of the low-frequency precursors of the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. In addition to…
WALLABY Pilot Survey: the diversity of ram pressure stripping of the galactic HI gas in the Hydra Cluster
Jing Wang, Lister Staveley-Smith, Tobias Westmeier +26
This study uses HI image data from the WALLABY pilot survey with the ASKAP telescope, covering the Hydra cluster out to 2.5. We present the projected phase-space distribut…
Blue straggler stars beyond the Milky Way. III. Detection of evolved blue straggler candidates in Large Magellanic Cloud clusters
Chengyuan Li, Licai Deng, Kenji Bekki +3
We analyze {\sl Hubble Space Telescope} observations of nine Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters with ages of 1--2 Gyr to search for evolved counterparts of blue straggler stars.…
WALLABY Pilot Survey: Hydra Cluster Galaxies UV and HI morphometrics
Benne W. Holwerda, Frank Bigiel, Albert Bosma +16
Galaxy morphology in atomic hydrogen (HI) and in the ultra-violet (UV) are closely linked. This has motivated their combined use to quantify morphology over the full H i disk for b…
Robust profile decomposition for large extragalactic spectral-line surveys
Se-Heon Oh, Lister Staveley-Smith, Bi-Qing For
We present a novel algorithm that is based on a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique for performing robust profile analysis of a data cube from either single-dish or…
GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array (GLEAM) survey I: A low-frequency extragalactic catalogue
Natasha Hurley-Walker, Joseph R. Callingham, Paul J. Hancock +40
Using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), the low-frequency Square Kilometre Array (SKA1 LOW) precursor located in Western Australia, we have completed the GaLactic and Extragalac…
The Arecibo Ultra-Deep Survey
Hongwei Xi, Lister Staveley-Smith, Bi-Qing For +5
The Arecibo Ultra Deep Survey (AUDS) is a blind HI survey aimed at detecting galaxies beyond the local Universe in the 21-cm emission line of neutral hydrogen (HI). The Arecibo …
The most distant HI galaxies discovered by the 500 m dish FAST
Hongwei Xi, Bo Peng, Lister Staveley-Smith +20
Neutral hydrogen (HI) is the primary component of the cool interstellar medium (ISM) and is the reservoir of fuel for star formation. Owing to the sensitivity of existing radio tel…
New candidate radio supernova remnants detected in the GLEAM survey over ,
Natasha Hurley-Walker, Miroslav D. Filipovic, Bryan M. Gaensler +18
We have detected 27 new supernova remnants (SNRs) using a new data release of the GLEAM survey from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope, including the lowest surface-brig…
High-resolution Observations of Low-luminosity Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum and Compact Steep Spectrum Sources
Jordan D. Collier, Steven J. Tingay, Joseph R. Callingham +27
We present Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations of a faint and low-luminosity ($L_{\rm 1.4 GHz} < 10^{27}~\mbox{W Hz}^{-1}$) Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum (GPS) and Compact S…
WALLABY Pre-Pilot Survey: HI Content of the Eridanus Supergroup
Bi-Qing For, J. Wang, T. Westmeier +19
We present observations of the Eridanus supergroup obtained with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) as part of the pre-pilot survey for the Widefield ASKAP L-…
The Mass-Loss Return From Evolved Stars to the LMC: Empirical Relations for Excess Emission at 8 and 24 μm
Sundar Srinivasan, Margaret Meixner, Claus Leitherer +18
We present empirical relations describing excess emission from evolved stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using data from the SAGE (Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolut…
GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array (GLEAM) survey II: Galactic Plane ,
Natasha Hurley-Walker, Paul J. Hancock, Thomas M. O. Franzen +16
This work makes available a further 2,860deg of the GLEAM survey, covering half of the accessible Galactic Plane, across twenty frequency bands sampling MHz, with resol…
Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) I: Overview and Initial Results
Margaret Meixner, Karl D. Gordon, Remy Indebetouw +46
We are performing a uniform and unbiased, ~7x7 degrees imaging survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the IRAC and MIPS instruments on board the Spitzer Space Telescope…
CO(=1-0) mapping survey of 64 galaxies in the Fornax cluster with the ALMA Morita array
Kana Morokuma-Matsui, Kenji Bekki, Jing Wang +18
We conduct a CO(=1-0) (hereafter CO) mapping survey of 64 galaxies in the Fornax cluster using the ALMA Morita array in cycle 5. CO emission is detected from 23 ou…
The VMC survey - XVI. Spatial variation of the cluster-formation activity in the innermost regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Andrés E. Piatti, Richard de Grijs, Vincenzo Ripepi +6
We present results based on photometry of star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), distributed throughout the central part of the galaxy's bar and the 30 Do…
FAST Ultra-Deep Survey (FUDS): Data Release for FUDS0
Hongwei Xi, Bo Peng, Lister Staveley-Smith +3
We have used the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to make a blind ultra-deep survey for neutral hydrogen (HI). We present the complete results from the…
WALLABY Early Science - I. The NGC 7162 Galaxy Group
Tristan N. Reynolds, Tobias Westmeier, Lister Staveley-Smith +21
We present Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey (WALLABY) early science results from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) observations of the NGC…
Radial Velocities and Pulsation Ephemerides of 11 Field RR Lyrae Stars
Bi-Qing For, George W. Preston, Christopher Sneden
We present new radial velocities, improved pulsation periods and reference epoch s of 11 field RR Lyrae ab-type variables: AS Vir, BS Aps, CD Vel, DT Hya, RV Oct, TY Gru, UV Oct, V…
WALLABY Pre-Pilot Survey: The effects of tidal interaction on radial distribution of color in galaxies of the Eridanus supergroup
Shun Wang, Jing Wang, Bi-Qing For +21
We study the tidal interaction of galaxies in the Eridanus supergroup, using HI data from the pre-pilot survey of WALLABY (Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY). We o…
The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample: I. Definition and the catalogue
Sarah V. White, Thomas M. O. Franzen, Chris J. Riseley +21
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) has observed the entire southern sky (Declination, 30 deg) at low radio-frequencies, over the range 72-231 MHz. These observations constit…
The Chemical Compositions of Variable Field Horizontal Branch Stars: RR Lyrae Stars
Bi-Qing For, Christopher Sneden, George W. Preston
We present a detailed abundance study of 11 RR Lyrae ab-type variables: AS Vir, BS Aps, CD Vel, DT Hya, RV Oct, TY Gru, UV Oct, V1645 Sgr, WY Ant, XZ Aps, and Z Mic.High resolution…
FAST Ultra-Deep Survey (FUDS): the star formation histories of FUDS0 galaxies
Hongwei Xi, Lister Staveley-Smith, Bo Peng +3
We present the ultraviolet, optical and infrared counterparts of 128 galaxies detected in neutral hydrogen (HI) in the FAST Ultra-Deep Survey (FUDS) field 0 (FUDS0). HI mass upper…
An analysis of the halo and relic radio emission from Abell 3376 from Murchison Widefield Array observations
Lijo T. George, K. S. Dwarakanath, M. Johnston-Hollitt +48
We have carried out multiwavelength observations of the near-by () rich, merging galaxy cluster Abell 3376 with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). As a part of the GaLac…
WALLABY Pre-Pilot and Pilot Survey: the Tully Fisher Relation in Eridanus, Hydra, Norma and NGC4636 fields
Hélène M. Courtois, Khaled Said, Jeremy Mould +28
The WALLABY pilot survey has been conducted using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP). The integrated 21-cm HI line spectra are formed in a very different manner compared to usua…
A study of halo and relic radio emission in merging clusters using the Murchison Widefield Array
L. T. George, K. S. Dwarakanath, M. Johnston-Hollitt +18
We have studied radio haloes and relics in nine merging galaxy clusters using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The images used for this study were obtained from the GaLactic an…
The VMC Survey. XVIII. Radial dependence of the low-mass, 0.55--0.82 stellar mass function in the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae
Chaoli Zhang, Chengyuan Li, Richard de Grijs +12
We use near-infrared observations obtained as part of the {\sl Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy} (VISTA) Survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC), as well as two co…
WALLABY Pilot Survey: Star Formation Enhancement and Suppression in Gas-rich Galaxy Pairs
Qifeng Huang, Jing Wang, Xuchen Lin +16
Galaxy interactions can significantly affect the star formation in galaxies, but it remains a challenge to achieve a consensus on the star formation rate (SFR) enhancement in galax…
The Chemical Compositions of Non-Variable Red and Blue Field Horizontal Branch Stars
Bi-Qing For, Christopher Sneden
We present a new detailed abundance study of field red horizontal branch (RHB) and blue horizontal branch (BHB) non-variable stars. High resolution and high S/N echelle spectra of…
New Initiatives on RR Lyrae Chemical Compositions
Christopher Sneden, Bi-Qing For, George W. Preston
The serendipitous discovery by Preston and colleagues of the neutron-capture-enhanced RR Lyrae variable star TY Gru (a.k.a. CS 22881-071 in the "HK" survey of very metal-poor halo…
Candidate radio supernova remnants observed by the GLEAM survey over and
Natasha Hurley-Walker, Bryan M. Gaensler, Denis A. Leahy +18
We examined the latest data release from the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array (GLEAM) survey covering , $180^\circ < l < 240^\…