Publications (24)
2MTF - VII. 2MASS Tully-Fisher survey final data release: distances for 2,062 nearby spiral galaxies
Tao Hong, Lister Staveley-Smith, Karen L. Masters +8
We present the final distance measurements for the 2MASS Tully-Fisher (2MTF) survey. The final 2MTF catalogue contains 2,062 nearby spiral galaxies in the CMB frame velocity range…
2MTF III. HI 21cm observations of 1194 spiral galaxies with the Green Bank Telescope
Karen L. Masters, Aidan Crook, Tao Hong +5
We present HI 21cm observations of 1194 galaxies out to a redshift of 10,000 km/s selected as inclined spirals (i>60deg) from the 2MASS Redshift Survey. These observations were car…
Are peculiar velocity surveys competitive as a cosmological probe?
Jun Koda, Chris Blake, Tamara Davis +6
Peculiar velocity surveys, which measure galaxy peculiar velocities directly from standard candles in addition to redshifts, can provide strong constraints on the linear growth rat…
SFI++ II: A New I-band Tully-Fisher Catalog, Derivation of Peculiar Velocities and Dataset Properties
Christopher M. Springob, Karen L. Masters, Martha P. Haynes +2
We present the SFI++ dataset, a homogeneously derived catalog of photometric and rotational properties and the Tully-Fisher distances and peculiar velocities derived from them. We…
The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey: II. Results of Precursor Observations
Riccardo Giovanelli, Martha P. Haynes, Brian R. Kent +17
In preparation for the full Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA extragalactic HI survey, precursor observations were carried out in Aug--Sep 2004 with the 7-beam Arecibo L-band feed array (AL…
2MTF I. The Tully-Fisher Relation in the 2MASS J, H and K Bands
Karen L. Masters, Christopher M. Springob, John P. Huchra
The 2 Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) Tully-Fisher Survey (2MTF) aims to measure Tully-Fisher (TF) distances to all bright inclined spirals in the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS). Essen…
The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey: X. The HI Mass Function and Omega_HI From the 40% ALFALFA Survey
Ann M. Martin, Emmanouil Papastergis, Riccardo Giovanelli +3
The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey has completed source extraction for 40% of its total sky area, resulting in the largest sample of HI-selected galaxies to date. We mea…
HI at a Redshift of Zero
Christopher M. Springob
While LOFAR and the SKA will enable the study of HI at the epoch of reionization for the first time, expectations for the distribution of HI at that redshift depend on our understa…
The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Stellar Population Trends Across and Through the Fundamental Plane
Christopher M. Springob, Christina Magoulas, Rob Proctor +6
We present results from an analysis of stellar population parameters for 7132 galaxies in the 6dFGS Fundamental Plane (FP) sample. We bin the galaxies along the axes, , ,…
2MTF IV. A bulk flow measurement of the local Universe
Tao Hong, Christopher M. Springob, Lister Staveley-Smith +6
Using the 2MASS near-infrared photometry and high signal-to-noise HI 21-cm data from the Arecibo, Green Bank, Nancay, and Parkes telescopes, we calculate the redshift-independent d…
The 6dF Galaxy Velocity Survey: Cosmological constraints from the velocity power spectrum
Andrew Johnson, Chris Blake, Jun Koda +10
We present scale-dependent measurements of the normalised growth rate of structure using only the peculiar motions of galaxies. We use data from the 6-degree Fiel…
The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Fundamental Plane Data
Lachlan A. Campbell, John R. Lucey, Matthew Colless +13
We report the 6dFGS Fundamental Plane (6dFGSv) catalogue that is used to estimate distances and peculiar velocities for nearly 9,000 early-type galaxies in the local (z0.055) un…
A Digital Archive of HI 21 cm Line Spectra of Optically-targeted Galaxies
Christopher M. Springob, Martha P. Haynes, Riccardo Giovanelli +1
We present a homogeneous compilation of HI spectral parameters extracted from global 21 cm line spectra for some 9000 galaxies in the local universe (heliocentric velocity -200 < V…
2MTF VI. Measuring the velocity power spectrum
Cullan Howlett, Lister Staveley-Smith, Pascal J. Elahi +7
We present measurements of the velocity power spectrum and constraints on the growth rate of structure , at redshift zero, using the peculiar motions of 2,062 galaxies in…
Morphology, Environment, and the HI Mass Function
Christopher M. Springob, Martha P. Haynes, Riccardo Giovanelli
We exploit a large, complete optical diameter and HI flux limited sample of spiral galaxies with types later than S0a to derive a robust measurement of the HI mass function (HIMF)…
2MTF II. New Parkes 21-cm observations of 303 southern galaxies
Tao Hong, Lister Staveley-Smith, Karen L. Masters +6
We present new 21-cm neutral hydrogen (HI) observations of spiral galaxies for the 2MASS Tully Fisher (2MTF) survey. Using the 64-m Parkes radio telescope multibeam system we obtai…
Maximum likelihood method for fitting the Fundamental Plane of the 6dF Galaxy Survey
Christina Magoulas, Matthew Colless, D. Heath Jones +2
We have used over 10,000 early-type galaxies from the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) to construct the Fundamental Plane across the optical and near-infrared passbands. We demonstrate th…
2MTF V. Cosmography, Beta, and the residual bulk flow
Christopher M. Springob, Tao Hong, Lister Staveley-Smith +7
Using the Tully-Fisher relation, we derive peculiar velocities for the 2MASS Tully-Fisher Survey and describe the velocity field of the nearby Universe. We use adaptive kernel smoo…
The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Bulk Flows on Mpc scales
Morag I. Scrimgeour, Tamara M. Davis, Chris Blake +12
We measure the bulk flow of the local Universe using the 6dF Galaxy Survey peculiar velocity sample (6dFGSv), the largest and most homogeneous peculiar velocity sample to date. 6dF…
The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Peculiar Velocity Field and Cosmography
Christopher M. Springob, Christina Magoulas, Matthew Colless +6
We derive peculiar velocities for the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) and describe the velocity field of the nearby () southern hemisphere. The survey comprises 8885 galaxies fo…
The 6dF Galaxy Survey: The Near-Infrared Fundamental Plane of Early-Type Galaxies
Christina Magoulas, Christopher M. Springob, Matthew Colless +7
We determine the near-infrared Fundamental Plane (FP) for early-type galaxies in the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS). We fit the distribution of central velocity dispersion, n…
WISE TF: A Mid-infrared, 3.4-micron Extension of the Tully-Fisher Relation Using WISE Photometry
David J. Lagattuta, Jeremy R. Mould, Lister Staveley-Smith +5
We present a mid-infrared Tully-Fisher (TF) relation using photometry from the 3.4-micron W1 band of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite. The WISE TF relation…
NIR Tully-Fisher in the Zone of Avoidance. - II. 21 cm HI-line spectra of southern ZOA galaxies
Khaled Said, Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg, Lister Staveley-Smith +3
High-accuracy HI profiles and linewidths are presented for inclined () spiral galaxies in the southern Zone of Avoidance (ZOA). These galaxies define a sample for us…
SFI++ I: A New I-band Tully-Fisher Template, the Cluster Peculiar Velocity Dispersion and H0
Karen L. Masters, Christopher M. Springob, Martha P. Haynes +1
The SFI++ consists of ~5000 spiral galaxies which have measurements suitable for the application of the I-band Tully-Fisher (TF) relation. This sample builds on the SCI and SFI sam…