Publications (93)
The shape of the SDSS DR5 galaxy power spectrum
Will J. Percival, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Eisenstein +14
We present a Fourier analysis of the clustering of galaxies in the combined Main galaxy and Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) sample. T…
Galaxy Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Using Supervised Artificial Neural Networks
Nicholas M Ball, Jon Loveday, Masataka Fukugita +4
Supervised artificial neural networks are used to predict useful properties of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, in this instance morphological classifications, spectral ty…
Tracing luminous and dark matter with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Jon Loveday
I summarize the scientific goals and current status of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, briefly describe the Early Data Release, and discuss some recent scientific results obtained fr…
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The halo mass of galaxy groups from maximum-likelihood weak lensing
Jiaxin Han, Vincent R. Eke, Carlos S. Frenk +12
We present a maximum-likelihood weak lensing analysis of the mass distribution in optically selected spectroscopic Galaxy Groups (GCv5) in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) s…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The large scale structure of galaxies and comparison to mock universes
Mehmet Alpaslan, Aaron S. G. Robotham, Simon Driver +18
From a volume limited sample of 45,542 galaxies and 6,000 groups with we use an adapted minimal spanning tree algorithm to identify and classify large scale structur…
Spectral properties of galaxies in the Stromlo-APM redshift survey: clues on the local star-forming galaxies
Laurence Tresse, Steve J. Maddox, Jon Loveday
We analyse emission-line properties of the bj-selected Stromlo-APM spectra (<z> = 0.05). Because this is a representative sample, we can study the global spectral properties of the…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions
Simon P. Driver, Sabine Bellstedt, Aaron S. G. Robotham +67
In Galaxy And Mass Assembly Data Release 4 (GAMA DR4), we make available our full spectroscopic redshift sample. This includes 248682 galaxy spectra, and, in combination with earli…
The K-band luminosity function of nearby field galaxies
Jon Loveday
We present a measurement of the K-band luminosity function (LF) of field galaxies obtained from near-infrared imaging of a sample of 345 galaxies selected from the Stromlo-APM Reds…
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Galaxy Sample
Will J. Percival, Beth A. Reid, Daniel J. Eisenstein +25
The spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) galaxy sample represents the final set of galaxies observed using the original SDSS target selection criteria…
MegaZ-LRG: A photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
Adrian Collister, Ofer Lahav, Chris Blake +14
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magni…
The Small-scale Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies via Cross-Correlation Techniques
Daniel J. Eisenstein, Michael Blanton, Idit Zehavi +5
We present the small-scale (0.2h^{-1} to 7h^{-1} Mpc) cross-correlations between 32,000 luminous early-type galaxies and a reference sample of 16 million normal galaxies from the S…
The local space density of dwarf galaxies
Jon Loveday
We estimate the luminosity function of field galaxies over a range of ten magnitudes (-22 < M_{B_J} < -12 for H_0 = 100 km/s/Mpc) by counting the number of faint APM galaxies aroun…
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The spectroscopic QSO catalogue
Scott M. Croom, Gordon T. Richards, Tom Shanks +27
We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Survey. This is a deep, 18<g<21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at probing in detail…
GAMA/WiggleZ: The 1.4GHz radio luminosity functions of high- and low-excitation radio galaxies and their redshift evolution to z=0.75
Michael Pracy, John Ching, Elaine Sadler +17
We present radio Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) luminosity functions over the redshift range 0.005 < z < 0.75. The sample from which the luminosity functions are constructed is an op…
Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing in EAGLE: comparison with data from 180 square degrees of the KiDS and GAMA surveys
Marco Velliscig, Marcello Cacciato, Henk Hoekstra +14
We present predictions for the galaxy-galaxy lensing profile from the EAGLE hydrodynamical cosmological simulation at redshift z=0.18, in the spatial range 0.02 < R/(Mpc/h) < 2, an…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Stellar mass functions by Hubble type
Lee S. Kelvin, Simon P. Driver, Aaron S. G. Robotham +22
We present an estimate of the galaxy stellar mass function and its division by morphological type in the local (0.025 < z < 0.06) Universe. Adopting robust morphological classifica…
The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019 edition
The MSE Science Team, Carine Babusiaux, Maria Bergemann +258
(Abridged) The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is an end-to-end science platform for the design, execution and scientific exploitation of spectroscopic surveys. It will unvei…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Deconstructing Bimodality - I. Red ones and blue ones
Edward N. Taylor, Andrew M. Hopkins, Ivan K. Baldry +18
We measure the mass functions for generically red and blue galaxies, using a z < 0.12 sample of log M* > 8.7 field galaxies from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. Our mot…
Bivariate Galaxy Luminosity Functions in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Nicholas M Ball, Jon Loveday, Robert J Brunner +2
Bivariate luminosity functions (LFs) are computed for galaxies in the New York Value-Added Galaxy Catalogue, based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4. The galaxy proper…
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The LRG 2-Point Correlation Function and Redshift-Space Distortions
Nicholas P. Ross, J. da Angela, T. Shanks +17
We present a clustering analysis of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) using nearly 9 000 objects from the final catalogue of the 2dF-SDSS LRG And QSO (2SLAQ) Survey. We measure the reds…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Jon Loveday
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is making a multi-colour, three dimensional map of the nearby Universe. The survey is in two parts. The first part is imaging one quarter of the…
The stellar-to-halo mass relation of GAMA galaxies from 100 square degrees of KiDS weak lensing data
Edo van Uitert, Marcello Cacciato, Henk Hoekstra +26
We study the stellar-to-halo mass relation of central galaxies in the range 9.7<log_10(M_*/h^-2 M_sun)<11.7 and z<0.4, obtained from a combined analysis of the Kilo Degree Survey (…
Large Scale Clustering of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars: Impact of the Baryon Density and the Cosmological Constant
Kazuhiro Yahata, Yasushi Suto, Issha Kayo +13
We report the first result of the clustering analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasars. We compute the two-point correlation function (2PCF) of SDSS quasars in redshift s…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and dark matter
Jon Loveday
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will carry out a digital photometric and spectroscopic survey over pi steradians in the northern Galactic cap. An array of CCD detectors used in…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Jon Loveday, Jeff Pier
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will carry out a digital photometric and spectroscopic survey over pi steradians in the northern Galactic cap. An array of CCD detectors used in…
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): galaxy radial alignments in GAMA groups
Michael D. Schneider, Shaun Cole, Carlos S. Frenk +10
We constrain the distributions of projected radial alignment angles of satellite galaxy shapes within the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey group catalogue. We identify the galaxy gr…
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Projected Galaxy Clustering
D. J. Farrow, Shaun Cole, Peder Norberg +11
We measure the projected 2-point correlation function of galaxies in the 180 deg equatorial regions of the GAMA II survey, for four different redshift slices between z = 0.0 an…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Refining the Local Galaxy Merger Rate using Morphological Information
Kevin R. V. Casteels, Christopher J. Conselice, Steven P. Bamford +16
We use the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to measure the local Universe mass dependent merger fraction and merger rate using galaxy pairs and the CAS structural method, whi…
Average spectra of massive galaxies in the SDSS
Daniel J. Eisenstein, David W. Hogg, Masataka Fukugita +17
We combine Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra of 22,000 luminous, red, bulge-dominated galaxies to get high S/N average spectra in the rest-frame optical and ultraviolet (2600A to 70…
The galaxy power spectrum on the lightcone: deep, wide-angle redshift surveys and the turnover scale
Daniel Pryer, Robert E. Smith, Robin Booth +3
We derive expressions for the survey-window convolved galaxy power spectrum in real space for a full sky and deep redshift survey, but taking into account the geometrical lightcone…
The Faint End of the Luminosity Function in the Field
Jon Loveday
I review the current observational status of the faint end of the optical luminosity function of field galaxies at low redshift. There is growing evidence for an excess number of d…
The SDSS Quasar Survey: Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release Three
Gordon T. Richards, Michael A. Strauss, Xiaohui Fan +19
We determine the number counts and z=0-5 luminosity function for a well-defined, homogeneous sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We conservatively define th…
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: evolution of the clustering of luminous red galaxies since z = 0.6
David A. Wake, Ravi K. Sheth, Robert C. Nichol +17
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLA…
GAMA/G10-COSMOS/3D-HST: The 0<z<5 cosmic star-formation history, stellar- and dust-mass densities
Simon P. Driver, Stephen K. Andrews, Elisabete da Cunha +30
We use the energy-balance code MAGPHYS to determine stellar and dust masses, and dust corrected star-formation rates for over 200,000 GAMA galaxies, 170,000 G10-COSMOS galaxies and…
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): merging galaxies and their properties
Roberto De Propris, Ivan K. Baldry, Joss Bland-Hawthorn +7
We derive the close pair fractions and volume merger rates as a function of luminosity and morphology for galaxies in the GAMA survey with -23 < M(r) < -17 at 0.01 < z < 0.22. The…
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): FUV, NUV, ugrizYJHK Petrosian, Kron and Sèrsic photometry
David T. Hill, Lee S. Kelvin, Simon P. Driver +33
In order to generate credible 0.1-2 μm SEDs, the GAMA project requires many Gigabytes of imaging data from a number of instruments to be re-processed into a standard format. In th…
KL Estimation of the Power Spectrum Parameters from the Angular Distribution of Galaxies in Early SDSS Data
SDSS Collaboration, Alexander S. Szalay, Bhuvnesh Jain +25
We present measurements of parameters of the 3-dimensional power spectrum of galaxy clustering from 222 square degrees of early imaging data in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The pr…
Optical and Near-IR Field Luminosity Functions
Jon Loveday
We present preliminary measurements of the b_J and K-band luminosity functions (LFs) of field galaxies obtained from optical and K-band imaging of a sample of galaxies selected fro…
The Environment of Passive Spiral Galaxies in the SDSS
Tomotsugu Goto, Sadanori Okamura, Maki Sekiguchi +15
In previous work on galaxy clusters, several authors reported a discovery of an unusual population of galaxies, which have spiral morphologies, but do not show any star formation a…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Estimating galaxy group masses via caustic analysis
Mehmet Alpaslan, Aaron S. G. Robotham, Simon Driver +12
We have generated complementary halo mass estimates for all groups in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly Galaxy Group Catalogue (GAMA G3Cv1) using a modified caustic mass estimation algo…
The 4MOST-Cosmology Redshift Survey: Target Selection of Bright Galaxies and Luminous Red Galaxies
Aurelien Verdier, Antoine Rocher, Behnood Bandi +7
The Cosmology Redshift Survey of the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST-CRS) will provide redshift measurements of galaxies and quasars over 5700{\degsq} in the so…
First test of Verlinde's theory of Emergent Gravity using Weak Gravitational Lensing measurements
Margot M. Brouwer, Manus R. Visser, Andrej Dvornik +19
Verlinde (2016) proposed that the observed excess gravity in galaxies and clusters is the consequence of Emergent Gravity (EG). In this theory the standard gravitational laws are m…
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Fine filaments of galaxies detected within voids
Mehmet Alpaslan, Aaron S. G. Robotham, Danail Obreschkow +15
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 galaxie…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Trends in galaxy colours, morphology, and stellar populations with large scale structure, group, and pair environments
Mehmet Alpaslan, Simon Driver, Aaron S. G. Robotham +32
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…
DINGO/GAMA /WAVES: HI-halo mass relation
Ajay Dev, Martin Meyer, Simon P. Driver +17
We investigate the relation between neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) and dark matter halo mass (HIHM) using observations from the Deep Investigation of Neutral Gas Origins (DINGO) pilo…
Analysis of Systematic Effects and Statistical Uncertainties in Angular Clustering of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data
SDSS Collaboration, Ryan Scranton, David Johnston +21
The angular distribution of galaxies encodes a wealth of information about large scale structure. Ultimately, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will record the angular positions…
Evolution of the Galaxy Luminosity Function at z < 0.3
Jon Loveday
We measure the redshift-dependent luminosity function and the comoving radial density of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 1 (SDSS DR1). Both measurements indic…
Higher Order Moments of the Angular Distribution of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data
István Szapudi, Joshua A. Frieman, Roman Scoccimarro +13
We present initial results for counts in cells statistics of the angular distribution of galaxies in early data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We analyze a rectangular s…
GAMA: towards a physical understanding of galaxy formation
Simon P. Driver, Peder Norberg, Ivan K. Baldry +46
The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) project is the latest in a tradition of large galaxy redshift surveys, and is now underway on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spri…
The Angular Power Spectrum of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data
SDSS Collaboration, Max Tegmark, Scott Dodelson +21
We compute the angular power spectrum C_l from 1.5 million galaxies in early SDSS data on large angular scales, l<600. The data set covers about 160 square degrees, with a characte…
Exploring the effect of baryons on the radial distribution of satellite galaxies with GAMA and IllustrisTNG
Stephen D. Riggs, Jon Loveday, Peter A. Thomas +3
We explore the radial distribution of satellite galaxies in groups in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey and the IllustrisTNG simulations. Considering groups with masses $1…
The Causes of the Red Sequence, the Blue Cloud, the Green Valley and the Green Mountain
Stephen Eales, Maarten Baes, Nathan Bourne +23
The galaxies found in optical surveys fall in two distinct regions of a diagram of optical colour versus absolute magnitude: the red sequence and the blue cloud with the green vall…
The Multi-Object, Fiber-Fed Spectrographs for SDSS and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
Stephen Smee, James E. Gunn, Alan Uomoto +61
We present the design and performance of the multi-object fiber spectrographs for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and their upgrade for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Sur…
Calibrating Photometric Redshifts of Luminous Red Galaxies
Nikhil Padmanabhan, Tamas Budavari, David J. Schlegel +20
We discuss the construction of a photometric redshift catalogue of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), emphasizing the principal steps necessary…
The Galaxy Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density at Redshift z=0.1
Michael R. Blanton, David W. Hogg, J. Brinkmann +16
Using a catalog of 147,986 galaxy redshifts and fluxes from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) we measure the galaxy luminosity density at z=0.1 in five optical bandpasses corresp…
Detection of Cosmic Magnification with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Ryan Scranton, Brice Menard, Gordon T. Richards +15
We present an 8 sigma detection of cosmic magnification measured by the variation of quasar density due to gravitational lensing by foreground large scale structure. To make this m…
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The Star Formation Histories of Luminous Red Galaxies
Isaac G. Roseboom, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Michael J. Drinkwater +21
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5,697 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hdelta (4101A) and [OII] (3727A) lines. LRGs are lum…
H-ATLAS/GAMA: Quantifying the Morphological Evolution of the Galaxy Population Using Cosmic Calorimetry
Stephen Eales, Andrew Fullard, Matthew Allen +28
Using results from the Herschel Astrophysical Terrahertz Large-Area Survey and the Galaxy and Mass Assembly project, we show that, for galaxy masses above approximately 1.0e8 solar…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): improved cosmic growth measurements using multiple tracers of large-scale structure
Chris Blake, Ivan K. Baldry, Joss Bland-Hawthorn +11
We present the first application of a "multiple-tracer" redshift-space distortion (RSD) analysis to an observational galaxy sample, using data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly sur…
Galaxy Number Counts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data
Naoki Yasuda, Masataka Fukugita, Vijay K. Narayanan +10
We present bright galaxy number counts in five broad bands () from imaging data taken during the commissioning phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The…
Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Quasar Sample
Gordon T. Richards, Xiaohui Fan, Heidi Jo Newberg +18
We describe the algorithm for selecting quasar candidates for optical spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Quasar candidates are selected via their non-stellar colors in "…
4MOST Cosmology Redshift Survey (CRS): Clustering Properties of CRS Bright Galaxy and Luminous Red Galaxy Target Catalogues
Behnood Bandi, Antoine Rocher, Aurélien Verdier +6
The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope Cosmology Redshift Survey (4MOST CRS) will obtain 5.4 million spectroscopic redshifts over ~5700 deg^2 to map large-scale structure…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Cosmic Spectrum and Star-Formation History
Karl Glazebrook, Ivan K. Baldry, Michael R. Blanton +13
We present a determination of the `Cosmic Optical Spectrum' of the Universe, i.e. the ensemble emission from galaxies, as determined from the red-selected Sloan Digital Sky Survey…
Galaxy Mass and Luminosity Scaling Laws Determined by Weak Gravitational Lensing
Timothy A. McKay, Erin Scott Sheldon, Judith Racusin +18
We present new measurements of scaling laws relating the luminosity of galaxies to the amplitude and shape of their dark matter halos. Early imaging and spectroscopic data from the…
Luminosity Function of Morphologically Classified Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Osamu Nakamura, Masataka Fukugita, Naoki Yasuda +5
The morphological dependence of the luminosity function is studied using a sample containing approximately 1500 bright galaxies classified into Hubble types by visual inspections f…
The 3D Power Spectrum from Angular Clustering of Galaxies in Early SDSS Data
Scott Dodelson, Vijay K. Narayanan, Max Tegmark +22
Early photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) contain angular positions for 1.5 million galaxies. In companion papers, the angular correlation function an…
A consistent model for both the HI and stellar mass functions of galaxies
Hazel Martindale, Peter A. Thomas, Bruno M. Henriques +1
Using the L-Galaxies semi-analytic model we simultaneously fit the HI mass function, stellar mass function and galaxy colours. We find good fits to all three observations at z = 0…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Structural Investigation of Galaxies via Model Analysis (SIGMA)
Lee S. Kelvin, Simon P. Driver, Aaron S. G. Robotham +17
We present single-Sérsic two-dimensional model fits to 167,600 galaxies modelled independently in the ugrizYJHK bandpasses using reprocessed Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Status and Prospects
Jon Loveday
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a project to definitively map steradians of the local Universe. An array of CCD detectors used in drift-scan mode will digitally image t…
The APM Bright Galaxy Catalogue
Jon Loveday
The APM Bright Galaxy Catalogue lists positions, magnitudes, shapes and morphological types for 14,681 galaxies brighter than magnitude 16.44 over a 4,180 square degree area…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): mass-size relations of z0.1 galaxies subdivided by Sérsic index, colour and morphology
Rebecca Lange, Simon P. Driver, Aaron S. G. Robotham +20
We use data from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey in the redshift range 0.01z0.1 (8399 galaxies in to bands) to derive the stellar mass half-light rad…
Deep Investigation of Neutral Gas Origins (DINGO): HI stacking experiments with early science data
Jonghwan Rhee, Martin Meyer, Attila Popping +19
We present early science results from Deep Investigation of Neutral Gas Origins (DINGO), an HI survey using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). Using ASKAP su…
Galaxy Colour, Morphology, and Environment in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Nicholas M. Ball, Jon Loveday, Robert J. Brunner
We use the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to investigate the relation between galaxy rest frame u-r colour, morphology, as described by the concentration and S…
The New Galaxy Evolution Paradigm Revealed by the Herschel Surveys
Stephen Eales, Dan Smith, Nathan Bourne +22
The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed a very different galaxyscape from that shown by optical surveys which presents a challenge for galaxy-evolution models. The Herschel sur…
Luminosity and surface brightness distribution of K-band galaxies from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey
Anthony J. Smith, Jon Loveday, Nicholas J. G. Cross
We present luminosity and surface brightness distributions of 40,111 galaxies with K-band photometry from the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UK…
An HI Survey of LSB galaxies selected from the APM Survey
Stephanie Cote, Tom Broadhurst, Jon Loveday +1
We present preliminary results of a neutral hydrogen (HI) redshift survey to find low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies in the very nearby universe. Our sample consists of all gala…
The Angular Correlation Function of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data
SDSS Collaboration, Andrew Connolly, Ryan Scranton +22
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is one of the first multicolor photometric and spectroscopic surveys designed to measure the statistical properties of galaxies within the local Univer…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Stellar mass growth of spiral galaxies in the cosmic web
Mehmet Alpaslan, Meiert W. Grootes, Pamela M. Marcum +16
We look for correlated changes in stellar mass and star formation rate along filaments in the cosmic web by examining the stellar masses and UV-derived star formation rates (SFR) o…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): ugrizYJHK Sérsic luminosity functions and the cosmic spectral energy distribution by Hubble type
Lee S. Kelvin, Simon P. Driver, Aaron S. G. Robotham +20
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 x 10^5 Mpc…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Panchromatic Data Release (far-UV --- far-IR) and the low-z energy budget
Simon P. Driver, Angus H. Wright, Stephen K. Andrews +60
We present the GAMA Panchromatic Data Release (PDR) constituting over 230deg of imaging with photometry in 21 bands extending from the far-UV to the far-IR. These data compleme…
An empirical measurement of the Halo Mass Function from the combination of GAMA DR4, SDSS DR12, and REFLEX II data
Simon P. Driver, Aaron S. G. Robotham, Danail Obreschkow +13
We construct the halo mass function (HMF) from the GAMA galaxy group catalogue over the mass range 10^12.7M_sol to 10^15.5M_sol, and find good agreement with the expectation from L…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Automatic Morphological Classification of Galaxies Using Statistical Learning
Sreevarsha Sreejith, Sergiy Pereverzyev, Lee S. Kelvin +15
We apply four statistical learning methods to a sample of galaxies () from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to test the feasibility of using automated algo…
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Redshift Space Distortions from the Clipped Galaxy Field
Fergus Simpson, Chris Blake, John A. Peacock +6
We present the first cosmological measurement derived from a galaxy density field subject to a `clipping' transformation. By enforcing an upper bound on the galaxy number density f…
Measuring the matter density using baryon oscillations in the SDSS
Will J. Percival, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Eisenstein +12
We measure the cosmological matter density by observing the positions of baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We joint…
Wide Area VISTA Extra-galactic Survey (WAVES): Unsupervised star-galaxy separation on the WAVES-Wide photometric input catalogue using UMAP and
Todd L. Cook, Behnood Bandi, Sam Philipsborn +13
Star-galaxy separation is a crucial step in creating target catalogues for extragalactic spectroscopic surveys. A classifier biased towards inclusivity risks including spurious sta…
Hdelta-Selected Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I: The Catalog
Tomotsugu Goto, Robert C. Nichol, Christopher J. Miller +20
[Abridged] We present here a new and homogeneous sample of 3340 galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) based solely on the observed strength of their Hdelta abs…
UBR charge-coupled device photometry of Stromlo-APM galaxies
Jon Loveday
We present CCD photometry in the Johnson-Kron-Cousins UBR bands for a sample of 320 galaxies selected from the Stromlo-APM Redshift Survey. We use this CCD data to estimate the gal…
Mapping dark matter and the emergence of large-scale structure
Jon Loveday, Jochen Liske, Ivan K. Baldry +5
We discuss a potential survey to map dark matter and the emergence of large-scale structure to redshift z ~ 1.5 (baseline) or z~3.5 (with near-IR extension) using a massively multi…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the wavelength-dependent sizes and profiles of galaxies revealed by MegaMorph
Benedetta Vulcani, Steven P. Bamford, Boris HäuÃler +14
We investigate the relationship between colour and structure within galaxies using a large, volume-limited sample of bright, low-redshift galaxies with optical to near-infrared ima…
The Intermediate-Scale Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies
Idit Zehavi, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Robert C. Nichol +7
We report the intermediate-scale (0.3 to 40 Mpc/h) clustering of 35,000 luminous early-type galaxies at redshifts 0.16 to 0.44 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We present the red…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Stellar Mass Estimates
Edward N Taylor, Andrew M Hopkins, Ivan K Baldry +32
This paper describes the first catalogue of photometrically-derived stellar mass estimates for intermediate-redshift (z < 0.65) galaxies in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) spec…
The properties and luminosity function of extremely low luminosity galaxies
Michael R. Blanton, Robert H. Lupton, David J. Schlegel +4
We examine a sample of low redshift (10 < d < 150 Mpc) galaxies including galaxies with r-band absolute magnitudes as faint as -12.5 (for h=1), selected from the Sloan Digital Sky…
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Galaxies Science Roadmap
Brant E. Robertson, Manda Banerji, Michael C. Cooper +47
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will enable revolutionary studies of galaxies, dark matter, and black holes over cosmic time. The LSST Galaxies Science Collaboration has…