Publications (77)
The MAGPI Survey -- science goals, design, observing strategy, early results and theoretical framework
C. Foster, J. T. Mendel, C. D. P. Lagos +40
We present an overview of the Middle Ages Galaxy Properties with Integral Field Spectroscopy (MAGPI) survey, a Large Program on ESO/VLT. MAGPI is designed to study the physical dri…
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): survey diagnostics and core data release
S. P. Driver, D. T. Hill, L. S. Kelvin +52
The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has been operating since February 2008 on the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope using the AAOmega fibre-fed spectrograph facility to acqui…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: stochastic relative biasing between galaxy populations
Vivienne Wild, John A. Peacock, Ofer Lahav +26
It is well known that the clustering of galaxies depends on galaxy type.Such relative bias complicates the inference of cosmological parameters from galaxy redshift surveys, and is…
WALLABY -- An SKA Pathfinder HI Survey
B. S. Koribalski, L. Staveley-Smith, T. Westmeier +67
The Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY (WALLABY) is a next-generation survey of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the Local Universe. It uses the widefield, high-resolution…
Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the CFRS and LDSS redshift surveys - IV. Influence of mergers in the evolution of faint field galaxies from z~1
O. Le Fevre, R. Abraham, S. J. Lilly +9
HST images of a sample of 285 galaxies with measured z from the CFRS and Autofib-LDSS redshift surveys are analysed to derive the evolution of the merger fraction out to z~1. We ha…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Linking Star Formation Histories and Stellar Mass Growth
Amanda E. Bauer, A. M. Hopkins, M. Gunawardhana +23
We present evidence for stochastic star formation histories in low-mass (M* < 10^10 Msun) galaxies from observations within the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. For ~73,000…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The M-Z relation for galaxy groups
M. A. Lara-Lopez, A. M. Hopkins, A. Robotham +7
The stellar mass and metallicity are among the fundamental parameters of galaxies. An understanding of the interplay between those properties as well as their environmental depende…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The b_J-band galaxy luminosity function and survey selection function
P. Norberg, S. Cole, C. Baugh +25
We use more than 110500 galaxies from the 2dF galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS) to estimate the b_J-band galaxy luminosity function at redshift z=0, taking account of evolution, the…
HST imaging of CFRS and LDSS galaxies - I: Morphological Properties
J. Brinchmann, R. Abraham, D. Schade +9
(Abridged) We analyse Hubble Space Telescope images of a complete sample of 341 galaxies drawn from both the Canada France and Autofib/Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph ground-bas…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Resolving the role of environment in galaxy evolution
S. Brough, S. Croom, R. Sharp +18
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…
Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the CFRS and LDSS redshift surveys II: Structural parameter and the evolution of disk galaxies to z=1
S. J. Lilly, D. Schade, R. S. Ellis +10
(Abridged) Several aspects of the evolution of star-forming galaxies are studied using measures of the 2-dimensional surface brightness profile of a sample of 341 faint objects sel…
Self-consistent bulge/disk/halo galaxy dynamical modeling using integral field kinematics
D. S. Taranu, D. Obreschkow, J. J. Dubinski +26
We introduce a method for modeling disk galaxies designed to take full advantage of data from integral field spectroscopy (IFS). The method fits equilibrium models to simultaneousl…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Galaxy luminosity functions per spectral type
D. S. Madgwick, O. Lahav, I. K. Baldry +24
We calculate the optical bj luminosity function of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) for different subsets defined by their spectral properties. These spectrally selected sub…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1 micron to 1mm
S. P. Driver, A. S. G. Robotham, L. Kelvin +40
We use the GAMA I dataset combined with GALEX, SDSS and UKIDSS imaging to construct the low-redshift (z<0.1) galaxy luminosity functions in FUV, NUV, ugriz, and YJHK bands from wit…
Galaxy groups in the 2dFGRS: the group-finding algorithm and the 2PIGG catalogue
V. R. Eke, C. M. Baugh, S. Cole +25
The construction of a catalogue of galaxy groups from the 2-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) is described. Groups are identified by means of a friends-of-friends percol…
Spectroscopic Needs for Imaging Dark Energy Experiments: Photometric Redshift Training and Calibration
J. Newman, A. Abate, F. Abdalla +58
Large sets of objects with spectroscopic redshift measurements will be needed for imaging dark energy experiments to achieve their full potential, serving two goals:_training_, i.e…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: constraints on cosmic star-formation history from the cosmic spectrum
I. K. Baldry, K. Glazebrook, C. M. Baugh +25
We present the first results on the history of star formation in the Universe based on the `cosmic spectrum', in particular, the volume-averaged, luminosity-weighted, stellar absor…
A measurement of the cosmological mass density from clustering in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
J. A. Peacock, S. Cole, P. Norberg +25
The large-scale structure in the distribution of galaxies is thought to arise from the gravitational instability of small fluctuations in the initial density field of the universe.…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): A deeper view of the mass, metallicity, and SFR relationships
M. A. Lara-Lopez, A. M. Hopkins, A. R. Lopez-Sanchez +18
A full appreciation of the role played by gas metallicity (Z), star-formation rate (SFR), and stellar mass is fundamental to understanding how galaxies form and evolve. The connect…
Suppression of the near-infrared OH night sky lines with fibre Bragg gratings - first results
S. C. Ellis, J. Bland-Hawthorn, J. Lawrence +20
The background noise between 1 and 1.8 microns in ground-based instruments is dominated by atmospheric emission from hydroxyl molecules. We have built and commissioned a new instru…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: galaxy spin is more strongly correlated with stellar population age than mass or environment
S. M. Croom, J. van de Sande, S. P. Vaughan +17
We use the SAMI Galaxy Survey to examine the drivers of galaxy spin, , in a multi-dimensional parameter space including stellar mass, stellar population age (or specific…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: voids and hierarchical scaling models
D. J. Croton, M. Colless, E. Gaztanaga +26
We measure the redshift space reduced void probability function (VPF) for 2dFGRS volume limited galaxy samples covering the absolute magnitude range M_bJ-5logh=-18 to -22. Theoreti…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Hierarchical galaxy clustering
C. M. Baugh, D. J. Croton, E. Gaztanaga +26
We use the two-degree field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) to test the hierarchical scaling hypothesis: namely, that the -point galaxy correlation functions can be written in t…
Radio sources in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey - II. Local radio luminosity functions for AGN and star-forming galaxies at 1.4 GHz
Elaine M. Sadler, Carole A. Jackson, Russell D. Cannon +25
We have cross-matched the 1.4 GHz NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) with the first 210 fields observed in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS), covering an effective area of 325 square…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Towards a unified dynamical scaling relation for galaxies of all types
L. Cortese, L. M. R. Fogarty, I. -T. Ho +27
We take advantage of the first data from the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field (SAMI) Galaxy Survey to investigate the relation between the kinematics of gas and stars, and st…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Luminosity dependence of galaxy clustering
P. Norberg, C. M. Baugh, E. Hawkins +23
We investigate the dependence of the strength of galaxy clustering on intrinsic luminosity using the Anglo-Australian two degree field galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS). The 2dFGRS i…
Constraining the quasar population with the broad-line width distribution
S. Fine, S. M. Croom, P. F. Hopkins +12
We measure the width of the MgII line in quasar spectra from the SDSS, 2QZ and 2SLAQ surveys and, by invoking an unnormalised virial mass estimator, relate the scatte…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Power-spectrum analysis of the final dataset and cosmological implications
S. Cole, W. J. Percival, J. A. Peacock +28
We present a power spectrum analysis of the final 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, employing a direct Fourier method. The sample used comprises 221,414 galaxies with measured redshifts.…
The Peculiar Motions of Early-Type Galaxies in Two Distant Regions. IV. The Photometric Fitting Procedure
R. P. Saglia, E. Bertschinger, G. Baggley +5
The EFAR project is a study of 736 candidate early-type galaxies in 84 clusters lying in two regions towards Hercules-Corona Borealis and Perseus-Cetus at distances $cz \approx 600…
The Fundamental Properties of Early-type Galaxies in the Coma Cluster
Stephen A. W. Moore, J. R. Lucey, H. Kuntschner +2
We report the results of a high quality spectral study of early-type galaxies within the Coma Cluster core. Stellar population analysis using Lick/IDS indices to break the age/meta…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Early Data Release
J. T. Allen, S. M. Croom, I. S. Konstantopoulos +45
We present the Early Data Release of the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey. The SAMI Galaxy Survey is an ongoing integral field spectroscopic…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: The cluster redshift survey, target selection and cluster properties
M. S. Owers, J. T. Allen, I. Baldry +40
We describe the selection of galaxies targeted in eight low redshift clusters (APMCC0917, A168, A4038, EDCC442, A3880, A2399, A119 and A85; ) as part of the Sydn…
A new upper limit on the total neutrino mass from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
O. Elgaroy, O. Lahav, W. J. Percival +27
We constrain f_nu = Omega_nu / Omega_m, the fractional contribution of neutrinos to the total mass density in the Universe, by comparing the power spectrum of fluctuations derived…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The mass-metallicity relationship
C. Foster, A. M. Hopkins, M. Gunawardhana +37
Context: The mass-metallicity relationship (MMR) of star-forming galaxies is well-established, however there is still some disagreement with respect to its exact shape and its poss…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The population of nearby radio galaxies at the 1 mJy level
M. Magliocchetti, S. J. Maddox, C. A. Jackson +21
We use redshift determinations and spectral analysis of galaxies in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey to study the properties of local radio sources with mJy. 557 objects dra…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: higher order galaxy correlation functions
D. J. Croton, E. Gaztanaga, C. M. Baugh +26
We measure moments of the galaxy count probability distribution function in the two-degree field galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS). The survey is divided into volume limited subsampl…
The Dipole Anisotropy of the 2 Micron All-Sky Redshift Survey
P. Erdogdu, J. P. Huchra, O. Lahav +14
We estimate the acceleration on the Local Group (LG) from the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey (2MRS). The sample used includes about 23,200 galaxies with extinction corrected ma…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the G02 field, Herschel-ATLAS target selection and Data Release 3
I. K. Baldry, J. Liske, M. J. I. Brown +39
We describe data release 3 (DR3) of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The GAMA survey is a spectroscopic redshift and multi-wavelength photometric survey in three equator…
A faint galaxy redshift survey to B=24
K. Glazebrook, R. Ellis, M. Colless +3
Using the multislit LDSS-2 spectrograph on the {\it William Herschel Telescope} we have completed a redshift survey in the magnitude range which has produced 73 redshi…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Testing galaxy formation models through the most massive galaxies in the Universe
P. Oliva-Altamirano, S. Brough, C. Lidman +26
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 Galax…
The Dipole Anisotropy of the 2mass Redshift Survey
P. Erdogdu, J. P. Huchra, O. Lahav +14
We estimate the flux weighted acceleration on the Local Group (LG) from the near-infrared Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey (2MRS). The near-infrared flux weighted dipoles are ver…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2
J. Liske, I. K. Baldry, S. P. Driver +67
The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is one of the largest contemporary spectroscopic surveys of low-redshift galaxies. Covering an area of ~286 deg^2 (split among five surve…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at
K. Rowlands, V. Wild, N. Bourne +14
One key problem in astrophysics is understanding how and why galaxies switch off their star formation, building the quiescent population that we observe in the local Universe. From…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Bivariate functions of H star forming galaxies
M. L. P. Gunawardhana, A. M. Hopkins, E. N. Taylor +18
We present bivariate luminosity and stellar mass functions of H star forming galaxies drawn from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. While optically deep spectroscopic…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Evolution of the Halpha luminosity function and star formation rate density up to z<0.35
M. L. P. Gunawardhana, A. M. Hopkins, J. Bland-Hawthorn +28
Measurements of the low-z Halpha luminosity function have a large dispersion in the local number density of sources, and correspondingly in the SFR density. The possible causes for…
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Small-scale anisotropic galaxy clustering and the pairwise velocity dispersion of galaxies
J. Loveday, L. Christodoulou, P. Norberg +12
The galaxy pairwise velocity dispersion (PVD) can provide important tests of non-standard gravity and galaxy formation models. We describe measurements of the PVD of galaxies in th…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity and spectral type
P. Norberg, C. M. Baugh, E. Hawkins +25
We investigate the dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity and spectral type using the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). Spectral types are assigned using the principal co…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: the luminosity function of cluster galaxies
Roberto De Propris, M. Colless, S. Driver +27
We have determined the composite luminosity function (LF) for galaxies in 60 clusters from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. The LF spans the range , and is…
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Luminous Red Galaxy Survey
R. Cannon, M. Drinkwater, A. Edge +29
We present a spectroscopic survey of almost 15,000 candidate intermediate-redshift Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) brighter than i=19.8, observed with 2dF on the Anglo-Australian Tele…
Studying large-scale structure with the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
J. A. Peacock, M. Colless, I. Baldry +25
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey is the first to observe more than 100,000 redshifts. This allows precise measurements of many of the key statistics of galaxy clustering, in particul…
A SAMI and MaNGA view on the stellar kinematics of galaxies on the star-forming main sequence
A. Fraser-McKelvie, L. Cortese, J. van de Sande +14
Galaxy internal structure growth has long been accused of inhibiting star formation in disc galaxies. We investigate the potential physical connection between the growth of dispers…
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Witnessing the assembly of the cluster Abell 1882
M. S. Owers, I. K. Baldry, A. E. Bauer +14
We present a combined optical and X-ray analysis of the rich cluster Abell 1882 with the aim of identifying merging substructure and understanding the recent assembly history of th…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Stellar population radial gradients in early-type galaxies
I. Ferreras, N. Scott, F. La Barbera +16
We study the internal radial gradients of the stellar populations in a sample comprising 522 early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the SAMI (Sydney- AAO Multi-object Integral field spect…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Cubism and covariance, putting round pegs into square holes
R. Sharp, J. T. Allen, L. M. R. Fogarty +46
We present a methodology for the regularisation and combination of sparse sampled and irregularly gridded observations from fibre-optic multi-object integral-field spectroscopy. Th…
An X-ray and UV flare from the galaxy XMMSL1 J061927.1-655311
R. D. Saxton, A. M. Read, S. Komossa +6
New high variability extragalactic sources may be identified by comparing the flux of sources seen in the XMM-Newton Slew Survey with detections and upper limits from the ROSAT All…
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: Evolution of the Luminosity Function of Luminous Red Galaxies to z=0.6
D. A. Wake, R. C. Nichol, D. J. Eisenstein +23
We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey.…
Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of the E+A Galaxies in the z=0.32 Cluster AC114
M. B. Pracy, W. J. Couch, C. Blake +5
We present spatially resolved intermediate resolution spectroscopy of a sample of twelve E+A galaxies in the z=0.32 rich galaxy cluster AC 114, obtained with the FLAMES multi-integ…
Internal Kinematics of Distant Field Galaxies: I. Emission Line Widths for a Complete Sample of Faint Blue Galaxies at <z>=0.25
H. -W. Rix, P. Guhathakurta, M. Colless +1
We present measurements of the OII(3727) emission line width for a complete sample of 24 blue field galaxies (21.25<B<22, B-R<1.2) at <z>=0.25, obtained with the AUTOFIB fibre spec…
The Dark Energy Spectrometer (DESpec): A Multi-Fiber Spectroscopic Upgrade of the Dark Energy Camera and Survey for the Blanco Telescope
F. Abdalla, J. Annis, D. Bacon +29
We describe an initiative to build and use the Dark Energy Spectrometer (DESpec), a wide-field spectroscopic survey instrument for the Blanco 4 meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inte…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Spectral Types and Luminosity Functions
S. R. Folkes, S. Ronen, I. Price +22
We describe the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS), and the current status of the observations. In this exploratory paper, we apply a Principal Component Analysis to a preliminary…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Spectroscopic analysis
A. M. Hopkins, S. P. Driver, S. Brough +79
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 spe…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: galaxy clustering per spectral type
D. S. Madgwick, E. Hawkins, O. Lahav +25
We have calculated the two-point correlation functions in redshift space, xi(sigma,pi), for galaxies of different spectral types in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. Using these corr…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: instrument specification and target selection
J. J. Bryant, M. S. Owers, A. S. G. Robotham +54
The SAMI Galaxy Survey will observe 3400 galaxies with the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral-field spectrograph (SAMI) on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) in a 3-year survey whi…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The environments of high- and low- excitation radio galaxies
J. H. Y. Ching, S. M. Croom, E. M. Sadler +18
We study the environments of low- and high- excitation radio galaxies (LERGs and HERGs respectively) in the redshift range , using a sample of 399 radio galaxies an…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Mid-Infrared Properties and Empirical Relations from
M. E. Cluver, T. H. Jarrett, A. M. Hopkins +22
The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey furnishes a deep redshift catalog that, when combined with the Wide-field Infrared Explorer (), allows us to explore for the first…
A high Eddington-ratio, true Seyfert 2 galaxy candidate: implications for broad-line-region models
G. Miniutti, R. D. Saxton, P. M. Rodriguez-Pascual +5
A bright, soft X-ray source was detected on 2010 July 14 during an XMM--Newton slew at a position consistent with the galaxy GSN 069 (z=0.018). Previous ROSAT observations failed t…
Hector Galaxy Survey: Data Processing, Quality Control and Early Science
S. Oh, M. L. P. Gunawardhana, S. M. Croom +52
The Hector Galaxy Survey is a new optical integral field spectroscopy (IFS) survey currently using the AAT to observe up to 15,000 galaxies at low redshift (). The Hector…
Substructure and dynamics of the Fornax Cluster
M. J. Drinkwater, M. D. Gregg, M. Colless
We present the first dynamical analysis of a galaxy cluster to include a large fraction of dwarf galaxies. Our sample of 108 Fornax Cluster members measured with the UK Schmidt Tel…
4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals
R. S. de Jong, O. Agertz, A. Agudo Berbel +335
We introduce the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), a new high-multiplex, wide-field spectroscopic survey facility under development for the four-metre-class Vis…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the link between angular momentum and optical morphology
L. Cortese, L. M. R. Fogarty, K. Bekki +34
We investigate the relationship between stellar and gas specific angular momentum , stellar mass and optical morphology for a sample of 488 galaxies extracted from the S…
The nature of the relative bias between galaxies of different spectral type in 2dFGRS
E. Conway, S. Maddox, V. Wild +29
We present an analysis of the relative bias between early- and late-type galaxies in the Two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). Our analysis examines the joint counts in…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The clustering of galaxy groups
Nelson D. Padilla, C. M. Baugh, V. R. Eke +27
We measure the clustering of galaxy groups in the 2dFGRS Percolation-Inferred Galaxy Group (2PIGG) catalogue. The 2PIGG sample has 29,000 groups with at least two members. The clus…
Galaxy groups in the 2dFGRS: the luminous content of the groups
V. R. Eke, C. S. Frenk, C. M. Baugh +25
The 2dFGRS Percolation-Inferred Galaxy Group (2PIGG) catalogue of ~29000 objects is used to study the luminous content of galaxy systems of various sizes. Mock galaxy catalogues co…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The bias of galaxies and the density of the Universe
Licia Verde, Alan F. Heavens, Will J. Percival +27
We compute the bispectrum of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and use it to measure the bias parameter of the galaxies. This parameter quantifies the strength of clustering…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The galaxy stellar mass function to from the r-band selected equatorial regions
A. H. Wright, A. S. G. Robotham, S. P. Driver +23
We derive the low redshift galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF), inclusive of dust corrections, for the equatorial Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) dataset covering 180 deg. We c…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: correlation functions, peculiar velocities and the matter density of the Universe
E. Hawkins, S. Maddox, S. Cole +27
We present a detailed analysis of the two-point correlation function, from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). We estimate the redshift-space correlation function, xi(s), from…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Life and Times of L* Galaxies
A. S. G. Robotham, J. Liske, S. P. Driver +18
In this work we investigate in detail the effects local environment (groups and pairs) has on galaxies with stellar mass similar to the Milky-Way (L* galaxies). A volume limited sa…