Publications (26)
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…
The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): the origin of disk turbulence in z~0.9 star-forming galaxies
H. L. Johnson, C. M. Harrison, A. M. Swinbank +27
We analyse the velocity dispersion properties of 472 z~0.9 star-forming galaxies observed as part of the KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS). The majority of this sample…
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: gas content and interaction as the drivers of kinematic asymmetry
J. V. Bloom, S. M. Croom, J. J. Bryant +21
In order to determine the causes of kinematic asymmetry in the H gas in the SAMI Galaxy Survey sample, we investigate the comparative influences of environment and intrinsic pr…
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…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: The Low-Redshift Stellar Mass Tully-Fisher Relation
J. V. Bloom, S. M. Croom, J. J. Bryant +22
We investigate the Tully-Fisher Relation (TFR) for a morphologically and kine- matically diverse sample of galaxies from the SAMI Galaxy Survey using 2 dimensional spatially resolv…
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…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Unveiling the nature of kinematically offset active galactic nuclei
J. T. Allen, A. L. Schaefer, N. Scott +14
We have observed two kinematically offset active galactic nuclei (AGN), whose ionised gas is at a different line-of-sight velocity to their host galaxies, with the SAMI integral fi…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: The role of disc fading and progenitor bias in kinematic transitions
S. M. Croom, D. S. Taranu, J. van de Sande +16
We use comparisons between the SAMI Galaxy Survey and equilibrium galaxy models to infer the importance of disc fading in the transition of spirals into lenticular (S0) galaxies. T…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Disk-halo interactions in radio-selected star-forming galaxies
S. K. Leslie, J. J. Bryant, I. -T. Ho +20
In this paper, we compare the radio emission at 1.4 GHz with optical outflow signatures of edge-on galaxies. We report observations of six edge-on star-forming galaxies in the Sydn…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: embedded discs and radial trends in outer dynamical support across the Hubble sequence
Caroline Foster, J. van de Sande, L. Cortese +11
We study the balance in dynamical support of 384 galaxies with stellar kinematics out to >1.5R_e in the Sydney AAO Multi-object Integral Field (SAMI) Galaxy Survey. We present radi…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Asymmetry in Gas Kinematics and its links to Stellar Mass and Star Formation
J. V. Bloom, L. M. R. Fogarty, S. M. Croom +23
We study the properties of kinematically disturbed galaxies in the SAMI Galaxy Survey using a quantitative criterion, based on kinemetry (Krajnovic et al.). The approach, similar t…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Exploring the gas-phase Mass-Metallicity Relation
S. F. Sanchez, J. K. Barrera-Ballesteros, C. Lopez-Coba +13
We present a detailed exploration of the stellar mass vs. gas-phase metallicity relation (MZR) using integral field spectroscopy data obtained from ~1000 galaxies observed by the S…
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…
The SAMI Pilot Survey: Stellar Kinematics of Galaxies in Abell 85, 168 and 2399
L. M. R. Fogarty, N. Scott, M. S. Owers +22
We present the SAMI Pilot Survey, consisting of integral field spectroscopy of 106 galaxies across three galaxy clusters, Abell 85, Abell 168 and Abell 2399. The galaxies were sele…
KROSS-SAMI: A Direct IFS Comparison of the Tully-Fisher Relation Across 8 Gyr Since
A. L. Tiley, M. Bureau, L. Cortese +27
We construct Tully-Fisher relations (TFRs), from large samples of galaxies with spatially-resolved H emission maps from the K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph (KMOS) Redshift One…
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 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 SAMI Galaxy Survey: Gas Streaming and Dynamical M/L in Rotationally Supported Systems
G. Cecil, L. M. R. Fogarty, S. Richards +19
Line-of-sight velocities of gas and stars can constrain dark matter (DM) within rotationally supported galaxies if they trace circular orbits extensively. Photometric asymmetries m…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the intrinsic shape of kinematically selected galaxies
C. Foster, J. van de Sande, F. D'Eugenio +17
Using the stellar kinematic maps and ancillary imaging data from the Sydney AAO Multi Integral field (SAMI) Galaxy Survey, the intrinsic shape of kinematically-selected samples of…
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 SAMI Galaxy Survey: The discovery of a luminous, low-metallicity H II complex in the dwarf galaxy GAMA J141103.98-003242.3
S. N. Richards, A. L. Schaefer, A. R. Lopez-Sanchez +18
We present the discovery of a luminous unresolved H II complex on the edge of dwarf galaxy GAMA J141103.98-003242.3 using data from the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spect…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: First detection of a transition in spin orientation with respect to cosmic filaments in the stellar kinematics of galaxies
C. Welker, J. Bland-Hawthorn, J. Van de Sande +16
We present the first detection of mass dependent galactic spin alignments with local cosmic filaments with over 2 sigma confidence using IFS kinematics. The 3D network of cosmic fi…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: understanding observations of large-scale outflows at low redshift with EAGLE simulations
E. Tescari, L. Cortese, C. Power +23
This work presents a study of galactic outflows driven by stellar feedback. We extract main sequence disc galaxies with stellar mass MM$_{\odot} \le 5.7\times1…
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Kinematics of Dusty Early-Type Galaxies
Robert Bassett, K. Bekki, L. Cortese +19
Recently, large samples of visually classified early-type galaxies (ETGs) containing dust have been identified using space-based infrared observations with the Herschel Space Teles…
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…