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Publications (133)

astro-ph.CO2010

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…

astro-ph.GA2017

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: energy sources of the turbulent velocity dispersion in spatially-resolved local star-forming galaxies

Luwenjia Zhou, Christoph Federrath, Tiantian Yuan +16

We investigate the energy sources of random turbulent motions of ionised gas from H emission in eight local star-forming galaxies from the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral fiel…

astro-ph.CO2012

Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: a census of dust in optically selected galaxies from stacking at submillimetre wavelengths

N. Bourne, S. J. Maddox, L. Dunne +42

We use the Herschel-ATLAS survey to conduct the first large-scale statistical study of the submm properties of optically selected galaxies. Using ~80,000 r-band selected galaxies f…

astro-ph.GA2015

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): growing up in a bad neighbourhood - how do low-mass galaxies become passive?

L. J. M. Davies, A. S. G. Robotham, S. P. Driver +13

Both theoretical predictions and observations of the very nearby Universe suggest that low-mass galaxies (log[M/M]<9.5) are likely to remain star-forming unl…

astro-ph.CO2013

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…

astro-ph.CO2012

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Colour and luminosity dependent clustering from calibrated photometric redshifts

L. Christodoulou, C. Eminian, J. Loveday +31

We measure the two-point angular correlation function of a sample of 4,289,223 galaxies with r < 19.4 mag from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as a function of photometric redshift, a…

astro-ph.GA2022

The XXL Survey XLV. Linking the ages of optically selected groups to their X-ray emission

J. P. Crossett, S. L. McGee, T. J. Ponman +16

We investigate the properties of 232 optical spectroscopically selected groups from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey that overlap the XXL X-ray cluster survey. X-ray aper…

astro-ph.CO2013

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…

astro-ph.GA2017

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…

astro-ph.GA2016

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Spatially resolving the environmental quenching of star formation in GAMA galaxies

A. L. Schaefer, S. M. Croom, J. T. Allen +32

We use data from the Sydney-AAO Multi-Object Integral Field Spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey and the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to investigate the spatially-resolved s…

astro-ph.GA2012

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Galaxy environments and star formation rate variations

D. B. Wijesinghe, A. M. Hopkins, S. Brough +23

We present a detailed investigation into the effects of galaxy environment on their star formation rates (SFR) using galaxies observed in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly Survey (GAMA)…

astro-ph.CO2012

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): In Search of Milky-Way Magellanic Cloud Analogues

A. S. G. Robotham, I. K. Baldry, J. Bland-Hawthorn +13

Analysing all Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) galaxies within a factor two (+/- 0.3 dex) of the stellar mass of the Milky Way (MW), there is a 11.9% chance that one of these galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2020

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Kinematics of stars and gas in brightest group galaxies; the role of group dynamics

Mojtaba Raouf, Rory Smith, Habib G. Khosroshahi +17

We study the stellar and gas kinematics of the brightest group galaxies (BGGs) in dynamically relaxed and unrelaxed galaxy groups for a sample of 154 galaxies in the SAMI galaxy su…

astro-ph.CO2018

Photometric redshifts for the Kilo-Degree Survey. Machine-learning analysis with artificial neural networks

M. Bilicki, H. Hoekstra, M. J. I. Brown +24

We present a machine-learning photometric redshift analysis of the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 3, using two neural-network based techniques: ANNz2 and MLPQNA. Despite limited c…

astro-ph.CO2012

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The galaxy stellar mass function at z < 0.06

I. K. Baldry, S. P. Driver, J. Loveday +18

We determine the low-redshift field galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) using an area of 143 deg^2 from the first three years of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The mag…

astro-ph.GA2014

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The dependence of the galaxy luminosity function on environment, redshift and colour

Tamsyn McNaught-Roberts, Peder Norberg, Carlton Baugh +9

We use 80922 galaxies in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to measure the galaxy luminosity function (LF) in different environments over the redshift range 0.04<z<0.26. Th…

astro-ph.CO2012

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…

astro-ph.CO2011

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The GAMA Galaxy Group Catalogue (G3Cv1)

A. S. G. Robotham, P. Norberg, S. P. Driver +30

Using the complete GAMA-I survey covering ~142 sq. deg. to r=19.4, of which ~47 sq. deg. is to r=19.8, we create the GAMA-I galaxy group catalogue (G3Cv1), generated using a friend…

astro-ph.GA2018

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…

astro-ph.GA2021

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…

astro-ph.GA2017

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Global stellar populations on the size-mass plane

Nicholas Scott, S. Brough, Scott M. Croom +20

We present an analysis of the global stellar populations of galaxies in the SAMI Galaxy Survey. Our sample consists of 1319 galaxies spanning four orders of magnitude in stellar ma…

astro-ph.GA2016

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…

astro-ph.IM2012

Long-term stability of fibre-optic transmission for multi-object spectroscopy

R. Sharp, S. Brough, R. D. Cannon

We present an analysis of the long-term stability of fibre-optic transmission properties for fibre optics in astronomy. Data from six years of operation of the AAOmega multi-object…

astro-ph.CO2010

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Galaxies at the faint end of the Halpha luminosity function

S. Brough, A. M. Hopkins, R. G. Sharp +30

We present an analysis of the properties of the lowest Halpha-luminosity galaxies (L_Halpha<4x10^32 W; SFR<0.02 Msun/yr) in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. These galaxi…

astro-ph.CO2013

GAMA/H-ATLAS: The Dust Opacity - Stellar Mass Surface Density Relation for Spiral Galaxies

M. W. Grootes, R. J. Tuffs, C. C. Popescu +32

We report the discovery of a well-defined correlation between B-band face-on central optical depth due to dust, τ^f_B, and the stellar mass surface density, μ_{*}, of nearby (z <…

astro-ph.CO2013

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…

astro-ph.GA2024

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…

astro-ph.GA2020

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Defining Passive Galaxy Samples and Searching for the UV Upturn

S. Phillipps, S. S. Ali, M. N. Bremer +16

We use data from the GAMA and GALEX surveys to demonstrate that the UV upturn, an unexpected excess of ultraviolet flux from a hot stellar component, seen in the spectra of many ea…

astro-ph.GA2017

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Consistency of GAMA and WISE Derived Mass-to-Light Ratios

T. Kettlety, J. Hesling, S. Phillipps +11

Recent work has suggested that mid-IR wavelengths are optimal for estimating the mass-to-light ratios of stellar populations and hence the stellar masses of galaxies. We compare st…

astro-ph.GA2020

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Demonstrating the power of WISE in the study of Galaxy Groups to

M. E. Cluver, T. H. Jarrett, E. N. Taylor +7

Combining high-fidelity group characterisation from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey and source-tailored photometry from the WISE survey, we present a comprehensi…

astro-ph.GA2014

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Tidal features as tracers of galaxy merger histories: the colours of tidal features in HSC-SSP

A. Desmons, S. Brough, L. Canepa +1

We measure the radial colour profiles of 32,000 galaxies drawn from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program optical imaging survey, including 1415 exhibiting tid…

astro-ph.GA2018

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Observing the environmental quenching of star formation in GAMA groups

A. L. Schaefer, S. M. Croom, N. Scott +25

We explore the radial distribution of star formation in galaxies in the SAMI Galaxy Survey as a function of their local group environment. Using a sample of galaxies in groups (wit…

astro-ph.CO2014

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The galaxy luminosity function within the cosmic web

E. Eardley, J. A. Peacock, T. McNaught-Roberts +12

We investigate the dependence of the galaxy luminosity function on geometric environment within the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The tidal tensor prescription, based on…

astro-ph.GA2021

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Group and field galaxy morphologies in the star-formation rate - stellar mass plane

W. J. Pearson, L. Wang, S. Brough +3

We study the environment in which a galaxy lies (i.e. field or group) and its connection with the morphology of the galaxy. This is done by examining the distribution of parametric…

astro-ph.GA2014

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…

astro-ph.GA2019

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Satellite galaxies undergo little structural change during their quenching phase

L. Cortese, J. van de Sande, C. P. Lagos +9

At fixed stellar mass, satellite galaxies show higher passive fractions than centrals, suggesting that environment is directly quenching their star formation. Here, we investigate…

astro-ph.CO2023

Modeling Strong Lenses from Wide-Field Ground-Based Observations in KiDS and GAMA

Shawn Knabel, B. W. Holwerda, J. Nightingale +13

Despite the success of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lens studies with Hubble-quality imaging, the number of well-studied strong lenses remains small. As a result, robust compa…

astro-ph.GA2018

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…

astro-ph.GA2017

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…

astro-ph2007

Spatially resolved kinematics and stellar populations of brightest cluster and group galaxies

S. Brough, R. Proctor, D. Forbes +4

We present an examination of the kinematics and stellar populations of a sample of 3 Brightest Group Galaxies (BGGs) and 3 Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) in X-ray groups and clu…

astro-ph.GA2015

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…

astro-ph.GA2018

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…

astro-ph.GA2014

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…

astro-ph.CO2011

Spatial kinematics of Brightest Cluster Galaxies and their close companions from Integral Field Unit spectroscopy

S. Brough, K. -V. Tran, R. G. Sharp +2

We present Integral Field Unit (IFU) spectroscopy of four brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) at z~0.1. Three of the BCGs have close companions within a projected radius of 20 kpc an…

astro-ph.GA2015

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): maximum likelihood determination of the luminosity function and its evolution

J. Loveday, P. Norberg, I. K. Baldry +6

We describe modifications to the joint stepwise maximum likelihood method of Cole (2011) in order to simultaneously fit the GAMA-II galaxy luminosity function (LF), corrected for r…

astro-ph.IM2014

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): autoz spectral redshift measurements, confidence and errors

I. K. Baldry, M. Alpaslan, A. E. Bauer +17

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has obtained spectra of over 230000 targets using the Anglo-Australian Telescope. To homogenise the redshift measurements and improve the…

astro-ph.GA2017

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Probing the merger histories of massive galaxies via stellar populations

I. Ferreras, A. M. Hopkins, M. L. P. Gunawardhana +13

The merging history of galaxies can be traced with studies of dynamically close pairs. These consist of a massive primary galaxy and a less massive secondary (or satellite) galaxy.…

astro-ph.GA2017

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…

astro-ph.GA2018

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The environmental dependence of the galaxy main sequence

L. Wang, P. Norberg, S. Brough +12

Aims. We aim to investigate if the environment (characterised by the host dark matter halo mass) plays any role in shaping the galaxy star formation main sequence (MS). Methods. Th…

astro-ph.CO2017

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Exploring the WISE Cosmic Web in G12

T. H. Jarrett, M. E. Cluver, C. Magoulas +17

We present an analysis of the mid-infrared WISE sources seen within the equatorial GAMA G12 field, located in the North Galactic Cap. Our motivation is to study and characterize th…

astro-ph.GA2019

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…

astro-ph.CO2011

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The star formation rate dependence of the stellar initial mass function

M. L. P. Gunawardhana, A. M. Hopkins, R. G. Sharp +35

The stellar initial mass function (IMF) describes the distribution in stellar masses produced from a burst of star formation. For more than fifty years, the implicit assumption und…

astro-ph.IM2014

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…

astro-ph.CO2011

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the red fraction and radial distribution of satellite galaxies

Matthew Prescott, I. K. Baldry, P. A. James +31

We investigate the properties of satellite galaxies that surround isolated hosts within the redshift range 0.01 < z < 0.15, using data taken as part of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly…

astro-ph.IM2022

Science Cases for the Keck Wide-Field Imager

J. Cooke, C. Angus, K. Auchettl +22

The Keck Wide-Field Imager (KWFI) is a proposed 1-degree diameter field of view UV-sensitive optical camera for Keck prime focus. KWFI will be the most powerful optical wide-field…

astro-ph.GA2017

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Blue spheroids within 87 Mpc

Smriti Mahajan, Michael J. Drinkwater, S. Driver +7

In this paper we test if nearby blue spheroid (BSphs) galaxies may become the progenitors of star-forming spiral galaxies or passively-evolving elliptical galaxies. Our sample comp…

astro-ph.GA2016

GAMA/H-ATLAS: Common star-formation rate indicators and their dependence on galaxy physical parameters

L. Wang, P. Norberg, M. L. P. Gunawardhana +30

We compare common star-formation rate (SFR) indicators in the local Universe in the GAMA equatorial fields (around 160 sq. deg.), using ultraviolet (UV) photometry from GALEX, far-…

astro-ph.CO2013

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…

astro-ph.CO2011

GAMA/H-ATLAS: The ultraviolet spectral slope and obscuration in galaxies

Dinuka B. Wijesinghe, Elisabete. da Cunha, Andrew. M. Hopkins +59

We use multiwavelength data from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) and Herschel ATLAS (H-ATLAS) surveys to compare the relationship between various dust obscuration measures in g…

astro-ph.GA2021

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the drivers of gas and stellar metallicity differences in galaxies

A. Fraser-McKelvie, L. Cortese, B. Groves +13

The combination of gas-phase oxygen abundances and stellar metallicities can provide us with unique insights into the metal enrichment histories of galaxies. In this work, we compa…

astro-ph.GA2025

Intracluster light is a biased tracer of the dark matter distribution in clusters

J. Butler, G. Martin, N. A. Hatch +3

The diffuse stellar component of galaxy clusters known as intracluster light (ICL) has been proposed as an observable tracer of the cluster's dark matter (DM) halo. Assessing its r…

astro-ph.GA2017

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

Analysing the prevalence of tidal features in HSC-SSP using self-supervised representation learning

A. Desmons, S. Brough, F. Lanusse +2

We use a combination of self-supervised machine learning and visual classification to identify tidal features in a sample of 34,331 galaxies with stellar masses $\log_{10}(M_{*}/\r…

astro-ph.GA2015

A multi-wavelength exploration of the [CII]/IR ratio in H-ATLAS/GAMA galaxies out to z=0.2

E. Ibar, M. A. Lara-López, R. Herrera-Camus +23

We explore the behaviour of [CII]-157.74um forbidden fine-structure line observed in a sample of 28 galaxies selected from ~50deg^2 of the H-ATLAS survey. The sample is restricted…

astro-ph.GA2025

Morphological Classification of Galaxies Through Structural and Star Formation Parameters Using Machine Learning

G. Aguilar-Argüello, G. Fuentes-Pineda, H. M. Hernández-Toledo +9

We employ the XGBoost machine learning (ML) method for the morphological classification of galaxies into two (early-type, late-type) and five (E, S0--S0a, Sa--Sb, Sbc--Scd, Sd--Irr…

astro-ph.GA2014

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The unimodal nature of the dwarf galaxy population

Smriti Mahajan, Michael J. Drinkwater, S. Driver +9

In this paper we aim to (i) test the number of statistically distinct classes required to classify the local galaxy population, and, (ii) identify the differences in the physical a…

astro-ph.GA2022

Connecting MeerKAT radio continuum properties to GAMA optical emission-line and WISE mid-infrared activity

H. F. M. Yao, M. E. Cluver, T. H. Jarrett +10

The identification of AGN in large surveys has been hampered by seemingly discordant classifications arising from differing diagnostic methods, usually tracing distinct processes s…

astro-ph.GA2016

GAMA/H-ATLAS: A meta-analysis of SFR indicators - comprehensive measures of the SFR-M* relation and Cosmic Star Formation History at z < 0.4

L. J. M. Davies, S. P. Driver, A. S. G. Robotham +26

We present a meta-analysis of star-formation rate (SFR) indicators in the GAMA survey, producing 12 different SFR metrics and determining the SFR-M* relation for each. We compare a…

astro-ph.GA2017

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…

astro-ph.CO2013

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…

astro-ph.GA2018

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Accurate number densities & environments of massive ultracompact galaxies at 0.02 < z < 0.3

F. Buitrago, I. Ferreras, L. S. Kelvin +15

Massive Ultracompact Galaxies (MUGs) are common at z=2-3, but very rare in the nearby Universe. Simulations predict that the few surviving MUGs should reside in galaxy clusters, wh…

astro-ph.GA2019

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Environmental Quenching of Centrals and Satellites in Groups

L. J. M. Davies, A. S. G. Robotham, C. del P. Lagos +16

Recently a number of studies have found a similarity between the passive fraction of central and satellite galaxies when controlled for both stellar and halo mass. These results su…

astro-ph.CO2012

Evidence for Significant Growth in the Stellar Mass of Brightest Cluster Galaxies over the Past 10 Billion Years

C. Lidman, J. Suherli, A. Muzzin +17

Using new and published data, we construct a sample of 160 brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) spanning the redshift interval 0.03 < z < 1.63. We use this sample, which covers 70% of…

astro-ph.CO2012

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…

astro-ph.CO2012

Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: a difference between star-formation rates in strong-line and weak-line radio galaxies

M. J. Hardcastle, J. H. Y. Ching, J. S. Virdee +25

We have constructed a sample of radio-loud objects with optical spectroscopy from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) project over the Herschel-ATLAS Phase 1 fields. Classifying th…

astro-ph.GA2019

ASKAP Commissioning Observations of the GAMA 23 Field

Denis A. Leahy, A. M. Hopkins, R. P. Norris +25

We have observed the G23 field of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) in its commissioning phase, to validate…

astro-ph.GA2021

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): the clustering of galaxy groups

S. D. Riggs, R. W. Y. M. Barbhuiyan, J. Loveday +4

We explore the clustering of galaxy groups in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to investigate the dependence of group bias and profile on separation scale and group mass.…

astro-ph.GA2016

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): detection of low-surface-brightness galaxies from SDSS data

R. P. Williams, I. K. Baldry, L. S. Kelvin +11

We report on a search for new low-surface-brightness galaxies (LSBGs) using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data within the GAMA equatorial fields. The search method consisted of m…

astro-ph.GA2022

North Ecliptic Pole merging galaxy catalogue

W. J. Pearson, L. E. Suelves, S. C. -C. Ho +17

We aim to generate a catalogue of merging galaxies within the 5.4 sq. deg. North Ecliptic Pole over the redshift range . To do this, imaging data from the Hyper Supr…

astro-ph.GA2023

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: The xSAGA Galaxy Complement in Nearby Galaxy Groups

B. W. Holwerda, S. Phillipps, S. Weerasooriya +5

Groups of galaxies are the intermediate density environment in which much of the evolution of galaxies is thought to take place. In spectroscopic redshift surveys, one can identify…

astro-ph.GA2022

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Physical drivers of stellar-gas kinematic misalignments in the nearby Universe

A. Ristea, L. Cortese, A. Fraser-McKelvie +10

Misalignments between the rotation axis of stars and gas are an indication of external processes shaping galaxies throughout their evolution. Using observations of 3068 galaxies fr…

astro-ph.GA2025

The intragroup light in KiDS+GAMA groups: A stacking analysis

S. L. Ahad, H. Hoekstra, Y. M. Bahé +4

Galaxy groups and clusters assembled through dynamical interactions of smaller systems, resulting in the formation of a diffuse stellar halo known as the intragroup or intracluster…

astro-ph.CO2013

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The connection between metals, specific-SFR, and HI gas in galaxies: the Z-SSFR relation

M. A. Lara-López, A. M. Hopkins, A. R. López-Sánchez +10

We study the interplay between gas phase metallicity (Z), specific star formation rate (SSFR) and neutral hydrogen gas (HI) for galaxies of different stellar masses. Our study uses…

astro-ph.GA2017

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Data Release One with Emission-line Physics Value-Added Products

Andrew W. Green, Scott M. Croom, Nicholas Scott +48

We present the first major release of data from the SAMI Galaxy Survey. This data release focuses on the emission-line physics of galaxies. Data Release One includes data for 772 g…

astro-ph.GA2014

The SAMI Pilot Survey: The Kinematic Morphology-Density Relation in Abell 85, Abell 168 and Abell 2399

L. M. R. Fogarty, Nicholas Scott, Matt S. Owers +17

We examine the kinematic morphology of early-type galaxies (ETGs) in three galaxy clusters Abell 85, 168 and 2399. Using data from the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectr…

astro-ph.GA2018

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): impact of the group environment on galaxy star formation

S. Barsanti, M. S. Owers, S. Brough +9

We explore how the group environment may affect the evolution of star-forming galaxies. We select 1197 Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) groups at and analyze t…

astro-ph2002

Neutral Hydrogen in Galaxy Groups

N. P. F. McKay, C. G. Mundell, S. Brough +2

We present preliminary results from a study of the neutral hydrogen (HI) properties of an X-ray selected sample of nearby loose galaxy groups. This forms part of a multi-wavelength…

astro-ph.GA2015

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Bright Void Galaxy Population in the Optical and Mid-IR

S. J. Penny, M. J. I. Brown, K. A. Pimbblet +22

We examine the properties of galaxies in the Galaxies and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey located in voids with radii Mpc. Utilising the GAMA equatorial survey, 592 void g…

astro-ph.GA2019

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Properties and evolution of red spiral galaxies

Smriti Mahajan, Kriti Kamal Gupta, Rahul Rana +10

We use multi-wavelength data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to explore the cause of red optical colours in nearby (0.002<z<0.06) spiral galaxies. We show that the…

astro-ph.GA2023

The MAGPI Survey: Drivers of kinematic asymmetries in the ionised gas of star-forming galaxies

R. S. Bagge, C. Foster, A. Battisti +17

Galaxy gas kinematics are sensitive to the physical processes that contribute to a galaxy's evolution. It is expected that external processes will cause more significant kinematic…

astro-ph.GA2017

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…

astro-ph.GA2022

Preparing for low surface brightness science with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory: characterisation of tidal features from mock images

G. Martin, A. E. Bazkiaei, M. Spavone +50

Tidal features in the outskirts of galaxies yield unique information about their past interactions and are a key prediction of the hierarchical structure formation paradigm. The Ve…

astro-ph.GA2020

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): A study of the activity of emission-line systems in G23

H. F. M. Yao, T. H. Jarrett, M. E. Cluver +12

We present a detailed study of emission-line systems in the GAMA G23 region, making use of photometry that includes carefully measured resolved sources. After apply…

astro-ph.CO2011

H-ATLAS/GAMA: Dusty early-type galaxies and passive spirals

K. Rowlands, L. Dunne, S. Maddox +38

We present the dust properties and star-formation histories of local submillimetre-selected galaxies in Herschel-ATLAS, classified by optical morphology. The early-type galaxies (E…

astro-ph.GA2015

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the effect of close interactions on star formation in galaxies

L. J. M. Davies, A. S. G. Robotham, S. P. Driver +25

The modification of star formation (SF) in galaxy interactions is a complex process, with SF observed to be both enhanced in major mergers and suppressed in minor pair interactions…

astro-ph.GA2018

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The sSFR-M* relation part I - -M* as a function of sample, SFR indicator and environment

L. J. M. Davies, C. del P. Lagos, A. Katsianis +11

Recently a number of studies have proposed that the dispersion along the star formation rate - stellar mass relation (-M) is indicative of variations in s…

astro-ph.GA2015

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…

astro-ph.GA2015

H-ATLAS/GAMA: The nature and characteristics of optically red galaxies detected at submillimetre wavelengths

A. Dariush, S. Dib, S. Hony +39

We combine Herschel/SPIRE sub-millimeter (submm) observations with existing multi-wavelength data to investigate the characteristics of low redshift, optically red galaxies detecte…

astro-ph.GA2020

Centrally concentrated molecular gas driving galactic-scale ionised gas outflows in star-forming galaxies

L. M. Hogarth, A. Saintonge, L. Cortese +16

We perform a joint-analysis of high spatial resolution molecular gas and star-formation rate (SFR) maps in main-sequence star-forming galaxies experiencing galactic-scale outflows…