Publications (25)
Submillimetre observations of WISE/radio-selected AGN and their environments
Suzy F. Jones, Andrew W. Blain, Carol Lonsdale +11
We present JCMT SCUBA-2 850microns submillimetre (submm) observations of 30 mid-infrared (mid-IR) luminous AGN, detected jointly by the WISE all-sky IR survey and the NVSS/FIRST ra…
Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All-Sky Redshift Survey
Aidan C. Crook, John P. Huchra, Nathalie Martimbeau +3
We present the results of applying a percolation algorithm to the initial release of the Two Micron All-Sky Survey Extended Source Catalog, using subsequently measured redshifts fo…
WISE detections of known QSOs at redshifts greater than six
Andrew Blain, Robert Assef, Daniel Stern +9
We present WISE All-Sky mid-infrared (IR) survey detections of 55% (17/31) of the known QSOs at z>6 from a range of surveys: the SDSS, the CFHT-LS, FIRST, Spitzer and UKIDSS. The W…
Properties of dusty tori in active galactic nuclei - II. Type 2 AGN
Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, Jacopo Fritz, Tom Jarrett
(abridged) This paper is the second part of a work investigating the properties of dusty tori in AGN by means of multi-component SED fitting. It focuses on low luminosity, low reds…
The 6dF Galaxy Survey: The Near-Infrared Fundamental Plane of Early-Type Galaxies
Christina Magoulas, Christopher M. Springob, Matthew Colless +7
We determine the near-infrared Fundamental Plane (FP) for early-type galaxies in the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS). We fit the distribution of central velocity dispersion, n…
A New Population of High Redshift, Dusty Lyman-Alpha Emitters and Blobs Discovered by WISE
Carrie R. Bridge, Andrew Blain, Colin J. K. Borys +11
We report a new technique to select 1.6<z<4.6 dusty Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs), over a third of which are `blobs' (LABs) with emission extended on scales of 30-100kpc. Combining d…
First Insights into the SWIRE Galaxy Populations
Carol Lonsdale, Maria Polletta, Jason Surace +29
We characterize the SWIRE galaxy populations in the SWIRE validation field within the Lockman Hole, based on the 3.6-24 Spitzer data and deep U,g',r',r' optical imaging within…
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…
Angular Clustering of Galaxies at 3.6 micron from the SWIRE survey
Seb Oliver, Ian Waddington, Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares +11
We present the first analysis of large-scale clustering from the Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic legacy survey: SWIRE. We compute the angular correlation function of galax…
Direct Evidence for Termination of Obscured Star Formation by Radiatively Driven Outflows in Reddened QSOs
Duncan Farrah, Tanya Urrutia, Mark Lacy +9
We present optical to far-infrared photometry of 31 reddened QSOs that show evidence for radiatively driven outflows originating from AGN in their rest-frame UV spectra. We use the…
The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Samples, Observational Techniques and the First Data Release
D. Heath Jones, Will Saunders, Matthew Colless +20
The 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) aims to measure the redshifts of around 150,000 galaxies, and the peculiar velocities of a 15,000-member sub-sample, over almost the entire southern s…
Parametric modelling of the 3.6um to 8um colour distributions of galaxies in the SWIRE Survey
Payam Davoodi, Seb Oliver, Maria del Carmen Polletta +15
We fit a parametric model comprising a mixture of multi-dimensional Gaussian functions to the 3.6 to 8um colour and optical photo-z distribution of galaxy populations in the ELAIS-…
The 6dF Galaxy Survey
Ken-ichi Wakamatsu, Matthew Colless, Tom Jarrett +3
The 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) is a spectroscopic survey of the entire southern sky with , based on the 2MASS near infrared galaxy catalog. It is conducted with the 6dF mu…
The First Hyper-Luminous Infrared Galaxy Discovered by WISE
Peter R. M. Eisenhardt, Jingwen Wu, Chao-Wei Tsai +21
We report the discovery by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer of the z = 2.452 source WISE J181417.29+341224.9, the first hyperluminous source found in the WISE survey. WISE 1…
Overdensities of SMGs around WISE-selected, ultra-luminous, high-redshift AGN
Suzy F. Jones, Andrew W. Blain, Roberto J. Assef +9
We investigate extremely luminous dusty galaxies in the environments around WISE-selected hot dust obscured galaxies (Hot DOGs) and WISE/radio-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs…
The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Final Redshift Release (DR3) and Southern Large-Scale Structures
D. Heath Jones, Mike A. Read, Will Saunders +30
We report the final redshift release of the 6dF Galaxy Survey, a combined redshift and peculiar velocity survey over the southern sky (|b|>10 deg). Its 136,304 spectra have yielded…
GHASP: an H kinematical survey of spiral galaxies - XI. Distribution of luminous and dark matter in spiral and irregular nearby galaxies using WISE photometry
Marie Korsaga, Claude Carignan, Philippe Amram +2
We present the mass distribution of a sample of 121 nearby galaxies with high quality optical velocity fields and available infra-red 3.4 m data. Contrary to previo…
Direct Evidence for Termination of Obscured Star Formation by Radiatively Driven Outflows in FeLoBAL QSOs
Duncan Farrah, Tanya Urrutia, Mark Lacy +9
We use SDSS spectra and optical to far-infrared photometry for a sample of 31 FeLoBAL QSOs to study the relationship between the AGN-driven outflows, and obscured star formation in…
The First Measurements of Galaxy Clustering from IRAC Data of the Spitzer First Look Survey
Fan Fang, David L. Shupe, Gillian Wilson +19
We present the first results of the angular auto-correlation function of the galaxies detected by the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) instrument in the First Look Survey (FLS) of the…
A T8.5 Brown Dwarf Member of the Xi Ursae Majoris System
Edward L. Wright, M. F. Skrutskie, J. Davy Kirkpatrick +12
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has revealed a T8.5 brown dwarf (WISE J111838.70+312537.9) that exhibits common proper motion with a solar-neighborhood (8 pc) quadruple sta…
Radio Jet Feedback and Star Formation in Heavily Obscured Quasars at Redshifts ~0.3-3, I: ALMA Observations
Carol J. Lonsdale, Mark Lacy, Amy E. Kimball +17
We present ALMA 870 micron (345 GHz) data for 49 high redshift (0.47<z<2.85), luminous (11.7 < log L(bol) (Lsun) < 14.2) radio-powerful AGN, obtained to constrain cool dust emissio…
The role of the most luminous, obscured AGN in galaxy assembly at z~2
Duncan Farrah, Sara Petty, Brian Connolly +14
We present HST WFC3 F160W imaging and infrared spectral energy distributions for twelve extremely luminous, obscured AGN at , selected via "Hot, Dust Obscured" mid-infra…
MIGHTEE-\HI: Possible interactions with the galaxy NGC~895
Brenda Namumba, Javier Román, Jesus Falcon Barroso +29
The transformation and evolution of a galaxy is strongly influenced by interactions with its environment. Neutral hydrogen (\HI) is an excellent way to trace these interactions. He…
Gas and Star Formation in the Circinus Galaxy
Bi-Qing For, Bärbel Koribalski, Tom Jarrett
We present a detailed study of the Circinus Galaxy, investigating its star formation, dust and gas properties both in the inner and outer disk. To achieve this, we obtained high-re…
The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Fundamental Plane Data
Lachlan A. Campbell, John R. Lucey, Matthew Colless +13
We report the 6dFGS Fundamental Plane (6dFGSv) catalogue that is used to estimate distances and peculiar velocities for nearly 9,000 early-type galaxies in the local (z0.055) un…