Publications (42)
The evolution of the cold interstellar medium in galaxies following a starburst
K. Rowlands, V. Wild, N. Nesvadba +4
We present the evolution of dust and molecular gas properties in a sample of 11 starburst to post-starburst (PSB) galaxies selected to span an age sequence from ongoing…
A new multi-field determination of the galaxy luminosity function at z=7-9 incorporating the 2012 Hubble Ultra Deep Field imaging
R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, R. A. A. Bowler +14
We present a new determination of the UV galaxy luminosity function (LF) at redshift z ~ 7 and z ~ 8, and a first estimate at z ~ 9. An accurate determination of the form and evolu…
The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey
R. J. McLure, L. Pentericci, A. Cimatti +92
VANDELS is a uniquely-deep spectroscopic survey of high-redshift galaxies with the VIMOS spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The survey has obtained ultra-deep optica…
A surprising abundance of massive quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 5 in the first data from JWST CEERS
A. C. Carnall, D. J. McLeod, R. J. McLure +9
We report a robust sample of 10 massive quiescent galaxies at redshift, , selected using the first data from the JWST CEERS programme. Three of these galaxies are at $4 < z…
A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.658
A. C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop +10
The extremely rapid assembly of the earliest galaxies during the first billion years of cosmic history is a major challenge for our understanding of galaxy formation physics. The a…
Timing the earliest quenching events with a robust sample of massive quiescent galaxies at 2 < z < 5
A. C. Carnall, S. Walker, R. J. McLure +19
We present a sample of 151 massive () quiescent galaxies at , based on a sophisticated Bayesian spectral energy distribution fitting analy…
Tracing kinematic (mis)alignments in CALIFA merging galaxies: Stellar and ionized gas kinematic orientations at every merger stage
J. K. Barrera-Ballesteros, B. GarcÃa-Lorenzo, J. Falcón-Barroso +27
We present spatially resolved stellar and/or ionized gas kinematic properties for a sample of 103 interacting galaxies, tracing all merger stages: close companions, pairs with morp…
The JWST EXCELS survey: Too much, too young, too fast? Ultra-massive quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 5
A. C. Carnall, F. Cullen, R. J. McLure +21
We report ultra-deep, medium-resolution spectroscopic observations for 4 quiescent galaxies with log at . These data were obtained with J…
Shape asymmetry: a morphological indicator for automatic detection of galaxies in the post-coalescence merger stages
M. M. Pawlik, V. Wild, C. J. Walcher +5
We present a new morphological indicator designed for automated recognition of galaxies with faint asymmetric tidal features suggestive of an ongoing or past merger. We use this ne…
Physical interpretation of the near-infrared colours of low redshift galaxies
C. Eminian, G. Kauffmann, S. Charlot +4
We use empirical techniques to interpret the near-infrared colours of a sample of 5800 galaxies drawn from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) main spectroscopic sample with YJHK photo…
The VLT LEGA-C Spectroscopic Survey: The Physics of Galaxies at a Lookback Time of 7 Gyr
A. van der Wel, K. Noeske, R. Bezanson +17
The Large Early Galaxy Census (LEGA-C) is a Public Spectroscopic Survey of -band selected galaxies at redshifts with stellar masses M_star > 1e10M_sun, co…
The UV continua and inferred stellar populations of galaxies at z ~ 7 - 9 revealed by the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012 campaign
J. S. Dunlop, A. B. Rogers, R. J. McLure +16
We use the new ultra-deep, near-infrared imaging of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) provided by our UDF12 HST WFC3/IR campaign to explore the rest-frame UV properties of galaxie…
The effects of spatial resolution on Integral Field Spectrograph surveys at different redshifts. The CALIFA perspective
D. Mast, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, S. F. Sanchez +27
Over the past decade, 3D optical spectroscopy has become the preferred tool for understanding the properties of galaxies and is now increasingly used to carry out galaxy surveys. L…
The Hawk-I UDS and GOODS Survey (HUGS): Survey design and deep K-band number counts
A. Fontana, J. S. Dunlop, D. Paris +40
We present the results of a new, ultra-deep, near-infrared imaging survey executed with the Hawk-I imager at the ESO VLT, of which we make all the data public. This survey, named H…
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…
Beyond the Fundamental Metallicity Relation: galaxy sizes encode the link between inflow and metallicity
N. F. Boardman, V. Wild, D. Scholte +3
Gas-phase chemical abundances are key observable consequences of galaxy evolution, being intrinsically tied to galaxy formation histories. Gas metallicity rises with increasing ste…
SDSS-IV MaNGA: Spatially resolved star-formation histories and the connection to galaxy physical properties
K. Rowlands, T. Heckman, V. Wild +11
A key task of observational extragalactic astronomy is to determine where -- within galaxies of diverse masses and morphologies -- stellar mass growth occurs, how it depends on gal…
The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey: final Data Release of 2087 spectra and spectroscopic measurements
B. Garilli, R. McLure, L. Pentericci +94
VANDELS is an ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey designed to build a sample of high signal to noise, medium resolution spectra of galaxies at redshift between 1 and 6.5. Here we prese…
Extreme Starbursts in the Local Universe
R. M. Gonzalez Delgado, J. Rodriguez Zaurin, E. Perez +44
The "Extreme starbursts in the local universe" workshop was held at the Insituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia in Granada, Spain on 21-25 June 2010. Bearing in mind the advent of a n…
The CALIFA view on stellar angular momentum across the Hubble sequence
J. Falcón-Barroso, G. van de Ven, M. Lyubenova +32
[Abridged] We present the apparent stellar angular momentum of 300 galaxies across the Hubble sequence, using integral-field spectroscopic data from the CALIFA survey. Adopting the…
Bayesian bulge-disc decomposition of galaxy images
J. J. Argyle, J. Méndez-Abreu, V. Wild +1
We introduce PHI, a fully Bayesian Markov-chain Monte Carlo algorithm designed for the structural decomposition of galaxy images. PHI uses a triple layer approach to effectively an…
The VANDELS survey: the star-formation histories of massive quiescent galaxies at 1.0 < z < 1.3
A. C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop +19
We present a Bayesian full-spectral-fitting analysis of 75 massive () UVJ-selected galaxies at redshifts of , combining extremely deep rest-…
Morphologies of z~0.7 AGN Host Galaxies in CANDELS: No trend of merger incidence with AGN luminosity
C. Villforth, F. Hamann, D. J. Rosario +24
The processes that trigger Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) remain poorly understood. While lower luminosity AGN may be triggered by minor disturbances to the host galaxy, stronger dis…
MOONRISE: The Main MOONS GTO Extragalactic Survey
R. Maiolino, M. Cirasuolo, J. Afonso +34
The MOONS instrument possesses an exceptional combination of large multiplexing, high sensitivity, broad simultaneous spectral coverage (from optical to near-infrared bands), large…
Morpho-kinematic properties of field S0 bulges in the CALIFA survey
J. Mendez-Abreu, J. A. L. Aguerri, J. Falcon-Barroso +22
We study a sample of 28 S0 galaxies extracted from the integral-field spectroscopic (IFS) survey CALIFA. We combine an accurate two-dimensional (2D) multi-component photometric dec…
The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey: observations and first data release
L. Pentericci, R. J. McLure B. Garilli, O. Cucciati +93
This paper describes the observations and the first data release (DR1) of the ESO public spectroscopic survey "VANDELS, a deep VIMOS survey of the CANDELS CDFS and UDS fields". VAN…
Uncovering Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei in Homogeneously Selected Samples of Seyfert 2 Galaxies
Stephanie M. LaMassa, T. M. Heckman, A. Ptak +4
We have analyzed archival \textit{Chandra} and \textit{XMM-Newton} data for two nearly complete homogeneously selected samples of type 2 Seyfert galaxies (Sy2s). These samples were…
Two-dimensional multi-component photometric decomposition of CALIFA galaxies
J. Mendez-Abreu, T. Ruiz-Lara, L. Sanchez-Menguiano +20
We present a two-dimensional multi-component photometric decomposition of 404 galaxies from the CALIFA Data Release 3. They represent all possible galaxies with no clear signs of i…
MOONS: a Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT
M. Cirasuolo, J. Afonso, R. Bender +77
MOONS is a new conceptual design for a Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope (VLT), selected by ESO for a Phase A study. The baseline des…
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 2012 Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF12): Observational Overview
Anton M. Koekemoer, Richard S Ellis, Ross J. McLure +15
We present the 2012 Hubble Ultra Deep Field campaign (UDF12), a large 128-orbit Cycle 19 \HST\ program aimed at extending previous WFC3/IR observations of the UDF by quadrupling th…
Less than the sum of its parts: the dust-corrected H luminosity of star-forming galaxies explored at different spatial resolutions with MaNGA and MUSE
N. Vale Asari, V. Wild, A. L. de Amorim +10
The H and H emission line luminosities measured in a single integrated spectrum are affected in non-trivial ways by point-to-point variations in dust attenuation in a galax…
CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey: IV. Third Public data release
S. F. Sánchez, R. GarcÃa-Benito, S. Zibetti +60
This paper describes the Third Public Data Release (DR3) of the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey. Science-grade quality data for 667 galaxies are made public,…
CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey. III. Second public data release
R. GarcÃa-Benito, S. Zibetti, S. F. Sánchez +68
This paper describes the Second Public Data Release (DR2) of the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey. The data for 200 objects are made public, including the 100…
CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey: I. Survey presentation
S. F. Sanchez, R. C. Kennicutt, A. Gil de Paz +69
We present here the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey, which has been designed to provide a first step in this direction.We summarize the survey goals and desig…
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…
Highly ionized gas on galaxy scales: mapping the interacting Seyfert galaxy LEDA 135736
J. Gerssen, D. J. Wilman, L. Christensen +2
We have used the VIMOS IFU to map the properties of the Seyfert 1.9 galaxy LEDA 135736. These maps reveal a number of interesting features including: an Extended Narrow Line Region…
The nature of LINER galaxies: Ubiquitous hot old stars and rare accreting black holes
R. Singh, G. van de Ven, K. Jahnke +19
Galaxies, which often contain ionised gas, sometimes also exhibit a so-called low-ionisation nuclear emission line region (LINER). For 30 years this was attributed to a central mas…
The diverse evolutionary pathways of post-starburst galaxies
M. M. Pawlik, S. McAlpine, J. W. Trayford +5
About 35 years ago a class of galaxies with unusually strong Balmer absorption lines and weak emission lines was discovered in distant galaxy clusters. These objects, alternatively…
CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey. II. First public data release
CALIFA collaboration, B. Husemann, K. Jahnke +74
We present the first public data release of the CALIFA survey. It consists of science-grade optical datacubes for the first 100 of eventually 600 nearby (0.005<z<0.03) galaxies, ob…
Stellar kinematics across the Hubble sequence in the CALIFA survey: General properties and aperture corrections
J. Falcón-Barroso, M. Lyubenova, G. van de Ven +32
We present the stellar kinematic maps of a large sample of galaxies from the integral-field spectroscopic survey CALIFA. The sample comprises 300 galaxies displaying a wide range o…
The role of mass and environment in the build up of the quenched galaxy population since cosmic noon
E. Taylor, O. Almaini, M. Merrifield +4
We conduct the first study of how the relative quenching probability of galaxies depends on environment over the redshift range , using data from the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep…