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most citedGalaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions

249 citations · 277 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.CO2026★ 3 cited

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: growth rate measurements from the maximum likelihood fields method

Y. Lai, C. Howlett, J. Aguilar +60

We present the constraint on the growth rate of structure from the combination of DESI DR1 BGS sample, Fundamental Plane, and Tully-Fisher peculiar velocity catalogues using the ma…

astro-ph.CO2026

The velocity coherence scale: a novel probe of cosmic homogeneity and a potential standard ruler

Leonardo Giani, Cullan Howlett, Chris Blake +2

We introduce the velocity coherence scale , the scale at which the spherical volume average of the trace of the velocity correlation tensor transitions from scaling faster tha…

astro-ph.CO2025

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: Mock Catalog

J. Bautista, A. J. Amsellem, V. Aronica +59

We describe the production of the official set of mock catalogs for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Peculiar Velocity Survey (DESI-PV) Data Release 1 (DR1). Our mock catal…

astro-ph.CO2025

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: The Tully-Fisher Distance Catalog

K. Douglass, S. BenZvi, A. G. Kim +64

We calibrate the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR) using observations of spiral galaxies taken during the first year (DR1) of the DESI galaxy redshift survey. The rotational velocities o…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: global zero-point and constraints

A. Carr, C. Howlett, A. J. Amsellem +55

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in its first Data Release (DR1) already provides more than 100,000 galaxies with relative distance measurements. The primary purpose…

astro-ph.CO2025

The DESI DR1 peculiar velocity survey: growth rate measurements from the galaxy power spectrum

F. Qin, C. Blake, C. Howlett +63

The large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution encapsulate a wealth of cosmological information. A powerful means of unlocking this knowledge lies in measuring the aut…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: growth rate measurements from galaxy and momentum correlation functions

R. J. Turner, C. Blake, F. Qin +61

Joint analysis of the local peculiar velocity and galaxy density fields offers a promising route to testing cosmological models of gravity. We present a measurement of the normalis…

astro-ph.CO2025

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: Fundamental Plane Catalogue

C. E. Ross, C. Howlett, J. R. Lucey +58

Measurements of peculiar velocities in the local Universe are a powerful tool to study the nature of dark energy at low () redshifts. Here we present the largest single se…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Detection of supernova magnitude fluctuations induced by large-scale structure

A. Nguyen, C. Blake, R. J. Turner +56

The peculiar velocities of supernovae and their host galaxies are correlated with the large-scale structure of the Universe, and can be used to constrain the growth rate of structu…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The role of peculiar velocity uncertainties in standard siren cosmology

Chris Blake, Ryan J. Turner

Local distance indicators such as standard sirens, in combination with spectroscopic redshift measurements of their host galaxies, allow us to estimate the present-day expansion ra…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

Cosmology with Peculiar Velocity Surveys

Ryan J. Turner

Peculiar velocities are the motions of galaxies due to the gravitational influence of large-scale structure, and thus are an important cosmological probe of the underlying matter d…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

Forecasting the accuracy of velocity-field reconstruction

Chris Blake, Ryan J. Turner

Joint analyses of the large-scale distribution of galaxies, and their motions under the gravitational influence of this density field, allow powerful tests of the cosmological mode…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 7 cited

Constraining modified gravity scenarios with the 6dFGS and SDSS galaxy peculiar velocity datasets

Stuart Lyall, Chris Blake, Ryan J. Turner

The detailed nature of dark energy remains a mystery, leaving the possibility that its effects might be explained by changes to the laws of gravity on large scales. The peculiar ve…

astro-ph.CO2023

On the correlations of galaxy peculiar velocities and their covariance

Chris Blake, Ryan J. Turner

Measurements of the peculiar velocities of large samples of galaxies enable new tests of the standard cosmological model, including determination of the growth rate of cosmic struc…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

Biases in velocity reconstruction: investigating the effects on growth rate and expansion measurements in the local universe

Ryan J. Turner, Chris Blake

The local galaxy peculiar velocity field can be reconstructed from the surrounding distribution of large-scale structure and plays an important role in calibrating cosmic growth an…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 7 cited

Testing modified gravity scenarios with direct peculiar velocities

Stuart Lyall, Chris Blake, Ryan Turner +2

The theoretical basis of dark energy remains unknown and could signify a need to modify the laws of gravity on cosmological scales. In this study we investigate how the clustering…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 249 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions

Simon P. Driver, Sabine Bellstedt, Aaron S. G. Robotham +67

In Galaxy And Mass Assembly Data Release 4 (GAMA DR4), we make available our full spectroscopic redshift sample. This includes 248682 galaxy spectra, and, in combination with earli…