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most citedThe Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological Implications from two Decades of Spectroscopic Surveys at the Apache Point observatory

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astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Characterizing the ELG luminosity functions in the nearby Universe

G. Favole, V. Gonzalez-Perez, Y. Ascasibar +12

Nebular emission lines are powerful diagnostics for the physical processes at play in galaxy formation and evolution. Moreover, emission-line galaxies (ELGs) are one of the main ta…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 28 cited

The MaNGA FIREFLY Value-Added-Catalogue: resolved stellar populations of 10,010 nearby galaxies

Justus Neumann, Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston +14

We present the MaNGA FIREFLY Value-Added-Catalogue (VAC) - a catalogue of ~3.7 million spatially resolved stellar population properties across 10,010 nearby galaxies from the final…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

Modelling emission lines in star forming galaxies

C. M. Baugh, C. G. Lacey, V. Gonzalez-Perez +1

We present a new model to compute the luminosity of emission lines in star forming galaxies and apply this in the semi-analytical galaxy formation code GALFORM. The model combines…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 2 cited

UNITSIM-Galaxies: data release and clustering of emission-line galaxies

Alexander Knebe, Daniel Lopez-Cano, Santiago Avila +7

New surveys such as ESA's Euclid mission are planned to map with unprecedented precision the large-scale structure of the Universe by measuring the 3D positions of tens of millions…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 37 cited

A Spitzer survey of Deep Drilling Fields to be targeted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time

M. Lacy, J. A. Surace, D. Farrah +60

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will observe several Deep Drilling Fields (DDFs) to a greater depth and with a more rapid cadence than the main…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 1 cited

The evolution of radio jets across cosmic time

Andrew J. Griffin, Cedric G. Lacey, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez +1

We present predictions for the evolution of radio emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). We use a model that follows the evolution of Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) masses an…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 39 cited

Do model emission line galaxies live in filaments at z~1?

V. Gonzalez-Perez, W. Cui, S. Contreras +7

Current and future cosmological surveys are targeting star-forming galaxies at with nebular emission lines. We use a state-of-the-art semi-analytical model of galaxy form…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 13 cited

The role of environment in galaxy evolution in the SERVS Survey I: density maps and cluster candidates

Nick Krefting, Anna Sajina, Mark Lacy +10

We use photometric redshifts derived from new -band through 4.5m Spitzer IRAC photometry in the 4.8\,deg of the XMM-LSS field to construct surface density maps in the red…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 21 cited

[OII] emitters in MultiDark-Galaxies and DEEP2

G. Favole, V. Gonzalez-Perez, A. Orsi +13

We use three semi-analytic models (SAMs) of galaxy formation and evolution, run on the same 1Gpc MultiDark Planck2 cosmological simulation, to investigate the properties of…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 13 cited

AGNs at the cosmic dawn: predictions for future surveys from a CDM cosmological model

Andrew J. Griffin, Cedric G. Lacey, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez +3

Telescopes to be launched over the next decade-and-a-half, such as JWST, EUCLID, ATHENA and Lynx, promise to revolutionise the study of the high redshift Universe and greatly advan…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 46 cited

Signatures of stellar accretion in MaNGA early-type galaxies

Grecco A. Oyarzun, Kevin Bundy, Kyle B. Westfall +10

The late assembly of massive galaxies is thought to be dominated by stellar accretion in their outskirts (beyond 2 effective radii Re) due to dry, minor galaxy mergers. We use obse…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 41 cited

The first Super Massive Black Holes: indications from models for future observations

Stergios Amarantidis, José Afonso, Hugo Messias +12

We present an exploration of the expected detection of the earliest Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the Universe from state-of-art galaxy formation and evolution semi-analytic mode…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 19 cited

Candidate Massive Galaxies at in the Dark Energy Survey

Pierandrea Guarnieri, Claudia Maraston, Daniel Thomas +52

Using stellar population models, we predicted that the Dark Energy Survey (DES) - due to its special combination of area (5000 deg. sq.) and depth () - would be in the po…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 47 cited

Evolution of Star-forming Galaxies from z = 0.7 to 1.2 with eBOSS Emission-line Galaxies

Hong Guo, Xiaohu Yang, Anand Raichoor +9

We study the evolution of star-forming galaxies with over the redshift range of 0.7<z<1.2 using the emission line galaxies (ELGs) in the ext…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 16 cited

Mass Functions, Luminosity Functions, and Completeness Measurements from Clustering Redshifts

Dominic Bates, Rita Tojeiro, Jeffrey A. Newman +5

This paper presents stellar mass functions and i-band luminosity functions for Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies at using clustering redshifts, from which we also c…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 22 cited

Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models

Rachel Asquith, Frazer R. Pearce, Omar Almaini +24

We present a comparison of the observed evolving galaxy stellar mass functions with the predictions of eight semi-analytic models and one halo occupation distribution model. While…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 59 cited

The evolution of SMBH spin and AGN luminosities for within a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation

Andrew J. Griffin, Cedric G. Lacey, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez +3

Understanding how Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) evolve through cosmic time allows us to probe the physical processes that control their evolution. We use an updated model for the ev…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 31 cited

Cosmic CARNage I: on the calibration of galaxy formation models

Alexander Knebe, Frazer R. Pearce, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez +31

We present a comparison of nine galaxy formation models, eight semi-analytical and one halo occupation distribution model, run on the same underlying cold dark matter simulation (c…

astro-ph.GA2017

Stellar population properties for 2 million galaxies from SDSS DR14 and DEEP2 DR4 from full spectral fitting

Johan Comparat, Claudia Maraston, Daniel Goddard +13

We determine the stellar population properties - age, metallicity, dust reddening, stellar mass and the star formation history - for all spectra classified as galaxies that were pu…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 64 cited

The mass-metallicity relations for gas and stars in star-forming galaxies: strong outflow vs variable IMF

Jianhui Lian, Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston +4

We investigate the mass-metallicity relations for the gaseous (MZRgas) and stellar components (MZRstar) of local star-forming galaxies based on a representative sample from SDSS DR…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 78 cited

MultiDark-Galaxies: data release and first results

Alexander Knebe, Doris Stoppacher, Francisco Prada +18

We present the public release of the MultiDark-Galaxies: three distinct galaxy catalogues derived from one of the Planck cosmology MultiDark simulations (i.e. MDPL2, with a volume…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 57 cited

Comparing galaxy formation in semi-analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations

Peter D. Mitchell, Cedric G. Lacey, Claudia D. P. Lagos +7

It is now possible for hydrodynamical simulations to reproduce a representative galaxy population. Accordingly, it is timely to assess critically some of the assumptions of traditi…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 78 cited

The host dark matter halos of [OII] emitters at 0.5< z< 1.5

V. Gonzalez-Perez, J. Comparat, P. Norberg +7

Emission line galaxies (ELGs) are used in several ongoing and upcoming surveys (SDSS-IV/eBOSS, DESI) as tracers of the dark matter distribution. Using a new galaxy formation model,…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 681 cited

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Bela Abolfathi, D. S. Aguado, Gabriela Aguilar +344

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourtee…