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astro-ph.CO2013★ 48 cited

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 < 0…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 198 cited

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.CO2012★ 18 cited

Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: spatial clustering of low-redshift sub-mm galaxies

E. van Kampen, D. J. B. Smith, S. Maddox +44

We have measured the clustering properties of low-redshift (z < 0.3) sub-mm galaxies detected at 250 micron in the Herschel-ATLAS Science Demonstration Phase (SDP) field. We select…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 55 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The mass-metallicity relationship

C. Foster, A. M. Hopkins, M. Gunawardhana +37

Context: The mass-metallicity relationship (MMR) of star-forming galaxies is well-established, however there is still some disagreement with respect to its exact shape and its poss…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 106 cited

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.CO2012★ 28 cited

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.GA2012★ 105 cited

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.CO2011★ 186 cited

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): ugriz galaxy luminosity functions

J. Loveday, P. Norberg, I. K. Baldry +31

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) is a project to study galaxy formation and evolution, combining imaging data from ultraviolet to radio with spectroscopic data from the AAOmega spec…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 371 cited

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.CO2011★ 666 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Stellar Mass Estimates

Edward N Taylor, Andrew M Hopkins, Ivan K Baldry +32

This paper describes the first catalogue of photometrically-derived stellar mass estimates for intermediate-redshift (z < 0.65) galaxies in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) spec…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 52 cited

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.CO2011★ 382 cited

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.CO2011★ 232 cited

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.CO2011★ 35 cited

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.CO2010★ 32 cited

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.CO2010★ 13 cited

Which halos host Herschel-ATLAS galaxies in the local Universe?

Qi Guo, Shaun Cole, Cedric G. Lacey +40

We measure the projected cross-correlation between low redshift (z < 0.5) far-IR selected galaxies in the SDP field of the Herschel-ATLAS (H-ATLAS) survey and optically selected ga…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 36 cited

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Dust obscuration in galaxies and their recent star formation histories

D. B. Wijesinghe, A. M. Hopkins, R. Sharp +32

We present self-consistent star formation rates derived through pan-spectral analysis of galaxies drawn from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. We determine the most appro…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 1.1k cited

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.IM2010★ 44 cited

Sky subtraction at the Poisson limit with fibre-optic multi-object spectroscopy

Robert Sharp, Hannah Parkinson

We report on the limitations of sky subtraction accuracy for long duration fibre-optic multi-object spectroscopy of faint astronomical sources during long duration exposures. We sh…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 116 cited

Herschel-ATLAS: Dust temperature and redshift distribution of SPIRE and PACS detected sources using submillimetre colours

A. Amblard, A. Cooray, P. Serra +69

We present colour-colour diagrams of detected sources in the Herschel-ATLAS Science Demonstration Field from 100 to 500 microns using both PACS and SPIRE. We fit isothermal modifie…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 137 cited

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Optimal Tiling of Dense Surveys with a Multi-Object Spectrograph

Aaron Robotham, S. P. Driver, P. Norberg +23

A heuristic greedy algorithm is developed for efficiently tiling spatially dense redshift surveys. In its first application to the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) redshift survey w…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 130 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The input catalogue and star-galaxy separation

I. K. Baldry, A. S. G. Robotham, D. T. Hill +24

We describe the spectroscopic target selection for the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The input catalogue is drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and UKIRT Infra…

astro-ph2008★ 3 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA)

Simon P. Driver, the GAMA team

The GAMA survey aims to deliver 250,000 optical spectra (3--7Ang resolution) over 250 sq. degrees to spectroscopic limits of r_{AB} <19.8 and K_{AB}<17.0 mag. Complementary imaging…

astro-ph2007★ 75 cited

The statistical properties of LCDM halo formation

Shaun Cole, John Helly, Carlos S. Frenk +1

We present a comparison of the statistical properties of dark matter halo merger trees extracted from the Millennium Simulation with Extended Press-Schechter (EPS) formalism and th…