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astro-ph.GA2025

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: stellar mass growth in massive galaxy clusters from DR5 over the past 7 billion years

Damien C. Ragavan, Unnikrishnan Sureshkumar, Matt Hilton +8

We probe the stellar mass growth in a sample of 568 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters with masses greater than and redshifts…

astro-ph.GA2025

Environmental dependence of galaxy properties in the southern GAMA regions

Koti Joy, Unnikrishnan Sureshkumar, Anand Narayanan +4

Using data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, we investigate how galaxy properties correlate with the local environment, focusing on the two southern regions of the s…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Extragalactic Point Sources in the Southern Surveys at 150, 220 and 280 GHz observed between 2008-2010

Cristian Vargas, Carlos H. López-Caraballo, Elia S. Battistelli +18

We present a multi-frequency, multi-epoch catalog of extragalactic sources. The catalog is based on 150, 220, and 280 GHz observations carried out in 2008, 2009, and 2010 using the…

astro-ph.GA2023

Cosmological shocks around galaxy clusters: A coherent investigation with DES, SPT & ACT

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, E. J. Baxter +111

We search for signatures of cosmological shocks in gas pressure profiles of galaxy clusters using the cluster catalogs from three surveys: the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3, the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

The MeerKAT Galaxy Clusters Legacy Survey: star formation in massive clusters at 0.15 < z < 0.35

Kabelo C. Kesebonye, Matt Hilton, Kenda Knowles +5

We investigate dust-unbiased star formation rates (SFR) as a function of the environment in 20 massive clusters () between usi…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

Characterising the Intracluster Light over the Redshift Range in the DES-ACT Overlap

Jesse B. Golden-Marx, Y. Zhang, R. L. C. Ogando +66

We characterise the properties and evolution of Bright Central Galaxies (BCGs) and the surrounding intracluster light (ICL) in galaxy clusters identified in overlapping regions of…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 19 cited

MeerKAT's View of the Bullet Cluster 1E 0657-55.8

S. P. Sikhosana, K. Knowles, M. Hilton +2

The Bullet cluster (1E 0657-55.8) is a massive merging system at redshift =0.296, known to host a powerful radio halo and a relic. Here we present high fidelity MeerKAT L-band (…

astro-ph.GA2021

Searching for high-z radio galaxies with the MGCLS

Kenda Knowles, Sinah M. Manaka, Michael F. Bietenholz +5

We present results from a search for high-redshift radio galaxy (HRG) candidates using 1.28 GHz data in the Abell 2751 field drawn from the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 130 cited

The MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey I. Survey Overview and Highlights

K. Knowles, W. D. Cotton, L. Rudnick +148

MeerKAT's large number of antennas, spanning 8 km with a densely packed 1 km core, create a powerful instrument for wide-area surveys, with high sensitivity over a wide range of an…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

MALS SALT-NOT survey of MIR-selected powerful radio-bright AGN at 0<z<3.5

N. Gupta, G. Shukla, R. Srianand +20

We present results of an optical spectroscopic survey using SALT and NOT to build a WISE mid-infrared color-based, dust-unbiased sample of powerful radio-bright (200 mJy at 1.4…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 17 cited

Atacama Cosmology Telescope measurements of a large sample of candidates from the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey: Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect confirmation of MaDCoWS candidates using ACT

John Orlowski-Scherer, Luca Di Mascolo, Tanay Bhandarkar +35

Galaxy clusters are an important tool for cosmology, and their detection and characterization are key goals for current and future surveys. Using data from the Wide-field Infrared…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 16 cited

Evolution of cold gas at 2<z<5: a blind search for HI and OH absorption lines towards mid-infrared color selected radio-loud AGNs

N. Gupta, R. Srianand, G. Shukla +9

We present results from a spectroscopically blind search for associated and intervening HI 21-cm and OH 18-cm absorption lines towards 88 AGNs at using the upgraded Gi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 56 cited

The Growth of Intracluster Light in XCS-HSC Galaxy Clusters from

Kate E. Furnell, Chris A. Collins, Lee S. Kelvin +14

We estimate the Intracluster Light (ICL) component within a sample of 18 clusters detected in XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) data using deep ( 26.8 mag) Hyper Suprime Cam Subaru St…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 47 cited

Probing galaxy evolution in massive clusters using ACT and DES: splashback as a cosmic clock

Susmita Adhikari, Tae-hyeon Shin, Bhuvnesh Jain +113

We measure the projected number density profiles of galaxies and the splashback feature in clusters selected by the Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect from the Advanced Atacama Cosmolo…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 54 cited

Is diffuse intracluster light a good tracer of the galaxy cluster matter distribution?

H. Sampaio-Santos, Y. Zhang, R. L. C. Ogando +64

We explore the relation between diffuse intracluster light (central galaxy included) and the galaxy cluster (baryonic and dark) matter distribution using a sample of 528 clusters a…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 24 cited

Quantifying the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and Excess Millimeter Emission in Quasar Environments

Kirsten R. Hall, Nadia L. Zakamska, Graeme Addison +23

In this paper we probe the hot, post-shock gas component of quasar-driven winds through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. Combining datasets from the Atacama Cosmology T…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 30 cited

Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Dusty star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei in the equatorial survey

Megan B. Gralla, Tobias A. Marriage, Graeme Addison +30

We present a catalog of 510 radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN, primarily blazars) and 287 dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) detected by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope at $>…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 5 cited

The LABOCA/ACT Survey of Clusters at All Redshifts: multi-wavelength analysis of background submillimeter galaxies

Paula Aguirre, Robert R. Lindner, Andrew J. Baker +11

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of 48 submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) detected in the LABOCA/ACT Survey of Clusters at All Redshifts, LASCAR, which acquired new 870 m and A…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 3 cited

Correlations between X-ray properties and Black Hole Mass in AGN: towards a new method to estimate black hole mass from short exposure X-ray observations

Julian A. Mayers, Kathy Romer, Arya Fahari +14

Several investigations of the X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) using the normalised excess variance () parameter have shown that variability has a…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 6 cited

Herschel and ALMA Observations of Massive SZE-selected Clusters

John F. Wu, Paula Aguirre, Andrew J. Baker +6

We present new Herschel observations of four massive, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE)-selected clusters at , two of which have also been observed with ALMA. We…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 19 cited

The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS)

N. Gupta, R. Srianand, W. Baan +41

Deep galaxy surveys have revealed that the global star formation rate (SFR) density in the Universe peaks at 1 < z < 2 and sharply declines towards z = 0. But a clear picture of th…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 5 cited

Multiwavelength characterisation of an ACT-selected, lensed dusty star-forming galaxy at z=2.64

G. W. Roberts-Borsani, M. J. Jiménez-Donaire, M. Daprà +19

We present \ci\,(2--1) and multi-transition CO observations of a dusty star-forming galaxy, ACT\,J2029+0120, which we spectroscopically confirm to lie at \,=\,2.64. We de…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 36 cited

ALMA pin-points a strong over-density of U/LIRGs in the massive cluster XCS J2215 at z=1.46

Stuart M. Stach, A. M. Swinbank, Ian Smail +3

We have surveyed the core regions of the z = 1.46 cluster XCS J2215.9-1738 with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the MUSE-GALACSI spectrograph on the VLT. We obtained…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 36 cited

On the redshift distribution and physical properties of ACT-selected DSFGs

T. Su, T. A. Marriage, V. Asboth +25

We present multi-wavelength detections of nine candidate gravitationally-lensed dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) selected at 218GHz (1.4mm) from the ACT equatorial survey. Among…