3 papers
astro-ph.CO2010
The evolution of the Fundamental Plane of radio galaxies from z~0.5 to the present day
Peter D. Herbert, Matt J. Jarvis, Chris J. Willott +5
We present deep spectroscopic data for a 24-object subsample of our full 41-object z~0.5 radio galaxy sample in order to investigate the evolution of the Fundamental Plane of radio…
astro-ph.CO2010
Evidence of different star formation histories for high- and low-luminosity radio galaxies
Peter D. Herbert, Matt J. Jarvis, Chris J. Willott +5
We present the results of our investigation into the stellar populations of 24 radio galaxies at z~0.5 drawn from four complete, low-frequency selected radio surveys. We use the st…
astro-ph.CO2009
Galaxy Zoo : 'Hanny's Voorwerp', a quasar light echo?
Chris Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, William Keel +17
We report the discovery of an unusual object near the spiral galaxy IC 2497, discovered by visual inspection of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) as part of the Galaxy Zoo projec…