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astro-ph.GA2018★ 41 cited

Detecting Radio-AGN signatures in Red geysers

Namrata Roy, Kevin Bundy, Edmond Cheung +19

A new class of quiescent galaxies harboring possible AGN-driven winds has been discovered using spatially resolved optical spectroscopy from the ongoing SDSS-IV MaNGA survey. These…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 24 cited

SDSS IV MaNGA: Characterizing Non-Axisymmetric Motions in Galaxy Velocity Fields Using the Radon Transform

David V. Stark, Kevin A. Bundy, Kyle Westfall +12

We show how the Radon transform (defined as a series of line integrals through an image at different orientations and offsets from the origin) can be used as a simple, non-parametr…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 14 cited

SDSS IV MaNGA: Discovery of an blob associated with a dry galaxy pair -- ejected gas or a `dark' galaxy candidate?

Lihwai Lin, Jing-Hua Lin, Chin-Hao Hsu +31

We report the discovery of a mysterious giant blob that is kpc away from the main MaNGA target 1-24145, one component of a dry galaxy merger, identified in the first…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 238 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: The Impact of Diffuse Ionized Gas on Emission-line Ratios, Interpretation of Diagnostic Diagrams, and Gas Metallicity Measurements

Kai Zhang, Renbin Yan, Kevin Bundy +24

Diffuse Ionized Gas (DIG) is prevalent in star-forming galaxies. Using a sample of 365 nearly face-on star-forming galaxies observed by MaNGA, we demonstrate how DIG in star-formin…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 91 cited

Galaxy Zoo: Morphological Classifications for 120,000 Galaxies in HST Legacy Imaging

Kyle W. Willett, Melanie A. Galloway, Steven P. Bamford +18

We present the data release paper for the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble (GZH) project. This is the third phase in a large effort to measure reliable, detailed morphologies of galaxies by usin…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 12 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: A serendipitous observation of a potential gas accretion event

Edmond Cheung, David V. Stark, Song Huang +24

The nature of warm, ionized gas outside of galaxies may illuminate several key galaxy evolutionary processes. A serendipitous observation by the MaNGA survey has revealed a large,…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 198 cited

Suppressing star formation in quiescent galaxies with supermassive black hole winds

Edmond Cheung, Kevin Bundy, Michele Cappellari +22

Quiescent galaxies with little or no ongoing star formation dominate the galaxy population above , where their numbers have increased by a fac…

astro-ph.GA2015

Stellar Populations of Barred Quiescent Galaxies

Edmond Cheung, Charlie Conroy, E. Athanassoula +10

Selecting centrally quiescent galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to create high signal-to-noise (>100) stacked spectra with minimal emission line contamination, we a…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 72 cited

Galaxy Zoo: the dependence of the star formation-stellar mass relation on spiral disk morphology

Kyle W. Willett, Kevin Schawinski, Brooke D. Simmons +9

We measure the stellar mass-star formation rate relation in star-forming disk galaxies at z<0.085, using Galaxy~Zoo morphologies to examine different populations of spirals as clas…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 86 cited

Galaxy Zoo: the effect of bar-driven fueling on the presence of an active galactic nucleus in disc galaxies

Melanie A. Galloway, Kyle W. Willett, Lucy F. Fortson +7

We study the influence of the presence of a strong bar in disc galaxies which host an active galactic nucleus (AGN). Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and morphological…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 74 cited

The host galaxies of X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei to z=2.5: Structure, star-formation and their relationships from CANDELS and Herschel/PACS

D. J. Rosario, D. H. McIntosh, A. van der Wel +60

We study the relationship between the structure and star-formation rate (SFR) of X-ray selected low and moderate luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the two Chandra Deep Fi…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 112 cited

Galaxy Zoo: CANDELS Barred Disks and Bar Fractions

B. D. Simmons, Thomas Melvin, Chris Lintott +39

The formation of bars in disk galaxies is a tracer of the dynamical maturity of the population. Previous studies have found that the incidence of bars in disks decreases from the l…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 71 cited

Galaxy Zoo: Are Bars Responsible for the Feeding of Active Galactic Nuclei at 0.2 < z < 1.0?

Edmond Cheung, Jonathan R. Trump, E. Athanassoula +19

We present a new study investigating whether active galactic nuclei (AGN) beyond the local universe are preferentially fed via large-scale bars. Our investigation combines data fro…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 153 cited

Galaxy Zoo: An independent look at the evolution of the bar fraction over the last eight billion years from HST-COSMOS

Thomas Melvin, Karen Masters, Chris Lintott +11

We measure the redshift evolution of the bar fraction in a sample of 2380 visually selected disc galaxies found in Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ima…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 151 cited

CANDELS Visual Classifications: Scheme, Data Release, and First Results

Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Mark Mozena, Dale Kocevski +49

We have undertaken an ambitious program to visually classify all galaxies in the five CANDELS fields down to H<24.5 involving the dedicated efforts of 65 individual classifiers. On…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 166 cited

Galaxy Zoo: Observing Secular Evolution Through Bars

Edmond Cheung, E. Athanassoula, Karen L. Masters +10

In this paper, we use the Galaxy Zoo 2 dataset to study the behavior of bars in disk galaxies as a function of specific star formation rate (SSFR), and bulge prominence. Our sample…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 13 cited

Serendipitous discovery of a massive cD galaxy at z=1.096: Implications for the early formation and late evolution of cD galaxies

F. S. Liu, Yicheng Guo, David C. Koo +18

We have made a serendipitous discovery of a massive cD galaxy at z=1.096 in a candidate rich cluster in the HUDF area of GOODS-South. This brightest cluster galaxy is the most dist…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 242 cited

The Dependence of Quenching upon the Inner Structure of Galaxies at 0.5<z< 0.8 in the DEEP2/AEGIS Survey

Edmond Cheung, S. M. Faber, David C. Koo +25

The shutdown of star formation in galaxies is generally termed `quenching'. Although quenching may occur through a variety of processes, the exact mechanism(s) that is in fact resp…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 545 cited

Structural Parameters of Galaxies in CANDELS

A. van der Wel, E. F. Bell, B. Haussler +19

We present global structural parameter measurements of 109,533 unique, H_F160W-selected objects from the CANDELS multi-cycle treasury program. Sersic model fits for these objects a…

astro-ph.CO2012

CANDELS: The progenitors of compact quiescent galaxies at z~2

Guillermo Barro, S. M. Faber, Pablo G. Perez-Gonzalez +29

We combine high-resolution HST/WFC3 images with multi-wavelength photometry to track the evolution of structure and activity of massive (log(M*) > 10) galaxies at redshifts z = 1.4…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 307 cited

What turns galaxies off? The different morphologies of star-forming and quiescent galaxies since z~2 from CANDELS

Eric F. Bell, Arjen van der Wel, Casey Papovich +21

We use HST/WFC3 imaging from the CANDELS Multicycle Treasury Survey, in conjunction with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, to explore the evolution of galactic structure for galaxies w…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 2.1k cited

CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey - The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products and Mosaics

Anton M. Koekemoer, S. M. Faber, Henry C. Ferguson +120

This paper describes the Hubble Space Telescope imaging data products and data reduction procedures for the Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). This…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 2.2k cited

CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey

Norman A. Grogin, Dale D. Kocevski, S. M. Faber +104

The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) is designed to document the first third of galactic evolution, over the approximate redshift (z) range…