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20162026
most citedThe FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey (ZFOURGE): ultraviolet to far-infrared catalogs, medium-bandwidth photometric redshifts with improved accuracy, stellar masses, and confirmation of quiescent galaxies to z~3.5

239 citations · 681 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

LSST and Keck characterization of outer Main Belt comet P/2026 N2

Bryce Bolin, Leo Alcorn, Max Brodheim +5

We characterize comet P/2026 N2, whose outer Main Belt orbit has au, , and , using optical observations, archival imaging, and dynamical integrations…

astro-ph.EP2025

The discovery and characterization of Earth-crossing asteroid 2024 YR

Bryce T. Bolin, Josef Hanuš, Larry Denneau +9

We describe observations and physical characteristics of Earth-crossing asteroid 2024 YR, discovered on 2024 December 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. T…

astro-ph.GA2024

An Indication of Gas Inflow in Clumpy Star-Forming Galaxies near : Lower Gas-Phase Metallicities in Clumpy Galaxies Compared to Non-Clumpy Galaxies

Visal Sok, Adam Muzzin, Pascale Jablonka +5

Despite the ubiquity of clumpy star-forming galaxies at high-redshift, the origin of clumps are still largely unconstrained due to the limited observations that can validate the me…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

Extended Line Emission in the BCG of Abell 2390

Leo Y. Alcorn, H. K. C Yee, Laurent Drissen +10

We report CFHT/SITELLE imaging Fourier Transform Spectrograph observations of the Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) of galaxy cluster Abell 2390 at z=0.228. The BCG displays a promine…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

Resolved Stellar Mass Maps of Galaxies in the Hubble Frontier Fields: Evidence for Mass Dependency in Environmental Quenching

Vivian Yun Yan Tan, Adam Muzzin, Z. Cemile Marsan +9

One of the challenges in understanding the quenching processes for galaxies is connecting progenitor star-forming populations to their descendant quiescent populations over cosmic…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

Finite Resolution Deconvolution of Multi-Wavelength Imaging of 20,000 Galaxies in the COSMOS Field: The Evolution of Clumpy Galaxies Over Cosmic Time

Visal Sok, Adam Muzzin, Pascale Jablonka +5

Compact star-forming clumps observed in distant galaxies are often suggested to play a crucial role in galaxy assembly. In this paper, we use a novel approach of applying finite re…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

ZFIRE: The Beginning of the End for Massive Galaxies at z ~ 2 and Why Environment Matters

Anishya Harshan, Anshu Gupta, Kim-Vy Tran +6

We use ZFIRE and ZFOURGE observations with the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) fitting tool Prospector to reconstruct the star formation histories (SFHs) of proto-cluster and fi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

SITELLE Hα Imaging Spectroscopy of z~0.25 Clusters: Emission Line Galaxy Detection and Ionized Gas Offset in Abell 2390 & Abell 2465

Qing Liu, Howard Yee, Laurent Drissen +9

Environmental effects are crucial to the understanding of the evolution of galaxies in dense environments, such as galaxy clusters. Using the large field-of-view of SITELLE, the un…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

A giant galaxy in the young Universe with a massive ring

Tiantian Yuan, Ahmed Elagali, Ivo Labbe +12

In the local (redshift z~0) Universe, collisional ring galaxies make up only ~0.01% of galaxies and are formed by head-on galactic collisions that trigger radially propagating dens…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 24 cited

MOSEL: Strong [OIII]5007 Å Emitting Galaxies at (3<z<4) from the ZFOURGE Survey

Kim-Vy H. Tran, Ben Forrest, Leo Y. Alcorn +13

To understand how strong emission line galaxies (ELGs) contribute to the overall growth of galaxies and star formation history of the universe, we target Strong ELGs (SELGs) from t…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

MOSEL Survey: Tracking the Growth of Massive Galaxies at 2<z<4 using Kinematics and the IllustrisTNG Simulation

Anshu Gupta, Kim-Vy Tran, Jonathan Cohn +13

We use K-band spectroscopic data from the Multi-Object Spectroscopic Emission Line (MOSEL) survey to analyze the kinematic properties of galaxies at z>3. Our sample consists of 34…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 16 cited

ZFIRE: Measuring Electron Density with [OII] as a function of environment at z = 1.62

Anishya Harshan, Anshu Gupta, Kim-Vy Tran +8

The global star formation rates (SFR) of galaxies at fixed stellar masses increase with redshift and are known to vary with environment unto z~2. We explore here whether the change…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 10 cited

A Tale of Two Clusters: An Analysis of Gas-Phase Metallicity and Nebular Gas Conditions in Proto-cluster Galaxies at z~2

Leo Y. Alcorn, Anshu Gupta, Kim-Vy Tran +12

The ZFIRE survey has spectroscopically confirmed two proto-clusters using the MOSFIRE instrument on Keck 1: one at z=2.095 in COSMOS and another at z=1.62 in UDS. Here we use an up…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 36 cited

Galaxy Merger Fractions in Two Clusters at Using the Hubble Space Telescope

Courtney Watson, Kim-Vy Tran, Adam Tomczak +8

We measure the fraction of galaxy-galaxy mergers in two clusters at using imaging and grism observations from the {\it Hubble Space Telescope}. The two galaxy cluster cand…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 21 cited

ZFOURGE: Extreme 5007 emission may be a common early-lifetime phase for star-forming galaxies at

Jonathan H. Cohn, Joel Leja, Kim-Vy H. Tran +12

Using the \prospector\ spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting code, we analyze the properties of 19 Extreme Emission Line Galaxies (EELGs) identified in the bluest composite SE…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 21 cited

ZFIRE: 3D Modeling of Rotation, Dispersion, and Angular Momentum of Star-Forming Galaxies at z~2

Leo Y. Alcorn, Kim-Vy Tran, Karl Glazebrook +10

We perform a kinematic and morphological analysis of 44 star-forming galaxies at in the COSMOS legacy field using near-infrared spectroscopy from Keck/MOSFIRE and F160W im…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 5 cited

Decoupled Black Hole Accretion and Quenching: The Relationship Between BHAR, SFR, and Quenching in Milky Way and Andromeda-mass Progenitors Since z = 2.5

Michael J. Cowley, Lee R. Spitler, Ryan F. Quadri +13

We investigate the relationship between the black hole accretion rate (BHAR) and star-formation rate (SFR) for Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31)-mass progenitors from z = 0.2 - 2.…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 27 cited

ZFIRE: Using H equivalent widths to investigate the in situ initial mass function at z~2

Themiya Nanayakkara, Karl Glazebrook, Glenn G. Kacprzak +10

We use the ZFIRE survey (http://zfire.swinburne.edu.au) to investigate the high mass slope of the initial mass function (IMF) for a mass-complete (log10(M/M)~9.3) sampl…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 31 cited

ZFIRE: The Evolution of the Stellar Mass Tully-Fisher Relation to Redshift 2.0 < Z < 2.5 with MOSFIRE

Caroline M. S. Straatman, Karl Glazebrook, Glenn G. Kacprzak +8

Using observations made with MOSFIRE on Keck I as part of the ZFIRE survey, we present the stellar mass Tully-Fisher relation at 2.0 < z < 2.5. The sample was drawn from a stellar…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 22 cited

ZFIRE: Similar Stellar Growth in H-emitting Cluster and Field Galaxies at z~2

Kim-Vy H. Tran, Leo Y. Alcorn, Glenn G. Kacprzak +13

We compare galaxy scaling relations as a function of environment at with our ZFIRE survey where we have measured H fluxes for 90 star-forming galaxies selected from a m…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 239 cited

The FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey (ZFOURGE): ultraviolet to far-infrared catalogs, medium-bandwidth photometric redshifts with improved accuracy, stellar masses, and confirmation of quiescent galaxies to z~3.5

Caroline M. S. Straatman, Lee R. Spitler, Ryan F. Quadri +26

The FourStar galaxy evolution survey (ZFOURGE) is a 45 night legacy program with the FourStar near-infrared camera on Magellan and one of the most sensitive surveys to date. ZFOURG…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 82 cited

ZFIRE: A KECK/MOSFIRE Spectroscopic Survey of Galaxies in Rich Environments at z~2

Themiya Nanayakkara, Karl Glazebrook, Glenn G. Kacprzak +11

We present an overview and the first data release of ZFIRE, a spectroscopic redshift survey of star-forming galaxies that utilizes the MOSFIRE instrument on Keck-I to study galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 51 cited

Cold-Mode Accretion: Driving the Fundamental Mass-Metallicity Relation at z~2

Glenn G. Kacprzak, Freeke van de Voort, Karl Glazebrook +10

We investigate the star formation rate (SFR) dependence on the stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity relation at z=2 with MOSFIRE/Keck as part of the ZFIRE survey. We have identif…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 23 cited

ZFIRE: The Kinematics of Star-Forming Galaxies as a Function of Environment at z~2

Leo Y. Alcorn, Kim-Vy H. Tran, Glenn G. Kacprzak +12

We perform a kinematic analysis of galaxies at in the COSMOS legacy field using near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy from Keck/MOSFIRE as part of the ZFIRE survey. Our sample…