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20162026
most cited4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals

311 citations · 2.3k across the 89 of their papers we have counts for

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91 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The constrainability of galaxy positions in the -- SFR plane from SED fitting

Sabine Bellstedt, Aaron S. G. Robotham, Luke J. M. Davies +2

Using a sample of 6,029 galaxies from the GAMA survey, we characterise the spread of galaxy property inferences on the M -- SFR plane via Spectral Energy Distribution…

astro-ph.GA2026

Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): Morphologically-selected galaxy merger fractions and their direct comparison to close-pair samples

Melissa F. Fuentealba-Fuentes, Luke J. M. Davies, Aaron S. G. Robotham +4

Galaxy mergers are a central driver of galaxy evolution across cosmic time, and thus, quantifying their frequency is critical for constraining hierarchical models of galaxy formati…

astro-ph.GA2026

Exploring biases in derived stellar parameters and the ionizing photon production efficiency

Ravi Jaiswar, Anshu Gupta, Elisabete da Cunha +8

Constraining the timescale and manner in which the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) occurred is a major JWST science goal. However, any constraints on the stellar or ionizing parameters…

astro-ph.GA2026

DINGO/GAMA /WAVES: HI-halo mass relation

Ajay Dev, Martin Meyer, Simon P. Driver +17

We investigate the relation between neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) and dark matter halo mass (HIHM) using observations from the Deep Investigation of Neutral Gas Origins (DINGO) pilo…

astro-ph.CO2026

Mapping dark matter and the emergence of large-scale structure

Jon Loveday, Jochen Liske, Ivan K. Baldry +5

We discuss a potential survey to map dark matter and the emergence of large-scale structure to redshift z ~ 1.5 (baseline) or z~3.5 (with near-IR extension) using a massively multi…

astro-ph.GA2026

Decomposing the growth mechanisms of galaxies over the last 10 billion years

Luke J. M. Davies, Annagrazia Puglisi, Marcella Longhetti +10

Determining how galaxies accumulate stellar mass is paramount to understanding the Universe. Two primary mechanisms drive this process: star-formation (SF) & mergers. Our understan…

astro-ph.GA2026

The MAGPI Survey: co-evolution of baryons and dark matter in star-forming disk-like galaxies at

Gauri Sharma, Andrew J. Battisti, Emily Wisnioski +20

We present a comprehensive analysis of the dark matter (DM) content and its structural dependence in star-forming disk-like galaxies at intermediate redshifts ($0.1 \lesssim z \les…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): First Data Release Covering The D10 (COSMOS) Region

L. J. M. Davies, M. Bravo, R. H. W. Cook +18

The Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS) is a deep, high-completeness multi-wavelength survey based around spectroscopic observations using the Anglo-Australian Telesc…

astro-ph.CO2025

Wide Area VISTA Extragalactic Survey (WAVES): Selection of targets for the Wide survey using decision-tree classification

G. Kaur, M. Bilicki, S. Bellstedt +11

The Wide-Area VISTA Extragalactic Survey (WAVES) on the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) includes two flux-limited subsurveys with very high (95\%) completeness…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): Galaxy group catalogue for the D10-COSMOS field with 90% spectroscopic redshift completeness

Matías Bravo, Luke J. M. Davies, Aaron S. G. Robotham +6

Large-scale galaxy redshift surveys conducted over the last couple of decades have proven crucial in deepening our understanding of structure growth in the Universe and galaxy evol…

astro-ph.GA2025

Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): Evolution of the Morphology-Density Relation

L. J. M. Davies, J. Doan, S. Bellstedt +6

Galaxies with different morphological characteristics likely have different evolutionary histories, such that understanding the mechanisms that drive morphological change can provi…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

SKYSURF. X. A Novel Method for Measuring Integrated Galaxy Light

Delondrae D. Carter, Timothy Carleton, Daniel J. Henningsen +19

We describe the drizzling pipeline and contents of the drizzled database for Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 27-29 Archival Legacy project "SKYSURF," the largest archival project ever…

astro-ph.CO2025

SKYSURF IX -- The Cosmic Optical and Infrared Background from Integrated Galaxy Light Measurements

Scott A. Tompkins, Simon P. Driver, Aaron S. G. Robotham +15

As part of the SKYSURF Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Legacy Archival program we present galaxy number counts which yield measurements of the extragalactic background light (EBL) at…

astro-ph.GA2025

Correcting for the effects of the point spread function in intra-halo light measurements and application to deep Hyper Suprime-Cam data

L. P. Garate-Nuñez, A. S. G. Robotham, S. Bellstedt +1

The intra-halo light (IHL) is the diffuse stellar component that surrounds galaxies, groups, and clusters. Its formation is intimately linked to the hierarchical assembly of the sy…

astro-ph.GA2025

Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): The sSFR-M plane part II: Starbursts, SFHs and AGN Feedback

L. J. M. Davies, J. E. Thorne, S. Bellstedt +10

In part I of this series we discussed the variation of star-formation histories (SFHs) across the specific star formation rate - stellar mass plane (sSFR-M) using the Dee…

astro-ph.GA2025

Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): The sSFR-Mplane part I: The recent SFH of galaxies and movement through the plane

L. J. M. Davies, J. E. Thorne, S. Bellstedt +10

In a recent paper we parameterised the evolution of the star-formation rate dispersion () across the specific star-formation rate - stellar mass plane (sSFR-M) u…

astro-ph.GA2025

GalSBI-SPS: a stellar population synthesis-based galaxy population model for cosmology and galaxy evolution applications

Luca Tortorelli, Silvan Fischbacher, Daniel Grün +4

Next generation photometric and spectroscopic surveys will enable unprecedented tests of the concordance cosmological model and of galaxy formation and evolution. Fully exploiting…

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.GA2025

Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): New robust merger rates at intermediate redshifts

Melissa F. Fuentealba-Fuentes, Luke J. M. Davies, Aaron S. G. Robotham +5

Mergers are fundamental to our understanding of the processes driving the evolution of the structure and morphology of galaxies, star formation, AGN activity, and the redistributio…

astro-ph.GA2025

The MAGPI Survey: the kinematic morphology-density relation (or lack thereof) and the Hubble sequence at

Caroline Foster, Mark W. Donoghoe, Andrew Battisti +26

This work presents visual morphological and dynamical classifications for 637 spatially resolved galaxies, most of which are at intermediate redshift (), in the Middle-Ag…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The MAGPI Survey: the subtle role of environment and not-so-subtle impact of generations of stars on galaxy dynamics

Caroline Foster, Sabine Bellstedt, Francesco DEugenio +23

The stellar age and mass of galaxies have been suggested as the primary determinants for the dynamical state of galaxies, with environment seemingly playing no or only a very minor…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

ProGeny II: the impact of libraries and model configurations on inferred galaxy properties in SED fitting

Sabine Bellstedt, Aaron S. G. Robotham

We use a volume-complete sample of ~8,000 galaxies from the GAMA survey to characterise the impact of stellar population libraries (SPLs) and model configurations on the resulting…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

ProGeny I: a new simple stellar population spectra generator and impact of isochrones / stellar atmospheres / initial mass functions

A. S. G. Robotham, S. Bellstedt

In this work we introduce ProGeny, a new stellar population library (SPL) software package written in R. This release encapsulates the core software (github.com/asgr/ProGeny) to ge…

astro-ph.GA2024

The MAGPI Survey: the evolution and drivers of gas turbulence in intermediate-redshift galaxies

Yifan Mai, Scott M. Croom, Emily Wisnioski +21

We measure the ionised gas velocity dispersions of star-forming galaxies in the MAGPI survey () and compare them with galaxies in the SAMI () and KROSS ($z\sim…