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Probing Shock Breakout with Serendipitous GALEX Detections of Two SNLS Type II-P Supernovae
Suvi Gezari, Luc Dessart, Stephane Basa +13
We report the serendipitous detection by GALEX of fast (<1 day) rising (>1 mag) UV emission from two Type II plateau (II-P) supernovae (SNe) at z=0.185 and 0.324 discovered by the…
Lyman alpha emitting galaxies at 0.2 < z < 0.35 from GALEX spectroscopy
Jean-Michel Deharveng, Todd Small, Tom A. Barlow +19
The GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer) spectroscopic survey mode, with a resolution of about 8 A in the FUV (1350 - 1750 A) and about 20 A in the NUV (1950 - 2750 A) is used for a s…
Resolved Stellar Populations Constituting Extended UV Disks (XUV-disks) in Nearby Galaxies
D. A. Thilker, L. Bianchi, G. Meurer +11
We describe HST imaging of recent star formation complexes located in the extended UV disk (XUV-disk) component of NGC 5236 (M 83), NGC 5055 (M 63), and NGC 2090. Photometry in fou…
Ultraviolet through Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions from 1000 SDSS Galaxies: Dust Attenuation
Benjamin D. Johnson, David Schiminovich, Mark Seibert +19
The meaningful comparison of models of galaxy evolution to observations is critically dependent on the accurate treatment of dust attenuation. To investigate dust absorption and em…
A Search for Extended Ultraviolet Disk (XUV-disk) Galaxies in the Local Universe
David A. Thilker, Luciana Bianchi, Gerhardt Meurer +26
We have initiated a search for extended ultraviolet disk (XUV-disk) galaxies in the local universe. Herein, we compare GALEX UV and visible--NIR images of 189 nearby (D40 Mpc) S…
Ultraviolet, Optical, and Infrared Constraints on Models of Stellar Populations and Dust Attenuation
Benjamin D. Johnson, David Schiminovich, Mark Seibert +19
The color of galaxies is a fundamental property, easily measured, that constrains models of galaxies and their evolution. Dust attenuation and star formation history (SFH) are the…
UV/Optical Detections of Candidate Tidal Disruption Events by GALEX and CFHTLS
S. Gezari, S. Basa, D. C. Martin +11
We present two luminous UV/optical flares from the nuclei of apparently inactive early-type galaxies at z=0.37 and 0.33 that have the radiative properties of a flare from the tidal…
The UV-Optical Color Magnitude Diagram II: Physical Properties and Morphological Evolution On and Off of a Star-Forming Sequence
David Schiminovich, Ted K. Wyder, D. Christopher Martin +23
We use the UV-optical color magnitude diagram in combination with spectroscopic and photometric measurements derived from the SDSS spectroscopic sample to measure the distribution…
Clustering Properties of restframe UV selected galaxies I: the correlation length derived from GALEX data in the local Universe
Bruno Milliard, Sebastien Heinis, Jeremy Blaizot +25
We present the first measurements of the angular correlation function of galaxies selected in the far (1530 A) and near (2310 A) Ultraviolet from the GALEX survey fields overlappin…
The Star Formation and Extinction Co-Evolution of UV-Selected Galaxies over 0.05<z<1.2
D. Christopher Martin, Todd Small, David Schiminovich +22
We use a new stacking technique to obtain mean mid IR and far IR to far UV flux ratios over the rest near-UV/near-IR color-magnitude diagram. We employ COMBO-17 redshifts and COMBO…
UV to IR SEDs of UV selected galaxies in the ELAIS fields: evolution of dust attenuation and star formation activity from z=0.7 to z=0.2
J. Iglesias-Paramo, V. Buat, J. Hernandez-Fernandez +34
We study the ultraviolet to far-infrared (hereafter UV-to-IR) SEDs of a sample of intermediate redshift (0.2 < z < 0.7) UV-selected galaxies from the ELAIS-N1 and ELAIS-N2 fields b…
Extinction Corrected Star Formation Rates Empirically Derived from Ultraviolet-Optical Colors
Marie Treyer, David Schiminovich, Ben Johnson +20
Using a sample of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic catalog with measured star-formation rates (SFRs) and ultraviolet (UV) photometry from the GALEX Medium I…
The Young and the Dustless: Interpreting Radio Observations of UltraViolet Luminous Galaxies
Antara R. Basu-Zych, David Schiminovich, Benjamin D. Johnson +23
Ultraviolet Luminous Galaxies (UVLGs) have been identified as intensely star-forming, nearby galaxies. A subset of these, the supercompact UVLGs, are believed to be local analogs o…
Nitrogen Production in Starburst Galaxies Detected by GALEX
Ryan P. Mallery, Lisa Kewley, R. Michael Rich +22
We investigate the production of nitrogen in star forming galaxies with ultraviolet (UV) radiation detected by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer Satellite (GALEX). We use a sample of 8…
The UV-optical Galaxy Color-Magnitude Diagram I: Basic Properties
Ted K. Wyder, D. Christopher Martin, David Schiminovich +19
We have analyzed the bivariate distribution of galaxies as a function of ultraviolet-optical colors and absolute magnitudes in the local universe. The sample consists of galaxies w…
Keck/Deimos Spectroscopy of a GALEX UV Selecte Sample from the Medium Imaging Survey
Ryan P. Mallery, R. Michael Rich, Samir Salim +20
We report results from a pilot program to obtain spectroscopy for objects detected in the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Medium Imaging Survey (MIS). Our study examines the prop…
Clustering Properties of restframe UV selected galaxies II: Migration of Star Formation sites with cosmic time from GALEX and CFHTLS
Sebastien Heinis, Bruno Milliard, Stephane Arnouts +24
We analyze the clustering properties of ultraviolet selected galaxies by using GALEX-SDSS data at z<0.6 and CFHTLS deep u' imaging at z=1. These datasets provide a unique basis at…
The Calibration and Data Products of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer
Patrick Morrissey, Tim Conrow, Tom A. Barlow +20
We describe the calibration status and data products pertaining to the GR2 and GR3 data releases of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). These releases have identical pipeline ca…
UV Star Formation Rates in the Local Universe
Samir Salim, R. Michael Rich, Stéphane Charlot +21
We measure star formation rates of ~50,000 optically-selected galaxies in the local universe (z~0.1), spanning a range from gas-rich dwarfs to massive ellipticals. We obtain dust-c…
The Look-back Time Evolution of Far-Ultraviolet Flux from the Brightest Cluster Elliptical Galaxies at z < 0.2
Chang H. Ree, Young-Wook Lee, Sukyoung K. Yi +28
We present the GALEX UV photometry of the elliptical galaxies in Abell clusters at moderate redshifts (z < 0.2) for the study of the look-back time evolution of the UV upturn pheno…
The Ultraviolet-Optical Color-Magnitude Diagram III: Constraints on Evolution from the Blue to Red Sequence
D. Christopher Martin, Ted K. Wyder, David Schiminovich +17
We introduce a new quantity, the mass flux density of galaxies evolving from the blue sequence to the red sequence. We propose a simple technique for constraining this mass flux us…
Chemical and Photometric Evolution of Extended Ultraviolet Disks: Optical Spectroscopy of M83 (NGC5236) and NGC4625
A. Gil de Paz, B. F. Madore, S. Boissier +21
We present the results from the analysis of optical spectra of 31 Halpha-selected regions in the extended UV (XUV) disks of M83 (NGC5236) and NGC4625 recently discovered by GALEX.…
IR and UV Galaxies at z=0.6 -- Evolution of Dust Attenuation and Stellar Mass as Revealed by SWIRE and GALEX
C. Kevin Xu, David Shupe, Veronique Buat +19
We study dust attenuation and stellar mass of star-forming galaxies using new SWIRE observations in IR and GALEX observations in UV. Two samples are selected from t…
Deep GALEX Imaging of the HST/COSMOS Field: A First Look at the Morphology of z~0.7 Star-forming Galaxies
M. A. Zamojski, D. Schiminovich, R. M. Rich +34
We present a study of the morphological nature of redshift z~0.7 star-forming galaxies using a combination of HST/ACS, GALEX and ground-based images of the COSMOS field. Our sample…