Browsing by Subject "Galaxies"

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    • Evolution of star formation in the UKIDSS ultra deep survey field - I. Luminosity functions and cosmic star formation rate out of z = 1.6 

      Drake, Alyssa B.; Simpson, Chris; Collins, Chris A.; Jarvis, Matt (OUP, 2013)
      We present new results on the cosmic star formation history in the SXDS-UDS field out to z = 1.6. We compile narrow-band data from the Subaru Telescope and the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) ...

    • The faint radio source population at 15.7 GHz - II. Multi-wavelength properties 

      Whittam, I.H.; Riley, J.M.; Green, D.A.; Jarvis, Matt; Vaccari, M. (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      A complete, flux density limited sample of 96 faint (> 0:5 mJy) radio sources is selected from the 10C survey at 15.7 GHz in the Lockman Hole. We have matched this sample to a range of multi-wavelength catalogues, including ...

    • Feature guided training and rotational standardization for the morphological classification of radio galaxies 

      Brand, Kevin; Grobler, Trienko L.; Prescott, Matthew (Oxford University Press, 2023)
      State-of-the-art radio observatories produce large amounts of data which can be used to study the properties of radio galaxies. However, with this rapid increase in data volume, it has become unrealistic to manually process ...

    • Figure rotation of dark haloes in cold dark matter simulations 

      Bryan, Scott E.; Cress, Christine M (Oxford University Press, 2007)
      We investigate the figure rotation of dark matter haloes identified in cold dark matter (CDM) simulations.We find that when strict criteria are used to select suitable haloes for study, five of the 222 haloes identified ...

    • Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Mid-infrared properties as tracers of galaxy environment 

      Sureshkumar, Unnikrishnan; Durkalec, Anna; Cluver, Michelle (EDP Sciences, 2023)
      We investigate how different mid-infrared (mid-IR) properties of galaxies are correlated with the environment in which the galaxies are located. For this purpose, we first study the dependence of galaxy clustering on the ...

    • Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Resolving the role of environment in galaxy evolution 

      Brough, S.; Croom, S. M.; Prescott, M. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      We present observations of 18 galaxies from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey made with the SPIRAL optical integral field unit (IFU) on the Anglo- Australian Telescope. The galaxies are selected to ...

    • Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis 

      Hopkins, A.M.; Driver, S.P.; Brough, S.; Jarvis, Matt (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is a multiwavelength photometric and spectroscopic survey, using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain spectra for up to _ 300 000 galaxies over ...

    • Galaxy and mass assembly: evolution of the Hα luminosity function and star formation rate density up to z < 0.35 

      Gunawardhana, M.L.P.; Hopkins, A.M.; Bland–Hawthorn, J.; Prescott, M. (OUP, 2013)
      Measurements of the low-z Hα luminosity function, Φ, have a large dispersion in the local number density of sources (∼0.5–1 Mpc−3 dex−1), and correspondingly in the star formation rate density (SFRD). The possible causes ...

    • Galaxy correlations and the BAO in a void universe: structure formation as a test of the Copernican Principle 

      February, Sean; Clarkson, Chris; Maartens, Roy (IOP Science, 2013)
      A suggested solution to the dark energy problem is the void model, where accelerated expansion is replaced by Hubble-scale inhomogeneity. In these models, density perturbations grow on a radially inhomogeneous background. ...

    • Galaxy–galaxy lensing in the voice deep survey 

      Luo, Ruibiao; Fu, Liping; Vaccari, Mattia (EDP Sciences, 2022)
      The multi-band photometry of the VOICE imaging data, overlapping with 4.9 deg2 of the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) area, enables both shape measurement and photometric redshift estimation to be the two essential ...

    • Gama/H-Atlas: The dust opacity-stellar mass surface density relation for spiral galaxies 

      Grootes, M.W.; Tuffs, R.J.; Jarvis, Matt (IOP Science, 2013)
      We report the discovery of a well-defined correlation between B-band face-on central optical depth due to dust and the stellar mass surface density of nearby spiral galaxies. This relation was derived from a sample of ...

    • H-Atlas: The cosmic abundance of dust from the far-infrared background power spectrum 

      Thacker, Cameron; Cooray, Asantha; Jarvis, Matt (IOP Science, 2013)
      We present a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic far-infrared background (CFIRB) anisotropies in one of the extragalactic fields of the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) at ...

    • H2O emission in high-z ultra-luminous infrared galaxies 

      Omont, A.; Yang, Chentao; Cox, P.; Jarvis, Matt (edp sciences, 2013)
      Using the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer (PdBI), we report the detection of water vapor in six new lensed ultraluminous starburst galaxies at high redshift, discovered in the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large ...

    • HELP: The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project 

      Jarvis, M.J.; Shirley, R; Duncan, K; Campos Varillas, M.C.; Hurley, P.D.; Malek, K; Roehlly, Y; Oliver, S.J. (Oxford University Press, 2021)
      We present the Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP). This project collates, curates, homogenizes and creates derived data products for most of the premium multiwavelength extragalactic data sets. The sky boundaries ...

    • HerMES: Candidate gravitationally lensed galaxies and lensing statistics at submillimeter wavelengths 

      Wardlow, Julie L.; Cooray, Asantha; De Bernardis, Francesco; Amblard, A.; Arumugam, V.; Aussel, H.; Baker, A.J.; Bethermin, M.; Blundell, R.; Bock, J.; Boselli, A.; Bridge, C.; Buat, V.; Burgarella, D.; Bussmann, R.S.; Cabrera-Lavers, A.; Calanog, J.A.; Carpenter, J.M.; Casey, C.M.; Castro-Rodríguez, N.; Cava, A.; Chanial, P.; Chapin, E.; Chapman, S.C.; Clements, D.L.; Conley, A.; Cox, P.; Dowell, C.D.; Dye, S.; Eales, S.; Farrah, D.; Ferrero, P.; Franceschini, Alberto; Frayer, D.T.; Frazer, C.; Fu, Hai; Gavazzi, R.; Glenn, J.; González Solares, E.A.; Griffin, M.; Gurwell, M.A.; Harris, A.I.; Hatziminaoglou, Evanthia; Hopwood, R.; Hyde, A.; Ibar, Edo; Ivison, R.J.; Kim, S.; Lagache, G.; Levenson, L.; Marchetti, L.; Marsden, G.; Martinez-Navajas, P.; Negrello, M.; Neri, R.; Nguyen, H.T.; OHalloran, B.; Oliver, S.J.; Omont, A.; Page, Matthew J.; Panuzzo, P.; Papageorgiou, A.; Pearson, C.P.; Perez-Fournon, E.; Pohlen, M.; Riechers, D.; Rigopoulou, D.; Roseboom, I.G.; Rowan-Robinson, M.; Schulz, B.; Scott, Douglas; Scoville, N.; Seymour, N.; Shupe, D.L.; Smith, A.J.; Streblyanska, A.; Strom, A.; Symeonidis, Myrto; Trichas, M.; Vaccari, M.; Vieira, J.D.; Viero, M. P.; Wang, L.; Xu, C.K.; Zemcov, M.; Yan, L. (American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      Gravitational lensing increases the angular size and integrated flux of affected sources. It is exploited to investigate the mass distribution of the foreground lensing structures and the properties of the background lensed ...

    • Hermes: Cosmic infrared background anisotropies and the clustering of dusty star-forming galaxies 

      Viero, M. P.; Wang, L.; Zemcov, M.; Addison, G.; Amblard, A.; Arumugam, V.; Aussel, H.; Bethermin, M.; Bock, J.; Boselli, A.; Buat, V.; Burgarella, D.; Casey, C.M.; Clements, D.L.; Conley, A.; Conversi, L.; Cooray, Asantha; de Zotti, G.; Dowell, C.D.; Farrah, D.; Franceschini, Alberto; Glenn, J.; Griffin, M.; Hatziminaoglou, Evanthia; Heinis, S.; Ibar, Edo; Ivison, R.J.; Lagache, G.; Levenson, L.; Marchetti, L.; Marsden, G.; Nguyen, H.T.; OHalloran, B.; Oliver, S.J.; Omont, A.; Page, Matthew J.; Papageorgiou, A.; Pearson, C.P.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Pohlen, M.; Rigopoulou, D.; Roseboom, I.G.; Rowan-Robinson, M.; Schulz, B.; Scott, Douglas; Seymour, N.; Shupe, D.L.; Smith, A.J.; Symeonidis, Myrto; Vaccari, M.; Valtchanov, I.; Vieira, J.D.; Wardlow, Julie L.; Xu, C.K. (American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      Star formation is well traced by dust, which absorbs the UV/optical light produced by young stars in actively starforming regions and re-emits the energy in the far-infrared/ submillimeter (FIR/submm; e.g., Savage & ...

    • HerMES: The far-infrared emission from dust-obscured galaxies 

      Calanog, J.A.; Wardlow, Julie L.; Fu, Hai; Cooray, Asantha; Assef, R.J.; Bock, J.; Casey, C.M.; Conley, A.; Farrah, D.; Ibar, Edo; Kartaltepe, J.; Magdis, G.; Marchetti, L.; Oliver, S.J.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Riechers, D.; Rigopoulou, D.; Roseboom, I.G.; Schulz, B.; Scott, Douglas; Symeonidis, Myrto; Vaccari, M.; Viero, M. P.; Zemcov, M. (American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      The far-infrared (far-IR) luminosities of luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) and ultra-LIRGs (ULIRGs) are dominated by reprocessed thermal dust emission, due to a combination of star formation and active galactic nucleus ...

    • Herschel PEP/HerMES: the redshift evolution of dust attenuation and of the total (UV+IR) star formation rate density 

      Burgarella, D.; Buat, V.; Gruppioni, C.; Cucciati, O.; Heinis, S.; Berta, S.; Bethermin, M.; Bock, J.; Cooray, Asantha; Dunlop, J.S.; Farrah, D.; Franceschini, Alberto; Le Floch, E.; Lutz, D.; Magnelli, B.; Nordon, R.; Oliver, S.J.; Page, Matthew J.; Popesso, P.; Pozzi, F.; Riguccini, L.; Vaccari, M.; Viero, M. P. (EDP Sciences, 2013)
      Using new homogeneous luminosity functions (LFs) in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) from VVDS and in the far-infrared (FIR) from Herschel/PEP and Herschel/HerMES, we studied the evolution of the dust attenuation with redshift. ...

    • The Herschel* view of the environment of the radio galaxy 4C+41.17 at z = 3.8 

      Wylezalek, D.; Vernet, J.; De Breuck, C.; Stern, D.; Galametz, A.; Seymour, N.; Jarvis, Matt; Barthel, P.; Drouart, G.; Rottgering, H.J.A.; Greve, T.R.; Haas, M.; Hatch, N.; Ivison, R.J.; Lehnert, M.; Meisenheimer, K.; Miley, G.; Nesvadba, N.; Stevens, J.A. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      We present Herschel observations at 70, 160, 250, 350 and 500 μm of the environment of the radio galaxy 4C+41.17 at z = 3.792. About 65 per cent of the extracted sources are securely identified with mid-infrared sources ...

    • Herschel*-ATLAS: correlations between dust and gas in local submm-selected galaxies 

      Dunne, L.; Bourne, N.; Bendo, G.J.; Smith, M.W.L.; Clark, C.J.R.; Smith, Daniel J.B.; Rigby, E.E.; Baes, M.; Leeuw, L.L.; Maddox, S.J.; Thompson, M.A.; Bremer, M.N.; Cooray, Asantha; Dariush, A.; de Zotti, G.; Dye, S.; Eales, S.; Hopwood, R.; Ibar, Edo; Ivison, R.J.; Jarvis, Matt; Michalowski, M.J.; Rowlands, K.; Valiante, E. (2013)
      We present an analysis of CO molecular gas tracers in a sample of 500 μ m-selected Herschel -ATLAS galaxies at z < 0 . 05 ( cz < 14990 km s − 1 ). Using 22 − 500 μ m photom- etry from WISE , IRAS an ...