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KROSS-SAMI: A Direct IFS Comparison of the Tully-Fisher Relation Across 8 Gyr Since z ≈ 1 (2018)
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Tiley, A., Bureau, M., Cortese, L., Harrison, C., Johnson, H., Stott, J., …Richards, S. (2019). KROSS-SAMI: A Direct IFS Comparison of the Tully-Fisher Relation Across 8 Gyr Since z ≈ 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(2), 2166-2188. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2794

We construct Tully–Fisher relations (TFRs), from large samples of galaxies with spatially resolved H α emission maps from the K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph (KMOS) Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS) at z ≈ 1. We compare these to data from th... Read More about KROSS-SAMI: A Direct IFS Comparison of the Tully-Fisher Relation Across 8 Gyr Since z ≈ 1.

ALMACAL V: absorption-selected galaxies with evidence for excited ISMs (2018)
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Klitsch, A., Zwaan, M., Péroux, C., Smail, I., Oteo, I., Popping, G., …Biggs, A. (2018). ALMACAL V: absorption-selected galaxies with evidence for excited ISMs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 482(1), L65-L69. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/sly187

Gas-rich galaxies are selected efficiently via quasar absorption lines. Recently, a new perspective on such absorption-selected systems has opened up by studying the molecular gas content of absorber host galaxies using ALMA CO emission line observat... Read More about ALMACAL V: absorption-selected galaxies with evidence for excited ISMs.

VALES V: a kinematic analysis of the molecular gas content in H-ATLAS galaxies at z ∼ 0.03–0.35 using ALMA (2018)
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Molina, J., Ibar, E., Villanueva, V., Escala, A., Cheng, C., Baes, M., …Dunne, L. (2018). VALES V: a kinematic analysis of the molecular gas content in H-ATLAS galaxies at z ∼ 0.03–0.35 using ALMA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(2), 1499-1524. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2577

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) resolved observations of molecular gas in galaxies up to z = 0.35 to characterize the role of global galactic dynamics on the global interstellar medium properties. These observations con... Read More about VALES V: a kinematic analysis of the molecular gas content in H-ATLAS galaxies at z ∼ 0.03–0.35 using ALMA.

Resolving the ISM at the Peak of Cosmic Star Formation with ALMA: The Distribution of CO and Dust Continuum in z ∼ 2.5 Submillimeter Galaxies (2018)
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Rivera, G. C., Hodge, J., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Weiss, A., Wardlow, J., …Werf, P. V. D. (2018). Resolving the ISM at the Peak of Cosmic Star Formation with ALMA: The Distribution of CO and Dust Continuum in z ∼ 2.5 Submillimeter Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 863(1), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aacffa

We use Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of four submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) at z ~ 2–3 to investigate the spatially resolved properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) at scales of 1–5 kpc (0farcs1–0farcs6). The velocity fields o... Read More about Resolving the ISM at the Peak of Cosmic Star Formation with ALMA: The Distribution of CO and Dust Continuum in z ∼ 2.5 Submillimeter Galaxies.

A Machine-learning Method for Identifying Multiwavelength Counterparts of Submillimeter Galaxies: Training and Testing Using AS2UDS and ALESS (2018)
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An, F. X., Stach, S., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Almaini, O., Simpson, C., …Coppin, K. (2018). A Machine-learning Method for Identifying Multiwavelength Counterparts of Submillimeter Galaxies: Training and Testing Using AS2UDS and ALESS. Astrophysical Journal, 862(2), Article 101. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aacdaa

We describe the application of supervised machine-learning algorithms to identify the likely multiwavelength counterparts to submillimeter sources detected in panoramic, single-dish submillimeter surveys. As a training set, we employ a sample of 695... Read More about A Machine-learning Method for Identifying Multiwavelength Counterparts of Submillimeter Galaxies: Training and Testing Using AS2UDS and ALESS.

An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Identifying Candidate z ∼ 4.5 [C II] Emitters (2018)
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Cooke, E., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Stach, S., An, F. X., Gullberg, B., …Werf, P. V. D. (2018). An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Identifying Candidate z ∼ 4.5 [C II] Emitters. Astrophysical Journal, 861(2), Article 100. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac6ba

We report the results of a search for serendipitous [C ii] 157.74 μm emitters at z sime 4.4–4.7 using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The search exploits the AS2UDS continuum survey, which covers ~50 arcmin2 of the sky toward... Read More about An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Identifying Candidate z ∼ 4.5 [C II] Emitters.

Molecular gas in AzTEC/C159: a star-forming disk galaxy 1.3 Gyr after the Big Bang (2018)
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Jiménez-Andrade, E., Magnelli, B., Karim, A., Jones, G., Carilli, C., Romano-Díaz, E., …Navarrete, F. (2018). Molecular gas in AzTEC/C159: a star-forming disk galaxy 1.3 Gyr after the Big Bang. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 615, Article A25. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732186

We studied the molecular gas properties of AzTEC/C159, a star-forming disk galaxy at z = 4.567, in order to better constrain the nature of the high-redshift end of the submillimeter-selected galaxy (SMG) population. We secured 12CO molecular line det... Read More about Molecular gas in AzTEC/C159: a star-forming disk galaxy 1.3 Gyr after the Big Bang.

An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Number Counts of Submillimeter Galaxies (2018)
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Stach, S. M., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Simpson, J., Geach, J., An, F. X., …Werf, P. V. D. (2018). An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Number Counts of Submillimeter Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 860(2), Article 161. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac5e5

We report the first results of AS2UDS, an 870 μm continuum survey with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) of a total area of ~50 arcmin2 comprising a complete sample of 716 submillimeter sources drawn from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology L... Read More about An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Number Counts of Submillimeter Galaxies.

An ALMA survey of CO in submillimetre galaxies: companions, triggering, and the environment in blended sources (2018)
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Wardlow, J., Simpson, J., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Blain, A., Brandt, W., …van der Werf, P. (2018). An ALMA survey of CO in submillimetre galaxies: companions, triggering, and the environment in blended sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(3), 3879-3891. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1526

We present ALMA observations of the mid-J 12CO emission from six single-dish selected 870-μm sources in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South and UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey fields. These six single-dish submillimetre sources were selected based on prev... Read More about An ALMA survey of CO in submillimetre galaxies: companions, triggering, and the environment in blended sources.

Testing star formation laws in a starburst galaxy at redshift 3 resolved with ALMA (2018)
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Sharda, P., Federrath, C., da Cunha, E., Swinbank, A., & Dye, S. (2018). Testing star formation laws in a starburst galaxy at redshift 3 resolved with ALMA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4), 4380-4390. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty886

Using high-resolution (sub-kiloparsec scale) data obtained by ALMA, we analyse the star formation rate (SFR), gas content, and kinematics in SDP 81, a gravitationally lensed starburst galaxy at redshift 3. We estimate the SFR surface density (SFR) in... Read More about Testing star formation laws in a starburst galaxy at redshift 3 resolved with ALMA.