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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., Chapman, S., Chen, C.-C., Cooke, E., Dannerbauer, H., Gullberg, B., Hodge, J., Ivison, R., Knudsen, K., Scott, D., Thomson, A., Weiß, A., & 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.

The Dust and [C ii] Morphologies of Redshift ∼4.5 Sub-millimeter Galaxies at ∼200 pc Resolution: The Absence of Large Clumps in the Interstellar Medium at High-redshift (2018)
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Gullberg, B., Swinbank, A., Smail, I., Biggs, A., Bertoldi, F., Breuck, C. D., …Weiss, A. (2018). The Dust and [C ii] Morphologies of Redshift ∼4.5 Sub-millimeter Galaxies at ∼200 pc Resolution: The Absence of Large Clumps in the Interstellar Medium at High-redshift. Astrophysical Journal, 859(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aabe8c

We present deep, high-resolution (0 03, 200 pc) ALMA Band 7 observations covering the dust continuum and [C II] λ157.7 μm emission in four z ∼ 4.4–4.8 sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) selected from the ALESS and AS2UDS surveys. The data show that the r... Read More about The Dust and [C ii] Morphologies of Redshift ∼4.5 Sub-millimeter Galaxies at ∼200 pc Resolution: The Absence of Large Clumps in the Interstellar Medium at High-redshift.

The XMM-SERVS survey: new XMM-Newton point-source catalogue for the XMM-LSS field (2018)
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Chen, C.-T., Brandt, W., Luo, B., Ranalli, P., Yang, G., Alexander, D., Bauer, F., Kelson, D., Lacy, M., Nyland, K., Tozzi, P., Vito, F., Cirasuolo, M., Gilli, R., Jarvis, M., Lehmer, B., Paolillo, M., Schneider, D., Shemmer, O., Smail, I., …Trump, J. (2018). The XMM-SERVS survey: new XMM-Newton point-source catalogue for the XMM-LSS field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478, 2132-2163. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1036

We present an X-ray point-source catalogue from the XMM-Large Scale Structure (XMM-LSS) survey region, one of the XMM-Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (XMM-SERVS) fields. We target the XMM-LSS region with 1.3 Ms of new XMM–Newton AO... Read More about The XMM-SERVS survey: new XMM-Newton point-source catalogue for the XMM-LSS field.

The clustering of H $\beta$ + [O III] and [O II] emitters since z \tilde 5: dependencies with line luminosity and stellar mass (2018)
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Khostovan, A., Sobral, D., Mobasher, B., Best, P., Smail, I., Matthee, J., Darvish, B., Nayyeri, H., Hemmati, S., & Stott, J. (2018). The clustering of H $\beta$ + [O III] and [O II] emitters since z \tilde 5: dependencies with line luminosity and stellar mass. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(3), 2999-3015. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty925

We investigate the clustering properties of ∼7000 H β + [O III] and [O II] narrowband-selected emitters at z ∼ 0.8–4.7 from the High-z Emission Line Survey. We find clustering lengths, r0, of 1.5–4.0 h−1 Mpc and minimum dark matter halo masses of 101... Read More about The clustering of H $\beta$ + [O III] and [O II] emitters since z \tilde 5: dependencies with line luminosity and stellar mass.

The nature of luminous Ly α emitters at z ∼ 2–3: maximal dust-poor starbursts and highly ionizing AGN (2018)
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Sobral, D., Matthee, J., Darvish, B., Smail, I., Best, P. N., Alegre, L., Röttgering, H., Mobasher, B., Paulino-Afonso, A., Stroe, A., & Oteo, I. (2018). The nature of luminous Ly α emitters at z ∼ 2–3: maximal dust-poor starbursts and highly ionizing AGN. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(2), 2817-2840. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty782

Deep narrow-band surveys have revealed a large population of faint Ly α emitters (LAEs) in the distant Universe, but relatively little is known about the most luminous sources ( LLyα≳1042.7  erg s−1; LLyα≳L∗Lyα ). Here we present the spectroscopic fo... Read More about The nature of luminous Ly α emitters at z ∼ 2–3: maximal dust-poor starbursts and highly ionizing AGN.

High-resolution SMA imaging of bright submillimetre sources from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (2018)
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Hill, R., Chapman, S. C., Scott, D., Petitpas, G., Smail, I., Chapin, E. L., Gurwell, M. A., Perry, R., Blain, A. W., Bremer, M. N., Chen, C.-C., Dunlop, J. S., Farrah, D., Fazio, G. G., Geach, J. E., Howson, P., Ivison, R., Lacaille, K., Michałowski, M. J., Simpson, J. M., …Wilner, D. J. (2018). High-resolution SMA imaging of bright submillimetre sources from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(2), 2042-2067. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty746

We have used the Submillimeter Array (SMA) at 860 µm to observe the brightest sources in the Submillimeter Common User Bolometer Array-2 (SCUBA-2) Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS). The goal of this survey is to exploit the large field of the S2CLS alo... Read More about High-resolution SMA imaging of bright submillimetre sources from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey.

The dependence of galaxy clustering on stellar mass, star-formation rate and redshift at z = 0.8–2.2, with HiZELS (2018)
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Cochrane, R., Best, P., Sobral, D., Smail, I., Geach, J., Stott, J., & Wake, D. (2018). The dependence of galaxy clustering on stellar mass, star-formation rate and redshift at z = 0.8–2.2, with HiZELS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(3), 3730-3745. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3345

The deep, near-infrared narrow-band survey HiZELS has yielded robust samples of H α-emitting star-forming galaxies within narrow redshift slices at z = 0.8,  1.47 and 2.23. In this paper, we distinguish the stellar mass and star-formation rate (SFR)... Read More about The dependence of galaxy clustering on stellar mass, star-formation rate and redshift at z = 0.8–2.2, with HiZELS.

Molecular gas in the Herschel-selected strongly lensed submillimeter galaxies at z ~ 2–4 as probed by multi-J CO lines (2017)
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Yang, C., Omont, A., Beelen, A., Gao, Y., van der Werf, P., Gavazzi, R., …Smail, I. (2017). Molecular gas in the Herschel-selected strongly lensed submillimeter galaxies at z ~ 2–4 as probed by multi-J CO lines. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 608, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731391

We present the IRAM-30 m observations of multiple-J CO (Jup mostly from 3 up to 8) and [C I](3P2 → 3P1) ([C I](2–1) hereafter) line emission in a sample of redshift ~2–4 submillimeter galaxies (SMGs). These SMGs are selected among the brightest-lense... Read More about Molecular gas in the Herschel-selected strongly lensed submillimeter galaxies at z ~ 2–4 as probed by multi-J CO lines.

ALMACAL – III. A combined ALMA and MUSE survey for neutral, molecular, and ionized gas in an H i-absorption-selected system (2017)
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Klitsch, A., Péroux, C., Zwaan, M., Smail, I., Oteo, I., Biggs, A., …Swinbank, A. (2018). ALMACAL – III. A combined ALMA and MUSE survey for neutral, molecular, and ionized gas in an H i-absorption-selected system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(1), 492-507. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3184

Studying the flow of baryons into and out of galaxies is an important part of understanding the evolution of galaxies over time. We present a detailed case study of the environment around an intervening Ly α absorption line system at zabs = 0.633, se... Read More about ALMACAL – III. A combined ALMA and MUSE survey for neutral, molecular, and ionized gas in an H i-absorption-selected system.

The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): the origin of disc turbulence in z ≈ 1 star-forming galaxies (2017)
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Johnson, H., Harrison, C., Swinbank, A., Tiley, A., Stott, J., Bower, R., …Richards, S. (2018). The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): the origin of disc turbulence in z ≈ 1 star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(4), 5076-5104. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3016

We analyse the velocity dispersion properties of 472 z ∼ 0.9 star-forming galaxies observed as part of the KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS). The majority of this sample is rotationally dominated (83 ± 5 per cent with vC/σ0 > 1) but also... Read More about The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): the origin of disc turbulence in z ≈ 1 star-forming galaxies.