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An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman break Galaxies (2020)
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Koprowski, M., Coppin, K., E. Geach, J., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Smail, I., Almaini, O., An, F., Blain, A., Chapman, S., Chen, C.-C., Conselice, C., Dunlop, J., Farrah, D., Gullberg, B., Hartley, W., Ivison, R., Karska, A., Maltby, D., MaÅek, K., Michałowski, M., …Whitaker, K. (2020). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman break Galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 4927-4944. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa160

We analyse 870μm Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) dust continuum detections of 41 canonically-selected z ≃ 3 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs), as well as 209 ALMA-undetected LBGs, in follow-up of SCUBA-2 mapping of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS)... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman break Galaxies.

VIS3COS (2020)
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Paulino-Afonso, A., Sobral, D., Darvish, B., Ribeiro, B., Smail, I., Best, P., Stroe, A., & Cairns, J. (2020). VIS3COS. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 633, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834244

We present spectroscopic observations of 466 galaxies in and around a superstructure at z ∼ 0.84 targeted by the VIMOS Spectroscopic Survey of a Supercluster in the COSMOS field (VIS3COS). We use [OII]λ3727, Hδ, and Dn4000 to trace recent, medium-, a... Read More about VIS3COS.

From peculiar morphologies to Hubble-type spirals: the relation between galaxy dynamics and morphology in star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.5 (2019)
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Gillman, S., Tiley, A., Swinbank, A., Harrison, C., Smail, I., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Sharples, R., Cortese, L., Obreschkow, D., Bower, R., Theuns, T., Cirasuolo, M., Fisher, D., Glazebrook, K., Ibar, E., Mendel, J., & Sweet, S. (2020). From peculiar morphologies to Hubble-type spirals: the relation between galaxy dynamics and morphology in star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(1), 1492-1512. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3576

We present an analysis of the gas dynamics of star–forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.5 using data from the KMOS Galaxy Evolution Survey (KGES). We quantify the morphology of the galaxies using HSTCANDELS imaging parametrically and non-parametrically. We comb... Read More about From peculiar morphologies to Hubble-type spirals: the relation between galaxy dynamics and morphology in star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.5.

Multi-wavelength Properties of Radio- and Machine-learning-identified Counterparts to Submillimeter Sources in S2COSMOS (2019)
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Xia An, F., Simpson, J., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Ma, C., Liu, D., Lang, P., Schinnerer, E., Karim, A., Magnelli, B., Leslie, S., Bertoldi, F., Chen, C.-C., Geach, J., Matsuda, Y., Stach, S., Wardlow, J., Gullberg, B., Ivison, R., Ao, Y., …Smith, D. (2019). Multi-wavelength Properties of Radio- and Machine-learning-identified Counterparts to Submillimeter Sources in S2COSMOS. Astrophysical Journal, 886(1), Article 48. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4d53

We identify multi-wavelength counterparts to 1147 submillimeter sources from the S2COSMOS SCUBA-2 survey of the COSMOS field by employing a recently developed radio+machine-learning method trained on a large sample of Atacama Large Millimeter/submill... Read More about Multi-wavelength Properties of Radio- and Machine-learning-identified Counterparts to Submillimeter Sources in S2COSMOS.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: High-resolution dust continuum morphologies and the link between sub-millimetre galaxies and spheroid formation (2019)
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Gullberg, B., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Stach, S., Thomson, A., Almaini, O., Chen, C., Conselice, C., Cooke, E., Farrah, D., Ivison, R., Maltby, D., Michałowski, M., Simpson, J., Scott, D., Wardlow, J., & Weiss, A. (2019). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: High-resolution dust continuum morphologies and the link between sub-millimetre galaxies and spheroid formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(4), 4956-4974. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2835

We present an analysis of the morphology and profiles of the dust continuum emission in 153 bright sub-millimetre galaxies (SMGs) detected with ALMA at signal to noise ratios of >8 in high-resolution 0′′.18 (∼1 kpc) 870 μm maps. We measure sizes, sha... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: High-resolution dust continuum morphologies and the link between sub-millimetre galaxies and spheroid formation.

The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). II. Survey design and the gaseous properties of galaxy groups at 0.5 < z < 1.5 (2019)
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Fossati, M., Fumagalli, M., Lofthouse, E., D’Odorico, V., Lusso, E., Cantalupo, S., Cooke, R., Cristiani, S., Haardt, F., Morris, S., Peroux, C., Prichard, L., Rafelski, M., Smail, I., & Theuns, T. (2019). The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). II. Survey design and the gaseous properties of galaxy groups at 0.5 < z < 1.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(1), 1451-1469. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2693

We present the goals, design, and first results of the MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF) survey, a large programme using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument at the ESO Very Large Telescope. The MUDF survey is collecting ≈150 h on-sourc... Read More about The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). II. Survey design and the gaseous properties of galaxy groups at 0.5 < z < 1.5.

Gas filaments of the cosmic web located around active galaxies in a protocluster (2019)
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Umehata, H., Fumagalli, M., Smail, I., Matsuda, Y., Swinbank, A., Cantalupo, S., Sykes, C., Ivison, R., Steidel, C., Shapley, A., Vernet, J., Yamada, T., Tamura, Y., Kubo, M., Nakanishi, K., Kajisawa, M., Hatsukade, B., & Kohno, K. (2019). Gas filaments of the cosmic web located around active galaxies in a protocluster. Science, 366(6461), 97-100. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw5949

Cosmological simulations predict the Universe contains a network of intergalactic gas filaments, within which galaxies form and evolve. However, the faintness of any emission from these filaments has limited tests of this prediction. We report the de... Read More about Gas filaments of the cosmic web located around active galaxies in a protocluster.

Radio Spectra and Sizes of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array-identified Submillimeter Galaxies: Evidence of Age-related Spectral Curvature and Cosmic-Ray Diffusion? (2019)
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Thomson, A., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Simpson, J., Arumugam, V., Stach, S., Murphy, E., Rujopakarn, W., Almaini, O., An, F., Blain, A., Chen, C., Cooke, E., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Edge, A., Farrah, D., Gullberg, B., Hartley, W., Ibar, E., Maltby, D., …Wardlow, J. (2019). Radio Spectra and Sizes of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array-identified Submillimeter Galaxies: Evidence of Age-related Spectral Curvature and Cosmic-Ray Diffusion?. Astrophysical Journal, 883(2), Article 204. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab32e7

We analyze the multifrequency radio spectral properties of 41 6 GHz-detected Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)-identified, submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), observed at 610 MHz, 1.4 GHz, and 6 GHz with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telesco... Read More about Radio Spectra and Sizes of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array-identified Submillimeter Galaxies: Evidence of Age-related Spectral Curvature and Cosmic-Ray Diffusion?.

SILVERRUSH. VIII. Spectroscopic Identifications of Early Large-scale Structures with Protoclusters over 200 Mpc at z ∼ 6–7: Strong Associations of Dusty Star-forming Galaxies (2019)
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Harikane, Y., Ouchi, M., Ono, Y., Fujimoto, S., Donevski, D., Shibuya, T., Faisst, A. L., Goto, T., Hatsukade, B., Kashikawa, N., Kohno, K., Hashimoto, T., Higuchi, R., Inoue, A. K., Lin, Y.-T., Martin, C. L., Overzier, R., Smail, I., Toshikawa, J., Umehata, H., …Wang, W.-H. (2019). SILVERRUSH. VIII. Spectroscopic Identifications of Early Large-scale Structures with Protoclusters over 200 Mpc at z ∼ 6–7: Strong Associations of Dusty Star-forming Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 883(2), Article 142. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2cd5

We have obtained three-dimensional maps of the universe in ~200 × 200 × 80 comoving Mpc3 (cMpc3) volumes each at z = 5.7 and 6.6 based on a spectroscopic sample of 179 galaxies that achieves gsim80% completeness down to the Lyα luminosity of $\mathrm... Read More about SILVERRUSH. VIII. Spectroscopic Identifications of Early Large-scale Structures with Protoclusters over 200 Mpc at z ∼ 6–7: Strong Associations of Dusty Star-forming Galaxies.

ALMACAL VI: Molecular gas mass density across cosmic time via a blind search for intervening molecular absorbers (2019)
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Klitsch, A., Péroux, C., Zwaan, M. A., Smail, I., Nelson, D., Popping, G., Chen, C.-C., Diemer, B., Ivison, R., Allison, J. R., Muller, S., Swinbank, A. M., Hamanowicz, A., Biggs, A. D., & Dutta, R. (2019). ALMACAL VI: Molecular gas mass density across cosmic time via a blind search for intervening molecular absorbers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(1), 1220-1230. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2660

We are just starting to understand the physical processes driving the dramatic change in cosmic star-formation rate between z ∼ 2 and the present day. A quantity directly linked to star formation is the molecular gas density, which should be measured... Read More about ALMACAL VI: Molecular gas mass density across cosmic time via a blind search for intervening molecular absorbers.