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Abell 1201: detection of an ultramassive black hole in a strong gravitational lens (2023)
Journal Article
Nightingale, J., Smith, R. J., He, Q., O’Riordan, C. M., Kegerreis, J. A., Amvrosiadis, A., …Massey, R. J. (2023). Abell 1201: detection of an ultramassive black hole in a strong gravitational lens. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(3), 3298-3322. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad587

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are a key catalyst of galaxy formation and evolution, leading to an observed correlation between SMBH mass MBH and host galaxy velocity dispersion σe. Outside the local Universe, measurements of MBH are usually only p... Read More about Abell 1201: detection of an ultramassive black hole in a strong gravitational lens.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey peculiar velocity catalogue (2022)
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Howlett, C., Said, K., Lucey, J. R., Colless, M., Qin, F., Lai, Y., …Davis, T. M. (2022). The Sloan Digital Sky Survey peculiar velocity catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1681

We present a new catalogue of distances and peculiar velocities (PVs) of 34 059 early-type galaxies derived from fundamental plane (FP) measurements using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This 7016deg2 homogeneous sample comprises the l... Read More about The Sloan Digital Sky Survey peculiar velocity catalogue.

SIBELIUS-DARK: a galaxy catalogue of the local volume from a constrained realization simulation (2022)
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McAlpine, S., Helly, J. C., Schaller, M., Sawala, T., Lavaux, G., Jasche, J., …Johansson, P. H. (2022). SIBELIUS-DARK: a galaxy catalogue of the local volume from a constrained realization simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(4), 5823-5847. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac295

We present SIBELIUS-DARK, a constrained realization simulation of the local volume to a distance of 200 Mpc from the Milky Way. SIBELIUS-DARK is the first study of the ‘Simulations Beyond The Local Universe’ (SIBELIUS) project, which has the goal of... Read More about SIBELIUS-DARK: a galaxy catalogue of the local volume from a constrained realization simulation.

Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for MASSIVE and Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies* (2021)
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Jensen, J. B., Blakeslee, J. P., Ma, C., Milne, P. A., Brown, P. J., Cantiello, M., …Wood, C. M. (2021). Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for MASSIVE and Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies*. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 255(2), Article 21. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac01e7

We measured high-quality surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) distances for a sample of 63 massive early-type galaxies using the WFC3/IR camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. The median uncertainty on the SBF distance measurements is 0.085 mag, or 3.... Read More about Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for MASSIVE and Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies*.

A systematic survey for z< 0.04 CLAGNs (2021)
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Senarath, M. R., Brown, M. J., Cluver, M. E., Jarrett, T. H., Wolf, C., Ross, N. P., …Hon, W. J. (2021). A systematic survey for z< 0.04 CLAGNs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503(2), 2583-2597. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab393

We have conducted a systematic survey for z < 0.04 active Galactic nuclei (AGNs) that may have changed spectral class over the past decade. We use SkyMapper, Pan-STARRS and the Véron-Cetty & Véron catalogue to search the entire sky for these ‘changin... Read More about A systematic survey for z< 0.04 CLAGNs.

Characterizing the target selection pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Bright Galaxy Survey (2021)
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Ruiz-Macias, O., Zarrouk, P., Cole, S., Baugh, C. M., Norberg, P., Lucey, J., …Wilson, M. (2021). Characterizing the target selection pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Bright Galaxy Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(3), 4328-4349. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab292

We present the steps taken to produce a reliable and complete input galaxy catalogue for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) using the photometric Legacy Survey DR8 DECam. We analyse some of the main issues face... Read More about Characterizing the target selection pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Bright Galaxy Survey.

TDCOSMO: II. Six new time delays in lensed quasars from high-cadence monitoring at the MPIA 2.2 m telescope (2020)
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Millon, M., Courbin, F., Bonvin, V., Buckley-Geer, E., Fassnacht, C., Frieman, J., …Rabus, M. (2020). TDCOSMO: II. Six new time delays in lensed quasars from high-cadence monitoring at the MPIA 2.2 m telescope. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 642, Article A193. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038698

We present six new time-delay measurements obtained from Rc-band monitoring data acquired at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPIA) 2.2 m telescope at La Silla observatory between October 2016 and February 2020. The lensed quasars HE 0047−1... Read More about TDCOSMO: II. Six new time delays in lensed quasars from high-cadence monitoring at the MPIA 2.2 m telescope.

Joint analysis of 6dFGS and SDSS peculiar velocities for the growth rate of cosmic structure and tests of gravity (2020)
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Said, K., Colless, M., Magoulas, C., Lucey, J. R., & Hudson, M. J. (2020). Joint analysis of 6dFGS and SDSS peculiar velocities for the growth rate of cosmic structure and tests of gravity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497(1), 1275-1293. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2032

Measurement of peculiar velocities by combining redshifts and distance indicators is a powerful way to measure the growth rate of a cosmic structure and test theories of gravity at low redshift. Here we constrain the growth rate of the structure by c... Read More about Joint analysis of 6dFGS and SDSS peculiar velocities for the growth rate of cosmic structure and tests of gravity.

MNELLS: The MUSE Nearby Early-Type Galaxy Lens Locator Survey (2020)
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Lucey, J. R., Smith, R. J., & Collier, W. P. (2020). MNELLS: The MUSE Nearby Early-Type Galaxy Lens Locator Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(1), 271-292. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa602

Low-redshift strong-lensing galaxies can provide robust measurements of the stellar mass-to-light ratios in early-type galaxies (ETGs), and hence constrain variations in the stellar initial mass function (IMF). At present, only a few such systems are... Read More about MNELLS: The MUSE Nearby Early-Type Galaxy Lens Locator Survey.

Subaru FOCAS IFU observations of two z=0.12 strong-lensing elliptical galaxies from SDSS MaNGA (2020)
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Smith, R. J., Collier, W. P., Ozaki, S., & Lucey, J. R. (2020). Subaru FOCAS IFU observations of two z=0.12 strong-lensing elliptical galaxies from SDSS MaNGA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 493(1), L33-L38. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slaa003

We present new observations of two z = 0.12 strong-lensing elliptical galaxies, originally discovered from the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey, using the new FOCAS IFU spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope. For J1436+4943, our observations confirm the identifica... Read More about Subaru FOCAS IFU observations of two z=0.12 strong-lensing elliptical galaxies from SDSS MaNGA.