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The most massive black holes on the Fundamental Plane of black hole accretion (2017)
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Mezcua, M., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., Lucey, J., Hogan, M., Edge, A., & McNamara, B. (2018). The most massive black holes on the Fundamental Plane of black hole accretion. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(1), 1342-1360. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2812

We perform a detailed study of the location of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) on the Fundamental Plane of black hole (BH) accretion, which is an empirical correlation between a BH X-ray and radio luminosity and mass supported by theoretical models... Read More about The most massive black holes on the Fundamental Plane of black hole accretion.

The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy (2017)
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da Cunha, E., Hopkins, A. M., Colless, M., Taylor, E. N., Blake, C., Howlett, C., …Watson, F. (2017). The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 34, Article e047. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2017.41

The Taipan galaxy survey (hereafter simply ‘Taipan’) is a multi-object spectroscopic survey starting in 2017 that will cover 2π steradians over the southern sky (δ ≲ 10°, |b| ≳ 10°), and obtain optical spectra for about two million galaxies out to z... Read More about The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy.

Improved mass constraints for two nearby strong-lensing elliptical galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging (2017)
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Collier, W. P., Smith, R. J., & Lucey, J. R. (2017). Improved mass constraints for two nearby strong-lensing elliptical galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 1103-1107. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2297

We analyse newly obtained Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging for two nearby strong lensing elliptical galaxies, SNL-1 (z = 0.03) and SNL-2 (z = 0.05), in order to improve the lensing mass constraints. The imaging reveals previously unseen structure... Read More about Improved mass constraints for two nearby strong-lensing elliptical galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging.

Stellar dynamics in the strong-lensing central galaxy of Abell 1201: a low stellar mass-to-light ratio, a large central compact mass and a standard dark matter halo (2017)
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Smith, R. J., Lucey, J. R., & Edge, A. C. (2017). Stellar dynamics in the strong-lensing central galaxy of Abell 1201: a low stellar mass-to-light ratio, a large central compact mass and a standard dark matter halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(1), 383-393. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1573

We analyse the stellar kinematics of the z = 0.169 brightest cluster galaxy in Abell 1201, using integral field observations acquired with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer on the Very Large Telescope. This galaxy has a gravitationally lensed arc... Read More about Stellar dynamics in the strong-lensing central galaxy of Abell 1201: a low stellar mass-to-light ratio, a large central compact mass and a standard dark matter halo.

KINETyS: Constraining spatial variations of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies (2017)
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Alton, P. D., Smith, R. J., & Lucey, J. R. (2017). KINETyS: Constraining spatial variations of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(2), 1594-1615. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx464

The heavyweight stellar initial mass function (IMF) observed in the cores of massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) has been linked to formation of their cores in an initial swiftly quenched rapid starburst. However, the outskirts of ETGs are thought to... Read More about KINETyS: Constraining spatial variations of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies.

A counter-image to the gravitational arc in Abell 1201: Evidence for IMF variations, or a 10^10 M⊙ black hole? (2017)
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Smith, R. J., Lucey, J. R., & Edge, A. C. (2017). A counter-image to the gravitational arc in Abell 1201: Evidence for IMF variations, or a 10^10 M⊙ black hole?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467(1), 836-848. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx059

Abell 1201 is a massive galaxy cluster at z=0.169 with a brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) that acts as a gravitational lens to a background source at z=0.451. The lensing configuration is unusual, with a single bright arc formed at small radius (∼2 arc... Read More about A counter-image to the gravitational arc in Abell 1201: Evidence for IMF variations, or a 10^10 M⊙ black hole?.