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The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the HUDF: CO Luminosity Functions and the Molecular Gas Content of Galaxies through Cosmic History (2019)
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Decarli, R., Walter, F., Gónzalez-López, J., Aravena, M., Boogaard, L., Carilli, C., Cox, P., Daddi, E., Popping, G., Riechers, D., Uzgil, B., Weiss, A., Assef, R. J., Bacon, R., Bauer, F. E., Bertoldi, F., Bouwens, R., Contini, T., Cortes, P. C., Cunha, E. D., …Wisotzki, L. (2019). The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the HUDF: CO Luminosity Functions and the Molecular Gas Content of Galaxies through Cosmic History. Astrophysical Journal, 882(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab30fe

We use the results from the ALMA large program ASPECS, the spectroscopic survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), to constrain CO luminosity functions of galaxies and the resulting redshift evolution of ρ(H2). The broad frequency range covered e... Read More about The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the HUDF: CO Luminosity Functions and the Molecular Gas Content of Galaxies through Cosmic History.

The East Asian Observatory SCUBA-2 Survey of the COSMOS Field: Unveiling 1147 Bright Sub-millimeter Sources across 2.6 Square Degrees (2019)
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Simpson, J., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Chapman, S., Chen, C.-C., Geach, J., Matsuda, Y., Wang, R., Wang, W.-H., Yang, Y., Ao, Y., Asquith, R., Bourne, N., Coogan, R., Coppin, K., Gullberg, B., Hine, N., Ho, L., Hwang, H., Ivison, R., …Wardlow, J. (2019). The East Asian Observatory SCUBA-2 Survey of the COSMOS Field: Unveiling 1147 Bright Sub-millimeter Sources across 2.6 Square Degrees. Astrophysical Journal, 880(1), Article 43. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab23ff

We present sensitive 850 μm imaging of the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field using 640 hr of new and archival observations taken with SCUBA-2 at the East Asian Observatory's James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. The SCUBA-2 COSMOS survey (S2COSMO... Read More about The East Asian Observatory SCUBA-2 Survey of the COSMOS Field: Unveiling 1147 Bright Sub-millimeter Sources across 2.6 Square Degrees.

Revealing the Stellar Mass and Dust Distributions of Submillimeter Galaxies at Redshift 2 (2019)
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Lang, P., Schinnerer, E., Smail, I., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Swinbank, A., Liu, D., Leslie, S., Almaini, O., An, F. X., Bertoldi, F., Blain, A., Chapman, S., Chen, C.-C., Conselice, C., Cooke, E., Coppin, K., Dunlop, J., Farrah, D., Fudamoto, Y., Geach, J., …Werf, P. V. D. (2019). Revealing the Stellar Mass and Dust Distributions of Submillimeter Galaxies at Redshift 2. Astrophysical Journal, 879(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1f77

We combine high-resolution ALMA and HST/CANDELS observations of 20 submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), predominantly from the AS2UDS survey at z sime 2, with bright rest-frame optical counterparts (${K}_{{\rm{s}}}\lesssim 22.9$) to investigate the resolve... Read More about Revealing the Stellar Mass and Dust Distributions of Submillimeter Galaxies at Redshift 2.

The nature of sub-millimeter and highly star-forming galaxies in the eagle simulation (2019)
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McAlpine, S., Smail, I., Bower, R. G., Swinbank, A., Trayford, J. W., Theuns, T., Baes, M., Camps, P., Crain, R. A., & Schaye, J. (2019). The nature of sub-millimeter and highly star-forming galaxies in the eagle simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(2), 2440-2454. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1692

We exploit eagle, a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, to reproduce the selection of the observed sub-millimeter (submm) galaxy population by selecting the model galaxies at z ≥ 1 with mock submm fluxes S850µm ≥ 1 mJy. We find a reasonable agree... Read More about The nature of sub-millimeter and highly star-forming galaxies in the eagle simulation.

The kiloparsec-scale gas kinematics in two star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.47 seen with ALMA and VLT-SINFONI (2019)
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Molina, J., Ibar, E., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Villard, E., Escala, A., Sobral, D., & Hughes, T. (2019). The kiloparsec-scale gas kinematics in two star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.47 seen with ALMA and VLT-SINFONI. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(4), 4856-4869. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1643

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) CO(J = 2 − 1) observations of two main-sequence star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.47 taken from the High-Z Emission Line Survey (HiZELS). These two systems have been previously reported to b... Read More about The kiloparsec-scale gas kinematics in two star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.47 seen with ALMA and VLT-SINFONI.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Source catalogue and properties (2019)
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Stach, S. M., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Geach, J., Simpson, J., An, F. X., Almaini, O., Arumugam, V., Blain, A., Chapman, S., Chen, C.-C., Conselice, C., Cooke, E., Coppin, K., da Cunha, E., Dunlop, J., Farrah, D., Gullberg, B., Hodge, J., …Werf, P. V. D. (2019). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Source catalogue and properties. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(4), 4648-4668. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1536

We present the catalogue and basic properties of sources in AS2UDS, an 870-μm continuum survey with the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA) of 716 single-dish sub-millimetre sources detected in the UKIDSS/UDS field by the SCUBA-2 Cos... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Source catalogue and properties.

ALMA Reveals Potential Evidence for Spiral Arms, Bars, and Rings in High-redshift Submillimeter Galaxies (2019)
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Hodge, J., Smail, I., Walter, F., Cunha, E. D., Swinbank, A., Rybak, M., Venemans, B., Brandt, W., Rivera, G. C., Chapman, S., Chen, C.-C., Cox, P., Dannerbauer, H., Decarli, R., Greve, T., Knudsen, K., Menten, K., Schinnerer, E., Simpson, J., Werf, P. V. D., …Weiss, A. (2019). ALMA Reveals Potential Evidence for Spiral Arms, Bars, and Rings in High-redshift Submillimeter Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 876(2), Article 130. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1846

We present subkiloparsec-scale mapping of the 870 μm ALMA continuum emission in six luminous (L IR ~ 5 × 1012 L ⊙) submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) from the ALESS survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South. Our high-fidelity 0farcs07-resolution ima... Read More about ALMA Reveals Potential Evidence for Spiral Arms, Bars, and Rings in High-redshift Submillimeter Galaxies.

The energetics of starburst-driven outflows at z ∼ 1 from KMOS (2019)
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Swinbank, A., Harrison, C., Tiley, A., Johnson, H., Smail, I., Stott, J., Best, P., Bower, R., Bureau, M., Bunker, A., Cirasuolo, M., Jarvis, M., Magdis, G., Sharples, R., & Sobral, D. (2019). The energetics of starburst-driven outflows at z ∼ 1 from KMOS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(1), 381-393. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1275

We present an analysis of the gas outflow energetics from KMOS observations of 529 main-sequence star-forming galaxies at z 1 using broad, underlying Hα and forbid- den lines of [Nii] and [Sii]. Based on the stacked spectra for a sample with median s... Read More about The energetics of starburst-driven outflows at z ∼ 1 from KMOS.

Strong Far-ultraviolet Fields Drive the [C ii]/Far-infrared Deficit in z ∼ 3 Dusty, Star-forming Galaxies (2019)
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Rybak, M., Rivera, G. C., Hodge, J., Smail, I., Walter, F., van der Werf, P., da Cunha, E., Chen, C.-C., Dannerbauer, H., Ivison, R., Karim, A., Simpson, J., Swinbank, A., & Wardlow, J. (2019). Strong Far-ultraviolet Fields Drive the [C ii]/Far-infrared Deficit in z ∼ 3 Dusty, Star-forming Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 876(2), Article 112. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e0f

We present 0farcs15 (1 kpc) resolution ALMA observations of the [C ii] 157.74 μm line and rest-frame 160 μm continuum emission in two z ~ 3 dusty, star-forming galaxies—ALESS 49.1 and ALESS 57.1, combined with resolved CO (3–2) observations. In both... Read More about Strong Far-ultraviolet Fields Drive the [C ii]/Far-infrared Deficit in z ∼ 3 Dusty, Star-forming Galaxies.

The submillimetre view of massive clusters at z ∼ 0.8–1.6 (2019)
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Cooke, E., Smail, I., Stach, S., Swinbank, A., Bower, R., Chen, C., …Thomson, A. (2019). The submillimetre view of massive clusters at z ∼ 0.8–1.6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(3), 3047-3058. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz955

We analyse 850 μm continuum observations of eight massive X-ray detected galaxy clusters at z ∼ 0.8–1.6 taken with SCUBA-2 on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. We find an average overdensity of 850 μm-selected sources of a factor of 4 ± 2 per cluste... Read More about The submillimetre view of massive clusters at z ∼ 0.8–1.6.