All Outputs (29)

The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs (2016)
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Luo, B., Brandt, W., Xue, Y., Lehmer, B., Alexander, D., Bauer, F., …Wang, J. (2017). The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 228(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/228/1/2

We present X-ray source catalogs for the ≈7 Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S), which covers a total area of 484.2 arcmin2. Utilizing wavdetect for initial source detection and ACIS Extract for photometric extraction and significance... Read More about The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs.

Kiloparsec-scale Dust Disks in High-redshift Luminous Submillimeter Galaxies (2016)
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Hodge, J., Swinbank, A., Simpson, J., Smail, I., Walter, F., Alexander, D., …van der Werf, P. (2016). Kiloparsec-scale Dust Disks in High-redshift Luminous Submillimeter Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 103. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/103

We present high-resolution (0farcs16) 870 μm Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaging of 16 luminous (${L}_{\mathrm{IR}}\sim 4\times {10}^{12}\,{L}_{\odot }$) submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) from the ALESS survey of the Extended Chan... Read More about Kiloparsec-scale Dust Disks in High-redshift Luminous Submillimeter Galaxies.

ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: CO Luminosity Functions and the Evolution of the Cosmic Density of Molecular Gas (2016)
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Decarli, R., Walter, F., Aravena, M., Carilli, C., Bouwens, R., da Cunha, E., …Wagg, J. (2016). ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: CO Luminosity Functions and the Evolution of the Cosmic Density of Molecular Gas. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/69

In this paper we use ASPECS, the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field in band 3 and band 6, to place blind constraints on the CO luminosity function and the evolution of the cosmic molecular gas density as a function of redshift u... Read More about ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: CO Luminosity Functions and the Evolution of the Cosmic Density of Molecular Gas.

ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Survey Description (2016)
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Walter, F., Decarli, R., Aravena, M., Carilli, C., Bouwens, R., da Cunha, E., …Wagg, J. (2016). ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Survey Description. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 67. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/67

We present the rationale for and the observational description of ASPECS: The ALMA SPECtroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (UDF), the cosmological deep field that has the deepest multi-wavelength data available. Our overarching goal is to... Read More about ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Survey Description.

The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Search for [CII] Line and Dust Emission in 6 < z < 8 Galaxies (2016)
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Aravena, M., Decarli, R., Walter, F., Bouwens, R., Oesch, P., Carilli, C., …Fudamoto, Y. (2016). The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Search for [CII] Line and Dust Emission in 6 < z < 8 Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 71. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/71

We present a search for [C ii] line and dust continuum emission from optical dropout galaxies at z > 6 using ASPECS, our Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra-deep Field (UDF). Our observations, which c... Read More about The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Search for [CII] Line and Dust Emission in 6 < z < 8 Galaxies.

The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Continuum Number Counts, Resolved 1.2 mm Extragalactic Background, and Properties of the Faintest Dusty Star-forming Galaxies (2016)
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Aravena, M., Decarli, R., Walter, F., Da Cunha, E., Bauer, F., Carilli, C., …Wagg, J. (2016). The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Continuum Number Counts, Resolved 1.2 mm Extragalactic Background, and Properties of the Faintest Dusty Star-forming Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 68. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/68

We present an analysis of a deep (1σ = 13 μJy) cosmological 1.2 mm continuum map based on ASPECS, the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. In the 1 arcmin2 covered by ASPECS we detect nine sources at \gt 3.5σ significance at 1.2... Read More about The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Continuum Number Counts, Resolved 1.2 mm Extragalactic Background, and Properties of the Faintest Dusty Star-forming Galaxies.

ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: The Infrared Excess of UV-Selected z = 2-10 Galaxies as a Function of UV-Continuum Slope and Stellar Mass (2016)
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Bouwens, R., Aravena, M., Decarli, R., Walter, F., da Cunha, E., Labbé, I., …Wilkins, S. (2016). ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: The Infrared Excess of UV-Selected z = 2-10 Galaxies as a Function of UV-Continuum Slope and Stellar Mass. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/72

We make use of deep 1.2 mm continuum observations (12.7 μJy beam-1 rms) of a 1 arcmin2 region in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field to probe dust-enshrouded star formation from 330 Lyman-break galaxies spanning the redshift range z = 2-10 (to ˜2-3 M ⊙ yr-1... Read More about ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: The Infrared Excess of UV-Selected z = 2-10 Galaxies as a Function of UV-Continuum Slope and Stellar Mass.

The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Molecular Gas Reservoirs in High-redshift Galaxies (2016)
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Decarli, R., Walter, F., Aravena, M., Carilli, C., Bouwens, R., da Cunha, E., …van der Werf, P. (2016). The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Molecular Gas Reservoirs in High-redshift Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 70. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/70

We study the molecular gas properties of high-z galaxies observed in the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey (ASPECS) that targets an ˜1 arcmin2 region in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF), a blind survey of CO emission (tracing molecular gas) in the 3 and 1 m... Read More about The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Molecular Gas Reservoirs in High-redshift Galaxies.

SINFONI-HiZELS: the dynamics, merger rates and metallicity gradients of `typical' star-forming galaxies at z = 0.8-2.2 (2016)
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Molina, J., Ibar, E., Swinbank, A., Sobral, D., Best, P., Smail, I., …Cirasuolo, M. (2017). SINFONI-HiZELS: the dynamics, merger rates and metallicity gradients of `typical' star-forming galaxies at z = 0.8-2.2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466(1), 892-905. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3120

We present adaptive optics (AO) assisted SINFONI integral field unit (IFU) spectroscopy of 11 Hα emitting galaxies selected from the High-Z Emission Line Survey (HiZELS). We obtain spatially resolved dynamics on ∼kpc-scales of star-forming galaxies [... Read More about SINFONI-HiZELS: the dynamics, merger rates and metallicity gradients of `typical' star-forming galaxies at z = 0.8-2.2.

The CALYMHA survey: Lyα luminosity function and global escape fraction of Lyα photons at z = 2.23 (2016)
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Sobral, D., Matthee, J., Best, P., Stroe, A., Röttgering, H., Oteo, I., …Paulino-Afonso, A. (2017). The CALYMHA survey: Lyα luminosity function and global escape fraction of Lyα photons at z = 2.23. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466(1), 1242-1258. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3090

We present the CAlibrating LYMan-α with Hα (CALYMHA) pilot survey and new results on Lyman α (Lyα) selected galaxies at z ∼ 2. We use a custom-built Lyα narrow-band filter at the Isaac Newton Telescope, designed to provide a matched volume coverage t... Read More about The CALYMHA survey: Lyα luminosity function and global escape fraction of Lyα photons at z = 2.23.

The Space Density of Luminous Dusty Star-forming Galaxies at z > 4: SCUBA-2 and LABOCA Imaging of Ultrared Galaxies from Herschel-ATLAS (2016)
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Ivison, R., Lewis, A., Weiss, A., Arumugam, V., Simpson, J., Holland, W., …Wardlow, J. (2016). The Space Density of Luminous Dusty Star-forming Galaxies at z > 4: SCUBA-2 and LABOCA Imaging of Ultrared Galaxies from Herschel-ATLAS. Astrophysical Journal, 832(1), Article 78. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/832/1/78

Until recently, only a handful of dusty, star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) were known at z > 4, most of them significantly amplified by gravitational lensing. Here, we have increased the number of such DSFGs substantially, selecting galaxies from the uni... Read More about The Space Density of Luminous Dusty Star-forming Galaxies at z > 4: SCUBA-2 and LABOCA Imaging of Ultrared Galaxies from Herschel-ATLAS.

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: 850 μm maps, catalogues and number counts (2016)
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Geach, J., Dunlop, J., Halpern, M., Smail, I., van der Werf, P., Alexander, D., …Zemcov, M. (2017). The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: 850 μm maps, catalogues and number counts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(2), 1789-1806. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2721

We present a catalogue of ∼3000 submillimetre sources detected (≥3.5σ) at 850 μm over ∼5 deg2 surveyed as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS). This is the largest survey of its kind at 850 μm, incr... Read More about The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: 850 μm maps, catalogues and number counts.

Faint Submillimeter Galaxies Identified through Their Optical/Near-infrared Colors. I. Spatial Clustering and Halo Masses (2016)
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Chen, C., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Simpson, J., Almaini, O., Conselice, C., …Wilkinson, A. (2016). Faint Submillimeter Galaxies Identified through Their Optical/Near-infrared Colors. I. Spatial Clustering and Halo Masses. Astrophysical Journal, 831(1), Article 91. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/831/1/91

The properties of submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) that are fainter than the confusion limit of blank-field single-dish surveys (S850≲ 2 mJy) are poorly constrained. Using a newly developed color selection technique, Optical-Infrared Triple Color (OIRTC... Read More about Faint Submillimeter Galaxies Identified through Their Optical/Near-infrared Colors. I. Spatial Clustering and Halo Masses.

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: the clustering of submillimetre galaxies in the UKIDSS UDS field (2016)
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Wilkinson, A., Almaini, O., Chen, C., Smail, I., Arumugam, V., Blain, A., …Wild, V. (2017). The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: the clustering of submillimetre galaxies in the UKIDSS UDS field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(2), 1380-1392. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2405

Submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) are among the most luminous dusty galaxies in the Universe, but their true nature remains unclear; are SMGs the progenitors of the massive elliptical galaxies we see in the local Universe, or are they just a short-lived... Read More about The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: the clustering of submillimetre galaxies in the UKIDSS UDS field.

The growth of typical star-forming galaxies and their supermassive black holes across cosmic time since z~2 (2016)
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Calhau, J., Sobral, D., Stroe, A., Best, P., Smail, I., Lehmer, B., …Thomson, A. (2017). The growth of typical star-forming galaxies and their supermassive black holes across cosmic time since z~2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(1), 303-311. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2295

Understanding galaxy formation and evolution requires studying the interplay between the growth of galaxies and the growth of their black holes across cosmic time. Here, we explore a sample of Hα-selected star-forming galaxies from the High Redshift... Read More about The growth of typical star-forming galaxies and their supermassive black holes across cosmic time since z~2.

The nature of Hβ+[O III] and [O II] emitters to z ∼ 5 with HiZELS: stellar mass functions and the evolution of EWs (2016)
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Khostovan, A., Sobral, D., Mobasher, B., Smail, I., Darvish, B., Nayyeri, H., …Stott, J. (2016). The nature of Hβ+[O III] and [O II] emitters to z ∼ 5 with HiZELS: stellar mass functions and the evolution of EWs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463(3), 2363-2382. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2174

We investigate the properties of ∼7000 narrow-band selected galaxies with strong Hβ+[O III] and [O II] nebular emission lines from the High-z Emission-Line Survey between z ∼ 0.8 and 5.0. Our sample covers a wide range in stellar mass (Mstellar ∼ 107... Read More about The nature of Hβ+[O III] and [O II] emitters to z ∼ 5 with HiZELS: stellar mass functions and the evolution of EWs.

Witnessing the Birth of the Red Sequence: ALMA High-resolution Imaging of [C II] and Dust in Two Interacting Ultra-red Starbursts at z = 4.425 (2016)
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Oteo, I., Ivison, R., Dunne, L., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Zhang, Z., …van Kampen, E. (2016). Witnessing the Birth of the Red Sequence: ALMA High-resolution Imaging of [C II] and Dust in Two Interacting Ultra-red Starbursts at z = 4.425. Astrophysical Journal, 827(1), Article 34. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/827/1/34

Exploiting the sensitivity and spatial resolution of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, we have studied the morphology and the physical scale of the interstellar medium—both gas and dust—in SGP 38326, an unlensed pair of interacting st... Read More about Witnessing the Birth of the Red Sequence: ALMA High-resolution Imaging of [C II] and Dust in Two Interacting Ultra-red Starbursts at z = 4.425.

[O III] emission line as a tracer of star-forming galaxies at high redshifts: comparison between Hα and [O III] emitters at z=2.23 in HiZELS (2016)
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Suzuki, T., Kodama, T., Sobral, D., Khostovan, A., Hayashi, M., Shimakawa, R., …Best, P. (2016). [O III] emission line as a tracer of star-forming galaxies at high redshifts: comparison between Hα and [O III] emitters at z=2.23 in HiZELS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(1), 181-189. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1655

We investigate the properties of z = 2.23 Hα and [O III] λ5007 emitters using the narrow-band-selected samples obtained from the High-z Emission Line Survey. We construct two samples of the Hα and [O III] emitters and compare their integrated physica... Read More about [O III] emission line as a tracer of star-forming galaxies at high redshifts: comparison between Hα and [O III] emitters at z=2.23 in HiZELS.

ALMA observations of a z ≈ 3.1 protocluster: star formation from active galactic nuclei and Lyman-alpha blobs in an overdense environment (2016)
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Alexander, D., Simpson, J., Harrison, C., Mullaney, J., Smail, I., Geach, J., …Yamada, T. (2016). ALMA observations of a z ≈ 3.1 protocluster: star formation from active galactic nuclei and Lyman-alpha blobs in an overdense environment. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(3), 2944-2952. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1509

We exploit Atacama Large Interferometer Array (ALMA) 870 μm observations to measure the star formation rates (SFRs) of eight X-ray detected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in a z ≈ 3.1 protocluster, four of which reside in extended Lyα haloes (often te... Read More about ALMA observations of a z ≈ 3.1 protocluster: star formation from active galactic nuclei and Lyman-alpha blobs in an overdense environment.

Herschel protocluster survey: a search for dusty star-forming galaxies in protoclusters at z = 2–3 (2016)
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Kato, Y., Matsuda, Y., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Hatsukade, B., Umehata, H., …Hayashino, T. (2016). Herschel protocluster survey: a search for dusty star-forming galaxies in protoclusters at z = 2–3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(4), 3861-3872. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1237

We present a Herschel/SPIRE survey of three protoclusters at z = 2 − 3 (2QZCluster, HS1700, SSA22). Based on the SPIRE colours (S350/S250 and S500/S350) of 250 μm sources, we selected high redshift dusty star-forming galaxies potentially associated w... Read More about Herschel protocluster survey: a search for dusty star-forming galaxies in protoclusters at z = 2–3.