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Overdensity of submillimeter galaxies around the z ≃ 2.3 MAMMOTH-1 nebula (2018)
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Arrigoni Battaia, F., Chen, C., Fumagalli, M., Cai, Z., Calistro Rivera, G., Xu, J., …De Breuck, C. (2018). Overdensity of submillimeter galaxies around the z ≃ 2.3 MAMMOTH-1 nebula. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 620, Article A202. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834195

In the hierarchical model of structure formation, giant elliptical galaxies form through merging processes within the highest density peaks known as protoclusters. While high-redshift radio galaxies usually pinpoint the location of these environments... Read More about Overdensity of submillimeter galaxies around the z ≃ 2.3 MAMMOTH-1 nebula.

KROSS-SAMI: A Direct IFS Comparison of the Tully-Fisher Relation Across 8 Gyr Since z ≈ 1 (2018)
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Tiley, A., Bureau, M., Cortese, L., Harrison, C., Johnson, H., Stott, J., …Richards, S. (2019). KROSS-SAMI: A Direct IFS Comparison of the Tully-Fisher Relation Across 8 Gyr Since z ≈ 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(2), 2166-2188. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2794

We construct Tully–Fisher relations (TFRs), from large samples of galaxies with spatially resolved H α emission maps from the K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph (KMOS) Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS) at z ≈ 1. We compare these to data from th... Read More about KROSS-SAMI: A Direct IFS Comparison of the Tully-Fisher Relation Across 8 Gyr Since z ≈ 1.

ALMACAL V: absorption-selected galaxies with evidence for excited ISMs (2018)
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Klitsch, A., Zwaan, M., Péroux, C., Smail, I., Oteo, I., Popping, G., …Biggs, A. (2018). ALMACAL V: absorption-selected galaxies with evidence for excited ISMs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 482(1), L65-L69. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/sly187

Gas-rich galaxies are selected efficiently via quasar absorption lines. Recently, a new perspective on such absorption-selected systems has opened up by studying the molecular gas content of absorber host galaxies using ALMA CO emission line observat... Read More about ALMACAL V: absorption-selected galaxies with evidence for excited ISMs.

SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES). II. Structural Properties and Near-infrared Morphologies of Faint Submillimeter Galaxies (2018)
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Chang, Y., Ferraro, N., Wang, W., Lim, C., Toba, Y., An, F., …Urquhart, S. (2018). SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES). II. Structural Properties and Near-infrared Morphologies of Faint Submillimeter Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 865(2), Article 103. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aadd18

We present structural parameters and morphological properties of faint 450 μm selected submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) from the JCMT Large Program, STUDIES, in the COSMOS-CANDELS region. Their properties are compared to an 850 μm selected and a matched... Read More about SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES). II. Structural Properties and Near-infrared Morphologies of Faint Submillimeter Galaxies.

The CO Luminosity Density at High-z (COLDz) Survey: A Sensitive, Large-area Blind Search for Low-J CO Emission from Cold Gas in the Early Universe with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (2018)
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Pavesi, R., Sharon, C. E., Riechers, D. A., Hodge, J. A., Decarli, R., Walter, F., …Wagg, J. (2018). The CO Luminosity Density at High-z (COLDz) Survey: A Sensitive, Large-area Blind Search for Low-J CO Emission from Cold Gas in the Early Universe with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. Astrophysical Journal, 864(1), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aacb79

We describe the CO Luminosity Density at High-z (COLDz) survey, the first spectral line deep field targeting CO(1–0) emission from galaxies at z = 1.95–2.85 and CO(2–1) at z = 4.91–6.70. The main goal of COLDz is to constrain the cosmic density of mo... Read More about The CO Luminosity Density at High-z (COLDz) Survey: A Sensitive, Large-area Blind Search for Low-J CO Emission from Cold Gas in the Early Universe with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array.

Resolving the ISM at the Peak of Cosmic Star Formation with ALMA: The Distribution of CO and Dust Continuum in z ∼ 2.5 Submillimeter Galaxies (2018)
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Rivera, G. C., Hodge, J., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Weiss, A., Wardlow, J., …Werf, P. V. D. (2018). Resolving the ISM at the Peak of Cosmic Star Formation with ALMA: The Distribution of CO and Dust Continuum in z ∼ 2.5 Submillimeter Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 863(1), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aacffa

We use Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of four submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) at z ~ 2–3 to investigate the spatially resolved properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) at scales of 1–5 kpc (0farcs1–0farcs6). The velocity fields o... Read More about Resolving the ISM at the Peak of Cosmic Star Formation with ALMA: The Distribution of CO and Dust Continuum in z ∼ 2.5 Submillimeter Galaxies.

Far-infrared Herschel SPIRE spectroscopy of lensed starbursts reveals physical conditions of ionized gas (2018)
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Zhang, Z., Ivison, R., George, R., Zhao, Y., Dunne, L., Herrera-Camus, R., …van der Werf, P. (2018). Far-infrared Herschel SPIRE spectroscopy of lensed starbursts reveals physical conditions of ionized gas. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(1), 59-97. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2082

The most intensively star-forming galaxies are extremely luminous at far-infrared (FIR) wavelengths, highly obscured at optical and ultraviolet wavelengths, and lie at z ≥ 1–3. We present a programme of FIR spectroscopic observations with the SPIRE F... Read More about Far-infrared Herschel SPIRE spectroscopy of lensed starbursts reveals physical conditions of ionized gas.

A Machine-learning Method for Identifying Multiwavelength Counterparts of Submillimeter Galaxies: Training and Testing Using AS2UDS and ALESS (2018)
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An, F. X., Stach, S., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Almaini, O., Simpson, C., …Coppin, K. (2018). A Machine-learning Method for Identifying Multiwavelength Counterparts of Submillimeter Galaxies: Training and Testing Using AS2UDS and ALESS. Astrophysical Journal, 862(2), Article 101. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aacdaa

We describe the application of supervised machine-learning algorithms to identify the likely multiwavelength counterparts to submillimeter sources detected in panoramic, single-dish submillimeter surveys. As a training set, we employ a sample of 695... Read More about A Machine-learning Method for Identifying Multiwavelength Counterparts of Submillimeter Galaxies: Training and Testing Using AS2UDS and ALESS.

An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Identifying Candidate z ∼ 4.5 [C II] Emitters (2018)
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Cooke, E., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Stach, S., An, F. X., Gullberg, B., …Werf, P. V. D. (2018). An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Identifying Candidate z ∼ 4.5 [C II] Emitters. Astrophysical Journal, 861(2), Article 100. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac6ba

We report the results of a search for serendipitous [C ii] 157.74 μm emitters at z sime 4.4–4.7 using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The search exploits the AS2UDS continuum survey, which covers ~50 arcmin2 of the sky toward... Read More about An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Identifying Candidate z ∼ 4.5 [C II] Emitters.

An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Number Counts of Submillimeter Galaxies (2018)
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Stach, S. M., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Simpson, J., Geach, J., An, F. X., …Werf, P. V. D. (2018). An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Number Counts of Submillimeter Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 860(2), Article 161. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac5e5

We report the first results of AS2UDS, an 870 μm continuum survey with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) of a total area of ~50 arcmin2 comprising a complete sample of 716 submillimeter sources drawn from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology L... Read More about An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Number Counts of Submillimeter Galaxies.

The Discovery of a New Massive Molecular Gas Component Associated with the Submillimeter Galaxy SMM J02399-0136 (2018)
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Frayer, D., Maddalena, R., Ivison, R., Smail, I., Blain, A., & Vanden Bout, P. (2018). The Discovery of a New Massive Molecular Gas Component Associated with the Submillimeter Galaxy SMM J02399-0136. Astrophysical Journal, 860(2), Article 87. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac49a

We present CO(1–0), CO(3–2), and CO(7–6) observations using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) of the z = 2.8 submillimeter galaxy SMM J02399−0136. This was the first submillimeter-selected galaxy discovered... Read More about The Discovery of a New Massive Molecular Gas Component Associated with the Submillimeter Galaxy SMM J02399-0136.

An ALMA survey of CO in submillimetre galaxies: companions, triggering, and the environment in blended sources (2018)
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Wardlow, J., Simpson, J., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Blain, A., Brandt, W., …van der Werf, P. (2018). An ALMA survey of CO in submillimetre galaxies: companions, triggering, and the environment in blended sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(3), 3879-3891. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1526

We present ALMA observations of the mid-J 12CO emission from six single-dish selected 870-μm sources in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South and UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey fields. These six single-dish submillimetre sources were selected based on prev... Read More about An ALMA survey of CO in submillimetre galaxies: companions, triggering, and the environment in blended sources.

The Dust and [C ii] Morphologies of Redshift ∼4.5 Sub-millimeter Galaxies at ∼200 pc Resolution: The Absence of Large Clumps in the Interstellar Medium at High-redshift (2018)
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Gullberg, B., Swinbank, A., Smail, I., Biggs, A., Bertoldi, F., Breuck, C. D., …Weiss, A. (2018). The Dust and [C ii] Morphologies of Redshift ∼4.5 Sub-millimeter Galaxies at ∼200 pc Resolution: The Absence of Large Clumps in the Interstellar Medium at High-redshift. Astrophysical Journal, 859(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aabe8c

We present deep, high-resolution (0 03, 200 pc) ALMA Band 7 observations covering the dust continuum and [C II] λ157.7 μm emission in four z ∼ 4.4–4.8 sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) selected from the ALESS and AS2UDS surveys. The data show that the r... Read More about The Dust and [C ii] Morphologies of Redshift ∼4.5 Sub-millimeter Galaxies at ∼200 pc Resolution: The Absence of Large Clumps in the Interstellar Medium at High-redshift.

The XMM-SERVS survey: new XMM-Newton point-source catalogue for the XMM-LSS field (2018)
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Chen, C., Brandt, W., Luo, B., Ranalli, P., Yang, G., Alexander, D., …Trump, J. (2018). The XMM-SERVS survey: new XMM-Newton point-source catalogue for the XMM-LSS field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478, 2132-2163. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1036

We present an X-ray point-source catalogue from the XMM-Large Scale Structure (XMM-LSS) survey region, one of the XMM-Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (XMM-SERVS) fields. We target the XMM-LSS region with 1.3 Ms of new XMM–Newton AO... Read More about The XMM-SERVS survey: new XMM-Newton point-source catalogue for the XMM-LSS field.

The clustering of H $\beta$ + [O III] and [O II] emitters since z \tilde 5: dependencies with line luminosity and stellar mass (2018)
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Khostovan, A., Sobral, D., Mobasher, B., Best, P., Smail, I., Matthee, J., …Stott, J. (2018). The clustering of H $\beta$ + [O III] and [O II] emitters since z \tilde 5: dependencies with line luminosity and stellar mass. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(3), 2999-3015. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty925

We investigate the clustering properties of ∼7000 H β + [O III] and [O II] narrowband-selected emitters at z ∼ 0.8–4.7 from the High-z Emission Line Survey. We find clustering lengths, r0, of 1.5–4.0 h−1 Mpc and minimum dark matter halo masses of 101... Read More about The clustering of H $\beta$ + [O III] and [O II] emitters since z \tilde 5: dependencies with line luminosity and stellar mass.

The nature of luminous Ly α emitters at z ∼ 2–3: maximal dust-poor starbursts and highly ionizing AGN (2018)
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Sobral, D., Matthee, J., Darvish, B., Smail, I., Best, P. N., Alegre, L., …Oteo, I. (2018). The nature of luminous Ly α emitters at z ∼ 2–3: maximal dust-poor starbursts and highly ionizing AGN. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(2), 2817-2840. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty782

Deep narrow-band surveys have revealed a large population of faint Ly α emitters (LAEs) in the distant Universe, but relatively little is known about the most luminous sources ( LLyα≳1042.7  erg s−1; LLyα≳L∗Lyα ). Here we present the spectroscopic fo... Read More about The nature of luminous Ly α emitters at z ∼ 2–3: maximal dust-poor starbursts and highly ionizing AGN.

High-resolution SMA imaging of bright submillimetre sources from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (2018)
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Hill, R., Chapman, S. C., Scott, D., Petitpas, G., Smail, I., Chapin, E. L., …Wilner, D. J. (2018). High-resolution SMA imaging of bright submillimetre sources from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(2), 2042-2067. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty746

We have used the Submillimeter Array (SMA) at 860 µm to observe the brightest sources in the Submillimeter Common User Bolometer Array-2 (SCUBA-2) Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS). The goal of this survey is to exploit the large field of the S2CLS alo... Read More about High-resolution SMA imaging of bright submillimetre sources from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey.

The dependence of galaxy clustering on stellar mass, star-formation rate and redshift at z = 0.8–2.2, with HiZELS (2018)
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Cochrane, R., Best, P., Sobral, D., Smail, I., Geach, J., Stott, J., & Wake, D. (2018). The dependence of galaxy clustering on stellar mass, star-formation rate and redshift at z = 0.8–2.2, with HiZELS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(3), 3730-3745. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3345

The deep, near-infrared narrow-band survey HiZELS has yielded robust samples of H α-emitting star-forming galaxies within narrow redshift slices at z = 0.8,  1.47 and 2.23. In this paper, we distinguish the stellar mass and star-formation rate (SFR)... Read More about The dependence of galaxy clustering on stellar mass, star-formation rate and redshift at z = 0.8–2.2, with HiZELS.