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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.

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.

VLA and ALMA Imaging of Intense Galaxy-wide Star Formation in z ~ 2 Galaxies (2016)
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Rujopakarn, W., Dunlop, J., Rieke, G., Ivison, R., Cibinel, A., Nyland, K., …Windhorst, R. (2016). VLA and ALMA Imaging of Intense Galaxy-wide Star Formation in z ~ 2 Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/833/1/12

We present sime0farcs4 resolution extinction-independent distributions of star formation and dust in 11 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at z = 1.3–3.0. These galaxies are selected from sensitive blank-field surveys of the 2' × 2' Hubble Ultra-Deep Field... Read More about VLA and ALMA Imaging of Intense Galaxy-wide Star Formation in z ~ 2 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.

A deep ALMA image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2016)
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Dunlop, J., McLure, R., Biggs, A., Geach, J., Michałowski, M., Ivison, R., …Yun, M. (2017). A deep ALMA image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466(1), 861-883. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3088

We present the results of the first, deep Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) imaging covering the full ≃4.5 arcmin2 of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) imaged with Wide Field Camera 3/IR on HST. Using a 45-pointing mosaic, we have obtained a hom... Read More about A deep ALMA image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

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.

ALMA Observations of Lyα Blob 1: Halo Substructure Illuminated from Within (2016)
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Geach, J., Narayanan, D., Matsuda, Y., Hayes, M., Mas-Ribas, L., Dijkstra, M., …Yamada, T. (2016). ALMA Observations of Lyα Blob 1: Halo Substructure Illuminated from Within. Astrophysical Journal, 832(1), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/832/1/37

We present new Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) 850 μm continuum observations of the original Lyα Blob (LAB) in the SSA22 field at z = 3.1 (SSA22-LAB01). The ALMA map resolves the previously identified submillimeter source into thr... Read More about ALMA Observations of Lyα Blob 1: Halo Substructure Illuminated from Within.

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.

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.

SEDEBLEND: a new method for deblending spectral energy distributions in confused imaging (2016)
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MacKenzie, T. P., Scott, D., & Swinbank, M. (2016). SEDEBLEND: a new method for deblending spectral energy distributions in confused imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463(1), 10-23. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1890

For high-redshift submillimetre or millimetre sources detected with single-dish telescopes, interferometric follow-up has shown that many are multiple submillimetre galaxies blended together. Confusion-limited Herschel observations of such targets ar... Read More about SEDEBLEND: a new method for deblending spectral energy distributions in confused imaging.

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.

Deep MUSE observations in the HDFS. Morpho-kinematics of distant star-forming galaxies down to 108M⊙ (2016)
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Contini, T., Epinat, B., Bouché, N., Brinchmann, J., Boogaard, L., Ventou, E., …Soucail, G. (2016). Deep MUSE observations in the HDFS. Morpho-kinematics of distant star-forming galaxies down to 108M⊙. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 591, Article A49. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527866

Aims. Whereas the evolution of gas kinematics of massive galaxies is now relatively well established up to redshift z ~ 3, little is known about the kinematics of lower mass (M⋆≤ 1010M⊙) galaxies. We use MUSE, a powerful wide-field, optical integral-... Read More about Deep MUSE observations in the HDFS. Morpho-kinematics of distant star-forming galaxies down to 108M⊙.

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.

Optical emission line nebulae in galaxy cluster cores 1: the morphological, kinematic and spectral properties of the sample (2016)
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Hamer, S., Edge, A., Swinbank, A., Wilman, R., Combes, F., Salomé, P., …Bremer, M. (2016). Optical emission line nebulae in galaxy cluster cores 1: the morphological, kinematic and spectral properties of the sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(2), 1758-1789. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1054

We present an Integral Field Unit survey of 73 galaxy clusters and groups with the VIsible Multi Object Spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope. We exploit the data to determine the H α gas dynamics on kpc scales to study the feedback processes occu... Read More about Optical emission line nebulae in galaxy cluster cores 1: the morphological, kinematic and spectral properties of the sample.

The Spatially Resolved Dynamics of Dusty Starburst Galaxies in a z ~ 0.4 Cluster: Beginning the Transition from Spirals to S0s (2016)
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Johnson, H., Harrison, C., Swinbank, A., Bower, R., Smail, I., Koyama, Y., & Geach, J. (2016). The Spatially Resolved Dynamics of Dusty Starburst Galaxies in a z ~ 0.4 Cluster: Beginning the Transition from Spirals to S0s. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(1), 1059-1076. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1030

To investigate what drives the reversal of the morphology–density relation at intermediate/high redshift, we present a multiwavelength analysis of 27 dusty starburst galaxies in the massive cluster Cl 0024+17 at z = 0.4. We combine Hα dynamical maps... Read More about The Spatially Resolved Dynamics of Dusty Starburst Galaxies in a z ~ 0.4 Cluster: Beginning the Transition from Spirals to S0s.