All Outputs (144)

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): projected galaxy clustering (2015)
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Farrow, D., Cole, S., Norberg, P., Metcalfe, N., Baldry, I., Bland-Hawthorn, J., …Sridhar, S. (2015). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): projected galaxy clustering. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(2), 2120-2145. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2075

We measure the projected two-point correlation function of galaxies in the 180 deg2 equatorial regions of the GAMA II survey, for four different redshift slices between z = 0.0 and 0.5. To do this, we further develop the Cole method of producing suit... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): projected galaxy clustering.

A Search for L/T Transition Dwarfs with Pan-STARRS1 and WISE. II. L/T Transition Atmospheres and Young Discoveries (2015)
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Best, W., Liu, M., Magnier, E., Deacon, N., Aller, K., Redstone, J., …Waters, C. (2015). A Search for L/T Transition Dwarfs with Pan-STARRS1 and WISE. II. L/T Transition Atmospheres and Young Discoveries. Astrophysical Journal, 814(2), Article 118. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/814/2/118

The evolution of brown dwarfs from L to T spectral types is one of the least understood aspects of the ultracool population, partly for lack of a large, well-defined, and well-characterized sample in the L/T transition. To improve the existing census... Read More about A Search for L/T Transition Dwarfs with Pan-STARRS1 and WISE. II. L/T Transition Atmospheres and Young Discoveries.

Sagittarius II, Draco II and Laevens 3: Three New Milky Way Satellites Discovered in the Pan-STARRS 1 3 Survey (2015)
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Laevens, B., Martin, N., Bernard, E., Schlafly, E., Sesar, B., H.-w., R., …Waters, C. (2015). Sagittarius II, Draco II and Laevens 3: Three New Milky Way Satellites Discovered in the Pan-STARRS 1 3 Survey. Astrophysical Journal, 813(1), Article 44. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/813/1/44

We present the discovery of three new Milky Way satellites from our search for compact stellar overdensities in the photometric catalog of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 (Pan-STARRS 1, or PS1) 3π survey. The first satellit... Read More about Sagittarius II, Draco II and Laevens 3: Three New Milky Way Satellites Discovered in the Pan-STARRS 1 3 Survey.

A Three-dimensional Map of Milky Way Dust (2015)
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Green, G., Schlafly, E., Finkbeiner, D., Rix, H., Martin, N., Burgett, W., …Wainscoat, R. (2015). A Three-dimensional Map of Milky Way Dust. Astrophysical Journal, 810(1), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/810/1/25

We present a three-dimensional map of interstellar dust reddening, covering three-quarters of the sky out to a distance of several kiloparsecs, based on Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) and 2MASS photometry. The map reveals a wealth of detailed structure, from fil... Read More about A Three-dimensional Map of Milky Way Dust.

The shell game: a panoramic view of Fornax (2015)
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Bate, N., McMonigal, B., Lewis, G., Irwin, M., Gonzalez-Solares, E., Shanks, T., & Metcalfe, N. (2015). The shell game: a panoramic view of Fornax. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(1), 690-703. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1684

We present a panoramic study of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, using data obtained as part of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) ATLAS Survey. The data presented here – a subset of the full survey – uniformly cover a region of 25 deg2 centred on the... Read More about The shell game: a panoramic view of Fornax.

The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS (2015)
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Shanks, T., Metcalfe, N., Chehade, B., Findlay, J., Irwin, M., Gonzalez-Solares, E., …Voutsinas, S. (2015). The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451(4), 4238-4252. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1130

The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS survey is an optical ugriz survey aiming to cover ≈4700 deg2 of the southern sky to similar depths as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). From reduced images and object catalogues provided by the Cambridge Astronomical... Read More about The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS.

The Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey: Variable Selection and Anticipated Results (2015)
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Morganson, E., Green, P., Anderson, S., Ruan, J., Myers, A., Eracleous, M., …Waters, C. (2015). The Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey: Variable Selection and Anticipated Results. Astrophysical Journal, 806(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/806/2/244

We present the selection algorithm and anticipated results for the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS). TDSS is an Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) subproject that will provide initial id... Read More about The Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey: Variable Selection and Anticipated Results.

Optical confirmation and redshift estimation of the Planck cluster candidates overlapping the Pan-STARRS Survey (2015)
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Liu, J., Hennig, C., Desai, S., Hoyle, B., Koppenhoefer, J., Mohr, J., …Waters, C. (2015). Optical confirmation and redshift estimation of the Planck cluster candidates overlapping the Pan-STARRS Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(4), 3370-3380. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv458

We report results of a study of Planck Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect selected galaxy cluster candidates using the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) imaging data. We first examine 150 Planck-confirmed galaxy clusters with spe... Read More about Optical confirmation and redshift estimation of the Planck cluster candidates overlapping the Pan-STARRS Survey.

Two bright z > 6 quasars from VST ATLAS and a new method of optical plus mid-infrared colour selection (2015)
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Carnall, A., Shanks, T., Chehade, B., Fumagalli, M., Rauch, M., Irwin, M., …Metcalfe, N. (2015). Two bright z > 6 quasars from VST ATLAS and a new method of optical plus mid-infrared colour selection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 451(1), L16-L20. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slv057

We present the discovery of two z > 6 quasars, selected as i-band dropouts in the Very Large Telescope Survey Telescope ATLAS survey. Our first quasar has redshift, z = 6.31 ± 0.03, z-band magnitude, zAB = 19.63 ± 0.08 and rest frame 1450 Å absolute... Read More about Two bright z > 6 quasars from VST ATLAS and a new method of optical plus mid-infrared colour selection.

Constraining the Radio-loud Fraction of Quasars at z > 5.5 (2015)
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Bañados, E., Venemans, B., Morganson, E., Hodge, J., Decarli, R., Walter, F., …Wainscoat, R. (2015). Constraining the Radio-loud Fraction of Quasars at z > 5.5. Astrophysical Journal, 804(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/804/2/118

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei at $z\sim 2-4$ are typically located in dense environments and their host galaxies are among the most massive systems at those redshifts, providing key insights for galaxy evolution. Finding radio-loud quasars at the... Read More about Constraining the Radio-loud Fraction of Quasars at z > 5.5.

Machine learning for transient discovery in Pan-STARRS1 difference imaging (2015)
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Wright, D., Smartt, S., Smith, K., Miller, P., Kotak, R., Rest, A., …Waters, C. (2015). Machine learning for transient discovery in Pan-STARRS1 difference imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(1), 451-466. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv292

Efficient identification and follow-up of astronomical transients is hindered by the need for humans to manually select promising candidates from data streams that contain many false positives. These artefacts arise in the difference images that are... Read More about Machine learning for transient discovery in Pan-STARRS1 difference imaging.

Detection of a supervoid aligned with the cold spot of the cosmic microwave background (2015)
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Szapudi, I., Kovács, A., Granett, B., Frei, Z., Silk, J., Burgett, W., …Wainscoat, R. (2015). Detection of a supervoid aligned with the cold spot of the cosmic microwave background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450(1), 288-294. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv488

We use the WISE-2MASS infrared galaxy catalogue matched with Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) galaxies to search for a supervoid in the direction of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) cold spot (CS). Our imaging catalogue has median redshift z ≃ 0.14, and we obt... Read More about Detection of a supervoid aligned with the cold spot of the cosmic microwave background.

Selecting superluminous supernovae in faint galaxies from the first year of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey (2015)
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McCrum, M., Smartt, S., Rest, A., Smith, K., Kotak, R., Rodney, S., …Waters, C. (2015). Selecting superluminous supernovae in faint galaxies from the first year of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 448(2), 1206-1231. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv034

The Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) survey has obtained imaging in five bands (griz yP1) over 10 Medium Deep Survey (MDS) fields covering a total of 70 square degrees. This paper describes the search for apparently hostless supernovae (SNe) within the first year o... Read More about Selecting superluminous supernovae in faint galaxies from the first year of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey.

A New Faint Milky Way Satellite Discovered in the Pan-STARRS1 3π Survey (2015)
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Laevens, B., Martin, N., Ibata, R., Rix, H., Bernard, E., Bell, E., …Waters, C. (2015). A New Faint Milky Way Satellite Discovered in the Pan-STARRS1 3π Survey. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 802(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/802/2/l18

We present the discovery of a faint Milky Way satellite, Laevens 2/Triangulum II, found in the Panoramic Survey Telescope And Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS 1) 3 pi imaging data and confirmed with follow-up wide-field photometry from the Large Bin... Read More about A New Faint Milky Way Satellite Discovered in the Pan-STARRS1 3π Survey.

Selection of Burst-like Transients and Stochastic Variables Using Multi-band Image Differencing in the PAN-STARRS1 Medium-deep Survey (2015)
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Kumar, S., Gezari, S., Heinis, S., Chornock, R., Berger, E., Rest, A., …Wainscoat, R. (2015). Selection of Burst-like Transients and Stochastic Variables Using Multi-band Image Differencing in the PAN-STARRS1 Medium-deep Survey. Astrophysical Journal, 802(1), Article 27. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/802/1/27

We present a novel method for the light-curve characterization of Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey (PS1 MDS) extragalactic sources into stochastic variables (SVs) and burst-like (BL) transients, using multi-band image-differencing time-series data. We... Read More about Selection of Burst-like Transients and Stochastic Variables Using Multi-band Image Differencing in the PAN-STARRS1 Medium-deep Survey.

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: instrument specification and target selection (2015)
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Bryant, J., Owers, M., Robotham, A., Croom, S., Driver, S., Drinkwater, M., …Walcher, C. (2015). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: instrument specification and target selection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(3), 2857-2879. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2635

The SAMI Galaxy Survey will observe 3400 galaxies with the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral-field spectrograph (SAMI) on the Anglo-Australian Telescope in a 3-yr survey which began in 2013. We present the throughput of the SAMI system, the science ba... Read More about The SAMI Galaxy Survey: instrument specification and target selection.

The Identification of Z-dropouts in Pan-STARRS1: Three Quasars at 6.5< z< 6.7 (2015)
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Venemans, B., Bañados, E., Decarli, R., Farina, E., Walter, F., Chambers, K., …Sullivan, P. (2015). The Identification of Z-dropouts in Pan-STARRS1: Three Quasars at 6.5< z< 6.7. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 801(1), Article L11. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/801/1/l11

Luminous distant quasars are unique probes of the high-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM) and of the growth of massive galaxies and black holes in the early universe. Absorption due to neutral hydrogen in the IGM makes quasars beyond a redshift of $... Read More about The Identification of Z-dropouts in Pan-STARRS1: Three Quasars at 6.5< z< 6.7.

The Structure and Stellar Content of the Outer Disks of Galaxies: A New View from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey (2015)
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Zheng, Z., Thilker, D., Heckman, T., Meurer, G., Burgett, W., Chambers, K., …Waters, C. (2015). The Structure and Stellar Content of the Outer Disks of Galaxies: A New View from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey. Astrophysical Journal, 800(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/800/2/120

We present the results of an analysis of Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey multi-band (grizy) images of a sample of 698 low-redshift disk galaxies that span broad ranges in stellar mass, star-formation rate, and bulge/disk ratio. We use population synth... Read More about The Structure and Stellar Content of the Outer Disks of Galaxies: A New View from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey.

Three-dimensional Dust Mapping Reveals that Orion Forms Part of a Large Ring of Dust (2015)
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Schlafly, E., Green, G., Finkbeiner, D., Rix, H., Burgett, W., Chambers, K., …Waters, C. (2015). Three-dimensional Dust Mapping Reveals that Orion Forms Part of a Large Ring of Dust. Astrophysical Journal, 799(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/799/2/116

The Orion Molecular Complex is the nearest site of ongoing high-mass star formation, making it one of the most extensively studied molecular complexes in the Galaxy. We have developed a new technique for mapping the three-dimensional distribution of... Read More about Three-dimensional Dust Mapping Reveals that Orion Forms Part of a Large Ring of Dust.

Toward Characterization of the Type IIP Supernova Progenitor Population: A Statistical Sample of Light Curves from Pan-STARRS1 (2015)
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Sanders, N., Soderberg, A., Gezari, S., Betancourt, M., Chornock, R., Berger, E., …Waters, C. (2015). Toward Characterization of the Type IIP Supernova Progenitor Population: A Statistical Sample of Light Curves from Pan-STARRS1. Astrophysical Journal, 799(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/799/2/208

In recent years, wide-field sky surveys providing deep multiband imaging have presented a new path for indirectly characterizing the progenitor populations of core-collapse supernovae (SNe): systematic light-curve studies. We assemble a set of 76 gri... Read More about Toward Characterization of the Type IIP Supernova Progenitor Population: A Statistical Sample of Light Curves from Pan-STARRS1.