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The Zurich Environmental Study (ZENS) of Galaxies in Groups along the Cosmic Web. II. Galaxy Structural Measurements and the Concentration of Morphologically Classified Satellites in Diverse Environments (2013)
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Cibinel, A., Carollo, C., Lilly, S., Miniati, F., Silverman, J., van Gorkom, J., …Rudick, C. (2013). The Zurich Environmental Study (ZENS) of Galaxies in Groups along the Cosmic Web. II. Galaxy Structural Measurements and the Concentration of Morphologically Classified Satellites in Diverse Environments. Astrophysical Journal, 776(2), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/776/2/72

We present structural measurements for the galaxies in the 0.05 < z < 0.0585 groups of the Zurich Environmental Study, aimed at establishing how galaxy properties depend on four environmental parameters: group halo mass (M GROUP), group-centric dista... Read More about The Zurich Environmental Study (ZENS) of Galaxies in Groups along the Cosmic Web. II. Galaxy Structural Measurements and the Concentration of Morphologically Classified Satellites in Diverse Environments.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): linking star formation histories and stellar mass growth (2013)
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Bauer, A., Hopkins, A., Gunawardhana, M., Taylor, E., Baldry, I., Bamford, S., …Sharp, R. (2013). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): linking star formation histories and stellar mass growth. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 434(1), 209-221. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1011

We present evidence for stochastic star formation histories in low-mass (M* < 1010 M⊙) galaxies from observations within the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. For ∼73 000 galaxies between 0.05 < z < 0.32, we calculate star formation rates (SFR)... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): linking star formation histories and stellar mass growth.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): galaxy radial alignments in GAMA groups (2013)
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Schneider, M. D., Cole, S., Frenk, C. S., Kelvin, L., Mandelbaum, R., Norberg, P., …Robotham, A. (2013). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): galaxy radial alignments in GAMA groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 433(4), 2727-2738. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt855

We constrain the distributions of projected radial alignment angles of satellite galaxy shapes within the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey group catalogue. We identify the galaxy groups using spectroscopic redshifts and measure galaxy projected ellipt... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): galaxy radial alignments in GAMA groups.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: evolution of the Hα luminosity function and star formation rate density up to z < 0.35 (2013)
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Gunawardhana, M., Hopkins, A., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Sharp, R., Loveday, J., …Wang, L. (2013). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: evolution of the Hα luminosity function and star formation rate density up to z < 0.35. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 433(4), 2764-2789. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt890

Measurements of the low-z Hα luminosity function, Φ, have a large dispersion in the local number density of sources (∼0.5–1 Mpc−3 dex−1), and correspondingly in the star formation rate density (SFRD). The possible causes for these discrepancies inclu... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly: evolution of the Hα luminosity function and star formation rate density up to z < 0.35.

How robust are predictions of galaxy clustering? (2013)
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Contreras, S., Baugh, C., Norberg, P., & Padilla, N. (2013). How robust are predictions of galaxy clustering?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 432(4), 2717-2730. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt629

We use the Millennium Simulation data base to compare how different versions of the Durham and Munich semi-analytical galaxy formation models populate dark matter haloes with galaxies. The models follow the same physical processes but differ in how t... Read More about How robust are predictions of galaxy clustering?.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the life and times of L★ galaxies (2013)
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Robotham, A., Liske, J., Driver, S., Sansom, A., Baldry, I., Bauer, A., …Tuffs, R. (2013). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the life and times of L★ galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 431(1), 167-193. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt156

In this work, we investigate in detail the effects the local environment (groups and pairs) has on galaxies with stellar mass similar to the Milky Way (L* galaxies). A volume limited sample of 6150 galaxies are visually classified to determine the em... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the life and times of L★ galaxies.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis (2013)
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Hopkins, A., Driver, S., Brough, S., Owers, M., Bauer, A., Gunawardhana, M., …Wilkins, S. (2013). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430(3), 2047-2066. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt030

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is a multiwavelength photometric and spectroscopic survey, using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain spectra for up to ∼300 000 galaxies over 280 deg2, to a limiting magnitud... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis.

GAMA/H-ATLAS: The Dust Opacity-Stellar Mass Surface Density Relation for Spiral Galaxies (2013)
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Grootes, M., Tuffs, R., Popescu, C., Pastrav, B., Andrae, E., Gunawardhana, M., …Valiante, E. (2013). GAMA/H-ATLAS: The Dust Opacity-Stellar Mass Surface Density Relation for Spiral Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 766(1), Article 59. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/766/1/59

We report the discovery of a well-defined correlation between B-band face-on central optical depth due to dust, τ f/B, and the stellar mass surface density, μ∗, of nearby (z <= 0.13) spiral galaxies: log(τ f/B ) = 1.12(±0.11) · log(μ∗/M kpc−2) − 8.6(...

Lightcone mock catalogues from semi-analytic models of galaxy formation - I. Construction and application to the BzK colour selection (2013)
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Merson, A., Baugh, C., Helly, J., Gonzalez-Perez, V., Cole, S., Bielby, R., …Lagos, C. D. P. (2013). Lightcone mock catalogues from semi-analytic models of galaxy formation - I. Construction and application to the BzK colour selection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(1), 556-578. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts355

We introduce a method for constructing end-to-end mock galaxy catalogues using a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation, applied to the halo merger trees extracted from a cosmological N-body simulation. The mocks that we construct are lightcone ca... Read More about Lightcone mock catalogues from semi-analytic models of galaxy formation - I. Construction and application to the BzK colour selection.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1 μm to 1 mm (2012)
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Driver, S., Robotham, A., Kelvin, L., Alpaslan, M., Baldry, I., Bamford, S., …Wilkins, S. (2012). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1 μm to 1 mm. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(4), 3244-3264. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.22036.x

We use the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey (GAMA) I data set combined with GALEX, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) imaging to construct the low-redshift (z < 0.1) galaxy luminosity functions in FUV, NUV, ugr... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1 μm to 1 mm.

Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA : spatial clustering of low-redshift submm galaxies (2012)
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van Kampen, E., Smith, D., Maddox, S., Hopkins, A., Valtchanov, I., Peacock, J., …Tuffs, R. (2012). Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA : spatial clustering of low-redshift submm galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426(4), 3455-3463. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21949.x

We have measured the clustering properties of low-redshift (z < 0.3) submm galaxies detected at 250 μm in the Herschel-ATLAS science demonstration phase field. We selected a sample for which we have high-quality spectroscopic redshifts, obtained from... Read More about Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA : spatial clustering of low-redshift submm galaxies.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : estimating galaxy group masses via caustic analysis (2012)
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Alpaslan, M., Robotham, A., Driver, S., Norberg, P., Peacock, J., Baldry, I., …Pimbblet, K. (2012). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : estimating galaxy group masses via caustic analysis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426(4), 2832-2846. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21020.x

We have generated complementary halo mass estimates for all the groups in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly Galaxy Group Catalogue (GAMA G3Cv1) using a modified caustic mass estimation algorithm, originally developed by Diaferio & Geller. We calibrate the... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : estimating galaxy group masses via caustic analysis.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): colour- and luminosity-dependent clustering from calibrated photometric redshifts (2012)
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Christodoulou, L., Eminian, C., Loveday, J., Norberg, P., Baldry, I., Hurley, P., …Wijesinghe, D. (2012). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): colour- and luminosity-dependent clustering from calibrated photometric redshifts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 425(2), 1527-1548. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21434.x

We measure the two-point angular correlation function of a sample of 4289 223 galaxies with r < 19.4 mag from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) as a function of photometric redshift, absolute magnitude and colour down to Mr − 5 log h = −14 mag. Pho... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): colour- and luminosity-dependent clustering from calibrated photometric redshifts.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : in search of Milky Way Magellanic Cloud analogues (2012)
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Robotham, A., Baldry, I., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Driver, S., Loveday, J., Norberg, P., …Staveley-Smith, L. (2012). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : in search of Milky Way Magellanic Cloud analogues. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424(2), 1448-1453. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21332.x

Analysing all Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) galaxies within a factor of 2 (±0.3 dex) of the stellar mass of the Milky Way (MW), there is a 11.9 per cent chance that one of these galaxies will have a close companion (within a projected separation of... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : in search of Milky Way Magellanic Cloud analogues.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : galaxy environments and star formation rate variations (2012)
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Wijesinghe, D., Hopkins, A., Brough, S., Taylor, E., Norberg, P., Bauer, A., …Tuffs, R. (2012). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : galaxy environments and star formation rate variations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 423(4), 3679-3691. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21164.x

We present a detailed investigation into the effects of galaxy environment on their star formation rates (SFRs) using galaxies observed in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. We use three independent volume-limited samples of galaxies within... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : galaxy environments and star formation rate variations.

Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA : a census of dust in optically selected galaxies from stacking at submillimetre wavelengths (2012)
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Bourne, N., Maddox, S., Dunne, L., Auld, R., Baes, M., Baldry, I., …Temi, P. (2012). Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA : a census of dust in optically selected galaxies from stacking at submillimetre wavelengths. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421(4), 3027-3059. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20528.x

We use the Herschel‐ATLAS survey to conduct the first large‐scale statistical study of the submillimetre properties of optically selected galaxies. Using ∼80 000 r‐band selected galaxies from 126  deg2 of the GAMA survey, we stack into submillimetre... Read More about Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA : a census of dust in optically selected galaxies from stacking at submillimetre wavelengths.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : structural investigation of galaxies via model analysis (2012)
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Kelvin, L., Driver, S., Robotham, A., Hill, D., Alpaslan, M., Baldry, I., …Tuffs, R. (2012). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : structural investigation of galaxies via model analysis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421(2), 1007-1039. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20355.x

We present single-Sérsic two-dimensional (2D) model fits to 167 600 galaxies modelled independently in the ugrizYJHK bandpasses using reprocessed Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Seven (SDSS DR7) and UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Large Area Sur... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : structural investigation of galaxies via model analysis.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the galaxy stellar mass function at z < 0.06 (2012)
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Baldry, I., Driver, S., Loveday, J., Taylor, E., Kelvin, L., Liske, J., …Tuffs, R. (2012). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the galaxy stellar mass function at z < 0.06. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421(1), 621-634. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20340.x

We determine the low-redshift field galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) using an area of 143 deg2 from the first three years of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The magnitude limits of this redshift survey are r < 19.4 mag over two-thirds... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the galaxy stellar mass function at z < 0.06.