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An ALMA survey of submillimetre galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: an unbiased study of SMG environments measured with narrow-band imaging (2024)
Journal Article
Cornish, T. M., Wardlow, J., Wade, H., Sobral, D., Brandt, W. N., Cox, P., Dannerbauer, H., Decarli, R., Gullberg, B., Knudsen, K., Stott, J., Swinbank, M., Walter, F., & van der Werf, P. (2024). An ALMA survey of submillimetre galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: an unbiased study of SMG environments measured with narrow-band imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533(2), 2399-2419. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1868

HARMONI at ELT: project status and instrument overview (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thatte, N. A., Melotte, D., Neichel, B., Le Mignant, D., Rees, P., Clarke, F., Ferraro-Wood, V., Gonzalez, O., Jones, M., Álvarez Urueña, A., Vilaseca, H., Arribas Mocoroa, S., Caballero, J. A., Carracedo Carballal, G. J., Estrada Piqueras, A., Ferro, I., García García, M., Lamperti, I., Pereira Santaella, M., Perna, M., …York, A. (2024, June). HARMONI at ELT: project status and instrument overview. Paper presented at Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X, Yokohama, Japan

The Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (BlueMUSE) on the VLT: science drivers and overview of instrument design (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Richard, J., Giroud, R., Laurent, F., Krajnovic, D., Jeanneau, A., Bacon, R., Abreu, M., Adamo, A., Araujo, R., Bouché, N., Brinchmann, J., Cai, Z., Castro Rodriguez, N., Calcines, A., Chapuis, D., Claeyssens, A., Cortese, L., Daddi, E., Davison, C., Goodwin, M., …Zheng, J. (2024, June). The Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (BlueMUSE) on the VLT: science drivers and overview of instrument design. Presented at Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X, Yokohama, Japan

KAOSS: turbulent, but disc-like kinematics in dust-obscured star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.3–2.6 (2024)
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Birkin, J. E., Puglisi, A., Swinbank, A. M., Smail, I., An, F. X., Chapman, S. C., …van der Werf, P. (2024). KAOSS: turbulent, but disc-like kinematics in dust-obscured star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.3–2.6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531(1), 61-83. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1089

We present spatially resolved kinematics of 27 ALMA-identified dust-obscured star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) at z ∼ 1.3–2.6, as traced by Hα emission using VLT/KMOS near-infrared integral field spectroscopy from the ‘KMOS-ALMA Observations of Submillim... Read More about KAOSS: turbulent, but disc-like kinematics in dust-obscured star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.3–2.6.

An ALMA Spectroscopic Survey of the Brightest Submillimeter Galaxies in the SCUBA-2-COSMOS Field (AS2COSPEC): Physical Properties of z = 2–5 Ultra- and Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies (2024)
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Liao, C., Chen, C., Wang, W., Smail, I., Ao, Y., Chapman, S. C., …Zhao, Y. (2024). An ALMA Spectroscopic Survey of the Brightest Submillimeter Galaxies in the SCUBA-2-COSMOS Field (AS2COSPEC): Physical Properties of z = 2–5 Ultra- and Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 961(2), Article 226. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad148c

We report the physical properties of the 18 brightest (S 870 μm = 12.4–19.2 mJy) and not strongly lensed 870 μm–selected dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs), also known as submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), in the COSMOS field. This sample is part of an... Read More about An ALMA Spectroscopic Survey of the Brightest Submillimeter Galaxies in the SCUBA-2-COSMOS Field (AS2COSPEC): Physical Properties of z = 2–5 Ultra- and Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies.

3D tomography of the giant Lyα nebulae of z ≈ 3–5 radio-loud AGN (2023)
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Wang, W., Wylezalek, D., Vernet, J., De Breuck, C., Gullberg, B., Swinbank, M., …Lagos, P. (2023). 3D tomography of the giant Lyα nebulae of z ≈ 3–5 radio-loud AGN. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 680, Article A70. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346415

Lyα emission nebulae are ubiquitous around high-redshift galaxies and are tracers of the gaseous environment on scales out to ≳100 pkpc (proper kiloparsec). High-redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs, type-2 radio-loud quasars) host large-scale nebulae obse... Read More about 3D tomography of the giant Lyα nebulae of z ≈ 3–5 radio-loud AGN.

The Tully–Fisher relation from SDSS-MaNGA: physical causes of scatter and variation at different radii (2023)
Journal Article
Ristea, A., Cortese, L., Fraser-McKelvie, A., Catinella, B., van de Sande, J., Croom, S. M., & Swinbank, A. M. (2024). The Tully–Fisher relation from SDSS-MaNGA: physical causes of scatter and variation at different radii. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 7438–7458. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3638

The stellar mass Tully–Fisher relation (STFR) and its scatter encode valuable information about the processes shaping galaxy evolution across cosmic time. However, we are still missing a proper quantification of the STFR slope and scatter dependence... Read More about The Tully–Fisher relation from SDSS-MaNGA: physical causes of scatter and variation at different radii.

Hidden Giants in JWST's PEARLS: An Ultramassive z = 4.26 Submillimeter Galaxy that Is Invisible to HST (2023)
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Smail, I., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Gurwell, M., Fazio, G. G., Willner, S. P., Swinbank, A. M., Arumugam, V., Summers, J., Cohen, S. H., Jansen, R. A., Windhorst, R. A., Meena, A., Zitrin, A., Keel, W. C., Cheng, C., Coe, D., Conselice, C. J., D’Silva, J. C. J., Driver, S. P., Frye, B., …Yun, M. (2023). Hidden Giants in JWST's PEARLS: An Ultramassive z = 4.26 Submillimeter Galaxy that Is Invisible to HST. Astrophysical Journal, 958(1), 36. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf931

We present a multiwavelength analysis using the Submillimeter Array (SMA), James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, NOEMA, JWST, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and the Spitzer Space Telescope of two dusty strongly star-forming galaxies, 850.1 and 850.2, see... Read More about Hidden Giants in JWST's PEARLS: An Ultramassive z = 4.26 Submillimeter Galaxy that Is Invisible to HST.

KURVS: the outer rotation curve shapes and dark matter fractions of z ∼ 1.5 star-forming galaxies (2023)
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Puglisi, A., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Swinbank, M., Gillman, S., Tiley, A. L., Bower, R. G., …Sharples, R. M. (2023). KURVS: the outer rotation curve shapes and dark matter fractions of z ∼ 1.5 star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(2), 2814-2835. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1966

We present first results from the KMOS Ultra-deep Rotation Velocity Survey (KURVS), aimed at studying the outer rotation curves shape and dark matter content of 22 star-forming galaxies at z ∼1.5. These galaxies represent ’typical’ star-forming discs... Read More about KURVS: the outer rotation curve shapes and dark matter fractions of z ∼ 1.5 star-forming galaxies.

The JCMT SCUBA-2 Survey of the James Webb Space Telescope North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field (2023)
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Hyun, M., Im, M., Smail, I. R., Cotton, W. D., Birkin, J. E., Kikuta, S., Shim, H., Willmer, C. N., Condon, J. J., Windhorst, R. A., Cohen, S. H., Jansen, R. A., Ly, C., Matsuda, Y., Fazio, G. G., Swinbank, A., & Yan, H. (2023). The JCMT SCUBA-2 Survey of the James Webb Space Telescope North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 264(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac9bf4

The James Webb Space Telescope Time-Domain Field (JWST-TDF) is an ∼14′ diameter field near the North Ecliptic Pole that will be targeted by one of the JWST Guaranteed Time Observations programs. Here, we describe our James Clerk Maxwell Telescope SCU... Read More about The JCMT SCUBA-2 Survey of the James Webb Space Telescope North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field.

An ALMA Spectroscopic Survey of the Brightest Submillimeter Galaxies in the SCUBA-2-COSMOS Field (AS2COSPEC): Survey Description and First Results (2022)
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Chen, C.-C., Liao, C.-L., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Ao, Y., Bunker, A., Chapman, S., Hatsukade, B., Ivison, R., Lee, M. M., Serjeant, S., Umehata, H., Wang, W.-H., & Zhao, Y. (2022). An ALMA Spectroscopic Survey of the Brightest Submillimeter Galaxies in the SCUBA-2-COSMOS Field (AS2COSPEC): Survey Description and First Results. Astrophysical Journal, 929(2), Article 159. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac61df

We introduce an ALMA band 3 spectroscopic survey targeting the brightest submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) in the COSMOS field. Here we present the first results based on the 18 primary SMGs that have 870 μm flux densities of S870 = 12.4–19.3 mJy and are... Read More about An ALMA Spectroscopic Survey of the Brightest Submillimeter Galaxies in the SCUBA-2-COSMOS Field (AS2COSPEC): Survey Description and First Results.

The resolved chemical abundance properties within the interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies at z≈ 1.5 (2022)
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Gillman, S., Puglisi, A., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Swinbank, A., Tiley, A., Harrison, C., Molina, J., Sharples, R., Bower, R., Cirasuolo, M., Ibar, E., & Obreschkow, D. (2022). The resolved chemical abundance properties within the interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies at z≈ 1.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(3), 3480-3499. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac580

We exploit the unprecedented depth of integral field data from the KMOS Ultra-deep Rotational Velocity Survey (KURVS) to analyse the strong (Hα) and forbidden ([NII], [SII]) emission line ratios in 22 main-sequence galaxies at z ≈ 1.5. Using the [NII... Read More about The resolved chemical abundance properties within the interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies at z≈ 1.5.

The KLEVER survey: nitrogen abundances at z ∼ 2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation (2022)
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Hayden-Pawson, C., Curti, M., Maiolino, R., Cirasuolo, M., Belfiore, F., Cappellari, M., Concas, A., Cresci, G., Cullen, F., Kobayashi, C., Mannucci, F., Marconi, A., Meneghetti, M., Mercurio, A., Peng, Y., Swinbank, M., & Vincenzo, F. (2022). The KLEVER survey: nitrogen abundances at z ∼ 2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(2), 2867-2889. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac584

We present a comparison of the nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio (N/O) in 37 high-redshift galaxies at z ∼ 2 taken from the KMOS Lensed Emission Lines and VElocity Review (KLEVER) Survey with a comparison sample of local galaxies, taken from the Sloan Digital... Read More about The KLEVER survey: nitrogen abundances at z ∼ 2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation.

Submillimetre compactness as a critical dimension to understand the Main Sequence of star-forming galaxies (2021)
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Puglisi, A., Daddi, E., Valentino, F., Magdis, G., Liu, D., Kokorev, V., Circosta, C., Elbaz, D. E., Bournard, F., Gomez-Guijarro, C., Jin, S., Madden, S., Sargent, M. T., & Swinbank, M. (2021). Submillimetre compactness as a critical dimension to understand the Main Sequence of star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(4), 5217-5238. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2914

We study the interstellar medium (ISM) properties as a function of the molecular gas size for 77 infrared-selected galaxies at z ∼ 1.3, having stellar masses 109.4 . M? . 1012.0 M and star formation rates 12 . SFRFIR . 1000 M yr−1 . Molecular gas siz... Read More about Submillimetre compactness as a critical dimension to understand the Main Sequence of star-forming galaxies.

Multi-resolution angular momentum measurements of z ∼ 1.5 − 2 star-forming galaxies (2021)
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Salcedo, J. M. E., Glazebrook, K., Fisher, D. B., Sweet, S. M., Obreschkow, D., Swinbank, A., Gillman, S., & Tiley, A. L. (2022). Multi-resolution angular momentum measurements of z ∼ 1.5 − 2 star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509(2), 2318-2338. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2755

We present detailed stellar specific angular momentum (j*) measurements of ten star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.5 − 2 using both high and low spatial resolution integral field spectroscopic data. We developed a code that simultaneously models the adapt... Read More about Multi-resolution angular momentum measurements of z ∼ 1.5 − 2 star-forming galaxies.

Measurements of the Dust Properties in z ≃ 1–3 Submillimeter Galaxies with ALMA (2021)
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da Cunha, E., Hodge, J., Casey, C., Algera, H., Kaasinen, M., Smail, I., Walter, F., Brandt, W., Dannerbauer, H., Decarli, R., Groves, B., Knudsen, K., Swinbank, A., Weiss, A., van der Werf, P., & Zavala, J. (2021). Measurements of the Dust Properties in z ≃ 1–3 Submillimeter Galaxies with ALMA. Astrophysical Journal, 919(1), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac0ae0

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) 2 mm continuum observations of a complete and unbiased sample of 99 870 μm selected submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ALESS). Our observations of eac... Read More about Measurements of the Dust Properties in z ≃ 1–3 Submillimeter Galaxies with ALMA.

ALMA Observations of Lyα Blob 1: Multiple Major Mergers and Widely Distributed Interstellar Media (2021)
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Umehata, H., Smail, I., Steidel, C. C., Hayes, M., Scott, D., Swinbank, A., Ivison, R., Nagao, T., Kubo, M., Nakanishi, K., Matsuda, Y., Ikarashi, S., Tamura, Y., & Geach, J. (2021). ALMA Observations of Lyα Blob 1: Multiple Major Mergers and Widely Distributed Interstellar Media. Astrophysical Journal, 918(2), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1106

We present observations of a giant Lyα blob (LAB) in the SSA22 protocluster at z = 3.1, SSA22-LAB1, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Dust continuum, along with [C ii] 158 μm and CO(4–3) line emission have been detected in... Read More about ALMA Observations of Lyα Blob 1: Multiple Major Mergers and Widely Distributed Interstellar Media.

Stellar feedback in a clumpy galaxy at z ∼ 3.4 (2021)
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Iani, E., Zanella, A., Vernet, J., Richard, J., Gronke, M., Harrison, C., Arrigoni-Battaia, F., Rodighiero, G., Burkert, A., Behrendt, M., Chen, C.-C., Emsellem, E., Fensch, J., Hibon, P., Hilker, M., Le Floc’h, E., Mainieri, V., Swinbank, A., Valentino, F., Vanzella, E., & Zwaan, M. (2021). Stellar feedback in a clumpy galaxy at z ∼ 3.4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507(3), 3830-3848. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2376

Giant star-forming regions (clumps) are widespread features of galaxies at z ≈ 1−4. Theory predicts that they can play a crucial role in galaxy evolution, if they survive to stellar feedback for >50 Myr. Numerical simulations show that clumps’ surviv... Read More about Stellar feedback in a clumpy galaxy at z ∼ 3.4.

Assessing the sources of reionization: a spectroscopic case study of a 30× lensed galaxy at z ∼ 5 with Lyα, C IV, Mg II, and [Ne III] (2021)
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Witstok, J., Smit, R., Maiolino, R., Curti, M., Laporte, N., Massey, R., Richard, J., & Swinbank, M. (2021). Assessing the sources of reionization: a spectroscopic case study of a 30× lensed galaxy at z ∼ 5 with Lyα, C IV, Mg II, and [Ne III]. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(2), 1686-1700. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2591

We present a detailed spectroscopic analysis of a galaxy at z ≃ 4.88 that is, by chance, magnified ∼30× by gravitational lensing. Only three sources at z ≳ 5 are known with such high magnification. This particular source has been shown to exhibit wid... Read More about Assessing the sources of reionization: a spectroscopic case study of a 30× lensed galaxy at z ∼ 5 with Lyα, C IV, Mg II, and [Ne III].