Professor Mark Swinbank's Outputs (167)

ADF22-WEB: A giant barred spiral starburst galaxy in the z = 3.1 SSA22 protocluster core (2025)
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Umehata, H., Steidel, C. C., Smail, I., Swinbank, M., Monson, E. B., Rosario, D., Lehmer, B. D., Nakanishi, K., Kubo, M., Iono, D., Alexander, D. M., Kohno, K., Tamura, Y., Ivison, R. J., Saito, T., Mitsuhashi, I., Huang, S., & Matsuda, Y. (2025). ADF22-WEB: A giant barred spiral starburst galaxy in the z = 3.1 SSA22 protocluster core. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 77(2), 432-445. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psaf010

In the present-day universe, the most massive galaxies are ellipticals located in the cores of galaxy clusters, harboring the heaviest supermassive black holes (SMBHs). However, the mechanisms that drive the early growth phase and subsequent transfor... Read More about ADF22-WEB: A giant barred spiral starburst galaxy in the z = 3.1 SSA22 protocluster core.

High-definition imaging of a filamentary connection between a close quasar pair at z = 3 (2025)
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Tornotti, D., Fumagalli, M., Fossati, M., Benitez-Llambay, A., Izquierdo-Villalba, D., Travascio, A., Arrigoni Battaia, F., Cantalupo, S., Beckett, A., Bonoli, S., Dayal, P., D’Odorico, V., Dutta, R., Lusso, E., Peroux, C., Rafelski, M., Revalski, M., Spinoso, D., & Swinbank, M. (online). High-definition imaging of a filamentary connection between a close quasar pair at z = 3. Nature Astronomy, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02463-w

Filaments connecting haloes are a long-standing prediction of cold-dark-matter theories. Here we present a detection of the cosmic web emission connecting two quasar-host galaxies at redshift z ≈ 3.22 in the MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF), observed wit... Read More about High-definition imaging of a filamentary connection between a close quasar pair at z = 3.

ALMA/SCUBA-2 COSMOS Survey: Properties of X-Ray- and SED-selected Active Galactic Nuclei in Bright Submillimeter Galaxies (2025)
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Uematsu, R., Ueda, Y., Alexander, D. M., Swinbank, A. M., Smail, I., Andonie, C., Chen, C.-C., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Ikarashi, S., Kohno, K., Matsuda, Y., Puglisi, A., Umehata, H., & Wang, W.-H. (2025). ALMA/SCUBA-2 COSMOS Survey: Properties of X-Ray- and SED-selected Active Galactic Nuclei in Bright Submillimeter Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal, 979(2), Article 168. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9f3b

We investigate the properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the brightest submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) in the COSMOS field. We utilize the bright sample of the ALMA/SCUBA-2 COSMOS Survey (AS2COSMOS), which consists of 260 SMGs with S870 μm = 0... Read More about ALMA/SCUBA-2 COSMOS Survey: Properties of X-Ray- and SED-selected Active Galactic Nuclei in Bright Submillimeter Galaxies.

The onset of bar formation in a massive galaxy at z ∼ 3.8 (2025)
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Amvrosiadis, A., Lange, S., Nightingale, J. W., He, Q., Frenk, C. S., Oman, K. A., Smail, I., Swinbank, A. M., Fragkoudi, F., Gadotti, D. A., Cole, S., Borsato, E., Robertson, A., Massey, R., Cao, X., & Li, R. (2025). The onset of bar formation in a massive galaxy at z ∼ 3.8. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(2), 1163-1181. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf048

We examine the morphological and kinematical properties of SPT-2147, a strongly lensed, massive, dusty, star-forming galaxy at z = 3.762. Combining data from JWST, Hubble Space Telescope, and ALMA, we study the galaxy’s stellar emission, dust continu... Read More about The onset of bar formation in a massive galaxy at z ∼ 3.8.

ALESS-JWST: Joint (Sub)kiloparsec JWST and ALMA Imaging of z ~ 3 Submillimeter Galaxies Reveals Heavily Obscured Bulge Formation Events (2025)
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Hodge, J. A., Cunha, E. D., Kendrew, S., Li, J., Smail, I., Westoby, B. A., Nayak, O., Swinbank, A. M., Chen, C.-C., Walter, F., Werf, P. V. D., Cracraft, M., Battisti, A., Brandt, W. N., Rivera, G. C., Chapman, S. C., Cox, P., Dannerbauer, H., Decarli, R., Castillo, M. F., …Weiss, A. (2025). ALESS-JWST: Joint (Sub)kiloparsec JWST and ALMA Imaging of z ~ 3 Submillimeter Galaxies Reveals Heavily Obscured Bulge Formation Events. The Astrophysical Journal, 978(2), Article 165. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9a52

We present JWST NIRCam imaging targeting 13 z ~ 3 infrared-luminous (LIR ∼ 5 × 1012L⊙) galaxies from the ALESS survey with uniquely deep, high-resolution (0 .″ 08–0 .″ 16) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array 870 μm imaging. The 2.0–4.4 μm (o... Read More about ALESS-JWST: Joint (Sub)kiloparsec JWST and ALMA Imaging of z ~ 3 Submillimeter Galaxies Reveals Heavily Obscured Bulge Formation Events.

The kinematics of massive high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies (2024)
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Amvrosiadis, A., Wardlow, J. L., Birkin, J. E., Smail, I., Swinbank, A. M., Nightingale, J., Bertoldi, F., Brandt, W. N., Casey, C. M., Chapman, S. C., Chen, C. C., Cox, P., da Cunha, E., Dannerbauer, H., Dudzevičiūte, U., Gullberg, B., Hodge, J. A., Knudsen, K. K., Menten, K., Walter, F., & van der Werf, P. (2025). The kinematics of massive high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(4), 3757-3783. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2760

We present a new method for modelling the kinematics of galaxies from interferometric observations by performing the optimization of the kinematic model parameters directly in visibility space instead of the conventional approach of fitting velocity... Read More about The kinematics of massive high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies.

The properties of the interstellar medium in dusty star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 2–4: the shape of the CO spectral line energy distributions (2024)
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Taylor, D. J., Swinbank, A. M., Smail, I., Puglisi, A., Birkin, J. E., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Chen, C.-C., Ikarashi, S., Frias Castillo, M., Weiß, A., Li, Z., Chapman, S. C., Jansen, J., Jiménez-Andrade, E. F., Morabito, L. K., Murphy, E. J., Rybak, M., & van der Werf, P. P. (2025). The properties of the interstellar medium in dusty star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 2–4: the shape of the CO spectral line energy distributions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(2), 1149-1165. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2642

The structure of massive star-forming galaxies from JWST and ALMA: Dusty, high-redshift disc galaxies (2024)
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Gillman, S., Smail, I., Gullberg, B., Swinbank, A. M., Vijayan, A. P., Lee, M., Brammer, G., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Greve, T. R., Almaini, O., Brinch, M., Chapman, S. C., Chen, C.-C., Ikarashi, S., Matsuda, Y., Wang, W.-H., Walter, F., & van der Werf, P. P. (2024). The structure of massive star-forming galaxies from JWST and ALMA: Dusty, high-redshift disc galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 691, Article A299. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451006

We present an analysis of the JWST NIRCam and MIRI morphological and structural properties of 80 massive (log10(M*[M⊙]) = 11.2 ± 0.1) dusty star-forming galaxies at z = 2.7−0.7+1.2, identified as sub-millimetre galaxies (SMGs) by ALMA, which have bee... Read More about The structure of massive star-forming galaxies from JWST and ALMA: Dusty, high-redshift disc galaxies.

Metal line emission around z < 1 galaxies (2024)
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Dutta, R., Fumagalli, M., Fossati, M., Rafelski, M., Revalski, M., Arrigoni Battaia, F., D’Odorico, V., Péroux, C., Prichard, L. J., & Swinbank, A. M. (2024). Metal line emission around z < 1 galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 691, Article A236. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450733

We characterize, for the first time, the average extended emission in multiple lines ([O II], [O III], and Hβ) around a statistical sample of 560 galaxies at z ≈ 0.25 − 0.85. By stacking the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) 3D data from two l... Read More about Metal line emission around z < 1 galaxies.

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)
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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)
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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. 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)
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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

MeerKAT observations of starburst galaxies and AGNs within the core of XMMXCS J2215.9−1738 at z  = 1.46 (2024)
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Klutse, D. Y., Hilton, M., Heywood, I., Smail, I., Swinbank, A. M., Knowles, K., & Sikhosana, S. P. (2024). MeerKAT observations of starburst galaxies and AGNs within the core of XMMXCS J2215.9−1738 at z  = 1.46. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(2), 2842-2859. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1640

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)
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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.