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NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of the extreme ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5907 ULX1 : a vanishing act (2015)
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Walton, D., Harrison, F., Bachetti, M., Barret, D., Boggs, S., Christensen, F., …Zhang, W. (2015). NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of the extreme ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5907 ULX1 : a vanishing act. Astrophysical Journal, 799(2), Article 122. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/799/2/122

We present results obtained from two broadband X-ray observations of the extreme ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 5907 ULX1, known to have a peak X-ray luminosity of ~5 × 1040 erg s–1. These XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations, separated by only ~... Read More about NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of the extreme ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5907 ULX1 : a vanishing act.

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.

An ALMA Survey of Submillimeter Galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: Near-infrared Morphologies and Stellar Sizes (2015)
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Chen, C., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Simpson, J., Ma, C., Alexander, D., …van der Werf, P. (2015). An ALMA Survey of Submillimeter Galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: Near-infrared Morphologies and Stellar Sizes. Astrophysical Journal, 799(2), Article 194. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/799/2/194

We analyze Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/H 160-band observations of a sample of 48 Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array detected submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South field, to study their stellar morphologies a... Read More about An ALMA Survey of Submillimeter Galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: Near-infrared Morphologies and Stellar Sizes.

The Mass Profile and Shape of Bars in the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S$^4$G): Search for an Age Indicator for Bars (2015)
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Kim, T., Sheth, K., Gadotti, D. A., Lee, M. G., Zaritsky, D., Elmegreen, B. G., Athanassoula, E., Bosma, A., Holwerda, B., Ho, L. C., Comerón, S., Knapen, J. H., Hinz, J. L., Muñoz-Mateos, J.-C., Erroz-Ferrer, S., Buta, R. J., Kim, M., Laurikainen, E., Salo, H., Madore, B. F., …Mizusawa, T. (2015). The Mass Profile and Shape of Bars in the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S$^4$G): Search for an Age Indicator for Bars. Astrophysical Journal, 799(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/799/1/99

Cosmic X-ray surveys of distant active galaxies. The demographics, physics, and ecology of growing supermassive black holes (2015)
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Brandt, W., & Alexander, D. (2015). Cosmic X-ray surveys of distant active galaxies. The demographics, physics, and ecology of growing supermassive black holes. Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 23(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00159-014-0081-z

We review results from cosmic X-ray surveys of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) over the past ≈15 years that have dramatically improved our understanding of growing supermassive black holes in the distant universe. First, we discuss the utility of such... Read More about Cosmic X-ray surveys of distant active galaxies. The demographics, physics, and ecology of growing supermassive black holes.

Young star clusters in the interacting galaxies of Hickson Compact Group 90 (2015)
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Miah, J., Sharples, R., & Cho, J. (2015). Young star clusters in the interacting galaxies of Hickson Compact Group 90. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(4), 3639-3648. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2735

Deep images of Hickson Compact Group 90 (HCG 90) have been obtained using the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope. We report results for star clusters observed in the interacting pair of galaxies NGC 7174 and NGC 7176. We presen... Read More about Young star clusters in the interacting galaxies of Hickson Compact Group 90.

The LOFAR long baseline snapshot calibrator survey (2015)
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Moldón, J., Deller, A., Wucknitz, O., Jackson, N., Drabent, A., Carozzi, T., Conway, J., Kapińska, A., McKean, J., Morabito, L., Varenius, E., Zarka, P., Anderson, J., Asgekar, A., Avruch, I., Bell, M., Bentum, M., Bernardi, G., Best, P., Bîrzan, L., …Zensus, A. (2015). The LOFAR long baseline snapshot calibrator survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 574, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425042

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: ALMA Resolves the Rest-frame Far-infrared Emission of Sub-millimeter Galaxies (2015)
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Simpson, J., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Almaini, O., Blain, A., Bremer, M., …van der Werf, P. (2015). The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: ALMA Resolves the Rest-frame Far-infrared Emission of Sub-millimeter Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 799(1), Article 81. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/799/1/81

We present high-resolution (0.''3) Atacama Large Millimeter Array 870 μm imaging of 52 sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) in the Ultra Deep Survey field to investigate the size and morphology of the sub-millimeter (sub-mm) emission on 2-10 kpc scales. We... Read More about The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: ALMA Resolves the Rest-frame Far-infrared Emission of Sub-millimeter Galaxies.

A spectral-timing model for ULXs in the supercritical regime (2015)
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Middleton, M., Heil, L., Pintore, F., Walton, D., & Roberts, T. (2015). A spectral-timing model for ULXs in the supercritical regime. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(4), 3243-3263. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2644

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) with luminosities lying between ∼3 × 1039 and 2 × 1040 erg s−1 represent a contentious sample of objects as their brightness, together with a lack of unambiguous mass estimates for the vast majority of the central o... Read More about A spectral-timing model for ULXs in the supercritical regime.

Legacy Extragalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) With the Hubble Space Telescope. I. Survey Description (2015)
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Calzetti, D., Lee, J., Sabbi, E., Adamo, A., Smith, L., Andrews, J., …Wofford, A. (2015). Legacy Extragalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) With the Hubble Space Telescope. I. Survey Description. Astronomical Journal, 149(2), Article 51. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/149/2/51

The Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) is a Cycle 21 Treasury program on the Hubble Space Telescope aimed at the investigation of star formation and its relation with galactic environment in nearby galaxies, from the scales of individual stars to... Read More about Legacy Extragalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) With the Hubble Space Telescope. I. Survey Description.

The environments of Ly α blobs I: Wide-field Ly α imaging of TN J1338-1942, a powerful radio galaxy at z ≃ 4.1 associated with a giant Ly α nebula (2015)
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Saito, T., Matsuda, Y., Lacey, C., Smail, I., Orsi, A., Baugh, C., …Taniguchi, Y. (2015). The environments of Ly α blobs I: Wide-field Ly α imaging of TN J1338-1942, a powerful radio galaxy at z ≃ 4.1 associated with a giant Ly α nebula. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(4), 3069-3086. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2538

We exploit wide-field Ly α imaging with Subaru to probe the environment around TN J1338−1942, a powerful radio galaxy with a > 100 kpc Ly α halo at z = 4.11. We used a sample of Ly α emitters (LAEs) down to log (LLyα[ erg s−1]) ∼ 42.8 to measure the... Read More about The environments of Ly α blobs I: Wide-field Ly α imaging of TN J1338-1942, a powerful radio galaxy at z ≃ 4.1 associated with a giant Ly α nebula.

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Early Data Release (2015)
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Allen, J., Croom, S., Konstantopoulos, I., Bryant, J., Sharp, R., Cecil, G., …Walcher, C. (2015). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Early Data Release. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446(2), 1567-1583. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2057

We present the Early Data Release of the Sydney–AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey. The SAMI Galaxy Survey is an ongoing integral field spectroscopic survey of ∼3400 low-redshift (z < 0.12) galaxies, covering galaxies i... Read More about The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Early Data Release.

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: the submillimetre properties of Lyman-break galaxies at z = 3-5 (2015)
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Coppin, K., Geach, J., Almaini, O., Arumugam, V., Dunlop, J., Hartley, W., …van der Werf, P. (2015). The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: the submillimetre properties of Lyman-break galaxies at z = 3-5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446(2), 1293-1304. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2185

We present detections at 850 μm of the Lyman-break galaxy (LBG) population at z ≈ 3, 4, and 5 using data from the Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array 2 Cosmology Legacy Survey in the United Kingdom Infrared Deep Sky Survey ‘Ultra Deep Survey’ f... Read More about The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: the submillimetre properties of Lyman-break galaxies at z = 3-5.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): deconstructing bimodality - I. Red ones and blue ones (2015)
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Taylor, E., Hopkins, A., Baldry, I., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brown, M., Colless, M., …Loveday, J. (2015). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): deconstructing bimodality - I. Red ones and blue ones. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446(2), 2144-2185. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1900

We measure the mass functions for generically red and blue galaxies, using a z < 0.12 sample of log M* > 8.7 field galaxies from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. Our motivation is that, as we show, the dominant uncertainty in existing meas... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): deconstructing bimodality - I. Red ones and blue ones.

The dark matter haloes of moderate luminosity X-ray AGN as determined from weak gravitational lensing and host stellar masses (2015)
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Leauthaud, A., Benson, A., Civano, F., Coil, A., Bundy, K., Massey, R., …Rhodes, J. (2015). The dark matter haloes of moderate luminosity X-ray AGN as determined from weak gravitational lensing and host stellar masses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446(2), 1874-1888. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2210

Understanding the relationship between galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN) and the dark matter haloes in which they reside is key to constraining how black hole fuelling is triggered and regulated. Previous efforts have relied on simple hal... Read More about The dark matter haloes of moderate luminosity X-ray AGN as determined from weak gravitational lensing and host stellar masses.

A deficit of ultraluminous X-ray sources in luminous infrared galaxies (2015)
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Luangtip, W., Roberts, T., Mineo, S., Lehmer, B., Alexander, D., Jackson, F., …Fischer, J. (2015). A deficit of ultraluminous X-ray sources in luminous infrared galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446(1), 470-492. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2086

We present results from a Chandra study of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in a sample of 17 nearby (DL < 60 Mpc) luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs), selected to have star formation rates (SFRs) in excess of 7 M⊙ yr−1 and low foreground Galactic c... Read More about A deficit of ultraluminous X-ray sources in luminous infrared galaxies.

The host galaxies of X-ray selected active galactic nuclei to z = 2.5: Structure, star formation, and their relationships from CANDELS and Herschel/PACS (2015)
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Rosario, D., McIntosh, D., van der Wel, A., Kartaltepe, J., Lang, P., Santini, P., …Wandro, P. (2015). The host galaxies of X-ray selected active galactic nuclei to z = 2.5: Structure, star formation, and their relationships from CANDELS and Herschel/PACS. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 573, Article A85. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423782

We study the relationship between the structure and star formation rate (SFR) of X-ray selected low and moderate luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the two Chandra Deep Fields, using Hubble Space Telescope imaging from the Cosmic Assembly Ne... Read More about The host galaxies of X-ray selected active galactic nuclei to z = 2.5: Structure, star formation, and their relationships from CANDELS and Herschel/PACS.