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Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Spectroscopic analysis

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 ~300000 galaxies over 280 square degrees, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. M. Hopkins , S. P. Driver , S. Brough , M. S. Owers , A. E. Bauer , M. L. P. Gunawardhana , M. E. Cluver , M. Colless , C. Foster , M. A. Lara-Lopez , I. Roseboom , R. Sharp , O. Steele , D. Thomas , I. K. Baldry , M. J. I. Brown , J. Liske , P. Norberg , A. S. G. Robotham , S. Bamford , J. Bland-Hawthorn , M. J. Drinkwater , J. Loveday , M. Meyer , J. A. Peacock , R. Tuffs , N. Agius , M. Alpaslan , E. Andrae , E. Cameron , S. Cole , J. H. Y. Ching , L. Christodoulou , C. Conselice , S. Croom , N. J. G. Cross , R. De Propris , J. Delhaize , L. Dunne , S. Eales , S. Ellis , C. S. Frenk , A. Graham , M. W. Grootes , B. Haussler , C. Heymans , D. Hill , B. Hoyle , M. Hudson , M. Jarvis , J. Johansson , D. H. Jones , E. van Kampen , L. Kelvin , K. Kuijken , A. Lopez-Sanchez , S. Maddox , B. Madore , C. Maraston , T. McNaught-Roberts , R. C. Nichol , S. Oliver , H. Parkinson , S. Penny , S. Phillipps , K. A. Pimbblet , T. Ponman , C. C. Popescu , M. Prescott , R. Proctor , E. M. Sadler , A. E. Sansom , M. Seibert , L. Staveley-Smith , W. Sutherland , E. Taylor , L. Van Waerbeke , J. A. Vazquez-Mata , S. Warren , D. B. Wijesinghe , V. Wild , S. Wilkins

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is one of the largest contemporary spectroscopic surveys of low-redshift galaxies. Covering an area of ~286 deg^2 (split among five survey regions) down to a limiting magnitude of r < 19.8 mag, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 J. Liske , I. K. Baldry , S. P. Driver , R. J. Tuffs , M. Alpaslan , E. Andrae , S. Brough , M. E. Cluver , M. W. Grootes , M. L. P. Gunawardhana , L. S. Kelvin , J. Loveday , A. S. G. Robotham , E. N. Taylor , S. P. Bamford , J. Bland-Hawthorn , M. J. I. Brown , M. J. Drinkwater , A. M. Hopkins , M. J. Meyer , P. Norberg , J. A. Peacock , N. K. Agius , S. K. Andrews , A. E. Bauer , J. H. Y. Ching , M. Colless , C. J. Conselice , S. M. Croom , L. J. M. Davies , R. De Propris , L. Dunne , E. M. Eardley , S. Ellis , C. Foster , C. S. Frenk , B. Häußler , B. W. Holwerda , C. Howlett , H. Ibarra , M. J. Jarvis , D. H. Jones , P. R. Kafle , C. G. Lacey , R. Lange , M. A. Lara-López , Á. R. López-Sánchez , S. Maddox , B. F. Madore , T. McNaught-Roberts , A. J. Moffett , R. C. Nichol , M. S. Owers , D. Palamara , S. J. Penny , S. Phillipps , K. A. Pimbblet , C. C. Popescu , M. Prescott , R. Proctor , E. M. Sadler , A. E. Sansom , M. Seibert , R. Sharp , W. Sutherland , J. A. Vázquez-Mata , E. van Kampen , S. M. Wilkins , R. Williams , A. H. Wright

GAMA: towards a physical understanding of galaxy formation

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) project is the latest in a tradition of large galaxy redshift surveys, and is now underway on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory. GAMA is designed to map extragalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-24 Simon P. Driver , Peder Norberg , Ivan K. Baldry , Steven P. Bamford , Andrew M. Hopkins , Jochen Liske , Jon Loveday , John A. Peacock , David T. Hill , Lee S. Kelvin , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Nick J. Cross , Hannah R. Parkinson , Matt Prescott , Chris J. Conselice , Loretta Dunne , Sarah Brough , Heath Jones , Rob G. Sharp , Eelco van Kampen , Seb Oliver , Isaac G. Roseboom , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Scott M. Croom , Simon Ellis , Ewan Cameron , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk , Warrick J. Couch , Alister W. Graham , Rob Proctor , Roberto De Propris , Issi F. Doyle , Ed M. Edmondson , Robert C. Nichol. Daniel Thomas , Steve A. Eales , Matt J. Jarvis , Konrad Kuijken , Ofer Lahav , Barry F. Madore , Mark Seibert , Martin J. Meyer , Lister Staveley-Smith , Steven Phillipps , Cristina C. Popescu , Ann E. Sansom , Will J. Sutherland , Richard J. Tuffs , Steven J. Warren

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The input catalogue and star-galaxy separation

We describe the spectroscopic target selection for the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The input catalogue is drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). The aim is to measure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 I. K. Baldry , A. S. G. Robotham , D. T. Hill , S. P. Driver , J. Liske , P. Norberg , S. P. Bamford , A. M. Hopkins , J. Loveday , J. A. Peacock , E. Cameron , S. M. Croom , N. J. G. Cross , I. F. Doyle , S. Dye , C. S. Frenk , D. H. Jones , E. van Kampen , L. S. Kelvin , R. C. Nichol , H. R. Parkinson , C. C. Popescu , M. Prescott , R. G. Sharp , W. J. Sutherland , D. Thomas , R. J. Tuffs

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): A study of energy, mass, and structure (1kpc-1Mpc) at z < 0.3

The GAMA survey has now completed its spectroscopic campaign of over 250,000 galaxies ($r<19.8$mag), and will shortly complete the assimilation of the complementary panchromatic imaging data from GALEX, VST, VISTA, WISE, and Herschel. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-03 Simon P. Driver

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): survey diagnostics and core data release

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has been operating since February 2008 on the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope using the AAOmega fibre-fed spectrograph facility to acquire spectra with a resolution of R~1300 for 120,862 SDSS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. P. Driver , D. T. Hill , L. S. Kelvin , A. S. G. Robotham , J. Liske , P. Norberg , I. K. Baldry , S. P. Bamford , A. M. Hopkins , J. Loveday , J. A. Peacock , E. Andrae , J. Bland-Hawthorn , S. Brough , M. J. I. Brown , E. Cameron , J. H. Y. Ching , M. Colless , C. J. Conselice , S. M. Croom , N. J. G. Cross , R. De Propris , S. Dye , M. J. Drinkwater , S. Ellis , Alister W. Graham , M. W. Grootes , M. Gunawardhana , D. H. Jones , E. van Kampen , C. Maraston , R. C. Nichol , H. R. Parkinson , S. Phillipps , K. Pimbblet , C. C. Popescu , M. Prescott , I. G. Roseboom , E. M. Sadler , A. E. Sansom , R. G. Sharp , D. J. B. Smith , E. Taylor , D. Thomas , R. J. Tuffs , D. Wijesinghe , L. Dunne , C. S. Frenk , M. J. Jarvis , B. F. Madore , M. J. Meyer , M. Seibert , L. Staveley-Smith , W. J. Sutherland , S. J. Warren

The GAMA Panchromatic Survey

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly Survey (GAMA) has now been operating for almost 5 years gathering spectroscopic redshifts for five regions of sky spanning 300 sq degrees in total to a depth of r<19.8 mag. The survey has amassed over 225,000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Simon P. Driver

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Refining the Local Galaxy Merger Rate using Morphological Information

We use the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to measure the local Universe mass dependent merger fraction and merger rate using galaxy pairs and the CAS structural method, which identifies highly asymmetric merger candidate galaxies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Kevin R. V. Casteels , Christopher J. Conselice , Steven P. Bamford , Eduard Salvador-Sole , Peder R. Norberg , Nicola K. Agius , Ivan Baldry , Sarah Brough , Michael J. I. Brown , Michael J. Drinkwater , Simon P. Driver , Alister W. Graham , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Andrew M. Hopkins , Lee S. Kelvin , Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez , Jon Loveday , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Jose A. Vazquez-Mata

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): autoz spectral redshift measurements, confidence and errors

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has obtained spectra of over 230000 targets using the Anglo-Australian Telescope. To homogenise the redshift measurements and improve the reliability, a fully automatic redshift code was developed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-22 I. K. Baldry , M. Alpaslan , A. E. Bauer , J. Bland-Hawthorn , S. Brough , M. E. Cluver , S. M. Croom , L. J. M. Davies , S. P. Driver , M. L. P. Gunawardhana , B. W. Holwerda , A. M. Hopkins , L. S. Kelvin , J. Liske , A. R. Lopez-Sanchez , J. Loveday , P. Norberg , J. Peacock , A. S. G. Robotham , E. N. Taylor

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The galaxy stellar mass function at z < 0.06

We determine the low-redshift field galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) using an area of 143 deg^2 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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 I. K. Baldry , S. P. Driver , J. Loveday , E. N. Taylor , L. S. Kelvin , J. Liske , P. Norberg , A. S. G. Robotham , S. Brough , A. M. Hopkins , S. P. Bamford , J. A. Peacock , J. Bland-Hawthorn , C. J. Conselice , S. M. Croom , D. H. Jones , H. R. Parkinson , C. C. Popescu , M. Prescott , R. G. Sharp , R. J. Tuffs

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: instrument specification and target selection

The SAMI Galaxy Survey will observe 3400 galaxies with the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral-field spectrograph (SAMI) on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) in a 3-year survey which began in 2013. We present the throughput of the SAMI…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 J. J. Bryant , M. S. Owers , A. S. G. Robotham , S. M. Croom , S. P. Driver , M. J. Drinkwater , N. P. F. Lorente , L. Cortese , N. Scott , M. Colless , A. Schaefer , E. N. Taylor , I. S. Konstantopoulos , J. T. Allen , I. Baldry , L. Barnes , A. E. Bauer , J. Bland-Hawthorn , J. V. Bloom , A. M. Brooks , S. Brough , G. Cecil , W. Couch , D. Croton , R. Davies , S. Ellis , L. M. R. Fogarty , C. Foster , K. Glazebrook , M. Goodwin , A. Green , M. L. Gunawardhana , E. Hampton , I. -T. Ho , A. M. Hopkins , L. Kewley , J. S. Lawrence , S. G. Leon-Saval , S. Leslie , G. Lewis , J. Liske , A. R. Lopez-Sanchez , S. Mahajan , A. M. Medling , N. Metcalfe , M. Meyer , J. Mould , D. Obreschkow , S. O'Toole , M. Pracy , S. N. Richards , T. Shanks , R. Sharp , S. M. Sweet , A. D. Thomas , C. Tonini , C. J. Walcher

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Trends in galaxy colours, morphology, and stellar populations with large scale structure, group, and pair environments

We explore trends in galaxy properties with Mpc-scale structures using catalogues of environment and large scale structure from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. Existing GAMA catalogues of large scale structure, group and pair…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-22 Mehmet Alpaslan , Simon Driver , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Danail Obreschkow , Ellen Andrae , Michelle Cluver , Lee S. Kelvin , Rebecca Lange , Matt Owers , Edward N. Taylor , Stephen K. Andrews , Steven Bamford , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Sarah Brough , Michael J. I. Brown , Matthew Colless , Luke J. M. Davies , Elizabeth Eardley , Meiert W. Grootes , Andrew M. Hopkins , Rebecca Kennedy , Jochen Liske , Maritza A. Lara-Lopez , Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez , Jon Loveday , Barry F. Madore , Smriti Mahajan , Martin Meyer , Amanda Moffett , Peder Norberg , Samantha Penny , Kevin A. Pimbblet , Cristina C. Popescu , Mark Seibert , Richard Tuffs

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): detection of low-surface-brightness galaxies from SDSS data

We report on a search for new low-surface-brightness galaxies (LSBGs) using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data within the GAMA equatorial fields. The search method consisted of masking objects detected with SDSS photo, combining gri…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 R. P. Williams , I. K. Baldry , L. S. Kelvin , P. A. James , S. P. Driver , M. Prescott , S. Brough , M. J. I. Brown , L. J. M. Davies , B. W. Holwerda , J. Liske , P. Norberg , A. J. Moffett , A. H. Wright

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the G02 field, Herschel-ATLAS target selection and Data Release 3

We describe data release 3 (DR3) of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The GAMA survey is a spectroscopic redshift and multi-wavelength photometric survey in three equatorial regions each of 60.0 deg^2 (G09, G12, G15), and two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-09 I. K. Baldry , J. Liske , M. J. I. Brown , A. S. G. Robotham , S. P. Driver , L. Dunne , M. Alpaslan , S. Brough , M. E. Cluver , E. Eardley , D. J. Farrow , C. Heymans , H. Hildebrandt , A. M. Hopkins , L. S. Kelvin , J. Loveday , A. J. Moffett , P. Norberg , M. S. Owers , E. N. Taylor , A. H. Wright , S. P. Bamford , J. Bland-Hawthorn , N. Bourne , M. N. Bremer , M. Colless , C. J. Conselice , S. M. Croom , L. J. M. Davies , C. Foster , M. W. Grootes , B. W. Holwerda , D. H. Jones , P. R. Kafle , K. Kuijken , M. A. Lara-Lopez , A. R. Lopez-Sanchez , M. J. Meyer , S. Phillipps , W. J. Sutherland , E. van Kampen , S. M. Wilkins

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Probing the merger histories of massive galaxies via stellar populations

The merging history of galaxies can be traced with studies of dynamically close pairs. These consist of a massive primary galaxy and a less massive secondary (or satellite) galaxy. The study of the stellar populations of secondary (lower…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-12 I. Ferreras , A. M. Hopkins , M. L. P. Gunawardhana , A. E. Sansom , M. S. Owers , S. Driver , L. Davies , A. Robotham , E. N. Taylor , I. Konstantopoulos , S. Brough , P. Norberg , S. Croom , J. Loveday , L. Wang , M. Bremer

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The galaxy stellar mass function to $z=0.1$ from the r-band selected equatorial regions

We derive the low redshift galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF), inclusive of dust corrections, for the equatorial Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) dataset covering 180 deg$^2$. We construct the mass function using a density-corrected maximum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 A. H. Wright , A. S. G. Robotham , S. P. Driver , M. Alpaslan , S. K. Andrews , I. K. Baldry , J. Bland-Hawthorn S. Brough , M. J. I. Brown , M. Colless , E. da Cunha , L. J. M. Davies , Alister W. Graham , B. W. Holwerda , A. M. Hopkins , P. R. Kafle , L. S. Kelvin , J. Loveday , S. J. Maddox , M. J. Meyer , A. J. Moffett , P. Norberg , S. Phillipps , K. Rowlands , E. N. Taylor , L. Wang , S. M. Wilkins

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): ugriz galaxy luminosity functions

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) is a project to study galaxy formation and evolution, combining imaging data from ultraviolet to radio with spectroscopic data from the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Using data from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Loveday , P. Norberg , I. K. Baldry , S. P. Driver , A. M. Hopkins , J. A. Peacock , S. P. Bamford , J. Liske , J. Bland-Hawthorn , S. Brough , M. J. I. Brown , E. Cameron , C. J. Conselice , S. M. Croom , C. S. Frenk , M. Gunawardhana , D. T. Hill , D. H. Jones , L. S. Kelvin , K. Kuijken , R. C. Nichol , H. R. Parkinson , S. Phillipps , K. A. Pimbblet , C. C. Popescu , M. Prescott , A. S. G. Robotham , R. G. Sharp , W. J. Sutherland , E. N. Taylor , D. Thomas , R. J. Tuffs , E. van Kampen , D. Wijesinghe

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Structural Investigation of Galaxies via Model Analysis (SIGMA)

We present single-S\'ersic two-dimensional 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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lee S. Kelvin , Simon P. Driver , Aaron S. G. Robotham , David T. Hill , Mehmet Alpaslan , Ivan K. Baldry , Steven P. Bamford , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Sarah Brough , Alister W. Graham , Boris Häussler , Andrew M. Hopkins , Jochen Liske , Jon Loveday , Peder Norberg , Steven Phillipps , Cristina C. Popescu , Matthew Prescott , Edward N. Taylor , Richard J. Tuffs

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Assimilation of KiDS into the GAMA database

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly Survey (GAMA) covers five fields with highly complete spectroscopic coverage ($>95$ per cent) to intermediate depths ($r<19.8$ or $i < 19.0$ mag), and collectively spans 250 square degrees of Equatorial or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-10 Sabine Bellstedt , Simon P. Driver , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Luke J. M. Davies , Cameron R. J. Bogue , Robin H. W. Cook , Abdolhosein Hashemizadeh , Soheil Koushan , Edward N. Taylor , Jessica E. Thorne , Ryan J. Turner , Angus H. Wright

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): improved cosmic growth measurements using multiple tracers of large-scale structure

We present the first application of a "multiple-tracer" redshift-space distortion (RSD) analysis to an observational galaxy sample, using data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly survey (GAMA). Our dataset is an r < 19.8 magnitude-limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Chris Blake , Ivan K. Baldry , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Leonidas Christodoulou , Matthew Colless , Christopher J. Conselice , Simon P. Driver , Andrew M. Hopkins , Jochen Liske , Jon Loveday , Peder Norberg , John A. Peacock , Gregory B. Poole , Aaron S. G. Robotham