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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

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 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): 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): 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

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

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): galaxy radial alignments in GAMA groups

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael D. Schneider , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk , Lee Kelvin , Rachel Mandelbaum , Peder Norberg , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Sarah Brough , Simon Driver , Andrew Hopkins , Jochen Liske , Jon Loveday , Aaron Robotham

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

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA)

The GAMA survey aims to deliver 250,000 optical spectra (3--7Ang resolution) over 250 sq. degrees to spectroscopic limits of r_{AB} <19.8 and K_{AB}<17.0 mag. Complementary imaging will be provided by GALEX, VST, UKIRT, VISTA, HERSCHEL and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Simon P. Driver , the GAMA team

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

The Tiling Algorithm for the 6dF Galaxy Survey

The Six Degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) is a spectroscopic survey of the southern sky, which aims to provide positions and velocities of galaxies in the nearby Universe. We present here the adaptive tiling algorithm developed to place…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 Lachlan Campbell , Will Saunders , Matthew Colless

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): 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

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Bulge-disk decomposition of KiDS and VIKING data in the nearby universe

In this thesis, we derive a catalogue of robust structural parameters for the components of a large sample of nearby GAMA galaxies while at the same time contributing to the advancement of image analysis, surface brightness fitting and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-20 Sarah Casura

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Redshift Space Distortions from the Clipped Galaxy Field

We present the first cosmological measurement derived from a galaxy density field subject to a `clipping' transformation. By enforcing an upper bound on the galaxy number density field in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly survey (GAMA),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Fergus Simpson , Chris Blake , John A. Peacock , Ivan Baldry , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Alan Heavens , Catherine Heymans , Jon Loveday , Peder Norberg

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Probing galaxy-group correlations in redshift space with the halo streaming model

We have studied the galaxy-group cross-correlations in redshift space for the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) Survey. We use a set of mock GAMA galaxy and group catalogues to develop and test a novel 'halo streaming' model for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Qianjun Hang , John A. Peacock , Shadab Alam , Yan-Chuan Cai , Katarina Kraljic , Marcel van Daalen , M. Bilicki , B. W. Holwerda , J. Loveday

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Curation and reanalysis of 16.6k redshifts in the G10/COSMOS region

We discuss the construction of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) 10h region (G10) using publicly available data in the Cosmic Evolution Survey region (COSMOS) in order to extend the GAMA survey to z~1 in a single ~1 deg^2 field. In order…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 L. J. M. Davies , S. P. Driver , A. S. G. Robotham , I. K. Baldry , R. Lange , J. Liske , M. Meyer , A. Popping , S. M. Wilkins , A. H. Wright

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): 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