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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): 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)

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): 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): 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): 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

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 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): 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): Panchromatic Data Release (far-UV --- far-IR) and the low-z energy budget

We present the GAMA Panchromatic Data Release (PDR) constituting over 230deg$^2$ of imaging with photometry in 21 bands extending from the far-UV to the far-IR. These data complement our spectroscopic campaign of over 300k galaxies, and are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 Simon P. Driver , Angus H. Wright , Stephen K. Andrews , Luke J. Davies , Prajwal R. Kafle , Rebecca Lange , Amanda J. Moffett , Elizabeth Mannering , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Kevin Vinsen , Mehmet Alpaslan , Ellen Andrae , Ivan K. Baldry , Amanda E. Bauer , Steven P. Bamford , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Nathan Bourne , Sarah Brough , Michael J. I. Brown , Michelle E. Cluver , Scott Croom , Matthew Colless , Christopher J. Conselice , Elisabete da Cunha , Roberto De Propris , Michael Drinkwater , Loretta Dunne , Steve Eales , Alastair Edge , Carlos Frenk , Alister W. Graham , Meiert Grootes , Benne W. Holwerda , Andrew M. Hopkins , Edo Ibar , Eelco van Kampen , Lee S. Kelvin , Tom Jarrett , D. Heath Jones , Maritza A. Lara-Lopez , Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez , Jochen Liske , Jon Loveday , Steve J. Maddox , Barry Madore , Martin Meyer , Peder Norberg , Samantha J. Penny , Stephen Phillipps , Cristina Popescu , Richard J. Tuffs , John A. Peacock , Kevin A. Pimbblet , Kate Rowlands , Anne E. Sansom , Mark Seibert , Matthew W. L. Smith , Will J. Sutherland , Edward N. Taylor , Elisabetta Valiante , Lingyu Wang , Stephen M. Wilkins , Richard Williams

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

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): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions

In Galaxy And Mass Assembly Data Release 4 (GAMA DR4), we make available our full spectroscopic redshift sample. This includes 248682 galaxy spectra, and, in combination with earlier surveys, results in 330542 redshifts across five sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Simon P. Driver , Sabine Bellstedt , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Ivan K. Baldry , Luke J. Davies , Jochen Liske , Danail Obreschkow , Edward N. Taylor , Angus H. Wright , Mehmet Alpaslan , Steven P. Bamford , Amanda E. Bauer , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Maciej Bilicki , Matias Bravo , Sarah Brough , Sarah Casura , Michelle E. Cluver , Matthew Colless , Christopher J. Conselice , Scott M. Croom , Jelte de Jong , Franceso D'Eugenio , Roberto De Propris , Burak Dogruel , Michael J. Drinkwater , Andrej Dvornik , Daniel J. Farrow , Carlos S. Frenk , Benjamin Giblin , Alister W. Graham , Meiert W. Grootes , Madusha L. P. Gunawardhana , Abdolhosein Hashemizadeh , Boris Haussler , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Benne W. Holwerda , Andrew M. Hopkins , Tom H. Jarrett , D. Heath Jones , Lee S. Kelvin , Soheil Koushan , Konrad Kuijken , Maritza A. Lara-Lopez , Rebecca Lange , Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez , Jon Loveday , Smriti Mahajan , Martin Meyer , Amanda J. Moffett , Nicola R. Napolitano , Peder Norberg , Matt S. Owers , Mario Radovich , Mojtaba Raouf , John A. Peacock , Steven Phillipps , Kevin A. Pimbblet , Cristina Popescu , Khaled Said , Anne E. Sansom , Mark Seibert , Will J. Sutherland , Jessica E. Thorne , Richard J. Tuffs , Ryan Turner , Arjen van der Wel , Eelco van Kampen , Steve M. Wilkins

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): 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): 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): Optimal Tiling of Dense Surveys with a Multi-Object Spectrograph

A heuristic greedy algorithm is developed for efficiently tiling spatially dense redshift surveys. In its first application to the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) redshift survey we find it rapidly improves the spatial uniformity of our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Aaron Robotham , S. P. Driver , P. Norberg , I. K. Baldry , S. P. Bamford , A. M. Hopkins , J. Liske , J. Loveday , J. A. Peacock , E. Cameron , S. M. Croom , I. F. Doyle , C. S. Frenk , D. T. Hill , D. H. Jones , E. van Kampen , L. S. Kelvin , K. Kuijken , 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): The evolution of bias in the radio source population to z ~ 1.5

We present a large-scale clustering analysis of radio galaxies in the Very Large Array (VLA) Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm (FIRST) survey over the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey area, limited to S1.4 GHz >1 mJy with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. N. Lindsay , M. J. Jarvis , M. G. Santos , M. J. I. Brown , S. M. Croom , S. P. Driver , A. M. Hopkins , J. Liske , J. Loveday , P. Norberg , A. S. G. Robotham

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): 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