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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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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

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 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

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): 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): 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

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

The Clustering of the SDSS Main Galaxy Sample II: Mock galaxy catalogues and a measurement of the growth of structure from Redshift Space Distortions at $z=0.15$

We measure Redshift-Space Distortions (RSD) in the two-point correlation function of a sample of $63,163$ spectroscopically identified galaxies with $z < 0.2$, an epoch where there are currently only limited measurements, from the Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Cullan Howlett , Ashley J. Ross , Lado Samushia , Will J. Percival , Marc Manera

Optimal Redshift Weighting For Redshift Space Distortions

The low statistical errors on cosmological parameters promised by future galaxy surveys will only be realised with the development of new, fast, analysis methods that reduce potential systematic problems to low levels. We present an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Rossana Ruggeri , Will Percival , Héctor Gil-Marín , Fangzhou Zhu , Gongbo Zhao , Yuting Wang

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): $\mathbf{z \sim 0}$ Galaxy Luminosity Function down to $\mathbf{L \sim 10^{6}~L_\odot}$ via Clustering Based Redshift Inference

In this study we present a new experimental design using clustering-based redshift inference to measure the evolving galaxy luminosity function (GLF) spanning 5.5 decades from $L \sim 10^{11.5}$ to $ 10^6 ~ \mathrm{L}_\odot$. We use data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-12 Geray S. Karademir , Edward N. Taylor , Chris Blake , Ivan K. Baldry , Sabine Bellstedt , Maciej Bilicki , Michael J. I. Brown , Michelle E. Cluver , Simon P. Driver , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Benne W. Holwerda , Andrew M. Hopkins , Jonathan Loveday , Steven Phillipps , Angus H. Wright

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): 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): 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