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The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Early Data Release

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 J. T. Allen , S. M. Croom , I. S. Konstantopoulos , J. J. Bryant , R. Sharp , G. N. Cecil , L. M. R. Fogarty , C. Foster , A. W. Green , I. -T. Ho , M. S. Owers , A. L. Schaefer , N. Scott , A. E. Bauer , I. Baldry , L. A. Barnes , J. Bland-Hawthorn , J. V. Bloom , S. Brough , M. Colless , L. Cortese , W. J. Couch , M. J. Drinkwater , S. P. Driver , M. Goodwin , M. L. P. Gunawardhana , E. J. Hampton , A. M. Hopkins , L. J. Kewley , J. S. Lawrence , S. G. Leon-Saval , J. Liske , Á. R. López-Sánchez , N. P. F. Lorente , R. McElroy , A. M. Medling , J. Mould , P. Norberg , Q. A. Parker , C. Power , M. B. Pracy , S. N. Richards , A. S. G. Robotham , S. M. Sweet , E. N. Taylor , A. D. Thomas , C. Tonini , C. J. Walcher

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: first 1000 galaxies

The Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey is an ongoing project to obtain integral field spectroscopic observations of ~3400 galaxies by mid-2016. Including the pilot survey, a total of ~1000 galaxies have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 J. T. Allen , the SAMI Galaxy Survey Team

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Data Release Two with absorption-line physics value-added products

We present the second major release of data from the SAMI Galaxy Survey. Data Release Two includes data for 1559 galaxies, about 50% of the full survey. Galaxies included have a redshift range 0.004 < z < 0.113 and a large stellar mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 Nicholas Scott , Jesse van de Sande , Scott M. Croom , Brent Groves , Matt S. Owers , Henry Poetrodjojo , Francesco D'Eugenio , Anne M. Medling , Dilyar Barat , Tania M. Barone , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Sarah Brough , Julia Bryant , Luca Cortese , Caroline Foster , Andrew W. Green , Sree Oh , Matthew Colless , Michael J. Drinkwater , Simon P. Driver , Michael Goodwin , Madusha L. P. Gunawardhana , Christoph Federrath , Lloyd Harischandra , Yifei Jin , J. S. Lawrence , Nuria P. Lorente , Elizabeth Mannering , Simon O'Toole , Samuel N. Richards , Sebastian F. Sanchez , Adam L. Schaefer , Katrina Sealey , Rob Sharp , Sarah M. Sweet , Dan S. Taranu , Mathew Varidel

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

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Data Release One with Emission-line Physics Value-Added Products

We present the first major release of data from the SAMI Galaxy Survey. This data release focuses on the emission-line physics of galaxies. Data Release One includes data for 772 galaxies, about 20% of the full survey. Galaxies included…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Andrew W. Green , Scott M. Croom , Nicholas Scott , Luca Cortese , Anne M. Medling , Francesco D'Eugenio , Julia J. Bryant , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , J. T. Allen , Rob Sharp , I-Ting Ho , Brent Groves , Michael J. Drinkwater , Elizabeth Mannering , Lloyd Harischandra , Jesse van de Sande , Adam D. Thomas , Simon O'Toole , Richard M. McDermid , Minh Vuong , Katrina Sealey , Amanda E. Bauer , S. Brough , Barbara Catinella , Gerald Cecil , Matthew Colless , Warrick J. Couch , Simon P. Driver , Christoph Federrath , Caroline Foster , Michael Goodwin , Elise J. Hampton , A. M. Hopkins , D. Heath Jones , Iraklis S. Konstantopoulos , J. S. Lawrence , Sergio G. Leon-Saval , Jochen Liske , Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez , Nuria P. F. Lorente , Jeremy Mould , Danail Obreschkow , Matt S. Owers , Samuel N. Richards , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Adam L. Schaefer , Sarah M. Sweet , Dan S. Taranu , Edoardo Tescari , Chiara Tonini , T. Zafar

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Cubism and covariance, putting round pegs into square holes

We present a methodology for the regularisation and combination of sparse sampled and irregularly gridded observations from fibre-optic multi-object integral-field spectroscopy. The approach minimises interpolation and retains image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Sharp , J. T. Allen , L. M. R. Fogarty , S. M. Croom , L. Cortese , A. W. Green , J. Nielsen , S. N. Richards , N. Scott , E. N. Taylor , L. A. Barnes , A. E. Bauer , M. Birchall , J. Bland-Hawthorn , J. V. Bloom , S. Brough , J. J. Bryant , G. N. Cecil , M. Colless , W. J. Couch , M. J. Drinkwater , S. Driver , C. Foster , M. Goodwin , M. L. P. Gunawardhana , I. -T. Ho , E. J. Hampton , A. M. Hopkins , H. Jones , I. S. Konstantopoulos , J. S. Lawrence , S. K. Leslie , G. F. Lewis , J. Liske , A. R. Lopez-Sanchez , N. P. F. Lorente , R. McElroy , A. M. Medling , S. Mahajan , J. Mould , Q. Parker , M. B. Pracy , D. Obreschkow , M. S. Owers , A. L. Schaefer , S. M Sweet , A. Thomas , C. Tonini , C. J. Walcher

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: The cluster redshift survey, target selection and cluster properties

We describe the selection of galaxies targeted in eight low redshift clusters (APMCC0917, A168, A4038, EDCC442, A3880, A2399, A119 and A85; $0.029 < z < 0.058$) as part of the Sydney-AAO Multi-Object integral field Spectrograph Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 M. S. Owers , J. T. Allen , I. Baldry , J. J. Bryant , G. N. Cecil , L. Cortese , S. M. Croom , S. P. Driver , L. M. R. Fogarty , A. W. Green , E. Helmich , J. T. A. de Jong , K. Kuijken , S. Mahajan , J. McFarland , M. B. Pracy , A. G. S. Robotham , G. Sikkema , S. Sweet , E. N. Taylor , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. E. Bauer , J. Bland-Hawthorn , S. Brough , M. Colless , W. J. Couch , R. L Davies , M. J. Drinkwater , M. Goodwin , A. M. Hopkins , I. S. Konstantopoulos , C. Foster , J. S. Lawrence , N. P. F Lorente , A. M. Medling , N. Metcalfe , S. N. Richards , J. van de Sande , N. Scott , T. Shanks , R. Sharp , A. D. Thomas , C. Tonini

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

Beyond BPT: A New Multi-Dimensional Diagnostic Diagram for Classifying Power Sources Tested Using the SAMI Galaxy Survey

Current methods of identifying the ionizing source of nebular emission in galaxies are well defined for the era of single fiber spectroscopy, but still struggle to differentiate the complex and overlapping ionization sources in some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-25 Victor Johnston , Anne Medling , Brent Groves , Lisa Kewley , Luca Cortese , Scott Croom , Ángel López-Sánchez , Henry Zovaro , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Julia Bryant , Jon Lawrence , Matt Owers , Samuel Richards , Jesse van de Sande

First Science with SAMI: A Serendipitously Discovered Galactic Wind in ESO 185-G031

We present the first scientific results from the Sydney-AAO Multi-Object IFS (SAMI) at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This unique instrument deploys 13 fused fibre bundles (hexabundles) across a one-degree field of view allowing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Lisa M. R. Fogarty , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Scott M. Croom , Andrew W. Green , Julia J. Bryant , Jon S. Lawrence , Samuel Richards , James T. Allen , Amanda E. Bauer , Michael N. Birchall , Sarah Brough , Matthew Colless , Simon C. Ellis , Tony Farrell , Michael Goodwin , Ron Heald , Andrew M. Hopkins , Anthony Horton , D. Heath Jones , Steve Lee , Geraint Lewis , Ángel R. López-Sánchez , Stan Miziarski , Holly Trowland , Sergio G. Leon-Saval , Seong-Sik Min , Christopher Trinh , Gerald Cecil , Sylvain Veilleux , Kory Kreimeyer

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 SAMI Galaxy Survey: Spatially Resolving the Main Sequence of Star Formation

We present the ~800 star formation rate maps for the SAMI Galaxy Survey based on H{\alpha} emission maps, corrected for dust attenuation via the Balmer decrement, that are included in the SAMI Public Data Release 1. We mask out spaxels…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Anne M. Medling , Luca Cortese , Scott M. Croom , Andrew W. Green , Brent Groves , Elise Hampton , I-Ting Ho , Luke J. M. Davies , Lisa J. Kewley , Amanda J. Moffett , Adam L. Schaefer , Edward Taylor , Tayyaba Zafar , Kenji Bekki , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Jessica V. Bloom , Sarah Brough , Julia J. Bryant , Barbara Catinella , Gerald Cecil , Matthew Colless , Warrick J. Couch , Michael J. Drinkwater , Simon P. Driver , Christoph Federrath , Caroline Foster , Gregory Goldstein , Michael Goodwin , Andrew Hopkins , J. S. Lawrence , Sarah K. Leslie , Geraint F. Lewis , Nuria P. F. Lorente , Matt S. Owers , Richard McDermid , Samuel N. Richards , Robert Sharp , Nicholas Scott , Sarah M. Sweet , Dan S. Taranu , Edoardo Tescari , Chiara Tonini , Jesse van de Sande , C. Jakob Walcher , Angus Wright

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Spatially resolving the environmental quenching of star formation in GAMA galaxies

We use data from the Sydney-AAO Multi-Object Integral Field Spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey and the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to investigate the spatially-resolved signatures of the environmental quenching of star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 A. L. Schaefer , S. M. Croom , J. T. Allen , S. Brough , A. M. Medling , I. -T. Ho , N. Scott , S. N. Richards , M. B. Pracy , M. L. P. Gunawardhana , P. Norberg , M. Alpaslan , A. E. Bauer , K. Bekki , J. Bland-Hawthorn , J. V. Bloom , J. J. Bryant , W. J. Couch , S. P. Driver , L. M. R. Fogarty , C. Foster , G. Goldstein , A. W. Green , A. M. Hopkins , I. S. Konstantopoulos , J. S. Lawrence , A. R. López-Sánchez , N. P. F. Lorente , M. S. Owers , R. Sharp , S. M. Sweet , E. N. Taylor , J. van de Sande , C. J. Walcher , O. I. Wong

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Shocks and Outflows in a normal star-forming galaxy

We demonstrate the feasibility and potential of using large integral field spectroscopic surveys to investigate the prevalence of galactic-scale outflows in the local Universe. Using integral field data from SAMI and the Wide Field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-11 I-Ting Ho , Lisa J. Kewley , Michael A. Dopita , Anne M. Medling , J. T. Allen , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Jessica V. Bloom , Julia J. Bryant , Scott M. Croom , L. M. R. Fogarty , Michael Goodwin , Andy W. Green , Iraklis S. Konstantopoulos , Jon S. Lawrence , Á. R. López-Sánchez , Matt S. Owers , Samuel Richards , Rob Sharp

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

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Global stellar populations on the size-mass plane

We present an analysis of the global stellar populations of galaxies in the SAMI Galaxy Survey. Our sample consists of 1319 galaxies spanning four orders of magnitude in stellar mass and includes all morphologies and environments. We derive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-28 Nicholas Scott , S. Brough , Scott M. Croom , Roger L. Davies , Jesse van de Sande , J. T. Allen , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Julia J. Bryant , Luca Cortese , Francesco D'Eugenio , Christoph Federrath , Ignacio Ferreras , Michael Goodwin , Brent Groves , Iraklis Konstantopoulos , Jon S. Lawrence , Anne M. Medling , Amanda J. Moffett , Matt S. Owers , Samuel Richards , A. S. G. Robotham , Chiara Tonini , Sukyoung K. Yi

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 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

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: embedded discs and radial trends in outer dynamical support across the Hubble sequence

We study the balance in dynamical support of 384 galaxies with stellar kinematics out to >1.5R_e in the Sydney AAO Multi-object Integral Field (SAMI) Galaxy Survey. We present radial dynamical profiles of the local rotation dominance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Caroline Foster , J. van de Sande , L. Cortese , S. M. Croom , J. Bland-Hawthorn , S. Brough , J. J. Bryant , M. Goodwin , J. S. Lawrence , N. Lorente , A. M. Medling , M. Owers , S. N. Richards , N. Scott

The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Final Redshift Release (DR3) and Southern Large-Scale Structures

We report the final redshift release of the 6dF Galaxy Survey, a combined redshift and peculiar velocity survey over the southern sky (|b|>10 deg). Its 136,304 spectra have yielded 110,256 new extragalactic redshifts and a new catalogue of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Heath Jones , Mike A. Read , Will Saunders , Matthew Colless , Tom Jarrett , Quentin Parker , Anthony Fairall , Thomas Mauch , Elaine Sadler , Fred Watson , Donna Burton , Lachlan Campbell , Paul Cass , Scott Croom , John Dawe , Kristin Fiegert , Leela Frankcombe , Malcolm Hartley , John Huchra , Dionne James , Emma Kirby , Ofer Lahav , John Lucey , Gary Mamon , Lesa Moore , Bruce Peterson , Sayuri Prior , Dominique Proust , Ken Russell , Vicky Safouris , Ken-ichi Wakamatsu , Eduard Westra , Mary Williams