Star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon

NM Förster Schreiber, S Wuyts - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ever deeper and wider look-back surveys have led to a fairly robust outline of the cosmic
star-formation history, which culminated around; this period is often nicknamed “cosmic …

Nuclear star clusters

N Neumayer, A Seth, T Böker - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2020 - Springer
We review the current knowledge about nuclear star clusters (NSCs), the spectacularly
dense and massive assemblies of stars found at the centers of most galaxies. Recent …

The saga survey. ii. building a statistical sample of satellite systems around milky way–like galaxies

YY Mao, M Geha, RH Wechsler, B Weiner… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the Stage II results from the ongoing Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA)
Survey. Upon completion, the SAGA Survey will spectroscopically identify satellite galaxies …

Wet compaction to a blue nugget: a critical phase in galaxy evolution

S Lapiner, A Dekel, J Freundlich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We utilize high-resolution cosmological simulations to reveal that high-redshift galaxies tend
to undergo a robust 'wet compaction'event when near a 'golden'stellar mass of. This is a …

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

SP Driver, DT Hill, LS Kelvin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has been operating since 2008
February on the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope using the AAOmega fibre-fed …

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

J Liske, IK Baldry, SP Driver, RJ Tuffs… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is one of the largest contemporary
spectroscopic surveys of low redshift galaxies. Covering an area of∼ 286 deg2 (split among …

The Horizon-AGN simulation: evolution of galaxy properties over cosmic time

S Kaviraj, C Laigle, T Kimm… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We compare the predictions of Horizon-AGN, a hydrodynamical cosmological simulation
that uses an adaptive mesh refinement code, to observational data in the redshift range 0< …

ProFound: source extraction and application to modern survey data

ASG Robotham, LJM Davies, SP Driver… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We introduce ProFound, a source finding and image analysis package. ProFound provides
methods to detect sources in noisy images, generate segmentation maps identifying the …

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): mass–size relations of z < 0.1 galaxies subdivided by Sérsic index, colour and morphology

R Lange, SP Driver, ASG Robotham… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We use data from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey in the redshift range 0.01<
z< 0.1 (8399 galaxies in g to K s bands) to derive the stellar mass–half-light radius relations …

Structure and formation of elliptical and spheroidal galaxies

J Kormendy, DB Fisher, ME Cornell… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
New surface photometry of all known elliptical galaxies in the Virgo cluster is combined with
published data to derive composite profiles of brightness, ellipticity, position angle, isophote …