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

Liske, J.; Baldry, I.K.; Driver, S.P.; Tuffs, R.J.; Alpaslan, M.; Andrae, E.; Brough, S.; Cluver, M.E.; Grootes, M.W.; Gunawardhana, M.L.P.; Kelvin, L.S.; Loveday, J.; Robotham, A.S.G.; Taylor, E.N.; Bamford, S.P.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Brown, M.J.I.; Drinkwater, M.J.; Hopkins, A.M.; Meyer, M.J.; Norberg, P.; Peacock, J.A.; Agius, N.K.; Andrews, S.K.; Bauer, A.E.; Ching, J.H.Y.; Colless, M.; Conselice, Christopher J.; Croom, S.M.; Davies, L.J.M.; De Propris, R.; Dunne, L.; Eardley, E.M.; Ellis, S.; Foster, C.; Frenk, C.S.; H?u?ler, B.; Holwerda, B.W.; Howlett, C.; Ibarra, H.; Jarvis, M.J.; Jones, D.H.; Kafle, P.R.; Lacey, C.G.; Lange, R.; Lara-Lopez, M.A.; Lopez-Sanchez, A.R.; Maddox, S.; Madore, B.F.; McNaught-Roberts, T.; Moffett, A.J.; Nichol, R.C.; Owers, M.S.; Palamara, D.; Penny, S.J.; Phillipps, S.; Pimbblet, K.A.; Popescu, C.C.; Prescott, M.; Proctor, R.; Sadler, E.M.; Sansom, A.E.; Seibert, M.; Sharp, R.; Sutherland, W.; Vazquez-Mata, J.A.; van Kampen, E.; Wilkins, S.M.; William...

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 five survey regions) down to a limiting magnitude of r < 19.8 mag, we have collected spectra and reliable redshifts for 238 000 objects using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. In addition, we have assembled imaging data from a number of independent surveys in order to generate photometry spanning the wavelength range 1 nm–1 m. Here, we report on the recently completed spectroscopic survey and present a series of diagnostics to assess its final state and the quality of the redshift data. We also describe a number of survey aspects and procedures, or updates thereof, including changes to the input catalogue, redshifting and re-redshifting, and the derivation of ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared photometry. Finally, we present the second public release of GAMA data. In this release, we provide input catalogue and targeting information, spectra, redshifts, ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared photometry, single-component Sersic fits, stellar masses, Hα-derived star formation rates, environment information, and group properties for all galaxies with r < 19.0 mag in two of our survey regions, and for all galaxies with r < 19.4 mag in a third region (72 225 objects in total). The data base serving these data is available at http://www.gama-survey.org/.

Citation

Liske, J., Baldry, I., Driver, S., Tuffs, R., Alpaslan, M., Andrae, E., …Wright, A. (2015). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1436

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 26, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Jul 21, 2015
• Publication Date: Sep 11, 2015
• Deposit Date: Jul 13, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 13, 2016
• Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Print ISSN: 0035-8711
• Electronic ISSN: 1365-2966
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 452
• Issue: 2
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1436
• Keywords: surveys – galaxies: distances and redshifts, galaxies: fundamental parameters, galaxies: general, galaxies: photometry, galaxies: statistics
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/761466
• Publisher URL: http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/452/2/2087
• Additional Information: This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2015 The authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.