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The Herschel–ATLAS data release 2, Paper I. Submillimeter and far-infrared images of the South and North Galactic Poles: the largest Herschel survey of the extragalactic sky (2017)
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Smith, M. W., Ibar, E., Maddox, S., Valiante, E., Dunne, L., Eales, S., …Viaene, S. (2017). The Herschel–ATLAS data release 2, Paper I. Submillimeter and far-infrared images of the South and North Galactic Poles: the largest Herschel survey of the extragalactic sky. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 233(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa9b35

We present the largest submillimeter images that have been made of the extragalactic sky. The Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) is a survey of 660 deg2 with the PACS and SPIRE cameras in five photometric bands: 100, 160, 25... Read More about The Herschel–ATLAS data release 2, Paper I. Submillimeter and far-infrared images of the South and North Galactic Poles: the largest Herschel survey of the extragalactic sky.

H-ATLAS/GAMA: magnification bias tomography. Astrophysical constraints above ∼1 arcmin (2017)
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González-Nuevo, J., Lapi, A., Bonavera, L., Danese, L., de Zotti, G., Negrello, M., …Valiante, E. (2017). H-ATLAS/GAMA: magnification bias tomography. Astrophysical constraints above ∼1 arcmin. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2017(10), https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/10/024

An unambiguous manifestation of the magnification bias is the cross-correlation between two source samples with non-overlapping redshift distributions. In this work we measure and study the cross-correlation signal between a foreground sample of GAMA... Read More about H-ATLAS/GAMA: magnification bias tomography. Astrophysical constraints above ∼1 arcmin.

The new galaxy evolution paradigm revealed by the Herschel surveys (2017)
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Eales, S., Smith, D., Bourne, N., Loveday, J., Rowlands, K., van der Werf, P., …Vlahakis, C. (2018). The new galaxy evolution paradigm revealed by the Herschel surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(3), 3507-3524. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STX2548

© 2018 The Author(s). The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed a very different galaxyscape from that shown by optical surveys which presents a challenge for galaxy-evolution models. The Herschel surveys reveal (1) that there was rapid galaxy evol... Read More about The new galaxy evolution paradigm revealed by the Herschel surveys.

The UKIRT Hemisphere Survey: definition and J-band data release (2017)
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Dye, S., Lawrence, A., Read, M., Fan, X., Kerr, T., Varricatt, W., …Tedds, J. (2018). The UKIRT Hemisphere Survey: definition and J-band data release. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(4), 5113-5125. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2622

This paper defines the UK Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT) Hemisphere Survey (UHS) and release of the remaining ∼12 700 deg2 of J-band survey data products. The UHS will provide continuous J- and K-band coverage in the Northern hemisphere from a declinati... Read More about The UKIRT Hemisphere Survey: definition and J-band data release.

The Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS): sample definition and SCUBA-2 observations (2017)
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Bakx, T. J. L. C., Bakx, T. J., Eales, S. A., Negrello, M., Smith, M. W. L., Valiante, E., …Yang, C. (2018). The Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS): sample definition and SCUBA-2 observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(2), 1751-1773. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2267

We present the Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS) sample, a sample of bright, high-redshift Herschel sources detected in the 616.4 deg2 Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey. The HerBS sample contains 209 galaxies, selected with a 500 μm fl... Read More about The Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS): sample definition and SCUBA-2 observations.

The mean star formation rates of unobscured QSOs: searching for evidence of suppressed or enhanced star formation (2017)
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Stanley, F., Alexander, D. M., Harrison, C. M., Rosario, D. J., Wang, L., Aird, J. A., …Smith, M. W. L. (2017). The mean star formation rates of unobscured QSOs: searching for evidence of suppressed or enhanced star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(2), 2221-2240. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2121

© 2017 The Authors. We investigate the mean star formation rates (SFRs) in the host galaxies of ~3000 optically selected quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey within the Herschel- ATLAS fields, and a radio-luminous subsample... Read More about The mean star formation rates of unobscured QSOs: searching for evidence of suppressed or enhanced star formation.

Far-infrared emission in luminous quasars accompanied by nuclear outflows (2017)
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Maddox, N., Jarvis, M., Banerji, M., Hewett, P., Bourne, N., Dunne, L., …Valiante, E. (2017). Far-infrared emission in luminous quasars accompanied by nuclear outflows. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(2), 2314-2319. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1416

Combining large-area optical quasar surveys with the new far-infrared (FIR) Herschel-ATLAS Data Release 1, we search for an observational signature associated with the minority of quasars possessing bright FIR luminosities. We find that FIR-bright qu... Read More about Far-infrared emission in luminous quasars accompanied by nuclear outflows.

VALES I: the molecular gas content in star-forming dusty H-ATLAS galaxies up to z = 0.35 (2017)
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Villanueva, V., Ibar, E., Hughes, T., Lara-Lopez, M., Dunne, L., Eales, S., …van der Werf, P. (2017). VALES I: the molecular gas content in star-forming dusty H-ATLAS galaxies up to z = 0.35. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(4), 3775-3805. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1338

We present an extragalactic survey using observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to characterize galaxy populations up to z = 0.35: the Valpara´ıso ALMA Line Emission Survey (VALES). We use ALMA Band-3 CO(1–0) observ... Read More about VALES I: the molecular gas content in star-forming dusty H-ATLAS galaxies up to z = 0.35.

First discoveries of z > 6 quasars with the DECam Legacy Survey and UKIRT hemisphere survey (2017)
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Wang, F., Fan, X., Yang, J., Wu, X.-B., Yang, Q., Bian, F., …Shanks, T. (2017). First discoveries of z > 6 quasars with the DECam Legacy Survey and UKIRT hemisphere survey. Astrophysical Journal, 839(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa689f

We present the first discoveries from a survey of z 6 quasars using imaging data from the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) in the optical, the UKIRT Deep Infrared Sky Survey (UKIDSS) and a preliminary version of the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey (UHS) in the... Read More about First discoveries of z > 6 quasars with the DECam Legacy Survey and UKIRT hemisphere survey.

Discovery of 16 new z ∼ 5.5 quasars: filling in the redshift gap of quasar color selection (2017)
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Yang, J., Fan, X., Wu, X.-B., Wang, F., Bian, F., Yang, Q., …Lawrence, A. (2017). Discovery of 16 new z ∼ 5.5 quasars: filling in the redshift gap of quasar color selection. Astronomical Journal, 153(4), 184. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa6577

We present initial results from the first systematic survey of luminous z ∼ 5.5 quasars. Quasars at z ∼ 5.5, the post-reionization epoch, are crucial tools to explore the evolution of intergalactic medium, quasar evolution, and the early super-massiv... Read More about Discovery of 16 new z ∼ 5.5 quasars: filling in the redshift gap of quasar color selection.

VALES: III. The calibration between the dust continuum and interstellar gas content of star-forming galaxies (2017)
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Hughes, T., Ibar, E., Villaneuva, V., Aravena, M., Baes, M., Bourne, N., …Xue, Y. (2017). VALES: III. The calibration between the dust continuum and interstellar gas content of star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(1), L103-L107. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx033

We present the calibration between the dust continuum luminosity and interstellar gas content obtained from the Valparaiso ALMA Line Emission Survey (VALES) sample of 67 main-sequence star-forming galaxies at 0.02 < z < 0.35. We use CO(1–0) observati... Read More about VALES: III. The calibration between the dust continuum and interstellar gas content of star-forming galaxies.

The interstellar medium in high-redshift submillimeter galaxies as probed by infrared spectroscopy (2017)
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Wardlow, J. L., Cooray, A., Osage, W., Bourne, N., Clements, D., Dannerbauer, H., …Verma, A. (2017). The interstellar medium in high-redshift submillimeter galaxies as probed by infrared spectroscopy. Astrophysical Journal, 837(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/837/1/12

Submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) at are luminous in the far-infrared, and have star formation rates, SFR, of hundreds to thousands of solar masses per year. However, it is unclear whether they are true analogs of local ULIRGs or whether the mode of the... Read More about The interstellar medium in high-redshift submillimeter galaxies as probed by infrared spectroscopy.