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Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): active galactic nuclei in pairs of galaxies (2016)
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Gordon, Y. A., Owers, M. S., Pimbblet, K. A., Croom, S. M., Alpaslan, M., Baldry, I. K., …Wang, L. (2017). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): active galactic nuclei in pairs of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2925

There exist conflicting observations on whether or not the environment of broad and narrow line AGN differ and this consequently questions the validity of the AGN unification model. The high spectroscopic completeness of the GAMA survey makes it idea... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): active galactic nuclei in pairs of galaxies.

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: 850 ?m maps, catalogues and number counts (2016)
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Serjeant, S., Geach, J. E., Dunlop, J. S., Halpern, M., Smail, I., van der Werf, P., …Zemcov, M. (2017). The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: 850 μm maps, catalogues and number counts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(2), 1789-1806. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2721

We present a catalogue of ∼3000 submillimetre sources detected (≥3.5σ) at 850 μm over ∼5 deg2 surveyed as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS). This is the largest survey of its kind at 850 μm, incr... Read More about The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: 850 ?m maps, catalogues and number counts.

Major mergers are not significant drivers of star formation or morphological transformation around the epoch of peak cosmic star formation (2016)
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Lofthouse, E., Kaviraj, S., Conselice, C. J., Mortlock, A., & Hartley, W. (2017). Major mergers are not significant drivers of star formation or morphological transformation around the epoch of peak cosmic star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2895

We investigate the contribution of major mergers (mass ratios > 1:5) to stellar mass growth and morphological transformations around the epoch of peak cosmic star formation (z ~ 2). We visually classify a complete sample of massive (M > 1010M_) galax... Read More about Major mergers are not significant drivers of star formation or morphological transformation around the epoch of peak cosmic star formation.

Faint submillimeter galaxies identified through their optical/near-infrared colors: 1. Spatial clustering and halo masses (2016)
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Chen (陳建州), C., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Simpson, J. M., Almaini, O., Conselice, C. J., …Wilkinson, A. (2016). Faint submillimeter galaxies identified through their optical/near-infrared colors: 1. Spatial clustering and halo masses. Astrophysical Journal, 831(1), https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/831/1/91

The properties of submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) that are fainter than the confusion limit of blank-field single-dish surveys (S850  2 mJy) are poorly constrained. Using a newly developed color selection technique, Optical-Infrared Triple Color (OIRT... Read More about Faint submillimeter galaxies identified through their optical/near-infrared colors: 1. Spatial clustering and halo masses.

Galaxy Zoo: quantitative visual morphological classifications for 48 000 galaxies from CANDELS (2016)
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Simmons, B., Lintott, C., Willett, K. W., Masters, K. L., Kartaltepe, J. S., Häußler, B., …Wiklind, T. (2017). Galaxy Zoo: quantitative visual morphological classifications for 48 000 galaxies from CANDELS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2587

We present quantified visual morphologies of approximately 48 000 galaxies observed in three Hubble Space Telescope legacy fields by the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) and classified by participants in the Ga... Read More about Galaxy Zoo: quantitative visual morphological classifications for 48 000 galaxies from CANDELS.

The evolution of galaxy number density at z < 8 and its implications (2016)
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Conselice, C. J., Wilkinson, A., Duncan, K., & Mortlock, A. (2016). The evolution of galaxy number density at z < 8 and its implications. Astrophysical Journal, 830(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/830/2/83

The evolution of the number density of galaxies in the universe, and thus also the total number of galaxies, is a fundamental question with implications for a host of astrophysical problems including galaxy evolution and cosmology. However there has... Read More about The evolution of galaxy number density at z < 8 and its implications.

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: The clustering of submillimetre galaxies in the UKIDSS UDS field (2016)
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Wilkinson, A., Almaini, O., Chen, C. C., Smail, I., Arumugam, V., Blain, A., …Wild, V. (2017). The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: The clustering of submillimetre galaxies in the UKIDSS UDS field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(2), 1380-1392. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2405

© 2016 The Authors. Submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) are among the most luminous dusty galaxies in the Universe, but their true nature remains unclear; are SMGs the progenitors of the massive elliptical galaxies we see in the local Universe, or are they... Read More about The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: The clustering of submillimetre galaxies in the UKIDSS UDS field.

Exploring the progenitors of brightest cluster galaxies at z ∼ 2 (2016)
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Zhao, D., Conselice, C. J., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Almaini, O., Hartley, W. G., Lani, C., …Old, L. (2017). Exploring the progenitors of brightest cluster galaxies at z ∼ 2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(2), 1393-1414. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2406

We present a new method for tracing the evolution of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 0. We conclude on the basis of semi-analytical models that the best method to select BCG progenitors at z ∼ 2 is a hybrid environmental density a... Read More about Exploring the progenitors of brightest cluster galaxies at z ∼ 2.

The impact of protocluster environments at z = 1.6 (2016)
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Hatch, N. A., Cooke, E. A., Muldrew, S. I., Hartley, W. G., Almaini, O., Conselice, C. J., & Simpson, C. (2017). The impact of protocluster environments at z = 1.6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(1), 876-884. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2359

We investigate the effects of dense environments on galaxy evolution by examining how the properties of galaxies in the z = 1.6 protocluster Cl 0218.3−0510 depend on their location. We determine galaxy properties using spectral energy distribution fi... Read More about The impact of protocluster environments at z = 1.6.

Mass assembly and morphological transformations since z∼ 3 from CANDELS (2016)
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Huertas-Company, M., Bernardi, M., Pérez-González, P., Ashby, M., Barro, G., Conselice, C. J., …Shankar, F. (2016). Mass assembly and morphological transformations since z∼ 3 from CANDELS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(4), 4495-4516. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1866

We quantify the evolution of the stellar mass functions (SMFs) of star-forming and quiescent galaxies as a function of morphology from z ∼ 3 to the present. Our sample consists of ∼50 000 galaxies in the CANDELS fields (∼880 arcmin2), which we divide... Read More about Mass assembly and morphological transformations since z∼ 3 from CANDELS.

The formation of bulges, discs and two-component galaxies in the CANDELS Survey at z < 3 (2016)
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Margalef-Bentabol, B., Conselice, C. J., Mortlock, A., Hartley, W., Duncan, K., Ferguson, H. C., …Primack, J. R. (2016). The formation of bulges, discs and two-component galaxies in the CANDELS Survey at z < 3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(3), 2728-2746. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1451

We examine a sample of 1495 galaxies in the CANDELS fields to determine the evolution of two-component galaxies, including bulges and discs, within massive galaxies at the epoch 1 < z < 3 when the Hubble sequence forms. We fit all of our galaxies’ li... Read More about The formation of bulges, discs and two-component galaxies in the CANDELS Survey at z < 3.

HST imaging of the dusty filaments and nucleus swirl in NGC4696 at the centre of the Centaurus Cluster (2016)
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Fabian, A., Walker, S., Russell, H., Pinto, C., Canning, R., Salome, P., …Reynolds, C. (in press). HST imaging of the dusty filaments and nucleus swirl in NGC4696 at the centre of the Centaurus Cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1350

Narrow-band HST imaging has resolved the detailed internal structure of the 10 kpc diameter H ?+[N II] emission line nebulosity in NGC4696, the central galaxy in the nearby Centaurus cluster, showing that the dusty, molecular, filaments have a width... Read More about HST imaging of the dusty filaments and nucleus swirl in NGC4696 at the centre of the Centaurus Cluster.

The evolution of galaxies at constant number density: a less biased view of star formation, quenching, and structural formation (2016)
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Ownsworth, J. R., Conselice, C. J., Mundy, C. J., Mortlock, A., Hartley, W. G., Duncan, K., & Almaini, O. (2016). The evolution of galaxies at constant number density: a less biased view of star formation, quenching, and structural formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1207

Due to significant galaxy contamination and impurity in stellar mass selected samples (up to 95 per cent from z = 0–3), we examine the star formation history, quenching time-scales, and structural evolution of galaxies using a constant number density... Read More about The evolution of galaxies at constant number density: a less biased view of star formation, quenching, and structural formation.

The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy – an overview (2016)
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Abbott, T., Abdalla, F., Aleksic, J., Allam, S., Amara, A., Bacon, D., …Conselice, C. J. (2016). The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy – an overview. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(2), 1270-1299. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw641

This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES early data. DES is using a wide-field camera (DECam) on the 4 m Blanco T... Read More about The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy – an overview.

A mature galaxy cluster at z= 1.58 around the radio galaxy 7C 1753+6311 (2016)
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Cooke, E. A., Hatch, N. A., Stern, D., Rettura, A., Brodwin, M., Galametz, A., …Jarvis, M. (2016). A mature galaxy cluster at z= 1.58 around the radio galaxy 7C 1753+6311. Astrophysical Journal, 816(2), Article 83. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/816/2/83

We report on the discovery of a z = 1.58 mature cluster around the high-redshift radio galaxy 7C 1753+6311, first identified in the Clusters Around Radio-loud active galactic nuclei survey. Two-thirds of the excess galaxies within the central 1 Mpc l... Read More about A mature galaxy cluster at z= 1.58 around the radio galaxy 7C 1753+6311.