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X-UDS: The Chandra legacy survey of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey field (2018)
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Kocevski, D. D., Hasinger, G., Brightman, M., Nandra, K., Georgakakis, A., Cappelluti, N., …Ueda, Y. (2018). X-UDS: The Chandra legacy survey of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey field. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 236(2), Article 48. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aab9b4

We present the X-UDS survey, a set of wide and deep Chandra observations of the Subaru-XMM Deep/UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (SXDS/UDS) field. The survey consists of 25 observations that cover a total area of 0.33 deg2. The observations are combined to p... Read More about X-UDS: The Chandra legacy survey of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey field.

A direct calibration of thtae IRX–β relation in Lyman-break galaxies at z=3–5 (2018)
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Koprowski, M., Coppin, K., Geach, J., McLure, R., Almaini, O., Blain, A., …van der Werf, P. (2018). A direct calibration of thtae IRX–β relation in Lyman-break galaxies at z=3–5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1527

We use a sample of 4209 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z~ -3, 4, and 5 in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Ultra Deep Survey field to investigate the relationship between the observed slope of the stellar continuum emission in the ultraviolet, β ,... Read More about A direct calibration of thtae IRX–β relation in Lyman-break galaxies at z=3–5.

A simultaneous search for High-z LAEs and LBGs in the SHARDS survey (2018)
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Haro, P. A., Espinosa, J. R., Muñoz-Tuñón, C., Pérez-González, P., Dannerbauer, H., Bongiovann, Á., …Rodighiero, G. (in press). A simultaneous search for High-z LAEs and LBGs in the SHARDS survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1106

We have undertaken a comprehensive search for both Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) and Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) in the SHARDS Survey of the GOODS-N field. SHARDS is a deep imaging survey, made with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), employing... Read More about A simultaneous search for High-z LAEs and LBGs in the SHARDS survey.

Clumpy galaxies in CANDELS. II. Physical properties of UV-bright clumps at 0.5 ? z < 3 (2018)
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Guo, Y., Rafelski, M., Bell, E. F., Conselice, C. J., Dekel, A., Faber, S. M., …Wang, W. (2018). Clumpy galaxies in CANDELS. II. Physical properties of UV-bright clumps at 0.5 ≤ z < 3. Astrophysical Journal, 853(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa018

Studying giant star-forming clumps in distant galaxies is important to understand galaxy formation and evolution. At present, however, observers and theorists have not reached a consensus on whether the observed "clumps" in distant galaxies are the s... Read More about Clumpy galaxies in CANDELS. II. Physical properties of UV-bright clumps at 0.5 ? z < 3.

Evidence for merger-driven growth in luminous, high-z, obscured AGNs in the CANDELS/COSMOS field (2018)
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Donley, J. L., Kartaltepe, J., Kocevski, D., Salvato, M., Santini, P., Suh, H., …Nagao, T. (2018). Evidence for merger-driven growth in luminous, high-z, obscured AGNs in the CANDELS/COSMOS field. Astrophysical Journal, 853(1), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9ffa

While major mergers have long been proposed as a driver of both active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity and the MBH–sbulge relation, studies of moderate to high-redshift Seyfert-luminosity AGN hosts have found little evidence for enhanced rates of in... Read More about Evidence for merger-driven growth in luminous, high-z, obscured AGNs in the CANDELS/COSMOS field.

Major merging history in CANDELS. I. Evolution of the incidence of massive galaxy–galaxy pairs from z = 3 to z ∼ 0 (2017)
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Mantha, K. B., McIntosh, D. H., Brennan, R., Ferguson, H. C., Kodra, D., Newman, J. A., …Wiklind, T. (2018). Major merging history in CANDELS. I. Evolution of the incidence of massive galaxy–galaxy pairs from z = 3 to z ∼ 0. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3260

The rate of major galaxy–galaxy merging is theoretically predicted to steadily increase with redshift during the peak epoch of massive galaxy development (1 ≤ z ≤ 3). We use close-pair statistics to objectively study the incidence of massive galaxies... Read More about Major merging history in CANDELS. I. Evolution of the incidence of massive galaxy–galaxy pairs from z = 3 to z ∼ 0.

VLT/FORS2 view at z ~ 6: Lyman-α emitter fraction and galaxy physical properties at the edge of the epoch of cosmic reionization (2017)
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De Barros, S., Pentericci, L., Vanzella, E., Castellano, M., Fontana, A., Grazian, A., …Maiolino, R. (2017). VLT/FORS2 view at z ~ 6: Lyman-α emitter fraction and galaxy physical properties at the edge of the epoch of cosmic reionization. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 608, Article A123. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731476

The fraction of Lyman-α emitters (LAEs) among the galaxy population has been found to increase from z ~ 0 to z ~ 6 and drop dramatically at z> 6. This drop has been interpreted as an effect of an increasingly neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) with i... Read More about VLT/FORS2 view at z ~ 6: Lyman-α emitter fraction and galaxy physical properties at the edge of the epoch of cosmic reionization.

Scientific synergy between LSST and Euclid (2017)
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Rhodes, J., Nichol, R. C., Aubourg, É., Bean, R., Boutigny, D., Bremer, M. N., …Linden, A. V. D. (2017). Scientific synergy between LSST and Euclid. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 233(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa96b0

Euclid and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) are poised to dramatically change the astronomy landscape early in the next decade. The combination of high-cadence, deep, wide-field optical photometry from LSST with high-resolution, wide-field... Read More about Scientific synergy between LSST and Euclid.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: the G02 field, Herschel–ATLAS target selection and data release 3 (2017)
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Baldry, I., Liske, J., Brown, M., Robotham, A., Driver, S., Dunne, L., …Wilkins, S. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: the G02 field, Herschel–ATLAS target selection and data release 3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3042

We describe data release 3 (DR3) of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The GAMA survey is a spectroscopic redshift and multiwavelength photometric survey in three equatorial regions each of 60.0 deg2 (G09, G12, and G15), and two southern reg... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly: the G02 field, Herschel–ATLAS target selection and data release 3.

SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES): faint-end counts at 450 ?m (2017)
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Wang, W., Lin, W., Lim, C., Smail, I., Chapman, S. C., Zheng, X. Z., …Wardlow, J. L. (2017). SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES): faint-end counts at 450 μm. Astrophysical Journal, 850(1), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa911b

The SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES) is a three-year JCMT Large Program aiming to reach the 450 μm confusion limit in the COSMOS-CANDELS region to study a representative sample of the high-redshift far-infrared galaxy population that g... Read More about SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES): faint-end counts at 450 ?m.

Evidence for Dynamically Driven Formation of the GW170817 Neutron Star Binary in NGC 4993 (2017)
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Palmese, A., Hartley, W., Tarsitano, F., Conselice, C. J., Lahav, O., Allam, S., …Zuntz, J. (2017). Evidence for Dynamically Driven Formation of the GW170817 Neutron Star Binary in NGC 4993. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 849(2), Article L34. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9660

We present a study of NGC 4993, the host galaxy of the GW170817 gravitational-wave event, the GRB 170817A short gamma-ray burst (sGRB), and the AT 2017gfo kilonova. We use Dark Energy Camera imaging, AAT spectra, and publicly available data, relating... Read More about Evidence for Dynamically Driven Formation of the GW170817 Neutron Star Binary in NGC 4993.

SHARDS frontier fields: physical properties of a low-mass Lyα emitter at z = 5.75 (2017)
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Hernán-Caballero, A., Pérez-González, P. G., Diego, J. M., Lagattuta, D., Richard, J., Schaerer, D., …Rujopakarn, W. (2017). SHARDS frontier fields: physical properties of a low-mass Lyα emitter at z = 5.75. Astrophysical Journal, 849(2), Article 82. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa917f

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We analyze the properties of a multiply imaged Lyα (Lyα) emitter at z = 5.75 identified through SHARDS Frontier Fields intermediate-band imaging of the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) clus... Read More about SHARDS frontier fields: physical properties of a low-mass Lyα emitter at z = 5.75.

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera (2017)
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Soares-Santos, M., Holz, D., Annis, J., Chornock, R., Herner, K., Berger, E., …Weller, J. (2017). The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848(2), L16. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9059

We present the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) discovery of the optical counterpart of the first binary neutron star merger detected through gravitational wave emission, GW170817. Our observations commenced 10.5 hours post-merger, as soon as the localizat... Read More about The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera.

Stellar populations, stellar masses and the formation of galaxy bulges and discs at z < 3 in CANDELS (2017)
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Margalef-Bentabol, B., Conselice, C. J., Mortlock, A., Hartley, W., Duncan, K., Kennedy, R., …Hasinger, G. (2018). Stellar populations, stellar masses and the formation of galaxy bulges and discs at z < 3 in CANDELS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2633

We present a multi-component structural analysis of the internal structure of 1074 high redshift massive galaxies at 1 < z < 3 from the CANDELS HST Survey. In particular we examine galaxies best-fit by two structural components, and thus likely formi... Read More about Stellar populations, stellar masses and the formation of galaxy bulges and discs at z < 3 in CANDELS.

CANDELS: Elevated black hole growth in the progenitors of compact quiescent galaxies at z ? 2 (2017)
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Kocevski, D. D., Barro, G., Faber, S., Dekel, A., Somerville, R. S., Young, J. A., …Yan, H. (2017). CANDELS: Elevated black hole growth in the progenitors of compact quiescent galaxies at z ∼ 2. Astrophysical Journal, 846(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8566

We examine the fraction of massive (M* > 1010 M) compact star-forming galaxies (cSFGs) that host an active galactic nucleus (AGN) at z ~ 2. These cSFGs are likely the direct progenitors of the compact quiescent galaxies observed at this epoch, which... Read More about CANDELS: Elevated black hole growth in the progenitors of compact quiescent galaxies at z ? 2.

A consistent measure of the merger histories of massive galaxies using close-pair statistics I: Major mergers at z < 3:5 (2017)
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Mundy, C. J., Conselice, C. J., Duncan, K. J., Almaini, O., Häußler, B., & Hartley, W. G. (2017). A consistent measure of the merger histories of massive galaxies using close-pair statistics I: Major mergers at z < 3:5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(3), 3507–3531. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1238

We use a large sample of ?350,000 galaxies constructed by combining the UKIDSS UDS, VIDEO/CFHT-LS, UltraVISTA/COSMOS and GAMA survey regions to probe the major merging histories of massive galaxies (>1010 M?) at 0.00510?4 Mpc?3, and find rates a fact... Read More about A consistent measure of the merger histories of massive galaxies using close-pair statistics I: Major mergers at z < 3:5.

The LOFAR window on star-forming galaxies and AGNs – curved radio SEDs and IR–radio correlation at 0 (2017)
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Calistro Rivera, G., Williams, W. L., Hardcastle, M. J., Duncan, K., Rottgering, H., Best, P. N., …White, G. J. (2017). The LOFAR window on star-forming galaxies and AGNs – curved radio SEDs and IR–radio correlation at 0. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(3), 3468-3488. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1040

We present a study of the low-frequency radio properties of star-forming (SF) galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) up to redshift z = 2.5. The new spectral window probed by the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) allows us to reconstruct the radio cont... Read More about The LOFAR window on star-forming galaxies and AGNs – curved radio SEDs and IR–radio correlation at 0.

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: multi-wavelength properties of ALMA-identified submillimeter galaxies in UKIDSS UDS (2017)
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Simpson, J., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Ivison, R., Dunlop, J., Geach, J., …Werf, P. V. D. (2017). The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: multi-wavelength properties of ALMA-identified submillimeter galaxies in UKIDSS UDS. Astrophysical Journal, 839(1), Article 58. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa65d0

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of 52 submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), identified using ALMA 870 μm continuum imaging in a pilot program to precisely locate bright SCUBA-2-selected submillimeter sources in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) fiel... Read More about The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: multi-wavelength properties of ALMA-identified submillimeter galaxies in UKIDSS UDS.

CANDELS multi-wavelength catalogs: source identification and photometry in the CANDELS Extended Groth Strip (2017)
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Stefanon, M., Yan, H., Mobasher, B., Barro, G., Donley, J. L., Fontana, A., …Wel, A. V. D. (2017). CANDELS multi-wavelength catalogs: source identification and photometry in the CANDELS Extended Groth Strip. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 229(2), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa66cb

We present a 0.4-8μm multi-wavelength photometric catalog in the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) field. This catalog is built on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3 and ACS data from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CA... Read More about CANDELS multi-wavelength catalogs: source identification and photometry in the CANDELS Extended Groth Strip.

The host galaxies and explosion sites of long-duration gamma-ray bursts: Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared imaging (2017)
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Lyman, D., Levan, A., Tanvir, N., Fynbo, J., McGuire, J., Perley, D., …Starling, R. (2017). The host galaxies and explosion sites of long-duration gamma-ray bursts: Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467(2), 1795-1817. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx220

We present the results of a Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/F160W Snapshot survey of the host galaxies of 39 long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) at z < 3. We have non-detections of hosts at the locations of four bursts. Sufficient accuracy to astromet... Read More about The host galaxies and explosion sites of long-duration gamma-ray bursts: Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared imaging.