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The role of mass and environment in the build-up of the quenched galaxy population since cosmic noon (2023)
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Taylor, E., Almaini, O., Merrifield, M., Maltby, D., Wild, V., Hartley, W. G., & Rowlands, K. (2023). The role of mass and environment in the build-up of the quenched galaxy population since cosmic noon. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522(2), 2297-2306. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1098

We conduct the first study of how the relative quenching probability of galaxies depends on environment over the redshift range 0.5 < z < 3, using data from the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey. By constructing the stellar mass functions for quiescent and po... Read More about The role of mass and environment in the build-up of the quenched galaxy population since cosmic noon.

The Physical Conditions of Emission-line Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy in the SMACS 0723 Early Release Observations (2023)
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Trump, J. R., Haro, P. A., Simons, R. C., Backhaus, B. E., Amorín, R. O., Dickinson, M., …Zavala, J. A. (2023). The Physical Conditions of Emission-line Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy in the SMACS 0723 Early Release Observations. Astrophysical Journal, 945(1), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acba8a

We present rest-frame optical emission-line flux ratio measurements for five z > 5 galaxies observed by the James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) in the SMACS 0723 Early Release Observations. We add several quality-control an... Read More about The Physical Conditions of Emission-line Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy in the SMACS 0723 Early Release Observations.

Dusty Starbursts Masquerading as Ultra-high Redshift Galaxies in JWST CEERS Observations (2023)
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Zavala, J. A., Buat, V., Casey, C. M., Finkelstein, S. L., Burgarella, D., Bagley, M. B., …Wuyts, S. (2023). Dusty Starbursts Masquerading as Ultra-high Redshift Galaxies in JWST CEERS Observations. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 943(2), Article L9. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acacfe

Lyman-break galaxy (LBG) candidates at z ≳ 10 are rapidly being identified in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)/NIRCam observations. Due to the (redshifted) break produced by neutral hydrogen absorption of rest-frame UV photons, these sources are exp... Read More about Dusty Starbursts Masquerading as Ultra-high Redshift Galaxies in JWST CEERS Observations.

A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ∼ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging (2022)
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Finkelstein, S. L., Bagley, M. B., Haro, P. A., Dickinson, M., Ferguson, H. C., Kartaltepe, J. S., …Zavala, J. A. (2022). A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ∼ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 940(2), Article L55. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac966e

We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z ∼ 12 in the first epoch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey. Following conservative selection criteria, we identify a source with a r... Read More about A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ∼ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging.

Cosmic Evolution of the H2 Mass Density and the Epoch of Molecular Gas (2021)
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Garratt, T. K., Coppin, K. E. K., Geach, J. E., Almaini, O., Hartley, W. G., Maltby, D. T., …van der Werf, P. (2021). Cosmic Evolution of the H2 Mass Density and the Epoch of Molecular Gas. Astrophysical Journal, 912(1), Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abec81

We present new empirical constraints on the evolution of ${\rho }_{{{\rm{H}}}_{2}}$, the cosmological mass density of molecular hydrogen, back to z ≈ 2.5. We employ a statistical approach measuring the average observed 850 μm flux density of near-inf... Read More about Cosmic Evolution of the H2 Mass Density and the Epoch of Molecular Gas.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Halo masses for submillimetre galaxies (2021)
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Stach, S. M., Smail, I., Amvrosiadis, A., Swinbank, A. M., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Geach, J. E., …Wardlow, J. L. (2021). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Halo masses for submillimetre galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504(1), 172-184. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab714

We present an analysis of the spatial clustering of a large sample of high-resolution, interferometically identified, submillimetre galaxies (SMGs). We measure the projected cross-correlation function of ?350 SMGs in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep-Survey Fiel... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Halo masses for submillimetre galaxies.

Infrared lags in the light curves of AGN measured using a deep survey (2021)
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Elmer, E., Merrifield, M., Almaini, O., Hartley, W. G., & Maltby, D. T. (2021). Infrared lags in the light curves of AGN measured using a deep survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 503(1), L47-L50. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slab023

Information on the structure around active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has long been derived from measuring lags in their varying light output at different wavelengths. In principle, infrared data would reach to larger radii, potentially even probing repr... Read More about Infrared lags in the light curves of AGN measured using a deep survey.

An ALMA survey of the S2CLS UDS field: optically invisible submillimetre galaxies (2021)
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Smail, I., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Stach, S. M., Almaini, O., Birkin, J. E., Chapman, S. C., …van der Werf, P. (2021). An ALMA survey of the S2CLS UDS field: optically invisible submillimetre galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(3), 3426-3435. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab283

We analyse a robust sample of 30 near-infrared-faint (KAB > 25.3, 5σ) submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) selected from a 0.96 deg2 field to investigate their properties and the cause of their faintness in optical/near-infrared wavebands. Our analysis expl... Read More about An ALMA survey of the S2CLS UDS field: optically invisible submillimetre galaxies.

An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: The Far-infrared/Radio Correlation for High-redshift Dusty Star-forming Galaxies (2020)
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Algera, H. S. B., Smail, I., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Swinbank, A. M., Stach, S., Hodge, J. A., …van der Werf, P. (2020). An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: The Far-infrared/Radio Correlation for High-redshift Dusty Star-forming Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 903(2), Article 138. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abb77b

We study the radio properties of 706 submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) selected at 870 ?m with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey map of the Ultra Deep Survey field. We detect 273 SMGs at >4? in deep Karl G. Jansk... Read More about An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: The Far-infrared/Radio Correlation for High-redshift Dusty Star-forming Galaxies.

The clustering of X-ray AGN at 0.5 &lt; z &lt; 4.5: host galaxies dictate dark matter halo mass (2020)
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Krishnan, C., Almaini, O., Hatch, N. A., Wilkinson, A., Maltby, D. T., Conselice, C. J., …Wild, V. (2020). The clustering of X-ray AGN at 0.5 < z < 4.5: host galaxies dictate dark matter halo mass. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 4927–4944. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa815

We analyse 870 μm Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) dust continuum detections of 41 canonically selected z ≃ 3 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs), as well as 209 ALMA-undetected LBGs, in follow-up of SCUBA-2 mapping of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS)... Read More about The clustering of X-ray AGN at 0.5 &lt; z &lt; 4.5: host galaxies dictate dark matter halo mass.

The star formation histories of z?1 post-starburst galaxies (2020)
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Wild, V., Aldeen, L. T., Carnall, A., Maltby, D., Almaini, O., Werle, A., …Pozzetti, L. (2020). The star formation histories of z∼1 post-starburst galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(1), 529–548. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa674

We present the star formation histories of 39 galaxies with high-quality rest-frame optical spectra at 0.5 < z < 1.3 selected to have strong Balmer absorption lines and/or Balmer break, and compare to a sample of spectroscopically selected quiescent... Read More about The star formation histories of z?1 post-starburst galaxies.

Long-term NIR Variability in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey: a new probe of AGN activity at high redshift (2020)
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Elmer, E., Almaini, O., Merrifield, M., Hartley, W. G., Maltby, D. T., Lawrence, A., …Hirst, P. (2020). Long-term NIR Variability in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey: a new probe of AGN activity at high redshift. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493(2), 3026-3035. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa381

We present the first attempt to select active galactic nuclei (AGN) using long-Term near-infrared (NIR) variability. By analysing the K-band light curves of all the galaxies in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Ultra Deep Survey, the deepes... Read More about Long-term NIR Variability in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey: a new probe of AGN activity at high redshift.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies (2020)
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Koprowski, M. P., Coppin, K. E. K., E. Geach, J., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Smail, I., Almaini, O., …Whitaker, K. E. (2020). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 4927-4944. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STAA160

© 2020 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. We analyse 870 ∼m Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) dust continuum detections of 41 canonically selected z3 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs), aswell as 209 ALMA-undetected LBGs, in follow-up of SCUB... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: High-resolution dust continuum morphologies and the link between sub-millimetre galaxies and spheroid formation (2019)
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Gullberg, B., Smail, I., Swinbank, A. M., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Stach, S. M., Thomson, A. P., …Weiss, A. (2019). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: High-resolution dust continuum morphologies and the link between sub-millimetre galaxies and spheroid formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(4), 4956-4974. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2835

© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society We present an analysis of the morphology and profiles of the dust continuum emission in 153 bright sub-millimetre galaxies (SMGs) detected with ALMA... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: High-resolution dust continuum morphologies and the link between sub-millimetre galaxies and spheroid formation.

Radio Spectra and Sizes of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array-identified Submillimeter Galaxies: Evidence of Age-related Spectral Curvature and Cosmic-Ray Diffusion? (2019)
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Thomson, A. P., Smail, I., Swinbank, A. M., Simpson, J. M., Arumugam, V., Stach, S., …Wardlow, J. L. (2019). Radio Spectra and Sizes of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array-identified Submillimeter Galaxies: Evidence of Age-related Spectral Curvature and Cosmic-Ray Diffusion?. Astrophysical Journal, 883(2), Article 204. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab32e7

© 2019 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We analyze the multifrequency radio spectral properties of 41 6 GHz-detected Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)-identified, submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), observed at 610... Read More about Radio Spectra and Sizes of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array-identified Submillimeter Galaxies: Evidence of Age-related Spectral Curvature and Cosmic-Ray Diffusion?.

High-velocity outflows in massive post-starburst galaxies at z > 1 (2019)
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Maltby, D. T., Almaini, O., McLure, R. J., Wild, V., Dunlop, J., Rowlands, K., …Talia, M. (2019). High-velocity outflows in massive post-starburst galaxies at z > 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489(1), 1139-1151. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2211

We investigate the prevalence of galactic-scale outflows in post-starburst (PSB) galaxies at high redshift (1 < z < 1.4), using the deep optical spectra available in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS). We use a sample of ∼40 spectroscopically confirm... Read More about High-velocity outflows in massive post-starburst galaxies at z > 1.

A machine-learning approach for identifying the counterparts of submillimetre galaxies and applications to the GOODS-North field (2019)
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Liu, R. H., Hill, R., Scott, D., Almaini, O., An, F., Gubbels, C., …Stach, S. (2019). A machine-learning approach for identifying the counterparts of submillimetre galaxies and applications to the GOODS-North field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489(2), 1770-1786. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2228

Identifying the counterparts of submillimetre (submm) galaxies (SMGs) in multiwavelength images is a critical step towards building accurate models of the evolution of strongly star-forming galaxies in the early Universe. However, obtaining a statist... Read More about A machine-learning approach for identifying the counterparts of submillimetre galaxies and applications to the GOODS-North field.

Revealing the Stellar Mass and Dust Distributions of Submillimeter Galaxies at Redshift 2 (2019)
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Lang, P., Schinnerer, E., Smail, I., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Swinbank, A. M., Liu, D., …Werf, P. V. D. (2019). Revealing the Stellar Mass and Dust Distributions of Submillimeter Galaxies at Redshift 2. Astrophysical Journal, 879(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1f77

© 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We combine high-resolution ALMA and HST/CANDELS observations of 20 submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), predominantly from the AS2UDS survey at z ≃ 2, with bright rest-frame optical counterpar... Read More about Revealing the Stellar Mass and Dust Distributions of Submillimeter Galaxies at Redshift 2.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Source catalogue and properties (2019)
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Stach, S. M., Dudzevičiūtė, U. .., Small, I., Swinbank, A., Geach, J., Simpson, J., …van der Werf, P. (2019). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Source catalogue and properties. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(4), 4648–4668. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1536

© 2019 The Author(s). We present the catalogue and basic properties of sources in AS2UDS, an 870-\mum continuum survey with the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA) of 716 single-dish sub-millimetre sources detected in the UKIDSS/UDS... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Source catalogue and properties.

Compact star-forming galaxies preferentially quenched to become PSBs in z < 1 clusters (2018)
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Socolovsky, M., Maltby, D. T., Hatch, N. A., Almaini, O., Wild, V., Hartley, W. G., …Rowlands, K. (2019). Compact star-forming galaxies preferentially quenched to become PSBs in z < 1 clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(2), 1640-1650. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2840

© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We analyse the structure of galaxies with high specific star formation rate (SSFR) in cluster and field environments in the redshift range 0.5 < z... Read More about Compact star-forming galaxies preferentially quenched to become PSBs in z < 1 clusters.

The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey: Observations and first data release (2018)
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Pentericci, L., McLure, R. J., Garilli, B., Cucciati, O., Franzetti, P., Iovino, A., …Zucca, E. (2018). The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey: Observations and first data release. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 616, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833047

© ESO 2018. This paper describes the observations and the first data release (DR1) of the ESO public spectroscopic survey "VANDELS, a deep VIMOS survey of the CANDELS CDFS and UDS fields". The main targets of VANDELS are star-forming galaxies at reds... Read More about The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey: Observations and first data release.

A machine-learning method for identifying multiwavelength counterparts of submillimeter galaxies: training and testing using AS2UDS and ALESS (2018)
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An, F. X., Stach, S., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Almaini, O., Simpson, C., …Coppin, K. (2018). A machine-learning method for identifying multiwavelength counterparts of submillimeter galaxies: training and testing using AS2UDS and ALESS. Astrophysical Journal, 862(2), Article 101. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aacdaa

We describe the application of supervised machine-learning algorithms to identify the likely multiwavelength counterparts to submillimeter sources detected in panoramic, single-dish submillimeter surveys. As a training set, we employ a sample of 695... Read More about A machine-learning method for identifying multiwavelength counterparts of submillimeter galaxies: training and testing using AS2UDS and ALESS.

Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models (2018)
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Asquith, R., Pearce, F. R., Almaini, O., Knebe, A., Gonzalez-Perez, V., Benson, A., …Yi, S. K. (2018). Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480(1), 1197–1210. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1870

We present a comparison of the observed evolving galaxy stellar mass functions with the predictions of eight semi-analytic models and one halo occupation distribution model. While most models are able to fit the data at low redshift, some of them str... Read More about Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: identifying candidate z∼4.5[CII] emitters (2018)
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Cooke, E., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Stach, S., An, F. X., Gullberg, B., …Werf, P. V. D. (2018). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: identifying candidate z∼4.5[CII] emitters. Astrophysical Journal, 861(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac6ba

We report the results of a search for serendipitous [C ii] 157.74 μm emitters at z sime 4.4–4.7 using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The search exploits the AS2UDS continuum survey, which covers ~50 arcmin2 of the sky toward... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: identifying candidate z∼4.5[CII] emitters.

The structure of post-starburst galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2: evidence for two distinct quenching routes at different epochs (2018)
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Maltby, D. T., Almaini, O., Wild, V., Hatch, N. A., Hartley, W. G., Simpson, C., …Socolovsky, M. (2018). The structure of post-starburst galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2: evidence for two distinct quenching routes at different epochs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480(1), 381-401. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1794

We present an analysis of the structure of post-starburst (PSB) galaxies in the redshift range 0.5 less than z less than 2, using a photometrically selected sample identified in the Ultra Deep Survey field. We examine the structure of ∼80 of t... Read More about The structure of post-starburst galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2: evidence for two distinct quenching routes at different epochs.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: number counts of submillimeter galaxies (2018)
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Stach, S. M., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Simpson, J., Geach, J., An, F. X., …Werf, P. V. D. (2018). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: number counts of submillimeter galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 860(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac5e5

We report the first results of AS2UDS, an 870 μm continuum survey with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) of a total area of ~50 arcmin2 comprising a complete sample of 716 submillimeter sources drawn from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology L... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: number counts of submillimeter galaxies.

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.

The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey (2018)
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McLure, R., Pentericci, L., Cimatti, A., Dunlop, J., Elbaz, D., Fontana, A., …Zucca, E. (2018). The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1213

VANDELS is a uniquely deep spectroscopic survey of high-redshift galaxies with the VIMOS spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The survey has obtained ultradeep optical (0.48 < λ < 1.0 μm) spectroscopy of ≃2100 galaxies within the redshif... Read More about The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey.

Growing up in a megalopolis: environmental effects on galaxy evolution in a supercluster at z?0.65 in UKIDSS UDS (2018)
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Galametz, A., Pentericci, L., Castellano, M., Mendel, T., Hartley, W. G., Fossati, M., …Kocevski, D. D. (2018). Growing up in a megalopolis: environmental effects on galaxy evolution in a supercluster at z∼0.65 in UKIDSS UDS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty095

We present a large-scale galaxy structure Cl J021734-0513 at z ∼ 0.65 discovered in the UKIDSS UDS field, made of ∼ 20 galaxy groups and clusters, spreading over 10 Mpc. We report on a VLT/VIMOS spectroscopic follow-up program that, combined with pas... Read More about Growing up in a megalopolis: environmental effects on galaxy evolution in a supercluster at z?0.65 in UKIDSS UDS.

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.

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.

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.

Massive post-starburst galaxies at z > 1 are compact proto-spheroids (2017)
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Almaini, O., Wild, V., Maltby, D. T., Hartley, W. G., Simpson, C., Hatch, N. A., …Rowlands, K. (2017). Massive post-starburst galaxies at z > 1 are compact proto-spheroids. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(2), 1401-1412. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1957

We investigate the relationship between the quenching of star formation and the structural transformation of massive galaxies, using a large sample of photometrically-selected poststarburst galaxies in the UKIDSS UDS field. We find that post-starburs... Read More about Massive post-starburst galaxies at z > 1 are compact proto-spheroids.

Enhancement of AGN in a protocluster at z=1.6 (2017)
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Krishnan, C., Hatch, N. A., Almaini, O., Kocevski, D., Cooke, E. A., Hartley, W. G., …Simpson, C. (2017). Enhancement of AGN in a protocluster at z=1.6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(2), 2170-2178. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1315

We investigate the prevalence of AGN in the high-redshift protocluster Cl 0218.3–0510 at z = 1.62. Using imaging from the Chandra X-ray Telescope, we find a large overdensity of AGN in the protocluster; a factor of 23±9 times the field density of AGN... Read More about Enhancement of AGN in a protocluster at z=1.6.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The evolution of post-starburst galaxies from z=2 to 0.5 (2016)
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Wild, V., Almaini, O., Dunlop, J., Simpson, C., Rowlands, K., Bowler, R., …McLure, R. (2016). The evolution of post-starburst galaxies from z=2 to 0.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463(1), 832-844. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1996

We present the evolution in the number density and stellar mass functions of photometrically selected post-starburst galaxies in the UKIDSSUltraDeep Survey,with redshifts of 0.5

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 identification of post-starburst galaxies at z?1 using multiwavelength photometry: a spectroscopic verification (2016)
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Maltby, D. T., Almaini, O., Wild, V., Hatch, N. A., Hartley, W. G., Simpson, C., …Cirasuolo, M. (2016). The identification of post-starburst galaxies at z∼1 using multiwavelength photometry: a spectroscopic verification. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 459(1), Article L114-L118. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw057

Despite decades of study, we still do not fully understand why some massive galaxies abruptly switch off their star formation in the early Universe, and what causes their rapid transition to the red sequence. Post-starburst galaxies provide a rare op... Read More about The identification of post-starburst galaxies at z?1 using multiwavelength photometry: a spectroscopic verification.

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: multiwavelength counterparts to 103 submillimeter galaxies in the UKIDSS-UDS field (2016)
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Chen, C., Smail, I., Ivison, R. J., Arumugam, V., Almaini, O., Conselice, C. J., …Zavala, J. A. (2016). The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: multiwavelength counterparts to 103 submillimeter galaxies in the UKIDSS-UDS field. Astrophysical Journal, 820(2), 82. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/820/2/82

We present multiwavelength identifications for the counterparts of 1088 submillimeter sources detected at 850 μm in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey study of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey-Ultra-Deep Survey (UDS) field. By utilizing an Atacama... Read More about The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: multiwavelength counterparts to 103 submillimeter galaxies in the UKIDSS-UDS field.

The structure and evolution of a forming galaxy cluster at z = 1.62 (2016)
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J. Conselice, C., G. Hartley, W., A. Cooke, E., I. Muldrew, S., A. Hatch, N., Hatch, N. A., …Conselice, C. J. (2016). The structure and evolution of a forming galaxy cluster at z = 1.62. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459(1), 387-401. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw602

We present a comprehensive picture of the Cl0218.3-0510 protocluster at $z=1.623$ across 10 co-moving Mpc. Using filters that tightly bracket the Balmer and 4000 Angstrom breaks of the protocluster galaxies we obtain precise photometric redshifts res... Read More about The structure and evolution of a forming galaxy cluster at z = 1.62.

The formation history of massive cluster galaxies as revealed by CARLA (2015)
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Cooke, E. A., Hatch, N. A., Rettura, A., Wylezalek, D., Galametz, A., Stern, D., …Stanford, S. A. (2015). The formation history of massive cluster galaxies as revealed by CARLA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(3), 2318-2336. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1413

© 2015 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We use a sample of 37 of the densest clusters and protoclusters across 1.3 ≤ z ≤ 3.2 from the Clusters Around Radio-Loud AGN (CARLA) survey to study... Read More about The formation history of massive cluster galaxies as revealed by CARLA.

The SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey: ALMA resolves the rest-frame far-infrared emission of sub-millemeter galaxies (2015)
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Simpson, J. M., Smail, I., Swinbank, A. M., Almaini, O., Blain, A. W., Bremer, M. N., …van der Werf, P. P. (2015). The SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey: ALMA resolves the rest-frame far-infrared emission of sub-millemeter galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 799(1), 81. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/799/1/81

We present high-resolution (0’’.3) Atacama Large Millimeter Array 870 μm imaging of 52 sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) in the Ultra Deep Survey field to investigate the size and morphology of the sub-millimeter (sub-mm) emission on 2–10 kpc scales. We... Read More about The SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey: ALMA resolves the rest-frame far-infrared emission of sub-millemeter galaxies.

A new method for classifying galaxy SEDs from multiwavelength photometry (2014)
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Wild, V., Almaini, O., Cirasuolo, M., Dunlop, J., McLure, R., Bowler, R., …Hartley, W. (in press). A new method for classifying galaxy SEDs from multiwavelength photometry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 440(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu212

We present a new method to classify the broad-band optical–near-infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies using three shape parameters (super-colours) based on a principal component analysis of model SEDs. As well as providing a compa... Read More about A new method for classifying galaxy SEDs from multiwavelength photometry.