Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "galaxies: evolution"

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    • Average Spectra of Massive Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 

      Eisenstein, Daniel James; Hogg, David W.; Fukugita, Masataka; Nakamura, Osamu; Bernardi, Mariangela; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Schlegel, David J.; Brinkmann, J.; Connolly, Andrew J.; Csabai, Istvan; Gunn, James E.; Ivezi?, ?eljko; Lamb, Don Q.; Loveday, Jon; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Nichol, Robert C.; Schneider, Donald P.; Strauss, Michael A.; Szalay, Alex; York, Don G. (IOP Publishing, 2003)
      We combine Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra of 22,000 luminous, red, bulge-dominated galaxies to get high signal-to-noise ratio average spectra in the rest-frame optical and ultraviolet (2600-7000 Å). The average spectra ...

    • The colours of satellite galaxies in the Illustris simulation 

      Sales, L. V.; Vogelsberger, M.; Genel, S.; Torrey, P; Nelson, D.; Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente; Wang, W.; Pillepich, A.; Sijacki, D.; Springel, V.; Hernquist, Lars Eric (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014)
      Observationally, the fraction of blue satellite galaxies decreases steeply with host halo mass, and their radial distribution around central galaxies is significantly shallower in massive (M* ≥ 1011 M⊙) than in Milky ...

    • The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Clustering of Galaxies in Early Data 

      Coil, Alison L.; Davis, Marc; Madgwick, Darren S.; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Conselice, Christopher J.; Cooper, Michael; Ellis, Richard S.; Faber, S. M.; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Kaiser, Nick; Koo, David C.; Phillips, Andrew C.; Steidel, Charles C.; Weiner, Benjamin J.; Willmer, Christopher N. A.; Yan, Renbin (IOP Publishing, 2004)
      We measure the two-point correlation function ξ(rp, π) in a sample of 2219 galaxies between z = 0.7 and 1.35 to a magnitude limit of RAB = 24.1 from the first season of the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey. From ξ(rp, π) we ...

    • The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Design, Observations, Data Reduction, and Redshifts 

      Newman, Jeffrey A.; Cooper, Michael C.; Davis, Marc; Faber, S. M.; Coil, Alison L.; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Koo, David C.; Phillips, Andrew C.; Conroy, Charlie; Dutton, Aaron A.; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Gerke, Brian F.; Rosario, David J.; Weiner, Benjamin J.; Willmer, C. N. A.; Yan, Renbin; Harker, Justin J.; Kassin, Susan A.; Konidaris, N. P.; Lai, Kamson; Madgwick, Darren S.; Noeske, K. G.; Wirth, Gregory D.; Connolly, A. J.; Kaiser, N.; Kirby, Evan N.; Lemaux, Brian C.; Lin, Lihwai; Lotz, Jennifer M.; Luppino, G. A.; Marinoni, C.; Matthews, Daniel J.; Metevier, Anne; Schiavon, Ricardo P. (IOP Publishing, 2013)
      We describe the design and data analysis of the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey, the densest and largest high-precision redshift survey of galaxies at z ~ 1 completed to date. The survey was designed to conduct a comprehensive ...

    • The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: the relationship between galaxy properties and environment at z  1 

      Cooper, M. C.; Newman, J. A.; Croton, D. J.; Weiner, B. J.; Willmer, C. N. A.; Gerke, B. F.; Madgwick, D. S.; Faber, S. M.; Davis, M.; Coil, A. L.; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Guhathakurta, P.; Koo, D. C. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2006)
      We study the mean environment of galaxies in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey as a function of rest-frame colour, luminosity, and [O-ii] 3727-Å equivalent width. The local galaxy overdensity for >14-000 galaxies at 0.75 < ...

    • Early-Type Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. The Sample 

      Bernardi, Mariangela; Sheth, Ravi; Annis, James; Burles, Scott; Eisenstein, Daniel James; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Hogg, David; Lupton, Robert; Schlegel, David; SubbaRao, Mark; Bahcall, Neta; Blakeslee, John; Brinkmann, J.; Castander, Francisco; Connolly, Andrew; Csabai, István; Doi, Mamoru; Fukugita, Masataka; Frieman, Joshua; Heckman, Timothy; Hennessy, Gregory; Ivezić, Željko; Knapp, G.; Lamb, Don; McKay, Timothy; Munn, Jeffrey; Nichol, Robert; Okamura, Sadanori; Schneider, Donald; Thakar, Aniruddha; York, Donald (2003)
      A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 ≤ z ≤ 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using morphological and spectral criteria. This paper describes how the sample was ...

    • Early-type Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. II. Correlations between Observables 

      Bernardi, Mariangela; Sheth, Ravi K.; Annis, James; Burles, Scott; Eisenstein, Daniel James; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Hogg, David W.; Lupton, Robert H.; Schlegel, David J.; SubbaRao, Mark; Bahcall, Neta A.; Blakeslee, John P.; Brinkmann, J.; Castander, Francisco J.; Connolly, Andrew J.; Csabai, István; Doi, Mamoru; Fukugita, Masataka; Frieman, Joshua; Heckman, Timothy; Hennessy, Gregory S.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Knapp, G. R.; Lamb, Don Q.; McKay, Timothy; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Nichol, Robert; Okamura, Sadanori; Schneider, Donald P.; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; York, Donald G. (IOP Publishing, 2003)
      A magnitude-limited sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 ≤ z ≤ 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. The sample was used to study ...

    • Early-Type Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. III. The Fundamental Plane 

      Bernardi, Mariangela; Sheth, Ravi K.; Annis, James; Burles, Scott; Eisenstein, Daniel James; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Hogg, David W.; Lupton, Robert H.; Schlegel, David J.; SubbaRao, Mark; Bahcall, Neta A.; Blakeslee, John P.; Brinkmann, J.; Castander, Francisco J.; Connolly, Andrew J.; Csabai, István; Doi, Mamoru; Fukugita, Masataka; Frieman, Joshua; Heckman, Timothy; Hennessy, Gregory S.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Knapp, G. R.; Lamb, Don Q.; McKay, Timothy; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Nichol, Robert; Okamura, Sadanori; Schneider, Donald P.; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; York, Donald G. (IOP Publishing, 2003)
      A magnitude-limited sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies in the redshift range 0.01 ≤ z ≤ 0.3 was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using morphological and spectral criteria. The fundamental plane ...

    • Early-Type Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. IV. Colors and Chemical Evolution 

      Bernardi, Mariangela; Sheth, Ravi K.; Annis, James; Burles, Scott; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Lupton, Robert H.; Schlegel, David J.; SubbaRao, Mark; Bahcall, Neta A.; Blakeslee, John P.; Brinkmann, J.; Castander, Francisco J.; Connolly, Andrew J.; Csabai, István; Doi, Mamoru; Fukugita, Masataka; Frieman, Joshua; Heckman, Timothy; Hennessy, Gregory S.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Knapp, G. R.; Lamb, Don Q.; McKay, Timothy; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Nichol, Robert; Okamura, Sadanori; Schneider, Donald P.; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; York, Donald G. (IOP Publishing, 2003)
      The colors and chemical abundances of early-type galaxies at redshifts z < 0.3 are studied using a sample of nearly 9000 galaxies, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. In ...

    • Galaxy Luminosity Functions to z~1 from DEEP2 and COMBO-17: Implications for Red Galaxy Formation* 

      Faber, S. M.; Willmer, C. N. A.; Wolf, C.; Koo, D. C.; Weiner, B. J.; Newman, J. A.; Im, M.; Coil, A. L.; Conroy, C.; Cooper, M. C.; Davis, M.; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Gerke, B. F.; Gebhardt, K.; Groth, E. J.; Guhathakurta, P.; Harker, J.; Kaiser, N.; Kassin, S.; Kleinheinrich, M.; Konidaris, N. P.; Kron, R. G.; Lin, L.; Luppino, G.; Madgwick, D. S.; Meisenheimer, K.; Noeske, K. G.; Phillips, A. C.; Sarajedini, V. L.; Schiavon, R. P.; Simard, L.; Szalay, A. S.; Vogt, N. P.; Yan, R. (IOP Publishing, 2007)
      The DEEP2 and COMBO-17 surveys are compared to study luminosity functions of red and blue galaxies to z ~ 1. The two surveys have different methods and sensitivities, but nevertheless results agree. After z ~ 1, Mimg1.gif ...

    • Mid‐Infrared and Visible Photometry of Galaxies: Anomalously Low Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission from Low‐Luminosity Galaxies 

      Hogg, David W.; Tremonti, Christy A.; Blanton, Michael R.; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Quintero, Alejandro D.; Schlegel, David J.; Wherry, Nicholas (IOP Publishing, 2005)
      The Spitzer Space Telescope First Look Survey Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) near- and mid-infrared imaging data partially overlap the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), with 313 visible-selected (r < 17.6 mag) SDSS main sample ...

    • Modeling the Dust Properties of z ~ 6 Quasars with ART2—All-Wavelength Radiative Transfer with Adaptive Refinement Tree 

      Li, Yuexing; Hopkins, Philip F.; Hernquist, Lars Eric; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Cox, Thomas J.; Springel, Volker; Jiang, Linhua; Fan, Xiaohui; Yoshida, Naoki (IOP Publishing, 2008)
      The detection of large quantities of dust in z ~ 6 quasars by infrared and radio surveys presents puzzles for the formation and evolution of dust in these early systems. Previously, Li et al. showed that luminous quasars ...

    • On the assembly of dwarf galaxies in clusters and their efficient formation of globular clusters 

      Mistani, Pouria A.; Sales, Laura V.; Pillepich, Annalisa; Sanchez-Janssen, Rubén; Vogelsberger, Mark; Nelson, Dylan; Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente; Torrey, Paul; Hernquist, Lars Eric (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015)
      Galaxy clusters contain a large population of low-mass dwarf elliptical galaxies whose exact origin is unclear: their colours, structural properties and kinematics differ substantially from those of dwarf irregulars in the ...

    • Predicted Sizes of Pressure-Supported HI Clouds in the Outskirts of the Virgo Cluster 

      Burkhart, Blakesley K.; Loeb, Abraham (American Astronomical Society, 2016)
      Using data from the ALFALFA Arecibo HI survey of galaxies and the Virgo cluster X-ray pressure profiles from XMM-Newton, we investigate the possibility that starless dark HI clumps, also known as "dark galaxies", are ...

    • SPT-CL J0205–5829: A z = 1.32 Evolved Massive Galaxy Cluster in the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Survey 

      Stalder, Brian A; Ruel, Jonathan; Šuhada, R.; Brodwin, M.; Aird, K. A.; Andersson, K.; Armstrong, R.; Ashby, Matthew L N; Bautz, M.; Bayliss, Matthew; Bazin, G.; Benson, B. A.; Bleem, L. E.; Carlstrom, J. E.; Chang, C. L.; Cho, H. M.; Clocchiatti, A.; Crawford, T. M.; Crites, A. T.; de Haan, T.; Desai, S.; Dobbs, M. A.; Dudley, J. P.; Foley, R. J.; Forman, William R.; George, E. M.; Gettings, D.; Gladders, M. D.; Gonzalez, A. H.; Halverson, N. W.; Harrington, N. L.; High, F. W.; Holder, G. P.; Holzapfel, W. L.; Hoover, S.; Hrubes, J. D.; Jones, C.; Joy, M.; Keisler, R.; Knox, L.; Lee, A. T.; Leitch, E. M.; Liu, J.; Lueker, M.; Luong-Van, D.; Mantz, A.; Marrone, D. P.; McDonald, M.; McMahon, J. J.; Mehl, J.; Meyer, S. S.; Mocanu, L.; Mohr, J. J.; Montroy, T. E.; Murray, Stephen S.; Natoli, T.; Nurgaliev, Daniyar Rashidovich; Padin, S.; Plagge, T.; Pryke, C.; Reichardt, C. L.; Rest, A.; Ruhl, J. E.; Saliwanchik, B. R.; Saro, A.; Sayre, J. T.; Schaffer, K. K.; Shaw, L.; Shirokoff, E.; Song, J.; Spieler, H. G.; Stanford, S. A.; Staniszewski, Z.; Stark, Antony A.; Story, K.; Stubbs, Christopher William; van Engelen, A.; Vanderlinde, K.; Vieira, J. D.; Vikhlinin, Alexey A.; Williamson, R.; Zahn, O.; Zenteno, A. (American Astronomical Society / IOP Publishing, 2013)
      The galaxy cluster SPT-CL J0205–5829 currently has the highest spectroscopically confirmed redshift, z = 1.322, in the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SPT-SZ) survey. XMM-Newton observations measure a core-excluded ...

    • The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxy Legacy Survey—i. Sample Selection and Redshift Distribution 

      Perley, D. A.; Krühler, T.; Schulze, S.; de Ugarte Postigo, A.; Hjorth, J.; Berger, Edo; Cenko, S. B.; Chary, R.; Cucchiara, A.; Ellis, R.; Fong, W.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Gorosabel, J.; Greiner, J.; Jakobsson, P.; Kim, S.; Laskar, T.; Levan, A. J.; Michalowski, M. J.; Milvang-Jensen, B.; Tanvir, N. R.; Thöne, C. C.; Wiersema, K. (American Astronomical Society, 2016)
      We introduce the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxy Legacy Survey (“SHOALS”), a multiobservatory high-redshift galaxy survey targeting the largest unbiased sample of long-duration gammaray burst hosts yet assembled (119 in ...

    • The Swift Grb Host Galaxy Legacy Survey— Ii. Rest-Frame Nir Luminosity Distribution and Evidence for a Near-Solar Metallicity Threshold 

      Perley, D. A.; Tanvir, N. R.; Hjorth, J.; Laskar, T.; Berger, Edo; Chary, R.; Postigo, A. de Ugarte; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Krühler, T.; Levan, A. J.; Michałowski, M. J.; Schulze, S. (American Astronomical Society, 2016)
      We present rest-frame near-IR (NIR) luminosities and stellar masses for a large and uniformly selected population of gamma-ray burst (GRB) host galaxies using deep Spitzer Space Telescope imaging of 119 targets from the ...

    • Zooming in on accretion – I. The structure of halo gas 

      Nelson, Dylan; Genel, Shy; Pillepich, Annalisa; Vogelsberger, Mark; Springel, Volker; Hernquist, Lars Eric (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)
      We study the properties of gas in and around 1012 M⊙ haloes at z = 2 using a suite of high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamic ‘zoom’ simulations. We quantify the thermal and dynamical structure of these gaseous reservoirs ...