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2018

Galaxies: groups: general

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Deep Extragalactic Visible Legacy Survey (Devils): Motivation, Design, And Target Catalogue, L. J.M. Davies, A. S.G. Robotham, S. P. Driver, C. P. Lagos, L. Cortese, E. Mannering, C. Foster, C. Lidman, A. Hashemizadeh, S. Koushan, S. O'Toole, I. K. Baldry, M. Bilicki, J. Bland-Hawthorn, M. N. Bremer, M. J.I. Brown, J. J. Bryant, B. Catinella, S. M. Croom, M. W. Grootes, Benne W. Holwerda, M. J. Jarvis, N. Maddox, M. Meyer, A. J. Moffett, S. Phillipps, E. N. Taylor, R. A. Windhorst, C. Wolf Oct 2018

Deep Extragalactic Visible Legacy Survey (Devils): Motivation, Design, And Target Catalogue, L. J.M. Davies, A. S.G. Robotham, S. P. Driver, C. P. Lagos, L. Cortese, E. Mannering, C. Foster, C. Lidman, A. Hashemizadeh, S. Koushan, S. O'Toole, I. K. Baldry, M. Bilicki, J. Bland-Hawthorn, M. N. Bremer, M. J.I. Brown, J. J. Bryant, B. Catinella, S. M. Croom, M. W. Grootes, Benne W. Holwerda, M. J. Jarvis, N. Maddox, M. Meyer, A. J. Moffett, S. Phillipps, E. N. Taylor, R. A. Windhorst, C. Wolf

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The Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS) is a large spectroscopic campaign at the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) aimed at bridging the near and distant Universe by producing the highest completeness survey of galaxies and groups at intermediate redshifts (0.3 < z < 1.0). Our sample consists of ~60 000 galaxies to Y < 21.2mag, over ~6 deg2 in threewell-studied deep extragalactic fields (Cosmic Origins Survey field, COSMOS; Extended Chandra Deep Field South, ECDFS; and the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission Large-Scale Structure region, XMM-LSS - all Large Synoptic Survey Telescope deep-drill fields). This paper presents the broad experimental design of DEVILS. Our target sample has been selected from deep Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) Y-band imaging (VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations, VIDEO and UltraVISTA), with photometry measured by PROFOUND. Photometric star/galaxy separation is done on the basis of near-infrared colours and has been validated by visual inspection. To maximize our observing efficiency for faint targets, we employ a redshift feedback strategy, which continually updates our target lists, feeding back the results from the previous night's observations. We also present an overview of the initial spectroscopic observations undertaken in late 2017 and early 2018.


Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama): The Environmental Dependence Of The Galaxy Main Sequence, L. Wang, P. Norberg, S. Brough, M. J.I. Brown, E. Da Cunha, L. J. Davies, S. P. Driver, Benne W. Holwerda, A. M. Hopkins, M. A. Lara-Lopez, J. Liske, J. Loveday, M. W. Grootes, C. C. Popescu, A. H. Wright Oct 2018

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama): The Environmental Dependence Of The Galaxy Main Sequence, L. Wang, P. Norberg, S. Brough, M. J.I. Brown, E. Da Cunha, L. J. Davies, S. P. Driver, Benne W. Holwerda, A. M. Hopkins, M. A. Lara-Lopez, J. Liske, J. Loveday, M. W. Grootes, C. C. Popescu, A. H. Wright

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Aims: We aim to investigate if the environment (characterised by the host dark matter halo mass) plays any role in shaping the galaxy star formation main sequence (MS). Methods: The Galaxy and Mass Assembly project (GAMA) combines a spectroscopic survey with photometric information in 21 bands from the far-ultraviolet (FUV) to the far-infrared (FIR). Stellar masses and dust-corrected star-formation rates (SFR) are derived from spectral energy distribution (SED) modelling using MAGPHYS. We use the GAMA galaxy group catalogue to examine the variation of the fraction of star-forming galaxies (SFG) and properties of the MS with respect to the environment. Results: …


Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama): The Effect Of Galaxy Group Environment On Active Galactic Nuclei, Yjan A. Gordon, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Matt S. Owers, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Sarah Brough, Michael J.I. Brown, Michelle E. Cluver, Scott M. Croom, Benne W. Holwerda, Jonathan Loveday, Smriti Mahajan, Lingyu Wang Apr 2018

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama): The Effect Of Galaxy Group Environment On Active Galactic Nuclei, Yjan A. Gordon, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Matt S. Owers, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Sarah Brough, Michael J.I. Brown, Michelle E. Cluver, Scott M. Croom, Benne W. Holwerda, Jonathan Loveday, Smriti Mahajan, Lingyu Wang

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In galaxy clusters, efficiently accreting active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are preferentially located in the infall regions of the cluster projected phase-space, and are rarely found in the cluster core. This has been attributed to both an increase in triggering opportunities for infalling galaxies, and a reduction of those mechanisms in the hot, virialized, cluster core. Exploiting the depth and completeness (98 per cent at r < 19.8mag) of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey (GAMA), we probe down the group halo mass function to assess whether AGNs are found in the same regions in groups as they are in clusters. We select 451 optical AGNs from 7498 galaxies with log10(M*/M⊙) > 9.9 in 695 groups with 11.53 ≤ log10(M200/M⊙) ≤ 14.56 at < 0.15. By analysing the projected phase-space positions of these galaxies, we demonstrate that when split both radially, and into physically derived infalling and core populations, AGN position within group projected phase-space is dependent on halo mass. For groups with log10(M200/M⊙) > 13.5,AGNs are preferentially found in the infalling galaxy populationwith 3.6s confidence. At lower halo masses, we observe no difference in AGN fraction between core …