Search Results - "Croton, D."

Statistical analysis of galaxy surveys – I. Robust error estimation for two-point clustering statistics by Norberg, P., Baugh, C. M., Gaztañaga, E., Croton, D. J.

“…We present a test of different error estimators for two-point clustering statistics, appropriate for present and future large galaxy redshift surveys. Using an…”
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The growth of discs and bulges during hierarchical galaxy formation – I. Fast evolution versus secular processes by Tonini, C., Mutch, S. J., Croton, D. J., Wyithe, J. S. B.

“…We present a theoretical model for the evolution of mass, angular momentum and size of galaxy discs and bulges, and we implement it into the semi-analytic…”
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Simulation of the Cosmic Evolution of Atomic and Molecular Hydrogen in Galaxies by Obreschkow, D, Croton, D, De Lucia, G, Khochfar, S, Rawlings, S

“…We present a simulation of the cosmic evolution of the atomic and molecular phases of the cold hydrogen gas in about 3 X 107 galaxies, obtained by…”
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Evidence for Merger-driven Growth in Luminous, High-z, Obscured AGNs in the CANDELS/COSMOS Field by Donley, J. L., Kartaltepe, J., Kocevski, D., Salvato, M., Santini, P., Suh, H., Civano, F., Koekemoer, A. M., Trump, J., Brusa, M., Cardamone, C., Castro, A., Cisternas, M., Conselice, C., Croton, D., Hathi, N., Liu, C., Lucas, R. A., Nair, P., Rosario, D., Sanders, D., Simmons, B., Villforth, C., Alexander, D. M., Bell, E. F., Faber, S. M., Grogin, N. A., Lotz, J., McIntosh, D. H., Nagao, T.

“…While major mergers have long been proposed as a driver of both active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity and the relation, studies of moderate to high-redshift…”
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The formation history of elliptical galaxies by De Lucia, Gabriella, Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., Croton, Darren, Kauffmann, Guinevere

“…ABSTRACT We take advantage of the largest high‐resolution simulation of cosmic structure growth ever carried out – the Millennium Simulation of the concordance…”
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The morphologies of massive galaxies at 1 < z < 3 in the CANDELS-UDS field: compact bulges, and the rise and fall of massive discs by Bruce, V. A., Dunlop, J. S., Cirasuolo, M., McLure, R. J., Targett, T. A., Bell, E. F., Croton, D. J., Dekel, A., Faber, S. M., Ferguson, H. C., Grogin, N. A., Kocevski, D. D., Koekemoer, A. M., Koo, D. C., Lai, K., Lotz, J. M., McGrath, E. J., Newman, J. A., van der Wel, A.

“…We have used high-resolution, Hubble Space Telescope, near-infrared imaging to conduct a detailed analysis of the morphological properties of the most massive…”
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[O ii] emitters in MultiDark-Galaxies and DEEP2 by Favole, G, Gonzalez-Perez, V, Stoppacher, D, Orsi, Á, Comparat, J, Cora, S A, Vega-Martínez, C A, Stevens, A R H, Maraston, C, Croton, D, Knebe, A, Benson, A J, Montero-Dorta, A D, Padilla, N, Prada, F, Thomas, D

“…ABSTRACT We use three semi-analytical models (SAMs) of galaxy formation and evolution run on the same 1 h−1 Gpc MultiDark Planck2 cosmological simulation to…”
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Galaxy Cluster Mass Reconstruction Project – IV. Understanding the effects of imperfect membership on cluster mass estimation by Wojtak, R, Old, L, Mamon, G A, Pearce, F R, de Carvalho, R, Sifón, C, Gray, M E, Skibba, R A, Croton, D, Bamford, S, Gifford, D, von der Linden, A, Muñoz-Cuartas, J C, Müller, V, Pearson, R J, Rozo, E, Rykoff, E, Saro, A, Sepp, T, Tempel, E

“…The primary difficulty in measuring dynamical masses of galaxy clusters from galaxy data lies in the separation between true cluster members from interloping…”
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Interactive 3D visualization for theoretical virtual observatories by Dykes, T, Hassan, A, Gheller, C, Croton, D, Krokos, M

“…Abstract Virtual observatories (VOs) are online hubs of scientific knowledge. They encompass a collection of platforms dedicated to the storage and…”
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Galaxy cluster mass reconstruction project – I. Methods and first results on galaxy-based techniques by Old, L., Skibba, R. A., Pearce, F. R., Croton, D., Muldrew, S. I., Muñoz-Cuartas, J. C., Gifford, D., Gray, M. E., der Linden, A. von, Mamon, G. A., Merrifield, M. R., Müller, V., Pearson, R. J., Ponman, T. J., Saro, A., Sepp, T., Sifón, C., Tempel, E., Tundo, E., Wang, Y. O., Wojtak, R.

“…This paper is the first in a series in which we perform an extensive comparison of various galaxy-based cluster mass estimation techniques that utilize the…”
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Morphologies of z ∼ 0.7 AGN host galaxies in CANDELS: no trend of merger incidence with AGN luminosity by Villforth, C., Hamann, F., Rosario, D. J., Santini, P., McGrath, E. J., Wel, A. van der, Chang, Y. Y., Guo, Y., Dahlen, T., Bell, E. F., Conselice, C. J., Croton, D., Dekel, A., Faber, S. M., Grogin, N., Hamilton, T., Hopkins, P. F., Juneau, S., Kartaltepe, J., Kocevski, D., Koekemoer, A., Koo, D. C., Lotz, J., McIntosh, D., Mozena, M., Somerville, R., Wild, V.

“…The processes that trigger active galactic nuclei (AGN) remain poorly understood. While lower luminosity AGN may be triggered by minor disturbances to the host…”
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Galaxy Cluster Mass Reconstruction Project – II. Quantifying scatter and bias using contrasting mock catalogues by Old, L., Wojtak, R., Mamon, G. A., Skibba, R. A., Pearce, F. R., Croton, D., Bamford, S., Behroozi, P., de Carvalho, R., Muñoz-Cuartas, J. C., Gifford, D., Gray, M. E., der Linden, A. von, Merrifield, M. R., Muldrew, S. I., Müller, V., Pearson, R. J., Ponman, T. J., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E., Saro, A., Sepp, T., Sifón, C., Tempel, E.

“…This paper is the second in a series in which we perform an extensive comparison of various galaxy-based cluster mass estimation techniques that utilize the…”
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AEGIS: The Color-Magnitude Relation for X-Ray-selected Active Galactic Nuclei by Nandra, K, Georgakakis, A, Willmer, C. N. A, Cooper, M. C, Croton, D. J, Davis, M, Faber, S. M, Koo, D. C, Laird, E. S, Newman, J. A

“…We discuss the relationship between rest-frame color and optical luminosity for X-ray sources in the range 0.6< z <1.4 selected from the Chandra survey of the…”
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Galaxy Cluster Mass Reconstruction Project – III. The impact of dynamical substructure on cluster mass estimates by Old, L, Wojtak, R, Pearce, F R, Gray, M E, Mamon, G A, Sifón, C, Tempel, E, Biviano, A, Yee, H K C, de Carvalho, R, Müller, V, Sepp, T, Skibba, R A, Croton, D, Bamford, S P, Power, C, von der Linden, A, Saro, A

“…Abstract With the advent of wide-field cosmological surveys, we are approaching samples of hundreds of thousands of galaxy clusters. While such large numbers…”
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Statistical analysis of galaxy surveys — II. The three-point galaxy correlation function measured from the 2dFGRS by Gaztañaga, E., Norberg, P., Baugh, C. M., Croton, D. J.

“…We present new results for the three-point correlation function, ζ, measured as a function of scale, luminosity and colour from the final version of the 2dF…”
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The role of dissipation in the scaling relations of cosmological merger remnants by Covington, M. D., Primack, J. R., Porter, L. A., Croton, D. J., Somerville, R. S., Dekel, A.

“…There are strong correlations between the three structural properties of elliptical galaxies - stellar mass, velocity dispersion and size - in the form of a…”
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The All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS) Data Sets by Davis, M, Guhathakurta, P, Konidaris, N. P, Newman, J. A, Ashby, M. L. N, Biggs, A. D, Barmby, P, Bundy, K, Chapman, S. C, Coil, A. L, Conselice, C. J, Cooper, M. C, Croton, D. J, Eisenhardt, P. R. M, Ellis, R. S, Faber, S. M, Fang, T, Fazio, G. G, Georgakakis, A, Gerke, B. F, Goss, W. M, Gwyn, S, Harker, J, Hopkins, A. M, Huang, J.-S, Ivison, R. J, Kassin, S. A, Kirby, E. N, Koekemoer, A. M, Koo, D. C, Laird, E. S, Le Floc’h, E, Lin, L, Lotz, J. M, Marshall, P. J, Martin, D. C, Metevier, A. J, Moustakas, L. A, Nandra, K, Noeske, K. G, Papovich, C, Phillips, A. C, Rich, R. M, Rieke, G. H, Rigopoulou, D, Salim, S, Schiminovich, D, Simard, L, Smail, I, Small, T. A, Weiner, B. J, Willmer, C. N. A, Willner, S. P, Wilson, G, Wright, E. L, Yan, R

“…In this the first of a series of Letters, we present a panchromatic data set in the Extended Groth Strip region of the sky. Our survey, the All-Wavelength…”
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The growth of discs and bulges during hierarchical galaxy formation – II. Metallicity, stellar populations and dynamical evolution by Tonini, C, Mutch, S J, Wyithe, J S B, Croton, D J

“…We investigate the properties of the stellar populations of model galaxies as a function of galaxy evolutionary history and angular momentum content. We use…”
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Statistical analysis of galaxy surveys - IV. An objective way to quantify the impact of superstructures on galaxy clustering statistics by Norberg, P., Gaztañaga, E., Baugh, C. M., Croton, D. J.

“…For galaxy clustering to provide robust constraints on cosmological parameters and galaxy formation models, it is essential to make reliable estimates of the…”
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Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the bright void galaxy population in the optical and mid-IR by Penny, S. J., Brown, M. J. I., Pimbblet, K. A., Cluver, M. E., Croton, D. J., Owers, M. S., Lange, R., Alpaslan, M., Baldry, I., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Driver, S. P., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., Jarrett, T. H., Jones, D. Heath, Kelvin, L. S., Lara-López, M. A., Liske, J., López-Sánchez, A. R., Loveday, J., Meyer, M., Norberg, P., Robotham, A. S. G., Rodrigues, M.

“…We examine the properties of galaxies in the Galaxies and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey located in voids with radii >10 h −1 Mpc. Utilizing the GAMA equatorial…”
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