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Spirals in Galaxies by Sellwood, J.A, Masters, Karen L

“…Spirals in galaxies have long been thought to be caused by gravitational instability in the stellar component of the disk, but discerning the precise mechanism…”
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Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: Detailed visual morphology measurements from volunteers and deep learning for 314 000 galaxies by Walmsley, Mike, Lintott, Chris, Géron, Tobias, Kruk, Sandor, Krawczyk, Coleman, Willett, Kyle W, Bamford, Steven, Kelvin, Lee S, Fortson, Lucy, Gal, Yarin, Keel, William, Masters, Karen L, Mehta, Vihang, Simmons, Brooke D, Smethurst, Rebecca, Smith, Lewis, Baeten, Elisabeth M, Macmillan, Christine

“…ABSTRACT We present Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: detailed visual morphological classifications for Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey images of galaxies within the SDSS…”
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The green valley is a red herring: Galaxy Zoo reveals two evolutionary pathways towards quenching of star formation in early- and late-type galaxies by Schawinski, Kevin, Urry, C. Megan, Simmons, Brooke D., Fortson, Lucy, Kaviraj, Sugata, Keel, William C., Lintott, Chris J., Masters, Karen L., Nichol, Robert C., Sarzi, Marc, Skibba, Ramin, Treister, Ezequiel, Willett, Kyle W., Wong, O. Ivy, Yi, Sukyoung K.

“…We use SDSS+GALEX+Galaxy Zoo data to study the quenching of star formation in low-redshift galaxies. We show that the green valley between the blue cloud of…”
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A precise extragalactic test of General Relativity by Collett, Thomas E, Oldham, Lindsay J, Smith, Russell J, Auger, Matthew W, Westfall, Kyle B, Bacon, David, Nichol, Robert C, Masters, Karen L, Koyama, Kazuya, van den Bosch, Remco

“…Einstein's theory of gravity, General Relativity, has been precisely tested on Solar System scales, but the long-range nature of gravity is still poorly…”
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SDSS-IV MaNGA: evidence of the importance of AGN feedback in low-mass galaxies by Penny, Samantha J, Masters, Karen L, Smethurst, Rebecca, Nichol, Robert C, Krawczyk, Coleman M, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Greene, Olivia, Liu, Charles, Marinelli, Mariarosa, Rembold, Sandro B, Riffel, Rogemar A, Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Wylezalek, Dominika, Andrews, Brett H, Bundy, Kevin, Drory, Niv, Oravetz, Daniel, Pan, Kaike

“…Abstract We present new evidence for AGN feedback in a subset of 69 quenched low-mass galaxies (M⋆ ≲ 5 × 109 M⊙, Mr > −19) selected from the first 2 yr of the…”
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Galaxy Zoo 2: detailed morphological classifications for 304 122 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey by Willett, Kyle W., Lintott, Chris J., Bamford, Steven P., Masters, Karen L., Simmons, Brooke D., Casteels, Kevin R. V., Edmondson, Edward M., Fortson, Lucy F., Kaviraj, Sugata, Keel, William C., Melvin, Thomas, Nichol, Robert C., Raddick, M. Jordan, Schawinski, Kevin, Simpson, Robert J., Skibba, Ramin A., Smith, Arfon M., Thomas, Daniel

“…We present the data release for Galaxy Zoo 2 (GZ2), a citizen science project with more than 16 million morphological classifications of 304 122 galaxies drawn…”
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Local gravity versus local velocity: solutions for β and non-linear bias by Davis, Marc, Nusser, Adi, Masters, Karen L., Springob, Christopher, Huchra, John P., Lemson, Gerard

“…We perform a reconstruction of the cosmological large-scale flows in the nearby Universe using two complementary observational sets. The first, the SFI++…”
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Galaxy Zoo: bar lengths in local disc galaxies by Hoyle, Ben, Masters, Karen. L., Nichol, Robert C., Edmondson, Edward M., Smith, Arfon M., Lintott, Chris, Scranton, Ryan, Bamford, Steven, Schawinski, Kevin, Thomas, Daniel

“…We present an analysis of bar length measurements of 3150 local galaxies in a volume-limited sample of low-redshift (z < 0.06) disc galaxies. Barred galaxies…”
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Galaxy Zoo: comparing the demographics of spiral arm number and a new method for correcting redshift bias by Hart, Ross E., Bamford, Steven P., Willett, Kyle W., Masters, Karen L., Cardamone, Carolin, Lintott, Chris J., Mackay, Robert J., Nichol, Robert C., Rosslowe, Christopher K., Simmons, Brooke D., Smethurst, Rebecca J.

“…The majority of galaxies in the local Universe exhibit spiral structure with a variety of forms. Many galaxies possess two prominent spiral arms, some have…”
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SDSS IV MaNGA – spatially resolved diagnostic diagrams: a proof that many galaxies are LIERs by Belfiore, Francesco, Maiolino, Roberto, Maraston, Claudia, Emsellem, Eric, Bershady, Matthew A., Masters, Karen L., Yan, Renbin, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Boquien, Médéric, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Drory, Niv, Heckman, Timothy M., Law, David R., Roman-Lopes, Alexandre, Pan, Kaike, Stanghellini, Letizia, Thomas, Daniel, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Westfall, Kyle B.

“…We study the spatially resolved excitation properties of the ionized gas in a sample of 646 galaxies using integral field spectroscopy data from the Sloan…”
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Galaxy Zoo: secular evolution of barred galaxies from structural decomposition of multiband images by Kruk, Sandor J., Lintott, Chris J., Bamford, Steven P., Masters, Karen L., Simmons, Brooke D., Häußler, Boris, Cardamone, Carolin N., Hart, Ross E., Kelvin, Lee, Schawinski, Kevin, Smethurst, Rebecca J., Vika, Marina

“…AbstractWe present the results of two-component (disc+bar) and three-component (disc+bar+bulge) multiwavelength 2D photometric decompositions of barred…”
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H i-MaNGA: tracing the physics of the neutral and ionized ISM with the second data release by Stark, David V, Masters, Karen L, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Riffel, Rogemar, Riffel, Rogerio, Boardman, Nicholas Fraser, Zheng, Zheng, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Dillon, Sean, Fielder, Catherine, Finnegan, Daniel, Fofie, Patricia, Goddy, Julian, Harrington, Emily, Pace, Zachary, Rujopakarn, Wiphu, Samanso, Nattida, Shamsi, Shoaib, Sharma, Anubhav, Warrick, Elizabeth, Witherspoon, Catherine, Wolthuis, Nathan

“…ABSTRACT We present the second data release for the H i-MaNGA programme of H i follow-up observations for the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey. This release contains…”
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Galaxy zoo builder: Morphological dependence of spiral galaxy pitch angle by Lingard, Timothy, Masters, Karen L, Krawczyk, Coleman, Lintott, Chris, Kruk, Sandor, Simmons, Brooke, Keel, William, Nichol, Robert C, Baeten, Elisabeth

“…ABSTRACT Spiral structure is ubiquitous in the Universe, and the pitch angle of arms in spiral galaxies provide an important observable in efforts to…”
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Galaxy zoo: stronger bars facilitate quenching in star-forming galaxies by Géron, Tobias, Smethurst, R J, Lintott, Chris, Kruk, Sandor, Masters, Karen L, Simmons, Brooke, Stark, David V

“…ABSTRACT We have used Galaxy Zoo DECaLS (GZD) to study strong and weak bars in disc galaxies. Out of the 314 000 galaxies in GZD, we created a volume-limited…”
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Galaxy Zoo: kinematics of strongly and weakly barred galaxies by Géron, Tobias, Smethurst, Rebecca J, Lintott, Chris, Kruk, Sandor, Masters, Karen L, Simmons, Brooke, Mantha, Kameswara Bharadwaj, Walmsley, Mike, Garma-Oehmichen, L, Drory, Niv, Lane, Richard R

“…ABSTRACT We study the bar pattern speeds and corotation radii of 225 barred galaxies, using integral field unit data from MaNGA and the Tremaine–Weinberg…”
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A comparison of the baryonic Tully–Fisher relation in MaNGA and IllustrisTNG by Goddy, Julian S, Stark, David V, Masters, Karen L, Bundy, Kevin, Drory, Niv, Law, David R

“…ABSTRACT We compare an observed baryonic Tully–Fisher relation (BTFR) from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) and HI-MaNGA surveys…”
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The H i morphology and stellar properties of strongly barred galaxies: support for bar quenching in massive spirals by Newnham, L, Hess, Kelley M, Masters, Karen L, Kruk, Sandor, Penny, Samantha J, Lingard, Tim, Smethurst, R J

“…ABSTRACT Galactic bars are able to affect the evolution of galaxies by redistributing their gas, possibly contributing to the cessation of star formation…”
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Stellar masses of SDSS-III/BOSS galaxies at z ∼ 0.5 and constraints to galaxy formation models by Maraston, Claudia, Pforr, Janine, Henriques, Bruno M., Thomas, Daniel, Wake, David, Brownstein, Joel R., Capozzi, Diego, Tinker, Jeremy, Bundy, Kevin, Skibba, Ramin A., Beifiori, Alessandra, Nichol, Robert C., Edmondson, Edd, Schneider, Donald P., Chen, Yanmei, Masters, Karen L., Steele, Oliver, Bolton, Adam S., York, Donald G., Weaver, Benjamin A., Higgs, Tim, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Brewington, Howard, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Snedden, Stephanie, Oravetz, Daniel, Pan, Kaike, Shelden, Alaina, Simmons, Audrey

“…We calculate stellar masses for ∼400 000 massive luminous galaxies at redshift ∼0.2-0.7 using the first two years of data from the Baryon Oscillation…”
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Galactic conformity in both star formation and morphological properties by Otter, Justin A, Masters, Karen L, Simmons, Brooke, Lintott, Chris J

“…ABSTRACT We investigate one-halo galactic conformity (the tendency for satellite galaxies to mirror the properties of their central) in both star formation and…”
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Suppressing star formation in quiescent galaxies with supermassive black hole winds by Cheung, Edmond, Bundy, Kevin, Cappellari, Michele, Peirani, Sébastien, Rujopakarn, Wiphu, Westfall, Kyle, Yan, Renbin, Bershady, Matthew, Greene, Jenny E., Heckman, Timothy M., Drory, Niv, Law, David R., Masters, Karen L., Thomas, Daniel, Wake, David A., Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Rubin, Kate, Belfiore, Francesco, Vulcani, Benedetta, Chen, Yan-mei, Zhang, Kai, Gelfand, Joseph D., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Roman-Lopes, A., Schneider, Donald P.

“…In order for quiescent galaxies to maintain their low-to-non-existent star formation, there must be a mechanism to remove or heat gas that would otherwise cool…”
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