Search Results - "Spitler, Lee R."
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A massive, quiescent galaxy at a redshift of 3.717
Published in Nature (London) (06-04-2017)“…A massive ancient galaxy with minimal star formation is observed spectroscopically at an epoch when the Universe is less than 2 billion years old, posing a…”
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Quantifying the coexistence of massive black holes and dense nuclear star clusters
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-08-2009)“…In large spheroidal stellar systems, such as elliptical galaxies, one invariably finds a 106–109 M⊙ supermassive black hole at their centre. In contrast,…”
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Effect of Local Environment and Stellar Mass on Galaxy Quenching and Morphology at 0.5 < z < 2.0
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2017)“…Abstract We study galactic star formation activity as a function of environment and stellar mass over 0.5 < z < 2.0 using the FourStar Galaxy Evolution…”
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The Effects of Environment on the Evolution of the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-02-2018)“…We study the effects of galaxy environment on the evolution of the stellar mass function (SMF) over 0.2 < z < 2.0 using the FourStar Galaxy Evolution (ZFOURGE)…”
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THE SLUGGS SURVEY: WIDE-FIELD STELLAR KINEMATICS OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-08-2014)“…We present stellar kinematics of 22 nearby early-type galaxies (ETGs), based on two-dimensional (2D) absorption line stellar spectroscopy out to ~2-4R sub(e)…”
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LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE AROUND A z = 2.1 CLUSTER
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2016)“…ABSTRACT The most prodigious starburst galaxies are absent in massive galaxy clusters today, but their connection with large-scale environments is less clear…”
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ZFOURGE: Using Composite Spectral Energy Distributions to Characterize Galaxy Populations at 1 < z < 4
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-08-2018)“…Abstract We investigate the properties of galaxies as they shut off star formation over the 4 billion years surrounding peak cosmic star formation. To do this,…”
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SATELLITE QUENCHING AND GALACTIC CONFORMITY AT 0.3 < z < 2.5
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-01-2016)“…ABSTRACT We measure the evolution of the quiescent fraction and quenching efficiency of satellites around star-forming and quiescent central galaxies with…”
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ZFIRE: 3D Modeling of Rotation, Dispersion, and Angular Momentum of Star-forming Galaxies at z ∼ 2
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2018)“…We perform a kinematic and morphological analysis of 44 star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 2 in the COSMOS legacy field using near-infrared spectroscopy from…”
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DIFFERENCES IN THE STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES AND STAR FORMATION RATES OF FIELD AND CLUSTER GALAXIES AT Z ∼ 1
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-07-2016)“…ABSTRACT We investigate the dependence of galaxy sizes and star formation rates (SFRs) on their environment using a mass-limited sample of quiescent and…”
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Diamonds on the Hat: globular clusters in the Sombrero galaxy (M104)
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-01-2010)“…Images from the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for surveys are used to carry out a new photometric study of the globular clusters (GCs) in M104, the…”
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Ultra-compact Dwarfs in the Core of the Coma Cluster
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-10-2010)“…We have discovered both a red and a blue subpopulation of ultra-compact dwarf (UCD) galaxy candidates in the Coma galaxy cluster. We analyzed deep F475W (Sloan…”
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Toward a Data-driven Model of the Sky from Low Earth Orbit as Observed by the Hubble Space Telescope
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-08-2022)“…Abstract The sky observed by space telescopes in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) can be dominated by stray light from multiple sources including Earth, Sun, and Moon…”
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THE FOURSTAR GALAXY EVOLUTION SURVEY (ZFOURGE): ULTRAVIOLET TO FAR-INFRARED CATALOGS, MEDIUM-BANDWIDTH PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS WITH IMPROVED ACCURACY, STELLAR MASSES, AND CONFIRMATION OF QUIESCENT GALAXIES TO z ∼ 3.5
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-10-2016)“…ABSTRACT The FourStar galaxy evolution survey (ZFOURGE) is a 45 night legacy program with the FourStar near-infrared camera on Magellan and one of the most…”
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THE SFR–M RELATION AND EMPIRICAL STAR FORMATION HISTORIES FROM ZFOURGE AT 0.5 < z < 4
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2016)“…ABSTRACT We explore star formation histories (SFHs) of galaxies based on the evolution of the star formation rate stellar mass relation (SFR– M * ). Using data…”
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Wide-field imaging of NGC 4365's globular cluster system: the third subpopulation revisited
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2012)“…Analysis of the globular cluster (GC) system of the giant elliptical (E3) galaxy NGC 4365, from eight Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys…”
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The SLUGGS survey: calcium triplet‐based spectroscopic metallicities for over 900 globular clusters
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-10-2012)“…ABSTRACT Although the colour distribution of globular clusters in massive galaxies is well known to be bimodal, the spectroscopic metallicity distribution has…”
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The SLUGGS Survey: kinematics for over 2500 globular clusters in 12 early-type galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2013)“…We present a spectrophotometric survey of 2522 extragalactic globular clusters (GCs) around 12 early-type galaxies, nine of which have not been published…”
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The SLUGGS Survey: stellar kinematics, kinemetry and trends at large radii in 25 early-type galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-03-2016)“…Due to longer dynamical time-scales, the outskirts of early-type galaxies retain the footprint of their formation and assembly. Under the popular two-phase…”
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The SLUGGS survey: the mass distribution in early-type galaxies within five effective radii and beyond
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-08-2016)“…We study mass distributions within and beyond 5 effective radii (R e) in 23 early-type galaxies from the SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and Galaxies Survey,…”
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