Green valley galaxies

S Salim - arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.01963, 2015 - arxiv.org
The" green valley" is a wide region separating the blue and the red peaks in the ultraviolet-
optical color magnitude diagram, first revealed using GALEX UV photometry. The term was …

Galaxy formation in the Planck cosmology – I. Matching the observed evolution of star formation rates, colours and stellar masses

BMB Henriques, SDM White, PA Thomas… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We have updated the Munich galaxy formation model to the Planck first-year cosmology,
while modifying the treatment of baryonic processes to reproduce recent data on the …

Morphologies of∼ 190,000 galaxies at z= 0–10 revealed with HST legacy data. I. Size evolution

T Shibuya, M Ouchi, Y Harikane - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the redshift evolution of the galaxy effective radius re obtained from the Hubble
Space Telescope (HST) samples of∼ 190,000 galaxies at z= 0–10. Our HST samples …

The relation between Star Formation Rate and Stellar Mass for Galaxies at 3.5⩽ z⩽ 6.5 in CANDELS

B Salmon, C Papovich, SL Finkelstein… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Distant star-forming galaxies show a correlation between their star formation rates (SFRs)
and stellar masses, and this has deep implications for galaxy formation. Here, we present a …

The MOSDEF survey: mass, metallicity, and star-formation rate at z∼ 2.3

RL Sanders, AE Shapley, M Kriek… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results on the z∼ 2.3 mass–metallicity relation (MZR) using early observations
from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field survey. We use an initial sample of 87 star-forming …

Constraining the properties of AGN host galaxies with spectral energy distribution modelling

L Ciesla, V Charmandaris, A Georgakakis… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Detailed studies of the spectral energy distribution (SED) of normal galaxies have
increasingly been used to understand the physical mechanism dominating their integrated …

Mapping stellar content to dark matter haloes using galaxy clustering and galaxy–galaxy lensing in the SDSS DR7

Y Zu, R Mandelbaum - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The mapping between the distributions of the observed galaxy stellar mass and the
underlying dark matter haloes provides the crucial link from theories of large-scale structure …

Metallicity gradients in local field star-forming galaxies: Insights on inflows, outflows, and the coevolution of gas, stars and metals

IT Ho, RP Kudritzki, LJ Kewley, HJ Zahid… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present metallicity gradients in 49 local field star-forming galaxies. We derive gas-phase
oxygen abundances using two widely adopted metallicity calibrations based on the [O …

A catalogue of 2D photometric decompositions in the SDSS-DR7 spectroscopic main galaxy sample: preferred models and systematics

A Meert, V Vikram, M Bernardi - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present a catalogue of 2D, point spread function-corrected de Vacouleurs, Sérsic, de
Vacouleurs+ Exponential, and Sérsic+ Exponential fits of∼ 7× 105 spectroscopically …

Merger-driven fueling of active galactic nuclei: Six dual and of AGNs discovered with Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope observations

JM Comerford, D Pooley, RS Barrows… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and offset AGNs are kpc-scale separation supermassive
black holes pairs created during galaxy mergers, where both or one of the black holes are …