Mid-IR Luminosities and UV/Optical Star Formation Rates at z < 1.4 (2009)
Salim, Samir, Dickinson, Mark, Rich, R. Michael, Charlot, Stéphane, Lee, Janice C., Schiminovich, David, ...
Ultraviolet (UV) nonionizing continuum and mid-infrared (IR) emission constitute the basis of two widely used star formation (SF) indicators at intermediate and high redshifts. We study 2430 galaxies...
Galaxies probing galaxies: cool halo gas from a z = 0.47 post-starburst galaxy (2009)
Rubin, Kate H. R., Prochaska, J. Xavier, Koo, David C., Phillips, Andrew C., Weiner, Benjamin J.
We study the cool gas around a galaxy at z = 0.4729 using Keck/LRIS spectroscopy of a bright (B = 21.7) background galaxy at z = 0.6942 at a transverse distance of 16.5/h_70 kpc. The background...
Mid-IR Luminosities and UV/Optical Star Formation Rates at z (2009)
Salim, Samir, Dickinson, Mark, Rich, R. Michael, Charlot, Stephane, Lee, Janice C., Schiminovich, David, ...
UV continuum and mid-IR emission constitute two widely used star formation indicators at intermediate and high redshifts. We study 2430 galaxies with z10^11 L_sun, yet with little current star...
Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free: A Manifesto (2009)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Blanton, Michael R., Coil, Alison L., Cooper, Michael C., Davé, Romeel, Hogg, David W., ...
Astronomical software is now a fact of daily life for all hands-on members of our community. Purpose-built software for data reduction and modeling tasks becomes ever more critical as we handle...
AEGIS: The Clustering of X-ray AGN Relative to Galaxies at z~1 (2009)
Coil, Alison L., Georgakakis, Antonis, Newman, Jeffrey A., Cooper, Michael C., Croton, Darren, Davis, Marc, ...
We measure the clustering of non-quasar X-ray AGN at z=0.7-1.4 in the AEGIS field. Using the cross-correlation of 113 Chandra-selected AGN, with a median log L_X=42.8 erg s^-1, with ~5,000 DEEP2...
AEGIS: the clustering of x-ray active galactic nucleus relative to galaxies at z similar to 1 (2009)
Coil, Alison L., Georgakakis, Antonis, Newman, Jeffrey A., Cooper, Michael C., Croton, Darren, Davis, Marc, ...
We measure the clustering of nonquasar X-ray active galactic nucleus (AGN) at z = 0.7–1.4 in the AEGIS field. Using the cross-correlation of 113 Chandra-selected AGN, with a median log LX =...
The DEEP2 Redshift Survey: Lyman Alpha Emitters in the Spectroscopic Database (2008)
Sawicki, Marcin, Lemaux, Brian C., Guhathakurta, Puragra, Kirby, Evan N., Konidaris, Nicholas P., Martin, Crystal L., ...
We present the first results of a search for Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) in the DEEP2 spectroscopic database that uses a search technique that is different from but complementary to traditional...
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Environments of Poststarburst Galaxies at z~0.1 and z~0.8 (2008)
Yan, Renbin, Newman, Jeffrey A., Faber, S. M., Coil, Alison L., Cooper, Michael C., Davis, Marc, ...
Postststarburst (K+A) galaxies are candidates for galaxies in transition from a star-forming phase to a passively-evolving phase. We have spectroscopically identified large samples of K+A galaxies...
Ubiquitous outflows in DEEP2 spectra of star-forming galaxies at z=1.4 (2008)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Coil, Alison L., Prochaska, Jason X., Newman, Jeffrey A., Cooper, Michael C., Bundy, Kevin, ...
Galactic winds are a prime suspect for the metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium and may have a strong influence on the chemical evolution of galaxies and the nature of QSO absorption line...
Lin, Lihwai, Patton, David R., Koo, David C., Casteels, Kevin, Conselice, Christopher J., Faber, S. M., ...
We study the redshift evolution of galaxy pair fractions and merger rates for different types of galaxies using kinematic pairs selected from the DEEP2 Redshift Survey. By parameterizing the...
Coil, Alison L., Newman, Jeffrey A., Croton, Darren J., Cooper, Michael C., Davis, Marc, Faber, S. M., ...
We present measurements of the color and luminosity dependence of galaxy clustering at z∼ 1 in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey. Using volume-limited subsamples in bins of both color and...
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Color and Luminosity Dependence of Galaxy Clustering at z~1 (2007)
Coil, Alison L., Newman, Jeffrey A., Croton, Darren, Cooper, Michael C., Davis, Marc, Faber, S. M., ...
We present measurements of the color and luminosity dependence of galaxy clustering at z~1 in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey. Using volume-limited subsamples in bins of both color and luminosity,...
Cooper, Michael C., Newman, Jeffrey A., Weiner, Benjamin J., Yan, Renbin, Willmer, Christopher N. A., Bundy, Kevin, ...
Using galaxy samples drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey, we study the relationship between star formation and environment at z ~ 0.1 and z ~ 1. We estimate...
Characterizing the Low-Redshift Intergalactic Medium towards PKS1302-102 (2007)
Cooksey, Kathy L., Prochaska, Jason X., Chen, Hsiao-Wen, Mulchaey, John S., Weiner, Benjamin J.
We present a detailed analysis of the intergalactic metal-line absorption systems in the archival HST/STIS and FUSE ultraviolet spectra of the low-redshift quasar PKS1302-102 (z_QSO = 0.2784). We...
The Stellar Mass Tully-Fisher Relation to z=1.2 from AEGIS (2007)
Kassin, Susan A., Weiner, Benjamin J., Faber, S. M., Koo, David C., Lotz, Jennifer M., Diemand, Jürg, ...
We combine newly measured rotation velocities, velocity dispersions, and stellar masses to construct stellar mass Tully-Fisher relations (M*TFRs) for 544 galaxies with strong emission lines at 0.1
The all-wavelength extended groth strip international survey (AEGIS) data sets (2007)
Davis, Michael A., Guhathakurta, Puragra, Konidaris, Nick P., Newman, Jeffrey A., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Biggs, Andrew D., ...
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 Extended Groth Strip International Survey...
The DEEP2 galaxy redshift survey: the evolution of the blue fraction in groups and the field (2007)
Gerke, Brian F., Newman, Jeffrey A., Faber, S. M., Cooper, MIchael C., Croton, Darren J., Davis, Marc, ...
We explore the behaviour of the blue galaxy fraction over the redshift range 0.75 ≤z≤ 1.3 in the DEEP2 Survey, both for field galaxies and for galaxies in groups. The primary aim is to...
Cooper, Michael C., Newman, Jeffery A., Coil, Alison L., Croton, Darren J., Gerke, Brian F., Yan, Renbin, ...
Using a sample of 19 464 galaxies drawn from the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey, we study the relationship between galaxy colour and environment at 0.4 < z < 1.35 . We find that the fraction of...
AEGIS: Extinction and Star Formation Tracers from Line Emission (2006)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Papovich, Casey, Bundy, K., Conselice, C. J., Cooper, M. C., Ellis, R. S., ...
Strong nebular emission lines are a sensitive probe of star formation and extinction in galaxies, and the [O II] line detects star forming populations out to z>1. However, star formation rates from...
Schiavon, Ricardo P., Faber, S.M., Konidaris, Nicholas, Graves, Genevieve, Willmer, Christopher N.A., Weiner, Benjamin J., ...
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: AEGIS observations of a Dual AGN at z = 0.7 (2006)
Newman, Jeffrey A., Lotz, Jennifer, Yan, Renbin, Barmby, P., Coil, Alison L., ...
Weiner, Benjamin J., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Faber, S. M., Melbourne, Jason, Kassin, Susan A., Phillips, Andrew C., ...
We present kinematic measurements of a large sample of galaxies from the TKRS Survey in the GOODS-N field. We measure line-of-sight velocity dispersions from integrated emission for 1089 galaxies...
Weiner, Benjamin J., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Faber, S. M., Harker, Justin, Kassin, Susan A., Phillips, Andrew C., ...
We use kinematic measurements of a large sample of galaxies from the Team Keck Redshift Survey in the GOODS-N field to measure evolution in the optical and near-IR Tully-Fisher relations to z = 1.2....
The DEEP2 galaxy redshift survey: the evolution of the blue fraction in groups and the field (2006)
Gerke, Brian F., Newman, Jeffrey A., Faber, S. M., Cooper, Michael C., Croton, Darren J., Davis, Marc, ...
We explore the behavior of the blue galaxy fraction over the redshift range 0.75
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: AEGIS Observations of a Dual AGN at z=0.7 (2006)
Gerke, Brian F., Newman, Jeffrey A., Lotz, Jennifer, Yan, Renbin, Barmby, P., Coil, Alison L., ...
We present evidence for a dual Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) within an early-type galaxy at z=0.709 in the Extended Groth Strip. The galaxy lies on the red sequence, with absolute magnitude M_B=-21.0...
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Evolution of the Color-Density Relation at 0.4 < z < 1.35 (2006)
Cooper, Michael C., Newman, Jeffrey A., Coil, Alison L., Croton, Darren J., Gerke, Brian F., Yan, Renbin, ...
Using a sample of 19,464 galaxies drawn from the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey, we study the relationship between galaxy color and environment at 0.4 < z < 1.35. We find that the fraction of galaxies...
Population Synthesis Models for Late Build-Up of the Red Sequence (2006)
Harker, Justin J., Schiavon, Ricardo P., Weiner, Benjamin J., Faber, S. M.
We present population synthesis models designed to represent the star formation histories of L* red sequence galaxies (RSGs). Earlier work has shown that single-burst stellar populations (SSPs) are...
Lin, Lihwai, Koo, David C., Weiner, Benjamin J., Chiueh, Tzihong, Coil, Alison L., Lotz, Jennifer, ...
Using data from the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey and HST/ACS imaging in the Extended Groth Strip, we select nearly 100 interacting galaxy systems including kinematic close pairs and morphologically...
Cooper, Michael C., Newman, Jeffrey A., Croton, Darren J., Weiner, Benjamin J., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Gerke, Brian F., ...
We study the mean environment of galaxies in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey as a function of rest-frame color, luminosity, and [OII] equivalent width. The local galaxy overdensity for >14,000...
Schiavon, Ricardo P., Faber, S. M., Konidaris, Nicholas, Graves, Genevieve, Willmer, Christopher N. A., Weiner, Benjamin J., ...
As part of the DEEP2 galaxy redshift survey, we analyze absorption line strengths in stacked Keck/DEIMOS spectra of red field galaxies with weak to no emission lines, at redshifts 0.7
Prochaska, Jason X., Weiner, Benjamin J., Chen, Hsiao-Wen, Mulchaey, John S.
We present a galaxy survey of the field surrounding PKS0405-123 performed with the WFCCD spectrometer at Las Campanas Observatory. The survey is comprised of two datasets: (1) a greater than 95%...
Dark and Baryonic Matter in Bright Spiral Galaxies: II. Radial Distributions for 34 Galaxies (2006)
Kassin, Susan A., De Jong, Roelof S., Weiner, Benjamin J.
We decompose the rotation curves of 34 bright spiral galaxies into baryonic and dark matter components. Stellar mass profiles are created by applying color-M/L relations to near-infrared and optical...
Cooper, Michael C., Newman, Jeffrey A., Croton, Darren J., Weiner, Benjamin J., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Gerke, Brian F., ...
We study the mean environment of galaxies in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey as a function of rest-frame colour, luminosity, and [O ii] 3727 Å equivalent width. The local galaxy overdensity...
Bundy, Kevin, Ellis, Richard S., Conselice, Christopher J., Taylor, James E., Cooper, Michael C., Willmer, Christopher N. A., ...
We characterize the mass-dependent evolution in a large sample of more than 8,000 galaxies using spectroscopic redshifts drawn from the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey in the range 0.4 < z < 1.4 and...
Chen, Hsiao-Wen, Prochaska, Jason X., Weiner, Benjamin J., Mulchaey, John S., Williger, Gerard M.
We present a pilot study of the clustering properties of Lya absorbers with respect to known galaxies based on 112 Lya absorbers and 482 galaxies identified at z= 14 shows a comparable strength to...
The DEEP Groth Strip Survey. I. The Sample (2005)
Vogt, Nicole P., Koo, David C., Phillips, Andrew C., Wu, Katherine, Faber, S. M., Willmer, Christopher N. A., ...
The Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Probe (DEEP) is a multi-phase research program dedicated to the study of the formation and evolution of galaxies and of large scale structure in the distant...
The DEEP groth strip survey. VIII. The evolution of luminous field bulges at redshift z ~ 1 (2005)
Koo, David C., Simard, Luc, Willmer, Christopher N. A., Gebhardt, Karl, Bouwens, Rychard J., Kauffmann, Guinevere, ...
The DEEP Groth strip galaxy redshift survey. III. Redshift catalog and properties of galaxies (2005)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Phillips, Andrew C., Faber, S. M., Willmer, Christopher N., Vogt, Nicole P., Simard, Luc, ...
The Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP) is a series of spectroscopic surveys of faint galaxies, targeted at understanding the properties and clustering of galaxies at redshifts z~1. We...
The DEEP Groth strip galaxy redshift survey. III. Redshift catalog and properties of galaxies (2005)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Phillips, Andrew C., Faber, S. M., Willmer, Christopher N., Vogt, Nicole P., Simard, Luc, ...
The Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP) is a series of spectroscopic surveys of faint galaxies, targeted at understanding the properties and clustering of galaxies at redshifts z~1. We...
The DEEP Groth strip galaxy redshift survey. III. Redshift catalog and properties of galaxies (2005)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Phillips, Andrew C., Faber, S. M., Willmer, Christopher N., Vogt, Nicole P., Simard, Luc, ...
The Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP) is a series of spectroscopic surveys of faint galaxies, targeted at understanding the properties and clustering of galaxies at redshifts z~1. We...
The DEEP Groth strip galaxy redshift survey. III. Redshift catalog and properties of galaxies (2005)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Phillips, Andrew C., Faber, S. M., Willmer, Christopher N., Vogt, Nicole P., Simard, Luc, ...
The Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP) is a series of spectroscopic surveys of faint galaxies, targeted at understanding the properties and clustering of galaxies at redshifts z~1. We...
The DEEP Groth strip galaxy redshift survey. III. Redshift catalog and properties of galaxies (2005)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Phillips, Andrew C., Faber, S. M., Willmer, Christopher N., Vogt, Nicole P., Simard, Luc, ...
The Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP) is a series of spectroscopic surveys of faint galaxies, targeted at understanding the properties and clustering of galaxies at redshifts z~1. We...
Koo, David C., Simard, Luc, Willmer, Christopher N. A., Gebhardt, Karl, Bouwens, Rychard J., Kauffmann, Guinevere, ...
We present a sample of over 50 luminous field bulges (including ellipticals) found in the Groth Strip Survey (GSS), with 0.73< z < 1.04 and with bulge magnitudes I
The DEEP Groth Strip Galaxy Redshift Survey. III. Redshift Catalog and Properties of Galaxies (2004)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Phillips, Andrew C., Faber, S. M., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Vogt, Nicole P., Simard, Luc, ...
The Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP) is a series of spectroscopic surveys of faint galaxies, targeted at the properties and clustering of galaxies at redshifts z ~ 1. We present the...
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: First results on galaxy groups (2004)
Gerke, Brian F., Newman, Jeffrey A., Davis, Marc, Marinoni, Christian, Yan, Renbin, Coil, Alison, ...
We use the first 25% of the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey spectroscopic data to identify groups and clusters of galaxies in redshift space. The data set contains 8370 galaxies with confirmed redshifts...
Prochaska, Jason X., Chen, Hsiao-Wen, Howk, J. Christopher, Weiner, Benjamin J., Mulchaey, John
We present results from an analysis of FUSE and HST/STIS spectroscopy of the z_em=0.57 quasar PKS0405-123. We focus on the intervening metal-line systems identified along the sightline and...
The dark matter density problem in massive disk galaxies (2003)
I discuss measurements of disk mass from non-circular streaming motions of gas in the barred galaxies NGC 3095 and NGC 4123. In these galaxies with strong shocks and non-circular motions, the inner...
The DEEP Groth Strip Survey VII: The Metallicity of Field Galaxies at 0.26 (2003)
Kobulnicky, Henry A., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Weiner, Benjamin J., Koo, David C., Phillips, Andrew C., Faber, S. M., ...
Using spectroscopic data from the Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP) Groth Strip survey (DGSS), we analyze the gas-phase oxygen abundances in the warm ionized medium for 64 emission-line...
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Clustering of Galaxies in Early Data (2003)
Coil, Alison L., Davis, Marc, Madgwick, Darren S., Newman, Jeffrey A., Conselice, Christopher J., Cooper, Michael, ...
We measure the two-point correlation function xi(r) using a sample of 2219 galaxies in an area of 0.32 degrees^2 at z=0.7-1.35 from the first season of the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey. We find that...
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Spectral classification of galaxies at z~1 (2003)
Madgwick, Darren S., Coil, Alison L., Conselice, Christopher J., Cooper, Michael C., Davis, Marc, Ellis, Richard S., ...
We present a Principal Component Analysis (PCA)-based spectral classification, eta, for the first 5600 galaxies observed in the DEEP2 Redshift Survey. This parameter provides a very pronounced...
The DEEP Groth Strip Survey XII: The Metallicity of Field Galaxies at 0.26 (2003)
Kobulnicky, Henry A., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Weiner, Benjamin J., Koo, David C., Phillips, Andrew C., Faber, S. M., ...
Using spectroscopic data from the Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP) Groth Strip survey (DGSS), we analyze the gas-phase oxygen abundances for 56 emission-line field galaxies in the...
Simard, Luc, Willmer, Christopher N. A., Vogt, Nicole P., Sarajedini, Vicki L., Phillips, Andrew C., Weiner, Benjamin J., ...
The quantitative morphological classification of distant galaxies is essential to the understanding of the evolution of galaxies over the history of the Universe. This paper presents Hubble Space...
Optical emission from high velocity clouds and the ionization sources in the Galactic halo (2001)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Vogel, Stuart N., Williams, T. B.
Optical emission lines have now been detected from about 20 high velocity clouds. These emission lines -- primarily H-alpha, secondarily [N II] and [S II] -- are very faint and diffuse, spread over...
Distance Constraints for High Velocity Clouds from Optical Emission Lines (2000)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Vogel, Stuart N., Williams, T. B.
We report results from a survey of high velocity clouds and the Magellanic Stream for faint, diffuse optical recombination emission lines. We detect H-alpha emission with surface brightness from 41...
The Disk and Dark Halo Mass of the Barred Galaxy NGC 4123. I. Observations (2000)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Williams, T. B., Van Gorkom, J. H., Sellwood, J. A.
The non-circular streaming motions in barred galaxies are sensitive to the mass of the bar and can be used to lift the degeneracy between disk and dark matter halo encountered when fitting...
The Disk and Dark Halo Mass of the Barred Galaxy NGC 4123. II. Fluid-Dynamical Models (2000)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Sellwood, J. A., Williams, T. B.
We report a dynamical determination of the separate contributions of disk and dark halo masses to the rotation curve of a spiral galaxy. We use fluid-dynamical models of gas flow in the barred galaxy...
The properties of the Galactic bar implied by gas kinematics in the inner Milky Way (1999)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Sellwood, J. A.
Longitude-velocity (l-V) diagrams of H I and CO gas in the inner Milky Way have long been known to be inconsistent with circular motion in an axisymmetric potential. Several lines of evidence suggest...
The dynamics of barred spiral galaxies : masses and pattern speeds / (1998)
"Graduate Program in Physics and Astronomy."
Weiner, Benjamin J., Williams, T. B.
We have detected faint, diffuse H$\alpha emission from several points along the Magellanic Stream, using the Rutgers Fabry--Perot Interferometer at the CTIO 1.5-m telescope. At points on the leading...