Galaxy Assembly Bias on the Red Sequence (2009)
Cooper, Michael C., Gallazzi, Anna, Newman, Jeffrey A., Yan, Renbin
Using samples drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we study the relationship between local galaxy density and the properties of galaxies on the red sequence. After removing the mean dependence of...
Quasar Feedback from WMAP and SDSS Cross-Correlation (2009)
Chatterjee, Suchetana, Ho, Shirley, Newman, Jeffrey A., Kosowsky, Arthur
We perform a cross-correlation analysis of microwave data from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and photometric quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, testing for Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ)...
A 1.75 kpc/h Separation Dual AGN at z=0.36 in the COSMOS Field (2009)
Comerford, Julia M., Griffith, Roger L., Gerke, Brian F., Cooper, Michael C., Newman, Jeffrey A., Davis, Marc, ...
We present strong evidence for dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the z=0.36 galaxy COSMOS J100043.15+020637.2. COSMOS Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of the galaxy shows a tidal tail,...
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...
The Case for Deep, Wide-Field Cosmology (2009)
Scranton, Ryan, Albrecht, Andreas, Caldwell, Robert, Cooray, Asantha, Dore, Olivier, Habib, Salman, ...
Much of the science case for the next generation of deep, wide-field optical/infrared surveys has been driven by the further study of dark energy. This is a laudable goal (and the subject of a...
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...
Cooper, Michael C., Newman, Jeffrey A., Yan, Renbin
Using data drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the SDSS-II Supernova Survey, we study the local environments of confirmed type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in the nearby Universe. At 0.05 <...
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 =...
Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Croton, Darren J., Yan, Renbin, Cooper, Michael C., Newman, Jeffrey A., Georgakakis, Antonis, ...
We measure the dependence of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) fraction on local environment at z∼ 1, using spectroscopic data taken from the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey, and Chandra X-ray data...
Inspiralling Supermassive Black Holes: A New Signpost for Galaxy Mergers (2008)
Comerford, Julia M., Gerke, Brian F., Newman, Jeffrey A., Davis, Marc, Yan, Renbin, Cooper, Michael C., ...
Because structure in the Universe is built up through galaxy mergers and nearly all galaxies host a central supermassive black hole (SMBH), some galaxies should possess two SMBHs near their centers...
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...
A Strong-Lens Survey in AEGIS: the influence of large scale structure (2008)
Moustakas, Leonidas A., Marshall, Phil, Newman, Jeffrey A., Coil, Alison L., Cooper, Michael C., Davis, Marc, ...
Calibrating Redshift Distributions Beyond Spectroscopic Limits with Cross-Correlations (2008)
We describe a new method for measuring the true redshift distribution of any set of objects studied only photometrically. The angular cross-correlation between objects in a photometric sample with...
The Role of Environment in the Mass-Metallicity Relation (2008)
Cooper, Michael C., Tremonti, Christy A., Newman, Jeffrey A., Zabludoff, Ann I.
Using a sample of 57,377 star-forming galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we study the relationship between gas-phase oxygen abundance and environment in the local Universe. We find...
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...
AEGIS: Chandra observation of DEEP2 galaxy groups and clusters (2007)
Fang, Taotao, Gerke, Brian F., Davis, David S., Newman, Jeffrey A., Davis, Marc, Nandra, Kirpal, ...
We present a 200 ks Chandra observation of seven spectroscopically selected, high-redshift (0.75 < z < 1.03) galaxy groups and clusters discovered by the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey in the...
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...
AEGIS: the color-magnitude relation for X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (2007)
Nandra, Kirpal, Georgakakis, Antonis, Willmer, Christopher N., Cooper, Michael C., Croton, D. J., Davis, Michael 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 Extended Groth Strip. These...
Conroy, Charlie, Prada, Francisco, Newman, Jeffrey A., Croton, Darren, Coil, Alison L., Conselice, Christopher J., ...
We measure the evolution in the virial mass-to-light ratio (M 200/LB) and virial-to-stellar mass ratio (M 200/M*) for isolated ∼L* galaxies between z ∼ 1 and z ∼ 0 by combining data...
AEGIS: the environment of X-ray sources at z almost equal to 1 (2007)
Georgakakis, Antonis, Nandra, Kirpal, Laird, Elise S., Cooper, Michael C., Gerke, Brian F., Newman, Jeffrey A., ...
We explore the environment of z ≈ 1 AGNs using a sample of 53 spectroscopically identified X-ray sources in the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey. We quantify the local...
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., ...
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...
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Clustering of Quasars and Galaxies at z=1 (2006)
Coil, Alison L., Hennawi, Joseph F., Newman, Jeffrey A., Cooper, Michael C., Davis, Marc
We present the clustering of DEEP2 galaxies at 0.7
Evolution in the Halo Masses of Isolated Galaxies between z~1 and z~0: From DEEP2 to SDSS (2006)
Conroy, Charlie, Prada, Francisco, Newman, Jeffrey A., Croton, Darren, Coil, Alison L., Conselice, Christopher J., ...
We measure the evolution in the virial mass-to-light ratio (M_{200}/L_B) and virial-to-stellar mass ratio (M_{200}/M_\ast) for isolated ~ L* galaxies between z~1 and z~0 by combining data from the...
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
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...
On the Origin of [OII] Emission in Red Sequence and Post-starburst Galaxies (2005)
Yan, Renbin, Newman, Jeffrey A., Faber, S. M., Konidaris, Nicholas, Koo, David, Davis, Marc
We investigate the emission-line properties of galaxies with red rest-frame colors using spectra from SDSS DR4. Emission lines are detected in more than half of the red galaxies. We focus on the...
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Clustering of Galaxies as a Function of Luminosity at z=1 (2005)
Coil, Alison L., Newman, Jeffrey A., Cooper, Michael C., Davis, Marc, Faber, S. M., Koo, David C., ...
We measure the clustering of DEEP2 galaxies at z=1 as a function of luminosity on scales 0.1 Mpc/h to 20 Mpc/h. Drawing from a parent catalog of 25,000 galaxies at 0.7
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: The Evolution of Void Statistics from z~1 to z~0 (2005)
Conroy, Charlie, Coil, Alison L., White, Martin, Newman, Jeffrey A., Yan, Renbin, Cooper, Michael C., ...
We present measurements of the void probability function (VPF) at z~1 using data from the DEEP2 Redshift Survey and its evolution to z~0 using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We...
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Clustering of Groups and Group Galaxies at z~1 (2005)
Coil, Alison L., Gerke, Brian F., Newman, Jeffrey A., Ma, Chung-Pei, Yan, Renbin, Cooper, Michael C., ...
We study the clustering properties of groups and of galaxies in groups in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey dataset at z~1. Four clustering measures are presented: 1) the group correlation function...
Measuring Galaxy Environments with Deep Redshift Surveys (2005)
Cooper, Michael C., Newman, Jeffrey A., Madgwick, Darren S., Gerke, Brian F., Yan, Renbin, Davis, Marc
We study the applicability of several galaxy environment measures (n^th-nearest-neighbor distance, counts in an aperture, and Voronoi volume) within deep redshift surveys. Mock galaxy catalogs are...
Lin, Lihwai, Koo, David C., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Patton, David R., Conselice, Christopher J., Yan, Renbin, ...
We derive the close, kinematic pair fraction and merger rate up to z ~ 1.2 from the initial data of the DEEP2 Redshift Survey. Assuming a mild luminosity evolution, the number of companions per...
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...
Conroy, Charlie, Newman, Jeffrey A., Davis, Marc, Coil, Alison L., Yan, Renbin, Cooper, Michael C., ...
Using the first 25% of DEEP2 Redshift Survey data, we probe the line-of-sight velocity dispersion profile for isolated galaxies with absolute B-band magnitude -22
Constraining Dark Energy with DEEP2 (2004)
Davis, Marc, Gerke, Brian F., Newman, Jeffrey A.
The DEEP2 survey has now completed half of its planned three-year lifespan, and we have collected approximately 50% of the data, putting us exactly on schedule. The survey plan calls for...
Coil, Alison L., Newman, Jeffrey A., Kaiser, Nick, Davis, Marc, Ma, Chung-Pei, Kocevski, Dale D., ...
When applied to deep photometric catalogs, the two-point angular correlation function, w(theta), is a sensitive probe of the evolution of galaxy clustering properties. Here we present measurements of...
The Team Keck Treasury Redshift Survey of the GOODS-North Field (2004)
Wirth, Gregory D., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Amico, Paola, Chaffee, Frederic H., Goodrich, Robert W., Kwok, Shui, ...
We report the results of an extensive imaging and spectroscopic survey in the GOODS-North field completed using DEIMOS on the Keck II telescope. Observations of 2018 targets in a magnitude-limited...
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...
Science Objectives and Early Results of the DEEP2 Redshift Survey (2002)
Davis, Marc, Faber, Sandra M., Newman, Jeffrey A., Phillips, Andrew C., Ellis, R. S., Steidel, C. C., ...
The DEIMOS spectrograph has now been installed on the Keck-II telescope and commissioning is nearly complete. The DEEP2 Redshift Survey, which will take approximately 120 nights at the Keck...
Marinoni, Christian, Davis, Marc, Newman, Jeffrey A., Coil, Alison L.
We have developed a new geometrical method for identifying and reconstructing a homogeneous and highly complete set of galaxy groups in the next generation of deep, flux-limited redshift surveys. Our...
3D Identification and Reconstruction of z~1 Clusters: Prospects for the DEEP2 Redshift Survey (2001)
Marinoni, Christian, Davis, Marc, Newman, Jeffrey A., Coil, Alison L.
We have developed a geometrical method based on 3D Voronoi polyhedra and Delaunay tessellation for identifying and reconstructing clusters of galaxies in the next generation of deep, flux-limited...
Newman, Jeffrey A., Davis, Marc
In a previous paper, we described a new variant on the classical dN/dz test which could be performed using upcoming redshift surveys. By observing the velocity function of galaxies rather than their...
Measuring the Cosmic Equation of State with Galaxy Clusters in the DEEP2 Redshift Survey (2001)
Newman, Jeffrey A., Marinoni, Christian, Coil, Alison L., Davis, Marc
The abundances of groups and clusters of galaxies are expected to have changed substantially since high redshift, with the strength of this evolution dependent upon fundamental cosmological...
A revised Cepheid distance to NGC 4258 and a test of the distance scale (2000)
Newman, Jeffrey A., Ferrarese, Laura, Stetson, Peter B., Maoz, Eyal, Zepf, Stephen E., Davis, Marc, ...
In a previous paper (Maoz et al. 1999), we reported a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cepheid distance to the galaxy NGC 4258 obtained using the calibrations and methods then standard for the Key...
Measuring the Cosmic Equation of State with Counts of Galaxies (1999)
Newman, Jeffrey A., Davis, Marc
The classical dN/dz test allows the determination of fundamental cosmological parameters from the evolution of the cosmic volume element. This test is applied by measuring the redshift distribution...
A Cepheid distance to NGC 4258 (1999)
Maoz, Eyal, Newman, Jeffrey A., Ferrarese, Laura, Stetson, Peter B., Zepf, Stephen E., Davis, Marc, ...
Distances measured using Cepheid variable stars have been essential for establishing the cosmological distance scale and the value of the Hubble constant. These stars have remained the primary...
A Cepheid Distance to NGC 4603 in Centaurus (1999)
Newman, Jeffrey A., Zepf, Stephen E., Davis, Marc, Freedman, Wendy L., Madore, Barry F., Stetson, Peter B., ...
In an attempt to use Cepheid variables to determine the distance to the Centaurus cluster, we have obtained images of NGC 4603 with the Hubble Space Telescope on 9 epochs using WFPC2 and the F555W...
Newman, Jeffrey A., Eracleous, Michael, Filippenko, Alexei V., Halpern, Jules P.
The optical spectrum of the broad-line radio galaxy Arp 102B has been monitored for more than thirteen years to investigate the nature of the source of its broad, double-peaked hydrogen Balmer...