Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2

Jochen Liske; Ivan K Baldry; Simon P Driver; Richard J Tuffs; Mehmet Alpaslan; Ellen Andrae; Sarah Brough; Michelle E Cluver; Meiert W Grootes; Madusha Gunawardhana; Lee S Kelvin; Jonathan Loveday; Aaron S G Robotham; Edward N Taylor; Steven P Bamford; Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn; M J I Brown; Michael John Drinkwater; Andrew Mark Hopkins; Martin John Meyer; Peder Norberg; John Andrew Peacock; Nicola K Agius; Stephen K Andrews; Amanda Bauer; John H Y Ching; Matthew Malcolm Colless; Christopher J Conselice; Scott Martin Croom; Luke J M Davies; Roberto De Propris; Loretta Dunne; Elizabeth Eardley; Simon C Ellis; Caroline Foster; Carlos Silvestre Frenk; Boris Haeussler; Benne W Holwerda; Cullan Howlett; HJ Ibarra; Matt John Jarvis; D H Jones; Prajwal R Kafle; Cedric G Lacey; Rebecca Lange; Maritza Arlene Lara-Lopez; Angel R Lopez-Sanchez; D Palamara; S J Penny; K A Pimbblet

doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1436

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2

Jochen Liske, Ivan K Baldry, Simon P Driver, Richard J Tuffs, Mehmet Alpaslan, Ellen Andrae, Sarah Brough, Michelle E Cluver, Meiert W Grootes, Madusha Gunawardhana, Lee S Kelvin, Jonathan Loveday, Aaron S G Robotham, Edward N Taylor, Steven P Bamford, Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn, M J I Brown, Michael John Drinkwater, Andrew Mark Hopkins, Martin John MeyerPeder Norberg, John Andrew Peacock, Nicola K Agius, Stephen K Andrews, Amanda Bauer, John H Y Ching, Matthew Malcolm Colless, Christopher J Conselice, Scott Martin Croom, Luke J M Davies, Roberto De Propris, Loretta Dunne, Elizabeth Eardley, Simon C Ellis, Caroline Foster, Carlos Silvestre Frenk, Boris Haeussler, Benne W Holwerda, Cullan Howlett, HJ Ibarra, Matt John Jarvis, D H Jones, Prajwal R Kafle, Cedric G Lacey, Rebecca Lange, Maritza Arlene Lara-Lopez, Angel R Lopez-Sanchez, D Palamara, S J Penny, K A Pimbblet

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The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is one of the largest contemporary spectroscopic surveys of lowredshift galaxies. Covering an area of ~286 deg2 (split among five survey regions) down to a limiting magnitude of r < 19.8 mag, we have collected spectra and reliable redshifts for 238 000 objects using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. In addition, we have assembled imaging data from a number of independent surveys in order to generate photometry spanning the wavelength range 1 nm-1 m. Here, we report on the recently completed spectroscopic survey and present a series of diagnostics to assess its final state and the quality of the redshift data. We also describe a number of survey aspects and procedures, or updates thereof, including changes to the input catalogue, redshifting and re-redshifting, and the derivation of ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared photometry. Finally, we present the second public release ofGAMAdata. In this release, we provide input catalogue and targeting information, spectra, redshifts, ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared photometry, single-component Śersic fits, stellar masses, Hα-derived star formation rates, environment information, and group properties for all galaxies with r < 19.0 mag in two of our survey regions, and for all galaxies with r < 19.4 mag in a third region (72 225 objects in total). The data base serving these data is available at http://www.gama-survey.org/.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2087-2126
Number of pages	40
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	452
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1436
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Distances and redshifts
Galaxies
Galaxies: fundamental parameters
galaxies: general
Galaxies: photometry
statistics
Surveys

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Liske, J., Baldry, I. K., Driver, S. P., Tuffs, R. J., Alpaslan, M., Andrae, E., Brough, S., Cluver, M. E., Grootes, M. W., Gunawardhana, M., Kelvin, L. S., Loveday, J., Robotham, A. S. G., Taylor, E. N., Bamford, S. P., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brown, M. J. I., Drinkwater, M. J., Hopkins, A. M., ... Pimbblet, K. A. (2015). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(2), 2087-2126. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1436

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