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29 March 2024
 
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Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Spectroscopic analysis
A. M. Hopkins ; S. P. Driver ; S. Brough ; M. S. Owers ; A. E. Bauer ; M. L. P. Gunawardhana ; M. E. Cluver ; M. Colless ; C. Foster ; M. A. Lara-Lopez ; I. Roseboom ; R. Sharp ; O. Steele ; D. Thomas ; I. K. Baldry ; M. J. I. Brown ; J. Liske ; P. Norberg ; A. S. G. Robotham ; S. Bamford ; J. Bland-Hawthorn ; M. J. Drinkwater ; J. Loveday ; M. Meyer ; J. A. Peacock ; R. Tuffs ; N. Agius ; M. Alpaslan ; E. Andrae ; E. Cameron ; S. Cole ; J. H. Y. Ching ; L. Christodoulou ; C. Conselice ; S. Croom ; N. J. G. Cross ; R. De Propris ; J. Delhaize ; L. Dunne ; S. Eales ; S. Ellis ; C. S. Frenk ; A. Graham ; M. W. Grootes ; B. Haussler ; C. Heymans ; D. Hill ; B. Hoyle ; M. Hudson ; M. Jarvis ; J. Johansson ; D. H. Jones ; E. van Kampen ; L. Kelvin ; K. Kuijken ; A. Lopez-Sanchez ; S. Maddox ; B. Madore ; C. Maraston ; T. McNaught-Roberts ; R. C. Nichol ; S. Oliver ; H. Parkinson ; S. Penny ; S. Phillipps ; K. A. Pimbblet ; T. Ponman ; C. C. Popescu ; M. Prescott ; R. Proctor ; E. M. Sadler ; A. E. Sansom ; M. Seibert ; L. Staveley-Smith ; W. Sutherland ; E. Taylor ; L. Van Waerbeke ; J. A. Vazquez-Mata ; S. Warren ; D. B. Wijesinghe ; V. Wild ; S. Wilkins ;
Date 30 Jan 2013
AbstractThe Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is a multiwavelength photometric and spectroscopic survey, using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain spectra for up to ~300000 galaxies over 280 square degrees, to a limiting magnitude of r_pet < 19.8 mag. The target galaxies are distributed over 0<z<0.5 with a median redshift of z~0.2, although the redshift distribution includes a small number of systems, primarily quasars, at higher redshifts, up to and beyond z=1. The redshift accuracy ranges from sigma_v~50km/s to sigma_v~100km/s depending on the signal-to-noise of the spectrum. Here we describe the GAMA spectroscopic reduction and analysis pipeline. We present the steps involved in taking the raw two-dimensional spectroscopic images through to flux-calibrated one-dimensional spectra. The resulting GAMA spectra cover an observed wavelength range of 3750<lambda<8850 A at a resolution of R~1300. The final flux calibration is typically accurate to 10-20%, although the reliability is worse at the extreme wavelength ends, and poorer in the blue than the red. We present details of the measurement of emission and absorption features in the GAMA spectra. These measurements are characterised through a variety of quality control analyses detailing the robustness and reliability of the measurements. We illustrate the quality of the measurements with a brief exploration of elementary emission line properties of the galaxies in the GAMA sample. We demonstrate the luminosity dependence of the Balmer decrement, consistent with previously published results, and explore further how Balmer decrement varies with galaxy mass and redshift. We also investigate the mass and redshift dependencies of the [NII]/Halpha vs [OIII]/Hbeta spectral diagnostic diagram, commonly used to discriminate between star forming and nuclear activity in galaxies.
Source arXiv, 1301.7127
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