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Scott Chapman
Researcher at Dalhousie University
Publications - 625
Citations - 49744
Scott Chapman is an academic researcher from Dalhousie University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Redshift. The author has an hindex of 118, co-authored 579 publications receiving 46199 citations. Previous affiliations of Scott Chapman include University of Cambridge & University of California, Berkeley.
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A Redshift Survey of the Submillimeter Galaxy Population
Abstract: We have obtained spectroscopic redshifts using the Keck I telescope for a sample of 73 submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), with a median 850 μm flux density of 5.7 mJy, for which precise positions are available through their faint radio emission. The galaxies lie at redshifts out to z = 3.6, with a median redshift of 2.2 and an interquartile range z = 1.7-2.8. Modeling a purely submillimeter flux-limited sample, based on the expected selection function for our radio-identified sample, suggests a median redshift of 2.3, with a redshift distribution remarkably similar to the optically and radio-selected quasars. The observed redshift distributions are similar for the active galactic nucleus (AGN) and starburst subsamples. The median RAB is 24.6 for the sample. However, the dust-corrected ultraviolet (UV) luminosities of the galaxies rarely hint at the huge bolometric luminosities indicated by their radio/submillimeter emission, with the effect that the true luminosity can be underestimated by a median factor of ~120 for SMGs with pure starburst spectra. Radio and submillimeter observations are thus essential to select the most luminous high-redshift galaxies. The 850 μm, radio, and redshift data are used to estimate the dust temperatures and characterize photometric redshifts. Using 450 μm measurements for a subset of our sample, we confirm that a median dust temperature of Td = 36 ± 7 K, derived on the assumption that the local far-infrared (FIR)-radio correlation applies at high redshift, is reasonable. Individual 450 μm detections are consistent with the local radio-FIR relation holding at z ~ 2. This median Td is lower than that estimated for similarly luminous IRAS 60 μm galaxies locally. We demonstrate that dust temperature variations make it impossible to estimate redshifts for individual SGMs to better than Δz 1 using simple long-wavelength photometric methods. We calculate total infrared and bolometric luminosities (the median infrared luminosity estimated from the radio is 8.5 × 1012 L☉), construct a luminosity function, and quantify the strong evolution of the submillimeter population across z = 0.5-3.5 relative to local IRAS galaxies. We use the bolometric luminosities and UV-spectral classifications to determine a lower limit to the AGN content of the population and measure directly the varying the contribution of highly obscured, luminous galaxies to the luminosity density history of the universe for the first time. We conclude that bright submillimeter galaxies contribute a comparable star formation density to Lyman break galaxies at z = 2-3, and including galaxies below our submillimeter flux limit, this population may be the dominant site of massive star formation at this epoch. The rapid evolution of SMGs and QSO populations contrasts with that seen in bolometrically lower luminosity galaxy samples selected in the rest-frame UV and suggests a close link between SMGs and the formation and evolution of the galactic halos that host QSOs.
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Obscured and unobscured active galactic nuclei in the Spitzer Space Telescope First Look Survey
Mark Lacy,Lisa J. Storrie-Lombardi,Anna Sajina,Phil Appleton,Lee Armus,Scott Chapman,P. I. Choi,Dario Fadda,Fan Fang,David T. Frayer,I. Heinrichsen,George Helou,Myungshin Im,Francine R. Marleau,Frank J. Masci,Dave Shupe,B. T. Soifer,Jason Surace,Harry I. Teplitz,Gillian Wilson,Lin Yan +20 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the Spitzer Space Telescope First Look Survey (FLS) to assess the fraction of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with mid-infrared luminosities that are comparable to quasars and that are missed in optical quasar surveys because of dust obscuration.
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Submillimeter Galaxies at z ~ 2: Evidence for Major Mergers and Constraints on Lifetimes, IMF, and CO-H2 Conversion Factor*
Linda J. Tacconi,Reinhard Genzel,Ian Smail,R. Neri,Scott Chapman,Rob Ivison,Andrew Blain,Pierre Cox,Alain Omont,Frank Bertoldi,Thomas R. Greve,N. M. Foerster Schreiber,Shy Genel,Dieter Lutz,A. M. Swinbank,Alice E. Shapley,Dawn K. Erb,Andrea Cimatti,Emanuele Daddi,Andrew J. Baker +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported subarcsecond resolution IRAM PdBI millimeter CO interferometry of four z ~ 2 submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), and sensitive CO(3-2) flux limits toward three z ≥ 2 UV/optically selected star-forming galaxies.
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The remnants of galaxy formation from a panoramic survey of the region around M31
Alan W. McConnachie,Mike Irwin,Rodrigo A. Ibata,John Dubinski,Lawrence M. Widrow,Nicolas F. Martin,Patrick Côté,Aaron Dotter,Julio F. Navarro,Annette M. N. Ferguson,Thomas H. Puzia,Geraint F. Lewis,Arif Babul,Pauline Barmby,Olivier Bienaymé,Scott Chapman,Robert Cockcroft,Michelle L. M. Collins,Mark A. Fardal,William E. Harris,Avon Huxor,A. Dougal Mackey,Jorge Peñarrubia,R. Michael Rich,Harvey B. Richer,Arnaud Siebert,Nial R. Tanvir,David Valls-Gabaud,K. A. Venn +28 more
TL;DR: A panorama of galaxy structure of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is reported, which directly confirms the basic tenets of the hierarchical galaxy formation model and reveals the shared history of M31 and M33 in the unceasing build-up of galaxies.
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The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey
Gerry Gilmore,Sofia Randich,Martin Asplund,James Binney,Piercarlo Bonifacio,Janet E. Drew,Sofia Feltzing,Annette M. N. Ferguson,R. D. Jeffries,Giuseppina Micela,Ignacio Negueruela,T. Prusti,Hans-Walter Rix,Antonella Vallenari,Emilio J. Alfaro,C. Allende-Prieto,C. Babusiaux,Thomas Bensby,R. Blomme,Angela Bragaglia,Ettore Flaccomio,P. Francois,Michael G. Irwin,Sergey E. Koposov,Andreas Korn,A. C. Lanzafame,Elena Pancino,Ernst Paunzen,Alejandra Recio-Blanco,G. G. Sacco,Rodolfo Smiljanic,S. Van Eck,N. A. Walton,Daniel Adén,Conny Aerts,Laura Affer,J. M. Alcalá,G. Altavilla,João Alves,Teresa Antoja,Frédéric Arenou,Costanza Argiroffi,A. Asensio Ramos,C. A. L. Bailer-Jones,L. Balaguer-Núñez,Amelia Bayo,Beatriz Barbuy,G. Barisevičius,D. Barrado y Navascues,C. Battistini,I. Bellas Velidis,M. Bellazzini,Vasily Belokurov,Maria Bergemann,G. Bertelli,K. Biazzo,Olivier Bienaymé,Joss Bland-Hawthorn,Corrado Boeche,S. Bonito,Steve Boudreault,J. Bouvier,I. M. Brandão,Anthony G. A. Brown,J. H. J. de Bruijne,Matthew R. Burleigh,Jose A. Caballero,Elisabetta Caffau,Francesco Calura,R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta,M. Caramazza,Giovanni Carraro,Luca Casagrande,S. L. Casewell,Scott Chapman,Cristina Chiappini,Y. Chorniy,Norbert Christlieb,Michele Cignoni,G. Cocozza,Matthew Colless,Remo Collet,Michelle L. M. Collins,M. Correnti,Elvira Covino,Denija Crnojevic,Mark Cropper,Margarida S. Cunha,Francesco Damiani,M. David,Antonio Delgado,S. Duffau,Bengt Edvardsson,John J. Eldridge,Harry Enke,Kjell Eriksson,Nick Evans,L. Eyer,Benoit Famaey,Michael Fellhauer,Ignacio Ferreras,Francesca Figueras,Giuliana Fiorentino,Chris Flynn,D. F. M. Folha,E. Franciosini,Antonio Frasca,Kenneth C. Freeman,Yves Fremat,Eileen D. Friel,Boris T. Gaensicke,J. F. Gameiro,Francisco Garzón,Stephan Geier,Doug Geisler,Ortwin Gerhard,Brad K. Gibson,A. Gomboc,A. E. Gomez,Carlos González-Fernández,J. I. González Hernández,Eric Gosset,Eva K. Grebel,Robert Greimel,Martin Groenewegen,Frank Grundahl,M. G. Guarcello,Bengt Gustafsson,Petr Hadrava,Despina Hatzidimitriou,Nigel Hambly,Peter Hammersley,Camilla Juul Hansen,Misha Haywood,U. Heber,Ulrike Heiter,Enrico V. Held,Amina Helmi,Gerhard Hensler,A. Herrero,Vanessa Hill,S. T. Hodgkin,Nuria Huélamo,Avon Huxor,Rodrigo A. Ibata,R. J. Jackson,R. de Jong,Peter G. Jonker,Stefan Jordan,Carme Jordi,Alain Jorissen,D. Katz,Daisuke Kawata,Stefan Keller,Nina V. Kharchenko,Rainer J. Klement,A. Klutsch,J. Knude,Andreas Koch,Oleg Kochukhov,M. Kontizas,P. Koubsky,Rosine Lallement,P. de Laverny,F. van Leeuwen,B. Lemasle,Geraint F. Lewis,Karin Lind,H. Lindstrom,Alex Lobel,J. Lopez Santiago,Philip W. Lucas,H. G. Ludwig,T. Lueftinger,Laura Magrini,J. Maíz Apellániz,Jesús E. Maldonado,Gianni Marconi,A. F. Marino,Christophe Martayan,I. Martinez-Valpuesta,G. Matijevic,Richard G. McMahon,S. Messina,Manuel Meyer,Andrea Miglio,Šarūnas Mikolaitis,Ivan Minchev,Dante Minniti,André Moitinho,Yazan Momany,Lorenzo Monaco,M. Montalto,Mário J. P. F. G. Monteiro,R. Monier,D. Montes,A. Mora,Estelle Moraux,Thierry Morel,Nami Mowlavi,Alessio Mucciarelli,Ulisse Munari,Ralf Napiwotzki,N. Nardetto,Tim Naylor,Yaël Nazé,Gijs Nelemans,S. Okamoto,Sergio Ortolani,G. Pace,Franco Palla,J. Palous,Richard J. Parker,Jorge Peñarrubia,Ignazio Pillitteri,Giampaolo Piotto,H. Posbic,L. Prisinzano,E. Puzeras,A. Quirrenbach,S. Ragaini,Justin I. Read,Mike Read,Céline Reylé,J. De Ridder,N. Robichon,Annie C. Robin,Siegfried Roeser,Donatella Romano,Frédéric Royer,G. Ruchti,A. Ruzicka,Sean G. Ryan,Nils Ryde,Nuno C. Santos,J. Sanz Forcada,L. M. Sarro Baro,Luca Sbordone,Elena Schilbach,Stefan Schmeja,Olivier Schnurr,Ralph Schoenrich,R.-D. Scholz,George M. Seabroke,Sanjib Sharma,G. M. De Silva,M. Smith,E. Solano,Rosanna Sordo,Caroline Soubiran,S. G. Sousa,A. Spagna,Matthias Steffen,Matthias Steinmetz,Beate Stelzer,Eric Stempels,Hugo M. Tabernero,Grazina Tautvaisiene,F. Thévenin,J. Torra,Monica Tosi,Eline Tolstoy,C. Turon,Matthew G. Walker,Joachim Wambsganss,Clare Worley,K. A. Venn,Jacco Vink,R. F. G. Wyse,Simone Zaggia,Werner W. Zeilinger,Manuela Zoccali,J. Zorec,Daniel B. Zucker,Tomaz Zwitter +274 more
TL;DR: The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey has begun and will obtain high quality spectroscopy of some 100000 Milky Way stars, in the field and in open clusters, down to magnitude 19, systematically.