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List of works by Lee Spitler

A 3.5 million Solar masses black hole in the centre of the ultracompact dwarf galaxy fornax UCD3

scholarly article by Anton V Afanasiev et al published 14 April 2018 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

A Dual-narrowband survey for H{alpha} emitters at redshift of 2.2: Demonstration of the technique and constraints on the H{alpha} luminosity function

scientific article published in January 2012

A massive, quiescent galaxy at a redshift of 3.717

scientific article published in Nature

A substantial population of massive quiescent galaxies at z ~ 4 from ZFOURGE

scholarly article

A supermassive black hole in an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy

scientific article

An imaging study of the globular cluster systems of NGC 1407 and 1400

scientific article

Cold-mode accretion: driving the fundamental mass-metallicity relation at z ~ 2

scholarly article

Cronomoons : origin, dynamics, and light-curve features of ringed exomoons

scientific article published on 14 December 2021

Deriving metallicities from the integrated spectra of extragalactic globular clusters using the near-infrared calcium triplet

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Detection of Supermassive Black Holes in Two Virgo Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Differences in the structural properties and star-formation rates of field and cluster galaxies at z~1

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Discovery of Extreme [O iii]+HβEmitting Galaxies Tracing an Overdensity atz∼ 3.5 in CDF-South

scholarly article

EXPLORING THEz= 3-4 MASSIVE GALAXY POPULATION WITH ZFOURGE: THE PREVALENCE OF DUSTY AND QUIESCENT GALAXIES

scholarly article

Effect of Local Environment and Stellar Mass on Galaxy Quenching and Morphology at 0.5 < z < 2.0

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Further radio pulsations from the direction of the NuSTAR 3.76-second X-ray pulsar, and a dispersion measure estimate

GRB 110915A: deep Near-IR limits from Magellan

scientific article

GRB 121027A: brightening IR counterpart

scientific article

GRB 121027A: nIR afterglow candidate with AAT

Galaxy stellar mass functions from ZFOURGE/CANDELS: an excess of low-mass galaxies since z = 2 and the rapid buildup of quiescent galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Globular clusters in Virgo ellipticals: unexpected results for giants and dwarfs from advanced camera for surveys imaging

scientific article published in January 2006

Ground-based follow-up observations of TRAPPIST-1 transits in the near-infrared

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

HST ACS Wide-Field Photometry of the Sombrero Galaxy Globular Cluster System

Hunting Gravitational Waves with Multi-Messenger Counterparts: Australia’s Role

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Jekyll & Hyde: quiescence and extreme obscuration in a pair of massive galaxies 1.5 Gyr after the Big Bang

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Keck/MOSFIRE spectroscopic confirmation of a Virgo-like cluster ancestor at z = 2.095

scientific article

Large molecular gas reservoirs in ancestors of Milky Way-mass galaxies nine billion years ago

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

Large molecular gas reservoirs in ancestors of Milky Way-mass galaxies nine billion years ago

scientific article published in January 2017

Low Star Formation Activity and Low Gas Content of Quiescent Galaxies at z = 3.5–4.0 Constrained with ALMA

scientific article published in 2022

Near infrared spectroscopy and star-formation histories of 3 <= z <= 4 quiescent galaxies

scientific article

New limits on enhanced turbulence at supernova remnants

scientific article published in January 2004

Observation of Cassini’s Entry into Saturn: No Detection, and Lessons Learned

scientific article

On the Gas Content, Star Formation Efficiency, and Environmental Quenching of Massive Galaxies in Protoclusters at <i>z</i> ≈ 2.0–2.5

scientific article published in 2019

On-going radio observations of PSR J1745-2900 at Effelsberg, Nancay, and Jodrell Bank: flux density estimates, polarisation properties, spin-down measurement, and the highest dispersion measure measured

scientific article

Opening the dynamic infrared sky

scholarly article published 6 July 2018

Polarisation profiles and rotation measure of PSR J1745-2900 measured at Effelsberg

scholarly article

Probing the 2D kinematic structure of early-type galaxies out to three effective radii

scientific article published in January 2009

Pulsar Searches with the SKA

Rest-frame optical emission lines in z ~ 3.5 lyman-break-selected galaxies: the ubiquity of unusually high [OIII]/Hβ ratios at 2 gyr

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Satellite quenching and galactic conformity at 0.3 < z < 2.5

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

scientific article published in August 2022

The Australian Space Eye: Ultra-faint astronomy imaging from Space

article

The Australian Space Eye: studying the history of galaxy formation with a CubeSat

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The Black Hole in the Most Massive Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxy M59-UCD3

scholarly article by Christopher P. Ahn et al published 11 May 2018 in The Astrophysical Journal

The FourStar galaxy evolution survey (ZFOURGE): ultraviolet to far-infrared catalogs, medium-bandwidth photometric redshifts with improved accuracy, stellar masses, and confirmation of quiescent galaxies to z ~ 3.5

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Missing Satellite Problem Outside of the Local Group. I. Pilot Observation

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The SFR-M* relation and empirical star-formation histories from ZFOURGE at 0.5 < z < 4

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The SLUGGS Survey: A Catalog of Over 4000 Globular Cluster Radial Velocities in 27 Nearby Early-type Galaxies

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The SLUGGS survey: combining stellar and globular cluster metallicities in the outer regions of early-type galaxies

scholarly article

The Size Evolution of Star-forming Galaxies sincez∼ 7 Using ZFOURGE

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The XXL survey XV: evidence for dry merger driven BCG growth in XXL-100-GC X-ray clusters

scholarly article

The absence of an environmental dependence in the mass-metallicity relation at z = 2

The bright end of the z ~ 9 and z ~ 10 UV luminosity functions using all five CANDELS fields

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The distribution of satellites around massive galaxies at 1 < z < 3 in ZFOURGE/CANDELS: dependence on star formation activity

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The formation and evolution of bulges as traced by globular cluster systems

The ongoing assembly of a central cluster galaxy: phase-space substructures in the halo of M87

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The sizes of massive quiescent and star-forming galaxies at z ~ 4 with ZFOURGE and CANDELS

scholarly article

The stellar population and metallicity distribution of the Sombrero galaxy

scholarly article

Transformation of a star into a planet in a millisecond pulsar binary

scientific article (publication date: 23 September 2011)

UV Luminosity Functions at Redshifts z ∼ 4 to z ∼ 10: 10,000 Galaxies from HST Legacy Fields

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal in April 2015

UV to IR luminosities and dust attenuation determined from ~4000 k-selected galaxies at 1 < z < 3 in the ZFOURGE survey

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Ultra-deep K_s_-band imaging of the Hubble Frontier Fields

Uniting old stellar systems: from globular clusters to giant ellipticals

scientific article published in January 2008

Z-FIRE: ISM properties of the z = 2.095 COSMOS cluster

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

ZFIRE: The Evolution of the Stellar Mass Tully–Fisher Relation to Redshift ∼2.2

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

ZFIRE: a KECK/MOSFIRE spectroscopic survey of galaxies in rich environments at z ~ 2

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

ZFIRE: galaxy cluster kinematics, H{alpha} star formation rates, and gas phase metallicities of XMM-LSS J02182-05102 at z_cl_ = 1.6232

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

ZFIRE: similar stellar growth in H{alpha}-emitting cluster and field galaxies at z ~ 2

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

ZFIRE: the kinematics of star-forming galaxies as a function of environment at z ~ 2

ZFIRE: using Hα equivalent widths to investigate the in situ initial mass function at z ∼ 2

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ZFOURGE catalogue of AGN candidates: an enhancement of 160-μm-derived star formation rates in active galaxies toz = 3.2

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ZFOURGE/CANDELS: on the evolution of M* galaxy progenitors from z = 3 to 0.5

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal