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3D-HST WFC3-selected photometric catalogs in the five CANDELS/3D-HST fields: photometry, photometric redshifts, and stellar masses

scholarly article

3D-HST+CANDELS: the evolution of the galaxy size-mass distribution since z = 3

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

3D-HST: a wide-field grism spectroscopic survey with the Hubble Space Telescope

scientific article

A Population of Short-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts with Dwarf Host Galaxies

scholarly article

A massive galaxy in its core formation phase three billion years after the Big Bang

scientific article

A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang

scientific article published on 22 February 2023

Chronicling the Host Galaxy Properties of the Remarkable Repeating FRB 20201124A

scientific article

Constraining the low-mass slope of the star formation sequence at 0.5 < z < 2.5

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Dense cores in galaxies out to z = 2.5 in SDSS, UltraVISTA, and the five 3D-HST/CANDELS fields

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Deriving Physical Properties from Broadband Photometry with Prospector: Description of the Model and a Demonstration of its Accuracy Using 129 Galaxies in the Local Universe

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Discovery of a Dark, Massive, ALMA-only Galaxy at z ~ 5–6 in a Tiny 3 mm Survey

scholarly article published on 22 October 2019

Forming compact massive galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Galaxy structure as a driver of the star formation sequence slope and scatter

High Molecular-gas to Dust Mass Ratios Predicted in Most Quiescent Galaxies

scientific article published in 2021

How Well Can We Measure Galaxy Dust Attenuation Curves? The Impact of the Assumed Star-dust Geometry Model in Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting

scientific article published in 2022

How to Measure Galaxy Star Formation Histories. I. Parametric Models

How to Measure Galaxy Star Formation Histories. II. Nonparametric Models

Hubble Space Telescope Observations of GW170817: Complete Light Curves and the Properties of the Galaxy Merger of NGC 4993

scientific article published in 2022

Lick Observatory Supernova Search follow-up program: photometry data release of 93 Type Ia supernovae

Mapping Obscured Star Formation in the Host Galaxy of FRB 20201124A

scholarly article published in January 2024

Millimeter Mapping at z ∼ 1: Dust-obscured Bulge Building and Disk Growth

scholarly article

Observations of environmental quenching in groups in the 11 GYR since z = 2.5: different quenching for central and satellite galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On the importance of using appropriate spectral models to derive physical properties of galaxies at 0.7 < z < 2.8

scholarly article

PS16dtm: A Tidal Disruption Event in a Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Quenching of star formation from a lack of inflowing gas to galaxies

scientific article published in 2021

REQUIEM-2D Methodology: Spatially Resolved Stellar Populations of Massive Lensed Quiescent Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope 2D Grism Spectroscopy

scientific article published in 2020

Reproducing the UVJ Color Distribution of Star-forming Galaxies at 0.5 &lt; z &lt; 2.5 with a Geometric Model of Dust Attenuation

scientific article published in 2021

Results of the Lick observatory supernova search follow-up photometry program: BVRI light curves of 165 type Ia supernovae

scholarly article

SN 2016iet: The Pulsational or Pair Instability Explosion of a Low-metallicity Massive CO Core Embedded in a Dense Hydrogen-poor Circumstellar Medium

scientific article published on 15 August 2019

SPECULATOR: Emulating Stellar Population Synthesis for Fast and Accurate Galaxy Spectra and Photometry

Stochastic Modeling of Star Formation Histories. III. Constraints from Physically Motivated Gaussian Processes

scholarly article published in January 2024

The 3D-HST survey: Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/G141 grism spectra, redshifts, and emission line measurements for ~ 100,000 galaxies

scholarly article

The Diverse Molecular Gas Content of Massive Galaxies Undergoing Quenching at z ∼ 1

scientific article published in 2021

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. VII. Properties of the Host Galaxy and Constraints on the Merger Timescale

The Hubble Legacy Field GOODS-S Photometric Catalog

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The Superluminous Supernova SN 2017egm in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 3191: A Metal-rich Environment Can Support a Typical SLSN Evolution

scholarly article

The radial distribution of star formation in galaxies at z ~ 1 from the 3D-HST survey

The relation between [O III]/H{beta} and specific star formation rate in galaxies at z ~ 2

scientific article

Tight correlations between massive galaxy structural properties and dynamics: the mass fundamental plane was in place by z ~ 2

scientific article

Where stars form: inside-out growth and coherent star formation from HST H{alpha} maps of 3200 galaxies across the main sequence at 0.7 < z < 1.5

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal