List of works - Rachel Bezanson

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

scholarly article

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

scholarly article

Massive Quenched Galaxies at z ∼ 0.7 Retain Large Molecular Gas Reservoirs

One plane for all: massive star-forming and quiescent galaxies lie on the same mass fundamental plane at z ~ 0 and z ~ 0.7

scientific article published in January 2015

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

scientific article

Extremely Low Molecular Gas Content in a Compact, Quiescent Galaxy at z = 1.522

scholarly article

Molecular Gas Contents and Scaling Relations for Massive, Passive Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts from the LEGA-C Survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Forming compact massive galaxies

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

Spatially resolved h{alpha} maps and sizes of 57 strongly star-forming galaxies at z ~ 1 from 3D-HST: evidence for rapid inside-out assembly of disk galaxies

Massive and newly dead: discovery of a significant population of galaxies with high-velocity dispersions and strong Balmer lines at z ~ 1.5 from deep Keck spectra and HST/WFC3 imaging

scholarly article

ALMA Measures Rapidly Depleted Molecular Gas Reservoirs in Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ∼ 1.5

scientific article published in 2021

First results from the 3D-HST survey: the striking diversity of massive galaxies at z > 1

Low gas fractions connect compact star-forming galaxies to their z ~ 2 quiescent descendants

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Evidence for Inside-out Galaxy Growth and Quenching of a z ∼ 2 Compact Galaxy From High-resolution Molecular Gas Imaging

scientific article published in 2019

Stellar and Molecular Gas Rotation in a Recently Quenched Massive Galaxy at z ∼ 0.7

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

scientific article

Large-scale star-formation-driven outflows at 1 < z < 2 in the 3D-HST survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The stellar velocity dispersion of a compact massive galaxy at z = 1.80 using X-shooter: confirmation of the evolution in the mass-size and mass-dispersion relations

Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: Constraining the Gas Fraction of a Compact Quiescent Galaxy at z = 1.883

scientific article published in 2021

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

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

scientific article

Fast and Slow Paths to Quiescence: Ages and Sizes of 400 Quiescent Galaxies from the LEGA-C Survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

scientific article published in 2021

Morphology Dependence of Stellar Age in Quenched Galaxies at Redshift ∼1.2:Massive Compact Galaxies Are Older than More Extended Ones

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

The VLT LEGA-C spectroscopic survey: the physics of galaxies at a lookback time of 7 Gyr

scholarly article

Predicting Quiescence: The Dependence of Specific Star Formation Rate on Galaxy Size and Central Density at 0.5 <z< 2.5

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spatially Resolved Stellar Kinematics from LEGA-C: Increased Rotational Support in z ∼ 0.8 Quiscent Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The frequency of tidal features associated with nearby luminous elliptical galaxies from a statistically complete sample

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Stellar Populations of over 1000 z ∼ 0.8 Galaxies from LEGA-C: Ages and Star Formation Histories from D n 4000 and Hδ

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Rejuvenation in z ∼ 0.8 Quiescent Galaxies in LEGA-C

scientific article

Stellar Dynamics and Star Formation Histories of z ∼ 1 Radio-loud Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

HST F160W Imaging of Very Massive Galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3.0: Diversity of Structures and the Effect of Close Pairs on Number Density Estimates

article

Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Five Ultra-massive Galaxies at 1.7 <z< 2.7

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

1D Kinematics from Stars and Ionized Gas at z ∼ 0.8 from the LEGA-C Spectroscopic Survey of Massive Galaxies

scientific article

ALMA Measures Molecular Gas Reservoirs Comparable to Field Galaxies in a Low-mass Galaxy Cluster at z = 1.3

scientific article published in 2022

The Large Early Galaxy Astrophysics Census (LEGA-C) Data Release 2: Dynamical and Stellar Population Properties of z ≲ 1 Galaxies in the COSMOS Field

The fundamental plane of massive quiescent galaxies out to z ~ 2

Stellar Metallicities and Elemental Abundance Ratios of z ∼ 1.4 Massive Quiescent Galaxies

Star Formation Histories of z ∼ 1 Galaxies in LEGA-C

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Stellar Dynamical Models for 797 z ∼ 0.8 Galaxies from LEGA-C

scientific article published on 07 December 2021

The Structure and Formation Histories of Low-mass Quiescent Galaxies in the A2744 Cluster Environment

scientific article published on 31 October 2025

The Mass Scale of High-redshift Galaxies: Virial Mass Estimates Calibrated with Stellar Dynamical Models from LEGA-C

scientific article published in 2022

CLIMBER: Galaxy–Halo Connection Constraints from Next-generation Surveys

scientific article published on 03 February 2022

The first billion years according to JWST

scientific article published on 8 August 2025

The Nebular Properties of Star-forming Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift from the Large Early Galaxy Astrophysics Census

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published in 2021

The DESI One-percent Survey: Evidence for Assembly Bias from Low-redshift Counts-in-cylinders Measurements

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

scientific article published in 2020

List of works by Rachel Bezanson

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

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

Massive Quenched Galaxies at z ∼ 0.7 Retain Large Molecular Gas Reservoirs

One plane for all: massive star-forming and quiescent galaxies lie on the same mass fundamental plane at z ~ 0 and z ~ 0.7

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

Extremely Low Molecular Gas Content in a Compact, Quiescent Galaxy at z = 1.522

Molecular Gas Contents and Scaling Relations for Massive, Passive Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts from the LEGA-C Survey

Forming compact massive galaxies

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

Spatially resolved h{alpha} maps and sizes of 57 strongly star-forming galaxies at z ~ 1 from 3D-HST: evidence for rapid inside-out assembly of disk galaxies

Massive and newly dead: discovery of a significant population of galaxies with high-velocity dispersions and strong Balmer lines at z ~ 1.5 from deep Keck spectra and HST/WFC3 imaging

ALMA Measures Rapidly Depleted Molecular Gas Reservoirs in Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ∼ 1.5

First results from the 3D-HST survey: the striking diversity of massive galaxies at z > 1

Low gas fractions connect compact star-forming galaxies to their z ~ 2 quiescent descendants

Evidence for Inside-out Galaxy Growth and Quenching of a z ∼ 2 Compact Galaxy From High-resolution Molecular Gas Imaging

Stellar and Molecular Gas Rotation in a Recently Quenched Massive Galaxy at z ∼ 0.7

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

Large-scale star-formation-driven outflows at 1 < z < 2 in the 3D-HST survey

The stellar velocity dispersion of a compact massive galaxy at z = 1.80 using X-shooter: confirmation of the evolution in the mass-size and mass-dispersion relations

Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: Constraining the Gas Fraction of a Compact Quiescent Galaxy at z = 1.883

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

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

Fast and Slow Paths to Quiescence: Ages and Sizes of 400 Quiescent Galaxies from the LEGA-C Survey

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

Morphology Dependence of Stellar Age in Quenched Galaxies at Redshift ∼1.2:Massive Compact Galaxies Are Older than More Extended Ones

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

The VLT LEGA-C spectroscopic survey: the physics of galaxies at a lookback time of 7 Gyr

Predicting Quiescence: The Dependence of Specific Star Formation Rate on Galaxy Size and Central Density at 0.5 <z< 2.5

Spatially Resolved Stellar Kinematics from LEGA-C: Increased Rotational Support in z ∼ 0.8 Quiscent Galaxies

The frequency of tidal features associated with nearby luminous elliptical galaxies from a statistically complete sample

Stellar Populations of over 1000 z ∼ 0.8 Galaxies from LEGA-C: Ages and Star Formation Histories from D n 4000 and Hδ

Rejuvenation in z ∼ 0.8 Quiescent Galaxies in LEGA-C

Stellar Dynamics and Star Formation Histories of z ∼ 1 Radio-loud Galaxies

HST F160W Imaging of Very Massive Galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3.0: Diversity of Structures and the Effect of Close Pairs on Number Density Estimates

Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Five Ultra-massive Galaxies at 1.7 <z< 2.7

1D Kinematics from Stars and Ionized Gas at z ∼ 0.8 from the LEGA-C Spectroscopic Survey of Massive Galaxies

ALMA Measures Molecular Gas Reservoirs Comparable to Field Galaxies in a Low-mass Galaxy Cluster at z = 1.3

The Large Early Galaxy Astrophysics Census (LEGA-C) Data Release 2: Dynamical and Stellar Population Properties of z ≲ 1 Galaxies in the COSMOS Field

The fundamental plane of massive quiescent galaxies out to z ~ 2

Stellar Metallicities and Elemental Abundance Ratios of z ∼ 1.4 Massive Quiescent Galaxies

Star Formation Histories of z ∼ 1 Galaxies in LEGA-C

Stellar Dynamical Models for 797 z ∼ 0.8 Galaxies from LEGA-C

The Structure and Formation Histories of Low-mass Quiescent Galaxies in the A2744 Cluster Environment

The Mass Scale of High-redshift Galaxies: Virial Mass Estimates Calibrated with Stellar Dynamical Models from LEGA-C

CLIMBER: Galaxy–Halo Connection Constraints from Next-generation Surveys

The first billion years according to JWST

The Nebular Properties of Star-forming Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift from the Large Early Galaxy Astrophysics Census

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

The DESI One-percent Survey: Evidence for Assembly Bias from Low-redshift Counts-in-cylinders Measurements

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