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List of works by Katherine E. Whitaker

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

scholarly article

3D-HST grism spectroscopy of a gravitationally lensed, low-metallicity starburst galaxy at z = 1.847

scientific 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 CANDELS-3D-HST synergy: resolved star formation patterns at 0.7 < z < 1.5

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Comparison of Rest-frame Ultraviolet and Optical Emission-line Diagnostics in the Lensed Galaxy SDSS J1723+3411 at Redshift z = 1.3293

scientific article published in 2021

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

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published in 2021

Ages of massive galaxies at 0.5 > z > 2.0 from 3D-HST rest-frame optical spectroscopy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Bulge growth and quenching since z = 2.5 in CANDELS/3D-HST

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

scientific article published on 03 February 2022

Confirmation of small dynamical and stellar masses for extreme emission line galaxies at z ~ 2

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

Direct measurements of dust attenuation in z ~ 1.5 star-forming galaxies from 3D-HST: implications for dust geometry and star formation rates

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

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

Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: Detection of Dust Emission in Multiple Images of a Normal Galaxy at z > 4 Lensed by a Frontier Fields Cluster

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

scientific article published in 2019

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

scholarly article

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

First results from the VIRIAL survey: the stellar content of UVJ-selected quiescent galaxies at 1.5 < z < 2 from KMOS

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Forming compact massive galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

Geometry of star-forming galaxies from SDSS, 3D-HST, and CANDELS

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HFF-DeepSpace Photometric Catalogs of the 12 Hubble Frontier Fields, Clusters, and Parallels: Photometry, Photometric Redshifts, and Stellar Masses

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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

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Habitat-Based Density Models for Three Cetacean Species off Southern California Illustrate Pronounced Seasonal Differences

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

scientific article published in 2021

High-redshift Massive Quiescent Galaxies Are as Flat as Star-forming Galaxies: The Flattening of Galaxies and the Correlation with Structural Properties in CANDELS/3D-HST

How dead are dead galaxies? mid-infrared fluxes of quiescent galaxies at redshift 0.3 < z < 2.5: implications for star formation rates and dust heating

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Hα EQUIVALENT WIDTHS FROM THE 3D-HST SURVEY: EVOLUTION WITH REDSHIFT AND DEPENDENCE ON STELLAR MASS

Inter-annual and seasonal trends in cetacean distribution, density and abundance off southern California

scientific article published on 25 October 2014

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Lens Model and Source Reconstruction Reveal the Morphology and Star Formation Distribution in the Cool Spiral LIRG SGAS J143845.1+145407

Lens model and time delay predictions for the sextuply lensed quasar SDSS J2222+2745

scientific article published in January 2017

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

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

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

Redshift evolution of the galaxy velocity dispersion function

Resolved Stellar Mass Maps of Galaxies in the Hubble Frontier Fields: Evidence for Mass Dependency in Environmental Quenching

scientific article published in 2022

Resolved star formation on sub-galactic scales in a merger at z = 1.7

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

STAR FORMATION AT Z = 2.481 IN THE LENSED GALAXY SDSS J1110+6459: STAR FORMATION DOWN TO 30 PARSEC SCALES.

scientific article published on 6 July 2017

Star Formation at z = 2.481 in the Lensed Galaxy SDSS J1110+6459. II. What is Missed at the Normal Resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

scholarly article

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 Hubble Legacy Field GOODS-S Photometric Catalog

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The Intrinsic Characteristics of Galaxies on the SFR–M ∗ Plane at 1.2 < z < 4: I. The Correlation between Stellar Age, Central Density, and Position Relative to the Main Sequence

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The MOSFIRE deep evolution field (MOSDEF) survey: rest-frame optical spectroscopy for ~1500 h-selected galaxies at 1.37 <= z <= 3.8

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The Mass, Color, and Structural Evolution of Today’s Massive Galaxies Since z ∼ 5

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Number Density Evolution of Extreme Emission Line Galaxies in 3D-HST: Results from a Novel Automated Line Search Technique for Slitless Spectroscopy

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 evolution of the fractions of quiescent and star-forming galaxies as a function of stellar mass since z = 3: increasing importance of massive, dusty star-forming galaxies in the early universe

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The nature of extreme emission line galaxies at z = 1-2: kinematics and metallicities from near-infrared spectroscopy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

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

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The spatial extent and distribution of star formation in 3D-HST mergers at z ∼ 1.5

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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

Three Dusty Star-forming Galaxies at <i>z</i> ∼ 1.5: Mergers and Disks on the Main Sequence

scientific article published in 2020

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

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