David Patton

A definitive merger-AGN connection at z 0 with CFIS: mergers have an excess of AGN and AGN hosts are more frequently disturbed, Sara L. Ellison, Akshara Viswanathan, David R. Patton, Connor Bottrell, Alan W. McConnachie, Stephen Gwyn & Jean-Charles Cuillandre 2019, MNRAS, 487, 2491-2504
Interacting Galaxies on FIRE-2: The Connection Between Enhanced Star Formation and Interstellar Gas Content, Jorge Moreno, Paul Torrey, Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton, Phillip F. Hopkins, Michael Bueno, Christopher C. Hayward, Desika Narayanan, Dusan Keres, Asa F. L. Bluck & Lars Hernquist 2019, MNRAS, 485, 1320-1338
What shapes a galaxy? – Unraveling the role of mass, environment and star formation in forming galactic structure with the SDSS, Illustris and LGalaxies, Asa F. L. Bluck, Connor Bottrell, Hossen Teimoorinia, Bruno M. B. Henriques, J. Trevor Mendel, Sara L. Ellison, Karun Thanjavur, Luc Simard, David R. Patton, Christopher J. Conselice, Jorge Moreno & Joanna Woo, MNRAS, 2019, 485, 666-696
Modeling the Baryon Cycle in Low Mass Galaxy Encounters: The Case of NGC 4490 and NGC 4485, Sarah Pearson, George C. Privon, Gurtina Besla, Mary E. Putman, David Martinez-Delgado, Kathryn V. Johnston, R. Jay Gabany, David R. Patton & Nitya Kallivayalil 2018, MNRAS, 480, 3069-3090
The Frequency of Dwarf Galaxy Multiples at Low Redshift in SDSS vs. Cosmological Expectations, Gurtina Besla, David R. Patton, Sabrina Stierwalt, Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez, Ekta Patel, Nitya J. Kallivayalil, Kelsey E. Johnson, Sarah Pearson, George C. Privon & Mary Putman 2018, MNRAS, 480, 3376-3396
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionized Gas Emission (VESTIGE). I. Introduction to the Survey, A. Boselli, M. Fossati, L. Ferrarese, S. Boissier, G. Consolandi, A. Longobardi, P. Amram, M. Balogh, P. Barmby, M. Boquien, F. Boulanger, J. Braine, V. Buat, D. Burgarella, F. Combes, T. Contini, L. Cortese, P. Cote, S. Cote, J.C. Cuillandre, L. Drissen, B. Epinat, M. Fumagalli, S. Gallagher, G. Gavazzi, J. Gomez-Lopez, S. Gwyn, W. Harris, G. Hensler, B. Koribalski, M. Marcelin, A. McConnachie, M.A. Miville-Deschenes, J. Navarro, D. Patton, E.W. Peng, H. Plana, N. Prantzos, C. Robert, J. Roediger, Y. Roehlly, D. Russeil, P. Salome, R. Sanchez-Janssen, P. Serra, K. Spekkens, M. Sun, J. Taylor, S. Tonnesen, B. Vollmer, J. Willis, H. Wozniak, T. Burdullis, D. Devost, B. Mahoney, N. Manset, A. Petric, S. Prunet & K. Withington 2018, A&A, 614, A56 (21 pages)
A Widespread, Clumpy Starburst in the Isolated Ongoing Dwarf Galaxy Merger dm1647+21, G. C. Privon, S. Stierwalt, D. R. Patton, G. Besla, S. Pearson, M. Putman, K. E. Johnson, N. Kallivayalil & S. Liss 2017, ApJ, 846, 74 (8 pages)
Direct Evidence of Hierarchical Assembly at Low Masses from Isolated Dwarf Galaxy Groups, Sabrina Stierwalt, Sandra E. Liss, Kelsey E. Johnson, David R. Patton, George C. Privon, Gurtina Besla, Nitya Kallivayalil & Mary Putman 2017, Nature Astronomy, 1, 25 (6 pages)
Pattern Recognition in the ALFALFA.70 and Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: A Catalog of $\sim$ 500,000 HI Gas Mass Fraction Estimates Based on Artificial Neural Networks, Hossen Teimoorinia, Sara L. Ellison & David R. Patton 2017, MNRAS, 464, 3796-3811
The impact of galactic properties and environment on the quenching of central and satellite galaxies: A comparison between SDSS, Illustris and L-Galaxies, Asa F. L. Bluck, J. Trevor Mendel, Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton, Luc Simard, Bruno M. B. Henriques, Paul Torrey, Hossein Teimoorinia, Jorge Moreno & Else Starkenburg 2016, MNRAS, 462, 2559-2586
Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - XI. A new method for measuring the influence of the closest companion out to wide separations, David R. Patton, Farid D. Qamar, Sara L. Ellison, Asa F. L. Bluck, Luc Simard, J. Trevor Mendel, Jorge Moreno & Paul Torrey 2016, MNRAS, 461, 2589-2604
Local Volume TiNy Titans: Gaseous Dwarf-Dwarf Interactions in the Local Universe, Sarah Pearson, Gurtina Besla, Mary E. Putman, Katharina Lutz, Ximena Fernandez, Sabrina Stierwalt, David R. Patton, Jinhyub Kim, Nitya Kallivayalil, Kelsey Johnson & Eon-Chang Sung 2016, MNRAS, 459, 1827-1846
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey XII: The Fuelling Mechanism of Low Excitation Radio-loud AGN, Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton & Ryan C. Hickox 2015, MNRAS Letters, 451, L35-L39
TiNy Titans: The Role of Dwarf-Dwarf Interactions in Low-mass Galaxy Evolution, S. Stierwalt, G. Besla, D. Patton, K. Johnson, N. Kallivayalil, M. Putman, G. Privon & G. Ross 2015, ApJ, 805, 2 (16 pages)
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - X: Does Gas Content Alter Star Formation Rate Enhancement in Galaxy Interactions?, Jillian M. Scudder, Sara L. Ellison, Emmanuel Momjian, Jessica L. Rosenberg, Paul Torrey, David R. Patton, Derek Fertig & J. Trevor Mendel 2015, MNRAS, 449, 3719-3740
Mapping Galaxy Encounters in Numerical Simulations: The Spatial Extent of Induced Star Formation, Jorge Moreno, Paul Torrey, Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton, Asa F. L. Bluck, Gunjan Bansal & Lars Hernquist 2015, MNRAS, 448, 1107-1117
The Neutral Gas Content of Post-merger Galaxies, Sara L. Ellison, Derek Fertig, Jessica L. Rosenberg, Preethi Nair, Luc Simard, Paul Torrey & David R. Patton 2015, MNRAS, 448, 221-236
Changing Ionization Conditions in SDSS Galaxies With Active Galactic Nuclei as a Function of Environment From Pairs to Clusters, Emil T. Khabiboulline, Charles L. Steinhardt, John D. Silverman, Sara L. Ellison, J. Trevor Mendel & David R. Patton 2014, ApJ, 795, 62 (9 pages)
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - IX: Merger-induced AGN Activity as Traced by the Wide-field Infrared Satellite Explorer, S. Satyapal, Sara L. Ellison, W. McAlpine, Ryan Hickox, David R. Patton & J. Trevor Mendel 2014, MNRAS, 441, 1297-1304
Bulge Mass Is King: The Dominant Role of the Bulge in Determining the Fraction of Passive Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Asa F. L. Bluck, J. Trevor Mendel, Sara L. Ellison, Jorge Moreno, Luc Simard, David R. Patton & Else Starkenburg 2014, MNRAS, 441, 599-629
A Catalog of Bulge, Disk and Total Stellar Mass Estimates for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, J. Trevor Mendel, Michael Palmer, Luc Simard, Sara L. Ellison, & David R. Patton 2014, ApJS, 210, 3 (21 pages)
The Dynamics of Galaxy Pairs in a Cosmological Setting, Jorge Moreno, Asa F. L. Bluck, Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton, Paul Torrey & Benjamin P. Moster 2013, MNRAS, 436, 1765-1786
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - VIII. The Observational Properties of Post-merger Galaxies, Sara L. Ellison, J. Trevor Mendel, David R. Patton & Jillian M. Scudder 2013, MNRAS, 435, 3627-3638
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - VI. The Orbital Extent of Enhanced Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies, David R. Patton, Paul Torrey, Sara L. Ellison, J. Trevor Mendel, & Jillian M. Scudder 2013, MNRAS Letters, 433, L59-63
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - VII: The Merger-luminous Infrared Galaxy Connection, Sara L. Ellison, J. Trevor Mendel, Jillian M. Scudder, David R. Patton & Michael J. D. Palmer 2013, MNRAS, 430, 3128-3141
Towards a Physical Picture of Star-formation Quenching: the Photometric Properties of Recently-quenched Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, J. Trevor Mendel, Luc Simard, Sara L. Ellison, & David R. Patton 2013, MNRAS, 429, 2212-2227
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - V. Tracing Changes in the Star Formation Rate and Metallicity Out to Separations of 80 kpc, Jillian M. Scudder, Sara L. Ellison, Paul Torrey, David R. Patton, & J. Trevor Mendel 2012, MNRAS, 426, 549-565
Close Companions to Brightest Cluster Galaxies: Support for Downsizing and Minor Mergers, Louise O. V. Edwards & David R. Patton 2012, MNRAS, 425, 287-295
A Model of Habitability Within the Milky Way Galaxy, Michael G. Gowanlock, David R. Patton, & Sabine M. McConnell 2011, Astrobiology, 11, 855-873
Compact Groups in Theory and Practice - IV. The Connection to Large-scale Structure, J. Trevor Mendel, Sara L. Ellison, Luc Simard, David R. Patton, & Alan W. McConnachie 2011, MNRAS, 418, 1409-1422
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - IV: Interactions trigger AGN, Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton, J. Trevor Mendel, & Jillian M. Scudder 2011, MNRAS, 418, 2043-2053
A Catalog of Bulge+Disk Decompositions and Updated Photometry for 1.12 Million Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Luc Simard, J. Trevor Mendel, David R. Patton, Sara L. Ellison, & Alan W. McConnachie 2011, ApJS, 196, 11 (20 pages)
The Impact of Gas Inflows on Star Formation Rates and Metalliticies in Barred Galaxies, Sara L. Ellison, Preethi Nair, David R. Patton, Jillian M. Scudder, J. Trevor Mendel, & Luc Simard 2011, MNRAS, 416, 2182-2192
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - III: Evidence of Induced Star Formation from Optical Colours, David R. Patton, Sara L. Ellison, Luc Simard, Alan W. McConnachie, & J. Trevor Mendel 2011, MNRAS, 412, 591-606
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - II: The Effect of Environment on Interactions, Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton, Luc Simard, Alan W. McConnachie, Ivan K. Baldry, & J. Trevor Mendel 2010, MNRAS, 407, 1514-1528
Where do Wet, Dry and Mixed Galaxy Mergers Occur? A Study of the Environments of Close Galaxy Pairs in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey, Lihwai Lin, Michael C. Cooper, Hung-Yu Jian, David C. Koo, David R. Patton, Renbin Yan, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Alison L. Coil, Tzihong Chiueh, Darren J. Croton, Brian F. Gerke, Jennifer Lotz, Puragra Guhathakurta, & Jeffrey A. Newman 2010, ApJ, 718, 1158-1170
The Mass-metallicity Relation in Galaxy Clusters: the Relative Importance of Cluster Membership Versus Local Environment, Sara L. Ellison, Luc Simard, Nicolas B. Cowan, Ivan K. Baldry, David R. Patton, & Alan W. McConnachie 2009, MNRAS, 396, 1257-1272
Compact Groups in Theory and Practice - III. Compact Groups of Galaxies in the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Alan W. McConnachie, David R. Patton, Sara L. Ellison, & Luc Simard 2009, MNRAS, 395, 255-268
Compact Groups in Theory and Practice - II. Comparing the Observed and Predicted Nature of Galaxies in Compact Groups, Crystal M. Brasseur, Alan W. McConnachie, Sara L. Ellison, & David R. Patton 2009, MNRAS, 392, 1141-1152
The Luminosity Dependence of the Galaxy Merger Rate, D. R. Patton & J. E. Atfield 2008, ApJ, 685, 235-246
The Redshift Evolution of Wet, Dry and Mixed Galaxy Mergers from Close Galaxy Pairs in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey, Lihwai Lin, David R. Patton, David C. Koo, Kevin Casteels, Christopher J. Conselice, S. M. Faber, Jennifer Lotz, Christopher N. A. Willmer, B. C. Hsieh, Tzihong Chiueh, Jeffrey A. Newman, Gregory S. Novak, Benjamin J. Weiner, & Micheael C. Cooper 2008, ApJ, 681, 232-243
Compact Groups in Theory and Practice - I. The Spatial Properties of Compact Groups, Alan W. McConnachie, Sara L. Ellison, & David R. Patton 2008, MNRAS, 387, 1281-1290
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I: Star Formation, Active Galactic Nucleus Fraction, and the Mass-Metallicity Relation, Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton, Luc Simard, & Alan W. McConnachie 2008, AJ, 135, 1877-1899
Clues to the Origin of the Mass-Metallicity Relation: Dependence on Star Formation Rate and Galaxy Size, Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton, Luc Simard, & Alan W. McConnachie 2008, ApJL, 672, L107-L110
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: The Connection Between Close Pairs and Asymmetry; Implications for the Galaxy Merger Rate, Roberto De Propris, Christopher J. Conselice, Jochen Liske, Simon P. Driver, David R. Patton, Alister W. Graham, & Paul D. Allen 2007, ApJ, 666, 212-221
A Hubble Space Telescope Snapshot Survey of Dynamically Close Galaxy Pairs in the CNOC2 Redshift Survey, Patton, D. R., Grant, J. K., Simard, L., Pritchet, C. J., Carlberg, R. G., & Borne, K. D. 2005, AJ, 130, 2043-2057
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Evolution of Close Galaxy Pairs and Major-Merger Rates Up To z$\sim$1.2, Lihwai Lin, David C. Koo, Christopher N. A. Willmer, David R. Patton, Christopher J. Conselice, Renbin Yan, Alison L. Coil, Michael C. Cooper, Marc Davis, S. M. Faber, Brian F. Gerke, Puragra Guhathakurta, & Jeffrey A. Newman 2004, ApJ, 617, L9-L12
Dynamically Close Galaxy Pairs and Merger Rate Evolution in the CNOC2 Redshift Survey, Patton, D. R., Pritchet, C. J., Carlberg, R. G., Marzke, R. O., Yee, H. K. C., Hall, P. B., Lin, H., Morris, S. L., Sawicki, M., Shepherd, C. W., & Wirth, G. D. 2002, ApJ, 565, 208-222
Environment and Galaxy Evolution at Intermediate Redshift in the CNOC2 Redshift Survey, Carlberg, R. G., Yee, H. K. C., Morris, S. L., Lin, H., Hall, P. B., Patton, D. R., Sawicki, M., & Shepherd, C. W. 2001, ApJ, 563, 736-748
The Galaxy Correlation Function in the CNOC2 Redshift Survey: Dependence on Color, Luminosity, and Redshift, Shepherd, C. W., Carlberg, R. G., Yee, H. K. C., Morris, S. L., Lin, H., Sawicki, M., Hall, P. B., & Patton, D. R. 2001, ApJ, 560, 72-85
Galaxy Groups at Intermediate Redshift, Carlberg, R. G., Yee, H. K. C., Morris, S. L., Lin, H., Hall, P. B., Patton, D. R., Sawicki, M., & Shepherd, C. W. 2001, ApJ, 552, 427-444
Weak Lensing Study of Low Mass Galaxy Groups: Implications for Omega$_M$, Hoekstra, H., Franx, M., Kuijken, K., Carlberg, R. G., Yee, H. K. C., Lin, H., Morris, S. L., Hall, P. B., Patton, D. R., Sawicki, M., & Wirth, G. D. 2001, ApJ, 548, L5-L8
New Techniques for Relating Dynamically Close Galaxy Pairs to Merger and Accretion Rates : Application to the SSRS2 Redshift Survey, Patton, D. R., Carlberg, R. G., Marzke, R. O., Pritchet, C. J., da Costa, L. N., & Pellegrini, P. S. 2000, ApJ, 536, 153-172
Active Galactic Nuclei in the CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey, Hall, P. B., Yee, H. K. C., Lin, H., Morris, S. L., Patton, D. R., Sawicki, M., Shepherd, C. W., Wirth, G. D., Carlberg, R. G., & Elston, R. 2000, AJ, 120, 2220-2243
Galaxy Clustering Evolution in the CNOC2 High Luminosity Sample, Carlberg, R. G., Yee, H. K. C., Morris, S. L., Lin, H., Hall, P. B., Patton, D., Sawicki, M., & Shepherd, C. W. 2000, ApJ, 542, 57-67
Spectroscopic Gravitational Lens Candidates in the CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey, Hall, P. B., Yee, H. K. C., Lin, H., Morris, S. L., Gladders, M., Carlberg, R. G., Patton, D. R., Sawicki, M., Shepherd, C. W., & Wirth, G. D. 2000, AJ, 120, 1660-1667
The CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey I: The Survey and the Catalog for the Patch CNOC 0223+00, Yee, H. K. C., Morris, S. L., Lin, H., Carlberg, R. G., Hall, P. B., Sawicki, M., Patton, D. R., Wirth, G. D., Ellingson, E., & Shepherd, C. W. 2000, ApJS, 129, 475-492
Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey XI: The Merger Rate to Redshift 1 from Kinematic Pairs, Carlberg, R. G., Cohen, J. G., Patton, D. R., Blandford, R., Hogg, D. W., Yee, H. K. C., Morris, S. L., Lin, H., Hall, P. B., Sawicki, M., Wirth, G. D., Cowie, L. L., Hu, E., & Songaila, A. 2000, ApJ, 532, L1-L4
Pre-Heated Isentropic Gas in Groups of Galaxies, Balogh, M. L., Babul, A., & Patton, D. R. 1999, MNRAS, 307, 463-479
The CNOC2 Field Galaxy Luminosity Function I: A Description of Luminosity Function Evolution, Lin, H., Yee, H. K. C., Carlberg, R. G., Morris, S. L., Sawicki, M., Patton, D. R., Wirth, G. D., & Shepherd, C. W. 1999, ApJ, 518, 533-561
The Omega-M - Omega-Lambda Dependence of the Apparent Cluster Omega, Carlberg, R. G., Yee, H. K. C., Morris, S. L., Lin, H., Ellingson, E., Patton, D. R., Sawicki, M., & Shepherd, C. W. 1999, ApJ, 516, 552-558
The CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey, Carlberg, R. G., Yee, H. K. C., Morris, S. L., Lin, H., Sawicki, M., Wirth, G., Patton, D., Shepherd, C. W., Ellingson, E., & Schade, D. 1999, Royal Society of London Phil. Tr. A., 357, 167-183
The Discovery and Broad-band Follow-up of the Transient Afterglow of GRB 980703, Bloom, J. S., Frail, D. A., Kulkarni, S. R., Djorgovski, S. G., Halpern, J.P., Marzke, R. O., Patton, D. R., Oke, J. B., Horne, K. D., Gomer, R., Goodrich, R., Campbell, R., Moriarty-Schieven, G. H., Redman, R. O., Feldman, P. A., Costa, E., & Masetti, N. 1998, ApJ, 508, L21-L24
Close Pairs of Field Galaxies in the CNOC1 Redshift Survey, Patton, D.R., Pritchet, C.J., Yee, H.K.C., Ellingson, E., & Carlberg, R.G. 1997, ApJ, 475, 29-42