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20172026
most citedSDSS-IV MaNGA: Global stellar population and gradients for about 2000 early-type and spiral galaxies on the mass-size plane

126 citations · 363 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A Strong Stellar Age-Metallicity Gradient Relation in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies Driven by Stellar Migration and Environmental Quenching

Tie Li, Hong-Xin Zhang, Wenhe Lyu +16

Stellar metallicity gradients () provide a fossil record of the assembly history of galaxies. We present an analysis of for 90 nearby low-mass galaxies u…

astro-ph.GA2026

Dynamical Modelling of Galactic Kinematics using Neural Networks

David A. Simon, Michele Cappellari, Shude Mao +2

The advent of integral field data has revolutionised the study of galaxy evolution. A key component of this is dynamical modelling methods which have allowed for crucial insights t…

astro-ph.GA2026

Searching for Galaxy Cluster-Scale Strong lenses from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

Zhejian Zhang, Nan Li, Shude Mao +4

Galaxy cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing systems are rare yet valuable tools for investigating the properties of dark matter and dark energy, as well as providing the oppo…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Metal enrichment of galaxies in a massive node of the Cosmic Web at

Xiaohan Wang, S. Cantalupo, Weichen Wang +8

We present the mass-metallicity relation for star-forming galaxies in the MUSE Quasar Nebula 01 (MQN01) field, a massive cosmic web node at , hosting one of the large…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Orbit-based structural decomposition and stellar population recovery for edge-on barred galaxies

Yunpeng Jin, Ling Zhu, Behzad Tahmasebzadeh +3

In our previous paper, we developed an orbit-superposition method for edge-on barred galaxies and constructed a set of dynamical models based on different mock observations of thre…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

MaNGA DynPop. VII. A Unified Bulge-Disk-Halo Model for Explaining Diversity in Circular Velocity Curves of 6000 Spiral and Early-Type Galaxies

Kai Zhu, Michele Cappellari, Shude Mao +6

We derive circular velocity curves (CVCs) from stellar dynamical models for nearby galaxies in the final data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV MaNGA survey wit…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dwarf Galaxy Integral-field Survey (DGIS): survey overview and the result of global mass-metallicity relation

Xin Li, Yong Shi, Fuyan Bian +11

Low-mass galaxies are the building blocks of massive galaxies in the framework of hierarchical structure formation. To enable detailed studies of galactic ecosystems in dwarf galax…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Stellar rotational support in disk galaxies vs. central surface density and stellar population age

Xiaohan Wang, Yifei Luo, S. M. Faber +10

We investigate how the stellar rotational support changes as a function of spatially resolved stellar population age () and relative central stellar surface density ($…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

MaNGA DynPop -- VI. Matter density slopes from dynamical models of 6000 galaxies versus cosmological simulations: the interplay between baryonic and dark matter

Shubo Li, Ran Li, Kai Zhu +5

We try to understand the trends in the mass density slopes as a function of galaxy properties. We use the results from the best Jeans Anisotropic Modelling (JAM) of the integral-fi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

Quantifying the stellar ages of dynamically separated bulges and disks of CALIFA spiral galaxies

Yunpeng Jin, Ling Zhu, Stefano Zibetti +3

We employ a recently developed population-orbit superposition technique to simultaneously fit the stellar kinematic and age maps of 82 CALIFA spiral galaxies and obtain the ages of…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

MaNGA DynPop -- V. The dark-matter fraction versus stellar velocity dispersion relation and stellar initial mass function variations in galaxies: dynamical models and full spectrum fitting of integral-field spectroscopy

Shengdong Lu, Kai Zhu, Michele Cappellari +3

Using the final MaNGA sample of 10K galaxies, we investigate the dark matter fraction within one half-light radius for about 6K galaxies with good kinemati…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 30 cited

MaNGA DynPop -- III. Stellar dynamics versus stellar population relations in 6000 early-type and spiral galaxies: Fundamental Plane, mass-to-light ratios, total density slopes, and dark matter fractions

Kai Zhu, Shengdong Lu, Michele Cappellari +4

We present dynamical scaling relations, combined with the stellar population properties, for a subsample of about 6000 nearby galaxies with the most reliable dynamical models extra…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 46 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Stellar initial mass function variation inferred from Bayesian analysis of the integral field spectroscopy of early type galaxies

Shuang Zhou, H. J. Mo, Cheng Li +7

We analyze the stellar initial mass functions (IMF) of a large sample of early type galaxies (ETGs) provided by MaNGA. The large number of IFU spectra of individual galaxies provid…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 126 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Global stellar population and gradients for about 2000 early-type and spiral galaxies on the mass-size plane

Hongyu Li, Shude Mao, Michele Cappellari +12

We perform full spectrum fitting stellar population analysis and Jeans Anisotropic modelling (JAM) of the stellar kinematics for about 2000 early-type galaxies (ETGs) and spiral ga…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 33 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Uncovering the Angular Momentum Content of Central and Satellite Early-type Galaxies

Jenny E. Greene, Alexie Leauthaud, Eric Emsellem +18

We study 379 central and 159 satellite early-type galaxies with two-dimensional kinematics from the integral-field survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) to determine how th…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 92 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: variation of the stellar initial mass function in spiral and early-type galaxies

Hongyu Li, Junqiang Ge, Shude Mao +10

We perform Jeans anisotropic modeling (JAM) on elliptical and spiral galaxies from the MaNGA DR13 sample. By comparing the stellar mass-to-light ratios estimated from stellar popul…