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most citedA systematic metallicity study of DustPedia galaxies reveals evolution in the dust-to-metal ratios

217 citations · 1.5k across the 41 of their papers we have counts for

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41 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Survival of very small carbonaceous dust grains in the inner-CGM of NGC 891 from JWST/MIRI MRS

Jérémy Chastenet, Ilse De Looze, Karl D. Gordon +26

We present new spectroscopic observations of the inner circumgalactic medium (CGM) of NGC 891 taken with the Mid-Infrared Imager/Medium Resolution Spectroscopy instrument onboard J…

astro-ph.GA2026

Neutral Hydrogen in the Shapley Supercluster Core I: Environmental Effects on Gas Content and Galaxy Evolution

L. Gwebushe, T. Venturi, P. Merluzzi +5

We study the atomic Hydrogen (HI) content of galaxies in the core of the Shapley Supercluster (SSC) at <z> ~ 0.048, using observations from the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey…

astro-ph.GA2026

DustPedia and Local Volume Legacy samples as benchmarks for dust evolution in galaxies

Evangelos D. Paspaliaris, Simone Bianchi, Edvige Corbelli +8

DustPedia and LVL are two samples representative of the local galaxy population, including in total 1011 unique objects of all morphological types, with a wide range of stellar mas…

astro-ph.IM2025

PRIMA survey of the Virgo cluster

Jacopo Fritz, Maarten Baes, Diego Alejandro Vasquez Torres +11

Clusters of galaxies are unique laboratories for investigating the dependence of galaxy evolution on their environment. The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey (HeViCS) mapped the centra…

astro-ph.GA2025

The radial variation of the silicate-to-carbon ratio in M31 probed by PRIMA

Jérémy Chastenet, Ilse De Looze, Maarten Baes +12

The properties of interstellar dust grains are being scrutinized more than ever before, with the advent of large facilities. Infrared emission from dust grains is a powerful asset…

astro-ph.IM2025

The PRIMA promise of deciphering interstellar dust evolution with observations of the nearby Universe

Frédéric Galliano, Maarten Baes, Léo Belloir +25

This paper develops a few science cases, using the PRIMA far-IR probe, aimed at achieving several breakthroughs in our understanding of the dust properties and their evolution. We…

astro-ph.GA2025

The role of young and evolved stars in the heating of dust in local galaxies

Vidhi Tailor, Viviana Casasola, Francesca Pozzi +9

Context. Dust is a fundamental component of the interstellar medium (ISM) and plays a critical role in galaxy evolution. Dust grains influence the ISM by cooling the gas, altering…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Metal-THINGS: gas metallicity gradients in nearby galaxies

Guillermo Valé, Maritza A. Lara-López, Mabel Valerdi +13

This paper explores the gas metallicity gradients in a sample of 25 nearby galaxies using new Integral Field Spectroscopy observations from the Metal-THINGS survey. We derive and s…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 15 cited

JWST MIRI and NIRCam observations of NGC 891 and its circumgalactic medium

Jérémy Chastenet, Ilse De Looze, Monica Relaño +37

We present new JWST observations of the nearby, prototypical edge-on, spiral galaxy NGC 891. The northern half of the disk was observed with NIRCam in its F150W and F277W filters.…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 12 cited

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) Science White Paper

Vincenzo Mainieri, Richard I. Anderson, Jarle Brinchmann +214

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is proposed as a new facility dedicated to the efficient delivery of spectroscopic surveys. This white paper summarises the initial con…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 33 cited

The resolved scaling relations in DustPedia: Zooming in on the local Universe

Viviana Casasola, Simone Bianchi, Laura Magrini +18

We perform a homogeneous analysis of an unprecedented set of spatially resolved scaling relations (SRs) between ISM components and other properties in the range of scales 0.3-3.4 k…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

Dust emissivity in resolved spiral galaxies

S. Bianchi, V. Casasola, E. Corbelli +12

Context: The far-infrared (FIR) and sub-millimeter (submm) emissivity of the Milky Way (MW) cirrus is an important benchmark for dust grain models. Dust masses in other galaxies ar…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 9 cited

Searching for Anomalous Microwave Emission in nearby galaxies. K-band observations with the Sardinia Radio Telescope

S. Bianchi, M. Murgia, A. Melis +9

We observed four nearby spiral galaxies (NGC 3627, NGC 4254, NGC 4736 and NGC 5055) in the K band with the 64-m Sardinia Radio Telescope, with the aim of detecting the Anomalous Mi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

The mm-to-cm SED of spiral galaxies. Synergies between NIKA2 and SRT instruments

S. Bianchi, M. Murgia, A. Melis +9

The mm-to-cm range of the Spectral Energy Distribution of spiral galaxies remains largely unexplored. Its coverage is required to disentangle the contribution of dust emission, fre…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

Probing the spectral shape of dust emission with the DustPedia galaxy sample

Angelos Nersesian, Wouter Dobbels, Manolis E. Xilouris +10

The objective of this paper is to understand the variance of the far-infrared (FIR) spectral energy distribution (SED) of the DustPedia galaxies, and its link with the stellar and…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 118 cited

A Nearby Galaxy Perspective on Dust Evolution. Scaling relations and constraints on the dust build-up in galaxies with the DustPedia and DGS samples

Frédéric Galliano, Angelos Nersesian, Simone Bianchi +14

Methods. We have modelled a sample of ~800 nearby galaxies, spanning a wide range of metallicity, gas fraction, specific star formation rate and Hubble stage. We have derived the d…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 4 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission. VESTIGE VIII. Bridging the cluster-ICM-galaxy evolution at small scales

A. Longobardi, A. Boselli, M. Fossati +20

We measure FIR emission from tails of stripped dust following the ionised and atomic gas components in galaxies undergoing ram pressure stripping. We study the dust-to-gas relative…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

High-resolution, 3D radiative transfer modelling V. A detailed model of the M51 interacting pair

Angelos Nersesian, Sebastien Viaene, Ilse De Looze +13

Investigating the dust heating mechanisms in galaxies provides a deeper understanding of how the internal energy balance drives their evolution. Over the last decade, radiative tra…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 24 cited

Nonparametric galaxy morphology from UV to submm wavelengths

Maarten Baes, Angelos Nersesian, Viviana Casasola +13

We present the first nonparametric morphological analysis of a set of spiral galaxies from UV to submm wavelengths. Our study is based on high-quality multi-wavelength imaging for…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 24 cited

High-resolution, 3D radiative transfer modelling IV. AGN-powered dust heating in NGC 1068

S. Viaene, A. Nersesian, J. Fritz +18

Dust emission, an important diagnostic of star formation and ISM mass throughout the Universe, can be powered by sources unrelated to ongoing star formation. In the framework of th…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 35 cited

High-resolution, 3D radiative transfer modelling III. The DustPedia barred galaxies

Angelos Nersesian, Sam Verstocken, Sebastien Viaene +17

Context: Dust in late-type galaxies in the local Universe is responsible for absorbing approximately one third of the energy emitted by stars. It is often assumed that dust heating…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 30 cited

High-resolution, 3D radiative transfer modelling. II. The early-type spiral galaxy M81

Sam Verstocken, Angelos Nersesian, Maarten Baes +14

Interstellar dust absorbs stellar light very efficiently and thus shapes the energetic output of galaxies. Studying the impact of different stellar populations on the dust heating…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 39 cited

Reproducing the Universe: a comparison between the EAGLE simulations and the nearby DustPedia galaxy sample

Ana Trčka, Maarten Baes, Peter Camps +17

We compare the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and inferred physical properties for simulated and observed galaxies at low redshift. We exploit UV-submillimetre mock fluxes of…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 72 cited

The ISM scaling relations in DustPedia late-type galaxies: A benchmark study for the Local Universe

Viviana Casasola, Simone Bianchi, Pieter De Vis +18

The purpose of this work is the characterization of the main scaling relations between all the ISM components (dust, atomic/molecular/total gas), gas-phase metallicity, and other g…