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most citedStructure and morphology of the MATLAS dwarf galaxies and their central nuclei

67 citations · 608 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Euclid: Calibrating distances from surface brightness fluctuations with Early Release Observations of the Fornax cluster

R. Habas, M. Cantiello, G. Riccio +169

Surface brightness fluctuations (SBF), the pixel-to-pixel variations in flux that arise from the statistical distribution of stars in galaxy images, provide a powerful tool to meas…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Dwarf galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope observations of nuclear star clusters

Mélina Poulain, Francine R. Marleau, Pierre-Alain Duc +8

In dwarf galaxies, nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are believed to primarily form from the migration and merger of globular clusters (GCs), with a possible contribution from in-situ s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Euclid preparation LXXIX. Using mock low surface brightness dwarf galaxies to probe Euclid Wide Survey detection capabilities

Euclid Collaboration, M. Urbano, P. -A. Duc +313

Local Universe dwarf galaxies can serve as both cosmological and mass assembly probes. Deep surveys have enabled the study of these objects down to the low surface brightness (LSB)…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Euclid: Early Release Observations of ram-pressure stripping in the Perseus cluster. Detection of parsec scale star formation with in the low surface brightness stripped tails of UGC 2665 and MCG +07-07-070

Koshy George, A. Boselli, J. -C. Cuillandre +177

Euclid is delivering optical and near-infrared imaging data over 14,000 deg on the sky at spatial resolution and surface brightness levels that can be used to understand the mo…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Evidence of star cluster migration and merger in dwarf galaxies

Mélina Poulain, Rory Smith, Pierre-Alain Duc +8

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are the densest stellar systems in the Universe. They can be found at the center of all galaxy types, but tend to favor galaxies of intermediate stella…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Euclid: Quick Data Release (Q1) -- A census of dwarf galaxies across a range of distances and environments

F. R. Marleau, R. Habas, D. Carollo +204

The Euclid Q1 fields were selected for calibration purposes in cosmology and are therefore relatively devoid of nearby galaxies. However, this is precisely what makes them interest…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

Low Surface Brightness structures from annotated deep CFHT images: effects of the host galaxy's properties and environment

Elisabeth Sola, Pierre-Alain Duc, Mathias Urbano +20

Hierarchical galactic evolution models predict that mergers drive galaxy growth, producing low surface brightness (LSB) tidal features that trace galaxies' late assembly. These fai…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 12 cited

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Interplay between dwarf galaxies and their globular clusters in the Perseus galaxy cluster

T. Saifollahi, A. Lançon, Michele Cantiello +183

We present an analysis of globular clusters (GCs) of dwarf galaxies in the Perseus galaxy cluster to explore the relationship between dwarf galaxy properties and their GCs. Our foc…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Euclid: Early Release Observations of diffuse stellar structures and globular clusters as probes of the mass assembly of galaxies in the Dorado group

M. Urbano, P. -A. Duc, T. Saifollahi +160

Deep surveys reveal tidal debris and associated compact stellar systems. Euclid's unique combination of capabilities (spatial resolution, depth, and wide sky coverage) will make it…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Dwarf Galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: The satellite system of NGC474 under scrutiny with MUSE

Oliver Müller, Francine R. Marleau, Nick Heesters +12

A recent study of the distribution of dwarf galaxies in the MATLAS sample in galaxy groups revealed an excess of flattened satellite structures, reminiscent of the co-rotating plan…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Dwarf Galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Globular Cluster Systems of 74 Ultra Diffuse Galaxies

Francine R. Marleau, Pierre-Alain Duc, Melina Poulain +7

Ultra diffuse galaxies, characterized by their low surface brightness and large physical size, constitute a subclass of dwarf galaxies that challenge our current understanding of g…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 40 cited

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Dwarf galaxies in the Perseus galaxy cluster

F. R. Marleau, J. -C. Cuillandre, M. Cantiello +193

We make use of the unprecedented depth, spatial resolution, and field of view of the Euclid Early Release Observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster to detect and characterise the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 20 cited

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Overview of the Perseus cluster and analysis of its luminosity and stellar mass functions

J. -C. Cuillandre, M. Bolzonella, A. Boselli +199

The Euclid ERO programme targeted the Perseus cluster of galaxies, gathering deep data in the central region of the cluster over 0.7 square degree, corresponding to approximately 0…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 23 cited

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Globular clusters in the Fornax galaxy cluster, from dwarf galaxies to the intracluster field

T. Saifollahi, K. Voggel, A. Lançon +196

We present an analysis of Euclid observations of a 0.5 deg field in the central region of the Fornax galaxy cluster that were acquired during the performance verification phase…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 45 cited

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Programme overview and pipeline for compact- and diffuse-emission photometry

J. -C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, M. Bolzonella +260

The Euclid ERO showcase Euclid's capabilities in advance of its main mission, targeting 17 astronomical objects, from galaxy clusters, nearby galaxies, globular clusters, to star-f…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

Euclid preparation. LVIII. Detecting globular clusters in the Euclid survey

Euclid Collaboration, K. Voggel, A. Lançon +270

Extragalactic globular clusters (EGCs) are an abundant and powerful tracer of galaxy dynamics and formation, and their own formation and evolution is also a matter of extensive deb…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

The creation of a massive UCD by tidal threshing from NGC 936

Sanjaya Paudel, Pierre-Alain Duc, Sungsoon Lim +9

We study a compact nucleus embedded in an early-type dwarf galaxy, MATLAS-167, which is in the process of disruption by the tidal force of the neighboring giant S0 galaxy, NGC 936,…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 26 cited

Radial velocities and stellar population properties of 56 MATLAS dwarf galaxies observed with MUSE

Nick Heesters, Oliver Müller, Francine R. Marleau +6

Dwarf galaxies have been extensively studied in the Local Group, in nearby groups, and selected clusters, giving us a robust picture of their global stellar and dynamical propertie…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 18 cited

HI observations of the MATLAS dwarf and ultra-diffuse galaxies

Melina Poulain, Francine R. Marleau, Rebecca Habas +8

The presence of HI gas in galaxies is inextricably linked to their morphology and evolution. This paper aims to understand the HI content of the already identified 2210 dwarfs loca…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 64 cited

Ultra diffuse galaxies in the MATLAS low-to-moderate density fields

Francine R. Marleau, Rebecca Habas, Melina Poulain +10

Recent advances in deep dedicated imaging surveys over the past decade have uncovered a surprisingly large number of extremely faint low surface brightness galaxies with large phys…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 30 cited

Flattened structures of dwarf satellites around massive host galaxies in the MATLAS low-to-moderate density fields

N. Heesters, R. Habas, F. R. Marleau +6

It was first observed in the 1970s that the dwarf galaxies surrounding our Milky Way, so-called satellites, appear to be arranged in a thin, vast plane. Similar discoveries have be…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 67 cited

Structure and morphology of the MATLAS dwarf galaxies and their central nuclei

Melina Poulain, Francine R. Marleau, Rebecca Habas +10

We present a photometric study of the dwarf galaxy population in the low to moderate density environments of the MATLAS (Mass Assembly of early-Type gaLAxies with their fine Struct…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 54 cited

Dwarf galaxies in the MATLAS survey: Hubble Space Telescope observations of the globular cluster system in the ultra-diffuse galaxy MATLAS-2019

Oliver Müller, Patrick R. Durrell, Francine R. Marleau +11

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are very low-surface brightness galaxies with large effective radii. Spectroscopic measurements of a few UDGs have revealed a low dark matter content,…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 56 cited

A spectroscopic study of MATLAS-2019 with MUSE: an ultra-diffuse galaxy with an excess of old globular clusters

Oliver Müller, Francine R. Marleau, Pierre-Alain Duc +10

The MATLAS deep imaging survey has uncovered a plethora of dwarf galaxies in the low density environment it has mapped. A fraction of them are unusually extended and have a low-sur…