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most citedA Classical Morphological Analysis of Galaxies in the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G)

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34 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Stellar Mass Census of Local Bars

Yasmin Cavalcante-Coelho, Karín Menéndez-Delmestre, Taehyun Kim +7

Bars are stellar structures commonly found in disk galaxies and important agents of secular evolution. Quantifying the stellar mass content of bars provides a physically motivated…

astro-ph.GA2026

The TNG50-SKIRT Atlas: Spatially resolved synthetic galaxies from the ultraviolet to the submillimetre (DR2)

Maarten Baes, Paul Vauterin, Abdurro'uf +20

We present the second data release (DR2) of the TNG50-SKIRT Atlas (TSA), a library of synthetic, spatially resolved galaxy observables. The atlas is constructed by post-processing…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

The Complete Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (CSG)

P. M. Sánchez-Alarcón, H. Salo, J. H. Knapen +25

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (SG), together with its Early Type Galaxy (ETG) extension, stand as the most extensive dataset of deep, uniform mid-infrared…

astro-ph.GA2023

Bar Properties as a Function of Wavelength: A Local Baseline with S4G for High-Redshift Studies

Karín Menéndez-Delmestre, Thiago S. Gonçalves, Kartik Sheth +10

The redshift evolution of bars is an important signpost of the dynamic maturity of disk galaxies. To characterize the intrinsic evolution safe from band-shifting effects, it is nec…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 30 cited

Stellar masses, sizes, and radial profiles for 465 nearby early-type galaxies: an extension to the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (SG)

A. E. Watkins, H. Salo, E. Laurikainen +16

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (SG) is a detailed study of over 2300 nearby galaxies in the near-infrared (NIR), which has been critical to our understan…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 15 cited

Inverted metallicity gradients in two Virgo cluster star-forming dwarf galaxies: evidence of recent merging?

M. Grossi, R. García-Benito, A. Cortesi +5

We present integral field spectroscopy observations of two star-forming dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster (VCC135 and VCC324) obtained with PMAS/PPak at the Calar Alto 3.5 meter…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 32 cited

Formation of S0s in extreme environments I: clues from kinematics and stellar populations

Lodovico Coccato, Yara L. Jaffé, Arianna Cortesi +8

Despite numerous efforts, it is still unclear whether lenticular galaxies (S0s) evolve from spirals whose star formation was suppressed, or formed trough mergers or disk instabilit…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 7 cited

J-PLUS: the impact of bars on quenching time-scales in nearby green valley disc galaxies

J. P. Nogueira-Cavalcante, R. Dupke, P. Coelho +28

In a framework where galaxies mostly migrate on the colour-magnitude diagram from star-forming to quiescent, the green valley is considered a transitional galaxy stage. The details…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 31 cited

Star Formation Quenching in Green Valley Galaxies at and Constraints with Galaxy Morphologies

J. P. Nogueira-Cavalcante, T. S. Gonçalves, K. Menéndez-Delmestre +1

We calculate the star formation quenching timescales in green valley galaxies at intermediate redshifts () using stacked zCOSMOS spectra of different galaxy morphologic…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 45 cited

Star-forming dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster: the link between molecular gas, atomic gas, and dust

M. Grossi, E. Corbelli, L. Bizzocchi +11

We present CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) observations of a sample of 20 star-forming dwarfs selected from the Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey, with oxygen abundances ranging from…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 8 cited

The Odd Offset between the Galactic Disk and Its Bar in NGC 3906

Bonita de Swardt, Kartik Sheth, Taehyun Kim +27

We use mid-infrared 3.6 and 4.5microns imaging of NGC 3906 from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) to understand the nature of an unusual offset between its…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 2 cited

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G): Stellar Masses, Sizes and Radial Profiles for 2352 Nearby Galaxies

Juan Carlos Munoz-Mateos, Kartik Sheth, Michael Regan +25

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) is a volume, magnitude, and size-limited survey of 2352 nearby galaxies with deep imaging at 3.6 and 4.5um. In this paper…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 2 cited

Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (SG). The Pipeline 4: Multi-component decomposition strategies and data release

Heikki Salo, Eija Laurikainen, Jarkko Laine +20

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (SG, Sheth et. al. 2010) is a deep 3.6 and 4.5 m imaging survey of 2352 nearby ( Mpc) galaxies. We describe the S$^…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 336 cited

A Classical Morphological Analysis of Galaxies in the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G)

R. Buta, K. Sheth, E. Athanassoula +22

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) is the largest available database of deep, homogeneous middle-infrared (mid-IR) images of galaxies of all types. The surve…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 262 cited

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (SG): Precise Stellar Mass Distributions from Automated Dust Correction at 3.6 microns

M. Querejeta, S. E. Meidt, E. Schinnerer +26

The mid-infrared is an optimal window to trace stellar mass in nearby galaxies and the 3.6 IRAC band has been exploited to this effect, but such mass estimates can be biased by…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 20 cited

IRAC Near-Infrared Features in the Outer Parts of S4G Galaxies

Seppo Laine, Johan H. Knapen, Juan-Carlos Munoz-Mateos +26

We present a catalogue and images of visually detected features, such as asymmetries, extensions, warps, shells, tidal tails, polar rings, and obvious signs of mergers or interacti…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 272 cited

Reconstructing the stellar mass distributions of galaxies using S4G IRAC 3.6 and 4.5 micron images: II. The conversion from light to mass

Sharon E. Meidt, Eva Schinnerer, Glenn van de Ven +26

We present a new approach for estimating the 3.6 micron stellar mass-to-light ratio in terms of the [3.6]-[4.5] colors of old stellar populations. Our approach avoids several of th…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 24 cited

Embedded Star Formation in S4G Galaxy Dust Lanes

Debra M. Elmegreen, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Santiago Erroz-Ferrer +22

Star-forming regions that are visible at 3.6 microns and Halpha but not in the u,g,r,i,z bands of the Sloan Digital Sky survey (SDSS), are measured in five nearby spiral galaxies t…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 44 cited

Morphological Parameters of Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G)

B. W. Holwerda, J-C. Munoz-Mateos, S. Comeron +21

The morphology of galaxies can be quantified to some degree using a set of scale-invariant parameters. Concentration (C), Asymmetry (A), Smoothness (S), the Gini index (G), relativ…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 67 cited

On the Origin of Lopsidedness in Galaxies as Determined from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G)

Dennis Zaritsky, Heikki Salo, Eija Laurikainen +23

We study the m=1 distortions (lopsidedness) in the stellar components of 167 nearby galaxies that span a wide range of morphologies and luminosities. We confirm the previous findin…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 143 cited

The impact of bars on disk breaks as probed by S4G imaging

J. C. Muñoz-Mateos, K. Sheth, A. Gil de Paz +25

We have analyzed the radial distribution of old stars in a sample of 218 nearby face-on disks, using deep 3.6um images from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 218 cited

Energetic galaxy-wide outflows in high-redshift ultra-luminous infrared galaxies hosting AGN activity

C. M. Harrison, D. M. Alexander, A. M. Swinbank +10

We present integral field spectroscopy observations, covering the [O III]4959,5007 emission-line doublet of eight high-redshift (z=1.4-3.4) ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 17 cited

The S4G perspective on circumstellar dust extinction of AGB stars in M100

Sharon E. Meidt, Eva Schinnerer, Juan-Carlos Munoz-Mateos +19

We examine the effect of circumstellar dust extinction on the near-IR contribution of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in intermediate-age clusters throughout the disk of M100.…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 200 cited

Reconstructing the stellar mass distributions of galaxies using S4G IRAC 3.6 and 4.5 micron images: I. Correcting for contamination by PAH, hot dust, and intermediate age stars

Sharon E. Meidt, Eva Schinnerer, Johan H. Knapen +23

With the aim of constructing accurate 2D maps of the stellar mass distribution in nearby galaxies from S4G 3.6 and 4.5 micron images, we report on the separation of the light from…