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astro-ph.CO2011★ 19 cited
Only marginal alignment of disc galaxies
Rene Andrae, Knud Jahnke
Testing theories of angular-momentum acquisition of rotationally supported disc galaxies is the key to understand the formation of this type of galaxies. The tidal-torque theory tr…
astro-ph.CO2011★ 14 cited
Quantifying galaxy shapes: Sersiclets and beyond
Rene Andrae, Peter Melchior, Knud Jahnke
Parametrising galaxy morphologies is a challenging task, e.g., in shear measurements of weak lensing or investigations of galaxy evolution. The huge variety of morphologies require…