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MUSE observations of M87: radial gradients for the stellar initial-mass function and the abundance of Sodium
Marc Sarzi, Chiara Spiniello, Francesco La Barbera +2
Based on MUSE integral-field data we present evidence for a radial variation at the low-mass end of the stellar initial-mass function (IMF) in the central regions of the giant earl…
Detection of Supermassive Black Holes in Two Virgo Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies
Christopher P. Ahn, Anil C. Seth, Mark den Brok +13
We present the detection of supermassive black holes (BHs) in two Virgo ultracompact dwarf galaxies (UCDs), VUCD3 and M59cO. We use adaptive optics assisted data from the Gemini/NI…
The structural and dynamical properties of compact elliptical galaxies
Akın Yıldırım, Remco C. E. van den Bosch, Glenn van de Ven +5
Dedicated photometric and spectroscopic surveys have provided unambiguous evidence for a strong stellar mass-size evolution of galaxies within the last 10 Gyr. The likely progenito…
A Black Hole Mass Determination for the Compact Galaxy Mrk 1216
Jonelle L. Walsh, Remco C. E. van den Bosch, Karl Gebhardt +4
Mrk 1216 is a nearby, early-type galaxy with a small effective radius of 2.8 kpc and a large stellar velocity dispersion of 308 km/s for its K-band luminosity of 1.4x10^11 L_sun. U…
Stellar kinematics across the Hubble sequence in the CALIFA survey: General properties and aperture corrections
J. Falcón-Barroso, M. Lyubenova, G. van de Ven +32
We present the stellar kinematic maps of a large sample of galaxies from the integral-field spectroscopic survey CALIFA. The sample comprises 300 galaxies displaying a wide range o…
Stellar populations across the black hole mass - velocity dispersion relation
Ignacio Martín-Navarro, Jean P. Brodie, Remco C. E. van den Bosch +2
Coevolution between supermassive black holes (BHs) and their host galaxies is universally adopted in models for galaxy formation. In the absence of feedback from active galactic nu…
SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS Galaxy Survey --- Survey Design, Execution, and Initial Data Quality
Renbin Yan, Kevin Bundy, David R. Law +47
The MaNGA Survey (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory) is one of three core programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV. It is obtaining integral field spectroscopy…
IMF shape constraints from stellar populations and dynamics from CALIFA
M. Lyubenova, I. Martín-Navarro, G. van de Ven +22
In this letter we describe how we use stellar dynamics information to constrain the shape of the stellar IMF in a sample of 27 early-type galaxies from the CALIFA survey. We obtain…
Unification of the Fundamental Plane and Super-Massive Black Holes Masses
Remco van den Bosch
According to the Virial Theorem, all gravitational systems in equilibrium sit on a plane in the 3D parameter space defined by their mass, size and second moment of the velocity ten…
The VIRUS-P Exploration of Nearby Galaxies (VENGA): Spatially Resolved Gas-Phase Metallicity Distributions in Barred and Unbarred Spirals
Kyle F. Kaplan, Shardha Jogee, Lisa Kewley +6
We present a study of the excitation conditions and metallicity of ionized gas (Z_gas) in eight nearby barred and unbarred spiral galaxies from the VIRUS-P Exploration of Nearby Ga…
The low dark matter content of the lenticular galaxy NGC 3998
N. F. Boardman, A. Weijmans, R. C. E. van den Bosch +8
We observed the lenticular galaxy NGC 3998 with the Mitchell Integral-Field Spectrograph and extracted line-of-sight velocity distributions out to 3 half-light radii. We constructe…
CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey: IV. Third Public data release
S. F. Sánchez, R. García-Benito, S. Zibetti +60
This paper describes the Third Public Data Release (DR3) of the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey. Science-grade quality data for 667 galaxies are made public,…
The VIRUS-P Exploration of Nearby Galaxies (VENGA): Radial Gas Inflow and Shock Excitation in NGC 1042
Rongxin Luo, Lei Hao, Guillermo A. Blanc +3
NGC 1042 is a late type bulgeless disk galaxy which hosts a low luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) coincident with a massive nuclear star cluster. In this paper, we present th…
Towards Precision Supermassive Black Hole Masses using Megamaser Disks
Remco C. E. van den Bosch, Jenny E. Greene, James A. Braatz +2
Megamaser disks provide the most precise and accurate extragalactic supermassive black hole masses. Here we describe a search for megamasers in nearby galaxies using the Green Bank…
A 5x10^9 Solar Mass Black Hole in NGC 1277 from Adaptive Optics Spectroscopy
Jonelle L. Walsh, Remco C. E. van den Bosch, Karl Gebhardt +4
The nearby lenticular galaxy NGC 1277 is thought to host one of the largest black holes known, however the black hole mass measurement is based on low spatial resolution spectrosco…
The massive dark halo of the compact, early-type galaxy NGC 1281
Akın Yıldırım, Remco van den Bosch, Glenn van de Ven +7
We investigate the compact, early-type galaxy NGC 1281 with integral field unit observations to map the stellar LOSVD out to 5 effective radii and construct orbit-based dynamical m…
MRK 1216 & NGC 1277 - An orbit-based dynamical analysis of compact, high velocity dispersion galaxies
Akın Yıldırım, Remco van den Bosch, Glenn van de Ven +5
We present a dynamical analysis to infer the structural parameters and properties of the two nearby, compact, high velocity dispersion galaxies MRK1216 & NGC1277. Combining deep HS…
The Black Hole in the Compact, High-dispersion Galaxy NGC 1271
Jonelle L. Walsh, Remco C. E. van den Bosch, Karl Gebhardt +4
Located in the Perseus cluster, NGC 1271 is an early-type galaxy with a small effective radius of 2.2 kpc and a large stellar velocity dispersion of 276 km/s for its K-band luminos…
Massive relic galaxies challenge the co-evolution of SMBHs and their host galaxies
Anna Ferré-Mateu, Mar Mezcua, Ignacio Trujillo +2
We study a sample of eight massive galaxies that are extreme outliers (3-5) in the M-M local scaling relation. Two of these galaxies are confirmed t…
Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
Kevin Bundy, Matthew A. Bershady, David R. Law +65
We present an overview of a new integral field spectroscopic survey called MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory), one of three core programs in the fourth-gen…
A Supermassive Black Hole in an Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxy
Anil Seth, Remco van den Bosch, Steffen Mieske +11
Ultracompact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) are among the densest stellar systems in the universe. These systems have masses up to 200 million solar masses, but half light radii of just 3-5…
Dwarf Galaxy Dark Matter Density Profiles Inferred from Stellar and Gas Kinematics
Joshua J. Adams, Joshua D. Simon, Maximilian H. Fabricius +9
We present new constraints on the density profiles of dark matter (DM) halos in seven nearby dwarf galaxies from measurements of their integrated stellar light and gas kinematics.…
The central mass and mass-to-light profile of the Galactic globular cluster M15
Mark den Brok, Glenn van de Ven, Remco van den Bosch +1
We analyze line-of-sight velocity and proper motion data of stars in the Galactic globular cluster M15 using a new method to fit dynamical models to discrete kinematic data. Our fi…
Discrete dynamical modelling of omega Centauri
Laura L. Watkins, Glenn van de Ven, Mark den Brok +1
We present a new framework for modelling discrete kinematic data. Current techniques typically involve binning. Our approach works directly with the discrete data and uses maximum-…