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20132026
most citedThe massive relic galaxy NGC 1277 is dark matter deficient. From dynamical models of integral-field stellar kinematics out to five effective radii

57 citations · 295 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

AI and The Enclosure of the Scientific Commons

P. K. G. Williams

The scientific literature can be viewed as an "information commons:" an intangible resource that "no one owns and is shared by everyone." There are well-established economic and po…

astro-ph.GA2026

The bar-driven central complex of NGC 6946: A panchromatic and spatially resolved view of its star formation history and interstellar medium

Santiago Álvarez-Córdoba, Jacopo Fritz, M. A. Lara-López +14

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 6946, combining optical IFS, infrared, and radio observations. We aim to characterise both the integrated and…

astro-ph.GA2026

Dynamics of tidal dwarf galaxies in the system Arp 72

Osvan M. Portilla-Narvaez, Javier Zaragoza-Cardiel, Gisela N. Ortiz-León +6

Some interactions between galaxies produce tidal tails primarily composed of material from their disks. Within these tails, concentrations of gas and stars can form, resembling dwa…

astro-ph.CO2026

J-PAS & FLAMINGO: Cosmic voids and void galaxies in the gravitational landscape of photometric surveys

J. A. Mansour, B. McCarthy, L. J. Liivamägi +34

Photometric surveys offer a powerful way to map the large-scale structure of the Universe, but their redshift errors complicate the identification of cosmic voids, challenging stud…

astro-ph.GA2026

J-PLUS: Spectral classification and photometric redshifts for 79 million sources in the fourth data release

A. Hernán-Caballero, H. Vázquez Ramió, C. López-Sanjuan +20

We present spectral classifications and photometric redshifts for 79.2 million sources up to an r-band magnitude of 22 in Data Release 4 of the Javalambre Photometric Local Univers…

astro-ph.EP2026

Size, shape, density, and atmospheric limit of (50000) Quaoar revealed from 14 years of stellar occultation

Giuliano Margoti, Felipe Braga-Ribas, José Luis Ortiz +173

We present results from 28 stellar occultations by the large Trans-Neptunian Object (50000) Quaoar registered between 2018 and 2025. By performing a joint analysis of this occultat…

astro-ph.GA2026

OJALÁ: Optimizing J-PAS Astronomy for Large-scale Analysis. A foundation model for the SED of galaxies, QSOs and stars

G. Martínez-Solaeche, R. M. González Delgado, R. García-Benito +37

The advent of large-scale surveys requires efficient ML techniques to exploit the information of massive datasets. We present OJALA, a transformer-based autoregressive foundation m…

astro-ph.IM2026

J-PAS: Semi-Supervised Sim-to-Obs Transfer for Robust Star--Galaxy--Quasar Classification

Daniel López-Cano, L. Raul Abramo, L. Nakazono +28

Modern studies in astrophysics and cosmology increasingly rely on simulations and cross-survey analyses, yet differences in data generation, instrumentation, calibration, and unmod…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The LMT 2 millimeter receiver system (B4R). II. Science demonstration observations toward Orion-KL/OMC-1

Teppei Yonetsu, Ryohei Kawabe, Yuki Yoshimura +26

We present the results of mapping and single-point spectral scans toward Orion-KL/OMC-1 performed as science demonstrations of a 2 mm SIS receiver, the Band 4 Receiver (B4R), insta…

astro-ph.GA2025

J-PAS: A value-added catalogue of optical line intensities for nebular emission galaxies (JOLINES)

J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros, C. López-Sanjuan, A. Hernán-Caballero +38

We present the value-added catalogue JOLINES (J-PAS optical line intensities for nebular emission galaxies), which provides emission-line fluxes in galaxies at from the spectrophot…

astro-ph.IM2025

The LMT 2 Millimeter Receiver System (B4R). I. Overview and Results of Science Demonstration

Ryohei Kawabe, Takeshi Sakai, Kunihiko Tanaka +30

We report on the results of the on-sky test and science demonstration conducted with the 2 mm receiver system, B4R, on the 50 m Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT), located at an alti…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The miniJPAS and J-NEP surveys: Machine learning for star-galaxy separation

Ana Paula Jeakel, Gabriel Vieira dos Santos, Valerio Marra +27

We present a supervised machine learning classification of sources from the Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) Pathfinder datasets: miniJP…

astro-ph.CO2025

J-PAS: forecast on the primordial power spectrum reconstruction

Guillermo Martínez-Somonte, Airam Marcos-Caballero, Enrique Martínez-González +27

We investigate the capability of the J-PAS survey to constrain the primordial power spectrum using a non-parametric Bayesian method. Specifically, we analyze simulated power spectr…

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.GA2025

Metal-THINGS: The Milky Way twin candidate NGC 3521

L. S. Pilyugin, M. A. Lara-Lopez, G. Tautvaisiene +6

The 3D spectrophotometry measurements of the galaxy NGC~3521, a structural Milky Way analogue (sMWA), were carried out within the Metal-THINGS project. We found that the oxygen abu…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

Detection and characterization of detached tidal dwarf galaxies

Javier Zaragoza-Cardiel, Beverly J. Smith, Mark G. Jones +7

Tidal interactions between galaxies often give rise to tidal tails, which can harbor concentrations of stars and interstellar gas resembling dwarf galaxies. Some of these tidal dwa…

astro-ph.GA2024

Chemical abundances and ionizing mechanisms in the star-forming double-ring of AM 0644-741 using MUSE data

V. M. A. Gómez-González, Y. D. Mayya, J. Zaragoza-Cardiel +6

We present the analysis of archival Very Large Telescope (VLT) Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) observations of 179 HII regions in the star-forming double-ring collisional…

astro-ph.GA2023

What holes in the gas distribution of nearly face-on galaxies can tell us about the host disk parameters: the case of the NGC 628 South-East superbubble

S. Jiménez, S. Silich, Y. D. Mayya +1

Here we explore the impact of all major factors, such as the non-homogeneous gas distribution, galactic rotation and gravity, on the observational appearance of superbubbles in nea…

astro-ph.GA2023

Metal-THINGS: a panchromatic analysis of the local scaling relationships of the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1569

L. E. Garduño, J. Zaragoza-Cardiel, M. A. Lara-López +12

We investigate several panchromatic scaling relations (SRs) for the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1569 using IFU data from the Metal-THINGS Survey. Among the spatially resolved proper…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 57 cited

The massive relic galaxy NGC 1277 is dark matter deficient. From dynamical models of integral-field stellar kinematics out to five effective radii

Sébastien Comerón, Ignacio Trujillo, Michele Cappellari +7

According to the CDM cosmology, present-day galaxies with stellar masses should contain a sizable fraction of dark matter within their stellar bo…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

The stellar population responsible for a kiloparsec size superbubble seen in the JWST "phantom" images of NGC628

Y. D. Mayya, J. A. Alzate, L. Lomelí-Núñez +11

We here study the multi-band properties of a kiloparsec-size superbubble in the late-type spiral galaxy NGC628. The superbubble is the largest of many holes seen in the early relea…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 21 cited

Detection of He++ ion in the star-forming ring of the Cartwheel using MUSE data and ionizing mechanisms

Y. D. Mayya, A. Plat, V. M. A. Gómez-González +3

We here report the detection of the nebular HeII4686 line in 32 HII regions in the metal-poor collisional ring galaxy Cartwheel using the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) d…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 6 cited

Spatially-resolved properties of the ionized gas in the HII galaxy J084220+115000

D. Fernández-Arenas, E. Carrasco, R. Terlevich +20

We present a spatially resolved spectroscopic study for the metal poor HII galaxy J084220+115000 using MEGARA Integral Field Unit observations at the Gran Telescopio Canarias. We e…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

Metal-THINGS: The association and optical characterization of SNRs with HI holes in NGC 6946

M. A. Lara-Lopez, L. S. Pilyugin, J. Zaragoza-Cardiel +9

NGC~6946, also known as the `Fireworks' galaxy, is an unusual galaxy that hosts a total of 225 supernova remnant (SNR) candidates, including 147 optically identified with high [SII…