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astro-ph.GA2026

A recurring changing state AGN discovered in the SAMI Galaxy Survey and SDSS

Scott M. Croom, Rebecca McElroy, Dougal Dobie +6

We present a detailed analysis of the AGN in galaxy J085337.26+014303.6 at z=0.0582. A combination of SDSS and SAMI Galaxy Survey data shows that this object has gone through at le…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GECKOS survey: Assembly history of the lenticular galaxy NGC 3957

Yuchen Ding, Marie Martig, Ling Zhu +24

We analyse the assembly history of the edge-on lenticular galaxy NGC 3957 using deep integral-field spectroscopic MUSE data from the GECKOS survey. By applying a dust-corrected Mul…

astro-ph.GA2026

Hector Galaxy Survey: Falling in Between - Infalling Galaxies in the Midst of the Abell 3667 Merger

Oğuzhan Çakır, Matt Owers, Gabriella Quattropani +38

Whether cluster mergers enhance ram pressure stripping (RPS) and accelerate member galaxy evolution remains an open question. Here, we investigate galaxy populations in the nearby…

astro-ph.GA2026

The MAGPI Survey: Emission Line Products Data Release and the Role of Spectroscopic Aperture Covering Fraction on the Balmer Decrement-Stellar Mass Relation

A. J. Battisti, E. G. M. Muller, E. Wisnioski +27

The Middle Ages Galaxy Properties with Integral field spectroscopy (MAGPI) survey is a Large Program on the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope using the MUSE instru…

astro-ph.GA2026

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Linking Tidal Features and Orbit Populations Using Schwarzschild Modelling

T. H. Rutherford, J. van de Sande, S. M. Croom +11

The evolution of angular momentum in galaxies is shaped by a combination of internal secular processes and external mechanisms such as mergers. Orbit-superposition based dynamical…

astro-ph.GA2026

The MAGPI survey: Stellar population radial trends and mass assembly in star-forming galaxies at z~0.3

Federica Mauro, Bodo Ziegler, Iris Breda +19

The evolution of galaxies from cosmic noon to the present day provides a key window to probe the balance between early, rapid bulge formation and prolonged disk growth. The epoch a…

astro-ph.GA2026

Kinematic scaling of thin and thick discs from SAMI to NewHorizon

Sree Oh, J. K. Jang, Giulia Santucci +8

We revisit the relation between disc stellar mass and disc velocity dispersion (M_*-σ_e) and extend it to thin and thick subcomponents using orbit-based dynamical models of 161 SAM…

astro-ph.GA2026

Morphology-spin connection in the SAMI Galaxy Survey

Youngmin Baek, Sree Oh, Sukyoung K. Yi +5

The spin parameter is a proxy for the specific stellar angular momentum of galaxies and is a useful metric for classifying kinematic morphology. This study aims to q…

astro-ph.GA2026

The MAGPI Survey: Evidence for Non-Universal Resolved Dust Attenuation Relations Beyond the Local Universe

A. Mailvaganam, T. Zafar, P. Corcho-Caballero +39

We study the spatially resolved relation between dust attenuation () and star formation rate surface density () in galaxies from the MAGPI survey ($0.25 < z…

astro-ph.GA2026

Hector Galaxy Survey: Optical IFU and Chandra Reveal a Low-Luminosity AGN Behind Extended LINER Emission

Kyuseok Oh, Gabriella Quattropani, Pratyush Kumar Das +25

We present evidence that the Hector Galaxy Survey galaxy C901005481609968 (), which exhibits spatially extended LINER-like emission in optical integral-field spe…

astro-ph.GA2026

Hector Galaxy Survey: Linking the low- and high-mass ends of the initial mass function in star-forming galaxies

Diego Salvador, Andrew Hopkins, Matt Owers +30

The stellar initial mass function (IMF) is a fundamental ingredient in galaxy evolution, linking observed integrated light to galaxy properties. Constraining the full IMF shape bey…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GECKOS survey: Resolving the molecular and ionised gas in the galactic outflow of ESO~484-036

J. Hernández-Yévenes, D. B. Fisher, B. Mazzilli Ciraulo +20

We present a spatially resolved, multiphase study of the outflow in the edge-on starburst galaxy ESO~484-036 from the GECKOS survey, combining VLT/MUSE H and ALMA CO(10) obse…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Measuring the evolution of stellar bars with the host galaxy's spin

Robin Joshi, Scott M. Croom, Stefania Barsanti +3

We examine to what extent the galaxy spin parameter proxy () is affected by bar formation and how it is related to the strong and weak classifications of stellar bars. By crea…

astro-ph.GA2026

EMU/GAMA: A statistical perspective on active galactic nuclei diagnostics

J. Prathap, A. M. Hopkins, R. Carvajal +19

While it is well known that galaxies are composites of many emission processes, quantifying the various contributions remains challenging. In this work, we use unsupervised machine…

astro-ph.GA2026

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Quenching of Star Formation in Clusters III. Ram-Pressure-Affected Galaxy Populations

Oğuzhan Çakır, Matt S. Owers, Luca Cortese +15

Cluster environments influence galaxy evolution by curtailing star formation activity, notably through ram-pressure stripping (RPS). In this study, using spatially resolved spectro…

astro-ph.GA2026

Large-scale and local environmental drivers of quenching: tracing H concentration in X-ray and optical galaxy groups

Stefania Barsanti, Di Wang, Matthew Colless +11

To explore the environmental mechanisms causing quenching in nearby star-forming galaxies, we study the variation with local and large-scale environments of a star formation concen…

astro-ph.GA2026

The MAGPI Survey: co-evolution of baryons and dark matter in star-forming disk-like galaxies at

Gauri Sharma, Andrew J. Battisti, Emily Wisnioski +20

We present a comprehensive analysis of the dark matter (DM) content and its structural dependence in star-forming disk-like galaxies at intermediate redshifts ($0.1 \lesssim z \les…

astro-ph.GA2025

Spin-filament alignments to unravel galaxy evolution and model intrinsic alignments

Stefania Barsanti, Clotilde Laigle, Nicolas Bouché +7

By the 2040s, several all-sky surveys will have transformed our view of the large-scale structure. However, one of the major outstanding questions in astrophysics will remain: unde…

astro-ph.GA2025

The MAGPI Survey: forward modelled gas-phase metallicity gradients in galaxies at

Yifan Mai, Scott M. Croom, Emily Wisnioski +19

We measure the seeing-deconvolved gas-phase metallicity gradients of 70 star-forming galaxies at from the MAGPI survey and investigate their relationship with galaxy pr…

astro-ph.GA2025

findAbar: how astronomers may perceive the bar in galaxies differently

Elizabeth J. Iles, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Courtney Crawford +18

Bars are ubiquitous morphological features in the observed distribution of galaxies. There are similarly many methods for classifying these features and, without a strict theoretic…

astro-ph.GA2025

A century of change: new changing-look event in Mrk 1018's past

Thomas Dunn, Rebecca McElroy, Mirko Krumpe +7

We investigate the long-term variability of the known Changing Look Active Galactic Nuclei (CL AGN) Mrk 1018, whose second change we discovered as part of the Close AGN Reference S…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Census of Double-Peaked Lyman-alpha Emitters in MAGPI: Classification, Global Characteristics, and Spatially Resolved Properties

Tamal Mukherjee, Tayyaba Zafar, Themiya Nanayakkara +17

Double-peaked Ly profiles provide critical insights into gas kinematics and the distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) from the interstellar to the intergalactic medium (ISM to I…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Hector Galaxy Survey: Data Processing, Quality Control and Early Science

S. Oh, M. L. P. Gunawardhana, S. M. Croom +52

The Hector Galaxy Survey is a new optical integral field spectroscopy (IFS) survey currently using the AAT to observe up to 15,000 galaxies at low redshift (). The Hector…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The GECKOS survey: Jeans anisotropic models of edge-on discs uncover the impact of dust and kinematic structures

T. H. Rutherford, A. Fraser-McKelvie, E. Emsellem +17

The central regions of disc galaxies host a rich variety of stellar structures: nuclear discs, bars, bulges, and boxy-peanut (BP) bulges. These components are often difficult to di…