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20122026
most citedThe Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

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56 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The H specific angular momentum of dwarf galaxies

Simon Deeley, Sarah Sweet, Dilyar Barat +3

The relationship between a galaxy's specific angular momentum and its mass , parameterised by and known as the Fall relation, has emerged as a fundamental sc…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

LEGA-C stellar populations scaling relations. I: Chemo-archaeological downsizing trends at z~0.7

Anna R. Gallazzi, Stefano Zibetti, Arjen van der Wel +11

We analyze stellar population properties of 552 galaxies at redshift 0.6<z<0.77 from the LEGA-C spectroscopic survey. This first paper in a series presents the catalog of revised a…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

LEGA-C stellar populations scaling relations. II: Dissecting mass-complete archaeological trends and their evolution since z~0.7 with LEGA-C and SDSS

Anna R. Gallazzi, Stefano Zibetti, Arjen van der Wel +11

With a sample of 552 galaxies at z~0.7 from the LEGA-C survey, we investigate how current star formation influences light-weighted mean stellar ages and metallicities, and their me…

astro-ph.GA2025

The competing effects of recent and long-term star formation histories on oxygen, nitrogen, and stellar metallicities

Nicholas Fraser Boardman, Vivienne Wild, Natalia Vale Asari +1

The fundamental metallicity relation (FMR) - the three-way trend between galaxy stellar masses, star-formation rates (SFRs) and gaseous metallicities - remains amongst the most stu…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

Ages and metallicities of quiescent galaxies: confronting broadband () colours with stellar absorption lines

Chloe M. Cheng, Mariska Kriek, Aliza G. Beverage +9

For decades, studying quiescent galaxies beyond has been challenging due to the reliance on photometric spectral energy distributions, which are highly susceptible to dege…

astro-ph.GA2025

The MAGPI Survey: the kinematic morphology-density relation (or lack thereof) and the Hubble sequence at

Caroline Foster, Mark W. Donoghoe, Andrew Battisti +26

This work presents visual morphological and dynamical classifications for 637 spatially resolved galaxies, most of which are at intermediate redshift (), in the Middle-Ag…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 16 cited

More is better: Strong constraints on the stellar properties of LEGA-C z ~ 1 galaxies with Prospector

Angelos Nersesian, Arjen van der Wel, Anna R. Gallazzi +8

We present the stellar properties of 2908 galaxies at 0.6 < z < 1.0 from the LEGA-C survey. We emphasize the importance of high signal-to-noise, high spectral resolution spectrosco…

astro-ph.GA2024

Emission Line Velocity, Metallicity and Extinction Maps of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Philip Lah, Matthew Colless, Francesco D'Eugenio +2

Optical emission lines across the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) have been measured from multiple fields using the Australian National University (ANU) 2.3m telescope with the Wide-F…

astro-ph.GA2024

The MAGPI Survey: the evolution and drivers of gas turbulence in intermediate-redshift galaxies

Yifan Mai, Scott M. Croom, Emily Wisnioski +21

We measure the ionised gas velocity dispersions of star-forming galaxies in the MAGPI survey () and compare them with galaxies in the SAMI () and KROSS ($z\sim…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

Age and metal gradients in massive quiescent galaxies at : implications for quenching and assembly histories

Chloe M. Cheng, Mariska Kriek, Aliza G. Beverage +12

We present spatially resolved, simple stellar population equivalent ages, stellar metallicities, and abundance ratios for 456 massive ($10.3\lesssim\log(\mathrm{M}_*/\mathrm{M}_\od…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The hyperplane of early-type galaxies: using stellar population properties to increase the precision and accuracy of the fundamental plane as a distance indicator

Francesco D'Eugenio, Matthew Colless, Arjen van der Wel +10

We use deep spectroscopy from the SAMI Galaxy Survey to explore the precision of the fundamental plane of early-type galaxies (FP) as a distance indicator for future single-fibre s…

astro-ph.GA2024

The MAGPI Survey: Massive slow rotator population in place by

Caro Derkenne, Richard M. McDermid, Francesco D'Eugenio +20

We use the `Middle Ages Galaxy Properties with Integral field spectroscopy' (MAGPI) survey to investigate whether galaxies have evolved in the distribution of their stellar angular…

astro-ph.GA2024

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: impact of star formation and AGN feedback processes on the ionized gas velocity dispersion

Sree Oh, Matthew Colless, Stefania Barsanti +12

We investigate the influence of star formation and instantaneous AGN feedback processes on the ionized gas velocity dispersion in a sample of 1285 emission-line galaxies with stell…

astro-ph.GA2024

Emission Line Velocity, Metallicity and Extinction Maps of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Philip Lah, Matthew Colless, Francesco D'Eugenio +2

We measure the properties of optical emission lines in multiple locations across the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using the Australian National University 2.3-metre telescope and t…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 15 cited

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: galaxy spin is more strongly correlated with stellar population age than mass or environment

S. M. Croom, J. van de Sande, S. P. Vaughan +17

We use the SAMI Galaxy Survey to examine the drivers of galaxy spin, , in a multi-dimensional parameter space including stellar mass, stellar population age (or specific s…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 19 cited

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Using Tidal Streams and Shells to Trace the Dynamical Evolution of Massive Galaxies

Tomas H. Rutherford, Jesse van de Sande, Scott M. Croom +14

Slow rotator galaxies are distinct amongst galaxy populations, with simulations suggesting that a mix of minor and major mergers are responsible for their formation. A promising pa…

astro-ph.GA2023

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: drives the presence of complex emission line profiles in star-forming galaxies

Henry R. M. Zovaro, J. Trevor Mendel, Brent Groves +13

Galactic fountains driven by star formation result in a variety of kinematic structures such as ionised winds and thick gas disks, both of which manifest as complex emission line p…

astro-ph.GA2023

Less is less: photometry alone cannot predict the observed spectral indices of galaxies from the LEGA-C spectroscopic survey

Angelos Nersesian, Arjen van der Wel, Anna Gallazzi +9

We test whether we can predict optical spectra from deep-field photometry of distant galaxies. Our goal is to perform a comparison in data space, highlighting the differences betwe…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

TODDLERS: A new UV-mm emission library for star-forming regions. 1. Integration with SKIRT and public release

Anand Utsav Kapoor, Maarten Baes, Arjen van der Wel +10

We present and publicly release a new star-forming regions emission library TODDLERS (Time evolution of Observables including Dust Diagnostics and Line Emission from Regions contai…

astro-ph.GA2023

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: impact of black hole activity on galaxy spin-filament alignments

Stefania Barsanti, Matthew Colless, Francesco D'Eugenio +9

The activity of central supermassive black holes might affect the alignment of galaxy spin axes with respect to the closest cosmic filaments. We exploit the SAMI Galaxy Survey to s…

astro-ph.GA2023

Ultraluminous Quasars At High Redshift Show Evolution In Their Radio-Loudness Fraction In Both Redshift And Ultraviolet Luminosity

Philip Lah, Christopher A. Onken, Ray P. Norris +1

We take a sample of 94 ultraluminous, optical quasars from the search of over 14,486 deg^2 by Onken et al. 2022 in the range 4.4<redshift<5.2 and match them against the Rapid ASKAP…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

Nonparametric galaxy morphology from stellar and nebular emission with the CALIFA sample

Angelos Nersesian, Stefano Zibetti, Francesco D'Eugenio +1

We present a nonparametric morphology analysis of the stellar continuum and nebular emission lines for a sample of local galaxies. We explore the dependence of the various morpholo…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

The SAMI Survey: Evidence for dynamical coupling of ionised gas and young stellar populations

Caroline Foster, Sam Vaughan, Amelia Fraser-McKelvie +14

We explore local and global dynamical differences between the kinematics of ionised gas and stars in a sample of galaxies from Data Release 3 of the SAMI Galaxy Survey. We find bet…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

Comparison of the Stellar Populations of Bulges and Discs using the MaNGA Survey

Philip Lah, Nicholas Scott, Tania M. Barone +4

We use the MaNGA integral-field spectroscopic survey of low-redshift galaxies to compare the stellar populations of the bulge and disc components, identified from their Sersic prof…