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astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

PHANGS-ALMA: Arcsecond CO(2-1) Imaging of Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies

Adam K. Leroy, Eva Schinnerer, Annie Hughes +69

We present PHANGS-ALMA, the first survey to map CO J=2-1 line emission at ~1" ~ 100pc spatial resolution from a representative sample of 90 nearby (d<~20 Mpc) galaxies that lie on…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

J-PLUS: The star formation main sequence and rate density at d < 75 Mpc

G. Vilella-Rojo, R. Logroño-García, C. López-Sanjuan +20

Our goal is to estimate the star formation main sequence (SFMS) and the star formation rate density (SFRD) at z <= 0.017 (d < 75 Mpc) using the Javalambre Photometric Local Univers…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 19 cited

Galaxies within galaxies in the TIMER survey: stellar populations of inner bars are scaled replicas of main bars

Adrian Bittner, Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres, Dimitri A. Gadotti +11

Inner bars are frequent structures in the local Universe and thought to substantially influence the nuclear regions of disc galaxies. In this study we explore the structure and dyn…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 202 cited

Distances to PHANGS Galaxies: New Tip of the Red Giant Branch Measurements and Adopted Distances

Gagandeep S. Anand, Janice C. Lee, Schuyler D. Van Dyk +29

PHANGS-HST is an ultraviolet-optical imaging survey of 38 spiral galaxies within ~20 Mpc. Combined with the PHANGS-ALMA, PHANGS-MUSE surveys and other multiwavelength data, the dat…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 12 cited

The kinematics of young and old stellar populations in nuclear rings of MUSE TIMER galaxies

D. Rosado-Belza, J. Falcón-Barroso, J. H. Knapen +12

Studying the stellar kinematics of galaxies is a key tool in the reconstruction of their evolution. However, the current measurements of the stellar kinematics are complicated by s…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 85 cited

The inside-out formation of nuclear discs and the absence of old central spheroids in barred galaxies of the TIMER survey

Adrian Bittner, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez, Dimitri A. Gadotti +13

The centres of disc galaxies host a variety of structures built via both internal and external processes. In this study, we constrain the formation and evolution of these central s…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 40 cited

Stellar populations across galaxy bars in the MUSE TIMER project

Justus Neumann, Francesca Fragkoudi, Isabel Pérez +15

Stellar populations in barred galaxies save an imprint of the influence of the bar on the host galaxy's evolution. We present a detailed analysis of star formation histories (SFHs)…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 57 cited

The CALIFA view on stellar angular momentum across the Hubble sequence

J. Falcón-Barroso, G. van de Ven, M. Lyubenova +32

[Abridged] We present the apparent stellar angular momentum of 300 galaxies across the Hubble sequence, using integral-field spectroscopic data from the CALIFA survey. Adopting the…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 28 cited

A few StePS forward in unveiling the complexity of galaxy evolution: light-weighted stellar ages of intermediate redshift galaxies with WEAVE

L. Costantin, A. Iovino, S. Zibetti +29

The upcoming new generation of optical spectrographs on four-meter-class telescopes will provide invaluable information for reconstructing the history of star formation in individu…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 7 cited

J-PLUS: the impact of bars on quenching time-scales in nearby green valley disc galaxies

J. P. Nogueira-Cavalcante, R. Dupke, P. Coelho +28

In a framework where galaxies mostly migrate on the colour-magnitude diagram from star-forming to quiescent, the green valley is considered a transitional galaxy stage. The details…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 39 cited

Clocking the assembly of double-barred galaxies with the MUSE TIMER project

A. de Lorenzo-Cáceres, P. Sánchez-Blázquez, J. Méndez-Abreu +11

The formation of two stellar bars within a galaxy has proved challenging for numerical studies. It is yet not clear whether the inner bar is born via a star formation process promo…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 126 cited

Time Inference with MUSE in Extragalactic Rings (TIMER): Properties of the Survey and High-Level Data Products

Dimitri A. Gadotti, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez, Jesús Falcón-Barroso +14

The Time Inference with MUSE in Extragalactic Rings (TIMER) project is a survey with the VLT-MUSE integral-field spectrograph of 24 nearby barred galaxies with prominent central st…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 29 cited

J-PLUS: 2-D analysis of the stellar population in NGC 5473 and NGC 5485

I. San Roman, P. Sánchez-Blázquez, A. J. Cenarro +23

The spatial variations of stellar population properties within a galaxy are intimately related to their formation process. Therefore, spatially resolved studies of galaxies are ess…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 77 cited

The cosmic evolution of the spatially-resolved star formation rate and stellar mass of the CALIFA survey

R. López Fernández, R. M. González Delgado, E. Pérez +8

We investigate the cosmic evolution of the absolute and specific star formation rate (SFR, sSFR) of galaxies as derived from a spatially-resolved study of the stellar populations i…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

Mild evolution of the stellar metallicity gradients of disc galaxies

Patricia B. Tissera, Rubens E. G. Machado, José M. Vilchez +3

The metallicity gradients of the stellar populations in disc galaxies and their evolution store relevant information on the disc formation history and on those processes which coul…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 72 cited

Evidence of ongoing radial migration in NGC 6754: Azimuthal variations of the gas properties

L. Sánchez-Menguiano, S. F. Sánchez, D. Kawata +9

Understanding the nature of spiral structure in disk galaxies is one of the main, and still unsolved questions in galactic astronomy. However, theoretical works are proposing new t…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 33 cited

The BaLROG project - II. Quantifying the influence of bars on the stellar populations of nearby galaxies

Marja K. Seidel, Jesús Falcón-Barroso, Inma Martínez-Valpuesta +4

We continue the exploration of the BaLROG (Bars in Low Redshift Optical Galaxies) sample: 16 large mosaics of barred galaxies observed with the integral field unit SAURON. We quant…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 111 cited

Spiral-induced velocity and metallicity patterns in a cosmological zoom simulation of a Milky Way-sized galaxy

Robert J. J. Grand, Volker Springel, Daisuke Kawata +6

We use a high resolution cosmological zoom simulation of a Milky Way-sized halo to study the observable features in velocity and metallicity space associated with the dynamical inf…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 38 cited

The stellar metallicity gradients in galaxy discs in a cosmological scenario

Patricia B. Tissera, Rubens E. G. Machado, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez +4

The stellar metallicity gradients of disc galaxies provide information on the disc assembly, star formation processes and chemical evolution. They also might store information on d…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 46 cited

Pipe3D, a pipeline to analyse integral field spectroscopy data: II. Analysis sequence and CALIFA dataproducts

S. F. Sánchez, E. Pérez, P. Sánchez-Blázquez +18

We present Pipe3D, an analysis pipeline based on the FIT3D fitting tool, devel- oped to explore the properties of the stellar populations and ionized gas of Integral Field Spectros…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 36 cited

Origin of the Metallicity Distribution in the Thick Disc

Maider S. Miranda, Kate Pilkington, Brad K. Gibson +9

Aims. Using a suite of cosmological chemodynamical disc galaxy simulations, we assess how (a) radial metallicity gradients evolve with scaleheight; (b) the vertical metallicity gra…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 36 cited

Recovering star formation histories: Integrated-light analyses vs stellar colour-magnitude diagrams

T. Ruiz-Lara, I. Pérez, C. Gallart +12

Accurate star formation histories (SFHs) of galaxies are fundamental for understanding the build-up of their stellar content. However, the most accurate SFHs - those obtained from…

astro-ph.GA2015

IMF - metallicity: a tight local relation revealed by the CALIFA survey

Ignacio Martín-Navarro, Alexandre Vazdekis, Francesco La Barbera +13

Variations in the stellar initial mass function (IMF) have been invoked to explain the spectroscopic and dynamical properties of early-type galaxies. However, no observations have…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 37 cited

Dissecting galactic bulges in space and time I: the importance of early formation scenarios vs. secular evolution

M. K. Seidel, R. Cacho, T. Ruiz-Lara +7

The details of bulge formation via collapse, mergers, secular processes or their interplay remain unresolved. To start answering this question and quantify the importance of distin…