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most citedMegaMorph - multi-wavelength measurement of galaxy structure: complete Sérsic profile information from modern surveys

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19 papers

astro-ph.GA2022★ 48 cited

Galapagos-2/Galfitm/GAMA -- multi-wavelength measurement of galaxy structure: separating the properties of spheroid and disk components in modern surveys

Boris Häußler, Marina Vika, Steven P. Bamford +6

We present the capabilities of Galapagos--2 and Galfitm in the context of fitting 2-component profiles to galaxies, on the way to providing complete multi-band, multi-component fit…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

Recovering the origins of the lenticular galaxy NGC 3115 using multi-band imaging

Maria Luisa Buzzo, Arianna Cortesi, Jose A. Hernandez-Jimenez +16

A detailed study of the morphology of lenticular galaxies is an important way to understand how this type of galaxy formed and evolves over time. Decomposing a galaxy into its comp…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 9 cited

Multi-wavelength structure analysis of local cluster galaxies. The WINGS project

A. Psychogyios, M. Vika, V. Charmandaris +6

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of the galaxies in nine clusters selected from the WINGS dataset, examining how galaxy structure varies as a function of wavelength and envir…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 205 cited

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS): improved SEDs, morphologies and redshifts with 12 optical filters

C. Mendes de Oliveira, T. Ribeiro, W. Schoenell +142

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is imaging ~9300 deg^2 of the celestial sphere in twelve optical bands using a dedicated 0.8 m robotic telescope, the T80-So…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 25 cited

DustPedia - the relationships between stars, gas and dust for galaxies residing in different environments

J. I. Davies, A. Nersesian, M. Baes +20

We use a sub-set of the DustPedia galaxy sample (461 galaxies) to investigate the effect the environment has had on galaxies. We consider Virgo cluster and field samples and also a…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 36 cited

Dust emission profiles of DustPedia galaxies

A. V. Mosenkov, M. Baes, S. Bianchi +19

Most radiative transfer models assume that dust in spiral galaxies is distributed exponentially. In this paper our goal is to verify this assumption by analysing the two-dimensiona…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 111 cited

Galaxy Zoo: Secular evolution of barred galaxies from structural decomposition of multi-band images

Sandor J. Kruk, Chris J. Lintott, Steven P. Bamford +9

We present the results of two-component (disc+bar) and three-component (disc+bar+bulge) multiwavelength 2D photometric decompositions of barred galaxies in five SDSS bands (…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 138 cited

DustPedia - A Definitive Study of Cosmic Dust in the Local Universe

J. I. Davies, M. Baes, S. Bianchi +20

The European Space Agency has invested heavily in two cornerstones missions; Herschel and Planck. The legacy data from these missions provides us with an unprecedented opportunity…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 12 cited

The physical properties of Spitzer/IRS galaxies derived from their UV to 22 m spectral energy distribution

Marina Vika, Laure Ciesla, Vassilis Charmandaris +2

We provide the basic integrated physical properties of all the galaxies contained in the full CASSIS with available broad-band photometry from UV to 22 m. We have collected phot…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 21 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Galaxy colour gradients versus colour, structure and luminosity

Rebecca Kennedy, Steven P. Bamford, Boris Häußler +5

Using single-component fits to SDSS/UKIDSS images of galaxies in the G09 region of the GAMA survey we study radial colour gradients across the galaxy population. We use the multiwa…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 49 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Understanding the wavelength dependence of galaxy structure with bulge-disc decompositions

Rebecca Kennedy, Steven P. Bamford, Boris Häußler +14

With a large sample of bright, low-redshift galaxies with opticalnear-IR imaging from the GAMA survey we use bulge-disc decompositions to understand the wavelength-dependent beh…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 47 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the wavelength dependence of galaxy structure versus redshift and luminosity

Rebecca Kennedy, Steven P. Bamford, Ivan Baldry +11

We study how the sizes and radial profiles of galaxies vary with wavelength, by fitting Sersic functions simultaneously to imaging in nine optical and near-infrared bands. To quant…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 38 cited

MegaMorph: classifying galaxy morphology using multi-wavelength Sérsic profile fits

M. Vika, B. Vulcani, S. P. Bamford +2

Aims. This work investigates the potential of using the wavelength-dependence of galaxy structural parameters (Sérsic index, n, and effective radius, Re) to separate galaxies into…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 58 cited

MegaMorph -- multi-wavelength measurement of galaxy structure: physically meaningful bulge-disc decomposition of galaxies near and far

Marina Vika, Steven P. Bamford, Boris Häußler +1

Bulge-disc decomposition is a valuable tool for understanding galaxies. However, achieving robust measurements of component properties is difficult, even with high quality imaging,…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 121 cited

MegaMorph -- multi-wavelength measurement of galaxy structure: Sérsic profile fits to galaxies near and far

Marina Vika, Steven P. Bamford, Boris Haeussler +3

We demonstrate a new multi-wavelength technique for two-dimensional parametric modelling of galaxy surface-brightness profiles, which we have incorporated into the widely used soft…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 51 cited

The supermassive black hole mass - Sérsic index relations for bulges and elliptical galaxies

Giulia Savorgnan, Alister W. Graham, Alessandro Marconi +4

Scaling relations between supermassive black hole mass, M_BH, and host galaxy properties are a powerful instrument for studying their coevolution. A complete picture involving all…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 225 cited

MegaMorph - multi-wavelength measurement of galaxy structure: complete Sérsic profile information from modern surveys

Boris Häußler, Steven P. Bamford, Marina Vika +13

In this paper, we demonstrate a new method for fitting galaxy profiles which makes use of the full multi-wavelength data provided by modern large optical-near-infrared imaging surv…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 60 cited

The near-IR - L and - n relations

Marina Vika, Simon P. Driver, Ewan Cameron +2

We present near-IR surface photometry (2D-profiling) for a sample of 29 nearby galaxies for which super-massive black hole (SMBH) masses are constrained. The data is derived from t…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 70 cited

The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: The -- derived supermassive black hole mass function

Marina Vika, Simon P. Driver, Alister W. Graham +1

Supermassive black hole mass estimates are derived for 1743 galaxies from the Millennium Galaxy Catalogue using the recently revised empirical relation between supermassive black h…