activity
20162026
most citedEvolution of the galaxy stellar mass functions and UV luminosity functions at in the Hubble Frontier Fields

151 citations · 843 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

20 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Performance of morphological classifiers for galaxy mergers compared to current machine learning methods

Aidan P. Cotter, William J. Pearson, William J. pearson +4

Aims. Non-parametric morphological statistics can be used for efficient classification of galaxy mergers. This work aims to compare the performance of morphological merger classifi…

astro-ph.GA2025

Super-resolving Herschel - a deep learning based deconvolution and denoising technique

Dennis Koopmans, Lingyu Wang, Berta Margalef-Bentabol +9

Dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) dominate the far-infrared and sub-millimetre number counts, but single-dish surveys suffer from poor angular resolution, complicating mult-wavel…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Classifying merger stages with adaptive deep learning and cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

Rosa de Graaff, Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Lingyu Wang +4

Hierarchical merging of galaxies plays an important role in galaxy formation and evolution. Mergers could trigger key evolutionary phases such as starburst activities and active ac…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Probabilistic and progressive deblended far-infrared and sub-millimetre point source catalogues I. Methodology and first application in the COSMOS field

Lingyu Wang, Antonio La Marca, Fangyou Gao +12

Single-dish far-infrared (far-IR) and sub-millimetre (sub-mm) point source catalogues and their connections with catalogues at other wavelengths are of paramount importance. Howeve…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 28 cited

Observations of the Initial Formation and Evolution of Spiral galaxies at in the CANDELS fields

Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Christopher J. Conselice, Boris Haeussler +4

Many aspects concerning the formation of spiral and disc galaxies remain unresolved, despite their discovery and detailed study over the past years. As such, we present the r…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data

Abdurro'uf, Katherine Accetta, Conny Aerts +337

This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 17 cited

The half mass radius of MaNGA galaxies: Effect of IMF gradients

M. Bernardi, R. K. Sheth, H. Dominguez Sanchez +3

Gradients in the stellar populations (SP) of galaxies -- e.g., in age, metallicity, stellar Initial Mass Function (IMF) -- can result in gradients in the stellar mass to light rati…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 32 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: drivers of stellar metallicity in nearby galaxies

Justus Neumann, Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston +12

The distribution of stellar metallicities within and across galaxies is an excellent relic of the chemical evolution across cosmic time. We present a detailed analysis of spatially…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 7 cited

The Fundamental Plane of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z~2

Mikkel Stockmann, Inger Jørgensen, Sune Toft +11

We examine the Fundamental Plane (FP) and mass-to-light ratio () scaling relations using the largest sample of massive quiescent galaxies at to date. The FP ($r_{e…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 67 cited

The relationship between fine galaxy stellar morphology and star formation activity in cosmological simulations: a deep learning view

Lorenzo Zanisi, Marc Huertas-Company, Francois Lanusse +10

Hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution attempt to fully model the physics that shapes galaxies. The agreement between the morphology of simulated and real gal…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 33 cited

Galaxy properties as revealed by MaNGA. III. Kinematic profiles and stellar population gradients in S0s

H. Domínguez Sánchez, M. Bernardi, F. Nikakhtar +2

This is the third paper of a series where we study the stellar population gradients (SP; ages, metallicities, -element abundance ratios and stellar initial mass functions) of ea…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

The Stellar Mass Fundamental Plane: The virial relation and a very thin plane for slow-rotators

M. Bernardi, H. Domínguez Sanchez, B. Margalef-Bentabol +2

Early-type galaxies -- slow and fast rotating ellipticals (E-SRs and E-FRs) and S0s/lenticulars -- define a Fundamental Plane (FP) in the space of half-light radius , enclosed…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 58 cited

Detecting outliers in astronomical images with deep generative networks

Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Marc Huertas-Company, Tom Charnock +5

With the advent of future big-data surveys, automated tools for unsupervised discovery are becoming ever more necessary. In this work, we explore the ability of deep generative net…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 44 cited

X-shooter Spectroscopy and HST Imaging of 15 Ultra Massive Quiescent Galaxies at

Mikkel Stockmann, Sune Toft, Anna Gallazzi +23

We present a detailed analysis of a large sample of spectroscopically confirmed ultra-massive quiescent galaxies () at . This sam…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 151 cited

Evolution of the galaxy stellar mass functions and UV luminosity functions at in the Hubble Frontier Fields

Rachana Bhatawdekar, Christopher J. Conselice, Berta Margalef-Bentabol +1

We present new measurements of the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass functions (GSMF) and UV luminosity functions (UV LF) for galaxies from within the Frontier Field clu…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 89 cited

Deep Learning Identifies High-z Galaxies in a Central Blue Nugget Phase in a Characteristic Mass Range

M. Huertas-Company, J. R. Primack, A. Dekel +11

We use machine learning to identify in color images of high-redshift galaxies an astrophysical phenomenon predicted by cosmological simulations. This phenomenon, called the blue nu…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 74 cited

A catalog of polychromatic bulge-disk decompositions of ~ 17.600 galaxies in CANDELS

Paola Dimauro, Marc Huertas-Company, Emanuele Daddi +20

Understanding how bulges grow in galaxies is critical step towards unveiling the link between galaxy morphology and star-formation. To do so, it is necessary to decompose large sam…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 18 cited

Stellar populations, stellar masses and the formation of galaxy bulges and discs at in CANDELS

Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Christopher J. Conselice, Alice Mortlock +5

We present a multi-component structural analysis of the internal structure of high redshift massive galaxies at from the CANDELS HST Survey. In particular we examine…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 131 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): relations of bulges, discs and spheroids

Rebecca Lange, Amanda J. Moffett, Simon P. Driver +25

We perform automated bulge + disc decomposition on a sample of 7500 galaxies from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey in the redshift range of 0.002z0.06 using S…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 51 cited

The Formation of Bulges, Discs and Two Component Galaxies in the CANDELS Survey at z < 3

Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Christopher J. Conselice, Alice Mortlock +6

We examine a sample of 1495 galaxies in the CANDELS fields to determine the evolution of two component galaxies, including bulges and discs, within massive galaxies at the epoch 1…