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most citedSPARC: Mass Models for 175 Disk Galaxies with Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves

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102 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Resolving the Assembly of Disk Galaxies from the Epoch of Reionisation to Cosmic Noon

Melanie Kaasinen, Mahsa Kohandel, Francesca Rizzo +45

Most of the mass and angular momentum of today's disk galaxies assembled at . Yet, it remains unclear how these galaxies acquired their gas, how their baryons and dark matter…

astro-ph.GA2026

HI rotation curves and mass-size relation for 568 galaxies from the Apertif Wide-area Extragalactic Survey

Konstantin Haubner, Federico Lelli, Enrico Di Teodoro +13

The extended HI rotation curves of galaxies are one of the most powerful tools for studying galaxy evolution and for testing different dark matter and modified gravity models. Howe…

astro-ph.GA2026

TRICEPS. I. Tracing cold gas, dust, and stars at sub-kpc scales in massive star-forming galaxies at z = 4-5

Federico Lelli, Lingrui Lin, Zhi-Yu Zhang +11

We introduce the TRICEPS (Tracing Resolved Ionized Carbon Emission in Primeval Systems) survey. TRICEPS focuses on a sample of 16 massive galaxies at z = 4 - 5 with top-quality dat…

astro-ph.GA2026

Testing dark matter models and modified gravity theories with spatially resolved HI observations

Federico Lelli, Antonino Marasco, Timothy A. Davis +8

Understanding the nature of dark matter (DM) is one of the most pressing questions of modern physics. The flat rotation curves of galaxies, especially the extended HI rotation curv…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Baryonic Faber-Jackson Relation and Fundamental Plane of Galaxy Groups, Elliptical Galaxies, and Dwarf Galaxies

Yong Tian, Federico Lelli, Marcel S. Pawlowski +7

The baryonic Faber-Jackson relation (BFJR) links the baryonic mass of pressure-supported systems to their mean velocity dispersion. For elliptical galaxies, the BFJR is thought to…

astro-ph.GA2026

WALLABY pilot survey: HI depletion times within the stellar discs of nearby galaxies

Seona Lee, Barbara Catinella, Tobias Westmeier +12

Neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) reservoirs typically extend far beyond the inner star-forming regions of galaxies, and global HI measurements, which mix these distinct environments, l…

astro-ph.GA2026

WISDOM Project -- XXVIII. Molecular gas measurement of the supermassive black hole mass of the galaxy NGC 1387

Pandora Dominiak, Martin Bureau, Fu-Heng Liang +6

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses can be measured using molecular gas kinematics. Here we present high angular resolution ( arcsec or pc) Atacama Large Millim…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Baryonic Mass-Halo Mass Relation of Extragalactic Systems

Stacy McGaugh, Tobias Mistele, Francis Duey +4

We combine data for extragalactic systems to quantify a relation between the observed baryonic mass and the enclosed dynamical mass inferred from kinematics or grav…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The baryonic mass-size relation of galaxies. II. Implications for the evolutionary paths between star-forming and passive galaxies

Zichen Hua, Lelli Federico, Enrico Di Teodoro +2

The baryonic mass-size relation of galaxies links the total baryonic mass (stars plus gas) to the baryonic half-mass radius. In the first paper of this series, we showed that star-…

astro-ph.GA2025

The baryonic mass-size relation of galaxies. I. A dichotomy in star-forming galaxy disks

Zichen Hua, Federico Lelli, Enrico Di Teodoro +2

The mass-size relations of galaxies are generally studied considering only stars or only gas separately. Here we study the baryonic mass-size relation of galaxies from the SPARC da…

astro-ph.GA2025

WISDOM Project -- XXV. Improving the CO-dynamical supermassive black hole mass measurement in the galaxy NGC 1574 using high spatial resolution ALMA observations

Hengyue Zhang, Martin Bureau, Ilaria Ruffa +5

We present a molecular gas dynamical supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass measurement in the nearby barred lenticular galaxy NGC 1574, using Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Mass models of galaxy clusters from a non-parametric weak-lensing reconstruction

Tobias Mistele, Federico Lelli, Stacy McGaugh +2

We study the CLASH sample of galaxy clusters using a new deprojection method for weak gravitational lensing observations. This method is non-parametric, allowing us to infer mass p…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

MUSE observations of dwarf galaxies and a stellar stream in the M83 group

Oliver Müller, Marina Rejkuba, Katja Fahrion +8

Spectroscopy for faint dwarf galaxies outside of our own Local Group is challenging. Here, we present MUSE spectroscopy to study the properties of four known dwarf satellites and o…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

A New Uncertainty Scheme for Galaxy Distances from Flow Models

Konstantin Haubner, Federico Lelli, Enrico Di Teodoro +3

The systemic velocity or redshift of galaxies is a convenient tool to calculate their distances in the absence of primary methods, but the uncertainties on these flow distances may…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation II: Stellar Mass Models

Francis Duey, James Schombert, Stacy McGaugh +1

We present new color- (mass-to-light) models to convert WISE W1 fluxes into stellar masses. We outline a range of possible star formation histories and chemical evolution scen…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

WISDOM Project -- XXII. A 5% precision CO-dynamical supermassive black hole mass measurement in the galaxy NGC 383

Hengyue Zhang, Martin Bureau, Ilaria Ruffa +8

We present a measurement of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass of the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC 383, based on Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) observati…

astro-ph.GA2024

BIG-SPARC: The new SPARC database

Konstantin Haubner, Federico Lelli, Enrico Di Teodoro +5

The Surface Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves (SPARC) database has provided the community with mass models for 175 nearby galaxies, allowing different research teams to test…

astro-ph.GA2024

VST-SMASH: the VST Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural Hierarchy

Crescenzo Tortora, Rossella Ragusa, Massimiliano Gatto +21

The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural Hierarchy (VST-SMASH) aims to detect tidal features and remnants around very nearby galaxies, a unique and essential…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Gas dynamics in an AGN-host galaxy at : regular rotation, non-circular motions, and mass models

Lingrui Lin, Federico Lelli, Carlos De Breuck +9

The gas dynamics of galaxies provide critical insights into the evolution of both baryons and dark matter (DM) across cosmic time. In this context, galaxies at cosmic noon -- the p…

astro-ph.GA2024

Molecular gas mass measurements of an active, starburst galaxy at using ALMA observations of the [CI], CO and dust emission

Hao-Tse Huang, Allison W. S. Man, Federico Lelli +7

We present new ALMA observations of a starburst galaxy at cosmic noon hosting a radio-loud active galactic nucleus: PKS 0529-549 at . To investigate the conditions of its c…

astro-ph.GA2024

The empirical laws of galaxy dynamics: from gas kinematics to weak lensing

Federico Lelli, Tobias Mistele, Stacy S. McGaugh +2

Galaxies obey a set of strict dynamical laws, which imply a close coupling between the visible matter (stars and gas) and the observed dynamics (set by dark matter in the standard…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

WALLABY Pilot Survey: Public data release of ~1800 HI sources and high-resolution cut-outs from Pilot Survey Phase 2

C. Murugeshan, N. Deg, T. Westmeier +20

We present the Pilot Survey Phase 2 data release for the Wide-field ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY (WALLABY), carried-out using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP). We…

astro-ph.GA2024

Gas-rich "ultra-diffuse" galaxies are consistent with the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation and with Milgromian dynamics

Federico Lelli

Some gas-rich "ultra-diffuse" galaxies (UDGs), which are extreme examples of low surface brightness (LSB) dwarf galaxies, have been reported to lack dark matter and to be offset fr…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 57 cited

Indefinitely Flat Circular Velocities and the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation from Weak Lensing

Tobias Mistele, Stacy McGaugh, Federico Lelli +2

We use a new deprojection formula to infer the gravitational potential around isolated galaxies from weak gravitational lensing. The results imply circular velocity curves that rem…