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Bulgeless Evolution And the Rise of Discs (BEARD) I. Physical drivers of the mass-size relation for Milky Way-like galaxies
C. Marrero-de la Rosa, J. Méndez-Abreu, A. de Lorenzo-Cáceres +20
In the standard cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology, the existence of massive pure-disc galaxies remains challenging within the hierarchical framework and is key to understandi…
Bulgeless Evolution And the Rise of Discs (BEARD) II. The role of mergers in shaping the Milky Way analogues in TNG50
Yetli Rosas-Guevara, Jairo Méndez-Abreu, Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres +20
We study the formation and evolution of bulgeless galaxies within the Milky Way-Andromeda analogue sample of the TNG50 simulation. Through kinematic decomposition with Mordor, we i…
The Tremaine-Weinberg method at high redshifts
Mahmood Roshan, Asiyeh Habibi, J. Alfonso L. Aguerri +11
This paper examines the reliability of the Tremaine-Weinberg (TW) method in measuring the pattern speed of barred galaxies at high redshifts. Measuring pattern speeds at high redsh…
From simulations to observations. Methodology and data release of mock TNG50 galaxies at 0.3 < z < 0.7 for WEAVE-StePS
A. Ikhsanova, L. Costantin, A. Pizzella +17
The new generation of optical spectrographs (i.e., WEAVE, 4MOST, DESI, and WST) offer unprecedented opportunities for statistically studying the star formation histories of galaxie…
Retrieval of the physical parameters of galaxies from WEAVE-StePS-like data using machine learning
J. Angthopo, B. R. Granett, F. La Barbera +46
The WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE) is a new, massively multiplexing spectrograph. This new instrument will be exploited to obtain high S/N spectra of 25000 galax…
Quantifying the stellar ages of dynamically separated bulges and disks of CALIFA spiral galaxies
Yunpeng Jin, Ling Zhu, Stefano Zibetti +3
We employ a recently developed population-orbit superposition technique to simultaneously fit the stellar kinematic and age maps of 82 CALIFA spiral galaxies and obtain the ages of…
Stellar metallicity from optical and UV spectral indices: Test case for WEAVE-StePS
F. R. Ditrani, M. Longhetti, F. La Barbera +35
The upcoming generation of optical spectrographs on four meter-class telescopes, with their huge multiplexing capabilities, excellent spectral resolution, and unprecedented wavelen…
The bar rotation rate as a diagnostic of dark matter content in the centre of disc galaxies
C. Buttitta, E. M. Corsini, J. A. L. Aguerri +6
We investigate the link between the bar rotation rate and dark matter content in barred galaxies by concentrating on the cases of the lenticular galaxies NGC4264 and NGC4277. These…
The Fornax3D project: Environmental effects on the assembly of dynamically cold disks in Fornax cluster galaxies
Y. Ding, L. Zhu, G. van de Ven +12
We apply a population-orbit superposition method to 16 galaxies in the Fornax cluster observed with MUSE/VLT in the context of the Fornax3D project. By fitting the luminosity distr…
WEAVE-StePS. A stellar population survey using WEAVE at WHT
A. Iovino, B. M. Poggianti, A. Mercurio +44
The upcoming new generation of optical spectrographs on four-meter-class telescopes will provide valuable opportunities for forthcoming galaxy surveys through their huge multiplexi…
The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation
Shoko Jin, Scott C. Trager, Gavin B. Dalton +212
WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, will see first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-degree…
A slow bar in the lenticular barred galaxy NGC 4277
C. Buttitta, E. M. Corsini, V. Cuomo +9
Aims: We characterised the properties of the bar hosted in lenticular galaxy NGC 4277, which is located behind the Virgo cluster. Methods: We measured the bar length and strength f…
Near-infrared spectroscopic indices for unresolved stellar populations. II. Index measurements
D. Gasparri, L. Morelli, V. D. Ivanov +7
We measured the equivalent width of a large set of near-infrared (NIR, 0.8--2.4m) line-strength indices in the XShooter medium-resolution spectra of the central regions of 14…
Dynamical structure of small bulges reveals their early formation in ΛCDM paradigm
Luca Costantin, Jairo Méndez-Abreu, Enrico M. Corsini +6
The Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) paradigm of galaxy formation predicts that dense spheroidal stellar structures invariably grow at early cosmic time. These primordial spheroids evolve…
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…
Evidence of a fast bar in the weakly-interacting galaxy NGC 4264 with MUSE
V. Cuomo, E. M. Corsini, J. A. L. Aguerri +9
We present surface photometry and stellar kinematics of NGC 4264, a barred lenticular galaxy in the region of the Virgo Cluster undergoing a tidal interaction with one of its neigh…
The Fornax3D project: Tracing the assembly history of the cluster from the kinematic and line-strength maps
E. Iodice, M. Sarzi, A. Bittner +15
The 31 brightest galaxies (m_B < 15 mag) inside the virial radius of the Fornax cluster were observed from the centres to the outskirts with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer o…
Deconstructing double-barred galaxies in 2D and 3D. I. Classical nature of the dominant bulges
A. de Lorenzo-Cáceres, J. Méndez-Abreu, B. Thorne +1
We present here a thorough photometric analysis of double-barred galaxies, consisting of i) two-dimensional photometric decompositions including a bulge, inner bar, outer bar, and…
Deconstructing double-barred galaxies in 2D and 3D. II. Two distinct groups of inner bars
A. de Lorenzo-Cáceres, J. Méndez-Abreu, B. Thorne +1
The intrinsic photometric properties of inner and outer stellar bars within 17 double-barred galaxies are thoroughly studied through a photometric analysis consisting of: i) two-di…
Fossil group origins IX. Probing the formation of fossil galaxy groups with stellar population gradients of their central galaxies
E. M. Corsini, L. Morelli, S. Zarattini +7
Fossil groups (FGs) are galaxy aggregates with an extended and luminous X-ray halo, which are dominated by a very massive early-type galaxy and lack of L* objects. FGs are indeed c…
On the observational diagnostics to separate classical and disk-like bulges
L. Costantin, E. M. Corsini, J. Méndez-Abreu +3
Flattened bulges with disk-like properties are considered to be the end product of secular evolution processes at work in the inner regions of galaxies. On the contrary, classical…
The intrinsic three-dimensional shape of galactic bars
J. Mendez-Abreu, L. Costantin, J. A. L. Aguerri +2
We present the first statistical study on the intrinsic three-dimensional (3D) shape of a sample of 83 galactic bars extracted from the CALIFA survey. We use the galaXYZ code to de…
Morpho-kinematic properties of field S0 bulges in the CALIFA survey
J. Mendez-Abreu, J. A. L. Aguerri, J. Falcon-Barroso +22
We study a sample of 28 S0 galaxies extracted from the integral-field spectroscopic (IFS) survey CALIFA. We combine an accurate two-dimensional (2D) multi-component photometric dec…
The intrinsic shape of bulges in the CALIFA survey
L. Costantin, J. Méndez-Abreu, E. M. Corsini +5
The intrinsic shape of galactic bulges in nearby galaxies provides crucial information to separate bulge types. We intended to derive accurate constraints to the intrinsic shape of…