Search Results - "Cappellari, Michele"
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Structure and Kinematics of Early-Type Galaxies from Integral Field Spectroscopy
Published in Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics (19-09-2016)“…Observations of galaxy isophotes, long-slit kinematics, and high-resolution photometry suggested a possible dichotomy between two distinct classes of…”
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Measuring the inclination and mass-to-light ratio of axisymmetric galaxies via anisotropic Jeans models of stellar kinematics
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-10-2008)“…We present a simple and efficient anisotropic generalization of the semi-isotropic (two-integral) axisymmetric Jeans formalism, which is used to model the…”
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Systematic trends in total mass profiles from dynamical models of early-type galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (19-01-2017)“…We study trends in the slope of the total mass profiles and dark matter fractions within the central half-light radius of 258 early-type galaxies, using data…”
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The Tully–Fisher relations of early-type spiral and S0 galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-12-2010)“…We demonstrate that the comparison of Tully–Fisher relations (TFRs) derived from global H i linewidths to TFRs derived from the circular-velocity profiles of…”
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Parametric Recovery of Line‐of‐Sight Velocity Distributions from Absorption‐Line Spectra of Galaxies via Penalized Likelihood
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-02-2004)“…We investigate the accuracy of the parametric recovery of the line‐of‐sight velocity distribution (LOSVD) of the stars in a galaxy while working in pixel…”
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OVERVIEW OF THE SDSS-IV MaNGA SURVEY: MAPPING NEARBY GALAXIES AT APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-01-2015)“…We present an overview of a new integral field spectroscopic survey called MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory), one of three core…”
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SDSS-IV MaNGA: stellar angular momentum of about 2300 galaxies: unveiling the bimodality of massive galaxy properties
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-07-2018)“…Abstract We measure $\lambda _{R_{\rm e}}$, a proxy for galaxy specific stellar angular momentum within one effective radius, and the ellipticity, ε, for about…”
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Stellar populations and star formation histories of the nuclear star clusters in six nearby galaxies
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On the Kinematic Nature of Apparent Disks at High Redshifts: Local Counterparts are Not Dominated by Ordered Rotation but by Tangentially Anisotropic Random Motion
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-09-2024)“…Abstract It is not straightforward to physically interpret the apparent morphology of galaxies. Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…”
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Nearby Early-type Galactic Nuclei at High Resolution: Dynamical Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster Mass Measurements
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-05-2018)“…We present a detailed study of the nuclear star clusters (NSCs) and massive black holes (BHs) of four of the nearest low-mass early-type galaxies: M32, NGC…”
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Improved Dynamical Constraints on the Mass of the Central Black Hole in NGC 404
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-02-2017)“…We explore the nucleus of the nearby 109 M early-type galaxy, NGC 404, using Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/STIS spectroscopy and WFC3 imaging. We first present…”
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Radial constraints on the initial mass function from TiO features and Wing–Ford band in early-type galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2016)“…At present, the main challenge to the interpretation of variations in gravity-sensitive line strengths as driven by a non-universal initial mass function (IMF)…”
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WISDOM project – V. Resolving molecular gas in Keplerian rotation around the supermassive black hole in NGC 0383
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-11-2019)“…ABSTRACT As part of the mm-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses (WISDOM), we present a measurement of the mass of the supermassive black hole…”
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The KLEVER Survey: spatially resolved metallicity maps and gradients in a sample of 1.2 < z < 2.5 lensed galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2020)“…ABSTRACT We present near-infrared observations of 42 gravitationally lensed galaxies obtained in the framework of the KMOS Lensed Emission Lines and VElocity…”
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WISDOM project – I. Black hole mass measurement using molecular gas kinematics in NGC 3665
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The ATLAS3D project – XXIX. The new look of early-type galaxies and surrounding fields disclosed by extremely deep optical images
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2015)“…Galactic archaeology based on star counts is instrumental to reconstruct the past mass assembly of Local Group galaxies. The development of new observing…”
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The ATLAS3D project - XV. Benchmark for early-type galaxies scaling relations from 260 dynamical models: mass-to-light ratio, dark matter, Fundamental Plane and Mass Plane
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2013)“…We study the volume-limited and nearly mass-selected (stellar mass M stars 6 × 109 M) ATLAS3D sample of 260 early-type galaxies (ETGs, ellipticals Es and…”
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The KLEVER survey: nitrogen abundances at z ∼ 2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (30-03-2022)“…ABSTRACT We present a comparison of the nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio (N/O) in 37 high-redshift galaxies at z ∼ 2 taken from the KMOS Lensed Emission Lines and…”
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