Search Results - "McDermid, Richard M."
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Spatially resolved variations of the IMF mass normalization in early-type galaxies as probed by molecular gas kinematics
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2017)“…We here present the first spatially resolved study of the initial mass function (IMF) in external galaxies derived using a dynamical tracer of the…”
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Systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies
Published in Nature (London) (26-04-2012)“…A study of the stellar kinematics of a large sample of early-type galaxies provides evidence that the stellar initial mass function depends on the galaxy’s…”
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MEASURING THE MASS OF THE CENTRAL BLACK HOLE IN THE BULGELESS GALAXY NGC 4395 FROM GAS DYNAMICAL MODELING
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2015)“…ABSTRACT NGC 4395 is a bulgeless spiral galaxy, harboring one of the nearest known type 1 Seyfert nuclei. Although there is no consensus on the mass of its…”
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The ATLAS3D project - I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-05-2011)“…The ATLAS3D project is a multiwavelength survey combined with a theoretical modelling effort. The observations span from the radio to the millimetre and…”
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The Black Hole in the Most Massive Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxy M59-UCD3
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-05-2018)“…We examine the internal properties of the most massive ultracompact dwarf galaxy (UCD), M59-UCD3, by combining adaptive-optics-assisted near-IR integral field…”
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The ATLAS3D project - II. Morphologies, kinemetric features and alignment between photometric and kinematic axes of early-type galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2011)“…We use the ATLAS3D sample of 260 early-type galaxies to study the apparent kinematic misalignment angle, Ψ, defined as the angle between the photometric and…”
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The ATLAS3D project - VII. A new look at the morphology of nearby galaxies: the kinematic morphology-density relation
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2011)“…In Paper I of this series we introduced a volume-limited parent sample of 871 galaxies from which we extracted the ATLAS3D sample of 260 early-type galaxies…”
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The ATLAS3D project - IV. The molecular gas content of early-type galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-06-2011)“…We have carried out a survey for CO J= 1-0 and J= 2-1 emission in the 260 early-type galaxies of the volume-limited ATLAS3D sample, with the goal of connecting…”
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Star formation in nearby early-type galaxies: the radio continuum perspective
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2017)“…We present a 1.4 GHz Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) study of a sample of early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the ATLAS^sup 3D^ survey. The radio…”
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The SAURON project – XVII. Stellar population analysis of the absorption line strength maps of 48 early-type galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-10-2010)“…We present a stellar population analysis of the absorption line strength maps for 48 early-type galaxies from the SAURON sample. Using the line strength index…”
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A precise benchmark for cluster scaling relations: Fundamental Plane, Mass Plane, and IMF in the Coma cluster from dynamical models
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2020)“…ABSTRACT We study a sample of 148 early-type galaxies in the Coma cluster using SDSS photometry and spectra, and calibrate our results using detailed dynamical…”
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Identification of old tidal dwarfs near early-type galaxies from deep imaging and H i observations
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-05-2014)“…It has recently been proposed that the dwarf spheroidal galaxies located in the Local Group discs of satellites (DoSs) may be tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs) born…”
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The SAURON project – XVI. On the sources of ionization for the gas in elliptical and lenticular galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2010)“…Following our study on the incidence, morphology and kinematics of the ionized gas in early-type galaxies, we now address the question of what is powering the…”
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The ATLAS3D project - X. On the origin of the molecular and ionized gas in early-type galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-10-2011)“…We make use of interferometric CO and H i observations, and optical integral-field spectroscopy from the ATLAS3D survey, to probe the origin of the molecular…”
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Pulling Back the Curtain on Shocks and Star Formation in NGC 1266 with Gemini-NIFS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2024)“…Abstract We present Gemini near-infrared integral field spectrograph K -band observations of the central 400 pc of NGC 1266, a nearby ( D ≈ 30 Mpc)…”
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THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY. XII. STELLAR POPULATIONS AND KINEMATICS OF COMPACT, LOW-MASS EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES FROM GEMINI GMOS-IFU SPECTROSCOPY
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2015)“…ABSTRACT We present Gemini Multi Object Spectrograph integral-field unit (GMOS-IFU) data of eight compact, low-mass early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the Virgo…”
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Stellar velocity profiles and line strengths out to four effective radii in the early-type galaxies NGC 3379 and 821
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-09-2009)“…We use the integral-field spectrograph SAURON to measure the stellar line-of-sight velocity distribution and absorption line strengths out to four effective…”
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The stellar spectral features of nearby galaxies in the near infrared: tracers of thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch stars?
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2015)“…We analyse the stellar absorption features in high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) near-infrared (NIR) spectra of the nuclear region of 12 nearby galaxies, mostly…”
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The SAURON project - III. Integral-field absorption-line kinematics of 48 elliptical and lenticular galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-08-2004)“…ABSTRACT We present the stellar kinematics of 48 representative elliptical and lenticular galaxies obtained with our custom‐built integral‐field spectrograph…”
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The SAURON project – XV. Modes of star formation in early-type galaxies and the evolution of the red sequence
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2010)“…We combine SAURON integral field data of a representative sample of local early-type, red sequence galaxies with Spitzer/Infrared Array Camera imaging in order…”
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