The cold interstellar medium of galaxies in the local universe

A Saintonge, B Catinella - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The cold interstellar medium (ISM) plays a central role in the galaxy evolution process. It is
the reservoir that fuels galaxy growth via star formation, the repository of material formed by …

The distribution of dark matter in galaxies

P Salucci - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2019 - Springer
The distribution of the non-luminous matter in galaxies of different luminosity and Hubble
type is much more than a proof of the existence of dark particles governing the structures of …

The phangs-muse survey-probing the chemo-dynamical evolution of disc galaxies

E Emsellem, E Schinnerer, F Santoro, F Belfiore… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We present the PHANGS-MUSE survey, a programme that uses the MUSE integral field
spectrograph at the ESO VLT to map 19 massive (9.4< log (M⋆/M⊙)< 11.0) nearby (D≲ 20 …

Improving the full spectrum fitting method: accurate convolution with Gauss–Hermite functions

M Cappellari - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
I start by providing an updated summary of the penalized pixel-fitting (ppxf) method that is
used to extract the stellar and gas kinematics, as well as the stellar population of galaxies …

Overview of the sdss-iv manga survey: mapping nearby galaxies at apache point observatory

K Bundy, MA Bershady, DR Law, R Yan… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an overview of a new integral field spectroscopic survey called MaNGA
(Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory), one of three core programs in the …

The data reduction pipeline for the SDSS-IV MaNGA IFU galaxy survey

DR Law, B Cherinka, R Yan, BH Andrews… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) is an optical
fiber-bundle integral-field unit (IFU) spectroscopic survey that is one of three core programs …

Theoretical challenges in galaxy formation

T Naab, JP Ostriker - Annual review of astronomy and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Numerical simulations have become a major tool for understanding galaxy formation and
evolution. Over the decades the field has made significant progress. It is now possible to …

Structure and kinematics of early-type galaxies from integral field spectroscopy

M Cappellari - Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Observations of galaxy isophotes, long-slit kinematics, and high-resolution photometry
suggested a possible dichotomy between two distinct classes of elliptical galaxies. But these …

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: instrument specification and target selection

JJ Bryant, MS Owers, ASG Robotham… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The SAMI Galaxy Survey will observe 3400 galaxies with the Sydney-AAO Multi-
object Integral-field spectrograph (SAMI) on the Anglo-Australian Telescope in a 3-yr survey …

Califa, the calar alto legacy integral field area survey-i. survey presentation

SF Sánchez, RC Kennicutt, AG De Paz… - Astronomy & …, 2012 - aanda.org
The final product of galaxy evolution through cosmic time is the population of galaxies in the
local universe. These galaxies are also those that can be studied in most detail, thus …