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 …

Coevolution (or not) of supermassive black holes and host galaxies

J Kormendy, LC Ho - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Supermassive black holes (BHs) have been found in 85 galaxies by dynamical modeling of
spatially resolved kinematics. The Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized BH research by …

Full spectrum fitting with photometry in ppxf: stellar population versus dynamical masses, non-parametric star formation history and metallicity for 3200 LEGA-C galaxies at …

M Cappellari - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT I introduce some improvements to the ppxf method, which measures the stellar
and gas kinematics, star formation history (SFH) and chemical composition of galaxies. I …

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 …

Introducing the NEWHORIZON simulation: Galaxy properties with resolved internal dynamics across cosmic time

Y Dubois, R Beckmann, F Bournaud, H Choi… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations are increasing their level of realism by
considering more physical processes and having greater resolution or larger statistics …

A dynamically cold disk galaxy in the early Universe

F Rizzo, S Vegetti, D Powell, F Fraternali, JP McKean… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The extreme astrophysical processes and conditions that characterize the early Universe
are expected to result in young galaxies that are dynamically different from those observed …

One law to rule them all: the radial acceleration relation of galaxies

F Lelli, SS McGaugh, JM Schombert… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the link between baryons and dark matter (DM) in 240 galaxies with spatially
resolved kinematic data. Our sample spans 9 dex in stellar mass and includes all …

The JWST EXCELS survey: too much, too young, too fast? Ultra-massive quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 5

AC Carnall, F Cullen, RJ McLure… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We report ultra-deep, medium-resolution spectroscopic observations for four quiescent
galaxies with log at. These data were obtained with JWST NIRSpec as part of the Early …

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 …

SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS galaxy survey—Survey design, execution, and initial data quality

R Yan, K Bundy, DR Law, MA Bershady… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The MaNGA Survey (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory) is
one of three core programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV. It is obtaining integral field …