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(Abridged) We present a detailed analysis of the morphology, isophotal parameters and surface brightness profiles for 100 early-type members of the Virgo Cluster, from dwarfs (M_B = -15.1 mag) to giants (M_B = -21.8 mag). Each galaxy has…

We present UV-extended E-MILES stellar population synthesis models covering the spectral range 1680-50000A at moderately high resolution. We employ the NGSL space-based stellar library to compute spectra of single-age, single-metallicity…

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We report the results of a pilot program to use the Magellan/M2FS spectrograph to survey the galactic populations and internal kinematics of galaxy clusters. For this initial study, we present spectroscopic measurements for $223$ quiescent…

We present the first single-burst stellar population models in the infrared wavelength range between 2.5 and 5 {\mu}m which are exclusively based on empirical stellar spectra. Our models take as input 180 spectra from the stellar IRTF…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-08 B. Röck , A. Vazdekis , R. F. Peletier , J. H. Knapen , J. Falcón-Barroso

To investigate star formation and assembly processes of massive galaxies, we present here a spatially-resolved stellar populations analysis of a sample of 45 elliptical galaxies (Es) selected from the CALIFA survey. We find rather flat age…

Spectral line indices for a sample of 290 nearby E and S0 galaxies are used to investigate the stellar populations of these galaxies. Relations are established between the line indices (Mg2, <Fe>, Hbeta) and the velocity dispersions, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Inger Jorgensen

We investigate the origin of color gradients in cluster early-type galaxies to probe whether pure age or pure metallicity gradients can explain the observed data in local and distant (z approx 0.4) samples. We measure the surface brightness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. P. Saglia , C. Maraston , L. Greggio , R. Bender , B. Ziegler

We investigated the properties of the stellar populations in the discs of a sample of ten spiral galaxies. Our analysis focused on the galaxy region where the disc contributes more than 95 per cent of total surface brightness in order to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 L. Morelli , E. M. Corsini , A. Pizzella , E. Dalla Bontà , L. Coccato , J. Méndez-Abreu

The complexity of constraining the stellar initial mass function (IMF) in early-type galaxies cannot be overstated, given the necessity of both very high signal-to-noise (S/N) data and the difficulty of breaking the strong degeneracies that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-27 Ilaria Lonoce , Anja Feldmeier-Krause , Wendy L. Freedman

Samples of early-type galaxies show a correlation between stellar velocity dispersion and the stellar initial mass function (IMF) as inferred from gravity-sensitive absorption lines in the galaxies' central regions. To search for spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Nicholas J. McConnell , Jessica R. Lu , Andrew W. Mann

(Abridged for arXiv) The history of the mass assembly of brightest cluster galaxies may be studied by the mapping the stellar populations at large radial distances from the galaxy centre. We provide extended and robust measurements of the…

We report on the use of the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) to identify radio galaxie s in eighteen nearby Abell clusters. The listings extend from the cores of the clusters out to radii of 3 Mpc, which corresponds to 1.5 Abell radii and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Neal A. Miller , Frazer N. Owen

We present an analysis of stellar populations in passive galaxies in seven massive X-ray clusters at z=0.19-0.89. Based on absorption line strengths measured from our high signal-to-noise spectra, the data support primarily passive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Inger Jorgensen , Kristin Chiboucas , Emily Berkson , Omega Smith , Marianne Takamiya , Alexa Villaume

We present first results of a comprehensive survey of deep long-slit spectra along the minor axis of bulges of edge-on spiral galaxies. Our results indicate that stellar populations in bulges are fairly old and encompass a range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Goudfrooij , J. Gorgas , P. Jablonka

We present the first constraints on stellar mass-to-light ratio gradients in an early-type galaxy (ETG) using multiple dynamical tracer populations to model the dark and luminous mass structure simultaneously. We combine the kinematics of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Lindsay Oldham , Matthew Auger

We study the stellar properties of 44 face-on spiral galaxies from the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey via full spectrum fitting techniques. We compare the age profiles with the surface brightness distribution in order to…

[Abridged] Using VLT/FORS2 spectroscopy, we have studied the properties of the central stellar populations of a sample of 38 nucleated early-type dwarf (dE) galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. We find that these galaxies do not exhibit the same…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Paudel , T. Lisker , H. Kuntschner , E. Grebel , K. Glatt

We have derived ages, metallicities and enhanced-element ratios [alpha/Fe] for a sample of 83 early-type galaxies essentially in groups, the field or isolated objects. The stellar population properties derived for each galaxy corresponds to…

The HST/ACS images of GOODS-South have been used to select a sample of early-type galaxies, based on morphology and on the Kormendy relation. The classification scheme does not use galaxy colours, hence it does not bias against young…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Ferreras , T. Lisker , A. Pasquali , C. M. Carollo , S. J. Lilly , B. Mobasher

We present absorption-line strengths on the Lick/IDS line-strength system of 381 galaxies and 38 globular clusters in the 4000--6400 \AA region. All galaxies were observed at Lick Observatory between 1972 and 1984 with the Cassegrain Image…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. C. Trager , Guy Worthey , S. M. Faber , David Burstein , J. J. Gonzalez