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We present deep optical imaging of three face-on disk galaxies together with a detailed description of the reduction and calibration methods used, in order to measure the intrinsic shape of their outer stellar edges. Whereas it is now well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pohlen , R. -J. Dettmar , R. Luetticke , G. Aronica

We present the rest-frame B-band Tully-Fisher relation for a sample of 8 cluster spiral galaxies at z = 0.83 and 19 field spirals at z = 0.15-0.90 based on VLT spectroscopy and HST photometry. No strong difference is detected between the…

We explore how the growth rate of spiral disks can be measured via analyses of the scatter in the Tully-Fisher (TF) relation of local and intermediate redshift galaxies. As an initial step, we show it is possible to construct a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew Bershady , David Andersen

We show that for luminous, non-barred, high-surface brightness (HSB) spirals the Tully-Fisher (TF) relation residuals can be used to estimate the relative mass contributions of the stellar disk and the dark halo at the peak of the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Stephane Courteau , Hans-Walter Rix

We present new measures of the evolving scaling relations between stellar mass, luminosity and rotational velocity for a morphologically-inclusive sample of 129 disk-like galaxies with z_AB<22.5 in the redshift range 0.2<z<1.3, based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-27 Sarah H. Miller , Kevin Bundy , Mark Sullivan , Richard S. Ellis , Tommaso Treu

We use high-resolution cosmological simulations that include the effects of gasdynamics and star formation to investigate the origin of the Tully-Fisher relation in the standard Cold Dark Matter cosmogony. Luminosities are computed for each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 Matthias Steinmetz , Julio Navarro

The evolution of the line width - luminosity relation for spiral galaxies, the Tully-Fisher relation, strongly constrains galaxy formation and evolution models. At this moment, the kinematics of z>1 spiral galaxies can only be measured…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. van Starkenburg , P. P. van der Werf , L. Yan , A. F. M. Moorwood

We exploit the gravitational potential of massive cluster lenses to probe the emission line properties of six z=1 galaxies which appear as highly magnified luminous arcs. Using the GMOS integral field spectrograph together with detailed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Swinbank , R. Bower , G. P. Smith , Ian Smail , J. -P. Kneib , R. Ellis , D. Stark , A. Bunker

We present a measurement of the microlensing optical depth toward the Galactic bulge based on the analysis of 15 contiguous1 square degrees fields centered on (l=2.5 deg, b=-4.0 deg) and containing 1.42 million clump-giant stars (belonging…

In this paper we derive a Tully Fisher relation from measured I band photometry and H$\alpha$ rotation curves of a large survey of southern sky spiral galaxies, obtained in Persic \& Salucci (1995) by deprojecting and folding the raw…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Hendry , S. Rauzy , P. Salucci , M. Persic

We construct the first "face-on" Tully-Fisher (TF) relation for 24 galaxies with inclinations between 16 degrees and 41 degrees. The enabling measurements are integral-field, echelle spectroscopy from the WIYN 3.5m telescope, which yield…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 David Andersen , Matthew Bershady

Our aim is to explore the relation between gas, atomic and molecular, and dust in spiral galaxies. Gas surface densities are from atomic hydrogen and CO line emission maps. To estimate the dust content, we use the disk opacity as inferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 B. W. Holwerda , R. J. Allen , W. J. G. de Blok , A. Bouchard , R. A. Gonzalez-Lopezlira , P. C. van der Kruit , A. Leroy

A Tully-Fisher (TF) relation from H-alpha rotation curves of 19 luminous, star-forming galaxies reveals there is little evidence for evolution in the mass-to-light ratio (M/L) of these galaxies to z~0.3. The near-infrared Tolman…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew A. Bershady

We construct mass models of 28 S0-Sb galaxies. The models have an axisymmetric stellar component and a NFW dark halo and are constrained by observed Ks-band photometry and stellar kinematics. The median dark halo virial mass is 10^12.8…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Michael J. Williams , Martin Bureau , Michele Cappellari

We determine the parameters of scaling relations analogous to the Fundamental Plane of elliptical galaxies for the bulges and disks of a sample of 40 spiral galaxies. To this end we derive structural parameters (scalelengths and surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Moriondo , R. Giovanelli , M. Haynes

The opacity of foreground spiral disks can be probed from the number of distant galaxies seen through them. To calibrate this number for effects other than the dust extinction, Gonzalez et al (1998) developed the "Synthetic Field Method". A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. W. Holwerda , R. A. Gonzalez , Ronald J. Allen , P. C. van der Kruit

(Abridged) This paper presents an exploration of two fundamental scaling relations of spiral galaxies, the luminosity-rotation speed (or Tully-Fisher; TF) relation, and the size-luminosity (SL) relation, and the dependences of their…

The microlensing probability (optical depth $\tau$) toward the Galactic center carries information about the mass distribution of the Galactic bulge/bar, so can be used to constrain the very uncertain shape parameters of the bar. We find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 HongSheng Zhao , Shude Mao

We compare two methods of distance determination to spiral galaxies using optical/near-infrared (NIR) observations, the (I-K) versus M_K colour - absolute magnitude (CM) relation and the I and K-band Tully-Fisher relation (TFR). Dust-free…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. de Grijs , R. F. Peletier

We demonstrate that the comparison of Tully-Fisher relations (TFRs) derived from global HI line widths to TFRs derived from the circular velocity profiles of dynamical models (or stellar kinematic observations corrected for asymmetric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael J. Williams , Martin Bureau , Michele Cappellari