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Galaxy evolution is driven to a large extent by interactions and mergers with other galaxies and the gas in galaxies is extremely sensitive to the interactions. One method to measure such interactions uses the quantified morphology of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. W. Holwerda , N. Pirzkal , W. J. G. de Blok , A. Bouchard , S-L. Blyth , K. J. van der Heyden , E. C. Elson

Lopsidedness of the gaseous disk of spiral galaxies is a common phenomenon in disk morphology, profile and kinematics. Simultaneously, the asymmetry of a galaxy's stellar disk, in combination with other morphological parameters, has seen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. W. Holwerda , N. Pirzkal , W. J. G. de Blok , A. Bouchard , S-L. Blyth , K. J. van der Heyden , E. C. Elson

Extended UltraViolet (xuv) disks have been found in a substantial fraction of late-type --S0, spiral and irregular-- galaxies. Similarly, most late-type spirals have an extended gas disk, observable in the 21cm radio line (HI). The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 B. W. Holwerda , N. Pirzkal , J. S. Heiner

We explore the quantified morphology of atomic hydrogen (HI) disks in the Virgo cluster. These galaxies display a wealth of phenomena in their Hi morphology, e.g., tails, truncation and warps. These morphological disturbances are related to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. W. Holwerda , N. Pirzkal , W. J. G. de Blok , W. van Driel

The morphology of the atomic hydrogen (HI) disk of a spiral galaxy is the first component to be disturbed by a gravitational interaction such as a merger between two galaxies. We use a simple parametrisation of the morphology of HI column…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. W. Holwerda , N. Pirzkal , W. J. G. de Blok , A. Bouchard , S-L. Blyth , K. J. van der Heyden

Major mergers of disk galaxies are thought to be a substantial driver in galaxy evolution. To trace the fraction and the rate galaxies are in mergers over cosmic times, several observational techniques, including morphological selection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. W. Holwerda , N. Pirzkal , T. J. Cox , W. J. G. de Blok , J. Weniger , A. Bouchard , S. -L. Blyth , K. S. van der Heyden

Morphology of the complex HI gas distribution can be quantified by statistics like the Minkowski functionals, and can provide a way to statistically study the large scale structure in the HI maps both at low redshifts, and during the epoch…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Yougang Wang , Yidong Xu , Fengquan Wu , Xuelei Chen , Xin Wang , Juhan Kim , Changbom Park , Khee-Gan Lee , Renyue Cen

[abridged] New near-infrared surveys, using the HST, offer an unprecedented opportunity to study rest-frame optical galaxy morphologies at z>1 and to calibrate automated morphological parameters that will play a key role in classifying…

Scale-invariant morphology parameters applied to atomic hydrogen maps (HI) of galaxies can be used to quantify the effects of tidal interaction or star-formation on the ISM. Here we apply these parameters, Concentration, Asymmetry,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 B. W. Holwerda , N. Pirzkal , W. J. G. de Blok , S-L. Blyth

The atomic hydrogen (HI) 21cm line measures the gas content within and around galaxies, traces the dark matter potential and probes volumes and objects that other surveys do not. Over the next decade, 21cm line science will exploit new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Martha P. Haynes

The SKA will be a unique instrument with which to study the evolution of the gas content of galaxies. A proposed deep (~8 Msec) 'pencil-beam' survey is simulated using recently updated specifications for SKA sensitivity and survey speed.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Lister Staveley-Smith

Atomic Hydrogen (HI) is a useful tracer of gas in and around galaxies, and can be found in extended disk-like structures well beyond a system's optical extent. Here we investigate the properties of extended HI disks that emerge in six Milky…

We present a quantitative study of the far-ultraviolet (FUV) and optical morphology in 32 nearby galaxies and estimate the ``morphological k-correction'' expected if these objects were observed unevolved at high redshift. Using the common…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. E. Kuchinski , Barry F. Madore , Wendy L. Freedman , M. Trewella

We used ultraviolet (200 nm) images of the local spiral galaxies M33, M51, M81, M100, M101 to compute morphological parameters of galactic disks at this wavelength : half-light radius $r_{hl}$, surface brightness distributions, asymmetries…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Denis Burgarella , Veronique Buat , Jose Donas , Bruno Milliard , Sandra Chapelon

Morphologically classifying radio sources in continuum images with the SKA has the potential to address some of the key questions in cosmology and galaxy evolution. In particular, we may use different classes of radio sources as independent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-19 Sphesihle Makhathini , Oleg Smirnov , Matt Jarvis , Ian Heywood

We present a comprehensive analysis of atomic hydrogen (HI) properties using a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation and N-body simulations covering a large cosmological volume at high resolution. We examine the HI mass function and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Marta Spinelli , Anna Zoldan , Gabriella De Lucia , Lizhi Xie , Matteo Viel

One of the key science drivers for the development of the SKA is to observe the neutral hydrogen, HI, in galaxies as a means to probe galaxy evolution across a range of environments over cosmic time. Over the past decade, much progress has…

Lopsidedness is common in disk galaxies, yet its origin and evolution remain unclear. Previous studies typically examined stellar and gas asymmetries separately, but a combined analysis offers a stronger probe of the mechanisms driving…

We present HI observations of 68 early-type disk galaxies from the WHISP survey. They have morphological types between S0 and Sab and absolute B-band magnitudes between -14 and -22. These galaxies form the massive, high surface-brightness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Noordermeer , J. M. van der Hulst , R. Sancisi , R. A. Swaters , T. S. van Albada

We present results from 21 cm radio synthesis imaging of 28 spiral galaxies from the DiskMass Survey obtained with the VLA, WSRT, and GMRT facilities. We detail the observations and data reduction procedures and present a brief analysis of…

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