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Following the study of Darg et al. (2009; hereafter D09a) we explore the environments, optical colours, stellar masses, star formation and AGN activity in a sample of 3003 pairs of merging galaxies drawn from the SDSS using visual…

A theory is developed for the dynamics of eccentric perturbations $[\propto \exp(\pm i\phi)]$ of a disk galaxy residing in a spherical dark matter halo and including a spherical bulge component. The disk is represented as a large number $N$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. V. E. Lovelace , L. Zhang , D. A. Kornreich , M. P. Haynes

A sample of 22 spiral galaxy rotation curves, measured in the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen, is considered in the context of Milgrom's modified dynamics (MOND). Combined with the previous highly selected sample of Begeman et al. (1990),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 R. H. Sanders

We use the OWLS (OverWhelmingly Large Simulations) set of cosmological Nbody/gasdynamical simulations to study the properties of simulated galaxies at z=2. We focus on the effect of supernova feedback from evolving stars on the baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-25 Julio F. Navarro , Laura V. Sales , Joop Schaye , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Volker Springel

We investigate the total mass density slope evolution in massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) over the last 6.5 billion years ($0 < z < 0.75$). We perform a detailed dynamical analysis of approximately 200 ETGs spanning the redshift range…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-12 Pritom Mozumdar , Michele Cappellari , Christopher D. Fassnacht , Tommaso Treu

Molecular gas, as the fuel for star formation, and its relationship with atomic gas are crucial for understanding how galaxies regulate their star forming (SF) activities. We conducted IRAM 30m observations of 23 nearby spiral galaxies from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-31 Yan Jiang , Jiang-Tao Li , Qing-Hua Tan , Li Ji , Joel N. Bregman , Q. Daniel Wang , Jian-Fa Wang , Li-Yuan Lu , Xue-Jian Jiang

The metallicity of star-forming gas in galaxies from the EAGLE simulations increases with stellar mass. Here we investigate whether the scatter around this relation correlates with morphology and/or stellar kinematics. At redshift $z=0$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 L. J Zenocratti , M. E. De Rossi , M. A. Lara-López , T. Theuns

The angular momentum evolution of stars is crucial for understanding the formation and evolution of stars and star clusters. Using high-resolution magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of star formation in clouds with different physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Giacomo Cordoni , Sajay Sunny Mathew , Christoph Federrath

We examine the fraction of early-type (and spiral) galaxies found in groups and clusters of galaxies as a function of dark matter halo mass. We use morphological classifications from the Galaxy Zoo project matched to halo masses from both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ben Hoyle , Karen. L. Masters , Robert C. Nichol , Raul Jimenez , Steven P. Bamford

The relations between the specific angular momenta ($j$) and masses ($M$) of galaxies are often used as a benchmark in analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations as they are considered to be amongst the most fundamental scaling…

Aims: In this work we aim to investigate the late evolution of ETGs, both observationally and theoretically, by focusing on the stellar mass density profile inside a fixed aperture, within $10 ~\rm{kpc}$ from the galaxy center. Methods: We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-18 Rongfu Liu , Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Carlo Nipoti , Rui Li

Using the Horizon-AGN simulation data, we study the relative role of mergers and environmental effects in shaping the spin of early-type galaxies (ETGs) after $z \simeq 1$. We follow the spin evolution of 10,037 color-selected ETGs more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-17 Hoseung Choi , Sukyoung K. Yi , Yohan Dubois , Taysun Kimm , Julien. E. G. Devriendt , Christophe Pichon

The mass assembly of galaxies leaves various imprints on their surroundings, such as shells, streams and tidal tails. The frequency and properties of these fine structures depend on the mechanism driving the mass assembly: e.g. a monolithic…

Rotation and magnetic fields in the cores of evolved massive stars in their final phase are thought to play an important role in the subsequent supernova explosion and the formation of a compact object, especially in hyperenergetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Ryota Shimada , Lucy O. McNeill , Vishnu Varma , Keiichi Maeda , Takaaki Yokoyama , Bernhard Müller

We present an analysis of the growth of stellar mass with cosmic time partitioned according to galaxy morphology. Using a well-defined catalog of 2150 galaxies based, in part, on archival data in the GOODS fields, we assign morphological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Bundy , R. S. Ellis , C. J. Conselice

The standard disc formation scenario postulates that disc forms as the gas cools and flows into the centre of the dark matter halo, conserving the specific angular momentum. Major mergers have been shown to be able to destroy or highly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 S. E. Pedrosa , P. B. Tissera , M. E. De Rossi

The spin, $\lambda$, of dark matter (DM) halos in cosmological simulations follows a log normal distribution and has little correlation with galaxy observables. As such, there is currently no way to infer the $\lambda$ parameter of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 A. Obreja , T. Buck , A. V. Macciò

We measure the stellar mass-star formation rate relation in star-forming disk galaxies at z<0.085, using Galaxy~Zoo morphologies to examine different populations of spirals as classified by their kiloparsec-scale structure. We examine the…

We present measurements of the specific angular momentum content (j) of galaxies drawn from the Simba cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. For the stellar, HI and baryonic matter components we demonstrate the existence of extremely tight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-14 E. Elson , M. Głowacki , R. Davé

We perform full spectrum fitting stellar population analysis and Jeans Anisotropic modelling (JAM) of the stellar kinematics for about 2000 early-type galaxies (ETGs) and spiral galaxies from the MaNGA DR14 sample. Galaxies with different…