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Disc galaxies exhibit radial metallicity gradients in both their stellar and gaseous components. The star-forming gas (SFG) in HII regions and young stars (YSs) trace the recent evolutionary history of the galaxy. We aim to assess the…

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We present the evolution of galaxy sizes, from redshift 2 to 0, for actively star forming and passive galaxies in the cosmological hydrodynamical 1003 cMpc3 simulation of the EAGLE project. We find that the sizes increase with stellar mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 M. Furlong , R. G. Bower , R. A. Crain , J. Schaye , T. Theuns , J. W. Trayford , Y. Qu , M. Schaller , M. Berthet , J. C. Helly

We analyse the Fundamental Plane (FP) relation of $39,993$ early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the optical (griz) and $5,080$ ETGs in the Near-Infrared (YJHK) wavebands, forming an optical$+$NIR sample of $4,589$ galaxies. We focus on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. La Barbera , P. A. A. Lopes , R. R. de Carvalho , I. G. de la Rosa , A. A. Berlind

Cosmological simulations predict that early-type galaxies (ETGs) are the results of extended mass accretion histories. The latter are characterized by different numbers of mergers, mergers mass ratios and gas fractions, and timing.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 Magda Arnaboldi , Claudia Pulsoni , Ortwin Gerhard , ePN. S team

The 6dF Galaxy Survey provides a very large sample of galaxies with reliable measurements of Lick line indices and velocity dispersions. This sample can be used to explore the correlations between mass and stellar population parameters such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-08 Matthew Colless , Heath Jones , Rob Proctor , Craig Harrison , Lachlan Campbel , Philip Lah

This is the second paper of a series aimed to study the stellar kinematics and population properties of bulges in highly-inclined barred galaxies. In this work, we carry out a detailed analysis of the stellar age, metallicity and [Mg/Fe] of…

The fundamental plane (FP) has an intrinsic scatter that can not be explained purely by observational errors. Using recently available age estimates for nearby early type galaxies, we show that a galaxy's position relative to the FP depends…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Duncan Forbes , Trevor Ponman , Richard Brown

We present line-strengths and kinematics from the central regions of 32 galaxies with Hubble types ranging from E to Sbc. Spectral indices, based on the Lick system, are measured in the optical and near infra-red (NIR). The 24 indices…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. N. Proctor , A. E. Sansom

We present an analysis of the color-magnitude-velocity dispersion relation for a sample of 39320 early-type galaxies within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We demonstrate that the color-magnitude relation is entirely a consequence of the fact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Bernardi , R. K. Sheth , R. C. Nichol , D. P. Schneider , J. Brinkmann

We present the stellar mass-size relations for elliptical, lenticular, and spiral galaxies in the field and cluster environments using HST/ACS imaging and data from the Space Telescope A901/2 Galaxy Evolution Survey (STAGES). We use a large…

We study the formation of planes of dwarf galaxies around Milky Way (MW)-mass haloes in the EAGLE galaxy formation simulation. We focus on satellite systems similar to the one in the MW: spatially thin or with a large fraction of members…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-08 Shi Shao , Marius Cautun , Carlos S. Frenk

We investigate the evolution of galaxy masses and star formation rates in the Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environment (EAGLE) simulations. These comprise a suite of hydrodynamical simulations in a $\Lambda$CDM cosmogony…

The statistical properties of the ellipticities of galaxy images depend on how galaxies form and evolve, and therefore constrain models of galaxy morphology, which are key to the removal of the intrinsic alignment contamination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-28 B. Joachimi , E. Semboloni , P. E. Bett , J. Hartlap , S. Hilbert , H. Hoekstra , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback

In models of galaxy formation in a hierarchical Universe, elliptical galaxies form through the merging of smaller disk systems. These models yield a number of testable predictions if reliable techniques for determining the relative ages and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Thomas , Guinevere Kauffmann

We have developed a new tool to analyse galaxies in the EAGLE simulations as close as possible to observations.We investigated the evolution of their kinematic properties by means of the angular momentum proxy parameter,$ \lambda_{Re} $for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 Daniel Walo-Martín , Jesús Falcón-Barroso , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Isabel Pérez , Andrea Negri

The merger history of a galaxy is thought to be one of the major factors determining its internal dynamics, with galaxies having undergone different types or mergers (e.g. dry, minor or major mergers) predicted to show different dynamical…

We introduce the MOdelling Star cluster population Assembly In Cosmological Simulations within EAGLE (E-MOSAICS) project. E-MOSAICS incorporates models describing the formation, evolution and disruption of star clusters into the EAGLE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Joel Pfeffer , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Robert A. Crain , Nate Bastian

We compare global predictions from the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation, and two semi-analytic (SA) models of galaxy formation, L-GALAXIES and GALFORM. All three models include the key physical processes for the formation and evolution of…

Cumulative number density matching of galaxies is a method to observationally connect descendent galaxies to their typical main progenitors at higher redshifts and thereby to assess the evolution of galaxy properties. The accuracy of this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Bart Clauwens , Marijn Franx , Joop Schaye

We test the validity of comparing simulated field disk galaxies with the empirical properties of systems situated within environments more comparable to loose groups, including the Milky Way's Local Group. Cosmological simulations of Milky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 C. G. Few , B. K. Gibson , S. Courty , L. Michel-Dansac , C. B. Brook , G. S. Stinson