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We use a sample of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to search for correlations between the $\lambda$ spin parameter and the environment and mass of galaxies. In order to calculate the total value of $\lambda$ for each…

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We estimated 34 sets of Galactic model parameters for three intermediate latitude fields with Galactic longitudes l=60, l=90, and l=180, and we discussed their dependence on the volume. Also, we confirmed the variation of these parameters…

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For a sample of bright nearby early-type galaxies we have obtained surface photometry in bands ranging from U to K. Since the galaxies have inclinations larger than 50 deg. it is easy to separate bulges and disks. By measuring the colours…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 R. F. Peletier , M. Balcells

We present deep B- and R-band surface photometry for a sample of 21 galaxies with morphological types between S0 and Sab. We present radial profiles of surface brightness, colour, ellipticity, position angle and deviations of axisymmetry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Noordermeer , J. M. van der Hulst

We perform controlled N-body simulations of disc galaxies growing within live dark matter (DM) haloes to present-day galaxies that contain both thin and thick discs. We consider two types of models: a) thick-disc initial conditions to which…

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We investigate the origin of the type III (up-bending) discs based on a sample of 1808 galaxies from SDSS and a sub-sample of 286 galaxies with HI data from ALFALFA. We examine how the type III fraction f3, the fraction of disc galaxies…

We investigate the scaling relations of bulge and disk structural parameters for a sample of 108 disk galaxies.Structural parameters are obtained from 2D bulge/disk decomposition of H-band images.Bulges are modelled with a generalized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. K. Hunt , D. Pierini , C. Giovanardi

We are able to extend the investigation of the color-morphology-density-radius relations, for bright and faint galaxies, to $R \gtrsim 3 \times R_{200}$ and to very low density regions, probing the transition region between cluster and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-04 P. A. A. Lopes , A. L. B. Ribeiro , S. B. Rembold

We use a volume-limited galaxy sample from the SDSS Data Release 7 to explore the dependence of galactic conformity on the large-scale environment, measured on $\sim$ 4 Mpc scales. We find that the star formation activity of neighbour…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-04 Shuangpeng Sun , Qi Guo , Lan Wang , Jie Wang , Liang Gao , Cedric G. Lacey , Jun Pan

A statistical study of global galaxy parameters can help to improve our understanding of galaxy formation processes. In this paper we present the analysis of global galaxy parameters based on optical and near-infrared observations of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. de Grijs

High-resolution LCDM cosmological N-body simulations are used to study the properties of galaxy-size dark halos in different environments (cluster, void, and "field"). Halos in clusters and their surroundings have a median spin parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Avila-Reese , P. Colin , S. Gottloeber , C. Firmani , C. Maulbetsch

Aims: At intermediate redshift, galaxy groups/clusters are thought to impact galaxies (e.g. their angular momentum). We investigate whether the environment has an impact on the galaxies' angular momentum and identify underlying driving…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-20 W. Mercier , B. Epinat , T. Contini , D. Krajnović , L. Ciesla , B. C. Lemaux , V. Abril-Melgarejo , L. Boogaard , D. Pelliccia

We investigate the dependence of the local space density of spiral galaxies on luminosity, scalesize and surface brightness. We derive bivariate space density distributions in these quantities from a sample of about 1000 Sb-Sdm spiral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roelof S. de Jong , Cedric Lacey

In this paper, we try to find any dependence of the Galactic structural parameters with the Galactic longitude for either the thin disc or the thick disc of the Milky Way, that would indicate to possible inhomogeneities or asymmetries in…

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To investigate the role of morphology in galaxy evolution, we analyze the relationships between galaxy structure, star formation, and HI gas content. Using multi-band images from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, we perform detailed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-19 Zhimin Zhou , Wenwen Wang

We construct a large data set of global structural parameters for 1300 field and cluster spiral galaxies and explore the joint distribution of luminosity L, optical rotation velocity V, and disk size R at I- and 2MASS K-bands. The I- and…

We address the effects of bar-driven secular evolution in discs by comparing their properties in a sample of nearly 700 unbarred and barred (42 +- 3 per cent of the population) massive disc galaxies (M* > 10^10 Msun). We make use of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Rubén Sánchez-Janssen , Dimitri A. Gadotti

We present a catalog of bulge, disk, and total stellar mass estimates for ~660,000 galaxies in the Legacy area of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. These masses are based on a homogeneous catalog of g- and r-band photometry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Trevor Mendel , Luc Simard , Michael Palmer , Sara L. Ellison , David R. Patton

Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR 7, we investigate the environment, morphology and stellar population of bulgeless low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies in a volume-limited sample with redshift ranging from 0.024 to 0.04 and $M_r$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-01 X. Shao , K. Disseau , Y. B. Yang , F. Hammer , M. Puech , M. Rodrigues , Y. C. Liang , L. C. Deng

The vertical structure of galactic disks is an important probe of disk assembly history. We investigate a sample of 79 local disk galaxies within 50 Mpc using data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. Vertical luminosity profiles as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-14 Nan Chen , Jianhui Lian , Yuze Zhao