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Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) and compact dwarfs (CDs) occupy opposite extremes of the structural parameter space of dwarf galaxies, yet their spatial distributions in clusters suggest a possible evolutionary connection. Observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Nataša Pavlov , Ana Mitrašinović

We re-examine the 7,070 candidate ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the SMUDGes survey and provide classifications based on their visual morphology. Among the more interesting cases, we identify objects along a low surface brightness galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-14 Dennis Zaritsky , Richard Donnerstein , Donghyeon J. Khim

The EGRET results for gamma ray intensities in and near the Galactic Plane have been analysed in some detail. Attention has been concentrated on energies above 1 GeV and the individual intensities in a $4^{\circ}$ longitude bin have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Erlykin , A. W. Wolfendale

We present the ultraviolet (UV) color-color relation of early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the nearby universe (0.05 < z < 0.12) to investigate the properties of hot stellar populations responsible for the UV excess (UVX). The initial sample of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Chang H. Ree , Hyunjin Jeong , Kyuseok Oh , Chul Chung , Joon Hyeop Lee , Sang Chul Kim , Jaemann Kyeong

We report the discovery of post-starburst ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs), identified through spectroscopic analysis with KCWI at the Keck II Telescope. Our analysis is based on a sample of 44 candidate UDGs selected from the Systematically…

We discuss some results of a morphological study of edge-on galaxies, based on optical and especially near-infrared surface photometry. We find that the vertical surface brightness distributions of galaxies are fitted very well by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. F. Peletier , R. de Grijs

The scaling relation between stellar mass ($M_{*}$) and physical effective radius ($r_{e}$) has been well-studied using wide spectroscopic surveys. However, these surveys suffer from severe surface brightness incompleteness in the dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-07 Daniel J. Prole

Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) are predominatly found in the cores of nearby galaxy clusters. Besides the Fornax and Virgo cluster, UCDs have also been confirmed in the twice as distant Hydra I and Centaurus clusters. Having (nearly)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Hilker

Context: This paper focuses on a class of galaxies characterised by an extremely low surface brightness: the ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs). We used new integral-field spectroscopic data from the ESO Large Programme Looking into the faintEst…

Dwarf galaxies are excellent cosmological probes, because their shallow potential wells make them very sensitive to the key processes that drive galaxy evolution, including baryonic feedback, tidal interactions, and ram pressure stripping.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 A. E. Watkins , H. Salo , S. Kaviraj , C. A. Collins , J. H. Knapen , A. Venhola , J. Román

We study the origins of 122 ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the {\sc RomulusC} zoom-in cosmological simulation of a galaxy cluster (M$_{200} = 1.15\times10^{14}$ M$_{\odot}$), one of the only such simulations capable of resolving the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 Michael Tremmel , Anna C. Wright , Alyson M. Brooks , Ferah Munshi , Daisuke Nagai , Thomas R. Quinn

We study the stellar properties of a sample of simulated ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) with stellar mass $\rm{M_\star=10^{7.5} - 10^{9} ~ M_{\odot}}$, selected from the TNG50 simulation, where UDGs form mainly in high-spin dwarf-mass halos.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-13 José A. Benavides , Laura V. Sales , Mario. G. Abadi , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Lars Hernquist

The structure of the outskrits of galaxies provides valuable information about their past and evolution. Due to their projected orientation, edge-on isolated galaxies effectively serve as test labs in which to study the three-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-20 Luis Ossa-Fuentes , Alejandro S. Borlaff , John E. Beckman , Pamela M. Marcum , Michael N. Fanelli

The globular cluster systems of galaxies are well-known to extend to large galactocentric radii. Here we quantify the size of GC systems using the half number radius of 22 GC systems around early-type galaxies from the literature. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 Duncan A. Forbes

The size-luminosity relation of early-type Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs), R_e ~ L^0.88, is steeper than that for the bulk of the early-type galaxy population, for which R_e ~ L^0.68. In addition, although BCGs are hardly offset from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bernardi , J. B. Hyde , R. K. Sheth , C. J. Miller , R. C. Nichol

This paper explores if, and to what an extent, the stellar populations of early type galaxies can be traced through the colour distribution of their globular cluster systems. The analysis, based on a galaxy sample from the Virgo ACS data,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Juan C. Forte , E. Irene Vega , Favio R. Faifer

We study a large sample of 625 low-redshift brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) and link their morphologies to their structural properties. We derive visual morphologies and find that ~57% of the BCGs are cD galaxies, ~13% are ellipticals,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-07 Dongyao Zhao , Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca , Christopher J. Conselice

We recently identified a population of low surface brightness objects in the field of the z=0.023 Coma cluster, using the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. Here we present Keck spectroscopy of one of the largest of these "ultra-diffuse galaxies"…

We use the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulation to study the formation of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in galaxy clusters. We supplement the simulations with a realistic mass-size relation for galaxies at the time of infall…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-30 Laura V. Sales , Julio F. Navarro , Louis Penafiel , Eric W. Peng , Sungsoon Lim , Lars Hernquist