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We present the morphological properties of 17 spectroscopically confirmed massive quiescent galaxies ($10.2 < \log(M_{\ast}/M_{\odot}) < 11.2$) at $3.0 < z < 4.3$, observed with JWST/NIRSpec and NIRCam. Using S\'ersic profile fits to F277W…

Galaxy formation is intrinsically connected to the distinct evolutionary processes of disk and spheroidal systems, which are the fundamental stellar components of galaxies. Understanding the mutual dynamical interplay and co-evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Valeria A. Cristiani , Mario G. Abadi , Antonela Taverna , Juan Cabral , Federico Benelli , Bruno Sánchez

We present a preliminary study exploring whether the stellar orbital circularity of simulated galaxies, available from precomputed catalogs in the IllustrisTNG project, can be used as a proxy for broad morphological classification. We focus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-26 Katarina Baucalo , Ana Mitrašinović

We present bulge and disk (B/D) decompositions of existing K'-band surface brightness profiles for 65 Ursa Major cluster spiral galaxies. This improves upon the disk-only fits of Tully et al. (1996). The 1996 disk fits were used by Tully &…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael McDonald , Stephane Courteau , R. Brent Tully

Using deep imaging from the CANDELS and HFF surveys, we present bulge+disc decompositions with GalfitM for $\sim$17,000 galaxies over $0.2 \leq z\leq 1.5$. We use various model parameters to select reliable samples of discs and bulges, and…

In an effort to secure, refine and supplement the relation between central Supermassive Black Hole masses (Mbh), and the bulge luminosities of their host galaxies, (Lbul), we obtained deep, high spatial resolution K-band images of 35 nearby…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ronald Läsker , Laura Ferrarese , Glenn van de Ven

We present single-S\'ersic two-dimensional model fits to 167,600 galaxies modelled independently in the ugrizYJHK bandpasses using reprocessed Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Seven (SDSS DR7) and UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Large…

We use the bulge Sersic index n and bulge-to-total ratio (B/T) to explore the fundamental question of how bulges form. We perform 2D bulge-disk-bar decomposition on H-band images of 143 bright, high stellar mass (>1.0e10 solar masses)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Tim Weinzirl , Shardha Jogee , Sadegh Khochfar , Andreas Burkert , John Kormendy

Galaxy morphologies provide valuable insights into their formation processes, tracing the spatial distribution of ongoing star formation and encoding signatures of dynamical interactions. While such information has been extensively…

Quantitative morphological and structural parameters are estimated for galaxies detected in HST observations of WFPC2 survey fields. A modeling approach based on maximum likelihood has been developed for two-dimensional decomposition of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kavan U. Ratnatunga , Richard E. Griffiths , Eric J. Ostrander

Observations reveal a strong structural coupling between bulge and disc in S0 galaxies, which seems difficult to explain if they have formed from supposedly catastrophic events such as major mergers. We face this question by quantifying the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-24 M. Querejeta , M. C. Eliche-Moral , T. Tapia , A. Borlaff , C. Rodríguez-Pérez , J. Zamorano , J. Gallego

We present a rest-frame optical morphological analysis of galaxies observed with the NIRCam imager on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as part of the GLASS-JWST Early Release Science program. We select 388 sources at redshifts \(0.8 <…

Understanding the prevalence of disk-like galaxies at very high redshifts is crucial for constraining the early formation of angular momentum-supported structures. The advent of JWST now permits rest-frame UV and optical morphological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-17 S. S. Mirzoyan , A. Avagyan , V. G. Gurzadyan

It is widely accepted that within the framework of LCDM a significant fraction of giant-disk galaxies has recently experienced a violent galactic merger. We present numerical simulations of such major mergers of gas-rich pure disk galaxies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-05-15 Ariel Keselman , Adi Nusser

Numerous high-$z$ galaxies have recently been observed with JWST, providing new insights into early galaxy evolution. Their physical properties are typically derived through spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting, but the reliability of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Jiyoung Choe , Taysun Kimm , Harley Katz , Maxime Rey , Daniel Han , J. K. Jang , Joki Rosdahl

We present photometric and morphological analyses of nuclear star clusters (NSCs) -- very dense, massive star clusters present in the central regions of most galaxies -- in a sample of 33 massive disk galaxies within 20 Mpc, part of the…

Massive galaxies at higher redshifts ($\emph{z}$ $>$ 2) show different characteristics from their local counterparts: They are compact and most likely have a disk. In this study, we trace the evolution of local massive galaxies by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-15 Roozbeh H. Davari , Luis C. Ho , Bahram Mobasher , Gabriela Canalizo

A panchromatic investigation of morphology for the early-type spiral galaxy M81 is presented in this paper. We perform bulge-disk decomposition in M81 images at a total of 20 wavebands from FUV to NIR obtained with GALEX, Swift, SDSS, WIYN,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Jun-Yu Gong , Ye-Wei Mao , Hua Gao , Si-Yue Yu

In this thesis, we derive a catalogue of robust structural parameters for the components of a large sample of nearby GAMA galaxies while at the same time contributing to the advancement of image analysis, surface brightness fitting and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-20 Sarah Casura

We recently developed an automated method, auto-GMM to decompose simulated galaxies. It extracts kinematic structures in an accurate, efficient, and unsupervised way. We use auto-GMM to study the stellar kinematic structures of disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-10 Min Du , Luis C. Ho , Victor P. Debattista , Annalisa Pillepich , Dylan Nelson , Dongyao Zhao , Lars Hernquist