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The formation and evolution of disk-dominated galaxies is difficult to explain, yet these objects exist. We therefore embarked on a study aimed at a better understanding of these enigmatic objects. We used data from the SDSS DR1 in order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. J. Kautsch , E. K. Grebel , F. D. Barazza , J. S. Gallagher

Observations show that the surface brightness of disc galaxies can be well-described by a single exponential (TI), up-bending (TIII) or down-bending (TII) profiles in the outskirts. Here we characterize the mass surface densities of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Silvio Varela-Lavin , Patricia B. Tissera , Facundo A. Gómez , Lucas A. Bignone , Claudia del P. Lagos

We analyze the stellar light, 4000 Angstrom break and emission line profiles of 82 edge-on disk galaxies from the MaNGA survey. We characterize the stellar light profiles perpendicular to the disk plane using two parameters: a) the power…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-21 Guinevere Kauffmann , Richard D'Souza , Antonela Monachesi

Resolved observations of debris discs can be used to derive radial profiles of Azimuthally-averaged Surface Density (ASD), which carries important information about the disc structure even in presence of non-axisymmetric features and has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Roman R. Rafikov

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

Most, if not all, disk galaxies have a thin (classical) disk and a thick disk. In most models thick disks are thought to be a necessary consequence of the disk formation and/or evolution of the galaxy. We present the results of a study of…

We present a study of the vertical structure of the gaseous and stellar disks in a sample of edge-on galaxies (NGC 4157, 4565, and 5907) using BIMA/CARMA 12CO (J = 1 --> 0), VLA H I, and Spitzer 3.6 micron data. In order to take into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Kijeong Yim , Tony Wong , Rui Xue , Richard J. Rand , Erik Rosolowsky , J. M. van der Hulst , Robert Benjamin , Eric J. Murphy

Stellar scattering off irregularities in a galaxy disk has been shown to make an exponential radial profile, but no fundamental reason for this has been suggested. Here we show that exponentials are mathematically expected from random…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Curtis Struck

We determine the radial abundance distributions across the disks of fourteen irregular galaxies of the types Sm and Im (morphological T types T = 9 and T =10) as traced by their HII regions. The oxygen and nitrogen abundances in HII regions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-05 L. S. Pilyugin , E. K. Grebel , I. A. Zinchenko

Disk scale length and central surface brightness for a sample of about 29955 bright disk galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have been analysed. Cross correlation of the SDSS sample with the LEDA catalogue allowed us to investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Kambiz Fathi

We present near-infrared imaging of a sample of 57 relatively large, Northern spiral galaxies with low inclination. After describing the selection criteria and some of the basic properties of the sample, we give a detailed description of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. H. Knapen , R. S. de Jong , S. Stedman , D. M. Bramich

There is a clear scarcity of structural parameters for stellar thick discs, especially for spiral galaxies located in high-density regions, such as galaxy clusters and compact groups. We have modelled the thin and thick discs of 4 edge-on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Basilio X. Santiago , Tibério B. Vale

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 present specific Star Formation Rate (sSFR) radial profiles for a sample of 161 relatively face-on spiral galaxies from the GALEX Atlas of Nearby Galaxies. The sSFR profiles are derived from GALEX & 2MASS (FUV-K) color profiles after a…

We present a sample of 950 edge-on spiral galaxies found with the use of an artificial neural network in the Hubble Space Telescope COSMOS field. This is currently the largest sample of distant edge-on galaxies. For all galaxies we analyzed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-12 P. A. Usachev , V. P. Reshetnikov , S. S. Savchenko

We use the open clusters (OCs) with known parameters available in the WEBDA database and in recently published papers to derive properties related to the disk structure. The sample totals 654 OCs, consisting basically of Trumpler types I to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Bonatto , L. O. Kerber , E. Bica , B. X. Santiago

Aims: We present a statistical analysis of different characteristics of ringed spiral galaxies with the aim of assessing the effects of rings on disk galaxy properties. Methods: We built a catalog of ringed galaxies from the Sloan Digital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-15 Julia Fernandez , Sol Alonso , Valeria Mesa , Fernanda Duplancic , Georgina Coldwell

We summarize the results obtained from our suite of chemical evolution models for spiral disks, computed for different total masses and star formation efficiencies. Once the gas, stars and star formation radial distributions are reproduced,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Mercedes Mollá , Angeles I. Díaz , Brad K. Gibson , Oscar Cavichia , Ángel-R. López-Sánchez

(Abridged) A robust analysis of galaxy structural parameters, based on the modeling of bulge and disk brightnesses in the BVRH bandpasses, is presented for 121 face-on and moderately inclined late-type spirals. Each surface brightness (SB)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Lauren A. MacArthur , Stephane Courteau , Jon A. Holtzman

We have performed a high mass and force resolution simulation of an idealized galaxy forming from dissipational collapse of gas embedded in a spherical dark matter halo. The simulation includes star formation and effects of stellar…