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We present the ellipticity distribution and its evolution for early-type galaxies in clusters from z~0.8 to z~0, based on the WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS)(0.04<z<0.07), and the ESO Distant Cluster Survey…

We use the overlap between multiband photometry of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) and spectroscopic data based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) to infer the colour-magnitude relation of red-sequence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-13 Mohammadjavad Vakili , Maciej Bilicki , Henk Hoekstra , Nora Elisa Chisari , Christos Georgiou , Arun Kannawadi , Koen Kuijken , Angus H. Wright

We use the spectra of 22,000 nearby early-type galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to determine the age distribution of these galaxies as a function of their velocity dispersion sigma_v in the range 100 km/s < sigma_v < 280…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Zoltan Haiman , Raul Jimenez , Mariangela Bernardi

We present a newly observed relation between galaxy mass and radial metallicity gradients of early-type galaxies. Our sample of 51 early-type galaxies encompasses a comprehensive mass range from dwarf to brightest cluster galaxies. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Max Spolaor , Robert N. Proctor , Duncan A. Forbes , Warrick J. Couch

We use Keck laser guide star adaptive optics imaging and exploit the magnifying effects of strong gravitational lensing (the effective resolution is FWHM ~ 200 pc) to investigate the sub-kpc scale of an intermediate-redshift (z = 0.63)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. W. Auger , T. Treu , B. J. Brewer , P. J. Marshall

This is the first in a series of papers describing the recently completed all-sky redshift-distance survey of nearby early-type galaxies (ENEAR) carried out for peculiar velocity analysis. The sample is divided into two parts and consists…

Based on 58 SLACS strong-lens early-type galaxies with direct total-mass and stellar-velocity dispersion measurements, we find that inside one effective radius massive elliptical galaxies with M_eff >= 3x10^10 M_sun are well-approximated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 L. V. E. Koopmans , A. Bolton , T. Treu , O. Czoske , M. W. Auger , M. Barnabe , S. Vegetti , R. Gavazzi , L. A. Moustakas , S. Burles

ABRIDGED: We study the evolution since z~1 of the rest-frame B luminosity function of the early-type galaxies (ETGs) in ~0.7 deg^2 in the COSMOS field. In order to identify ALL progenitors of local ETGs we construct the sample of high-z…

In order to study early type galaxies in their simplest environments, we have constructed a well-defined sample of 30 isolated galaxies. The sample contains all RC3 early-type galaxies with no other cataloged galaxy with known redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 James W. Colbert , John S. Mulchaey , Ann I. Zabludoff

Using a catalog of 147,986 galaxy redshifts and fluxes from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) we measure the galaxy luminosity density at z=0.1 in five optical bandpasses corresponding to the SDSS bandpasses shifted to match their…

We suggest and verify a new photometric method enabling derivation of relative thickness of a galactic disk from two-dimensional surface-brightness distribution of the galaxy in the plane of the sky. The method is applied to images of 45…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Ekaterina M. Chudakova , Olga K. Sil'chenko

We use the two-point correlation function to calculate the clustering properties of the recently completed SSRS2 survey. The redshift space correlation function for the magnitude-limited SSRS2 is given by xi(s)=(s/5.85 h-1 Mpc)^{-1.60} for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 C. N. A. Willmer , L. Nicolaci da Costa , P. S. Pellegrini

We determine an absolute calibration of stellar mass-to-light ratios for the densest \simeq 3% of early-type galaxies in the local universe (redshift z\simeq 0.08) from SDSS DR7. This sample of \sim 4000 galaxies has, assuming a Chabrier…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Aaron A. Dutton , J. Trevor Mendel , Luc Simard

Galaxy starlight at 3.6$\mu$m is an excellent tracer of stellar mass. Here we use the latest 3.6$\mu$m imaging from the Spitzer Space Telescope to measure the total stellar mass and effective radii in a homogeneous way for a sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Duncan A. Forbes , Luciana Sinpetru , Giulia Savorgnan , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Christopher Usher , Jean Brodie

We derive the number density evolution of massive field galaxies in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 1.2 using the K-band selected field galaxy sample from the Munich Near-IR Cluster Survey (MUNICS). We rely on spectroscopically calibrated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Drory , R. Bender , J. Snigula , G. Feulner , U. Hopp , C. Maraston , G. J. Hill , C. Mendes de Oliveira

We examine the UV emission from luminous early-type galaxies as a function of redshift. We perform a stacking analysis using Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) images of galaxies in the NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey (NDWFS) Bo\"otes field and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 David W. Atlee , Roberto J. Assef , Christopher S. Kochanek

We present the rest-frame colour-magnitude diagram for 35 early-type galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field with median redshift 0.9. Although with considerable scatter, a red sequence well-described by the passive evolution of an intrinsically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tadayuki Kodama , Richard G. Bower , Eric F. Bell

We constrain the evolution of the galaxy mass and luminosity functions from the analysis of (public) multi-wavelength data in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) area, obtained from the GOODS and other projects, and including very deep…

We present the results of a photometric redshift analysis designed to identify z>6 galaxies from the near-IR HST imaging in three deep fields (HUDF, HUDF09-2 & ERS). By adopting a rigorous set of criteria for rejecting low-z interlopers,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. J. McLure , J. S. Dunlop , L. de Ravel , M. Cirasuolo , R. S. Ellis , M. Schenker , B. E. Robertson , A. M. Koekemoer , D. P. Stark , R. A. A. Bowler

We present a weak gravitational lensing analysis of 22 early-type strong lens galaxies, based on deep HST images obtained as part of the Sloan Lens ACS Survey. Using the most advanced techniques to control systematic uncertainties related…