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We introduce our project that investigates the kinematic properties of early-type galaxies in 6 distant poor clusters at z~0.25. This study represents a continuation of our efforts to understand galaxy evolution in low-density environments.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander Fritz , Bodo L. Ziegler

We have used a large sample of low-inclination spiral galaxies with radially-resolved optical and near-infrared photometry to investigate trends in star formation history with radius as a function of galaxy structural parameters. A maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 Eric F. Bell , Roelof S. de Jong

We present a preliminary analysis of the sample of early type galaxies of Rampazzo et al. (2005), selected to build a data-set of spectral properties of well studied early-type galaxies showing emission lines. Because of the presence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Annibali , R. Rampazzo , A. Bressan , L. Danese , E. Bertone , M. Chavez , W. Zeilinger

We present the stellar population content of early-type galaxies from the Atlas3D survey. Using spectra integrated within apertures covering up to one effective radius, we apply two methods: one based on measuring line-strength indices and…

The age and chemical composition of the stars in present-day galaxies carry important clues about their star formation processes. The latest generation of population synthesis models have allowed to derive age and stellar metallicity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Anna Gallazzi

We study the stellar populations of 1,923 elliptical galaxies at z<0.05 selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as a function of velocity dispersion, sigma, and environment. We construct average, high signal-to-noise spectra and find the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Guangtun Zhu , Michael R. Blanton , John Moustakas

We examine stellar population gradients in ~100 massive early type galaxies spanning 180 < sigma* < 370 km/s and M_K of -22.5 to -26.5 mag, observed as part of the MASSIVE survey (Ma et al. 2014). Using integral-field spectroscopy from the…

We investigate the environmental dependence of stellar population properties of galaxies in the local universe. Physical quantities related to the stellar content of galaxies are derived from a spectral synthesis method applied to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 A. Mateus , Laerte Sodre , Roberto Cid Fernandes , Grazyna Stasinska

The environment is known to affect the formation and evolution of galaxies considerably best visible through the well-known morphology-density relationship. In this paper we study the effect of environment on the evolution of early-type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Daniel Thomas , Claudia Maraston , Kevin Schawinski , Marc Sarzi , Joseph Silk

We introduce a framework for simultaneously investigating the structure and luminosity evolution of early-type gravitational lens galaxies. The method is based on the fundamental plane, which we interpret using the aperture mass-radius…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Rusin , C. S. Kochanek

Although the spectrum of a prototypical early-type galaxy is assumed to lack emission lines, a substantial fraction (likely as high as 30%) of nearby red sequence galaxy spectra contain emission lines with line ratios characteristic of low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Genevieve J. Graves , Sandra M. Faber , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Renbin Yan

The colors and chemical abundances of early-type galaxies at redshifts z<0.3 are studied using a sample of nearly 9000 galaxies, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. In this sample, redder…

We study the environmental dependence of stellar population properties at z ~ 1.3. We derive galaxy properties (stellar masses, ages and star formation histories) for samples of massive, red, passive early-type galaxies in two high-redshift…

Drawing from the LEGA-C dataset, we present the spectroscopic view of the stellar population across a large volume- and mass-selected sample of galaxies at large lookback time. We measure the 4000\AA\ break (D$_n$4000) and Balmer absorption…

We study stellar population parameters of a sample of 13 dwarf galaxies located in poor groups of galaxies using high resolution spectra observed with VIMOS at the ESO-VLT. LICK-indices were compared with Simple Stellar Population models to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Grützbauch , F. Annibali , R. Rampazzo , A. Bressan , W. W. Zeilinger

Radial trends of stellar populations in galaxies provide a valuable tool to understand the mechanisms of galaxy growth. In this paper, we present the first comprehensive analysis of optical-optical and optical-NIR colours, as a function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. La Barbera , I. Ferreras , R. R. de Carvalho , G. Bruzual , S. Charlot , A. Pasquali , E. Merlin

We follow the chemical evolution of a galaxy through star formation and its feedback into the inter-stellar medium, starting from primordial gas and allowing for gas to inflow into the region being modelled. We attempt to reproduce observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. E. Sansom , R. N. Proctor

The Coma cluster is the ideal place to study galaxy structure as a function of environmental density in order to constrain theories of galaxy formation and evolution. Here we present the spectroscopy of 35 early type Coma galaxies, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dörte Mehlert , Ralf Bender , Roberto P. Saglia , Gary Wegner

We investigate the nature of HI-rich galaxies from the ALFALFA and GASS surveys, which are defined as galaxies in the top 10th percentile in atomic gas fraction at a given stellar mass. We analyze outer (R>1.5 Re) stellar populations for a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Guinevere Kauffmann

We derive stellar metallicities, light-weighted ages and stellar masses for a magnitude-limited sample of 175,128 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Two (SDSS DR2). We compute median-likelihood estimates of these…