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The stellar and dust content of spiral galaxies as function of radius has been investigated using near-infrared and optical broadband surface photometry of 86 face-on spiral galaxies. Colors of galaxies correlate with the azimuthally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 Roelof S. de Jong

Radial colour gradients within galaxies arise from gradients of stellar age, metallicity and dust reddening. Large samples of colour gradients from wide-area imaging surveys can complement smaller integral-field spectroscopy datasets and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Li-Wen Liao , Andrew Cooper

We use a combination of deep optical (gri) and near-infrared (H) photometry to study the radially-resolved colours of a broad sample of 300 Virgo cluster galaxies. For most galaxy types, we find that the median g-H colour gradient is either…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Joel C. Roediger , Stephane Courteau , Michael McDonald , Lauren A. MacArthur

We analyze the stellar mass-to-light ratio (M/L) gradients in a large sample of local galaxies taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, spanning a wide range of stellar masses and morphological types. As suggested by the well known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Tortora , N. R. Napolitano , A. J. Romanowsky , Ph. Jetzer , V. F. Cardone , M. Capaccioli

(Abbreviated) Optical observations of a statistically complete sample of edge-on disc galaxies are used to study the intrinsic vertical colour gradients in the galactic discs, to constrain the effects of population gradients, residual dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Richard de Grijs , Reynier F. Peletier

We study the rest-frame ultraviolet-optical color gradients of 441 galaxies at $4<z<8$ by characterizing the wavelength dependence of their structural parameters derived from simultaneously fitting the seven-band NIRCam images acquired with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-22 Bingcheng Jin , Luis C. Ho , Wen Sun

(Abridged) We investigate optical and near-IR color gradients in a sample of 172 low-inclination galaxies spanning Hubble types S0--Irr. The colors are compared to stellar population synthesis models from which luminosity-weighted average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lauren A. MacArthur , Stephane Courteau , Eric Bell , Jon Holtzman

Using a sample of nearly 20,000 massive early-type galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we study the color-magnitude relation for the most luminous (L > 2.2 L^{*}) field galaxies in the redshift range 0.1<z<0.4 in several…

A statistical study of global galaxy parameters can help to improve our understanding of galaxy formation processes. In this paper we present the analysis of global galaxy parameters based on optical and near-infrared observations of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. de Grijs

Recent studies have indicated that the ratio between half-mass and half-light radii, $r_{\rm mass} / r_{\rm light}$, varies significantly as a function of stellar mass and redshift, complicating the interpretation of the ubiquitous $r_{\rm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Tim B. Miller , Pieter van Dokkum , Lamiya Mowla

We report the detection of color gradients in six massive (stellar mass > 10^{10} M_{sun}) and passively evolving (specific SFR < 10^{-11}/yr) galaxies at redshift 1.3<z<2.5 identified in the HUDF using HST ACS and WFC3/IR images. After…

Color gradients in early-type galaxies contain valuable clues about their formation and evolutionary histories and mechanisms. We examine color gradients in 1,700 early-type galaxies in 159 galaxy clusters spanning a redshift range of 0.05…

Color gradients in elliptical galaxies in distant clusters ($z=0.37-0.56$) are examined by using the archival deep imaging data of Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on-board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Obtained color gradients are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Naoyuki Tamura , Kouji Ohta

Using spectroscopically selected galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey we present a detection of reddening due to dust in the circumgalactic medium of galaxies. We detect the mean change in the colors of "standard crayons" correlated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 J. E. G. Peek , Brice Ménard , Lia Corrales

We use empirical techniques to interpret the near-infrared colours of a sample of 5800 galaxies drawn from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) main spectroscopic sample with YJHK photometry from the UK Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Eminian , G. Kauffmann , S. Charlot , V. Wild , G. Bruzual , A. Rettura , J. Loveday

The determination of stellar populations of galaxies are important for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies, because all galaxies contain many stars and they evolve with galaxies. Spectra data are usually used to determine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-04 Zhongmu Li

We present results of age and metallicity gradient analysis inferred from both optical and near-infrared surface photometry. The analysis is based on a sample of 36 nearby early-type galaxies, obtained from the Early Data Release of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hong Wu , Zhengyi Shao , H. J. Mo , Xiaoyang Xia , Zugan Deng

Using HST/ACS observations, we measure the color gradients of 3248 galaxies in the GOODS-South field out to z~3 and i_{AB}<25.5 and characterize their dependence on galaxy properties (luminosity, apparent magnitude, galaxy size, redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-03 Niraj Welikala , Jean-Paul Kneib

A large body of evidence has demonstrated that the global rest-frame optical and IR colours of galaxies correlate well with each other, as well as with other galactic properties such as surface brightness and morphology. However the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Stefano Zibetti , Brent Groves

The changes in colors across a galaxy are intimately connected to the galaxy's formation, growth, quenching history, and dust content. A particularly important epoch in the growth of galaxies is near $z \sim 2$ often referred to as `cosmic…

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