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Subjective classification of spiral galaxies is not sufficient for studying the effect of bars on their physical characteristics. In reality the problem is to comprehend the complex correlations in a multivariate parametric space.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-13 Prasenjit Banerjee , Tanuka Chattopadhyay , Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay

A homogeneous sample of galaxy redshifts in the core regions (R < 0.5 h$^{-1}$ Mpc) of 12 clusters is used to measure the frequency of substructure with different tests. In 50 % of the cases substructure is detected, a frequency which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Stein

Important but rare and subtle processes driving galaxy morphology and star-formation may be missed by traditional spiral, elliptical, irregular or S\'ersic bulge/disk classifications. To overcome this limitation, we use a principal…

We present a new non-parametric method to quantify morphologies of galaxies based on a particular family of learning machines called support vector machines. The method, that can be seen as a generalization of the classical CAS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Huertas-Company , D. Rouan , L. Tasca , G. Soucail , O. Le Fevre

We investigate the power of the caustic technique for identifying substructures of galaxy clusters from optical redshift data alone. The caustic technique is designed to estimate the mass profile of galaxy clusters to radii well beyond the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Heng Yu , Ana Laura Serra , Antonaldo Diaferio , Marco Baldi

Compact Groups (CGs) of galaxies are dense systems where projected separations are comparable to their optical diameters. A subset - non-isolated CGs - are embedded within major structures. Using multi-band S-PLUS data, we analyse galaxies…

Using traditional morphological classifications of galaxies in 10 intermediate-redshift (z~0.5) clusters observed with WFPC-2 on the Hubble Space Telescope, we derive relations between morphology and local galaxy density similar to that…

We develop a general theory for estimating the probability that a galaxy cluster of a given shape exists. The theory is based on the observed result that the distribution of galaxies is very close to quasi-equilibrium, in both its linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-11 Abel Yang , William C. Saslaw

We revisit the scaling relations and star-forming histories of local elliptical galaxies using a novel selection method applied to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7. We combine two probability-based automated spectroscopic and morphological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. A. L. Aguerri , M. Huertas-Company , J. Sánchez Almeida , C. Munoz-Tunon

Principal component method is used to study galactic globular clusters in 7- and 8-axis space of structural parameters. It is shown that the manifold properties of clusters with this set of parameters is determined mainly by two independent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Eigenson , O. Yatsyk

The morphology-density relationship states that dense cosmic environments such as galaxy clusters have an overabundance of quiescent elliptical galaxies, but it is unclear at which redshift this relationship is first established. We study…

The presence or absence of star clusters in galaxies, and the properties of star cluster populations compared to their host galaxy properties, are important observables for validating models of cluster formation, galaxy formation, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Samantha C. Berek , Marta Reina-Campos , Gwendolyn Eadie , Alison Sills

We use an approach to estimate galaxy morphologies based on an ellipticity (e) vs. Bulge-to-Total ratio (B/T) plane. We have calibrated this plane by comparing with Dressler's classifications. With the aid of our calibration, we have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Christopher Añorve , Omar López-Cruz , Hector Ibarra-Medel , Jonathan León-Tavares

The properties of old globular cluster systems in galaxy halos are used to infer quantitative constraints on aspects of generic star (cluster) formation. First, the spatial distribution of globulars in three large galaxies, together with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dean E. McLaughlin

Galaxies of rare morphology are of paramount scientific interest, as they carry important information about the past, present, and future universe. Once a rare galaxy is identified, studying it more effectively requires a set of galaxies of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Lior Shamir

Morphology and structure of galaxies reflect their star formation and assembly histories. We use the framework of mutual information ($\mathrm{MI}$) to quantify interdependence among several structural variables and to rank them according…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Hassen M. Yesuf , Luis C. Ho , S. M. Faber

The morphology of a galaxy has been shown to encode the evolutionary history and correlates strongly with physical properties such as stellar mass, star formation rates and past merger events. While the majority of galaxies in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Clár-Bríd Tohill , Steven Bamford , Christopher Conselice

In this study, we investigate the morphology of galaxies in the TNG100 simulation by applying mock observation techniques and compare the results with the observational data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). By employing a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-01 Jun-Yu Gong , Weipeng Lin , Lin Tang , Yanyao Lan

We present a detailed study of the morphological features of 22 rich galaxy clusters. We systematically compare cluster images and morphological parameters in an attempt to reliably identify possible substructure in both optical and X-ray…

The morphology of galaxies can be quantified to some degree using a set of scale-invariant parameters. Concentration (C), Asymmetry (A), Smoothness (S), the Gini index (G), relative contribution of the brightest pixels to the second order…