All Outputs (5)

SDSS-IV MaNGA: probing the kinematic morphology–density relation of early-type galaxies with MaNGA (2017)
Journal Article
Greene, J., Leauthaud, A., Emsellem, E., Goddard, D., Ge, J., Andrews, B., …Drory, N. (2017). SDSS-IV MaNGA: probing the kinematic morphology–density relation of early-type galaxies with MaNGA. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 851(2), Article L33. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa8ace

The “kinematic” morphology–density relation for early-type galaxies posits that those galaxies with low angular momentum are preferentially found in the highest-density regions of the universe. We use a large sample of galaxy groups with halo masses... Read More about SDSS-IV MaNGA: probing the kinematic morphology–density relation of early-type galaxies with MaNGA.

The 13th data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first spectroscopic data from the SDSS-IV survey mapping nearby galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (2017)
Journal Article
Albareti, F. D., Prieto, C. A., Almeida, A., Anders, F., Anderson, S., Andrews, B. H., …and 125 authors. (2017). The 13th data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first spectroscopic data from the SDSS-IV survey mapping nearby galaxies at Apache Point Observatory. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 233(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa8992

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in 2014 July. It pursues three core programs: the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2), Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA), and the... Read More about The 13th data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first spectroscopic data from the SDSS-IV survey mapping nearby galaxies at Apache Point Observatory.

SDSS-IV MaNGA: the different quenching histories of fast and slow rotators (2017)
Journal Article
Smethurst, R. J., Masters, K. L., Lintott, C. J., Weijmans, A., Merrifield, M. R., Penny, S. J., …Nichol, R. C. (2018). SDSS-IV MaNGA: the different quenching histories of fast and slow rotators. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(2), 2679-2687. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2547

Do the theorised different formation mechanisms of fast and slow rotators produce an observable difference in their star formation histories? To study this we identify quenching slow rotators in the MaNGA sample by selecting those which lie below the... Read More about SDSS-IV MaNGA: the different quenching histories of fast and slow rotators.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe (2017)
Journal Article
Blanton, M. R., Bershady, M. A., Abolfathi, B., Albareti, F. D., Prieto, C. A., Almeida, A., …Zou, H. (2017). Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe. Astronomical Journal, 154(1), 1-35. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa7567

We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high re... Read More about Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe.

Dissecting halo components in IFU data (2017)
Journal Article
Merrifield, M., Johnston, E., & Aragón-Salamanca, A. (2017). Dissecting halo components in IFU data. Galaxies, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies5020024

While most astronomers are now familiar with tools to decompose images into multiple components such as disks, bulges, and halos, the equivalent techniques for spectral data cubes are still in their infancy. This is unfortunate, as integral field uni... Read More about Dissecting halo components in IFU data.