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SDSS-IV MaNGA: when is morphology imprinted on galaxies? (2020)
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Peterken, T., Merrifield, M., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Avila-Reese, V., Boardman, N. F., Drory, N., & Lane, R. R. (2021). SDSS-IV MaNGA: when is morphology imprinted on galaxies?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 500(1), L42-L46. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slaa179

It remains an open question as to how long ago the morphology that we see in a present-day galaxy was typically imprinted. Studies of galaxy populations at different redshifts reveal that the balance of morphologies has changed over time, but such sn... Read More about SDSS-IV MaNGA: when is morphology imprinted on galaxies?.

Resolving the Disc–Halo Degeneracy – II: NGC 6946 (2020)
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Aniyan, S., Ponomareva, A. A., Freeman, K. C., Arnaboldi, M., Gerhard, O. E., Coccato, L., …Merrifield, M. (2021). Resolving the Disc–Halo Degeneracy – II: NGC 6946. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500(3), 3579-3593. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3106

The mass-to-light ratio (M/L) is a key parameter in decomposing galactic rotation curves into contributions from the baryonic components and the dark halo of a galaxy. One direct observational method to determine the disc M/L is by calculating the su... Read More about Resolving the Disc–Halo Degeneracy – II: NGC 6946.

The halo of M 105 and its group environment as traced by planetary nebula populations: I. Wide-field photometric survey of planetary nebulae in the Leo I group (2020)
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Hartke, J., Arnaboldi, M., Gerhard, O., Coccato, L., Pulsoni, C., Freeman, K. C., …Kuijken, K. (2020). The halo of M 105 and its group environment as traced by planetary nebula populations: I. Wide-field photometric survey of planetary nebulae in the Leo I group. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, Article A46. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038009

Context. M 105 (NGC 3379) is an early-type galaxy in the Leo I group. The Leo I group is the nearest group that contains all main galaxy types and can thus be used as a benchmark to study the properties of the intra-group light (IGL) in low-mass grou... Read More about The halo of M 105 and its group environment as traced by planetary nebula populations: I. Wide-field photometric survey of planetary nebulae in the Leo I group.

SDSS-IV MaNGA: The link between bars and the early cessation of star formation in spiral galaxies (2020)
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Fraser-McKelvie, A., Merrifield, M., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Peterken, T., Kraljic, K., Masters, K., …Lane, R. R. (2020). SDSS-IV MaNGA: The link between bars and the early cessation of star formation in spiral galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499(1), 1116-1125. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2866

Bars are common in low-redshift disc galaxies, and hence quantifying their influence on their host is of importance to the field of galaxy evolution. We determine the stellar populations and star formation histories of 245 barred galaxies from the Ma... Read More about SDSS-IV MaNGA: The link between bars and the early cessation of star formation in spiral galaxies.

Formation of S0s in extreme environments II: the star-formation histories of bulges, discs and lenses (2020)
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Johnston, E. J., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Fraser-McKelvie, A., Merrifield, M., Häußler, B., Coccato, L., …Sheen, Y. (2021). Formation of S0s in extreme environments II: the star-formation histories of bulges, discs and lenses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500(3), 4193-4212. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2838

Different processes have been proposed to explain the formation of S0s, including mergers, disc instabilities, and quenched spirals. These processes are expected to dominate in different environments, and thus leave characteristic footprints in the k... Read More about Formation of S0s in extreme environments II: the star-formation histories of bulges, discs and lenses.

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Spatially resolved star formation in barred galaxies (2020)
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Fraser-McKelvie, A., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Merrifield, M., Masters, K., Nair, P., Emsellem, E., …Neumann, J. (2020). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Spatially resolved star formation in barred galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1416

A novel wave-energy device is presented. Both a preliminary proof-of-principle of a working, scaled laboratory version of the energy device is shown as well as the derivation and analysis of a comprehensive mathematical and numerical model of the new... Read More about SDSS-IV MaNGA: Spatially resolved star formation in barred galaxies.

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Excavating the fossil record of stellar populations in spiral galaxies (2020)
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Peterken, T., Merrifield, M., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Fraser-McKelvie, A., Avila-Reese, V., Riffel, R., …Drory, N. (2020). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Excavating the fossil record of stellar populations in spiral galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1303

We perform a “fossil record” analysis for ≈800 low-redshift spiral galaxies, using STARLIGHT applied to integral field spectroscopic observations from the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey to obtain fully spatially-resolved high-resolution star formation historie... Read More about SDSS-IV MaNGA: Excavating the fossil record of stellar populations in spiral galaxies.

Long-term NIR Variability in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey: a new probe of AGN activity at high redshift (2020)
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Elmer, E., Almaini, O., Merrifield, M., Hartley, W. G., Maltby, D. T., Lawrence, A., …Hirst, P. (2020). Long-term NIR Variability in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey: a new probe of AGN activity at high redshift. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493(2), 3026-3035. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa381

We present the first attempt to select active galactic nuclei (AGN) using long-Term near-infrared (NIR) variability. By analysing the K-band light curves of all the galaxies in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Ultra Deep Survey, the deepes... Read More about Long-term NIR Variability in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey: a new probe of AGN activity at high redshift.