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Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama): Bulge-Disc Decomposition Of Kids Data In The Nearby Universe, Sarah Casura, Jochen Liske, Aaron S G Robotham, Sarah Brough, Simon P. Driver, Alister W. Graham, Boris Häußler, Benne Holwerda, Andrew M. Hopkins, Lee S. Kelvin, Amanda J. Moffett, Dan S. Taranu, Edward N. Taylor Aug 2022

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama): Bulge-Disc Decomposition Of Kids Data In The Nearby Universe, Sarah Casura, Jochen Liske, Aaron S G Robotham, Sarah Brough, Simon P. Driver, Alister W. Graham, Boris Häußler, Benne Holwerda, Andrew M. Hopkins, Lee S. Kelvin, Amanda J. Moffett, Dan S. Taranu, Edward N. Taylor

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We derive single Sérsic fits and bulge-disc decompositions for 13 096 galaxies at redshifts z < 0.08 in the GAMA II equatorial survey regions in the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) g, r, and i bands. The surface brightness fitting is performed using the Bayesian two-dimensional profile fitting code PROFIT. We fit three models to each galaxy in each band independently with a fully automated Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis: a single Sérsic model, a Sérsic plus exponential and a point source plus exponential. After fitting the galaxies, we perform model selection and flag galaxies for which none of our models are appropriate (mainly mergers/Irregular galaxies). The fit quality is assessed by visual inspections, comparison …


Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama): Self-Organizing Map Application On Nearby Galaxies, Benne W. Holwerda, Dominic Smith, Lori Porter, Chris Henry, Ren Porter-Temple, Kyle Cook, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Andrew M. Hopkins, Maciej Bilicki, Sebastian Turner, Viviana Acquaviva, Lingyu Wang, Angus H. Wright, Lee S. Kelvin, Meiert W. Grootes May 2022

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama): Self-Organizing Map Application On Nearby Galaxies, Benne W. Holwerda, Dominic Smith, Lori Porter, Chris Henry, Ren Porter-Temple, Kyle Cook, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Andrew M. Hopkins, Maciej Bilicki, Sebastian Turner, Viviana Acquaviva, Lingyu Wang, Angus H. Wright, Lee S. Kelvin, Meiert W. Grootes

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Galaxy populations show bimodality in a variety of properties: stellar mass, colour, specific star-formation rate, size, and Sérsic index. These parameters are our feature space. We use an existing sample of 7556 galaxies from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, represented using five features and the K-means clustering technique, showed that the bimodalities are the manifestation of a more complex population structure, represented by between two and six clusters. Here we use Self-Organizing Maps (SOM), an unsupervised learning technique that can be used to visualize similarity in a higher dimensional space using a 2D representation, to map these 5D …


Deep Extragalactic Visible Legacy Survey: Data Release 1 Blended Spectra Search For Candidate Strong Gravitational Lenses, Benne Holwerda, S Knabel, J E. Thorne, S Bellstedt, M Siudek, L J M Davies Jan 2022

Deep Extragalactic Visible Legacy Survey: Data Release 1 Blended Spectra Search For Candidate Strong Gravitational Lenses, Benne Holwerda, S Knabel, J E. Thorne, S Bellstedt, M Siudek, L J M Davies

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Here, we present a catalogue of blended spectra in Data Release 1 of the Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS) on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Of the 23 197 spectra, 181 showed signs of a blend of redshifts and spectral templates. We examine these blends in detail for signs of either a candidate strong lensing galaxy or a useful overlapping galaxy pair. One of the three DEVILS target fields, COSMOS (D10), is close to complete and it is fully imaged with Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys, and we visually examine the 57 blended spectra in this field in the …