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Galaxies: formation

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Morphology And Environment Of Galaxies With Disc Breaks In The S4g And Nirs0s, J. Laine, E. Laurikainen, H. Salo, S. Comeron, R. J. Buta, D. Zaritsky, E. Athanassoula, A. Bosma, J.-C. Munoz-Mateos, D. A. Gadotti, J. L. Hinz, S. Erroz-Ferrer, A. Gil De Paz, T. Kim, K. Menendez-Delmestre, T. Mizusawa, M. W. Regan, M. Seibert, K. Sheth Jul 2014

Morphology And Environment Of Galaxies With Disc Breaks In The S4g And Nirs0s, J. Laine, E. Laurikainen, H. Salo, S. Comeron, R. J. Buta, D. Zaritsky, E. Athanassoula, A. Bosma, J.-C. Munoz-Mateos, D. A. Gadotti, J. L. Hinz, S. Erroz-Ferrer, A. Gil De Paz, T. Kim, K. Menendez-Delmestre, T. Mizusawa, M. W. Regan, M. Seibert, K. Sheth

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

We study the surface brightness profiles of disc galaxies in the 3.6 μm images from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) and Ks-band images from the Near-Infrared S0-Sa galaxy Survey (NIRS0S). We particularly connect properties of single exponential (type I), downbending double exponential (type II), and upbending double exponential (type III) disc profile types, to structural components of galaxies by using detailed morphological classifications, and size measurements of rings and lenses. We also study how the local environment of the galaxies affects the profile types by calculating parameters describing the environmental density and the tidal …