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A classical morphological analysis of galaxies in the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G).
Faculty Scholarship
  • Ronald J. Buta, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa
  • Kartik Sheth, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
  • E. Athanassoula, Aix Marseille Universite
  • Albert Bosma, Aix Marseille Universite
  • Johan H. Knapen, Universidad de La Laguna
  • Eija Laurikainen, University of Oulu
  • Heikki Salo, University of Oulu
  • Debra M. Elmegreen, Vassar College
  • Luis C. Ho, The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science
  • Dennis Zaritsky, University of Arizona
  • Helene M. Courtois, Universite Lyon
  • Joannah Hinz, University of Arizona
  • Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mateos, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
  • Taehyun Kim, Seoul National University
  • Michael Regan, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
  • Dimitri A. Gadotti, European Southern Observatory
  • Armando Gil de Paz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Jarkko Laine, University of Oulu
  • Karin Menendez-Delmestre, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro
  • Sebastien Comeron, University of Oulu
  • Santiago Erroz-Ferrer, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
  • Mark Seibert, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute for Science
  • Trisha Mizusawa, Florida Institute of Technology
  • Benne W. Holwerda, University of Louisville
  • Barry Madore, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute for Science
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2015
Department
Physics and Astronomy
Abstract

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4 G) is the largest available database of deep, homogeneous middle-infrared (mid-IR) images of galaxies of all types. The survey, which includes 2352 nearby galaxies, reveals galaxy morphology only minimally affected by interstellar extinction. This paper presents an atlas and classifications of S4 G galaxies in the Comprehensive de Vaucouleurs revised Hubble-Sandage (CVRHS) system. The CVRHS system follows the precepts of classical de Vaucouleurs morphology, modified to include recognition of other features such as inner, outer, and nuclear lenses, nuclear rings, bars, and disks, spheroidal galaxies, X patterns and box/peanut structures, OLR subclass outer rings and pseudorings, bar ansae and barlenses, parallel sequence latetypes, thick disks, and embedded disks in 3D early-type systems. We show that our CVRHS classifications are internally consistent, and that nearly half of the S4 G sample consists of extreme late-type systems (mostly bulgeless, pure disk galaxies) in the range Scd-Im. The most common family classification for mid-IR types S0/a to Sc is SA while that for types Scd to Sm is SB. The bars in these two type domains are very different in mid-IR structure and morphology. This paper examines the bar, ring, and type classification fractions in the sample, and also includes several montages of images highlighting the various kinds of “stellar structures” seen in mid-IR galaxy morphology

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https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/217/2/32

DOI
10.1088/0067-0049/217/2/32
Citation Information

Buta, Ronald J., et al. "A Classical Morphological Analysis of Galaxies in the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structures in Galaxies (S4G)." 2015. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 217(2): 46 pp.