Stellar kinematics, morphology and local environment of galaxies with integral field spectroscopy

Thesis

In this thesis, I study the stellar angular momentum within one effective radius, λ_Re of a few thousand galaxies and consider how this property relates to other galaxy properties such as stellar mass, optical morphology and environment. I make use of data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's (SDSS) Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey which is a large integral field spectroscopic survey. I classify early-type galaxies (ETGs) as slow rotators if λ

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Authors: Graham, MT

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Extragalactic Astrophysics; Galaxy Environment; Galaxy Clusters; Kinematics; Galaxies; Galaxy Evolution; Integral Field Spectroscopy
• Subjects: Astrophysics