Photometric and fundamental plane studies of galaxies


Autoria(s): Ravikumar, C D; Dr.Kuriakose, V C
Data(s)

28/05/2014

28/05/2014

01/04/2004

Resumo

Determining the morphological parameters that describe galaxies has always been a challenging task. The studies on the correlations between different photometric as well as spectroscopic parameters of the galaxies help in understanding their structure, properties of the stars and gas which constitute the galaxy, the various physical and chemical processes which determine the properties, and galaxy formation and evolution. In the last few decades, the advent of Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) and near infrared arrays ha\·e provided quick and reliable digitized data acquisition, in the optical and near infrared bands. This has provided an avalanche of data, which can be processed using sophisticated image analysis techniques to obtain information about the morphology of galaxies. The photometric analysis performed in this thesis involve the extraction of structural parameters of early type gala.xies imaged in the near infrared K (2.2ttm) band, obtaining correlations between these, parameters and using them to constrain the large scale properties of galaxi,~s.

Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology

Cochin University of Science and Technology

Identificador

http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/3816

Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

Cochin University of Science and Technology

Palavras-Chave #Surface Brightness Distribution in Galaxies, #Fundamental Plane Studies of Early Type Galaxies, #Sersic Fundamental Plane for Galaxies, #Hyper-Plane for Early-Type Galaxies
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Thesis