Speaker
Ella Hammet
(MI)
Description
We are expanding on the photometry of Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache point (MaNGA) survey using the AutoProf photometric pipeline to derive structural properties such as sizes, stellar masses and brightness for 6000 systems, bringing the total to ~10,000 galaxy. These measurements will be used to identify Milky Way-analog galaxies within the expanded sample based on their structural and photometric similarity to our own galaxy. This work aims to grow the available sample of Milky Way analogs for comparative studies of to better understand the formation and evolution our Galaxy.
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Author
Ella Hammet
(MI)