Bibcode
Buta, R. J.; Sheth, Kartik; Athanassoula, E.; Bosma, A.; Knapen, J. H.; Laurikainen, Eija; Salo, Heikki; Elmegreen, Debra; Ho, Luis C.; Zaritsky, Dennis; Courtois, Helene; Hinz, Joannah L.; Muñoz-Mateos, Juan-Carlos; Kim, Taehyun; Regan, Michael W.; Gadotti, Dimitri A.; Gil de Paz, Armando; Laine, Jarkko; Menéndez-Delmestre, Karín; Comerón, Sébastien; Erroz Ferrer, S.; Seibert, Mark; Mizusawa, Trisha; Holwerda, Benne; Madore, Barry F.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 217, Issue 2, article id. 32, 46 pp. (2015).
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2015
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Description
The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) 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 S4G 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 late-types, 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
S4G 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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