Eric F. Bell

Major Merging: The Way to Make a Massive, Passive Galaxy (2009)

Van Der Wel, Arjen, Rix, Hans-Walter, Holden, Bradford P., Bell, Eric F., Robaina, Aday R.

We analyze the projected axial ratio distribution, p(b/a), of galaxies that were spectroscopically selected from the SDSS (DR6) to have low star-formation rates. For these quiescent galaxies we find...

Stellar mass-to-light ratios from galaxy spectra: how accurate can they be? (2009)

Gallazzi, Anna, Bell, Eric F.

Stellar masses play a crucial role in the exploration of galaxy properties and the evolution of the galaxy population. In this paper, we explore the minimum possible uncertainties in stellar...

The SPLASH Survey: A Spectroscopic Analysis of the Metal-Poor, Low-Luminosity M31 dSph Satellite Andromeda X (2009)

Kalirai, Jason S., Zucker, Daniel B., Guhathakurta, Puragra, Geha, Marla, Kniazev, Alexei Y., Martinez-Delgado, David, ...

Andromeda X (And X) is a newly discovered low-luminosity M31 dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) found by Zucker et al. (2007) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS - York et al. 2000). In this paper, we...

Less than 10 percent of star formation in z=0.6 massive galaxies is triggered by major interactions (2009)

Robaina, Aday R., Bell, Eric F., Skelton, Rosalind E., McIntosh, Daniel H., Somerville, Rachel S., Zheng, Xianzhong, ...

Both observations and simulations show that major tidal interactions or mergers between gas-rich galaxies can lead to intense bursts of starformation. Yet, the average enhancement in star formation...

Optically-passive spirals: The missing link in gradual star formation suppression upon cluster infall (2009)

Wolf, Christian, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Balogh, Michael, Barden, Marco, Bell, Eric F., Gray, Meghan E., ...

Galaxies migrate from the blue cloud to the red sequence when their star formation is quenched. Here, we report on galaxies quenched by environmental effects and not by mergers or strong AGN as often...

The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2009)

Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, ...

This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes...

The effect of dry mergers on the color-magnitude relation of early-type galaxies (2009)

Skelton, Rosalind E., Bell, Eric F., Somerville, Rachel S.

We investigate the effect of dry merging on the color-magnitude relation (CMR) of galaxies and find that the amount of merging predicted by a hierarchical model results in a red sequence that...

On the Size and Comoving Mass Density Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies (2009)

Van Der Wel, Arjen, Bell, Eric F., Gallazzi, Anna, Rix, Hans-Walter

We present a simple, empirically motivated model that simultaneously predicts the evolution of the mean size and the comoving mass density of massive early-type galaxies from z=2 to the present....

History of Galaxy Interactions and their Impact on Star Formation over the Last 7 Gyr from GEMS (2009)

Jogee, Shardha, Miller, Sarah H., Penner, Kyle, Skelton, Rosalind E., Conselice, Christopher J., Somerville, Rachel S., ...

We perform a comprehensive estimate of the frequency of galaxy mergers and their impact on star formation over z~0.24--0.80 (lookback time T_b~3--7 Gyr) using 3698 (M*>=1e9 Msun) galaxies with GEMS...

A Public, K-Selected, Optical-to-Near-Infrared Catalog of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS) from the MUltiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile (MUSYC) (2009)

Taylor, Edward N, Franx, Marijn, Van Dokkum, Pieter G, Quadri, Ryan F, Gawiser, Eric, Bell, Eric F, ...

We present a new K-selected, optical-to-near-infrared photometric catalog of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS), making it publicly available to the astronomical community. The dataset is...

The Effect of Dry Mergers on the Color-Magnitude Relation (2009)

Skelton, Rosalind E., Bell, Eric F., Somerville, Rachel S.

We investigate the effect of gas-poor (so-called "dry") mergers on the color-magnitude relation (CMR) of early-type galaxies through a simple toy model and compare with low-z observations from the...

The evolution of the scatter of the cosmic average color-magnitude relation: Demonstrating consistency with the ongoing formation of elliptical galaxies (2009)

Ruhland, Christine, Bell, Eric F., Haeussler, Boris, Taylor, Edward N., Barden, Marco, McIntosh, Daniel H.

We present first measurements of the evolution of the scatter of the cosmic average early-type galaxy color-magnitude relation (CMR) from z=1 to the present day, finding that it is consistent with...

The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent quenching of star-formation in cluster infall (2008)

Wolf, Christian, Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso, Balogh, Michael, Barden, Marco, Bell, Eric F., Gray, Meghan E., ...

We investigate the properties of optically passive spirals and dusty red galaxies in the A901/2 cluster complex at redshift ~0.17 using restframe near-UV-optical SEDs, 24 micron IR data and HST...

STAGES: the Space Telescope A901/2 Galaxy Evolution Survey (2008)

Gray, M. E., Wolf, Christian, Barden, Marco, Peng, Chien Y., Haeussler, Boris, Bell, Eric F., ...

We present an overview of the Space Telescope A901/2 Galaxy Evolution Survey (STAGES). STAGES is a multiwavelength project designed to probe physical drivers of galaxy evolution across a wide range...

The Rise of Massive Red Galaxies: the color-magnitude and color-stellar mass diagrams for z < ~2 from the MUltiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile (MUSYC) (2008)

Taylor, Edward N, Franx, Marijn, Van Dokkum, Pieter G, Bell, Eric F, Brammer, Gabriel B, Rudnick, Gregory, ...

We present the color-magnitude and color-stellar mass diagrams for galaxies with z_phot < ~2, based on a K < 22 (AB) catalog of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS) from the MUltiwavelength...

Mapping low-latitude stellar substructure with SEGUE photometry (2008)

Yanny, Brian, Rix, Hans-Walter, Bell, Eric F., Dolphin, Andrew E.

Encircling the Milky Way at low latitudes, the Low Latitude Stream is a large stellar structure, the origin of which is as yet unknown. As part of the SEGUE survey, several photometric scans have...

Galaxy bulges and their black holes: a requirement for the quenching of star formation (2008)

Bell, Eric F.

One of the central features of the last 8 to 10 billion years of cosmic history has been the emergence of a well-populated red sequence of non-star-forming galaxies. A number of models of galaxy...

The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...

The dark matter environment of the Abell 901/902 supercluster: a weak lensing analysis of the HST STAGES survey (2008)

Heymans, Catherine, Gray, Meghan E., Peng, Chien Y., Van Waerbeke, Ludovic, Bell, Eric F., Wolf, Christian, ...

We present a high resolution dark matter reconstruction of the z=0.165 Abell 901/902 supercluster from a weak lensing analysis of the HST STAGES survey. We detect the four main structures of the...

The evolving disk galaxy population (2008)

Bell, Eric F.

In this contribution, I present a simplified overview of the evolution of the disk galaxy population since z=1, and a brief discussion of a few open questions. Galaxy evolution surveys have found...

The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...

The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...

The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...

An explanation for the observed weak size evolution of disk galaxies (2008)

Somerville, Rachel S., Barden, Marco, Rix, Hans-Walter, Bell, Eric F., Beckwith, Steven V. W., Borch, Andrea, ...

Surveys of distant galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope and from the ground have shown that there is only mild evolution in the relationship between radial size and stellar mass for galactic...

A deep Large Binocular Telescope view of the Canes Venatici I dwarf galaxy (2008)

Martin, Nicolas F., Coleman, Matthew G., Rix, Hans-Walter, Bell, Eric F., Sand, David J., ...

We present the first deep color-magnitude diagram of the Canes Venatici I (CVn I) dwarf galaxy from observations with the wide-field Large Binocular Camera on the Large Binocular Telescope. Reaching...

The dark matter environment of the Abell 901/902 supercluster: a weak lensing analysis of the HST STAGES survey (2008)

Heymans, Catherine, Gray, Meghan E., Peng, Chien Y., Van Waerbeke, Ludovic, Bell, Eric F., Wolf, Christian, ...

We present a high-resolution dark matter reconstruction of the z = 0.165 Abell 901/902 supercluster from a weak lensing analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope STAGES survey. We detect the four main...

GEMS survey data and catalog (2008)

Caldwell, John A. R., McIntosh, Daniel H., Rix, Hans-Walter, Barden, Marco, Beckwith, Steven V. W., Bell, Eric F., ...

We describe the data reduction and object cataloging for the GEMS survey, a large-area (800 arcmin2) two-band (F606W and F850LP) imaging survey with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble...

Galaxy bulges and their black holes: a requirement for the quenching of star formation (2008)

Bell, Eric F.

One of the central features of the last 8-10 billion years of cosmic history has been the emergence of a well-populated red sequence of non-star-forming galaxies. A number of models of galaxy...

The accretion origin of the Milky Way's stellar halo (2008)

Bell, Eric F., Zucker, Daniel B., Belokurov, Vasily, Sharma, Sanjib, Johnston, Kathryn V., Bullock, James S., ...

We have used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 to explore the overall structure and substructure of the stellar halo of the Milky Way using ~4 million color-selected...

The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...

A deep Large Binocular Telescope view of the Canes Venatici I dwarf galaxy (2007)

Martin, Nicolas F., Coleman, Matthew G., Rix, Hans-Walter, Bell, Eric F., Sand, David J., ...

We present the first deep color-magnitude diagram of the Canes Venatici I (CVnI) dwarf galaxy from observations with the wide field Large Binocular Camera on the Large Binocular Telescope. Reaching...

The Elongated Structure of the Hercules dSph from Deep LBT Imaging (2007)

Coleman, Matthew G., Martin, Nicolas F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Sand, David J., Bell, Eric F., ...

We present a deep, wide-field photometric survey of the newly-discovered Hercules dwarf spheroidal galaxy, based on data from the Large Binocular Telescope. Images in B, V and r were obtained with...

Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions of z~0.7 Star-Forming Galaxies (2007)

Zheng, Xian Zhong, Dole, Herve, Bell, Eric F., Floc'h, Emeric Le, Rieke, George H., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

We analyze the infrared (IR) spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for 10micron < lambda(rest) < 100micron for ~600 galaxies at z~0.7 in the extended Chandra Deep Field South by stacking their Spitzer...

The accretion origin of the Milky Way's stellar halo (2007)

Bell, Eric F., Zucker, Daniel B., Belokurov, Vasily, Sharma, Sanjib, Johnston, Kathryn V., Bullock, James S., ...

We have used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 to explore the overall structure and substructure of the stellar halo of the Milky Way using about 4 million color-selected...

Star Formation and the Growth of Stellar Mass (2007)

Bell, Eric F., Zheng, Xian Zhong, Papovich, Casey, Borch, Andrea, Wolf, Christian, Meisenheimer, Klaus

Recent observations have demonstrated a significant growth in the integrated stellar mass of the red sequence since z=1, dominated by a steadily increasing number of galaxies with stellar masses M* <...

GEMS: Galaxy fitting catalogues and testing parametric galaxy fitting codes (2007)

Ler, Boris Häu\ss, McIntosh, Daniel H., Barden, Marco, Bell, Eric F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Borch, Andrea, ...

In the context of measuring structure and morphology of intermediate redshift galaxies with recent HST/ACS surveys, we tune, test, and compare two widely used fitting codes (GALFIT and GIM2D) for...

The dependence of Star Formation on Galaxy Stellar Mass (2007)

Zheng, Xian Zhong, Bell, Eric F., Papovich, Casey, Wolf, Christian, Meisenheimer, Klaus, Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

We combine Spitzer 24micron observations with data from the COMBO-17 survey for ~15,000 0.2

Andromeda X, a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31: photometry (2007)

Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Martínez-Delgado, David, Bell, Eric F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Grebel, Eva K., ...

We report the discovery of Andromeda X, a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31, based on stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using follow-up imaging data we have estimated its...

The dependence of star formation on galaxy stellar mass (2007)

Zheng, Xian Zhong, Bell, Eric F., Papovich, Casey, Wolf, Christian, Meisenheimer, Klaus, Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

We combine Spitzer 24 mum observations with data from the COMBO-17 survey for ~15,000 0.2

GEMS: galaxy fitting catalogs and testing parametric galaxy fitting codes: GALFIT and GIM2D (2007)

Häußler, Boris, McIntosh, Daniel H., Barden, Marco, Bell, Eric F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Borch, Andrea, ...

In the context of measuring the structures of intermediate-redshift galaxies with HST ACS surveys, we tune, test, and compare two widely used fitting codes (GALFIT and GIM2D) for fitting...

Comparing dynamical and stellar population mass-to-light ratio estimates (2007)

De Jong, Roelof S., Bell, Eric F.

We investigate the mass-to-light ratios of stellar populations as predicted by stellar population synthesis codes and compare those to dynamical/gravitational measurements. In Bell & de Jong (2001)...

The elongated structure of the Hercules Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy from deep Large Binocular Telescope imaging (2007)

Coleman, Matthew G., Martin, Nicolas F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Sand, David J., Bell, Eric F., ...

We present a deep, wide-field photometric survey of the newly discovered Hercules dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph), based on data from the Large Binocular Telescope. Images in B, V, and r were obtained...

Star formation and the growth of stellar mass (2007)

Bell, Eric F., Zheng, Xian Zhong, Papovich, Casey, Borch, Andrea, Wolf, Christian, Meisenheimer, Klaus

Recent observations have demonstrated a significant growth in the integrated stellar mass of the red sequence since z=1, dominated by a steadily increasing number of galaxies with stellar masses M* <...

Eight billion years of disk galaxy evolution (2007)

Bell, Eric F., Barden, Marco, Zheng, Xianzhong, Papovich, Casey, Le Floc'h, Emeric, Rieke, George, ...

We present a brief discussion of the evolution of disk galaxy stellar masses, sizes, rotation velocities, and star formation rates over the last eight billion years. Recent observations have failed...

An Explanation for the Observed Weak Size Evolution of Disk Galaxies (2006)

Somerville, Rachel S., Barden, Marco, Rix, Hans-Walter, Bell, Eric F., Beckwith, Steven V. W., Borch, Andrea, ...

Surveys of distant galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope and from the ground have shown that there is only mild evolution in the relationship between radial size and stellar mass for galactic...

A weak lensing estimate from GEMS of the virial to stellar mass ratio in massive galaxies to z~0.8 (2006)

Heymans, Catherine, Bell, Eric F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Barden, Marco, Borch, Andrea, Caldwell, John A. R., ...

We present constraints on the evolution of the virial to stellar mass ratio of galaxies with high stellar masses in the redshift range 0.2

The stellar masses of 25000 galaxies at 0.2 (2006)

Borch, Andrea, Meisenheimer, Klaus, Bell, Eric F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Wolf, Christian, Dye, Simon, ...

We present an analysis of stellar mass estimates for a sample of 25000 galaxies from the COMBO-17 survey over the interval 0.2 10^{11} solar masses at all z

Eight billion years of disk galaxy evolution: no galaxy is an island (2006)

Bell, Eric F., Barden, Marco, Zheng, Xianzhong, Papovich, Casey, Floc'h, Emeric Le, Rieke, George, ...

We present a brief discussion of the evolution of disk galaxy stellar masses, sizes, rotation velocities, and star formation rates over the last eight billion years. Recent observations have failed...

The merger rate of massive galaxies (2006)

Bell, Eric F., Phleps, Stefanie, Somerville, Rachel S., Wolf, Christian, Borch, Andrea, Meisenheimer, Klaus

We calculate the projected two point correlation function for samples of luminous and massive galaxies in the COMBO-17 photometric redshift survey, focusing particularly on the amplitude of the...

Andromeda X, A New Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite of M31: Photometry (2006)

Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Martinez-Delgado, David, Bell, Eric F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Grebel, Eva K., ...

We report the discovery of Andromeda X, a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31, based on stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using follow-up imaging data we have estimated...

Color, Structure, and Star Formation History of Dwarf Galaxies over the last ~3 Gyr with GEMS and SDSS (2006)

Barazza, Fabio D., Jogee, Shardha, Rix, Hans-Walter, Barden, Marco, Bell, Eric F., Caldwell, John A. R., ...

We present a study of the colors, structural properties, and star formation histories for a sample of ~1600 dwarfs over look-back times of ~3 Gyr (z=0.002-0.25). The sample consists of 401 distant...

Nature and completeness of galaxies detected in the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2006)

McIntosh, Daniel H., Bell, Eric F., Weinberg, Martin D., Katz, Neal

The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) provides the most comprehensive data set of near-infrared galaxy properties. We cross correlate the well-defined and highly complete spectroscopic selection of...

A weak lensing estimate from GEMS of the virial to stellar mass ratio in massive galaxies to z ~ 0.8 (2006)

Heymans, Catherine, Bell, Eric F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Barden, Marco, Borch, Andrea, Caldwell, John A. R., ...

We present constraints on the evolution of the virial to stellar mass ratio of galaxies with high stellar masses in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 0.8, by comparing weak lensing measurements of virial...

The merger rate of massive galaxies (2006)

Bell, Eric F., Phleps, Stefanie, Somerville, Rachel S., Wolf, Christian, Borch, Andrea, Meisenheimer, Klaus

We calculate the projected two-point correlation function for samples of luminous and massive galaxies in the COMBO-17 photometric redshift survey, focusing particularly on the amplitude of the...

Dry mergers in GEMS: The dynamical evolution of massive early-type galaxies (2006)

Bell, Eric F., Naab, Thorsten, McIntosh, Daniel H., Somerville, Rachel S., Caldwell, John A. R., Barden, Marco, ...

We have used the 28'×28' Hubble Space Telescope image mosaic from the GEMS (Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and SEDs) survey in conjunction with the COMBO-17 photometric redshift survey to...

Color, structure, and star formation history of dwarf galaxies over the last ~3 Gyr with GEMS and SDSS (2006)

Barazza, Fabio D., Jogee, Shardha, Rix, Hans-Walter, Barden, Marco, Bell, Eric F., Caldwell, John A. R., ...

We present a study of the colors, structural properties, and star formation histories for a sample of ~1600 dwarfs over look-back times of ~3 Gyr (z=0.002-0.25). The sample consists of 401 distant...

Studying distant dwarf galaxies with GEMS and SDSS (2005)

Barazza, Fabio D., Jogee, Shardha, Rix, Hans-Walter, Barden, Marco, Bell, Eric F., Caldwell, John A. R., ...

We study the colors, structural properties, and star formation histories of a sample of ~1600 dwarfs over look-back times of ~3 Gyr (z=0.002-0.25). The sample consists of 401 distant dwarfs drawn...

Nature and completeness of galaxies detected in the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2005)

McIntosh, Daniel H., Bell, Eric F., Weinberg, Martin D., Katz, Neal

We cross correlate the well-defined and very complete spectroscopic Main Galaxy Sample (MGS) of 156,000 bright (r16 galaxies found in the XSC are over-representative in red early types and...

A Search for PNe in Nearby Galaxies with SDSS Imaging Data (2005)

Kniazev, Alexei Y., Grebel, Eva K., Zucker, Daniel B., Bell, Eric F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Martinez-Delgado, David, ...

We present the latest results from our project to search for new planetary nebulae in nearby galaxies using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data. Our method is based on photometric criteria...

Dry Mergers in GEMS: The Dynamical Evolution of Massive Early-Type Galaxies (2005)

Bell, Eric F., Naab, Thorsten, McIntosh, Daniel H., Somerville, Rachel S., Caldwell, John A. R., Barden, Marco, ...

We have used the 28'x 28' HST image mosaic from the GEMS (Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and SEDs) survey in conjunction with the COMBO-17 photometric redshift survey to constrain the incidence of...

GEMS: The Size Evolution of Disk Galaxies (2005)

Barden, Marco, Rix, Hans-Walter, Somerville, Rachel S., Bell, Eric F., Haeussler, Boris, Peng, Chien Y., ...

We combine HST imaging from the GEMS survey with photometric redshifts from COMBO-17 to explore the evolution of disk-dominated galaxies since z

Towards an understanding of the rapid decline of the cosmic star formation rate (2005)

Bell, Eric F., Papovich, Casey, Wolf, Christian, Floc'h, Emeric Le, Caldwell, John A. R., Barden, Marco, ...

We present a first analysis of deep 24 micron observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope of a sample of nearly 1500 galaxies in a thin redshift slice, 0.65

The evolution of early-type red galaxies with the GEMS survey: Luminosity-size and stellar mass-size relations since z=1 (2005)

McIntosh, Daniel H., Bell, Eric F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Wolf, Christian, Heymans, Catherine, Peng, Chien Y., ...

We combine imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys, as part of the GEMS (Galaxy Evolution from Morphologies and SEDs) survey, with redshifts and rest-frame quantities from...

Dark matter and stellar mass in the luminous regions of disk galaxies (2005)

Pizagno, James, Prada, Francisco, Weinberg, David H., Rix, Hans-Walter, Harbeck, Daniel, Grebel, Eva K., ...

We investigate the correlations among stellar mass (M*), disk scale length (Rd), and rotation velocity at 2.2 disk scale lengths (V2.2) for a sample of 81 disk-dominated galaxies (disk/total>=0.9)...

Toward an understanding of the rapid decline of the cosmic star formation rate (2005)

Bell, Eric F., Papovich, Casey, Wolf, Christian, Le Floc'h, Emeric, Caldwell, John A. R., Barden, Marco, ...

We present a first analysis of deep 24 mum observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope of a sample of nearly 1500 galaxies in a thin redshift slice, 0.65

Cosmological weak lensing with the HST GEMS survey (2005)

Heymans, Catherine, Brown, Michael L., Barden, Marco, Caldwell, John A. R., Jahnke, Knud, Peng, Chien Y., ...

We present our cosmic shear analysis of GEMS, one of the largest wide-field surveys ever undertaken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Imaged with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), GEMS spans 795...

Infrared luminosity functions from the Chandra Deep Field-South: The Spitzer view on the history of dusty star formation at 0 (2005)

Le Floc'h, Emeric, Papovich, Casey, Dole, Hervé, Bell, Eric F., Lagache, Guilaine, Rieke, George H., ...

We analyze a sample of ~2600 Spitzer MIPS 24 mum sources brighter than ~80 muJy and located in the Chandra Deep Field-South to characterize the evolution of the comoving infrared (IR) energy density...

GEMS: The surface brightness and surface mass density evolution of disk galaxies (2005)

Barden, Marco, Rix, Hans-Walter, Somerville, Rachel S., Bell, Eric F., Häußler, Boris, Peng, Chien Y., ...

We combine HST imaging from the GEMS (Galaxy Evolution from Morphologies and SEDs) survey with photometric redshifts from COMBO-17 to explore the evolution of disk-dominated galaxies since z

The Evolution of Early-type Red Galaxies with the GEMS Survey: Luminosity-size and Stellar Mass-size Relations Since z=1 (2004)

McIntosh, Daniel H., Bell, Eric F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Wolf, Christian, Heymans, Catherine, Peng, Chien Y., ...

We combine HST/ACS imaging from the GEMS survey with redshifts and rest-frame quantities from COMBO-17 to study the evolution of morphologically early-type galaxies with red colors since z=1. We use...

Cosmological weak lensing with the HST GEMS survey (2004)

Heymans, Catherine, Brown, Michael L., Barden, Marco, Caldwell, John A. R., Jahnke, Knud, Peng, Chien Y., ...

We present our cosmic shear analysis of GEMS, one of the largest wide-field surveys ever undertaken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Imaged with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), GEMS spans 795...

Galaxy Assembly (2004)

Bell, Eric F.

In a Lambda CDM Universe, galaxies grow in mass both through star formation and through addition of already-formed stars in galaxy mergers. Because of this partial decoupling of these two modes of...

Andromeda IX: A New Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite of M31 (2004)

Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Bell, Eric F., Martinez-Delgado, David, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

We report the discovery of a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31, Andromeda IX, based on resolved stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using both SDSS and public archival...

GEMS: Galaxy Evolution from Morphologies and SEDs (2004)

Rix, Hans-Walter, Barden, Marco, Beckwith, Steven V. W., Bell, Eric F., Caldwell, John A. R., Haeussler, Boris, ...

GEMS, Galaxy Evolution from Morphologies and SEDs, is a large-area (800 arcmin2) two-color (F606W and F850LP) imaging survey with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on HST. Centered on the Chandra Deep...

A New Giant Stellar Structure in the Outer Halo of M31 (2004)

Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Bell, Eric F., Martinez-Delgado, David, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has revealed an overdensity of luminous red giant stars ~ 3 degrees (40 projected kpc) to the northeast of M31, which we have called Andromeda NE. The line-of-sight...

The tilt of the fundamental plane: Three-quarters structural nonhomology, one-quarter stellar population (2004)

Trujillo, I., Burkert, A., Bell, Eric. F.

The variation of the mass-to-light M/L ratios of early-type galaxies as a function of their luminosities L is investigated. It is shown that the tilt ‚‚beta;=0.27 (in the B band) of the fundamental...

GEMS: Galaxy evolution from morphologies and SEDs (2004)

Rix, Hans-Walter, Barden, Marco, Beckwith, Steven V. W., Bell, Eric F., Borch, Andrea, Caldwell, John A. R., ...

GEMS (Galaxy Evolution from Morphologies and SEDs) is a large-area (800 arcmin2) two-color (F606W and F850LP) imaging survey with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope....

Nearly 5000 distant early-type galaxies in COMBO-17: A red sequence and its evolution since z~1 (2004)

Bell, Eric F., Wolf, Christian, Meisenheimer, Klaus, Rix, Hans-Walter, Borch, Andrea, Dye, Simon, ...

We present the rest-frame colors and luminosities of ~25,000 mR‚‚lt;~24 galaxies in the redshift range 0.2‚‚lt;z‚‚lt;=1.1 drawn from 0.78 deg2 of the COMBO-17 survey (Classifying Objects by...

GEMS imaging of red-sequence galaxies at z~0.7: Dusty or old? (2004)

Bell, Eric F., McIntosh, Daniel H., Barden, Marco, Wolf, Christian, Caldwell, John A. R., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

We have used the 30'‚‚times;30' Hubble Space Telescope image mosaic from the Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and Spectral energy distributions (GEMS) project in conjunction with the COMBO-17 deep...

Andromeda IX: A new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31 (2004)

Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Bell, Eric F., Martínez-Delgado, David, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

We report the discovery of a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31, Andromeda IX, based on resolved stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using both SDSS and public archival...

A new giant stellar structure in the outer halo of M31 (2004)

Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Bell, Eric F., Martínez-Delgado, David, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has revealed an overdensity of luminous red giant stars ~3‚‚deg; (40 projected kpc) to the northeast of M31, which we have called Andromeda NE. The line-of-sight...

Bar evolution over the last 8 billion years: A constant fraction of strong bars in the GEMS survey (2004)

Jogee, Shardha, Barazza, Fabio D., Rix, Hans-Walter, Shlosman, Isaac, Barden, Marco, Wolf, Christian, ...

One-third of present-day spirals host optically visible strong bars that drive their dynamical evolution. However, the fundamental question of how bars evolve over cosmological times has yet to be...

The Tilt of the Fundamental Plane: Three-quarters Structural Nonhomology, One-quarter Stellar Population (2003)

Trujillo, I., Burkert, A., Bell, Eric. F.

The variation of the mass-to-light ratios M/L of early type galaxies as function of their luminosities L is investigated. It is shown that the tilt beta=0.27 (in the B--band) of the fundamental plane...

Properties of Dark Matter Halos in Disk Galaxies (2003)

De Jong, Roelof S., Kassin, Susan, Bell, Eric F., Courteau, Stephane

We present a simple technique to estimate mass-to-light (M/L) ratios of stellar populations based on two broadband photometry measurements, i.e. a color-M/L relation. We apply the color-M/L relation...

GEMS Imaging of Red Sequence Galaxies at z~0.7: Dusty or Old? (2003)

Bell, Eric F., McIntosh, Daniel H., Barden, Marco, Wolf, Christian, Caldwell, John A. R., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

We have used the 30'x30' Hubble Space Telescope image mosaic from the Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and SEDs (GEMS) project in conjunction with the COMBO-17 deep photometric redshift survey to...

The Properties of Spiral Galaxies: Confronting Hierarchical Galaxy Formation Models with Observations (2003)

Bell, Eric F., Baugh, Carlton M., Cole, Shaun, Frenk, Carlos S., Lacey, Cedric G.

We compare the properties of local spiral galaxies with the predictions of the Cole et al. semi-analytic model of hierarchical galaxy formation, in order to gain insight into the baryonic processes...

The Optical and Near-Infrared Properties of Galaxies: I. Luminosity and Stellar Mass Functions (2003)

Bell, Eric F., McIntosh, Daniel H., Katz, Neal, Weinberg, Martin D.

We use a large sample of galaxies from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to calculate galaxy luminosity and stellar mass functions in the local Universe....

A First Estimate of the Baryonic Mass Function of Galaxies (2003)

Bell, Eric F., McIntosh, Daniel H., Katz, Neal, Weinberg, Martin D.

We estimate the baryonic (stellar+cold gas) mass function of galaxies in the local Universe by assigning a complete sample of Two Micron All Sky Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies a gas...

Estimating star formation rates from infrared and radio luminosities: The origin of the radio-infrared correlation (2003)

Bell, Eric F.

I have assembled a diverse sample of galaxies from the literature with far-ultraviolet (FUV), optical, infrared (IR), and radio luminosities to explore the calibration of radio-derived and IR-derived...

The properties of spiral galaxies: Confronting hierarchical galaxy formation models with observations (2003)

Bell, Eric F., Baugh, Carlton M., Cole, Shaun, Frenk, Carlos S., Lacey, Cedric G.

We compare the properties of local spiral galaxies with the predictions of the Cole et al. semi-analytic model of hierarchical galaxy formation, in order to gain insight into the baryonic processes,...

The optical and near-infrared properties of galaxies. I. Luminosity and stellar mass functions (2003)

Bell, Eric F., McIntosh, Daniel H., Katz, Neal, Weinberg, Martin D.

We use a large sample of galaxies from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to calculate galaxy luminosity and stellar mass functions in the local universe....

A first estimate of the baryonic mass function of galaxies (2003)

Bell, Eric F., McIntosh, Daniel H., Katz, Neal, Weinberg, Martin D.

We estimate the baryonic (stellar+cold gas) mass function of galaxies in the local universe by assigning a complete sample of Two Micron All Sky Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies a gas...

Estimating Star Formation Rates from Infrared and Radio Luminosities: The Origin of the Radio-Infrared Correlation (2002)

Bell, Eric F.

I have assembled a diverse sample of galaxies from the literature with far-ultraviolet (FUV), optical, infrared (IR) and radio luminosities to explore the calibration of radio-derived and IR-derived...

On Measuring the Infrared Luminosity of Distant Galaxies with the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (2002)

Papovich, Casey, Bell, Eric F.

The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) will revolutionize the study of dust-obscured star formation in distant galaxies. Although deep images from the Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF...

Exponential Stellar Disks in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies: A Critical Test of Viscous Evolution (2002)

Bell, Eric F.

Viscous redistribution of mass in Milky Way-type galactic disks is an appealing way of generating an exponential stellar profile over many scale lengths, almost independent of initial conditions,...

Dust-Induced Systematic Errors in UV-Derived Star Formation Rates (2002)

Bell, Eric F.

Rest-frame far-ultraviolet (FUV) luminosities form the `backbone' of our understanding of star formation at all cosmic epochs. FUV luminosities are typically corrected for dust by assuming that...

Dust-Induced Systematic Errors in Ultraviolet-Derived Star Formation Rates (2002)

Bell, Eric F.

Rest-frame far-ultraviolet (FUV) luminosities form the `backbone' of our understanding of star formation at all cosmic epochs. These luminosities are typically corrected for dust by assuming that the...

The effects of dust in simple environments: Large Magellanic Cloud HII regions (2001)

Bell, Eric F., Gordon, Karl D., Kennicutt Jr., Robert C., Zaritsky, Dennis

We investigate the effects of dust on Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) HII region spectral energy distributions using arcminute-resolution far-ultraviolet (FUV), H-alpha, far-infrared (FIR), and radio...

Stellar mass-to-light ratios and the Tully-Fisher relation (2000)

Bell, Eric F., De Jong, Roelof S.

We have used a suite of simplified spectrophotometric spiral galaxy evolution models to argue that there are substantial variations in stellar mass-to-light ratios (M/Ls) within and among galaxies,...

A Comparison of UIT Far-Ultraviolet and H alpha Star Formation Rates (2000)

Bell, Eric F., Kennicutt Jr., Robert C.

We have used archival ultraviolet (UV) imaging of 50 nearby star-forming galaxies obtained with the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) to derive integrated near-UV and far-UV magnitudes, and have...

Comparing Ultraviolet and H alpha Star Formation Rates (2000)

Bell, Eric F., Kennicutt Jr., Robert C.

We have used a sample of 43 star-forming galaxies imaged in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) by the UIT supplemented with 33 galaxies observed by FAUST, to explore the consistency of UV and H alpha derived...

The Properties of Spiral Galaxies in Semi-Analytic Galaxy Formation Models (2000)

Bell, Eric F., Baugh, Carlton, Cole, Shaun, Frenk, Carlos, Lacey, Cedric

We examine the present-day galaxy disk colors and star formation rates (SFRs) in the semi-analytic model of Cole et al. (2000). We find that the fiducial model is a good match to Kennicutt's (1998)...

Stellar Mass-to-Light Ratios and the Tully-Fisher relation (2000)

De Jong, Roelof S., Bell, Eric F.

We use spiral galaxy evolution models to argue that there are substantial variations in stellar mass-to-light ratio (M/L) within and among galaxies. Our models show a strong correlation between...

Exploring the evolution of spiral galaxies (2000)

Bell, Eric F., Bower, Richard G.

We have constructed a family of simple models for spiral galaxy evolution to allow us to investigate observational trends in star formation history with galaxy parameters. The models are used to...

The star formation histories of low surface brightness galaxies (1999)

Bell, Eric F., Barnaby, David, Bower, Richard G., De Jong, Roelof S., Harper, Doyal A., Hereld, Mark, ...

We have performed deep imaging of a diverse sample of 26 low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) in the optical and the near-infrared. Using stellar population synthesis models, we find that it is...

The stellar populations of spiral galaxies (1999)

Bell, Eric F., De Jong, Roelof S.

We have used a large sample of low-inclination spiral galaxies with radially-resolved optical and near-infrared photometry to investigate trends in star formation history with radius as a function of...

The Colour-Magnitude Relation of Early-Type Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (1998)

Kodama, Tadayuki, Bower, Richard G., Bell, Eric F.

We present the rest-frame colour-magnitude diagram for 35 early-type galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field with median redshift 0.9. Although with considerable scatter, a red sequence well-described by...

A Bayesian Classifier for Photometric Redshifts: Identification of high redshift clusters (1998)

Kodama, Tadayuki, Bell, Eric F., Bower, Richard G.

Photometric redshift classifiers provide a means of estimating galaxy redshifts from observations using a small number of broad-band filters. However, the accuracy with which redshifts can be...