Publications of Jens Thomas

Rantala, A.; Johansson, P. H.; Naab, T.; Thomas, J.; Frigo, M.: The simultaneous formation of cored, tangentially biased, and kinematically decoupled centers in massive early-type galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 872 (2), L17, pp. 1 - 7 (2019)

Corsini, E. M.; Morelli, L.; Zarattini, S.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Costantin, L.; D’Onghia, E.; Girardi, M.; Kundert, A.; Méndez-Abreu, J.; Thomas, J.: Fossil group origins - IX. Probing the formation of fossil galaxy groups with stellar population gradients of their central galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics 618, A172, pp. 1 - 16 (2018)

Rantala, A.; Johansson, P. H.; Naab, T.; Thomas, J.; Frigo, M.: The formation of extremely diffuse galaxy cores by merging supermassive black holes. The Astrophysical Journal 864 (2), 113 (2018)

Ene, I.; Ma, ‹. C.-P.; Veale, M.; Greene, J. E.; Thomas, J.; Blakeslee, J. P.; Foster, C.; Walsh, J. L.; Ito, J.; Goulding, A. D.: The MASSIVE Survey – X. Misalignment between kinematic and photometric axes and intrinsic shapes of massive early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 479 (2), pp. 2810 - 2826 (2018)

Goullaud, C. F.; Jensen, J. B.; Blakeslee, J. P.; Ma, C.-P.; Greene, J. E.; Thomas, J.: The MASSIVE Survey - IX. Photometric analysis of 35 high-mass early-type galaxies with HST WFC3/IR. The Astrophysical Journal 856 (1), 11 (2018)

Veale, M.; Ma, C.-P.; Greene, J. E.; Thomas, J.; Blakeslee, J. P.; Walsh, J. L.; Ito, J.: The MASSIVE survey – VIII. Stellar velocity dispersion profiles and environmental dependence of early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 473 (4), pp. 5446 - 5467 (2018)

Erwin, P.; Thomas, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Fabricius, M.; Rusli, S. P.; Seitz, S.; Bender, R.: NGC 307 and the effects of dark-matter haloes on measuring supermassive black holes in disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 473 (2), pp. 2251 - 2274 (2018)

Veale, M.; Ma, C.-P.; Greene, J. E.; Thomas, J.; Blakeslee, J. P.; McConnell, N.; Walsh, J. L.; Ito, J.: The MASSIVE Survey – VII. The relationship of angular momentum, stellar mass and environment of early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 471 (2), pp. 1428 - 1445 (2017)

Pandya, V.; Greene, J. E.; Ma, C.-P.; Veale, M.; Ene, I.; Davis, T. A.; Blakeslee, J. P.; Goulding, A. D.; McConnell, N. J.; Nyland, K. et al.; Thomas, J.: The MASSIVE survey - VI. The spatial distribution and kinematics of warm ionized gas in the most massive local early-type galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal 837 (1), 40 (2017)

Veale, M.; Ma, C.-P.; Thomas, J.; Greene, J. E.; McConnell, N. J.; Walsh, J.; Ito, J.; Blakeslee, J. P.; Janish, R.: The MASSIVE Survey – V. Spatially resolved stellar angular momentum, velocity dispersion, and higher moments of the 41 most massive local early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 464 (1), pp. 356 - 384 (2017)

Mazzalay, X.; Thomas, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Wegner, G. A.; Bender, R.; Erwin, P.; Fabricius, M. H.; Rusli, S. P.: The supermassive black hole and double nucleus of the core elliptical NGC 5419. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 462 (3), pp. 2847 - 2860 (2016)

Goulding, A. D.; Greene, J. E.; Ma, C.-P.; Veale, M.; Bogdan, A.; Nyland, K.; Blakeslee, J. P.; McConnell, N. J.; Thomas, J.: The MASSIVE survey - IV. The X-ray halos of the most massive early-type galaxies in the nearby universe. The Astrophysical Journal 826 (2), 167, pp. 1 - 22 (2016)

Thomas, J.; Ma, C.-P.; McConnell, N. J.; Greene, J. E.; Blakeslee, J. P.; Janish, R.: A 17-billion-solar-mass black hole in a group galaxy with a diffuse core. Nature 532 (7599), pp. 340 - 342 (2016)

Saglia, R. P.; Opitsch, M.; Erwin, P.; Thomas, J.; Beifiori, A.; Fabricius, M.; Mazzalay, X.; Nowak, N.; Rusli, S. P.; Bender, R.: The sinfoni black hole survey: the black hole fundamental plane revisited and the paths of (co)evolution of supermassive black holes and bulges. The Astrophysical Journal 818 (1), 47, pp. 1 - 69 (2016)

Davis, T. A.; Greene, J.; Ma, C.-P.; Pandya, V.; Blakeslee, J. P.; McConnell, N.; Thomas, J.: The MASSIVE survey – III. Molecular gas and a broken Tully–Fisher relation in the most massive early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 455 (1), pp. 214 - 226 (2016)

Lyskova, N.; Thomas, J.; Churazov, E.; Tremaine, S.; Naab, T.: Comparison of simple mass estimators for slowly rotating elliptical galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 450 (4), pp. 3442 - 3457 (2015)

Greene, J. E.; Janish, R.; Ma, C.-P.; McConnell, N. J.; Blakeslee, J. P.; Thomas, J.; Murphy, J. D.: The massive survey - II. Stellar population trends out to large radius in masive early-type galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal 807 (1), 11, pp. 1 - 19 (2015)

Erwin, P.; Saglia, R. P.; Fabricius, M.; Thomas, J.; Nowak, N.; Rusli, S.; Bender, R.; Beltrán, J. C. V.; Beckman, J. E.: Composite bulges: the coexistence of classical bulges and discy pseudo-bulges in S0 and spiral galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 446 (4), pp. 4039 - 4077 (2015)

Ma, C.-P.; Greene, J. E.; McConnell, N.; Janish, R.; Blakeslee, J. P.; Thomas, J.; Murphy, J. D.: The MASSIVE Survey. - I. A Volume-limited Integral-field Spectroscopic Study of the Most Massive Early-type Galaxies within the 108 Mpc. The Astrophysical Journal 795 (2), 158 (2014)

Adams, J. J.; Simon, J. D.; Fabricius, M. H.; van den Bosch, R. C. E.; Barentine, J. C.; Bender, R.; Gebhardt, K.; Hill, G. J.; Murphy, J. D.; Swaters, R. A. et al.; Thomas, J.; van de Ven, G.: Dwarf galaxy dark matter density profiles inferred from stellar and gas kinematics. The Astrophysical Journal 789 (1), 63 (2014)