Publications of Jens Thomas

Lipka, M.; Thomas, J.; Saglia, R.; Bender, R.; Fabricius, M.; Hill, G. J.; Kluge, M.; Landriau, M.; Mazzalay, X.; Noyola, E. et al.; Parikh, T.; Snigula, J.: The VIRUS-dE Survey. I. Stars in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies-3D Dynamics and Radially Resolved Stellar Initial Mass Functions. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 976 (1), 16 (2024)

de Nicola, S.; Thomas, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Snigula, J.; Kluge, M.; Bender, R.: Triaxial Schwarzschild models of NGC 708: a 10-billion solar mass black hole in a low-dispersion galaxy with a Kroupa IMF. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 530 (1), pp. 1035 - 1053 (2024)

Parikh, T.; Saglia, R.; Thomas, J.; Mehrgan, K.; Bender, R.; Maraston, C.: Stellar populations of massive early-type galaxies observed by MUSE. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 528 (4), pp. 7338 - 7357 (2024)

Ashok, A.; Seth, A.; Erwin, P.; Debattista, V. P.; de Lorenzo-Cáceres, A.; Gadotti, D. A.; Méndez-Abreu, J.; Beckman, J. E.; Bender, R.; Drory, N. et al.; Fisher, D.; Hopp, U.; Kluge, M.; Kolcu, T.; Maciejewski, W.; Mehrgan, K.; Parikh, T.; Saglia, R.; Seidel, M.; Thomas, J.: Composite Bulges. III. A Study of Nuclear Star Clusters in Nearby Spiral Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal 958 (1), 100 (2023)

Neureiter, B.; Thomas, J.; Rantala, A.; Naab, T.; Kianusch, M.; Saglia, R.; de Nicola, S.; Bender, R.: The isotropic center of NGC 5419 -- A core in formation? The Astrophysical Journal 950 (1), 15 (2023)

Kianusch, M.; Thomas, J.; Saglia, R.; Parikh, T.; Bender, R.: Detailed Shapes of the Line-of-sight Velocity Distributions in Massive Early-type Galaxies from Nonparametric Spectral Models. The Astrophysical Journal 948 (2), 79 (2023)

Neureiter, B.; de Nicola, S.; Thomas, J.; Saglia, R.; Bender, R.; Rantala, A.: Accuracy and precision of triaxial orbit models I: SMBH mass, stellar mass, and dark-matter halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 519 (2), pp. 2004 - 2016 (2023)

de Nicola, S.; Neureiter, B.; Thomas, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.: Accuracy and precision of triaxial orbit models - II. Viewing angles, shape, and orbital structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 517 (3), pp. 3445 - 3458 (2022)

Stefano, d. N.; Saglia, R. P.; Thomas, J.; Pulsoni, C.; Kluge, M.; Bender, R.; Valenzuela, L. M.; Remus, R.-S.: Intrinsic shapes of brightest cluster galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal 933 (2), 215 (2022)

Thomas, J.; Lipka, M.: A simple data-driven method to optimize the penalty strengths of penalized models and its application to non-parametric smoothing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 514 (4), pp. 6203 - 6214 (2022)

Bustamante-Rosell, M. J.; Noyola, E.; Gebhardt, K.; Fabricius, M. H.; Mazzalay, X.; Thomas, J.; Zeimann, G.: Dynamical analysis of the dark matter and central black hole mass in the dwarf spheroidal Leo I. The Astrophysical Journal 921 (2), 107 (2021)

Frigo, M.; Naab, T.; Rantala, A.; Johansson, P. H.; Neureiter, B.; Thomas, J.; Rizzuto, F.: The two phases of core formation - orbital evolution in the centres of ellipticals with supermassive black hole binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 508 (3), pp. 4610 - 4624 (2021)

Lipka, M.; Thomas, J.: A novel approach to optimize the regularization and evaluation of dynamical models using a model selection framework. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 504 (3), pp. 4599 - 4625 (2021)

Erwin, P.; Seth, A.; Debattista, V. P.; Seidel, M.; Kianusch, M.; Thomas, J.; Saglia, R.; de Lorenzo-Caceres, A.; Maciejewski, W.; Fabricius, M. et al.; Mendez-Abreu, J.; Hopp, U.; Kluge, M.; Beckman, J. E.; Bender, R.; Drory, N.; Fisher, D.: Composite bulges – II. Classical bulges and nuclear discs in barred galaxies: the contrasting cases of NGC 4608 and NGC 4643. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 502 (2), pp. 2446 - 2473 (2021)

Neureiter, B.; Thomas, J.; Saglia, R.; Bender, R.; Finozzi, F.; Krukau, A.; Naab, T.; Rantala, A.; Frigo, M.: SMART: a new implementation of Schwarzschild's Orbit Superposition technique for triaxial galaxies and its application to an N-body merger simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 500 (1), pp. 1437 - 1465 (2020)

Stefano, d. N.; Saglia, R. P.; Thomas, J.; Dehnen, W.; Bender, R.: Non-parametric triaxial deprojection of elliptical galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 496 (3), pp. 3076 - 3100 (2020)

Ene, I.; Ma, C.-P.; Walsh, J. L.; Greene, J. E.; Thomas, J.; Blakeslee, J. P.: The MASSIVE Survey XIV – Stellar velocity profiles and kinematic misalignments from 200 pc to 20 kpc in massive early-type galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal 891 (1), 65 (2020)

Kianusch, M.; Thomas, J.; Saglia, R.; Mazzalay, X.; Erwin, P.; Bender, R.; Kluge, M.; Fabricius, M.: A 40-billion solar mass black hole in the extreme core of Holm 15A, the central galaxy of Abell 85. The Astrophysical Journal 887 (2), 195 (2019)

Ene, I.; Ma, C.-P.; McConnell, N. J.; Walsh, J. L.; Kempski, P.; Greene, J. E.; Thomas, J.; Blakeslee, J. P.: The MASSIVE Survey XIII. Spatially resolved stellar kinematics in the central 1 kpc of 20 massive elliptical galaxies with the GMOS-North integral field spectrograph. The Astrophysical Journal 878 (1), 57 (2019)

Greene, J. E.; Veale, M.; Ma, C.-P.; Thomas, J.; Quenneville, M. E.; Blakeslee, J. P.; Walsh, J. L.; Goulding, A.; Ito, J.: The MASSIVE Survey - XII. Connecting stellar populations of early-type galaxies to kinematics and environment. The Astrophysical Journal 874 (1), 66, pp. 1 - 22 (2019)