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Michele Cappellari is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy, particularly focusing on Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Their research encompasses several key areas, including:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing

The main subfields of their work include:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Instrumentation
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Computational Mechanics
  • General Health Professions

Cappellari has published extensively, with a significant number of works appearing in the following venues:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Frequent co-authors alongside Cappellari include:

  • Martin Bureau
  • Timothy A. Davis
  • Thomas G. Williams
  • Ilaria Ruffa
  • Satoru Iguchi

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Michele Cappellari include:

  • The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data, 2022, Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Full spectrum fitting with photometry in ppxf: stellar population versus dynamical masses, non-parametric star formation history and metallicity for 3200 LEGA-C galaxies at redshift z ≈ 0.8, 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • TDCOSMO, 2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Efficient solution of the anisotropic spherically aligned axisymmetric Jeans equations of stellar hydrodynamics for galactic dynamics, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Best Publications

  • Parametric Recovery of Line‐of‐Sight Velocity Distributions from Absorption‐Line Spectra of Galaxies via Penalized Likelihood

    Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti;Franco D. Albareti

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti

  • The SAURON project - IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of elliptical and lenticular galaxies

    M Cappellari;R Bacon;M Bureau;MC Damen

  • Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Kevin Bundy;Matthew A. Bershady;David R. Law;Renbin Yan

  • Improving the full spectrum fitting method: accurate convolution with Gauss-Hermite functions

    Michele Cappellari

  • The ATLAS3D project – I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria

    Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Davor Krajnović;Richard M. Mcdermid

  • Adaptive spatial binning of integral-field spectroscopic data using Voronoi tessellations

    Michele Cappellari;Yannick Copin

  • The ATLAS3D project – XX. Mass–size and mass–σ distributions of early-type galaxies: bulge fraction drives kinematics, mass-to-light ratio, molecular gas fraction and stellar initial mass function

    Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida

  • The SAURON project—V. Integral-field emission-line kinematics of 48 elliptical and lenticular galaxies

    Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Reynier F. Peletier;Reynier F. Peletier;Richard M. McDermid

  • The SAURON project – IX. A kinematic classification for early‐type galaxies

    Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Michele Cappellari;Davor Krajnović;Glenn Van De Ven;Glenn Van De Ven

  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

    P. Serra;Raffaella Morganti;Thomas Oosterloo;K. Alatalo

  • The ATLAS3D project – III. A census of the stellar angular momentum within the effective radius of early‐type galaxies: unveiling the distribution of fast and slow rotators

    Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Davor Krajnović;Katherine Alatalo

  • The SAURON project -- X. The orbital anisotropy of elliptical and lenticular galaxies: revisiting the (V/sigma,epsilon) diagram with integral-field stellar kinematics

    M. Cappellari;E. Emsellem;R. Bacon;M. Bureau

  • Systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies

    Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The ATLAS3D project XV: benchmark for early-type galaxies scaling relations from 260 dynamical models: mass-to-light ratio, dark matter, fundamental plane and mass plane

    Michele Cappellari;Nicholas Scott;Nicholas Scott;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

    Romina Ahumada;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andrés Almeida;Friedrich Anders;Friedrich Anders

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. McDermid
Richard M. McDermid Macquarie University
Roger L. Davies
Roger L. Davies University of Oxford
Martin Bureau
Martin Bureau University of Oxford
Marc Sarzi
Marc Sarzi Armagh Observatory
Harald Kuntschner
Harald Kuntschner European Southern Observatory
Raffaella Morganti
Raffaella Morganti Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Tom Oosterloo
Tom Oosterloo Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
P. T. de Zeeuw
P. T. de Zeeuw Leiden University
Jesús Falcón-Barroso
Jesús Falcón-Barroso University of La Laguna
Sadegh Khochfar
Sadegh Khochfar University of Edinburgh

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