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Pierre-Alain Duc

Pierre-Alain Duc

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D-Index
90
Citations
27888
World Ranking
2248
National Ranking
92

Overview

Pierre-Alain Duc is affiliated with the University of Strasbourg in France and has made contributions primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, as well as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena; Astronomy and Astrophysical Research; Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation; Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies; and Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing.

Frequent collaborators with whom Pierre-Alain Duc has co-authored multiple publications include Rubén Sánchez-Janssen, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, F. Marleau, Sungsoon Lim, and Patrick R. Durrell.

The researcher has published extensively in several venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), followed by Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal, and Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology).

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of their research:

  • The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XIV. The Discovery of Low-mass Galaxies and a New Galaxy Catalog in the Core of the Virgo Cluster (2020, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • Census and classification of low-surface-brightness structures in nearby early-type galaxies from the MATLAS survey (2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • Structure and morphology of the MATLAS dwarf galaxies and their central nuclei (2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • Ultra diffuse galaxies in the MATLAS low-to-moderate density fields (2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • Dwarf Galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Globular Cluster System in the Ultra-diffuse Galaxy MATLAS-2019 (2021, The Astrophysical Journal)

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

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

  • 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 Atlas3D project -- XIII. Mass and morphology of HI in early-type galaxies as a function of environment

    Paolo Serra;Tom Oosterloo;Raffaella Morganti;Katherine Alatalo

  • Discovery of an AGN-Driven Molecular Outflow in the Local Early-Type Galaxy NGC 1266

    Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz;Lisa M. Young;Timothy A. Davis

  • THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY (NGVS). I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SURVEY

    Laura Ferrarese;Patrick Côté;Jean-Charles Cuillandre;S. D. J. Gwyn

  • The ATLAS3D Project - XXX. Star formation histories and stellar population scaling relations of early-type galaxies

    Richard M. McDermid;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz;Frédéric Bournaud

  • The ATLAS3D project - XIII. Mass and morphology of H I in early-type galaxies as a function of environment

    Paolo Serra;Tom Oosterloo;Tom Oosterloo;Raffaella Morganti;Raffaella Morganti;Katherine Alatalo

  • The Atlas3D project - X. On the origin of the molecular and ionised gas in early-type galaxies

    Timothy A. Davis;Katherine Alatalo;Marc Sarzi;Martin Bureau

  • Are the hosts of gamma-ray bursts sub-luminous and blue galaxies?

    E. Le Floc'h;P.-A. Duc;P.-A. Duc;I. F. Mirabel;D. B. Sanders

  • The ATLAS3D project - XXIX. The new look of early-type galaxies and surrounding fields disclosed by extremely deep optical images

    Pierre Alain Duc;Jean Charles Cuillandre;Jean Charles Cuillandre;Emin Karabal;Emin Karabal;Michele Cappellari

  • The ATLAS3D project - XXV. Two-dimensional kinematic analysis of simulated galaxies and the cosmological origin of fast and slow rotators

    Thorsten Naab;L. Oser;E. Emsellem;E. Emsellem;Michele Cappellari

  • Discovery of an active galactic nucleus driven molecular outflow in the local early-type galaxy NGC 1266

    K. Alatalo;L. Blitz;L. M. Young;L. M. Young;T. A. Davis

  • The ATLAS3D project - X. On the origin of the molecular and ionized gas in early-type galaxies

    Timothy A. Davis;Katherine Alatalo;Marc Sarzi;Martin Bureau

  • HYDRODYNAMICS OF HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXY COLLISIONS: FROM GAS-RICH DISKS TO DISPERSION-DOMINATED MERGERS AND COMPACT SPHEROIDS

    Frédéric Bournaud;Damien Chapon;Romain Teyssier;Leila C. Powell

  • The XMM-LSS survey. Survey design and first results

    M. Pierre;I. Valtchanov;B. Altieri;S. Andreon

  • The XMM-LSS survey: the Class 1 cluster sample over the initial 5 square degrees and its cosmological modelling

    F. Pacaud;M. Pierre;C. Adami;B. Altieri

  • Formation of a tidal dwarf galaxy in the interacting system Arp 245 (NGC 2992/93)

    P.-A. Duc;P.-A. Duc;E. Brinks;V. Springel;V. Springel;B. Pichardo

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Bournaud
Frédéric Bournaud University of Paris-Saclay
Simona Mei
Simona Mei Université Paris Cité
Tom Oosterloo
Tom Oosterloo Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Richard M. McDermid
Richard M. McDermid Macquarie University
Raffaella Morganti
Raffaella Morganti Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Eric Emsellem
Eric Emsellem European Southern Observatory
Martin Bureau
Martin Bureau University of Oxford
Michele Cappellari
Michele Cappellari University of Oxford
Sadegh Khochfar
Sadegh Khochfar University of Edinburgh
Laura Ferrarese
Laura Ferrarese National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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