The multiwavelength structure of post-starburst galaxies at 0.5 < z < 3 with JWST PRIMER: compact morphologies and residual disturbances

arXiv:2607.00085 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-06-30 · Read on arXiv

David T. Maltby, Omar Almaini, Vivienne Wild, Elizabeth Taylor, Kate Rowlands, Thomas de Lisle, Guillaume Hewitt, Maya Skarbinski, James S. Dunlop, Adam C. Carnall, Anton M. Koekemoer, Derek J. McLeod

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-06-30

Comments: 22 pages, 18 figures, Published in MNRAS

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag987

Project page: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/astronomy/UDS

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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• AGN — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 7× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Consistency — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Age Gradients — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ultra Deep Survey — 4× in this paper
• Population Synthesis — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Principal Component Analysis — 2× in this paper
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Environmental Quenching — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Principal Component Analysis (PCA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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• Everything Every Band All at Once II: The Relationship Between Optical Size and Stellar Mass Over Eight Billion Years of Cosmic History
• statmorph-lsst: Quantifying and correcting morphological biases in galaxy surveys

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