Marc Balcells

Recent Publications

1. M. Balcells 2003:  Spheroid and disk signatures in galaxy bulges, , Review at JENAM 2002 Galaxy Dynamics Workshop, Porto, 2002 September 3-7, EAS Publication Series, astro-ph/0301647
2. M. Pohlen, R.-J. Dettmar, J. E. Beckman, M. Balcells:  Do LSB galaxies exhibit outer stellar truncations? Case study: UGC7321, UGC9242 & ESO324-017, in "The Outer Edges of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies", 2002 Lowell Workshop, Eds. D. Hunter & S. Oey, On-Line Proceedings
3. M. Balcells, A. W. Graham, L. Domínguez-Palmero, R. F. Peletier:  Galactic Bulges from Hubble Space Telescope NIR imaging: the lack of r^1/4 bulges, ApJL, accepted, scheduled for Jan 10th 2003
, astro-ph/0212184.
4. J. Falcón-Barroso, M. Balcells, R. F. Peletier, A. Vazdekis :  Minor-axis kinematics of 19 S0-Sbc bulges, A&A, submitted (2002)
5. R. A. Swaters, B. F. Madore, F. C. van den Bosch, M. Balcells, :  The central mass distribution in dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies, 2002, ApJ, accepted
6. J. Falcón-Barroso, R. F. Peletier, M. Balcells, :  Bulges on the Fundamental Plane of Early-Type Galaxies, 2002, MNRAS, 335, 741
7. R. A. Swaters, M. Balcells, :  The Westerbork survey of spiral and irregular galaxies II. R-band surface photometry of late-type dwarf galaxies, 2002, AA, 390, 863
8. M. Balcells:  EMIR Science Prospects, in "Science with the GTC", Eds J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa et al., Revista Mexicana de Astronomía, in press (2002).
9. M. Balcells, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, Carmen Eliche:  Quantifying galaxy selection and visibility with the COSMOPACK tool, in "Science with the GTC", Eds J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa et al., Revista Mexicana de Astronomía, in press (2002).
10. M. Balcells, J. A. L. Aguerri, R. F. Peletier:  Growth of massive bulges by mergers of dense satellites, in "The mass of galaxies at low and high redshift", Eds. R. Bender & A. Renzini, ESO Astrophysics Symposia, in press (2002)
11. M. Balcells:  Evolution of Galaxy Bulges, in "Disks of Galaxies: Kinematics, Dynamics and Perturbations", Eds E. Athanassoula \& A. Bosma, ASP Conf. Series, in press (2002).
12. A. C. González-García, M. Balcells, T. S. van Albada:  Disk galaxy mergers and the Fundamental Plane, in "Disks of Galaxies: Kinematics, Dynamics and Perturbations", Eds E. Athanassoula & A. Bosma, ASP Conf. Series, in press (2002).
13. M. Balcells, J. H. van Gorkom, R. Sancisi, C. del Burgo:  HI in the shell elliptical NGC 3656, 2001 AJ, 122, 1758 , low res 700 Kb   astro-ph/0107165.
14. M. Balcells: The Central kpc of Galaxy Bulges, In ``The central kpc of starbursts and AGN: the La Palma connection'', Eds. J.H. Knapen, J.E. Beckman, I. Shlosman and T.J. Mahoney, ASP conf. series, 140 (2001)
15. M. Balcells, L. Domínguez, A. Graham, R. Peletier: Nuclear components in the bulges of disk galaxies,  In ``The central kpc of starbursts and AGN: the La Palma connection'', Eds. J.H. Knapen, J.E. Beckman, I. Shlosman and T.J. Mahoney, ASP conf. series, in press (2001)
16. J. A. L. Aguerri, M. Balcells, R. F. Peletier: "Growth of Galactic Bulges by Mergers. I: Dense Satellites", 2001 AA, 367, 428 or astro-ph

Peletier, Reynier F.; Balcells, Marc; Davies, Roger L.; Andredakis, Y.; Vazdekis, A.; Burkert, A.; Prada, F.: Galactic bulges from Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS observations: ages and dust
17. Hau, G. K. T., Carter, D., Balcells, M.: The shell elliptical galaxy NGC 2865: evolutionary population synthesis of a kinematically distinct core, MNRAS, 306, 437 (1999)
18. M. Balcells, A. C. Gonzalez: , "Formation of kinematic subsystems in stellar spiral-spiral mergers", Astrophysical Journal, 505, L109 (1998)
M. Balcells: , "Two tails in NGC 3656, and the major merger origin of shells and minor axis dust lane ellipticals", Astrophysical Journal, 486, L87 (1997)
19. R. F. Peletier, M. Balcells: Near-infrared surface photometry of bulges and disks of spiral galaxies: the data, authors Peletier and Balcells. An electronic data set of calibrated images, profiles, colors and integrated properties of a complete sample of S0 and early-to-intermediate type spiral galaxies, New Astronomy 1(4): 349-362
20. G. K. T. Hau, D. Carter, M. Balcells:  The shell elliptical NGC 2865: evolutionary population synthesis of a kinematically decoupled core, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 306, 437
21. R., F., Peletier, M. Balcells, HST-NICMOS Observations of Galactic Bulges: Red Nuclei in Neaby Galaxies, in NICMOS and the VLT, eds. W. Freudling, R. Hook, ESO Conf. Series, 1998.    (SEE THE NICE COVER PAGE)