Publications of Jens Thomas

Fabricius, M. H.; Coccato, L.; Bender, R.; Drory, N.; Gössl, C. A.; Landriau, M.; Saglia, R. P.; Thomas, J.; Williams, M. J.: Regrowth of stellar discs in mature galaxies: the two-component nature of NGC 7217 revisited with VIRUS-W. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 441 (3), pp. 2212 - 2229 (2014)

Fabricius, M. H.; Noyola, E.; Rukdee, S.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Hopp, U.; Thomas, J.; Opitsch, M.; Williams, M. J.: Central rotations of Milky Way globular clusters. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 787 (2), L26, pp. 1 - 6 (2014)

Mazzalay, X.; Maciejewski, W.; Erwin, P.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Fabricius, M. H.; Nowak, N.; Rusli, S. P.; Thomas, J.: Molecular gas in the centre of nearby galaxies from VLT/SINFONI integral field spectroscopy – II. Kinematics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 438 (3), pp. 2036 - 2064 (2014)

Thomas, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Erwin, P.; Fabricius, M.: The dynamical fingerprint of core scouring in massive elliptical galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal 782 (1), 39, pp. 1 - 8 (2014)

Rusli, S. P.; Erwin, P.; Saglia, R. P.; Thomas, J.; Fabricius, M.; Bender, R.; Nowak, N.: Depleted galaxy cores and dynamical black hole masses. Astronomical Journal 146 (6), 160, pp. 1 - 18 (2013)

Rusli, S. P.; Thomas, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Fabricius, M.; Erwin, P.; Bender, R.; Nowak, N.; Lee, C. H.; Riffeser, A.; Sharp, R.: The influence of dark matter halos on dynamical estimates of black hole mass: 10 new measurements for high-σ early-type galaxies. Astronomical Journal 146 (3), 45, pp. 1 - 32 (2013)

Mazzalay, X.; Saglia, R. P.; Erwin, P.; Fabricius, M. H.; Rusli, S. P.; Thomas, J.; Bender, R.; Opitsch, M.; Nowak, N.; Williams, M. J.: Molecular gas in the centre of nearby galaxies from VLT/SINFONI integral field spectroscopy – I. Morphology and mass inventory. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 428 (3), pp. 2389 - 2406 (2013)

Hilz, M.; Naab, T.; Ostriker, J. P.; Thomas, J.; Burkert, A.; Jesseit, R.: Relaxation and stripping – the evolution of sizes, dispersions and dark matter fractions in major and minor mergers of elliptical galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 425 (4), pp. 3119 - 3136 (2012)

Wegner, G. A.; Corsini, E. M.; Thomas, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Pu, S. B.: Further evidence for large central mass-to-light ratios in early-type galaxies: the case of ellipticals and lenticulars in the A262 cluster. Astronomical Journal 144 (3), 78, pp. 1 - 23 (2012)

Teodorescu, A. M.; Méndez, R. H.; Bernardi, F.; Thomas, J.; Das, P.; Gerhard, O.: Planetary nebulae in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4649 (M 60): kinematics and distance redetermination. The Astrophysical Journal 736 (1), 65, pp. 1 - 16 (2011)

Thomas, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Thomas, D.; Gebhardt, K.; Magorrian, J.; Corsini, E. M.; Wegner, G.; Seitz, S.: Dynamical masses of early-type galaxies: a comparison to lensing results and implications for the stellar initial mass function and the distribution of dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 415 (1), pp. 545 - 562 (2011)

Rusli, S. P.; Thomas, J.; Erwin, P.; Saglia, R. P.; Nowak, N.; Bender, R.: The central black hole mass of the high-σ but low-bulge-luminosity lenticular galaxy NGC 1332. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 410 (2), pp. 1223 - 1236 (2011)

Pu, S. B.; Saglia, R. P.; Fabricius, M. H.; Thomas, J.; Bender, R.; Han, Z.: Radially extended kinematics and stellar populations of the massive ellipticals NGC 1600, NGC 4125, and NGC 7619: constraints on the outer dark halo density profile. Astronomy & Astrophysics 516, A4, pp. 1 - 18 (2010)

Nowak, N.; Thomas, J.; Erwin, P.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Davies, R. I.: Do black hole masses scale with classical bulge luminosities only? The case of the two composite pseudo-bulge galaxies NGC 3368 and NGC 3489. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 403 (2), pp. 646 - 672 (2010)

Gebhardt, K.; Thomas, J.: The black hole mass, stellar mass-to-light ratio and dark halo in M87. The Astrophysical Journal 700 (2), pp. 1690 - 1701 (2009)

Thomas, J.; Jesseit, R.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Burkert, A.; Corsini, E. M.; Gebhardt, K.; Magorrian, J.; Naab, T.; Thomas, D. et al.; Wegner, G.: The flattening and the orbital structure of early-type galaxies and collisionless N-body binary disc mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 393 (2), pp. 641 - 652 (2009)

Thomas, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Thomas, D.; Gebhardt, K.; Magorrian, J.; Corsini, E. M.; Wegner, G.: Dark matter scaling relations and the assembly epoch of coma early-type galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal 691 (1), pp. 770 - 782 (2009)

Nowak, N.; Saglia, R. P.; Thomas, J.; Bender, R.; Davies, R. I.; Gebhardt, K.: The supermassive black hole of Fornax A. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 391 (4), pp. 1629 - 1649 (2008)

Corsini, E. M.; Wegner, G.; Saglia, R. P.; Thomas, J.; Bender, R.; Thomas, D.: Spatially resolved spectroscopy of Coma Cluster early-type galaxies - IV. Completing the data set. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 175 (2), pp. 462 - 484 (2008)

Thomas, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Thomas, D.; Gebhardt, K.; Magorrian, J.; Corsini, E. M.; Wegner, G.: Dynamical modelling of luminous and dark matter in 17 Coma early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 382 (2), pp. 657 - 684 (2007)