Acknowledging and Referencing

When using DYSMAL or DysmalPy in published research, we ask that you cite all of the following papers:

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Please also cite the papers for the fitters you use in any analysis:

Publications using DysmalPy

  • Refereed Articles Using DysmalPy/Dysmal or its Precursor (DisDYN):

Publication List on ADS.

Acknowledgements: DysmalPy is the Python version of the most recent Dysmal modeling code, a long-term development of the MPE/IR-Submm Group. Preparation and maintenance of the public release was/is funded by the European Union (ERC, GALPHYS, 101055023). Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

  • Selected work on high-z galaxies featuring key applications of Dysmal/DysmalPy as of 5 Apr 2024:

Lee et al. 2025, ApJ, 978, 14
“Disk Kinematics at High Redshift: DysmalPy’s Extension to 3D Modeling and Comparison with Different Approaches”
Liu et al. 2024, Nat.As, 8, 1181L
“Detailed study of a rare hyperluminous rotating disk in an Einstein ring 10 billion years ago”
Genzel et al. 2023, ApJ, 957, 48
“Evidence for Large-scale, Rapid Gas Inflows in z~2 Star-forming Disks”
Nestor Shachar et al. 2023, ApJ, 944, 78
“RC100: Rotation Curves of 100 Massive Star-forming Galaxies at z=0.6-2.5
Reveal Little Dark Matter on Galactic Scales”
Genzel et al. 2020, ApJ, 902, 98
“Rotation curves in z~1-2 star-forming disks: Evidence of cored dark matter distributions”
Übler et al. 2019, ApJ, 880, 48
“The Evolution and Origin of Ionized Gas Velocity Dispersion from z~2.6 to z~0.6 with KMOS3D”
Förster Schreiber et al. 2018, ApJS, 238, 21
“The SINS/zC-SINF Survey of z~2 Galaxy Kinematics:
SINFONI Adaptive Optics-assisted Data and Kiloparsec-scale Emission-line Properties”
Genzel et al. 2017, Nature, 543, 397
“Strongly baryon-dominated disk galaxies at the peak of galaxy formation ten billion years ago”
Übler et al. 2017, ApJ, 842, 121
“The Evolution of the Tully-Fisher Relation between z~2.3 and z~0.9 with KMOS3D”
Burkert et al. 2016, ApJ, 826, 214
“The Angular Momentum Distribution and Baryon Content of Star-forming Galaxies at z~1-3”
Genzel et al. 2008, ApJ, 687, 59
“From Rings to Bulges: Evidence for Rapid Secular Galaxy Evolution at z~2
from Integral Field Spectroscopy in the SINS Survey”
Förster Schreiber et al. 2006, ApJ, 645, 1062
“SINFONI Integral Field Spectroscopy of z~2 UV-selected Galaxies:
Rotation Curves and Dynamical Evolution”
Genzel et al. 2006, Nature, 442, 786
“The rapid formation of a large rotating disk galaxy three billion years after the Big Bang”