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List of works by Michael Merrifield

A dearth of dark matter in ordinary elliptical galaxies

scientific article

A deep kinematic survey of planetary nebulae in the Andromeda galaxy using the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph

scientific article (publication date: 11 June 2006)

A direct test of density wave theory in a grand-design spiral galaxy

A search for bound satellite populations around central dominant galaxies in clusters

scientific article published in January 1991

An Atlas ofHubble Space TelescopeSpectra and Images of Nearby Spiral Galaxies

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Are Milky-Way-like galaxies like the Milky Way? A view from SDSS-IV/MaNGA

scientific article published in June 2023

Caught in the act: cluster ‘k+a’ galaxies as a link between spirals and S0s

scientific article

Clusters’ far-reaching influence on narrow-angle tail radio galaxies

scientific article published on 5 July 2021

Constraining the internal dynamics of stellar systems using the NMAGIC particle code

Counterrotating stars in the disk of the SAB galaxy NGC 7217

scientific article (publication date: September 1994)

Critical science for the largest telescopes: science drivers for a 100m ground-based optical-IR telescope

Dark-Matter Content of Early-Type Galaxies with Planetary Nebulae

Dearth of dark matter or massive dark halo? Mass-shape-anisotropy degeneracies revealed by nmagic dynamical models of the elliptical galaxy NGC 3379

scientific article

Disentangling the stellar populations in the counter-rotating disc galaxy NGC 4550

scientific article

Dissecting Halo Components in IFU Data

Dwarfs gobbling dwarfs: a stellar tidal stream around NGC 4449 and hierarchical galaxy formation on small scales

scholarly article

Establishing the connection between peanut-shaped bulges and galactic bars

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

From the outside looking in: what can Milky Way analogues tell us about the star formation rate of our own galaxy?

scholarly article

Galactic Astronomy

book published in 1998

Galaxy Zoo: 3D – crowdsourced bar, spiral, and foreground star masks for MaNGA target galaxies

scientific article published in 2021

Integral Field Spectroscopy of 23 Spiral Bulges

scholarly article

Kinematic properties of early type galaxy halos using planetary nebulae

Kinematic properties of early-type galaxy haloes using planetary nebulae

scientific article

Nuclear Properties of Nearby Spiral Galaxies fromHubble Space TelescopeNICMOS Imaging and STIS Spectroscopy

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Nuclear Properties of a Sample of Nearby Spiral Galaxies fromHubble Space TelescopeSTIS Imaging

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey: Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

P-MaNGA: GRADIENTS IN RECENT STAR FORMATION HISTORIES AS DIAGNOSTICS FOR GALAXY GROWTH AND DEATH

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Planetary Nebula Spectrograph survey of S0 galaxy kinematics – II. Clues to the origins of S0 galaxies

scientific article

Probing the kinematics of early-type galaxy halos using planetary nebulae

scholarly article

Radially extended kinematics in the S0 galaxy NGC 2768 from planetary nebulae, globular clusters and starlight

scientific article

Resolving the Disc–Halo Degeneracy – II: NGC 6946

scientific article published on 9 October 2020

Resolving the Disk-Halo Degeneracy using Planetary Nebulae

Resolving the Disk-Halo Degeneracy: A look at M74

Revealing S0 Galaxies’ Formation Histories Using the Stellar Kinematics of the Faint Outer Disks

SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS GALAXY SURVEY—SURVEY DESIGN, EXECUTION, AND INITIAL DATA QUALITY

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

SDSS-IV MaNGA: A SERENDIPITOUS OBSERVATION OF A POTENTIAL GAS ACCRETION EVENT

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Probing the Kinematic Morphology–Density Relation of Early-type Galaxies with MaNGA

scientific article

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Spatially resolved star formation histories in galaxies as a function of galaxy mass and type

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SDSS-IV MaNGA: Uncovering the Angular Momentum Content of Central and Satellite Early-type Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SDSS-IV MaNGA: bulge–disc decomposition of IFU data cubes (BUDDI)

scholarly article

SDSS-IV MaNGA: full spectroscopic bulge-disc decomposition of MaNGA early-type galaxies

scholarly article

SDSS-IV MaNGA: pattern speeds of barred galaxies

scientific article

SDSS-IV MaNGA: properties of galaxies with kinematically decoupled stellar and gaseous components

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SDSS-IV MaNGA: stellar population gradients as a function of galaxy environment

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SDSS-IV MaNGA: the chemical co-evolution of gas and stars in spiral galaxies

scientific article published in 2022

SDSS-IV MaNGA: the different quenching histories of fast and slow rotators

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SDSS-IV MaNGA: the formation sequence of S0 galaxies

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SNITCH: seeking a simple, informative star formation history inference tool

scientific article

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Testing the nature of S0 galaxies using planetary nebula kinematics in NGC 1023

scholarly article

The 13th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

article by Franco D. Albareti et al published 8 December 2017 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA-derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools, and Stellar Library

article

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the Second Phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

article

The PN.S Elliptical Galaxy Survey: Data Reduction, Planetary Nebula Catalog, and Basic Dynamics for NGC 3379

article by N. G. Douglas et al published 20 July 2007 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

The PN.S Elliptical Galaxy Survey: a standard ΛCDM halo around NGC 4374?★

scholarly article

The Planetary Nebula Spectrograph elliptical galaxy survey: the dark matter in NGC 4494

scientific article

The Planetary Nebula Spectrograph survey of S0 galaxy kinematics

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data

scientific article published on 16 March 2022

The growth of the central region by acquisition of counterrotating gas in star-forming galaxies

scientific article

The halo of M 105 and its group environment as traced by planetary nebula populations

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

The halo of M 105 and its group environment as traced by planetary nebula populations

scientific article published in July 2022

The orbital structure of the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 5846

scientific article

The origin of S0s in clusters: evidence from the bulge and disc star formation histories

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The stellar kinematics and populations of boxy bulges: cylindrical rotation and vertical gradients★

scholarly article

Unravelling the origins of S0 galaxies using maximum likelihood analysis of planetary nebulae kinematics

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Untangling galaxy components: full spectral bulge–disc decomposition

scholarly article

What bent the jets in 4C 34.16?

scientific article published in January 1996