This is a curated list of my first- and second-author publications. You can find a full list on ADS or arXiv. At present, there do not seem to be any other D. Taranu authors on ADS or arXiv.
Published in arXiv (PASJ submitted), 2021
The paper describing the pipeline software, data processing, outputs and access for the third data release of the HSC-SSP (PDR3).
Recommended citation: Aihara, H., AlSayyad, Y., Ando, M., et al., 2021, arXiv:2108.13045. https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13045
Published in The Astrophysical Journal, 2021
This paper quantifies the role of passive disc fading in transforming spiral galaxies to lenticulars, using SAMI Galaxy Survey data, equilibrium galaxy models and simulations.
Recommended citation: Croom, S. M.; Taranu, D. S.; van de Sande, J.; et al., 2021, MNRAS, 505, 2247. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.505.2247C/abstract
Published in The Astrophysical Journal, 2017
MagRite is a new code and method for fitting self-consistent galaxy models to images and integral field kinematics. This paper describes the method and shows an example using SAMI Galaxy Survey data.
Recommended citation: Taranu D.S., Obreschkow D., Dubinski J.J., et al., 2017, ApJ, 850, 70. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ApJ...850...70T/abstract
Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016
ProFit is an R package for Bayesian galaxy profile fitting. This paper describes the code and methodology with examples and results from the VST-KiDS survey.
Recommended citation: Robotham A.S.G., Taranu D.S., Tobar R., et al., 2017, MNRAS, 466, 1513. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017MNRAS.466.1513R/abstract
Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015
This second paper from my PhD thesis concluded that Paper I’s simulations follow a similar fundamental plane relation to observed ellipticals, but with a shallower slope, implying that some dissipation is likely necessary to form realistic ellipticals.
Recommended citation: Taranu D.S., Dubinski J.J., Yee H.K.C., 2015, MNRAS, 803, 78 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...803...78T/abstract
Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014
This undergraduate thesis paper presented simplified models for the evolution of star formation in galaxies in rich clusters. Comparioson of model predictions to observations showed that typical galaxies are quenched on longer exponential time-scales of 3-3.5 Gyr, whereas models with very rapid quenching (<1Gyr) are disfavoured as they produce excessively old and red galaxies.
Recommended citation: Taranu D.S., Hudson M.J., Balogh M.L., et al., 2014, MNRAS, 440, 1934. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.440.1934T/abstract
Published in The Astrophysical Journal, 2013
This first paper from my PhD thesis presented novel N-body simulations of mergers of spiral galaxies in groups of three to twenty-five. Analysis of synthetic images and kinematic maps showed that the merger remnants formed in the centers of these groups have very similar properties to nearby elliptical galaxies, showing that multiple, gas-poor and sometimes minor mergers are an alternative formation mechanism to the previously favoured paradigm of a single gas-rich major merger.
Recommended citation: Taranu D.S., Dubinski J.J., Yee H.K.C., 2013, ApJ, 778, 61. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...778...61T/abstract