TY - JOUR AU - Gil de Paz, Armando PY - 2015 DO - 10.1088/0004-637X/799/1/99 SN - 0004-637X UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33880 T2 - Astrophysical journal AB - We have measured the radial light profiles and global shapes of bars using two-dimensional 3.6 μm image decompositions for 144 face-on barred galaxies from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies. The bar surface brightness profile is... LA - eng PB - IOP Publishing KW - Barred spiral galaxies KW - Digital sky survey KW - Surface-brightness profiles KW - Space-telescope census KW - Active galactic nuclei KW - Star-formation history KW - Edge-on galaxies KW - 8 Billion years KW - 3.6 Mu-M KW - Disc galaxies TI - The mass profile and shape of bars in the spitzer survey of stellar structure in galaxies (S^(4)G): search for an age indicator for bars TY - journal article VL - 799 ER -