J/A+A/632/A59 CALIFA galaxies stellar angular momentum (Falcon-Barroso+, 2019)
The CALIFA view on stellar angular momentum across the Hubble sequence.
Falcon-Barroso J., Van De Ven G., Lyubenova M., Mendez-Abreu J.,
Aguerri J.A.L., Garcia-Lorenzo B., Bekeraite S., Sanchez S.F., Husemann B.,
Garcia-Benito R., Gonzalez Delgado R.M., Mast D., Walcher C.J., Zibetti S.,
Zhu L., Barrera-Ballesteros J.K., Galbany L., Sanchez-Blazquez P.,
Singh R., van den Bosch R.C.E., Wild V., Bland-Hawthorn J.,
Cid Fernandes R., de Lorenzo-Caceres A., Gallazzi A., Marino R.A.,
Marquez I., Peletier R.F., Perez E., Perez I., Roth M.M.,
Rosales-Ortega F.F., Ruiz-Lara T., Wisotzki L., Ziegler B.
<Astron. Astrophys., 632, A59 (2019)>
=2019A&A...632A..59F 2019A&A...632A..59F (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Morphology
Keywords: galaxies: kinematics and dynamics -
galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD - galaxies: spiral -
galaxies: structure - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: formation
Abstract:
We present the apparent stellar angular momentum over the optical
extent of 300 galaxies across the Hubble sequence using integral-field
spectroscopic (IFS) data from the CALIFA survey. Adopting the same
λR parameter previously used to distinguish between slow and
fast rotating early-type (elliptical and lenticular) galaxies, we show
that spiral galaxies are almost all fast rotators, as expected. Given
the extent of our data, we provide relations for λR measured
in different apertures (e.g. fractions of the effective radius:
0.5Re, Re, 2Re), including conversions to long-slit 1D
apertures. Our sample displays a wide range of λRe values,
consistent with previous IFS studies. The fastest rotators are
dominated by relatively massive and highly star-forming Sb galaxies,
which preferentially reside in the main star-forming sequence. These
galaxies reach λRe values of ∼0.85, and they are the largest
galaxies at a given mass, while also displaying some of the strongest
stellar population gradients. Compared to the population of S0
galaxies, our findings suggest that fading may not be the dominant
mechanism transforming spirals into lenticulars. Interestingly, we
find that λRe decreases for late-type Sc and Sd spiral
galaxies, with values that occasionally set them in the slow-rotator
regime. While for some of them this can be explained by their
irregular morphologies and/or face-on configurations, others are
edge-on systems with no signs of significant dust obscuration. The
latter are typically at the low-mass end, but this does not explain
their location in the classical (V/σ, ε) and
(λRe, ε) diagrams. Our initial investigations, based
on dynamical models, suggest that these are dynamically hot disks,
probably influenced by the observed important fraction of dark matter
within Re.
Description:
This paper presents the CALIFA view on the stellar angular momentum
distribution for a sample of 300 galaxies across the Hubble sequence.
Our dataset allows us to study the distribution of λR for
different apertures (0.5Re, Re, 2Re) and provides the relationship
between them, including conversions to λR computed with a
long-slit along the major axis of the galaxies. Our sample also helps
us to investigate the relationship between λR and different
global properties of galaxies (e.g. Hubble type, absolute magnitude,
u-r color, concentration index, stellar mass, and star formation
rate).
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
tableb1.dat 83 291 Stellar angular momentum properties of the
CALIFA stellar kinematics sample
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See also:
J/A+A/597/A48 : Stellar kinematics in CALIFA survey (Falcon-Barroso+, 2017)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: tableb1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 4 I4 --- ID CALIFA ID
6- 10 F5.3 --- eps Average ellipticity measured in the outer
parts of the galaxy, using SDSS images
12- 16 F5.1 deg PA [] Average position angle measured in the
outer parts of the galaxy, using SDSS images
18- 21 F4.1 deg Incl Statistical inclination (see Appendix A)
23- 24 I2 arcsec Reff Effective radius of the galaxy, measured as
described in Walcher et al.
(2014A&A...569A...1W 2014A&A...569A...1W)
26- 28 A3 --- Type Hubble type of the galaxy from Walcher et al.
(2014A&A...569A...1W 2014A&A...569A...1W)
30- 34 F5.2 10+10Msun M* Total stellar mass of the galaxy, measured as
described in Walcher et al.
(2014A&A...569A...1W 2014A&A...569A...1W)
36- 41 F6.2 mag rMAG Total absolute magnitude in r-band from SDSS
(Abazajian et al. 2009ApJS..182..543A 2009ApJS..182..543A)
43- 46 F4.2 --- C90/50 ? Concentration index (ratio of Petrosian
radius rad90 and rad50)
48- 52 F5.2 mag u-r SDSS Petrosian u-r color index
54- 58 F5.2 Msun/yr SFR ? Star formation rate based on extinction
corrected Hα measurements
(Sanchez et al. 2017MNRAS.469.2121S 2017MNRAS.469.2121S)
60- 63 F4.2 --- l0.5Re Apparent stellar angular momentum, λR
measured on an elliptical aperture
with semi-major axis 0.5Re
65- 68 F4.2 --- lRe Apparent stellar angular momentum, λR
measured on an elliptical aperture
with semi-major axis Re
70- 73 F4.2 --- l2Re ? Apparent stellar angular momentum, λR
measured on an elliptical aperture
with semi-major axis 2Re
75- 78 F4.2 --- lRe90 Deprojected apparent stellar angular momentum,
λRe,90°
80- 83 F4.2 --- (V/sig)e Ordered-over-random stellar motion (V/σ)e
measured on an elliptical aperture with
semi-major axis Re. We refer the reader to
Falcon-Barroso et al. (2017A&A...597A..48F 2017A&A...597A..48F,
Cat. J/A+A/597/A48) for further properties of
the galaxies not listed here.
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