The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Using Tidal Streams and Shells to Trace the Dynamical Evolution of Massive Galaxies
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Slow rotator galaxies are distinct amongst galaxy populations, with simulations suggesting that a mix of minor and major mergers are responsible for their formation. A promising path to resolve outstanding questions on the type of merger responsible, is by investigating deep imaging of massive galaxies for signs of potential merger remnants. We utilise deep imaging from the Subaru-Hyper Suprime Cam Wide data to search for tidal features in massive (log10(M*/M⊙) > 10) early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the SAMI Galaxy Survey. We perform a visual check for tidal features on images where the galaxy has been subtracted using a Multi-Gauss Expansion (MGE) model. We find that 31$^{+2}_{-2}$ percent of our sample show tidal features. When comparing galaxies with and without features, we find that the distributions in stellar mass, light-weighted mean stellar population age and Hα equivalent width are significantly different, whereas spin ($\lambda _{R_{\rm {e}}}$), ellipticity and bulge to total ratio have similar distributions. When splitting our sample in age, we find that galaxies below the median age (10.8 Gyr) show a correlation between the presence of shells and lower $\lambda _{R_{\rm {e}}}$, as expected from simulations. We also find these younger galaxies which are classified as having ”strong” shells have lower $\lambda _{R_{\rm {e}}}$. However, simulations suggest that merger features become undetectable within ∼2 − 4 Gyr post-merger. This implies that the relationship between tidal features and merger history disappears for galaxies with older stellar ages, i.e. those that are more likely to have merged long ago.
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Penulis (51)
T. Rutherford
J. V. D. Sande
S. Croom
L. Valenzuela
R. Remus
F. D’Eugenio
S. Vaughan
H. Zovaro
S. Casura
S. Barsanti
J. Bland-Hawthorn
S. Brough
J. Bryant
M. Goodwin
N. Lorente
Sree Oh
Andrei Ristea Sydney Institute for Astronomy
S. O. Physics
The University of Sydney
A. C. F. A. A. I. 3. Dimensions
Australia
Universitats-Sternwarte
F. Physik
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
Kavli Institute for Cosmology
U. Cambridge
C. Group
School of Applied Mathematical
P. Sciences
Macquarie University
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Astrophotonics Research Centre
Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics
Supercomputing
School of Materials Science
S. U. O. Technology
Research School for Astronomy
Australian National University
H. Sternwarte
U. Hamburg
University of Wales
Astralis-USydney
University of Sydney
AAO-MQ
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
D. O. Astronomy
Yonsei University Observatory
Yonsei University
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
The University of Western Australia
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2024
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 4×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1093/mnras/stae398
- Akses
- Open Access ✓