The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the link between angular momentum and optical morphology

• Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Main Authors: Cortese, L., Fogarty, L. M. R., Bekki, K., van de Sande, J., Couch, W., Catinella, B., Colless, M., Obreschkow, D., Taranu, D., Tescari, E., Barat, D., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bloom, J., Bryant, J. J., Cluver, M., Croom, S. M., Drinkwater, M. J., d'Eugenio, F., Konstantopoulos, I. S., Lopez-Sanchez, A., Mahajan, S., Scott, N., Tonini, C., Wong, O. I., Allen, J. T., Brough, S., Goodwin, M., Green, A. W., Ho, I. -T., Kelvin, L. S., Lawrence, J. S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2016
• Subjects: Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; 1912 Space and Planetary Science; 3103 Astronomy and Astrophysics; Lambda; sami
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:412901/UQ412901_OA.pdf; https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:412901

We investigate the relationship between stellar and gas specific angular momentum j, stellar mass M-* and optical morphology for a sample of 488 galaxies extracted from the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field Galaxy Survey. We find that j, measured within one effective radius, monotonically incre...