Revealing the assembly history of discs in galaxies through high-order stellar kinematics with SAMI
Fast-rotating galaxies which host stellar discs show a strong anti-correlation between the higher-order Gauss-Hermite spectral moment h3 (skewness of the line) and the anisotropy parameter v/sigma. Recent cosmological hydrodynamical simulations suggest that these discs could only have formed through...
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2016
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| Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/61539 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.61539 |
| Summary: | Fast-rotating galaxies which host stellar discs show a strong anti-correlation between the higher-order Gauss-Hermite spectral moment h3 (skewness of the line) and the anisotropy parameter v/sigma. Recent cosmological hydrodynamical simulations suggest that these discs could only have formed through gas-rich mergers (Naab et al. 2014); in gas-poor mergers no discs are formed due to the absence of a dissipative gas component. With integral field spectrographs such as SAMI it is now possible to assess these results by classifying galaxies based on their higher-order stellar kinematics signatures alone. In this talk, I will present the stellar kinematic measurements from the SAMI galaxy survey and a first observational attempt to connect the higher-order stellar kinematic moments in galaxies to their cosmological assembly history. I will show the higher-order kinematic classes that we find within the SAMI galaxy survey, and compare how our new classes correlate with other global galaxy properties. Finally, I will show that our new way of classifying galaxies from their higher-order stellar kinematics signatures shows great potential for revealing possible hidden discs and bars in galaxies. |
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