Asymmetric drift in MaNGA: Mass and radially-dependent stratification rates in galaxy disks

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Auteurs principaux: Bershady, Matthew A., Westfall, Kyle B., Shetty, Shravan, Law, David R., Cappellari, Michele, Drory, Niv, Bundy, Kevin, Yan, Renbin
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author Bershady, Matthew A.
Westfall, Kyle B.
Shetty, Shravan
Law, David R.
Cappellari, Michele
Drory, Niv
Bundy, Kevin
Yan, Renbin
author_facet Bershady, Matthew A.
Westfall, Kyle B.
Shetty, Shravan
Law, David R.
Cappellari, Michele
Drory, Niv
Bundy, Kevin
Yan, Renbin
contents We measure the age-velocity relationship from the lag between ionized gas and stellar tangential speeds in ~500 nearby disk galaxies from MaNGA in SDSS-IV. Selected galaxies are kinematically axisymmetric. Velocity lags are asymmetric drift, seen in the Milky Way's (MW) solar neighborhood and other Local Group galaxies; their amplitude correlates with stellar population age. The trend is qualitatively consistent in rate (d(sigma)/dt) with a simple power-law model where sigma is proportional to t^b that explains the dynamical phase-space stratification in the solar neighborhood. The model is generalized based on disk dynamical times to other radii and other galaxies. We find in-plane radial stratification parameters sigma_(0,r} (dispersion of the youngest populations) in the range of 10-40 km/s and 0.2<b_r<0.5 for MaNGA galaxies. Overall b_r increases with galaxy mass, decreases with radius for galaxies above 10.4 dex (M_solar) in stellar mass, but is ~constant with radius at lower mass. The measurement scatter indicates the stratification model is too simple to capture the complexity seen in the data, unsurprising given the many possible astrophysical processes that may lead to stellar population dynamical stratification. Nonetheless, the data show dynamical stratification is broadly present in the galaxy population, with systematic trends in mass and density. The amplitude of the asymmetric drift signal is larger for the MaNGA sample than the MW, and better represented in the mean by what is observed in the disks of M31 and M33. Either typical disks have higher surface-density or, more likely, are dynamically hotter (hence thicker) than the MW.
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spellingShingle Asymmetric drift in MaNGA: Mass and radially-dependent stratification rates in galaxy disks
Bershady, Matthew A.
Westfall, Kyle B.
Shetty, Shravan
Law, David R.
Cappellari, Michele
Drory, Niv
Bundy, Kevin
Yan, Renbin
Astrophysics of Galaxies
We measure the age-velocity relationship from the lag between ionized gas and stellar tangential speeds in ~500 nearby disk galaxies from MaNGA in SDSS-IV. Selected galaxies are kinematically axisymmetric. Velocity lags are asymmetric drift, seen in the Milky Way's (MW) solar neighborhood and other Local Group galaxies; their amplitude correlates with stellar population age. The trend is qualitatively consistent in rate (d(sigma)/dt) with a simple power-law model where sigma is proportional to t^b that explains the dynamical phase-space stratification in the solar neighborhood. The model is generalized based on disk dynamical times to other radii and other galaxies. We find in-plane radial stratification parameters sigma_(0,r} (dispersion of the youngest populations) in the range of 10-40 km/s and 0.2<b_r<0.5 for MaNGA galaxies. Overall b_r increases with galaxy mass, decreases with radius for galaxies above 10.4 dex (M_solar) in stellar mass, but is ~constant with radius at lower mass. The measurement scatter indicates the stratification model is too simple to capture the complexity seen in the data, unsurprising given the many possible astrophysical processes that may lead to stellar population dynamical stratification. Nonetheless, the data show dynamical stratification is broadly present in the galaxy population, with systematic trends in mass and density. The amplitude of the asymmetric drift signal is larger for the MaNGA sample than the MW, and better represented in the mean by what is observed in the disks of M31 and M33. Either typical disks have higher surface-density or, more likely, are dynamically hotter (hence thicker) than the MW.
title Asymmetric drift in MaNGA: Mass and radially-dependent stratification rates in galaxy disks
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02460