MUSEQuBES: The kinematics of OVI-bearing gas in and around low-redshift galaxies
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| author | Dutta, Sayak Muzahid, Sowgat Schaye, Joop Johnson, Sean Chen, Hsiao-Wen Cantalupo, Sebastiano |
| author_facet | Dutta, Sayak Muzahid, Sowgat Schaye, Joop Johnson, Sean Chen, Hsiao-Wen Cantalupo, Sebastiano |
| contents | We present a detailed study of the kinematics of OVI-bearing gas around 60 low-mass (median log(M*/Msun)~8.9) galaxies at low redshift (0.1 < z < 0.7) using background quasars (median impact parameter $\approx115$ kpc) as part of the MUSE Quasar-fields Blind Emitters Survey (MUSEQuBES). We find that the majority of the OVI absorbers detected within the virial radius have line-of-sight velocities smaller than the escape velocities and are thus consistent with being gravitationally bound, irrespective of the halo mass. However, the fraction of such absorbers declines at larger impact parameters. The Doppler $b$ parameter and the velocity width ($Δv_{90}$) of the OVI absorbers exhibit large scatter inside the virial radius of the host galaxies, but the scatter declines sharply at impact parameter $D \gtrsim 2R_{\rm vir}$. For high-mass galaxies (log(M*/Msun)>9), OVI absorption displays a larger kinematic spread, quantified by the pixel-velocity two-point correlation function (TPCF). However, this difference disappears for the isolated galaxies when the pixel velocities are scaled by the galaxy's circular velocity. We do not find any significant difference between the TPCF of isolated and group galaxies when the stellar mass is controlled for. A significant fraction of groups (4/6) with four or more member galaxies do not show any detectable OVI absorption, likely due to the passive nature of nearest galaxies. |
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| spellingShingle | MUSEQuBES: The kinematics of OVI-bearing gas in and around low-redshift galaxies Dutta, Sayak Muzahid, Sowgat Schaye, Joop Johnson, Sean Chen, Hsiao-Wen Cantalupo, Sebastiano Astrophysics of Galaxies We present a detailed study of the kinematics of OVI-bearing gas around 60 low-mass (median log(M*/Msun)~8.9) galaxies at low redshift (0.1 < z < 0.7) using background quasars (median impact parameter $\approx115$ kpc) as part of the MUSE Quasar-fields Blind Emitters Survey (MUSEQuBES). We find that the majority of the OVI absorbers detected within the virial radius have line-of-sight velocities smaller than the escape velocities and are thus consistent with being gravitationally bound, irrespective of the halo mass. However, the fraction of such absorbers declines at larger impact parameters. The Doppler $b$ parameter and the velocity width ($Δv_{90}$) of the OVI absorbers exhibit large scatter inside the virial radius of the host galaxies, but the scatter declines sharply at impact parameter $D \gtrsim 2R_{\rm vir}$. For high-mass galaxies (log(M*/Msun)>9), OVI absorption displays a larger kinematic spread, quantified by the pixel-velocity two-point correlation function (TPCF). However, this difference disappears for the isolated galaxies when the pixel velocities are scaled by the galaxy's circular velocity. We do not find any significant difference between the TPCF of isolated and group galaxies when the stellar mass is controlled for. A significant fraction of groups (4/6) with four or more member galaxies do not show any detectable OVI absorption, likely due to the passive nature of nearest galaxies. |
| title | MUSEQuBES: The kinematics of OVI-bearing gas in and around low-redshift galaxies |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15432 |