The Tremaine-Weinberg method at high redshifts

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Autori principali: Roshan, Mahmood, Habibi, Asiyeh, Aguerri, J. Alfonso L., Cuomo, Virginia, Bottrell, Connor, Costantin, Luca, Corsini, Enrico Maria, Kim, Taehyun, Lee, Yun Hee, Mendez-Abreu, Jairo, Frosst, Matthew, de Lorenzo-Cáceres, Adriana, Morelli, Lorenzo, Pizzella, Alessandro
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author Roshan, Mahmood
Habibi, Asiyeh
Aguerri, J. Alfonso L.
Cuomo, Virginia
Bottrell, Connor
Costantin, Luca
Corsini, Enrico Maria
Kim, Taehyun
Lee, Yun Hee
Mendez-Abreu, Jairo
Frosst, Matthew
de Lorenzo-Cáceres, Adriana
Morelli, Lorenzo
Pizzella, Alessandro
author_facet Roshan, Mahmood
Habibi, Asiyeh
Aguerri, J. Alfonso L.
Cuomo, Virginia
Bottrell, Connor
Costantin, Luca
Corsini, Enrico Maria
Kim, Taehyun
Lee, Yun Hee
Mendez-Abreu, Jairo
Frosst, Matthew
de Lorenzo-Cáceres, Adriana
Morelli, Lorenzo
Pizzella, Alessandro
contents This paper examines the reliability of the Tremaine-Weinberg (TW) method in measuring the pattern speed of barred galaxies at high redshifts. Measuring pattern speeds at high redshift may help to shed light on the time evolution of interactions between galactic bars and dark matter halos. The TW method has been extensively employed for nearby galaxies, and its accuracy in determining bar pattern speeds has been validated through numerical simulations. For nearby galaxies, the method yields acceptable results when the inclination angle of the galaxy and the position angle of the bar fall within appropriate ranges. However, the application of the TW method to high-redshift galaxies remains unexplored in both observations and simulations. For this study we generated mock observations of barred galaxies from the TNG50 cosmological simulation. These simulated observations were tailored to mimic the integral field unit (IFU) spectroscopy data that the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would capture at a redshift of $z\simeq 1.2$. By applying the TW method to these mock observations and comparing the results with the known pattern speeds, we demonstrate that the TW method performs adequately for barred galaxies whose bars are sufficiently long to be detected by JWST at high redshifts. This work opens a new avenue for applying the TW method to investigate the properties of high-redshift barred galaxies.
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spellingShingle The Tremaine-Weinberg method at high redshifts
Roshan, Mahmood
Habibi, Asiyeh
Aguerri, J. Alfonso L.
Cuomo, Virginia
Bottrell, Connor
Costantin, Luca
Corsini, Enrico Maria
Kim, Taehyun
Lee, Yun Hee
Mendez-Abreu, Jairo
Frosst, Matthew
de Lorenzo-Cáceres, Adriana
Morelli, Lorenzo
Pizzella, Alessandro
Astrophysics of Galaxies
This paper examines the reliability of the Tremaine-Weinberg (TW) method in measuring the pattern speed of barred galaxies at high redshifts. Measuring pattern speeds at high redshift may help to shed light on the time evolution of interactions between galactic bars and dark matter halos. The TW method has been extensively employed for nearby galaxies, and its accuracy in determining bar pattern speeds has been validated through numerical simulations. For nearby galaxies, the method yields acceptable results when the inclination angle of the galaxy and the position angle of the bar fall within appropriate ranges. However, the application of the TW method to high-redshift galaxies remains unexplored in both observations and simulations. For this study we generated mock observations of barred galaxies from the TNG50 cosmological simulation. These simulated observations were tailored to mimic the integral field unit (IFU) spectroscopy data that the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would capture at a redshift of $z\simeq 1.2$. By applying the TW method to these mock observations and comparing the results with the known pattern speeds, we demonstrate that the TW method performs adequately for barred galaxies whose bars are sufficiently long to be detected by JWST at high redshifts. This work opens a new avenue for applying the TW method to investigate the properties of high-redshift barred galaxies.
title The Tremaine-Weinberg method at high redshifts
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18292