Abstract
We study 379 central and 159 satellite early-type galaxies with two-dimensional kinematics from the integral-field survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) to determine how their angular momentum content depends on stellar and halo mass. Using the Yang et al. group catalog, we identify central and satellite galaxies in groups with halo masses in the range 1012.5 h-1 M⊙ < M200b < 1015 h-1 M⊙. As in previous work, we see a sharp dependence on stellar mass, in the sense that ~70% of galaxies with stellar mass M* > 1011 h-2 M⊙ tend to have very little rotation, while nearly all galaxies at lower mass show some net rotation. The ~30% of high-mass galaxies that have significant rotation do not stand out in other galaxy properties, except for a higher incidence of ionized gas emission. Our data are consistent with recent simulation results suggesting that major merging and gas accretion have more impact on the rotational support of lower-mass galaxies. When carefully matching the stellar mass distributions, we find no residual differences in angular momentum content between satellite and central galaxies at the 20% level. Similarly, at fixed mass, galaxies have consistent rotation properties across a wide range of halo mass. However, we find that errors in classification of central and satellite galaxies with group finders systematically lower differences between satellite and central galaxies at a level that is comparable to current measurement uncertainties. To improve constraints, the impact of group-finding methods will have to be forward-modeled via mock catalogs.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-3-2018
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9bde
Funding Information
.E.G. is partially supported by NSF AST-1411642. S.M. is supported by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science grants JP15K17600 and JP16H01089. F.B. acknowledges support from the Klaus Tschira Foundation, through the HITS-Yale Program in Astrophysics (HYPA).
Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah.
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Repository Citation
Greene, J. E.; Leauthaud, A.; Emsellem, E.; Ge, J.; Aragón-Salamanca, A.; Greco, J.; Lin, Y. -T.; Mao, S.; Masters, K.; Merrifield, M.; More, S.; Okabe, N.; Schneider, D. P.; Thomas, D.; Wake, D. A.; Pan, K.; Bizyaev, D.; Oravetz, D.; Simmons, A.; Yan, Renbin; and van den Bosch, F., "SDSS-IV MaNGA: Uncovering the Angular Momentum Content of Central and Satellite Early-Type Galaxies" (2018). Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. 485.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physastron_facpub/485
Notes/Citation Information
Published in The Astrophysical Journal, v. 852, no. 1, 36, p. 1-20.
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