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2018ApJ...858...47A - Astrophys. J., 858, 47-47 (2018/May-1)

ZFIRE: 3D modeling of rotation, dispersion, and angular momentum of star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 2.

ALCORN L.Y., TRAN K.-V., GLAZEBROOK K., STRAATMAN C.M., COWLEY M., FORREST B., KACPRZAK G.G., KEWLEY L.J., LABBE I., NANAYAKKARA T., SPITLER L.R., TOMCZAK A. and YUAN T.

Abstract (from CDS):

We perform a kinematic and morphological analysis of 44 star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 2 in the COSMOS legacy field using near-infrared spectroscopy from Keck/MOSFIRE and F160W imaging from CANDELS/3D-HST as part of the ZFIRE survey. Our sample consists of cluster and field galaxies from 2.0 < z < 2.5 with K-band multi-object slit spectroscopic measurements of their Hα emission lines. Hα rotational velocities and gas velocity dispersions are measured using the Heidelberg Emission Line Algorithm (HELA), which compares directly to simulated 3D data cubes. Using a suite of simulated emission lines, we determine that HELA reliably recovers input S0.5 and angular momentum at small offsets, but V2.2g values are offset and highly scattered. We examine the role of regular and irregular morphology in the stellar mass kinematic scaling relations, deriving the kinematic measurement S0.5, and finding log(S0.5)=(0.38±0.07)log(M/M-10)+(2.04±0.03) with no significant offset between morphological populations and similar levels of scatter (∼0.16 dex). Additionally, we identify a correlation between M* and V2.2g for the total sample, showing an increasing level of rotation dominance with increasing M*, and a high level of scatter for both regular and irregular galaxies. We estimate the specific angular momenta (jdisk) of these galaxies and find a slope of 0.36 ± 0.12, shallower than predicted without mass-dependent disk growth, but this result is possibly due to measurement uncertainty at M* < 9.5 However, through a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test we find irregular galaxies to have marginally higher jdisk values than regular galaxies, and high scatter at low masses in both populations.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: evolution - galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics

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