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2015MNRAS.452..986S - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 452, 986-997 (2015/September-1)

A transition mass in the local Tully-Fisher relation.

SIMONS R.C., KASSIN S.A., WEINER B.J., HECKMAN T.M., LEE J.C., LOTZ J.M., PETH M. and TCHERNYSHYOV K.

Abstract (from CDS):

We study the stellar mass Tully-Fisher relation (TFR; stellar mass versus rotation velocity) for a morphologically blind selection of emission line galaxies in the field at redshifts 0.1 < z < 0.375. Kinematics (σg, Vrot) are measured from emission lines in Keck/DEIMOS spectra and quantitative morphology is measured from V- and I-band Hubble images. We find a transition stellar mass in the TFR, logM*/M = 9.5. Above this mass, nearly all galaxies are rotation dominated, on average more morphologically disc-like according to quantitative morphology, and lie on a relatively tight TFR. Below this mass, the TFR has significant scatter to low rotation velocity and galaxies can either be rotation-dominated discs on the TFR or asymmetric or compact galaxies which scatter off. We refer to this transition mass as the `mass of disc formation', Mdf because above it all star-forming galaxies form discs (except for a small number of major mergers and highly star-forming systems), whereas below it a galaxy may or may not form a disc.

Abstract Copyright: © 2015 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2015)

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: evolution - galaxies: formation - galaxies: fundamental parameters - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics

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