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The Atlas3D project - V. The CO Tully-Fisher relation of early-type galaxies

Timothy A. Davis, Martin Bureau, Lisa M. Young, Katherine Alatalo, Leo Blitz, Michele Cappellari, Nicholas Scott, Maxime Bois, Frederic Bournaud, Roger L. Davie… 展开作者

Timothy A. Davis, Martin Bureau, Lisa M. Young, Katherine Alatalo, Leo Blitz, Michele Cappellari, Nicholas Scott, Maxime Bois, Frederic Bournaud, Roger L. Davies, P. Tim de Zeeuw, Eric Emsellem, Sadegh Khochfar, Davor Krajnovic, Harald Kuntschner, Pierre-Yves Lablanche, Richard M. McDermid, Raffaella Morganti, Thorsten Naab, Tom Oosterloo, Marc Sarzi, Paolo Serra, Anne-Marie Weijmans

英文摘要:

We demonstrate here using both single-dish and interferometric observations that CO molecules are an excellent kinematic tracer, even in high-mass galaxies, allowing us to investigate for the first time the CO Tully-Fisher relation of early-type galaxies. We compare the Tully-Fisher relations produced using both single-dish and interferometric data and various inclination estimation methods, and evaluate the use of the velocity profile shape as a criterion for selecting galaxies in which the molecular gas extends beyond the peak of the rotation curve. We show that the gradient and zero-point of the best-fit relations are robust, independent of the velocity measure and inclination used, and agree with those of relations derived using stellar kinematics. We also show that the early-type CO Tully-Fisher (CO-TF) relation is offset from the CO-TF of spirals by 0.98 \pm 0.22 magnitude at Ks-band, in line with other results. The intrinsic scatter of the relation is found to be \approx 0.4 magnitudes, similar to the level found in the spiral galaxy population. Next generation facilities such as the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) should allow this technique to be used in higher-redshift systems, providing a simple new tool to trace the mass-to-light ratio evolution of the most massive galaxies over cosmic time.

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