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28 March 2024
 
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The SINS/zC-SINF Survey of z~2 Galaxy Kinematics: The Nature of Dispersion Dominated Galaxies
Sarah F. Newman ; Reinhard Genzel ; Natascha M. Forster Schreiber ; Kristen Shapiro Griffin ; Chiara Mancini ; Simon J. Lilly ; Alvio Renzini ; Nicolas Bouche ; Andreas Burkert ; Peter Buschkamp ; C. Marcella Carollo ; Giovanni Cresci ; Ric Davies ; Frank Eisenhauer ; Shy Genel ; Erin K. S. Hicks ; Jaron Kurk ; Dieter Lutz ; Thorsten Naab ; Yingjie Peng ; Amiel Sternberg ; Linda J. Tacconi ; Stijn Wuyts ; Gianni Zamorani ;
Date 27 Nov 2012
AbstractWe analyze the spectra, spatial distributions and kinematics of Ha, [NII] and [SII] emission in a sample of 42, z~2.2 UV/optically selected star forming galaxies (SFGs) from the SINS & zC-SINF surveys, 35 of which were observed in the adaptive optics mode of SINFONI. This is supplemented by kinematic data from 48 z~1-2.5 galaxies from the literature. We find that the kinematic classification of the high-z SFGs as ’dispersion dominated’ or ’rotation dominated’ correlates most strongly with their intrinsic sizes. Smaller galaxies are more likely ’dispersion-dominated’ for two main reasons: 1) The rotation velocity scales linearly with galaxy size but intrinsic velocity dispersion does not depend on size, and as such, their ratio is systematically lower for smaller galaxies, and 2) Beam smearing strongly decreases large-scale velocity gradients and increases observed dispersion much more for galaxies with sizes at or below the resolution. Dispersion dominated SFGs may thus have intrinsic properties similar to ’rotation dominated’ SFGs, but are primarily more compact, lower mass, less metal enriched and may have higher gas fractions, plausibly because they represent an earlier evolutionary state.
Source arXiv, 1211.6160
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