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A Discrete Chemo-Dynamical Model Of The Giant Elliptical Galaxy Ngc 5846: Dark Matter Fraction, Internal Rotation, And Velocity Anisotropy Out To Six Effective Radii, Ling Zhu, Aaron Romanowsky, Glenn Van De Ven, R. Long, Laura Watkins, Vincenzo Pota, Nicola Napolitano, Duncan Forbes, Jean Brodie, Caroline Foster
A Discrete Chemo-Dynamical Model Of The Giant Elliptical Galaxy Ngc 5846: Dark Matter Fraction, Internal Rotation, And Velocity Anisotropy Out To Six Effective Radii, Ling Zhu, Aaron Romanowsky, Glenn Van De Ven, R. Long, Laura Watkins, Vincenzo Pota, Nicola Napolitano, Duncan Forbes, Jean Brodie, Caroline Foster
Faculty Publications
We construct a suite of discrete chemo-dynamical models of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5846. These models are a powerful tool to constrain both the mass distribution and internal dynamics of multiple tracer populations. We use Jeans models to simultaneously fit stellar kinematics within the effective radius Re, planetary nebula (PN) radial velocities out to 3 Re, and globular cluster (GC) radial velocities and colours out to 6 Re. The best-fitting model is a cored dark matter halo which contributes ∼10 per cent of the total mass within 1 Re, and 67 per cent ± 10 per cent within 6 …
The Sluggs Survey: The Mass Distribution In Early-Type Galaxies Within Five Effective Radii And Beyond, Adebusola Alabi, Duncan Forbes, Aaron Romanowsky, Jean Brodie, Jay Strader, Joachim Janz, Vincenzo Pota, Nicola Pastorello, Christopher Usher, Lee Spitler, Caroline Foster, Zachary Jennings, Alexa Villaume, Sreeja Kartha
The Sluggs Survey: The Mass Distribution In Early-Type Galaxies Within Five Effective Radii And Beyond, Adebusola Alabi, Duncan Forbes, Aaron Romanowsky, Jean Brodie, Jay Strader, Joachim Janz, Vincenzo Pota, Nicola Pastorello, Christopher Usher, Lee Spitler, Caroline Foster, Zachary Jennings, Alexa Villaume, Sreeja Kartha
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We study mass distributions within and beyond 5 effective radii (Re) in 23 early-type galaxies from the SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and Galaxies Survey, using their globular cluster (GC) kinematic data. The data are obtained with Keck/DEep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph, and consist of line-of-sight velocities for ∼3500 GCs, measured with a high precision of ∼15 km s−1 per GC and extending out to ∼13 Re. We obtain the mass distribution in each galaxy using the tracer mass estimator of Watkins et al. and account for kinematic substructures, rotation of the GC systems and galaxy flattening in our mass estimates. The …
The Sluggs Survey: The Assembly Histories Of Individual Early-Type Galaxies, Duncan Forbes, Aaron Romanowsky, Nicola Pastorello, Caroline Foster, Jean Brodie, Jay Strader, Christopher Usher, Vincenzo Pota
The Sluggs Survey: The Assembly Histories Of Individual Early-Type Galaxies, Duncan Forbes, Aaron Romanowsky, Nicola Pastorello, Caroline Foster, Jean Brodie, Jay Strader, Christopher Usher, Vincenzo Pota
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Early-type (E and S0) galaxies may have assembled via a variety of different evolutionary pathways. Here, we investigate these pathways by comparing the stellar kinematic properties of 24 early-type galaxies from the SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS (SLUGGS) survey with the hydrodynamical simulations of Naab et al. In particular, we use the kinematics of starlight up to 4 effective radii (Re) as diagnostics of galaxy inner and outer regions, and assign each galaxy to one of six Naab et al. assembly classes. The majority of our galaxies (14/24) have kinematic characteristics that indicate an assembly history dominated by gradual …
Hecs-Sz: The Hectospec Survey Of Sunyaev-Zeldovich-Selected Clusters, Kenneth J. Rines, Margaret J. Geller, Antonaldo Diaferio, Ho Seong Hwang
Hecs-Sz: The Hectospec Survey Of Sunyaev-Zeldovich-Selected Clusters, Kenneth J. Rines, Margaret J. Geller, Antonaldo Diaferio, Ho Seong Hwang
Physics & Astronomy
We estimate cluster masses and velocity dispersions for 123 clusters from optical spectroscopy to compare the Sunyaev–Zeldovich (SZ) mass proxy and dynamical masses. Our new survey, HeCS-SZ (Hectospec Cluster Survey of SZ-selected clusters), includes 7721 new or remeasured redshifts from MMT/Hectospec observations of 21 SZ-selected clusters at redshifts z = 0.05–0.20. We supplement the Hectospec data with spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and cluster data from the Cluster Infall Regions in SDSS project and the Hectospec Cluster Survey, our Hectospec survey of clusters selected by X-ray flux. We measure the scaling relation between velocity dispersion and SZ …
The Sluggs Survey: Chromodynamical Modelling Of The Lenticular Galaxy Ngc 1023, Arianna Cortesi, Ana Chies-Santos, Vincenzo Pota, Caroline Foster, Lodovico Coccato, Claudia Mendes De Oliveira, Duncan Forbes, Michael Merrifield, Steven Bamford, Aaron Romanowsky, Jean Brodie, Sreeja Kartha, Adebusola Alabi, Robert Proctor, Andres Almeida
The Sluggs Survey: Chromodynamical Modelling Of The Lenticular Galaxy Ngc 1023, Arianna Cortesi, Ana Chies-Santos, Vincenzo Pota, Caroline Foster, Lodovico Coccato, Claudia Mendes De Oliveira, Duncan Forbes, Michael Merrifield, Steven Bamford, Aaron Romanowsky, Jean Brodie, Sreeja Kartha, Adebusola Alabi, Robert Proctor, Andres Almeida
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Globular clusters (GCs) can be considered discrete, long-lived, dynamical tracers that retain crucial information about the assembly history of their parent galaxy. In this paper, we present a new catalogue of GC velocities and colours for the lenticular galaxy NGC 1023, we study their kinematics and spatial distribution, in comparison with the underlying stellar kinematics and surface brightness profile, and we test a new method for studying GC properties. Specifically, we decompose the galaxy light into its spheroid (assumed to represent the bulge+halo components) and disc components and use it to assign to each GC a probability of belonging to …
The Sluggs Survey: Stellar Kinematics, Kinemetry And Trends At Large Radii In 25 Early-Type Galaxies, Caroline Foster, Nicola Pastorello, Joel Roediger, Jean Brodie, Duncan Forbes, Sreeja Kartha, Vincenzo Pota, Aaron Romanowsky, Lee Spitler, Jay Strader, Christopher Usher, Jacob Arnold
The Sluggs Survey: Stellar Kinematics, Kinemetry And Trends At Large Radii In 25 Early-Type Galaxies, Caroline Foster, Nicola Pastorello, Joel Roediger, Jean Brodie, Duncan Forbes, Sreeja Kartha, Vincenzo Pota, Aaron Romanowsky, Lee Spitler, Jay Strader, Christopher Usher, Jacob Arnold
Faculty Publications
Due to longer dynamical time-scales, the outskirts of early-type galaxies retain the footprint of their formation and assembly. Under the popular two-phase galaxy formation scenario, an initial in situ phase of star formation is followed by minor merging and accretion of ex situ stars leading to the expectation of observable transitions in the kinematics and stellar populations on large scales. However, observing the faint galactic outskirts is challenging, often leaving the transition unexplored. The large-scale, spatially resolved stellar kinematic data from the SAGES Legacy Unifying Galaxies and GlobularS (SLUGGS) survey are ideal for detecting kinematic transitions. We present kinematic maps …
Erratum: Global Properties Of ‘Ordinary’ Early-Type Galaxies: Photometry And Spectroscopy Of Stars And Globular Clusters In Ngc 4494, Caroline Foster, Lee Spitler, Aaron Romanowsky, Duncan Forbes, Vincenzo Pota, Kenji Bekki, Jay Strader, Robert Proctor, Jacob Arnold, Jean Brodie
Erratum: Global Properties Of ‘Ordinary’ Early-Type Galaxies: Photometry And Spectroscopy Of Stars And Globular Clusters In Ngc 4494, Caroline Foster, Lee Spitler, Aaron Romanowsky, Duncan Forbes, Vincenzo Pota, Kenji Bekki, Jay Strader, Robert Proctor, Jacob Arnold, Jean Brodie
Faculty Publications
This is an erratum to the paper entitled “Global properties of ‘ordinary’ early-type galaxies: photometry and spectroscopy of stars and globular clusters in NGC 4494”, published in MNRAS, 2011, 415, 3393.
New Spectroscopic Technique Based On Coaddition Of Surface Brightness Fluctuations: Ngc 4449 And Its Stellar Tidal Stream, Elisa Toloba, Puragra Guhathakurta, Aaron Romanowsky, Jean Brodie, David Martínez-Delgado, Jacob Arnold, Neel Ramachandran, Kuriakose Theakanath
New Spectroscopic Technique Based On Coaddition Of Surface Brightness Fluctuations: Ngc 4449 And Its Stellar Tidal Stream, Elisa Toloba, Puragra Guhathakurta, Aaron Romanowsky, Jean Brodie, David Martínez-Delgado, Jacob Arnold, Neel Ramachandran, Kuriakose Theakanath
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The Sluggs Survey: A New Mask Design To Reconstruct The Stellar Populations And Kinematics Of Both Inner And Outer Galaxy Regions, Nicola Pastorello, Duncan Forbes, Adriano Poci, Aaron Romanowsky, Richard Mcdermid, Adebusola Alabi, Jean Brodie, Michele Cappellari, Vincenzo Pota, Caroline Foster
The Sluggs Survey: A New Mask Design To Reconstruct The Stellar Populations And Kinematics Of Both Inner And Outer Galaxy Regions, Nicola Pastorello, Duncan Forbes, Adriano Poci, Aaron Romanowsky, Richard Mcdermid, Adebusola Alabi, Jean Brodie, Michele Cappellari, Vincenzo Pota, Caroline Foster
Faculty Publications
Integral field unit spectrographs allow the 2D exploration of the kinematics and stellar populations of galaxies, although they are generally restricted to small fields-of-view. Using the large field-of-view of the DEIMOS multislit spectrograph on Keck and our Stellar Kinematics using Multiple Slits technique, we are able to extract sky-subtracted stellar light spectra to large galactocentric radii. Here, we present a new DEIMOS mask design named SuperSKiMS that explores large spatial scales without sacrificing high spatial sampling. We simulate a set of observations with such a mask design on the nearby galaxy NGC 1023, measuring stellar kinematics and metallicities out to …