From a purely photometric perspective galaxies are generally decomposed into a bulge+disc system, with bulges being dispersion-dominated and discs rotationally supported. However, recent observations have demonstrated that such a framework oversimplifies complexity, especially if one considers galaxy kinematics. To address this issue we introduced with the GPU-based code bang a novel approach that employs analytical potential-density pairs as galactic components, allowing for a computationally fast, still reliable fit of the morphological and kinematic properties of galaxies. Here we apply bang to the SDSS-MaNGA survey, estimating key parameters such as mass, radial extensions, and dynamics, for both bulges and discs of +10 000 objects. We test our methodology against a smaller subsample of galaxies independently analysed with an orbit-based algorithm, finding agreement in the recovered total stellar mass. We also manage to reproduce well-established scaling relations, demonstrating how proper dynamical modelling can result in tighter correlations and provide corrections to standard approaches. Finally, we propose a more general way of decomposing galaxies into 'hot' and 'cold' components, showing a correlation with orbit-based approaches and visually determined morphological type. Unexpected tails in the 'hot-to-total' mass-ratio distribution are present for galaxies of all morphologies, possibly due to visual morphology misclassifications.
Rigamonti, F., Dotti, M., Covino, S., Haardt, F., Cortese, L., Landoni, M., et al. (2023). Decomposing galaxies with bang: an automated morphokinematic decomposition of the SDSS-DR17 MaNGA survey. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 525(1), 1008-1022 [10.1093/mnras/stad2363].
Decomposing galaxies with bang: an automated morphokinematic decomposition of the SDSS-DR17 MaNGA survey
Dotti M.;Varisco L.
2023
Abstract
From a purely photometric perspective galaxies are generally decomposed into a bulge+disc system, with bulges being dispersion-dominated and discs rotationally supported. However, recent observations have demonstrated that such a framework oversimplifies complexity, especially if one considers galaxy kinematics. To address this issue we introduced with the GPU-based code bang a novel approach that employs analytical potential-density pairs as galactic components, allowing for a computationally fast, still reliable fit of the morphological and kinematic properties of galaxies. Here we apply bang to the SDSS-MaNGA survey, estimating key parameters such as mass, radial extensions, and dynamics, for both bulges and discs of +10 000 objects. We test our methodology against a smaller subsample of galaxies independently analysed with an orbit-based algorithm, finding agreement in the recovered total stellar mass. We also manage to reproduce well-established scaling relations, demonstrating how proper dynamical modelling can result in tighter correlations and provide corrections to standard approaches. Finally, we propose a more general way of decomposing galaxies into 'hot' and 'cold' components, showing a correlation with orbit-based approaches and visually determined morphological type. Unexpected tails in the 'hot-to-total' mass-ratio distribution are present for galaxies of all morphologies, possibly due to visual morphology misclassifications.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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