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The Fundamental Scaling Relations of Elliptical Galaxies

  • Authors: Brant Robertson, Thomas J. Cox, Lars Hernquist, Marijn Franx, Philip F. Hopkins, Paul Martini, and Volker Springel

Robertson et al. 2006 The Astrophysical Journal 641 21.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 14.

Ratio of total mass Mtotal to stellar mass Msstarf within a spherical radius for the remnants of equal‐mass mergers of ﹩V_{\mathrm{vir}\,}=115﹩ km s−1 disk galaxies with dark matter halos, star formation and supernova feedback as a function of progenitor gas content. The galaxy models are appropriate for ﹩z=0﹩ and are merged on nearly radial, parabolic orbits. Shown is Mtotal/Msstarf vs. R/Re for remnants produced by progenitor systems with gas fraction ﹩f_{\mathrm{gas}\,}=0.01﹩ (red line), ﹩f_{\mathrm{gas}\,}=0.025﹩ (yellow line), ﹩f_{\mathrm{gas}\,}=0.04﹩ (green line), ﹩f_{\mathrm{gas}\,}=0.1﹩ (blue line), ﹩f_{\mathrm{gas}\,}=0.2﹩ (purple line), and ﹩f_{\mathrm{gas}\,}=0.4﹩ (black line). For small‐mass spheroidal remnants, as the progenitor gas content is increased the stellar content substantially increases in the very central regions (﹩R< 0.3R_{e}﹩) of the galaxy. The decrease in Mtotal/Msstarf follows the corresponding decrease in Re as star formation is concentrated in the high central gas overdensities induced by the merger.

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