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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. 16.

Ratio of the dynamical mass estimator ﹩M_{\mathrm{dyn}\,}\equiv \sigma ^{2}R_{e}/ G﹩ to the stellar mass Msstarf in the full‐model simulations as a function of stellar mass for remnants of mergers between progenitor disk galaxies appropriate for redshifts ﹩z=0﹩ (black circles), ﹩z=2﹩ (red diamonds), ﹩z=3﹩ (blue triangles), and ﹩z=6﹩ (green squares). Also shown is the measured Mdyn/Msstarf for ﹩z=0﹩ mergers with varying disk orientations (purple pentagons), orbital parameters (orange hexagons), and dark matter concentrations (cyan triangles). The best‐fit trend ﹩M_{\mathrm{dyn}\,}/ M_{\star }\propto M^{0.14}_{\star }﹩ (solid line) recovers the complete FP tilt measured for the full‐model simulations in Fig. 5. We also estimate the tilt contributed by variations of Mtotal/Msstarf averaged within an effective radius as a function of stellar mass measured from the remnant particle distribution (shaded area; see § 5.3.1), which contributes ≈40%–100% of the nonhomology‐related FP tilt. The Mtotal/Msstarf tilt estimates shown have been renormalized by a constant to intersect with the best‐fit Mdyn/Msstarf relation at the same location.

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