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A KECK ADAPTIVE OPTICS SURVEY OF A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF GRAVITATIONALLY LENSED STAR-FORMING GALAXIES: HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION STUDIES OF KINEMATICS AND METALLICITY GRADIENTS

  • Authors: Nicha Leethochawalit, Tucker A. Jones, Richard S. Ellis, Daniel P. Stark, Johan Richard, Adi Zitrin, and Matthew Auger

2016 The Astrophysical Journal 820 84.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Comparison of two methods for determining the degree of rotational support in our sample plotted against the goodness of fit in the disk model. ﹩{v}_{c}/\sigma ﹩ from our disk fits and ﹩{\rm{\Delta }}V/2\sigma ﹩ from the peak-to-peak method is considered in the context of the reduced ﹩{\chi }^{2}﹩. Horizontal dashed lines represent the usually adopted thresholds, ﹩{\rm{\Delta }}V/2\sigma \geqslant 0.4﹩ and ﹩{v}_{c}/\sigma \gt 1﹩, for rotationally supported systems and the vertical dashed line represents ﹩{\chi }^{2}=20﹩, below which we consider the disk model to be appropriate. Without adequate sampling, a larger fraction of our sample would be incorrectly considered to be rotationally supported.

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