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The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Kinematics of Stars and Gas in Brightest Group Galaxies—The Role of Group Dynamics

  • Authors: Mojtaba Raouf, Rory Smith, Habib G. Khosroshahi, Jesse van de Sande, Julia J. Bryant, Luca Cortese, S. Brough, Scott M. Croom, Ho Seong Hwang, Simon Driver, Ángel R. López-Sánchez, Jongwan Ko, Jae-Woo Kim, Jihye Shin, Nicholas Scott, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Samuel N. Richards, Matt Owers, J. S. Lawrence, and Iraklis S. Konstantopoulos

2021 The Astrophysical Journal 908 123.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

In the left panel, the spin parameter proxy within the effective radius ellipse, λRe, including measurement errors, is plotted as a function of galaxy ellipticity measured at the effective radius for BGGs in relaxed and unrelaxed groups. The various curves/lines separate galaxies into slow and fast rotators following the two separate schemes proposed in Emsellem et al. (2011, EE+11) and Cappellari (2016, MC+16). In the right panel, the fraction of slow and fast rotators is compared using horizontal bars with binomial errors for relaxed and unrelaxed groups. Representative examples of stellar kinematic maps are shown inside the figure for the fast (top) and slow (bottom) rotator BGGs.

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