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The VIRUS-dE Survey. I. Stars in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies—3D Dynamics and Radially Resolved Stellar Initial Mass Functions

  • Authors: Mathias Lipka, Jens Thomas, Roberto Saglia, Ralf Bender, Maximilian Fabricius, Gary J. Hill, Matthias Kluge, Martin Landriau, Ximena Mazzalay, Eva Noyola, Taniya Parikh, Jan Snigula

Mathias Lipka et al 2024 The Astrophysical Journal 976 .

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Caption: Figure 19.

Left: the dynamically recovered stellar mass-to-light ratios ϒ*(r) evaluated at radii r = 2.″5 and r = 7.″5 vs. SSP age in the corresponding annulli. Right: the same but for the total mass-to-light ratio (including dark matter). For this comparison, we calibrated all mass-to-light ratios to the z band. The mass-to-light ratios appear to be anticorrelated with age. If the IMF is assumed to be universal across formation epochs, then this trend is counterintuitive, because one would expect that mass-to-light ratio is positively correlated with the time passed since star formation. The dotted line indicates the expected present-day z-band mass-to-light ratio for a single stellar population with a universal Kroupa IMF and a metallicity of [Z/H] = −0.3 (C. Maraston 2005) as a function of its age.

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