Gas kinematics, morphology and angular momentum in the FIRE simulations

K El-Badry, E Quataert, A Wetzel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We study the z= 0 gas kinematics, morphology and angular momentum content of isolated
galaxies in a suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project spanning M …

SDSS-IV MaNGA: stellar angular momentum of about 2300 galaxies: unveiling the bimodality of massive galaxy properties

MT Graham, M Cappellari, H Li, S Mao… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We measure, a proxy for galaxy specific stellar angular momentum within one effective
radius, and the ellipticity, ε, for about 2300 galaxies of all morphological types observed with …

Galactic angular momentum in the IllustrisTNG simulation–I. Connection to morphology, halo spin, and black hole mass

V Rodriguez-Gomez, S Genel, SM Fall… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We use the TNG100 simulation of the IllustrisTNG project to investigate the stellar specific
angular momenta (j*) of∼ 12 000 central galaxies at z= 0 in a full cosmological context, with …

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: The internal orbital structure and mass distribution of passive galaxies from triaxial orbit-superposition Schwarzschild models

G Santucci, S Brough, J Van De Sande… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Dynamical models are crucial for uncovering the internal dynamics of galaxies; however,
most of the results to date assume axisymmetry, which is not representative of a significant …

Angular momentum evolution of galaxies in EAGLE

CP Lagos, T Theuns, ARH Stevens… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We use the eagle cosmological hydrodynamic simulation suite to study the specific angular
momentum of galaxies, j, with the aims of (i) investigating the physical causes behind the …

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: spatially resolving the main sequence of star formation

AM Medling, L Cortese, SM Croom… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present the∼ 800 star formation rate maps for the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field
spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey based on H α emission maps, corrected for dust …

Quantifying the impact of mergers on the angular momentum of simulated galaxies

CP Lagos, ARH Stevens, RG Bower… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We use eagle to quantify the effect galaxy mergers have on the stellar specific angular
momentum of galaxies, j stars. We split mergers into dry (gas-poor)/wet (gas-rich) …

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Data Release Two with absorption-line physics value-added products

N Scott, J van de Sande, SM Croom… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present the second major release of data from the Sydney–Australian Astronomical
Observatory Multi-Object Integral Field Spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey. Data Release …

Astronomical Distance Determination in the Space Age: Secondary Distance Indicators

B Czerny, R Beaton, M Bejger, E Cackett… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
The formal division of the distance indicators into primary and secondary leads to difficulties
in description of methods which can actually be used in two ways: with, and without the …

The specific angular momentum of disc galaxies and its connection with galaxy morphology, bar structure, and disc gravitational instability

AB Romeo, O Agertz, F Renaud - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The specific angular momenta (j≡ J/M) of stars (j⋆), gas (j gas), baryons as a whole (jb) and
dark matter haloes (jh) contain clues of vital importance about how galaxies form and …