Aims. We present new 2D high resolution Fabry–Perot spectroscopic observations of 152 star-forming galaxies that are part of the Herschel Reference Survey (HRS), which is a complete K-band selected, volume-limited sample of nearby galaxies that spans a wide range of stellar mass and morphological types. Methods. By using improved data reduction techniques, that provide adaptive binning based on Voronoi tessellation, and using large field-of-view observations, we derived high spectral resolution (R > 10 000) Hα datacubes from which we computed Hα maps and radial 2D velocity fields that are based on several of thousand independent measurements. A robust method based on such fields allowed us to accurately compute rotation curves and kinematical parameters, for which uncertainties are calculated using a method based on the power spectrum of the residual velocity fields. Results. We checked the consistency of the rotation curves by comparing our maximum rotational velocities to those derived from H I data, and by computing the i-band, NIR, stellar, and baryonic Tully-Fisher relations. We used this set of kinematical data combined with those available at other frequencies to study, for the first time, the relation between the dynamical and the total baryonic mass (stars, atomic and molecular gas, metals, and dust) and to derive the baryonic and dynamical main sequence on a representative sample of the local universe.
RESUMENEn imágenes delóptico, el par de galaxias aislado no estudiado ampliamente, KP G 486 (N GC 6090), muestra características similares al par de galaxias Las Antenas (N GC 4038/39). Para comparar la distribución del gas ionizado, morfología y comportamiento cinemático y dinámico entre ambos pares de galaxias, se presentan observaciones en la línea de emisión Hα de N GC 6090 adquiridas con el interferómetro Fabry-Perot de barrido, PUMA. Para cada galaxia en N GC 6090 se obtuvieron varios parámetros cinemáticos, su campo de velocidades y su curva de rotación, además se analizaron algunas de las perturbaciones inducidas por su encuentro. Se verificó la consistencia de estos resultados comparándolos con los de la literatura. La comparación de los resultados de N GC 6090 con los de un análisis cinemático similar previo a Las Antenas destacó grandes diferencias entre estos pares de galaxias. ABSTRACTIn optical images, the not amply studied isolated interacting galaxy pair KP G 486 (N GC 6090) displays similar features to the galaxy pair The Antennae (N GC 4038/39). To compare the distribution of ionized hydrogen gas, morphology and kinematic and dynamic behaviour between both galaxy pairs, we present observations in the Hα emission line of N GC 6090 acquired with the scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer, PUMA. For each galaxy in N GC 6090 we obtained several kinematic parameters, its velocity field and its rotation curve, we also analysed some of the perturbations induced by their encounter. We verified the consistency of our results by comparing them with kinematic results from the literature. The comparison of our results on N GC 6090 with those obtained in a previous similar kinematic analysis made for The Antennae highlighted great differences between these galaxy pairs.
Using the VESTIGE survey, a deep narrow-band Hα imaging survey of the Virgo cluster carried out at the CFHT with MegaCam, we discovered a long and diffuse tail of ionised gas in the edge-on late-type galaxy NGC 4330. This peculiar feature indicates an ongoing ram pressure stripping event able to remove the gas in the outer region of the disc. Tuned hydrodynamic simulations suggest that the ram pressure stripping event is occurring almost face-on, making NGC 4330 the ideal candidate for studying the effects of the perturbation in the direction perpendicular to the disc plane. We present here two new independent sets of Fabry-Perot observations (R ≃ 10 000) with the purpose of understanding the effects of the ram pressure stripping process on the kinematics of the ionised gas. Despite their limited sensitivity to the diffuse gas emission, the data allowed us to measure the velocity and the velocity dispersion fields over the galaxy disc and in several features at the edges or outside the stellar disc formed after the ram pressure stripping event. We constructed the position-velocity diagrams and the rotation curves of the galaxy using three different techniques. The data show, consistent with the hydrodynamic simulations, that the galaxy has an inner solid-body rotation up to ∼2.4 kpc, with non-circular streaming motions outside this radius and in the several external features formed during the interaction of the galaxy with the surrounding intracluster medium. The data also indicate a decrease in the rotational velocity of the gas with increasing distance from the galaxy disc along the tails, suggesting a gradual but not linear loss of angular momentum in the stripped gas. Consistent with a ram pressure stripping scenario, the i-band image shows a boxy shape at the south-west edge of the disc, where the stellar orbits might have been perturbed by the modification of the gravitational potential well of the galaxy due to the displacement of the gas in the z direction.
We present Fabry-Pérot observations in the Hα and [S ii] lines to study the kinematics of the Magellanic-type dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1569, these observations allowed us to computed the Hα velocity field of this galaxy. Doing a detailed analysis of the velocity along the line-of-sight and Hα velocity profiles, we identified the origin of most of the motions in the innermost parts of the galaxy and discarded the possibility of deriving a rotation curve that traces the gravitational well of the galaxy. We analysed the kinematics of the ionised gas around 31 supernova remnants previously detected in NGC 1569 by other authors, in optical and radio emission. We found that the Hα velocity profiles of the supernova remnants are complex indicating the presence of shocks. Fitting these profiles with several Gaussian functions, we computed their expansion velocities which rank from 87 to 188 km s−1 confirming they are supernova remnants. Also, we determined the physical properties such as electron density, mechanical energy, and kinematic age for 30 of the 31 supernova remnants and found they are in the radiative phase with an energy range from 1 to 39 × 1050 erg s−1 and an age from 2.3 to 8.9 × 104 yr. Finally, we estimated the Surface Brightness - Diameter (Σ-D) Relation for NGC 1569 and obtained a slope β = 1.26 ± 0.2, comparable with the β value obtained for supernova remnants in galaxies M31 and M33.
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