The angular momentum-mass relation: a fundamental law from dwarf irregulars to massive spirals

Posti, Lorenzo; Fraternali, Filippo; Teodoro, Enrico M. Di; Pezzulli, Gabriele

doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833091

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“…In this case the observed scatter in R e would drive the one in j st ar , making the argument above circular. However, the constraints on the scatter in j st ar by Posti et al (2018b) quoted above, are found by direct integration of the observed rotation curves in the SPARC sample (Lelli et al 2016). It is also intriguing that, to first order, eq.…”

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Galaxy sizes and the galaxy–halo connection – I. The remarkable tightness of the size distributions

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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The mass and structural assembly of galaxies is a matter of intense debate. Current theoretical models predict the existence of a linear relationship between galaxy size (R e ) and the host dark matter halo virial radius (R h ). By making use of semi-empirical models compared to the size distributions of central galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we provide robust constraints on the normalization and scatter of the R e − R h relation. We explore the parameter space of models in which the R e − R h relation is mediated by either the spin parameter or the concentration of the host halo, or a simple constant the nature of which is in principle unknown. We find that the data require extremely tight relations for both early-type and latetype galaxies (ETGs,LTGs), especially for more massive galaxies. These constraints challenge models based solely on angular momentum conservation, which predict significantly wider distributions of galaxy sizes and no trend with stellar mass, if taken at face value. We discuss physically-motivated alterations to the original models that bring the predictions into better agreement with the data. We argue that the measured tight size distributions of SDSS disk galaxies can be reproduced by semi-empirical models in which the R e − R h connection is mediated by the stellar specific angular momenta j st ar . We find that current cosmological models of galaxy formation broadly agree with our constraints for LTGs, and justify the strong link between R e and j st ar that we propose, however the tightness of the R e − R h relation found in such ab-initio theoretical models for ETGs is in tension with our semi-empirical findings.

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Section: Is the Mmw Model Consistent With Observed Ltgs Scaling Relatmentioning

confidence: 83%

Galaxy sizes and the galaxy–halo connection – I. The remarkable tightness of the size distributions

Zanisi

Shankar

Lapi

et al. 2019

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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“…Note that, for this plot, we do not compute the true specific stellar angular momentum from individual stellar particles, but rather estimate it exactly as for observations (Posti et al 2018). The magenta area with the dashed line shows the best fit of the observational data from Posti et al (2018), while the black line shows the best fit for the data of the models. The same functions as used by Posti et al (2018) are here applied to calculate j star and fit the data,…”

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“…The magenta area with the dashed line shows the best fit of the observational data from Posti et al (2018), while the black line shows the best fit for the data of the models. The same functions as used by Posti et al (2018) are here applied to calculate j star and fit the data,…”

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“…23 and 24 are Eq. 1 and 4 of Posti et al (2018), where Σ star is the stellar surface mass density, V star,rot the stellar rotation curve of the galaxy and α, β are the fit parameters. Posti et al (2018) find their best fit with α = 0.55 ± 0.02 and β = 3.34 ± 0.03, while the best fit for the models here is α = 0.51 ± 0.04 and β = 3.05 ± 0.04.…”

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“…Relation between the specific stellar angular momentum, jstar, of all models with their respective stellar mass, Mstar (Fall relation, computed here as for observations). The magenta area with the dashed line shows the observed data from Posti et al (2018), the symbols for the different models are shown in the legend and the black line (Eq. 24) shows the best fit to the models.…”

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