Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 473, Issue 4, Pages 4731-4753Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2605
Keywords
galaxies: bulges; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: general; galaxies: star formation; galaxies: stellar content; galaxies: structure
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- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) [ST/MJ0371X/1]
- STFC Grant [ST/K502236/1]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration through Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship [PF5160143]
- National Aeronautics Space Administration [NAS803060]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Leverhulme Trust
- National Science Foundation
- US Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- American Museum of Natural History
- Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, University of Basel
- University of Cambridge
- Case Western Reserve University
- University of Chicago
- Drexel University
- Fermilab
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Japan Participation Group
- Johns Hopkins University
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
- Korean Scientist Group
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA)
- Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
- New Mexico State University
- Ohio State University
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Portsmouth
- Princeton University
- United States Naval Observatory
- University of Washington
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/N003179/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/L000695/1, ST/N003179/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We present the results of two-component (disc+bar) and three-component (disc+bar+bulge) multiwavelength 2D photometric decompositions of barred galaxies in five Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) bands (ugriz). This sample of similar to 3500 nearby (z < 0.06) galaxies with strong bars selected from the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project is the largest sample of barred galaxies to be studied using photometric decompositions that include a bar component. With detailed structural analysis, we obtain physical quantities such as the bar-and bulge-to-total luminosity ratios, effective radii, S ' ersic indices and colours of the individual components. We observe a clear difference in the colours of the components, the discs being bluer than the bars and bulges. An overwhelming fraction of bulge components have S ' ersic indices consistent with being pseudo-bulges. By comparing the barred galaxies with a mass-matched and volumelimited sample of unbarred galaxies, we examine the connection between the presence of a large-scale galactic bar and the properties of discs and bulges. We find that the discs of unbarred galaxies are significantly bluer compared to the discs of barred galaxies, while there is no significant difference in the colours of the bulges. We find possible evidence of secular evolution via bars that leads to the build-up of pseudo-bulges and to the quenching of star formation in the discs. We identify a subsample of unbarred galaxies with an inner lens/ oval and find that their properties are similar to barred galaxies, consistent with an evolutionary scenario in which bars dissolve into lenses. This scenario deserves further investigation through both theoretical and observational work.
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