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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 474, Issue 1, Pages 522-535Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2797
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galaxies: general; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: star formation; galaxies: structure
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- Australian Research Council [DP130101460]
- Australian Research Council - Australian Government [FT170100376]
- Australian Research Council [FT170100376] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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We present Keck/OSIRIS (OH Suppressing Infrared Imaging Spectrograph) adaptive optics observations with 150-400 pc spatial sampling of seven turbulent, clumpy disc galaxies from the DYnamics of Newly-Assembled Massive Objects (DYNAMO) sample (0.07 < z < 0.2). DYNAMO galaxies have previously been shown to be well matched in properties to main-sequence galaxies at z similar to 1.5. Integral field spectroscopy observations using adaptive optics are subject to a number of systematics including a variable point spread function and spatial sampling, which we account for in our analysis. We present gas velocity dispersion maps corrected for these effects, and confirm that DYNAMO galaxies do have high gas velocity dispersion (sigma = 40-80 km s(-1)), even at high spatial sampling. We find statistically significant structure in six out of seven galaxies. The most common distance between the peaks in velocity dispersion (sigma(peaks)) and emission line peaks is similar to 0.5 kpc; we note this is very similar to the average size of a clump measured with Hubble Space Telescope Ha maps. This could suggest that sigma(peaks) in clumpy galaxies likely arise due to some interaction between the clump and the surrounding interstellar medium of the galaxy, though our observations cannot distinguish between outflows, inflows or velocity shear. Observations covering a wider area of the galaxies will be needed to confirm this result.
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