期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 473, 期 4, 页码 4956-4974出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2667
关键词
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: fundamental parameters; galaxies: structure
资金
- Discovery Early Career Researcher Award [DE150100618]
- MERAC Foundation
- Research Collaboration Award at the University of Western Australia
- BIS National E-infrastructure capital grant [ST/K00042X/1]
- STFC capital grant [ST/H008519/1]
- STFC DiRAC Operations grant [ST/K003267/1]
- Durham University
- Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme
- Belgian Science Policy Office [AP P7/08 CHARM]
- National Science Foundation [NSF PHY11-25915]
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/F001166/1, ST/I000976/1]
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) [CE110001020]
- Australian Research Council Discovery Project [160102235]
- STFC [ST/P000541/1, ST/R000832/1, ST/H008519/1, ST/I00162X/1, ST/L004496/2, ST/L004496/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/I00162X/1, ST/L004496/1, ST/L004496/2, ST/R000832/1, ST/P000541/1, ST/H008519/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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), major/minor and different spin alignments and orbital parameters. Wet (dry) mergers have an average neutral gas-to-stellar mass ratio of 1.1 (0.02), while major (minor) mergers are those with stellar mass ratios >= 0.3 (0.1-0.3). We correlate the positions of galaxies in the j(stars)-stellar mass plane at z = 0 with their merger history, and find that galaxies of low spins suffered dry mergers, while galaxies of normal/high spins suffered predominantly wet mergers, if any. The radial j(stars) profiles of galaxies that went through dry mergers are deficient by approximate to 0.3 dex at r less than or similar to 10 r(50) (with r(50) being the half-stellar mass radius), compared to galaxies that went through wet mergers. Studying the merger remnants reveals that dry mergers reduce j(stars) by approximate to 30 per cent, while wet mergers increase it by approximate to 10 per cent, on average. The latter is connected to the build-up of the bulge by newly formed stars of high rotational speed. Moving from minor to major mergers accentuates these effects. When the spin vectors of the galaxies prior to the dry merger are misaligned, j(stars) decreases by a greater magnitude, while in wet mergers corotation and high orbital angular momentum efficiently spun-up galaxies. We predict what would be the observational signatures in the j(stars) profiles driven by dry mergers: (i) shallow radial profiles and (ii) profiles that rise beyond approximate to 10 r(50), both of which are significantly different from spiral galaxies.
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