Untangling Galaxy Components - The Angular Momentum Parameter
Abstract
We have developed a new technique to decompose Integral Field spectral data cubes into separate bulge and disk components, allowing us to study the kinematic and stellar population properties of the individual components and how they vary with position. We present here the application of this method to a sample of fast rotator early type galaxies from the MaNGA integral field survey, and demonstrate how it can be used to explore key properties of the individual components. By extracting ages, metallicities and the angular momentum parameter lambda of the bulges and disks, we show how this method can give us new insights into the underlying structure of the galaxies and discuss what this can tell us about their evolution history.
- Publication:
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Galaxy Evolution Across Time
- Pub Date:
- June 2017
- DOI:
- 10.5281/zenodo.805960
- Bibcode:
- 2017geat.confE..14T
- Keywords:
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- Galaxy Evolution;
- Galaxy Structure;
- Zenodo community across2017