The MAGPI Survey: massive slow rotator population in place by z ∼ 0.3

Author:

Derkenne Caro12ORCID,McDermid Richard M12,D’Eugenio Francesco34ORCID,Foster Caroline25ORCID,Khalid Aman25ORCID,Harborne Katherine E26,van de Sande Jesse27ORCID,Croom Scott M27ORCID,Lagos Claudia D P26,Bellstedt Sabine6ORCID,Mendel J Trevor28,Mun Marcie28ORCID,Wisnioski Emily28ORCID,Bagge Ryan S25ORCID,Battisti Andrew J28ORCID,Bland-Hawthorn Joss7,Ferré-Mateu Anna91011ORCID,Peng Yingjie1213,Santucci Giulia26ORCID,Sweet Sarah M214ORCID,Thater Sabine15,Valenzuela Lucas M16ORCID,Ziegler Bodo15

Affiliation:

1. Astrophysics and Space Technologies Research Centre, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University , NSW 2109 , Australia

2. ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) , Australia

3. Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge , Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA , United Kingdom

4. Cavendish Laboratory - Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge , 19 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE , United Kingdom

5. School of Physics, University of New South Wales , Sydney, NSW 2052 , Australia

6. International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, The University of Western Australia , 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009 , Australia

7. Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, University of Sydney , NSW 2006 , Australia

8. Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University , Canberra ACT 2611 , Australia

9. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias , Vía Láctea s/n, E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife , Spain

10. Departamento de Astrofisica, Universidad de La Laguna , E-38200 La Laguna, Tenerife , Spain

11. Center for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University , John Street, Hawthorn VIC 3122 , Australia

12. Department of Astronomy, School of Physics, Peking University , 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing 100871 , P. R. China

13. Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University , 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing 100871 , P. R. China

14. School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland , Brisbane QLD 4072 , Australia

15. Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna , Türkenschanzstrasse 17, 1180 Wien , Austria

16. Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , Scheinerstr. 1, 81679 München , Germany

Abstract

ABSTRACT We use the ‘Middle Ages Galaxy Properties with Integral field spectroscopy’ (MAGPI) survey to investigate whether galaxies have evolved in the distribution of their stellar angular momentum in the past 3–4 Gyr, as probed by the observational proxy for spin, λR. We use 2D stellar kinematics to measure λR along with detailed photometric models to estimate galaxy ellipticity. The combination of these measurements quantifies the kinematic classes of ‘fast rotators’ and the rarer ‘slow rotators’, which show no regular rotation in their line-of-sight velocity fields. We compare 51 MAGPI galaxies with log10 (M⋆/M⊙) > 10 to carefully drawn samples of MaNGA galaxies in the local Universe, selected to represent possible descendants of the MAGPI progenitors. The EAGLE simulations are used to identify possible evolutionary pathways between the two samples, explicitly accounting for progenitor bias in our results and the varied evolutionary pathways a galaxy might take between the two epochs. We find that the occurrence of slow rotating galaxies is unchanged between the MAGPI (z ∼ 0.3) and MaNGA (z ∼ 0) samples, suggesting the massive slow rotator population was already in place ∼4 Gyr ago and has not accumulated since. There is a hint of the MAGPI sample having an excess of high λR galaxies compared to the MaNGA sample, corresponding to more ordered rotation, but statistically the samples are not significantly different. The large-scale stellar kinematics, as quantified through the λR parameter, of galaxies at z ∼ 0.3 have already evolved into the diversity of structures seen today in the local Universe.

Funder

ESO

STFC

Australian Research Council

AFM

Science and Technology Facilities Council

ERC

National Science Foundation of China

Elite Network of Bavaria

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

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