The SAMI Galaxy Survey: first detection of a transition in spin orientation with respect to cosmic filaments in the stellar kinematics of galaxies

Author:

Welker C1234,Bland-Hawthorn J35ORCID,Van de Sande J35ORCID,Lagos C23ORCID,Elahi P23ORCID,Obreschkow D23ORCID,Bryant J35,Pichon C46,Cortese L23ORCID,Richards S N7ORCID,Croom S M35ORCID,Goodwin M8,Lawrence J S9,Sweet S310ORCID,Lopez-Sanchez A9,Medling A1112ORCID,Owers M S13,Dubois Y4,Devriendt J1415

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, L8S 4L8 Ontario, Canada

2. International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia

3. ARC Centre of Excellence for Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D)

4. CNRS and UPMC Univ. Paris 06, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, 98 bis Boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France

5. Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, A28, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Camperdown, Australia

6. Korea Institute of Advanced Studies (KIAS), 85 Hoegiro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02455, Republic of Korea

7. SOFIA Science Center, USRA, NASA Ames Research Center, Building N232, MS 232-12, P.O. Box 1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-0001, USA

8. Australian Astronomical Observatory, 105 Delhi Rd, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia

9. Lawrence Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Macquarie Park, Australia

10. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia

11. Ritter Astrophysical Research Center, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA

12. Research School for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2611, Australia

13. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Macquarie Park, Australia

14. Sub-department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK

15. Observatoire de Lyon, UMR 5574, 9 avenue Charles Andre, F-69561 Saint Genis Laval, France

Abstract

ABSTRACT We present the first detection of mass-dependent galactic spin alignments with local cosmic filaments with >2σ confidence using IFS kinematics. The 3D network of cosmic filaments is reconstructed on Mpc scales across GAlaxy and Mass Assembly fields using the cosmic web extractor DisPerSe. We assign field galaxies from the SAMI survey to their nearest filament segment in 3D and estimate the degree of alignment between SAMI galaxies’ kinematic spin axis and their nearest filament in projection. Low-mass galaxies align their spin with their nearest filament while higher mass counterparts are more likely to display an orthogonal orientation. The stellar transition mass from the first trend to the second is bracketed between $10^{10.4}$ and $10^{10.9}\, \mathrm{ M}_{\odot }$, with hints of an increase with filament scale. Consistent signals are found in the Horizon-AGN cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. This supports a scenario of early angular momentum build-up in vorticity rich quadrants around filaments at low stellar mass followed by progressive flip of spins orthogonal to the cosmic filaments through mergers at high stellar mass. Conversely, we show that dark matter only simulations post-processed with a semi-analytical model treatment of galaxy formation struggles to reproduce this alignment signal. This suggests that gas physics is key in enhancing the galaxy-filament alignment.

Funder

Australian Astronomical Observatory

ARC

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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