IMF shape constraints from stellar populations and dynamics from CALIFA


Por: Lyubenova, M., Martin-Navarro, I., van de Ven, G., Falcon-Barroso, J., Galbany, L., Gallazzi, A., Garcia-Benito, R., Gonzalez Delgado, R., Husemann, B., La Barbera, F., Marino, R. A., Mast, D., Mendez-Abreu, J., Peletier, R. F. P., Sanchez-Blazquez, P., Sanchez, S. F., Trager, S. C., van den Bosch, R. C. E., Vazdekis, A., Walcher, C. J., Zhu, L., Zibetti, S., Ziegler, B., Bland-Hawthorn, J., CALIFA Collaboration

Publicada: 1 dic 2016
Resumen:
In this Paper, we describe how we use stellar dynamics information to constrain the shape of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) in a sample of 27 early-type galaxies from the CALIFA survey. We obtain dynamical and stellar mass-to-light ratios, gamma(dyn) and gamma(*), over a homogenous aperture of 0.5 R-e. We use the constraint gamma(dyn) >= gamma(*) to test two IMF shapes within the framework of the extended MILES stellar population models. We rule out a single power-law IMF shape for 75 per cent of the galaxies in our sample. Conversely, we find that a double power-law IMF shape with a varying high-mass end slope is compatible (within 1 sigma) with 95 per cent of the galaxies. We also show that dynamical and stellar IMF mismatch factors give consistent results for the systematic variation of the IMF in these galaxies.

Filiaciones:
Lyubenova, M.:
 Univ Groningen, Kapteyn Astron Inst, Postbus 800, NL-9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands

Martin-Navarro, I.:
 Inst Astrofis Canarias, Via Lactea S-N, Tenerife, Spain

 Univ La Laguna, Dept Astrofis, E-38205 Tenerife, Spain

 Univ Calif Observ, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA

van de Ven, G.:
 Max Planck Inst Astron, Konigstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Falcon-Barroso, J.:
 Inst Astrofis Canarias, Via Lactea S-N, Tenerife, Spain

 Univ La Laguna, Dept Astrofis, E-38205 Tenerife, Spain

Galbany, L.:
 Millennium Inst Astrophys, Santiago, Chile

 Univ Chile, Dept Astron, Camino El Observ 1515, Santiago, Chile

Gallazzi, A.:
 INAF Osservatorio Astrofis Arcetri, Largo Enrico Fermi 5, I-50125 Florence, Italy

Garcia-Benito, R.:
 CSIC, Inst Astrofis Andalucia, Glorieta Astron S-N,Aptdo 3004, E-18080 Granada, Spain

Gonzalez Delgado, R.:
 CSIC, Inst Astrofis Andalucia, Glorieta Astron S-N,Aptdo 3004, E-18080 Granada, Spain

Husemann, B.:
 ESO, Karl Schwarzscild Str 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany

La Barbera, F.:
 INAF Osservatorio Astron Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

Marino, R. A.:
 ETH, Inst Astron, Wolfgang Pauli Str 27, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

Mast, D.:
 Astron Observ, Laprida 854,X5000BGR, Cordoba, Argentina

 Consejo Invest Cient & Tecn Republ Argentina, Avda Rivadavia 1917,C1033AAJ, Caba, Argentina

Mendez-Abreu, J.:
 Univ St Andrews, Sch Phys & Astron, St Andrews KY16 9SS, Fife, Scotland

Peletier, R. F. P.:
 Univ Groningen, Kapteyn Astron Inst, Postbus 800, NL-9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands

Sanchez-Blazquez, P.:
 Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Fis Teor, E-28049 Canto Blanco, Spain

 Pontifica Univ Chile, Inst Astrofis, Av Vicuna Mackenna 4860, Santiago 7820436, Chile

Sanchez, S. F.:
 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Astron, AP 70-264, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico

Trager, S. C.:
 Univ Groningen, Kapteyn Astron Inst, Postbus 800, NL-9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands

van den Bosch, R. C. E.:
 Max Planck Inst Astron, Konigstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Vazdekis, A.:
 Inst Astrofis Canarias, Via Lactea S-N, Tenerife, Spain

 Univ La Laguna, Dept Astrofis, E-38205 Tenerife, Spain

Walcher, C. J.:
 Leibniz Inst Astrophys Potsdam AIP, Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany

Zhu, L.:
 Max Planck Inst Astron, Konigstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Zibetti, S.:
 INAF Osservatorio Astrofis Arcetri, Largo Enrico Fermi 5, I-50125 Florence, Italy

Ziegler, B.:
 Univ Vienna, Turkenschanzstr 17, A-1180 Vienna, Austria

Bland-Hawthorn, J.:
 Univ Sydney, Sch Phys A28, Sydney Inst Astron, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
ISSN: 00358711
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Tipo de documento: Article
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WOS Id: 000393566000074