PHANGS CO kinematics: disk orientations and rotation curves at 150 pc resolution
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Lang, Philipp
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PHANGS CO kinematics: disk orientations and rotation curves at 150 pc resolution
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- Lang, Philipp;
- Meidt, Sharon E.;
- Rosolowsky, Erik;
- Nofech, Joseph;
- Schinnerer, Eva;
- Leroy, Adam K.;
- Emsellem, Eric;
- Pessa, Ismael;
- Glover, Simon C.O.;
- Groves, Brent;
- Hughes, Anne;
- Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik;
- Querejeta, Miguel;
- Schruba, Andreas;
- Bigiel, Frank;
- Blanc Mendiberri, Guillermo;
- Chevance, Mélanie;
- Colombo, Dario;
- Faesi, Christopher;
- Henshaw, Jonathan D.;
- Herrera, Cinthya N.;
- Liu, Daizhong;
- Pety, Jérôme;
- Puschnig, Johannes;
- Saito, Toshiki;
- Sun, Jiayi;
- Usero, Antonio;
Abstract
We present kinematic orientations and high-resolution (150 pc) rotation curves for 67 main-sequence star-forming galaxies surveyed in CO (2-1) emission by PHANGS-ALMA. Our measurements are based on the application of a new fitting method tailored to CO velocity fields. Our approach identifies an optimal global orientation as a way to reduce the impact of nonaxisymmetric (bar and spiral) features and the uneven spatial sampling characteristic of CO emission in the inner regions of nearby galaxies. The method performs especially well when applied to the large number of independent lines of sight contained in the PHANGS CO velocity fields mapped at 1 '' resolution. The high-resolution rotation curves fitted to these data are sensitive probes of mass distribution in the inner regions of these galaxies. We use the inner slope as well as the amplitude of our fitted rotation curves to demonstrate that CO is a reliable global dynamical mass tracer. From the consistency between photometric orientations from the literature and kinematic orientations determined with our method, we infer that the shapes of stellar disks in the mass range of log(M-star (M-circle dot)) = 9.0-10.9 probed by our sample are very close to circular and have uniform thickness.
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European Research Council (ERC)
694343
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
RGPIN-201703987
German Research Foundation (DFG)
KR4801/1-1
German Research Foundation (DFG)
KR4801/2-1
European Research Council (ERC)
714907
German Research Foundation (DFG)
SFB 881
138713538
EXC 2181/1-390900948
Programme National "Physique et Chimie du Milieu Interstellaire" (PCMI) of CNRS/INSU
INC/INP - CEA
Centre National D'etudes Spatiales
Programme National Cosmology and Galaxies (PNCG) of CNRS/INSU
INP
IN2P3
French Atomic Energy Commission
European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
726384
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The Astrophysical Journal 897(2):122
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