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TY - JOUR
T1 - Galaxy Zoo
T2 - Kinematics of strongly and weakly barred galaxies
AU - Géron, Tobias
AU - Smethurst, Rebecca J
AU - Lintott, Chris
AU - Kruk, Sandor
AU - Masters, Karen L
AU - Simmons, Brooke
AU - Mantha, Kameswara Bharadwaj
AU - Walmsley, Mike
AU - Garma-Oehmichen, L
AU - Drory, Niv
AU - Lane, Richard R
PY - 2023/2/16
Y1 - 2023/2/16
N2 - We study the bar pattern speeds and corotation radii of 225 barred galaxies, using IFU data from MaNGA and the Tremaine-Weinberg method. Our sample, which is divided between strongly and weakly barred galaxies identified via Galaxy Zoo, is the largest that this method has been applied to. We find lower pattern speeds for strongly barred galaxies than for weakly barred galaxies. As simulations show that the pattern speed decreases as the bar exchanges angular momentum with its host, these results suggest that strong bars are more evolved than weak bars. Interestingly, the corotation radius is not different between weakly and strongly barred galaxies, despite being proportional to bar length. We also find that the corotation radius is significantly different between quenching and star forming galaxies. Additionally, we find that strongly barred galaxies have significantly lower values for $\mathcal {R}$, the ratio between the corotation radius and the bar radius, than weakly barred galaxies, despite a big overlap in both distributions. This ratio classifies bars into ultrafast bars ($\mathcal {R} <$ 1.0; 11% of our sample), fast bars (1.0 $< \mathcal {R} <$ 1.4; 27%) and slow bars ($\mathcal {R} >$ 1.4; 62%). Simulations show that $\mathcal {R}$ is correlated with the bar formation mechanism, so our results suggest that strong bars are more likely to be formed by different mechanisms than weak bars. Finally, we find a lower fraction of ultrafast bars than most other studies, which decreases the recently claimed tension with ΛCDM. However, the median value of $\mathcal {R}$ is still lower than what is predicted by simulations.
AB - We study the bar pattern speeds and corotation radii of 225 barred galaxies, using IFU data from MaNGA and the Tremaine-Weinberg method. Our sample, which is divided between strongly and weakly barred galaxies identified via Galaxy Zoo, is the largest that this method has been applied to. We find lower pattern speeds for strongly barred galaxies than for weakly barred galaxies. As simulations show that the pattern speed decreases as the bar exchanges angular momentum with its host, these results suggest that strong bars are more evolved than weak bars. Interestingly, the corotation radius is not different between weakly and strongly barred galaxies, despite being proportional to bar length. We also find that the corotation radius is significantly different between quenching and star forming galaxies. Additionally, we find that strongly barred galaxies have significantly lower values for $\mathcal {R}$, the ratio between the corotation radius and the bar radius, than weakly barred galaxies, despite a big overlap in both distributions. This ratio classifies bars into ultrafast bars ($\mathcal {R} <$ 1.0; 11% of our sample), fast bars (1.0 $< \mathcal {R} <$ 1.4; 27%) and slow bars ($\mathcal {R} >$ 1.4; 62%). Simulations show that $\mathcal {R}$ is correlated with the bar formation mechanism, so our results suggest that strong bars are more likely to be formed by different mechanisms than weak bars. Finally, we find a lower fraction of ultrafast bars than most other studies, which decreases the recently claimed tension with ΛCDM. However, the median value of $\mathcal {R}$ is still lower than what is predicted by simulations.
KW - Space and Planetary Science
KW - Astronomy and Astrophysics
U2 - 10.1093/mnras/stad501
DO - 10.1093/mnras/stad501
M3 - Journal article
VL - 521
SP - 1775
EP - 1793
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
SN - 0035-8711
IS - 2
ER -