Bibcode
Méndez-Abreu, J.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Falcón-Barroso, J.; Ruiz-Lara, T.; Sánchez-Menguiano, L.; de Lorenzo-Cáceres, A.; Costantin, L.; Catalán-Torrecilla, C.; Zhu, L.; Sánchez-Blazquez, P.; Florido, E.; Corsini, E. M.; Wild, V.; Lyubenova, M.; van de Ven, G.; Sánchez, S. F.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Galbany, L.; García-Benito, R.; García-Lorenzo, B.; González Delgado, R. M.; López-Sánchez, A. R.; Marino, R. A.; Márquez, I.; Ziegler, B.; Califa Collaboration
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 474, Issue 1, p.1307-1334
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2018
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Description
We study a sample of 28 S0 galaxies extracted from the integral field
spectroscopic (IFS) survey Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area. We
combine an accurate two-dimensional (2D) multicomponent photometric
decomposition with the IFS kinematic properties of their bulges to
understand their formation scenario. Our final sample is representative
of S0s with high stellar masses (M⋆/M⊙
> 1010). They lay mainly on the red sequence and live in
relatively isolated environments similar to that of the field and loose
groups. We use our 2D photometric decomposition to define the size and
photometric properties of the bulges, as well as their location within
the galaxies. We perform mock spectroscopic simulations mimicking our
observed galaxies to quantify the impact of the underlying disc on our
bulge kinematic measurements (λ and v/σ). We compare our
bulge corrected kinematic measurements with the results from
Schwarzschild dynamical modelling. The good agreement confirms the
robustness of our results and allows us to use bulge deprojected values
of λ and v/σ. We find that the photometric (n and B/T) and
kinematic (v/σ and λ) properties of our field S0 bulges are
not correlated. We demonstrate that this morpho-kinematic decoupling is
intrinsic to the bulges and it is not due to projection effects. We
conclude that photometric diagnostics to separate different types of
bulges (disc-like versus classical) might not be useful for S0 galaxies.
The morpho-kinematics properties of S0 bulges derived in this paper
suggest that they are mainly formed by dissipational processes happening
at high redshift, but dedicated high-resolution simulations are
necessary to better identify their origin.
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