CHILES VI: H i and H α observations for z < 0.1 galaxies; Probing H i spin alignment with filaments in the cosmic web

J. Blue Bird, J. Davis, N. Luber, J. H. Van Gorkom, E. Wilcots, D. J. Pisano, H. B. Gim, E. Momjian, X. Fernandez, K. M. Hess, D. Lucero, R. Dodson, K. Vinsen, A. Popping, A. Chung, K. Kreckel, J. M. Van Der Hulst, M. Yun

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Abstract

We present neutral hydrogen (H I) and ionized hydrogen (H a) observations of 10 galaxies out to a redshift of 0.1. The HI observations are from the first epoch (178 h) of the COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey (CHILES). Our sample is HI biased and consists of 10 late-type galaxies withHI masses that range from 1.8×107 M to 1.1×1010 M.We find that although the majority of galaxies show irregularities in the morphology and kinematics, they generally follow the scaling relations found in larger samples. We find that the HI and H α velocities reach the flat part of the rotation curve. We identify the large-scale structure in the nearby CHILES volume using DisPerSE with the spectroscopic catalogue from SDSS. We explore the gaseous properties of the galaxies as a function of location in the cosmic web. We also compare the angular momentum vector (spin) of the galaxies to the orientation of the nearest cosmic web filament. Our results show that galaxy spins tend to be aligned with cosmic web filaments and show a hint of a transition mass associated with the spin angle alignment.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)153-176
Number of pages24
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume492
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020 Feb 1

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We would like to thank reviewer E. Tempel for very useful and constructive comments. We also thank K. Kraljic for very helpful comments on the paper. We would like to thank the entire CHILES collaboration. We additionally thank Steve Crawford and Ralf Kotulla for their assistance with SALT data reduction. We would also like to thank K.Vinsen and E. da Cunha who ran the SED fitting on theG10/COSMOS v05 catalogue withMAGPHYS. JDacknowledges support by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program under grant no. DGE-1747503 and NASA under award no. NNX15AJ12H issued through Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium. DJP and NL acknowledge partial support from NSF grant no. AST 1412578. JMvdH acknowledges support from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. 291531. MY and HBG acknowledge support from NSF grant no. AST 1412843. This work is in part supported by the NSF under grant no. AST 141302 to Columbia University. Support for this work is also provided by the NSF through award SOSP 18 3133 from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). The NRAO is a facility of the NSF operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. This research made use of ASTROPY, a community-developed core PYTHON package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration 2013). Rotation curve overlays are made using MATPLOTLIB (Hunter 2007). Facilities: NED, SALT, VLA software: ASTROPY, CASA, IDL, IRAF, PYSALT

Funding Information:
We would like to thank reviewer E. Tempel for very useful and constructive comments. We also thank K. Kraljic for very helpful comments on the paper. We would like to thank the entire CHILES collaboration. We additionally thank Steve Crawford and Ralf Kotulla for their assistance with SALT data reduction. We would also like to thank K. Vinsen and E. da Cunha who ran the SED fitting on the G10/COSMOS v05 catalogue with MAGPHYS. JD acknowledges support by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program under grant no. DGE-1747503 and NASA under award no. NNX15AJ12H issued through Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium. DJP and NL acknowledge partial support from NSF grant no. AST 1412578. JMvdH acknowledges support from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. 291531. MY and HBG acknowledge support from NSF grant no. AST 1412843. This work is in part supported by the NSF under grant no. AST 141302 to Columbia University. Support for this work is also provided by the NSF through award SOSP 18 3133 from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). The NRAO is a facility of the NSF operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.

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  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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