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SDSS-IV MaNGA: bulge–disc decomposition of IFU data cubes (BUDDI)

Johnston, Evelyn J.; H�u�ler, Boris; Arag�n-Salamanca, Alfonso; Merrifield, Michael R.; Bamford, Steven; Bershady, Matthew A.; Bundy, Kevin; Drory, Niv; Fu, Hai; Law, David; Nitschelm, Christian; Thomas, Daniel; Roman Lopes, Alexandre; Wake, David; Yan, Renbin

Authors

Evelyn J. Johnston

Boris H�u�ler

Alfonso Arag�n-Salamanca

Michael R. Merrifield

Matthew A. Bershady

Kevin Bundy

Niv Drory

Hai Fu

David Law

Christian Nitschelm

Daniel Thomas

Alexandre Roman Lopes

David Wake

Renbin Yan



Abstract

With the availability of large integral field unit (IFU) spectral surveys of nearby galaxies, there is now the potential to extract spectral information from across the bulges and discs of galaxies in a systematic way. This information can address questions such as how these components built up with time, how galaxies evolve and whether their evolution depends on other properties of the galaxy such as its mass or environment. We present bulge–disc decomposition of IFU data cubes (buddi), a new approach to fit the two-dimensional light profiles of galaxies as a function of wavelength to extract the spectral properties of these galaxies’ discs and bulges. The fitting is carried out using galfitm, a modified form of galfit which can fit multiwaveband images simultaneously. The benefit of this technique over traditional multiwaveband fits is that the stellar populations of each component can be constrained using knowledge over the whole image and spectrum available. The decomposition has been developed using commissioning data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey with redshifts z < 0.14 and coverage of at least 1.5 effective radii for a spatial resolution of 2.5 arcsec full width at half-maximum and field of view of > 22 arcsec, but can be applied to any IFU data of a nearby galaxy with similar or better spatial resolution and coverage. We present an overview of the fitting process, the results from our tests, and we finish with example stellar population analyses of early-type galaxies from the MaNGA survey to give an indication of the scientific potential of applying bulge–disc decomposition to IFU data.

Citation

Johnston, E. J., Häußler, B., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Merrifield, M. R., Bamford, S., Bershady, M. A., …Yan, R. (2017). SDSS-IV MaNGA: bulge–disc decomposition of IFU data cubes (BUDDI). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2823

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 1, 2016
Online Publication Date Nov 3, 2016
Publication Date Feb 21, 2017
Deposit Date Jan 6, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN 0035-8711
Electronic ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 465
Issue 2
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2823
Keywords galaxies: bulges
galaxies: evolution ; galaxies: formation ; galaxies: stellar content ; galaxies: structure
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/844943
Publisher URL http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/465/2/2317

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