Nature Communications (Oct 2016)
The growth of the central region by acquisition of counterrotating gas in star-forming galaxies
- Yan-Mei Chen,
- Yong Shi,
- Christy A. Tremonti,
- Matt Bershady,
- Michael Merrifield,
- Eric Emsellem,
- Yi-Fei Jin,
- Song Huang,
- Hai Fu,
- David A. Wake,
- Kevin Bundy,
- David Stark,
- Lihwai Lin,
- Maria Argudo-Fernandez,
- Thaisa Storchi Bergmann,
- Dmitry Bizyaev,
- Joel Brownstein,
- Martin Bureau,
- John Chisholm,
- Niv Drory,
- Qi Guo,
- Lei Hao,
- Jian Hu,
- Cheng Li,
- Ran Li,
- Alexandre Roman Lopes,
- Kai-Ke Pan,
- Rogemar A. Riffel,
- Daniel Thomas,
- Lan Wang,
- Kyle Westfall,
- Ren-Bin Yan
Affiliations
- Yan-Mei Chen
- School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University
- Yong Shi
- School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University
- Christy A. Tremonti
- Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1150 University Ave
- Matt Bershady
- Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1150 University Ave
- Michael Merrifield
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park
- Eric Emsellem
- European Southern Observatory
- Yi-Fei Jin
- School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University
- Song Huang
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, the University of Tokyo
- Hai Fu
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa
- David A. Wake
- Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University
- Kevin Bundy
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, the University of Tokyo
- David Stark
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, the University of Tokyo
- Lihwai Lin
- Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica
- Maria Argudo-Fernandez
- Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
- Thaisa Storchi Bergmann
- Departamento de Astronomia, Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, CP 15051, 91501-970
- Dmitry Bizyaev
- Apache Point Observatory and New Mexico State University
- Joel Brownstein
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah
- Martin Bureau
- Sub-Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford
- John Chisholm
- Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1150 University Ave
- Niv Drory
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California
- Qi Guo
- National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lei Hao
- Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
- Jian Hu
- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University
- Cheng Li
- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University
- Ran Li
- National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Alexandre Roman Lopes
- Departamento de Fsica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La Serena
- Kai-Ke Pan
- Apache Point Observatory and New Mexico State University
- Rogemar A. Riffel
- Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia—LIneA
- Daniel Thomas
- Institute for Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth
- Lan Wang
- National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Kyle Westfall
- Institute for Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth
- Ren-Bin Yan
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13269
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Counter-rotating gases demonstrate external gas acquisition in galaxies, but their presence in blue, star-forming galaxies has not been studied systematically. Here, the authors analyse the MaNGA survey data to find a fraction of counter-rotators among blue galaxies whose central regions show ongoing growth.
