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WALLABY pilot survey: gas-rich galaxy scaling relations from marginally resolved kinematic models

  • N. Deg
  • , N. Arora
  • , K. Spekkens
  • , R. Halloran
  • , B. Catinella
  • , M. G. Jones
  • , H. Courtois
  • , K. Glazebrook
  • , A. Bosma
  • , L. Cortese
  • , H. Dénes
  • , A. Elagali
  • , B. Q. For
  • , P. Kamphuis
  • , B. S. Koribalski
  • , K. Lee-Waddell
  • , P. E. Mancera Piña
  • , J. Mould
  • , J. Rhee
  • , L. Shao
  • L. Staveley-Smith, J. Wang, T. Westmeier, O. I. Wong
  • Queen's University Kingston
  • Royal Military College of Canada
  • University of Western Australia
  • ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics
  • University of Arizona
  • Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • Swinburne University
  • Aix-Marseille University
  • Universidad Yachay Tech
  • Ruhr University Bochum
  • CSIRO
  • Curtin University
  • Leiden University
  • Swinburne University of Technology
  • ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics
  • CAS - National Astronomical Observatories
  • Peking University

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Abstract

We present the first set of galaxy scaling relations derived from kinematic models of the Widefield Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY (WALLABY) pilot phase observations. Combining the results of the first and second pilot data releases, there are 236 available kinematic models. We develop a framework for robustly measuring H i disk structural properties from these kinematic models, applicable to the full WALLABY survey. Utilizing this framework, we obtained the H i size, a measure of the rotational velocity, and angular momentum for 148 galaxies. These comprise the largest sample of galaxy properties from an untargeted, uniformly observed, and modeled H i survey to date. We study the neutral atomic hydrogen (H i) size-mass, size-velocity, mass-velocity, and angular momentum-mass scaling relations. We calculate the slope, intercept, and scatter for these scaling relations and find that they are similar to those obtained from other H i surveys. We also obtain stellar masses for 92 of the 148 robustly measured galaxies using multiband photometry through Dark Energy Sky Instrument Legacy Imaging Survey Data Release 10 images. We use a subset of 61 of these galaxies that have consistent optical and kinematic inclinations to examine the stellar and baryonic Tully-Fisher relations as well as the gas fraction-disk stability and gas fraction-baryonic mass relations. These measurements and relations demonstrate the unprecedented resource that WALLABY will represent for resolved galaxy scaling relations in H i.
Original languageEnglish
Article number159
Number of pages17
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume976
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

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