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2010AJ....140..663G - Astron. J., 140, 663-676 (2010/September-0)

The slope of the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation.

GUROVICH S., FREEMAN K., JERJEN H., STAVELEY-SMITH L. and PUERARI I.

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We present the results of a baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR) study for a local sample of relatively isolated disk galaxies. We derive a BTFR with a slope near 3 measured over about 4 dex in baryon mass for our combined H I and bright spiral disk samples. This BTFR is significantly flatter and has less scatter than the TFR (stellar mass only) with its slope near 4 reported for other samples and studies. A BTFR slope near 3 is in better agreement with the expected slope from simple ΛCDM cosmological simulations that include both stellar and gas baryons. The scatter in the TFR/BTFR appears to depend on W20: galaxies that rotate slower have more scatter. The atomic gas-to-stars ratio shows a break near W20= 250 km/s probably associated with a change in star formation efficiency. In contrast, the absence of such a break in the BTFR suggests that this relation was probably set at the main epoch of baryon dissipation rather than as a product of later galactic evolution.

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Journal keyword(s): cosmology: observations - dark matter - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: formation

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