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2024MNRAS.531.1789G - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 531, 1789-1804 (2024/June-2)

Analysis of galaxies at the extremes: a kinematic analysis of the Virgo cluster dwarfs VCC 9 and VCC 1448 using the Keck cosmic web imager.

GANNON J.S., FORBES D.A., ROMANOWSKY A.J., BRODIE J.P., HAACKE L., FERRE-MATEU A., DANIELI S., VAN DOKKUM P., BUZZO M.L., COUCH W.J. and SHEN Z.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present spatially resolved Keck Cosmic Web Imager stellar spectroscopy of the Virgo cluster dwarf galaxies VCC 9 and VCC 1448. These galaxies have similar stellar masses and large half-light radii but very different globular cluster (GC) system richness (∼25 versus ∼99 GCs). Using the KCWI data, we spectroscopically confirm 10 GCs associated with VCC 1448 and one GC associated with VCC 9. We make two measurements of dynamical mass for VCC 1448 based on the stellar and GC velocities, respectively. VCC 1448's mass measurements suggest that it resides in a halo in better agreement with the expectation of the stellar mass-halo mass relationship than the expectation from its large GC counts. For VCC 9, the dynamical mass we measure agrees with the expected halo mass from both relationships. We compare VCC 1448 and VCC 9 to the GC-rich galaxy Dragonfly 44 (∼74 GCs), which is similar in size but has ∼1 dex less stellar mass than either Virgo galaxy. In dynamical mass - GC number space, Dragonfly 44 and VCC 1448 exhibit richer GC systems given their dynamical mass than that of VCC 9 and other 'normal' galaxies. We also place the galaxies in kinematics-ellipticity space finding evidence of an anticorrelation between rotational support and the fraction of a galaxy's stellar mass in its GC system, that is, VCC 9 is more rotationally supported than VCC 1448, which is more rotationally supported than Dragonfly 44. This trend may be expected if a galaxy's GC content depends on its natal gas properties at formation.

Abstract Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: dwarf - galaxies: fundamental parameters - galaxies: clusters: Virgo - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics - galaxies: individual: VCC 1448

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