2025MNRAS.538.1816O -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 538, 1816-1829 (2025/April-2)
Extraction of H I gas with bulk motions in the disc of galaxies.
OH S.-H. and WANG J.
Abstract (from CDS):
We propose a new method for extracting bulk motion gases in the disc of a galaxy from H I data cubes, offering improvements over classical techniques like moment analysis and line profile fitting. Our approach decomposes the line-of-sight velocity profiles into multiple Gaussian components, which are then classified into (underlying and dominant) bulk and non-bulk motion gases based on criteria such as H I surface density, velocity dispersion, kinetic energy, and rotation velocity. A 2D tilted-ring analysis is employed to refine the kinematical parameters of the galaxy disc, ensuring robust extraction of the bulk motion gases. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this method using the H I data cubes of NGC 4559 from the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope Hydrogen Accretion in LOcal GAlaxieS (WSRT-HALOGAS) survey, distinguishing between bulk and non-bulk gas components. From this, we find that approximately 50 per cent of the H I gas in NGC 4559 is classified as non-bulk, possibly linked to processes such as stellar feedback. This work provides a robust framework for analysing H I kinematics of galaxies from high-sensitivity H I observations of galaxies like MeerKAT HI Observations of Nearby Galactic Objects: Observing Southern Emitters (MeerKAT-MHONGOOSE) and FAST Extended Atlas of Selected Targets Survey (FAST-FEASTS) and allows us to best exploit the kinematic information of the complex gas dynamics within galaxy discs.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
ISM: kinematics and dynamics - galaxies: clusters: general - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: groups: general - galaxies: interactions
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