Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Jing Wang
Lister Staveley-Smith
Tobias Westmeier
Barbara Catinella
Li Shao
T. N. Reynolds
Bi-Qing For
Bumhyun Lee
Ze-zhong Liang
Shun Wang
A. Elagali
H. Denes
D. Kleiner
Baerbel S. Koribalski
K. Lee-Waddell
S-H. Oh
J. Rhee
P. Serra
K. Spekkens
O. I. Wong
Abstract： This study uses HI image data from the WALLABY pilot survey with the ASKAP telescope, covering the Hydra cluster out to 2.5$r_{200}$. We present the projected phase-space distribution of HI-detected galaxies in Hydra, and identify that nearly two thirds of the galaxies within $1.25r_{200}$ may be in the early stages of ram pressure stripping. More than half of these may be only weakly stripped, with the ratio of strippable HI (i.e., where the galactic restoring force is lower than the ram pressure in the disk) mass fraction (over total HI mass) distributed uniformly below 90%. Consequently, the HI mass is expected to decrease by only a few 0.1 dex after the currently strippable portion of HI in these systems has been stripped. A more detailed look at the subset of galaxies that are spatially resolved by WALLABY observations shows that, while it typically takes less than 200 Myr for ram pressure stripping to remove the currently strippable portion of HI, it may take more than 600 Myr to significantly change the total HI mass. Our results provide new clues to understanding the different rates of HI depletion and star formation quenching in cluster galaxies.
Peer Review Status:
Awaiting Review
Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Shun Wang
Jing Wang
Bi-Qing For
Bumhyun Lee
Tristan Reynolds
Xuchen Lin
Lister Staveley-Smith
Li Shao
O. Ivy Wong
Barbara Catinella
Paolo Serra
Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro
Tobias Westmeier
Karen Lee-Waddell
Baerbel S. Koribalski
Chandrashekar Murugeshan
Ahmed Elagali
Dane Kleiner
Jonghwan Rhee
Frank Bigiel
Abstract： We study the tidal interaction of galaxies in the Eridanus supergroup, using HI data from the pre-pilot survey of WALLABY (Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY). We obtain optical photometric measurements and quantify the strength of tidal perturbation using a tidal parameter $S_{sum}$. For low-mass galaxies of $M_* \lesssim 10^9 M_\odot$, we find a dependence of decreasing HI-to-optical disk size ratio with increasing $S_{sum}$, but no dependence of HI spectral line asymmetry with $S_{sum}$. This is consistent with the behavior expected under tidal stripping. We confirm that the color profile shape and color gradient depend on the stellar mass, but there is additional correlation of low-mass galaxies having their color gradients within $2R_{50}$ increasing with higher $S_{sum}$. For these low-mass galaxies, the dependence of color gradients on $S_{sum}$ is driven by color becoming progressively redder in the inner disk when tidal perturbations are stronger. For high-mass galaxies, there is no dependence of color gradients on $S_{sum}$, and we find a marginal reddening throughout the disks with increasing $S_{sum}$. Our result highlights tidal interaction as an important environmental effect in producing the faint end of the star formation suppressed sequence in galaxy groups.
Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review
Hits
Hits
Downloads
Comment