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Massive Red Spiral Galaxies in SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2024-01-17 v1

Abstract

Massive red spiral galaxies (MRSGs) are supposed to be the possible progenitors of lenticular galaxies (S0s). We select a large sample of MRSGs (M>1010.5MM_*>10^{10.5}\rm M_{\odot}) from MaNGA DR17 using the grg-r color vs. stellar mass diagram, along with control samples of blue spirals and S0s. Our main results are as follows: (1) After comparing the Seˊ\rm \acute{e}rsic index, concentration parameter, asymmetry parameter distribution, size-mass relation and Σ1\Sigma_1 (stellar mass surface density within the central 1 kpc)-mass relation, we find MRSGs are similar to S0s and have more compact and symmetric structures than blue spirals. MRSGs also resemble S0s in Dn4000, metallicity, Mgb/Fe\rm \left \langle Fe \right \rangle and V/σV/\sigma radial profile. (2) By using MaNGA 2D spectra data, we separate the spatial regions into inner (R < 0.8ReR_{\rm e}) and outer (0.8ReR_{\rm e} < R < 1.5ReR_{\rm e}) regions, and detect residual star formation in the outer regions of MRSGs. (3) When we select a sub-sample of MRSGs with NUVr-r > 5, we find that they are completely star-formation quenched in both inner and outer regions. Compared to optically selected MRSGs, NUVr-r selected MRSGs appear to be more concentrated and have more massive dark matter halos. The similarities between S0s and MRSGs suggest the possible evolutionary trend between MRSGs and S0s.

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@article{arxiv.2401.07320,
  title  = {Massive Red Spiral Galaxies in SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey},
  author = {Jiantong Cui and Qiusheng Gu and Yong Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.07320},
  year   = {2024}
}

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accepted for publication in MNRAS; 17 pages, 16 figures, 1 table