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Model Independent Reconstruction of Galaxy Stellar Velocity Map

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-11-02 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We develop a model independent, robust method for determining galaxy rotation velocities across a 2D array of spaxels from an integral field spectrograph. Simulations demonstrate the method is accurate down to lower spectral signal-to-noise than standard methods: 99\% accurate when median S/N=4S/N=4. We apply it to MaNGA data to construct the galaxy velocity map and galaxy rotation curve. We also develop a highly efficient cubic smoothing approach that is 25×25\times faster computationally and only slightly less accurate. Such model independent methods could be useful in studying dark matter properties without assuming a galaxy model.

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@article{arxiv.2311.00030,
  title  = {Model Independent Reconstruction of Galaxy Stellar Velocity Map},
  author = {Mikhail Denissenya and Eric V. Linder and Sangwoo Park and Arman Shafieloo and Satadru Bag},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.00030},
  year   = {2023}
}

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8 pages, 9 figures