We select 456 gas-star kinematically misaligned galaxies from the internal Product Launch-10 of MaNGA survey, including 74 star-forming (SF), 136 green-valley (GV) and 206 quiescent (QS) galaxies. We find that the distributions of difference between gas and star position angles for galaxies have three local peaks at ∼0∘, 90∘, 180∘. The fraction of misaligned galaxies peaks at log(M∗/M⊙)∼10.5 and declines to both low and high mass end. This fraction decreases monotonically with increasing SFR and sSFR. We compare the global parameters including gas kinematic asymmetry Vasym, HI detection rate and mass fraction of molecular gas, effective radius Re, S\'{e}rsic index n as well as spin parameter λRe between misaligned galaxies and their control samples. We find that the misaligned galaxies have lower HI detection rate and molecular gas mass fraction, smaller size, higher S\'{e}rsic index and lower spin parameters than their control samples. The SF and GV misaligned galaxies are more asymmetric in gas velocity fields than their controls. These observational evidences point to the gas accretion scenario followed by angular momentum redistribution from gas-gas collision, leading to gas inflow and central star formation for the SF and GV misaligned galaxies. We propose three possible origins of the misaligned QS galaxies: (1) external gas accretion; (2) merger; (3) GV misaligned galaxies evolve into QS galaxies.
@article{arxiv.2207.07487,
title = {SDSS-IV MaNGA: Global Properties of Kinematically Misaligned Galaxies},
author = {Yuren Zhou and Yanmei Chen and Yong Shi and Dmitry Bizyaev and Hong Guo and Min Bao and Haitong Xu and Xiaoling Yu and Joel R. Brownstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.07487},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
13 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS