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We present new and archival atomic hydrogen (\hi) observations of \galnum\ of the most massive spiral galaxies in the local Universe ($M_\star>10^{11} \, \mathrm{M}_\odot$). From 3D kinematic modeling of the datacubes, we derive extended…

Mass and specific angular momentum are two fundamental physical parameters of galaxies. We present measurements of the baryonic mass and specific angular momentum of 11 void dwarf galaxies derived from neutral hydrogen (H{\sc i}) synthesis…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Sushma Kurapati , Jayaram N. Chengalur , Simon Pustilnik , Peter Kamphuis

Utilizing a kinematic decomposition of simulated galaxies, we focus on galaxies with tiny kinematically inferred stellar halos, indicative of weak external influences. We investigate the intricate interplay between internal (natural) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Min Du , Hong-Chuan Ma , Wen-Yu Zhong , Luis C. Ho , Shihong Liao , Yingjie Peng

We measure the stellar specific angular momentum jstar=Jstar/Mstar in four nearby (z~0.1) disk galaxies that have stellar masses Mstar near the break M* of the galaxy mass function, but look like typical star-forming disks at z~2 in terms…

We use the EAGLE (Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments) and IllustrisTNG (The Next Generation) cosmological simulations to investigate the properties of the baryonic specific angular momentum (j), baryonic mass (M) and…

We introduce a new diagnostic for exploring the link between angular momentum and local gravitational instability in galaxy discs. Our diagnostic incorporates the latest developments in disc instability research, is fully consistent with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-07 Alessandro B. Romeo , Keoikantse Moses Mogotsi

We present a new set of galaxy scaling relations for the relative mass content of atomic gas, molecular gas and stars. Such relations are driven by disc gravitational instability, and originate from the low galaxy-to-galaxy variance of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-11 Alessandro B. Romeo

[Abridged] We study the angular-momentum profiles of a statistical sample of halos drawn from a high-resolution N-body simulation of the LCDM cosmology. We find that the cumulative mass distribution of specific angular momentum, j, in a…

We study the present-day connection between galaxy morphology and angular momentum using the {\sc Dark Sage} semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. For galaxies between $ 10^{11}-10^{12} \mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ in stellar mass, the model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-21 Antonio J. Porras-Valverde , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Andreas A. Berlind , Adam R. H. Stevens

We use a state-of-the-art semi-analytic model to study the size and the specific angular momentum of galaxies. Our model includes a specific treatment for the angular momentum exchange between different galactic components. Disk scale radii…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-28 Anna Zoldan , Gabriella De Lucia , Lizhi Xie , Fabio Fontanot , Michaela Hirschmann

We rederive the relation between the specific angular momentum j_* and the mass M_* of the stellar matter in galaxies of different morphological types. This is a revision of the j_*--M_* diagram presented in our recent comprehensive study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Michael Fall , Aaron J. Romanowsky

It is pointed out that MOND defines a fiducial specific angular momentum (SAM) for a galaxy of total (baryonic) mass $\mathcal{M}$: $j_M(\mathcal{M})\equiv\mathcal{M}^{3/4}(G^3/a_0)^{1/4}\approx 383(\mathcal{M}/10^{10}M_\odot)^{3/4}{\rm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-15 Mordehai Milgrom

We combine constraints on the galaxy-dark matter connection with structural and dynamical scaling relations to investigate the angular momentum content of disc galaxies. For haloes with masses in the interval 10^{11.3} < M_vir/M_sun <…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Aaron A. Dutton , Frank C. van den Bosch

We combine data for extragalactic systems to quantify a relation between the observed baryonic mass $M_b$ and the enclosed dynamical mass $M_{200}$ inferred from kinematics or gravitational lensing. Our sample covers nine orders of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-09 Stacy McGaugh , Tobias Mistele , Francis Duey , Konstantin Haubner , Federico Lelli , Jim Schombert , Pengfei Li

We investigate the relationship between stellar and gas specific angular momentum $j$, stellar mass $M_{*}$ and optical morphology for a sample of 488 galaxies extracted from the SAMI Galaxy Survey. We find that $j$, measured within one…

Stellar mass and specific angular momentum are two properties of a galaxy that are directly related to its formation history, and hence morphology. In this work, the tight planar relationship between stellar specific angular momentum (j*),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-13 E. Elson

I demonstrate four tight correlations of total baryonic mass, velocity and radius for a set of nearby disk galaxies: the Mass-Velocity relation $ Mt \propto V^4$; the Mass-Radius relation $ Mt \propto R^2$; the Radius-Velocity relation $R…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Earl J Schulz

We investigate the relation between stellar mass and specific stellar angular momentum, or `Fall relation', for a sample of 17 isolated, regularly rotating disc galaxies at z=1. All galaxies have a) rotation curves determined from Halpha…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 A. Marasco , F. Fraternali , L. Posti , M. Ijtsma , E. M. Di Teodoro , T. Oosterloo

We present an analysis of the gas dynamics of star-forming galaxies at z~1.5 using data from the KMOS Galaxy Evolution Survey (KGES). We quantify the morphology of the galaxies using $HST$ CANDELS imaging parametrically and…

The mass-size relations of galaxies are generally studied considering only stars or only gas separately. Here we study the baryonic mass-size relation of galaxies from the SPARC database, using the total baryonic mass ($M_{\rm bar}$) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-21 Zichen Hua , Federico Lelli , Enrico Di Teodoro , Stacy McGaugh , James Schombert