Issue |
A&A
Volume 616, August 2018
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Article Number | A22 | |
Number of page(s) | 13 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731712 | |
Published online | 07 August 2018 |
Evidence for the formation of the young counter-rotating stellar disk from gas acquired by IC 719★,★★
1
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “G. Galilei”, Università di Padova,
vicolo dell’Osservatorio 3,
35122
Padova, Italy
e-mail: alessandro.pizzella@unipd.it
2
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova,
vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5,
35122
Padova, Italy
3
European Southern Observatory,
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2,
85748
Garching, Germany
4
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik,
Giessenbachstrasse,
85748
Garching, Germany
5
Universitäts-Sternwarte München,
Scheinerstrasse 1,
81679
München, Germany
Received:
4
August
2017
Accepted:
28
March
2018
Aims. The formation scenario of extended counter-rotating stellar disks in galaxies is still debated. In this paper, we study the S0 galaxy IC 719 known to host two large-scale counter-rotating stellar disks in order to investigate their formation mechanism.
Methods. We exploit the large field of view and wavelength coverage of the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) spectrograph to derive two-dimensional (2D) maps of the various properties of the counter-rotating stellar disks, such as age, metallicity, kinematics, spatial distribution, the kinematical and chemical properties of the ionized gas, and the dust map.
Results. Due to the large wavelength range, and in particular to the presence of the Calcium Triplet λλ8498, 8542, 8662 Å (CaT hereafter), the spectroscopic analysis allows us to separate the two stellar components in great detail. This permits precise measurement of both the velocity and velocity dispersion of the two components as well as their spatial distribution. We derived a 2D map of the age and metallicity of the two stellar components, as well as the star formation rate and gas-phase metallicity from the ionized gas emission maps.
Conclusions. The main stellar disk of the galaxy is kinematically hotter, older, thicker and with larger scale-length than the secondary disk. There is no doubt that the latter is strongly linked to the ionized gas component: they have the same kinematics and similar vertical and radial spatial distribution. This result is in favor of a gas accretion scenario over a binary merger scenario to explain the origin of counter-rotation in IC 719. One source of gas that may have contributed to the accretion process is the cloud that surrounds IC 719.
Key words: galaxies: individual: ic 719 / galaxies: kinematics and dynamics / galaxies: stellar content / galaxies: formation
Based on observation collected at the European Southern Observatory for the programme 095.B-0686(A).
The reduced datacube is only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/616/A22
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