Issue |
A&A
Volume 644, December 2020
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Article Number | A76 | |
Number of page(s) | 9 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038474 | |
Published online | 02 December 2020 |
The impact of the halo spin-concentration relation on disc scaling laws
1
Université de Strasbourg, CNRS UMR 7550, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, 11 Rue de l’Université, 67000 Strasbourg, France
e-mail: lorenzo.posti@astro.unistra.fr
2
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
3
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
4
INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50127 Firenze, Italy
Received:
22
May
2020
Accepted:
16
October
2020
Galaxy scaling laws, such as the Tully–Fisher, mass-size, and Fall relations, can provide extremely useful clues on our understanding of galaxy formation in a cosmological context. Some of these relations are extremely tight and well described by one single parameter (mass), despite the theoretical existence of secondary parameters such as spin and concentration, which are believed to impact these relations. In fact, the residuals of these scaling laws appear to be almost uncorrelated with each other, posing significant constraints on models where secondary parameters play an important role. Here, we show that a possible solution is that such secondary parameters are correlated amongst themselves, in a way that removes correlations in observable space. In particular, we focus on how the existence of an anti-correlation between the dark matter halo spin and its concentration, which is still debated in simulations, can weaken the correlation of the residuals of the Tully–Fisher and mass-size relations. Interestingly, in using simple analytic galaxy formation models, we find that this happens only for a relatively small portion of the parameter space that we explored, which suggests that this idea could be used to derive constraints on galaxy formation models that have yet to be explored.
Key words: galaxies: kinematics and dynamics / galaxies: spiral / galaxies: structure / galaxies: formation
© L. Posti et al. 2020
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