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Table 1.

Overview of the different subsamples and some general properties of nuclear rings, nuclear discs, and their host galaxies.

Galaxy i PA Mstellar Spatial scale Rkin Hα Central Age
° ° 1010 M pc/arcsec pc morphology emission gradient
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
 Non-star-forming nuclear rings
IC 1438 24 −25.4 3.1 164 604 NR LINER SYM
NGC 1291 11 −8.9 5.8 42 IRR LINER
NGC 1300 26 −45.9 3.8 87 332 NR LINER FLAT
NGC 1433 34 18.2 2.0 49 381 IRR LINER FLAT
NGC 4371 59 88.1 3.2 82 952 NO NO
NGC 4643 44 55.5 10.7 125 495 C LINER SYM
NGC 5248 41 −75.6 4.7 82 489 U SF/LINER SYM
NGC 5850 39 −26.5 6.0 112 796 C NO SYM
NGC 7140 51 4.1 5.1 180 634 NR SF FLAT
NGC 7755 52 23.9 4.0 153 466 NR LINER SYM

 Star-forming nuclear rings
NGC 613 39 −50.1 12.2 120 590 NR LINER
NGC 1097 51 −52.1 17.4 100 1072 NR LINER
NGC 3351 42 11.2 3.1 49 236 NR SF
NGC 4303 34 −36.7 7.2 80 214 NR LINER
NGC 4981 54 −28.2 2.8 120 139 NR LINER
NGC 4984 53 29.6 4.9 103 491 NR/C AGN
NGC 5236 21 47.0 10.9 34 368 IRR SF
NGC 7552 14 54.9 3.3 83 332 NR SF

 Peculiar nuclear regions
NGC 1365 52 42.0 9.5 87 NR/IRR AGN
NGC 5728 44 1.1 7.1 149 628 NR/C AGN
NGC 6902 37 −49.6 6.4 187 PECULIAR NO

Notes. Column (1) states the galaxy name, while Cols. (2) and (3) provide the inclination and position angle of the galaxy disc (Muñoz-Mateos et al. 2015). Columns (4)−(6) state the total stellar mass of the galaxy derived within S4G, the spatial scale of the observations, and the kinematic radius of the nuclear discs (see G20), respectively. Column (7) states whether the morphology of the Hα emission is dominated by a nuclear ring (NR), central emission (C), a uniform nuclear disc (U), an irregular emission pattern (IRR), or no ionised gas emission throughout the field of view (NO). In Col. (8) we provide the ionisation source in the innermost region of the galaxy (at r ≪ Rkin), as determined with BPT-diagrams (we note, nonetheless, that the main ionisation source in the nuclear rings the majority of the radial extent of the nuclear disc is star formation). Column (9) describes the shape of the age profile inside/outside of the nuclear disc as symmetric (“SYM”) or flatter within the nuclear disc (“FLAT”). This classification is given only for the non-star-forming galaxies, as the age profiles are often hard to distinguish in the other subsamples. In NGC 1291 and NGC 4371 the age profiles are dominated by the inner bar and projection effects, respectively, and, thus, we omit these galaxies in this classification.

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