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Title: | The Fornax 3D project: a two-dimensional view of the stellar initial mass function in the massive lenticular galaxy FCC 167 | Authors: | I. Martin-Navarro M. Lyubenova G. van de Ven J. Falcon-Barroso L. Coccato E. M. Corsini D. A. Gadotti Iodice, Enrica F. La Barbera R. M. McDermid F. Pinna M. Sarzi S. Viaene P. T. de Zeeuw L. Zhu |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Journal: | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | Number: | 626 | First Page: | A124 | Abstract: | The stellar initial mass function (IMF) regulates the baryonic cycle within galaxies, and is a key ingredient to translate observations into physical quantities. Although for decades it was assumed to be universal, there is now growing observational evidence showing that the center of massive early-type galaxies host an enhanced population of low-mass stars compared to the expectations from the Milky Way. Moreover, these variations in the IMF have been found to be related to the radial metallicity variations in massive galaxies. We present here a two-dimensional stellar population analysis of the massive lenticular galaxy FCC 167 (NGC 1380) as part of the Fornax3D project. Using a newly developed stellar population fitting scheme, we derive a full two-dimensional IMF map of an early-type galaxy. This two-dimensional analysis allows us go further than a radial analysis, showing how the metallicity changes along a disc-like structure while the IMF follows a distinct, less disky distribution. Thus, our findings indicate that metallicity cannot be the sole driver of the observed radial IMF variations. In addition, a comparison with the orbital decomposition shows suggestive evidence of a coupling between stellar population properties and the internal dynamical structure of FCC 167, where metallicity and IMF maps seem to track the distribution of cold and warm orbits, respectively. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/30331 | URL: | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/06/aa35360-19/aa35360-19.html http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10514v1 |
ISSN: | 0004-6361 | DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201935360 | Fulltext: | open |
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