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Journal Articles Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Year : 2022

On the viability of determining galaxy properties from observations I: Star formation rates and kinematics

Kearn Grisdale
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Laurence Hogan
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Dimitra Rigopoulou
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Niranjan Thatte
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Miguel Pereira-Santaella
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Julien Devriendt
Adrianne Slyz
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Ismael García-Bernete
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Yohan Dubois
Sukyoung K. Yi
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Abstract

We explore how observations relate to the physical properties of the emitting galaxies by post-processing a pair of merging z ~ 2 galaxies from the cosmological, hydrodynamical simulation NEWHORIZON using LCARS (Light from Cloudy Added to RAMSES) to encode the physical properties of the simulated galaxy into Hα emission line. By carrying out mock observations and analysis on these data cubes we ascertain which physical properties of the galaxy will be recoverable with the HARMONI spectrograph on the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). We are able to estimate the galaxy's star formation rate and dynamical mass to a reasonable degree of accuracy, with values within a factor of 1.81 and 1.38 of the true value. The kinematic structure of the galaxy is also recovered in mock observations. Furthermore, we are able to recover radial profiles of the velocity dispersion and are therefore able to calculate how the dynamical ratio varies as a function of distance from the galaxy centre. Finally, we show that when calculated on galaxy scales the dynamical ratio does not always provide a reliable measure of a galaxy's stability against gravity or act as an indicator of a minor merger.
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insu-03667428 , version 1 (07-04-2023)

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Kearn Grisdale, Laurence Hogan, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Niranjan Thatte, Miguel Pereira-Santaella, et al.. On the viability of determining galaxy properties from observations I: Star formation rates and kinematics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022, ⟨10.1093/mnras/stac1124⟩. ⟨insu-03667428⟩
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