Tully-Fisher relation for S^4^G galaxies

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We combine data from the Spitzer Survey for Stellar Structure in Galaxies, a recently calibrated empirical stellar mass estimator from Eskew et al., and an extensive database of HI spectral line profiles to examine the baryonic Tully-Fisher (BTF) relation. We find (1) that the BTF has lower scatter than the classic Tully-Fisher (TF) relation and is better described as a linear relationship, confirming similar previous results, (2) that the inclusion of a radial scale in the BTF decreases the scatter but only modestly, as seen previously for the TF relation, and (3) that the slope of the BTF, which we find to be 3.5+/-0.2({Delta}logM_baryon_/{Delta}logv_c_), implies that on average a nearly constant fraction (~0.4) of all baryons expected to be in a halo are "condensed" onto the central region of rotationally supported galaxies. The condensed baryon fraction, M_baryon_/M_total_, is, to our measurement precision, nearly independent of galaxy circular velocity (our sample spans circular velocities, v c, between 60 and 250km/s, but is extended to v_c_~10km/s using data from the literature). The observed galaxy-to-galaxy scatter in this fraction is generally {<=} a factor of 2 despite fairly liberal selection criteria. These results imply that cooling and heating processes, such as cold versus hot accretion, mass loss due to stellar winds, and active galactic nucleus driven feedback, to the degree that they affect the global galactic properties involved in the BTF, are independent of halo mass for galaxies with 10

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.51470134
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Creator Zaritsky D.; Courtois H.; Munoz-Mateos J.-C.; Sorce J.; Erroz-Ferrer S.,Comeron S.; Gadotti D.A.; Gil de Paz A.; Hinz J.L.; Laurikainen E.; Kim T.,Laine J.; Menendez-Delmestre K.; Mizusawa T.; Regan M.W.; Salo H.,Seibert M.; Sheth K.; Athanassoula E.; Bosma A.; Cisternas M.; Ho L.C.,Holwerda B.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2014
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Interstellar medium; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics