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Barrientos Acevedo, D, Van Der Wel, A, Baes, M, Grand, RJJ, Kapoor, AU, Camps, P, De Graaff, A, Straatman, CMS and Bezanson, R (2024) Spatially resolved mock observations of stellar kinematics: Full radiative transfer treatment of simulated galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524 (1). pp. 907-922. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
We present a framework to build realistic mock spectroscopic observations for state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations, using high spectral resolution stellar population models and full radiative transfer treatment with skirt. As a first application, we generate stellar continuum mock observations for the Auriga cosmological zoom simulations emulating integral-field observations from the Sydney-AOO Multi-object Integral Field Spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey. We perform spectral fitting on our synthetic cubes and compute the resulting rotation velocity (Vrot) and velocity dispersion within 1Re (σe) for a subset of the Auriga sample. We find that the kinematics produced by Auriga are in good agreement with the observations from the SAMI galaxy survey after taking into account the effects of dust and the systematics produced by the observation limitations. We also explore the effects of seeing convolution, inclination, and attenuation on the line-of-sight velocity distribution. For highly inclined galaxies, these effects can lead to an artificial decrease in the measured V/σ by nearly a factor of two (after inclination correction). We also demonstrate the utility of our method for high-redshift galaxies by emulating spatially resolved continuum spectra from the Large Early Galaxy Census (LEGA-C) survey and, looking forward, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) High Angular Resolution Monolithic Optical and Near-infrared Integral field spectrograph (HARMONI). Our framework represents a crucial link between the ground truth for stellar populations and kinematics in simulations and the observed stellar continuum observations at low and high redshift.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | radiative transfer; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences; Astronomy & Astrophysics |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2024 15:54 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2024 15:54 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/mnras/stad1771 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/24495 |
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