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    Connecting Transitions In Galaxy Properties To Refueling

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    2013-11
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    Kannappan, Sheila J.
    Stark, David V.
    Eckert, Kathleen D.
    Moffett, Amanda J.
    Wei, Lisa H.
    Pisano, D. J.
    Baker, Andrew J.
    Vogel, Stuart N.
    Fabricant, Daniel G.
    Laine, Seppo
    Norris, Mark A.
    Jogee, Shardha
    Lepore, Natasha
    Hough, Loren E.
    Weinberg-Wolf, Jennifer
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    Abstract
    We relate transitions in galaxy structure and gas content to refueling, here defined to include both the external gas accretion and the internal gas processing needed to renew reservoirs for star formation. We analyze two z = 0 data sets: a high-quality similar to 200 galaxy sample (the Nearby Field Galaxy Survey, data release herein) and a volume-limited similar to 3000 galaxy sample with reprocessed archival data. Both reach down to baryonic masses similar to 10(9) M and span void-to-cluster environments. Two mass-dependent transitions are evident: (1) below the "gas-richness threshold" scale (V similar to 125 km s(-1)), gas-dominated quasi-bulgeless Sd-Im galaxies become numerically dominant; while (2) above the "bimodality" scale (V similar to 200 km s(-1)), gas-starved E/S0s become the norm. Notwithstanding these transitions, galaxy mass (or V as its proxy) is a poor predictor of gas-to-stellar mass ratio M-gas/M-*. Instead, M-gas/M-* correlates well with the ratio of a galaxy's stellar mass formed in the last Gyr to its preexisting stellar mass, such that the two ratios have numerically similar values. This striking correspondence between past-averaged star formation and current gas richness implies routine refueling of star-forming galaxies on Gyr timescales. We argue that this refueling underlies the tight M-gas/M-* versus color correlations often used to measure "photometric gas fractions." Furthermore, the threshold and bimodality scale transitions reflect mass-dependent demographic shifts between three refueling regimes-accretion-dominated, processing-dominated, and quenched. In this picture, gas-dominated dwarfs are explained not by inefficient star formation but by overwhelming gas accretion, which fuels stellar mass doubling in less than or similar to 1 Gyr. Moreover, moderately gas-rich bulged disks such as the Milky Way are transitional, becoming abundant only in the narrow range between the threshold and bimodality scales.
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    Astronomy
    Subject
    galaxies: evolution
    tully-fisher relation
    digital sky survey
    star-formation rates
    cold
    dark-matter
    fast alpha survey
    40-percent alfalfa survey
    supermassive
    black-holes
    stellar mass functions
    nearby field galaxies
    blue compact
    galaxies
    astronomy & astrophysics
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2152/35124
    Citation
    Kannappan, Sheila J., David V. Stark, Kathleen D. Eckert, Amanda J. Moffett, Lisa H. Wei, D. J. Pisano, Andrew J. Baker et al. "Connecting transitions in galaxy properties to refueling." The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 777, No. 1 (Nov., 2013): 42.
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