The Velocity Map Asymmetry of Ionized Gas in MaNGA. I. The Catalog and General Properties
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES(2022)
Abstract
The SDSS-IV MaNGA survey has measured two-dimensional maps of emission-line velocities for a statistically powerful sample of nearby galaxies. The asymmetric features of these kinematics maps reflect the nonrotational component of a galaxy's internal motion of ionized gas. In this study, we present a catalog of kinematic asymmetry measurements of the H alpha velocity map of a sample of 5353 MaNGA galaxies. Based on this catalog, we find that "special" galaxies (e.g., merging galaxies, barred galaxies, and active galactic nucleus host galaxies) contain more galaxies with highly asymmetric velocity maps. However, we notice that more than half of galaxies with high kinematic asymmetry in our sample are quite "regular." For those "regular" galaxies, kinematic asymmetry shows a significant anticorrelation with stellar mass at log M-* < 9.7, while such a trend becomes very weak at log M-* > 9.7. Moreover, at a given stellar mass, the kinematic asymmetry shows weak correlations with photometric morphology, star formation rate, and environment, while it is independent of H I gas content. We also have quantified the observational effects in the kinematic asymmetry measurement. We find that both the signal-to-noise ratio of Ha flux and disk inclination angle contribute to the measures of kinematic asymmetry, while the physical spatial resolution is an irrelevant factor inside the MaNGA redshift coverage.
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Key words
ionized gas,velocity map asymmetry,manga
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