MNRAS 432, 1862–1893 (2013) doi:10.1093/mnras/stt644 Advance Access publication 2013 May 16
The ATLAS3D project – XX. Mass–size and mass–σ distributions of early-type galaxies: bulge fraction drives kinematics, mass-to-light ratio, molecular gas fraction and stellar initial mass function
Michele Cappellari,1‹ Richard M. McDermid,2 Katherine Alatalo,3 Leo Blitz,3 Maxime Bois,4 Fred´ eric´ Bournaud,5 M. Bureau,1 Alison F. Crocker,6 Roger L. Davies,1 Timothy A. Davis,1,7 P. T. de Zeeuw,7,8 Pierre-Alain Duc,5 Eric Emsellem,7,9 Sadegh Khochfar,10 Davor Krajnovic,´ 7 Harald Kuntschner,7 11,12 13 11,12 14 Raffaella Morganti, Thorsten Naab, Tom Oosterloo, Marc Sarzi, Downloaded from Nicholas Scott,1,15 Paolo Serra,11 Anne-Marie Weijmans16 and Lisa M. Young17 1Sub-department of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK 2Gemini Observatory, Northern Operations Centre, 670 N. A‘ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720, USA 3Department of Astronomy, Campbell Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 4 Observatoire de Paris, LERMA and CNRS, 61 Av. de l’Observatoire, F-75014 Paris, France http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/ 5Laboratoire AIM Paris-Saclay, CEA/IRFU/SAp, CNRS, Universite´ Paris Diderot, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France 6Department of Astrophysics, University of Massachusetts, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003, USA 7European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany 8Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden University, Postbus 9513, NL-2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands 9Universite´ Lyon 1, Observatoire de Lyon, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon and Ecole Normale Superieure´ de Lyon, 9 avenue Charles Andre,´ F-69230 Saint-Genis Laval, France 10Max-Planck Institut fur¨ extraterrestrische Physik, PO Box 1312, D-85478 Garching, Germany 11Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), Postbus 2, NL-7990 AA Dwingeloo, the Netherlands 12Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Postbus 800, NL-9700 AV Groningen, the Netherlands 13 ¨
Max-Planck Institut fur Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, D-85741 Garching, Germany at European Southern Observatory on August 13, 2014 14Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts AL1 9AB, UK 15Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia 16Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada 17Physics Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
Accepted 2013 April 15. Received 2013 March 24; in original form 2012 August 17
ABSTRACT In the companion Paper XV of this series, we derive accurate total mass-to-light ratios (M/L)JAM ≈ (M/L)(r = Re) within a sphere of radius r = Re centred on the galaxy, as well as stellar (M/L)stars (with the dark matter removed) for the volume-limited and nearly mass- 9 3D selected (stellar mass M 6 × 10 M) ATLAS sample of 260 early-type galaxies (ETGs, ellipticals Es and lenticulars S0s). Here, we use those parameters to study the two orthogonal maj maj projections (MJAM ,σe) and (MJAM ,Re ) of the thin Mass Plane (MP) (MJAM ,σe,Re ) which describes the distribution of the galaxy population, where MJAM ≡ L × (M/L)JAM ≈ M .The distribution of galaxy properties on both projections of the MP is characterized by: (i) the same zone of exclusion (ZOE), which can be transformed from one projection to the other using the scalar virial equation. The ZOE is roughly described by two power laws, joined by a 10 break at a characteristic mass MJAM ≈ 3 × 10 M, which corresponds to the minimum Re and maximum stellar density. This results in a break in the mean MJAM –σe relation with trends M ∝ σ 2.3 M ∝ σ 4.7 σ JAM e and JAM e at small and large e, respectively; (ii) a characteristic mass 11 MJAM ≈ 2 × 10 M which separates a population dominated by flat fast rotator with discs