Discovery of an ancient massive merger in the cluster NGC 1380 Ling Zhu Email: [email protected] Collaborators: Glenn Van de Ven, Ryan leaman, Annalisa Pillepich, the Fornax3D team, the Illustris TNG50 team.

NGC 1380 + progenitor satellite We discover an ancient, massive merger event in the NGC 1380 in %& (3×10 !⊙) the . By applying a recently developed population- orbital

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age, and maps from VLT/MUSE IFU data, we obtain the stellar orbits, ! age and metallicity distributions of this galaxy. The highly radial orbits which make up an inner stellar halo are ∼ 13 Gyr old with metallicity Z/Z⊙ ∼ 1.2 and comprise 10 a stellar mass of M∗,halo(r<2Re)∼3.410 M⊙. By comparing to analogues from the 10' Andromeda cosmological galaxy simulation TNG50, we find that the formation of the inner %& + M32p (2×10 !⊙) ( + Gaia-Enceladus (4×10 !⊙)

stellar halo of NGC 1380 requires a merger with a massive satellite galaxy with [ Mass of Merger 10 stellar mass of ∼ 3 10 M⊙ that occurred roughly ∼ 10 Gyr ago. The massive merger in NGC 1380 is the first major merger event found in a normal phase-mixed 10( galaxy beyond the Local Volume, and it is the oldest and most massive one identified in nearby so far. Our chemo-dynamical method, when applied to 2 Billion years ago 10 Billion years ago extended deep IFU data and in combination with cosmological galaxy simulations, Time of Merger can quantitatively unravel the merger history of a large number of nearby galaxies. The most massive merger events in the only three galaxies that have been uncovered. With a progenitor mass of ∼ 3 10 10 M⊙ and accretion time of ~10 Gyrs ago, the merger we discovered in NGC 1380 is the most massive and oldest major merger discovered in nearby galaxies so far. (a) NGC 1380 Disk

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r [ckpc] r [kpc] r [kpc] r [kpc] r [kpc] r [kpc] r [kpc] , h Fig.3. A NGC 1380-analogues from the cosmological simulation TNG50. This galaxy has experienced a massive merger at z~1. Before the merger, this galaxy has rarely inner stellar halo component, while at z=0, it has an 10 inner stellar halo mass of 3.3 10 M⊙, 90 percent of which is product of the merger. +

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t Merger ending time Log 10 ⊙ ( prob Z / ) Z NGC 1380 Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] Y[arcsec] X [arcsec] X [arcsec] Fig.4. We select all the galaxies with similar stellar mass and Fig.1. NGC 1380 is a lenticular galaxy in the Fornax cluster, it was observed by size of NGC 1380 from TNG50, and find a strong correlation Fig.5. Based on the model, we find a transition from non- MUSE/VLT with 3 pointings as shown in Panel (a). Panel (b): the left column between the inner stellar halo mass and the stellar mass of disk dominating to disk dominating orbits at t~10 Gyr. is the data derived from the observations. The right column is a best-fitting its most massive satellite ever accreted. Only after the merger, a dynamical cold disk could form 10 from our population-orbit superposition model. Our model fit the surface With M∗,halo(r<2Re)∼3.410 M⊙ for NGC 1380, we infer a and persist. The last massive merger of NGC 1380 should 10 brightness, kinematic maps, and age, metallicity maps simultaneously. stellar mass of ~ ∼ 3 10 M⊙ for its most massive satellite. be ended before t~10 Gyr.