Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21547017s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #470.17; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.516
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The RESOLVE (REsolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE) Survey is a census of gas, stars, and dark matter in 1500 galaxies down to dwarf-scale baryonic masses of 109 Msun, occupying a range of cluster, group, and filament environments in the local cosmic web. We discuss strategies to estimate the gas mass in HI, H2, and warmer phases. RESOLVE falls largely within the footprint of the ongoing ALFALFA survey, allowing us to acquire accurate HI data for much of the sample. Any missing HI masses will be estimated from color and environment data, based on trends calibrated using the ALFALFA data set. Initially, our constraints on the molecular gas component will be largely indirect, based on either AKARI FIR data or a new technique presented here that links CO-derived H2/HI ratios to stellar-mass normalized color gradients. We discuss additional strategies under development to better measure molecular gas and constrain the mass in warmer phases. In particular, we describe observational constraints on the nature of additional gas that is detected dynamically in a sample of very blue, gas-dominated galaxies, possibly representing a warm-hot phase or a low-metallicity molecular component. Obtaining a full gas census for the RESOLVE survey will allow us to model gas phase transitions and star formation, specifically examining how baryonic mass component ratios and conversion timescales depend on galaxy mass and environment.
ALFALFA Team
Baker Andrew Jordan
Giovanelli Riccardo
Haynes Martha P.
Heitsch Fabian
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