Pattern Speeds of Bars and Spiral Arms From H-alpha Velocity Fields

Details Pattern Speeds of Bars and Spiral Arms From H-alpha Velocity Fields Pattern Speeds of Bars and Spiral Arms From H-alpha Velocity Fields

2009-09-09

arxiv.org/abs/0909.1816v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

22 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal. High-resolution version can be found at http://peopl

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We have applied the Tremaine-Weinberg method to 10 late-type barred spiral galaxies using data cubes, in H-alpha emission, from the GHAFAS and FANTOMM Fabry-Perot spectrometers. We have combined the derived bar (and/or spiral) pattern speeds with angular frequency plots to measure the corotation radii for the bars in these galaxies. We base our results on a combination of this method with a morphological analysis designed to estimate the corotation radius to bar-length ratio using two independent techniques on archival near infrared images, and although we are aware of the limitation of the application of the Tremaine-Weinberg method using ionised gas observations, we find consistently excellent agreement between bar and spiral arm parameters derived using different methods. In general, the corotation radius, measured using the Tremaine-Weinberg method, is closely related to the bar length, measured independently from photometry and consistent with previous studies. Our corotation/bar-length ratios and pattern speed values are in good agreement with general results from numerical simulations of bars. In systems with identified secondary bars, we measure higher H-alpha velocity dispersion in the circumnuclear regions, whereas in all the other galaxies, we detect flat velocity dispersion profiles. The excellent agreement between the Tremaine-Weinberg method results and the morphological analysis and bar parameters in numerical simulations, suggests that although the H-alpha emitting gas does not obey the continuity equation, it can be used to derive the bar pattern speed.

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