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Bars reorganise cold gas only above a stellar-mass watershed of 10^10 solar masses.

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load-bearing objection Solid JWST confirmation of the ~10^10 M☉ bar-driven ISM watershed already seen in Hα, UV and simulations; the PAH radial dips and PDFs are new quantitative evidence, not a rebrand. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2607.03147 v1 pith:UFBDHW46 submitted 2026-07-03 astro-ph.GA

A steep mass transition for bar-driven ISM structuring revealed by PHANGS-JWST

Eric Emsellem (1 , 2) , Jessica Sutter , Ryan Chown , Adam Leroy , Debosmita Pathak , Eva Schinnerer , Thomas Williams
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Karin Sandstrom Oscar Agertz Francesco Belfiore Amelia Fraser-McKelvie Kirsten Larson Janice Lee Jay Gonz\`alez Lobos Sharon Meidt Miguel Querejeta Sophia Stuber Pierrick Verwilghen Oleg Egorov Damian Gleis Jonathan Henshaw Justus Neumann Yixian Cao Daniel Dale Daizhong Liu Elias Oakes Marina Ruiz Garc\`ia Dave Thilker Elizabeth Watkins ((1) ESO (2) CRALyon)
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Using JWST maps of PAH emission in 57 nearby star-forming discs, the authors show that stellar bars reorganise the cold interstellar medium in a sharply mass-dependent way. Above roughly 10^10 solar masses, barred galaxies develop symmetric central gas reservoirs (discs or rings) inside 15 percent of the bar radius and clear radial depletions—"bar deserts"—between 0.2 and 0.8 bar radii. Below that mass, the same PAH maps look clumpy and disordered whether or not a bar is present; radial profiles and density distributions of barred and unbarred systems are nearly indistinguishable. The result confirms earlier predictions from simulations and from ionised-gas and UV surveys, and it implies that bars drive rapid secular evolution only in the higher-mass regime, while their imprint on the cold gas is delayed or suppressed at lower mass. Because the cold-gas tracer is often the most visible signature of a bar, the mass-dependent masking can bias observed bar fractions, especially in low-mass or high-redshift samples.

Core claim

A stellar mass of about 10^10 solar masses acts as a watershed for bar-driven ISM structuring: above it, barred galaxies show well-ordered PAH features, central reservoirs inside 0.15 Rb, and systematic depletions in the [0.2–0.8] Rb range; below it the PAH distribution remains clumpy and agnostic to the presence of a stellar bar.

What carries the argument

Continuum-subtracted 7.7 µm PAH surface-brightness maps (F770Wss), treated as a structural tracer of cold ISM, analysed via deprojected radial profiles, density PDFs, and automated detection of central discs or rings, all ordered by host stellar mass.

Load-bearing premise

The claim rests on treating continuum-subtracted 7.7 µm PAH emission as a faithful map of cold-gas column density even though heating intensity and ionisation state can change the brightness without changing the gas mass.

What would settle it

If independent molecular-gas maps (CO) of the same low-mass barred galaxies show clear central concentrations and bar-lane depletions that the PAH maps miss, or if high-mass barred galaxies lack those CO features while still showing PAH peaks and deserts, the claimed mass-dependent gas redistribution would be undermined.

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Referee Report

2 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper uses continuum-subtracted JWST F770W (7.7 µm PAH) imaging of 57 PHANGS star-forming discs (45 barred, 12 unbarred) to show that a stellar mass of ~10^10 M⊙ marks a continuous but abrupt transition in bar-driven ISM structure. Below this mass, PAH emission is clumpy and disordered regardless of bar presence; above it, barred systems develop central discs/rings within ~0.15 Rb, systematic depletion (“bar deserts”) in [0.2–0.8] Rb, and strongly non-log-normal surface-density PDFs. The result is obtained from deprojected radial profiles, automated ring/disc detection, and stacked PDFs, and is framed as confirmation of earlier Hα/UV trends and of the Verwilghen et al. (2025) simulation suite that attributes the break to the gravity-versus-feedback balance.

Significance. If the mass break is real, the paper supplies a clean, multi-tracer observational counterpart to the simulation prediction that bar-driven secular evolution operates in two distinct regimes. The use of high-resolution JWST PAH maps, independent Spitzer/S4G bar classifications, and quantitative PDF/radial-profile diagnostics strengthens the case that the ~10^10 M⊙ threshold is not an artefact of a single tracer. The work also has direct implications for bar-fraction estimates at low mass and high redshift, where ISM tracers may systematically hide bars. The open discussion of sample imbalance and of F770Wss degeneracies is a methodological strength.

major comments (2)
  1. Sect. 4.1 and Figs. 4–5: the central claim that the observed peaks and deserts reflect cold-gas redistribution rests on F770Wss being a faithful structural tracer. The section correctly lists ISRF and ionisation degeneracies and argues they amplify rather than invent the signal, yet no quantitative bound (e.g., a comparison of F770Wss versus CO or dust continuum for the same radial bins) is provided for the bar-desert region itself. A short, explicit test or literature cross-check limited to the [0.2–0.8] Rb zone would make the gas-redistribution interpretation more secure.
  2. Sect. 2.2 and Fig. 1: the unbarred control sample contains only 12 galaxies and none above 10^10.5 M⊙. While the paper states this limitation, the absence of high-mass unbarred systems means the claim that the radial dip and non-log-normal PDF are bar-driven (rather than mass-driven) cannot be tested in the highest mass bin. The manuscript should either quantify how much of the high-mass signal could be produced by mass alone or explicitly restrict the bar-versus-unbarred comparison to the mass range where both populations exist.
minor comments (4)
  1. Figs. 2–3 captions: the ordering is by stellar mass, but the numerical log M⋆ values are rounded to one decimal; a few galaxies near the 10^10 boundary therefore appear in the “wrong” visual group. Adding the precise log M⋆ (or a vertical line at the threshold) would remove ambiguity.
  2. Sect. 3.2: the automated ring/disc detection algorithm is described only briefly. A short appendix note on the prominence threshold and on how saturated centres (five galaxies) are treated would aid reproducibility.
  3. Table C.1: several columns (CS, R, ΔR, ε, Θ) are empty for unbarred and peculiar systems; a footnote clarifying that these fields are defined only for barred galaxies with detected central structures would avoid confusion.
  4. Abstract and Sect. 5: the phrase “continuous but abrupt” is used for the mass transition; a single sentence quantifying the width of the transition (e.g., from the binned profiles) would make the language more precise.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: observational mass-threshold claim stands independently of self-cited simulations used only for post-hoc interpretation.

specific steps
  1. self citation load bearing [Sect. 1 (Introduction) and Sect. 4.5]
    "Recent numerical simulations of isolated main-sequence star-forming disc galaxies... have reproduced an observed trend in the distribution of gas and star-forming regions within bars (Verwilghen et al. 2024, 2025)... Our results reinforce the hypothesis that a stellar mass of about 10^10 M⊙ acts as a "watershed" for barred galaxy evolution."

    Verwilghen et al. share multiple co-authors with the present work (including the first author). The citation supplies the interpretive framing (gravity vs. feedback regimes, timescales) but is not required for the observational detection of the mass-dependent PAH structures; the data analysis and stacked profiles/PDFs stand alone. Hence the self-citation is present yet non-load-bearing.

full rationale

The paper's central result is an empirical detection of a stellar-mass watershed at ~10^10 M⊙ in the spatial distribution of continuum-subtracted F770W (PAH) emission, obtained by stacking deprojected radial profiles and surface-density PDFs of 45 barred + 12 unbarred PHANGS-JWST galaxies ordered by independently measured stellar mass. Bar presence, lengths and position angles are taken from prior Spitzer/S4G catalogues (Herrera-Endoqui et al. 2015; Querejeta et al. 2021) and only lightly revised with the new 3 µm images; PAH maps are never used to decide bar classification. The mass threshold itself is not a free parameter fitted to the present data set; it is an observed break that coincides with previously reported transitions in Hα, UV and molecular-gas tracers. The authors' own hydrodynamical simulations (Verwilghen et al. 2024, 2025) are cited solely to supply a physical interpretation (gravity- versus feedback-dominated regimes) after the observational trends have already been established. No quantity is predicted from a fit to a subset of the same data, no uniqueness theorem is imported, and no ansatz is smuggled in via self-citation. The single minor self-citation therefore does not render any load-bearing step circular by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 4 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard extragalactic assumptions (PAH as cold-gas proxy, bar lengths from near-IR, stellar masses from SED fitting) plus a handful of analysis choices (continuum coefficient 0.22, circular-ring detection thresholds, mass-bin edges). No new physical entities are postulated; free parameters are limited to the continuum-subtraction scale and the broken-power-law bar-size proxy for unbarred galaxies.

free parameters (2)
  • F770W continuum-subtraction coefficient = 0.22
    Fixed at 0.22 following Sutter et al. (2024); small changes would rescale absolute intensities but not the relative radial structure that drives the claim.
  • Broken-power-law coefficients for unbarred Rb[M] proxy = α=-4.8, β=0.5/0.8, Mbrk=10.16
    α = −4.8, β = 0.5/0.8, Mbrk = 10.16 fitted to the barred subsample (following Erwin 2019); used only to normalise unbarred profiles for comparison.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Continuum-subtracted 7.7 µm PAH emission is a reliable structural tracer of cold-gas column density across galactic environments.
    Invoked throughout Sects. 3–4; authors discuss heating/ionisation degeneracies but treat residual maps as gas maps for the purpose of the claim.
  • domain assumption Bar lengths and position angles measured at 3.6 µm (or 3 µm) correctly locate the dynamical bar that organises the gas.
    Taken from Herrera-Endoqui/Querejeta catalogues and lightly revised; used to define Rb and to align images.
  • domain assumption Stellar masses from Leroy et al. (2021b) are accurate to better than ∼0.2 dex, sufficient to place galaxies relative to the 10^10 M⊙ threshold.
    Mass ordering and binning rest on these values; no independent mass re-derivation is performed.
  • domain assumption Simple 2-D deprojection (constant inclination, thin disc) does not erase or create the radial features under study.
    Stated in Sect. 2.1 and tested by restricting to i < 45°; residual uncertainty remains for highly inclined systems.

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  title        = {Pith review of: A steep mass transition for bar-driven ISM structuring revealed by PHANGS-JWST},
  year         = {2026},
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Galactic bars play a critical role in the secular evolution of their hosts by reorganising the ISM. We use a sample of 57 star-forming disc galaxies observed with JWST at 3 and 7.7 $\mu$m to probe how the spatial distribution of PAH emission, as a structural marker of the cold ISM, depends on stellar mass and bar presence. We find evidence for a "watershed" at a stellar mass of $10^{10}$ Msun, marking a fundamental transition in the bar-driven distribution of PAH emission. This confirms trends previously predicted by numerical simulations and observed via ionised gas or UV light. While lower-mass galaxies exhibit a disordered and clumpy distribution of PAH emission regardless of bar presence, higher-mass barred hosts display well-structured dynamical features traced by PAH emission with significant gas reservoirs (e.g., discs and rings) within the central 15% of the bar radius (Rb). Furthermore, we observe a systematic depletion of PAH emission within the [0.2-0.8] Rb range in barred systems with stellar masses above $10^{10}$ Msun. Such central discs, rings, and associated radial dips ("bar deserts") appear to be a mass-dependent phenomenon: ubiquitous in massive galaxies but mostly absent in lower-mass counterparts. In contrast to the structured features in massive hosts, the disorganised ISM in lower-mass galaxies masks commonly observed bar-driven signatures. This suggests that tracer selection and dust obscuration may significantly bias observed bar fractions. Our study underlines two regimes of secular evolution, with different impacts and observability of bar-driven processes: it reaffirms bars as primary drivers of rapid secular evolution in galaxies above $10^{10}$ Msun$, while their impact is significantly reduced or delayed below this threshold. It further underscores the need to account for these processes when modelling galaxy evolution in cosmological simulations.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.03147 by 2), (2) CRALyon), Adam Leroy, Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, Daizhong Liu, Damian Gleis, Daniel Dale, Dave Thilker, Debosmita Pathak, Elias Oakes, Elizabeth Watkins ((1) ESO, Eric Emsellem (1, Eva Schinnerer, Francesco Belfiore, Janice Lee, Jay Gonz\`alez Lobos, Jessica Sutter, Jonathan Henshaw, Justus Neumann, Karin Sandstrom, Kirsten Larson, Marina Ruiz Garc\`ia, Miguel Querejeta, Oleg Egorov, Oscar Agertz, Pierrick Verwilghen, Ryan Chown, Sharon Meidt, Sophia Stuber, Thomas Williams, Yixian Cao.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Distribution of the 57 galaxies (45 barred, 12 unbarred) in the morphologically selected sample in terms of distance (top) and inclina￾tion (bottom) versus stellar mass. The distance is expressed here as a resolution in parsecs per arcsecond. The inclination is represented by its cosine, which serves as the stretching factor in image deprojection. Histograms on the right-hand side and top correspond to the… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Thumbnails of JWST F300M (3.0 µm) band deprojected images of the 45 barred galaxies considered in this paper. Galaxies are ordered from the top left to the bottom right by stellar mass M⋆: the value of log10 (M⋆) is provided at the bottom right of each panel (rounded to the closest first decimal). The white bars indicate the radial extent of the bars in each panel; the field of view covers twice that radiu… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Radial PAH emission (F770Wss band) profiles of barred (orange lines) and unbarred (blue lines) galaxies: each line corresponds to the median of all barred galaxies within a stellar mass bin (as indicated by the legend in each panel). In the bottom right panel, all lines are shown together to illustrate the trend. Each of the other five panels shows a sin￾gle stellar mass bin for both the barred and unbarre… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Stacked and shifted PAH emission density PDFs using the F770Wss JWST band in bins of mass, going from the least massive (top) to the most massive (bottom) targets, with the stellar mass bin indicated in the middle of the two panels of each row. The left (right) panels cor￾respond to the barred (unbarred) subsample. The value at the top left (right) of each panel is the number of targets stacked for the bar… view at source ↗

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