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SDSS-IV MaNGA: variation of the stellar initial mass function in spiral and early-type galaxies

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arxiv 1703.04894 v1 pith:BKDBBPBQ submitted 2017-03-15 astro-ph.GA

Hongyu Li , Junqiang Ge , Shude Mao , Michele Cappellari , R. J. Long , Ran Li , Eric Emsellem , Aaron A. Dutton
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We perform Jeans anisotropic modeling (JAM) on elliptical and spiral galaxies from the MaNGA DR13 sample. By comparing the stellar mass-to-light ratios estimated from stellar population synthesis (SPS) and from JAM, we find a similar systematic variation of the initial mass function (IMF) as in the earlier $\rm ATLAS^{3D}$ results. Early type galaxies (elliptical and lenticular) with lower velocity dispersions within one effective radius are consistent with a Chabrier-like IMF while galaxies with higher velocity dispersions are consistent with a more bottom heavy IMF such as the Salpeter IMF. Spiral galaxies have similar systematic IMF variations, but with slightly different slopes and larger scatters, due to the uncertainties caused by higher gas fractions and extinctions for these galaxies. Furthermore, we examine the effects of stellar mass-to-light ratio gradients on our JAM modeling, and find that the trends from our results becomes stronger after considering the gradients.

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