New perspectives on galactic angular momentum, galaxy formation, and the Hubble Sequence. (arXiv:1812.06144v1 [astro-ph.GA])
<a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Fall_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">S. Michael Fall</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Romanowsky_A/0/1/0/all/0/1">Aaron J. Romanowsky</a>
This paper provides a summary of our recent work on the scaling relations
between the specific angular momentum j_* and mass M_* of the stellar parts of
normal galaxies of different bulge fraction beta_*. We find that the
observations are consistent with a simple model based on a linear superposition
of disks and bulges that follow separate scaling relations of the form j_*d ~
M_*d^alpha and j_*b ~ M_*b^alpha with alpha = 0.67 +/- 0.07 but offset from
each other by a factor of 8 +/- 2 over the mass range 8.9 <= log (M_*/M_Sun) <=
11.8. This model correctly predicts that galaxies follow a curved 2D surface in
the 3D space of log j_*, log M_*, and beta_*.
This paper provides a summary of our recent work on the scaling relations
between the specific angular momentum j_* and mass M_* of the stellar parts of
normal galaxies of different bulge fraction beta_*. We find that the
observations are consistent with a simple model based on a linear superposition
of disks and bulges that follow separate scaling relations of the form j_*d ~
M_*d^alpha and j_*b ~ M_*b^alpha with alpha = 0.67 +/- 0.07 but offset from
each other by a factor of 8 +/- 2 over the mass range 8.9 <= log (M_*/M_Sun) <=
11.8. This model correctly predicts that galaxies follow a curved 2D surface in
the 3D space of log j_*, log M_*, and beta_*.
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