Bibcode
Méndez-Abreu, J.; Sánchez, S. F.; de Lorenzo-Cáceres, A.
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 488, Issue 1, p.L80-L84
Fecha de publicación:
9
2019
Número de citas
30
Número de citas referidas
29
Descripción
The star formation main sequence (SFMS) is a tight relation between the
galaxy star formation rate (SFR) and its total stellar mass
(M⋆). Early-type galaxies (ETGs) are often considered as
low-SFR outliers of this relation. We study, for the first time, the
separated distribution in the SFR versus M⋆ of bulges
and discs of 49 ETGs from the CALIFA survey. This is achieved using C2D,
a new code to perform spectrophotometric decompositions of integral
field spectroscopy data cubes. Our results reflect that: (i) star
formation always occurs in the disc component and not in bulges; (ii)
star-forming discs in our ETGs are compatible with the SFMS defined by
star-forming galaxies at z ˜ 0; (iii) the star formation is not
confined to the outskirts of discs, but it is present at all radii (even
where the bulge dominates the light); (iv) for a given mass, bulges
exhibit lower sSFR than discs at all radii; and (v) we do not find a
deficit of molecular gas in bulges with respect to discs for a given
mass in our ETGs. We speculate our results favour a morphological
quenching scenario for ETGs.
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