2019/08/19 by Melanie L. Demers, Melanie L Demers, Laura C. Parker +2 · 8 citations
Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Bulge #Disc galaxy #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Galaxy formation and evolution #Halo #Length scale #Low Mass #Physics #Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics #Scale (ratio) #Sky #Star formation #Stars #Stellar mass #astro-ph.GA
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/mnras/stz2305
published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 489(2), 2216-2226 (Oxford University Press) · Accepted to MNRAS on August 13th 2019. 11 pages, 12 figures, 1 Appendix
arxiv created 2019/08/19 · openalex publication_date 2019/08/19 · arxiv updated 2019/08/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract We investigate the dependence of stellar disc scale lengths on environment for a sample of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 galaxies with published photometric bulge-disc decompositions. We compare disc scale lengths at fixed bulge mass for galaxies in an isolated field environment to galaxies in X-ray rich and X-ray poor groups. At low bulge mass, stellar disc scale lengths in X-ray rich groups are smaller compared to discs in both X-ray poor groups and in isolated field environments. This decrease in disc scale length is largely independent of halo mass, though shows some dependence on group-centric distance. We also find that stellar disc scale lengths are smaller in X-ray rich environments for a subset of star-forming galaxies and for galaxies of different morphological types. We note that disc scale lengths of low mass galaxies are known to have large systematic uncertainties, however we focus on differences between samples with the same measurement biases. Our results show that stellar disc scale lengths depend on X-ray brightness, a tracer of IGM density, suggesting a role for hydrodynamic processes such as ram-pressure stripping and/or starvation.