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Title: Post-starburst properties of post-merger galaxies

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ABSTRACT Post-starburst galaxies (PSBs) are transition galaxies showing evidence of recent rapid star formation quenching. To understand the role of galaxy mergers in triggering quenching, we investigate the incidence of PSBs and resolved PSB properties in post-merger galaxies using both SDSS single-fibre spectra and MaNGA resolved IFU spectra. We find post-mergers have a PSB excess of 10–20 times that relative to their control galaxies using single-fibre PSB diagnostics. A similar excess of ∼ 19 times is also found in the fraction of central (C)PSBs and ring-like (R)PSBs in post-mergers using the resolved PSB diagnostic. However, 60 per cent of the CPSBs + RPSBs in both post-mergers and control galaxies are missed by the single-fibre data. By visually inspecting the resolved PSB distribution, we find that the fraction of outside-in quenching is seven times higher than inside-out quenching in PSBs in post-mergers while PSBs in control galaxies do not show large differences in these quenching directions. In addition, we find a marginal deficit of H i gas in PSBs relative to non-PSBs in post-mergers using the MaNGA-H i data. The excesses of PSBs in post-mergers suggest that mergers play an important role in triggering quenching. Resolved IFU spectra are important to recover the PSBs missed by single-fibre spectra. The excessmore » of outside-in quenching relative to inside-out quenching in post-mergers suggests that AGNs are not the dominant quenching mechanism in these galaxies, but that processes from the disc (gas inflows/consumption and stellar feedback) play a more important role.« less

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Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal Volume: 523 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
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Li, Wenhao, Nair, Preethi, Rowlands, Kate, Masters, Karen, Stark, David, Drory, Niv, Ellison, Sara, Irwin, Jimmy, Satyapal, Shobita, Jones, Amy, Keel, William, Mukundan, Kavya, and Tu, Zachary. Post-starburst properties of post-merger galaxies. United Kingdom: N. p., 2023. Web. doi:10.1093/mnras/stad1473.
Li, Wenhao, Nair, Preethi, Rowlands, Kate, Masters, Karen, Stark, David, Drory, Niv, Ellison, Sara, Irwin, Jimmy, Satyapal, Shobita, Jones, Amy, Keel, William, Mukundan, Kavya, & Tu, Zachary. Post-starburst properties of post-merger galaxies. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1473
Li, Wenhao, Nair, Preethi, Rowlands, Kate, Masters, Karen, Stark, David, Drory, Niv, Ellison, Sara, Irwin, Jimmy, Satyapal, Shobita, Jones, Amy, Keel, William, Mukundan, Kavya, and Tu, Zachary. Tue . "Post-starburst properties of post-merger galaxies". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1473.
@article{osti_1975298,
title = {Post-starburst properties of post-merger galaxies},
author = {Li, Wenhao and Nair, Preethi and Rowlands, Kate and Masters, Karen and Stark, David and Drory, Niv and Ellison, Sara and Irwin, Jimmy and Satyapal, Shobita and Jones, Amy and Keel, William and Mukundan, Kavya and Tu, Zachary},
abstractNote = {ABSTRACT Post-starburst galaxies (PSBs) are transition galaxies showing evidence of recent rapid star formation quenching. To understand the role of galaxy mergers in triggering quenching, we investigate the incidence of PSBs and resolved PSB properties in post-merger galaxies using both SDSS single-fibre spectra and MaNGA resolved IFU spectra. We find post-mergers have a PSB excess of 10–20 times that relative to their control galaxies using single-fibre PSB diagnostics. A similar excess of ∼ 19 times is also found in the fraction of central (C)PSBs and ring-like (R)PSBs in post-mergers using the resolved PSB diagnostic. However, 60 per cent of the CPSBs + RPSBs in both post-mergers and control galaxies are missed by the single-fibre data. By visually inspecting the resolved PSB distribution, we find that the fraction of outside-in quenching is seven times higher than inside-out quenching in PSBs in post-mergers while PSBs in control galaxies do not show large differences in these quenching directions. In addition, we find a marginal deficit of H i gas in PSBs relative to non-PSBs in post-mergers using the MaNGA-H i data. The excesses of PSBs in post-mergers suggest that mergers play an important role in triggering quenching. Resolved IFU spectra are important to recover the PSBs missed by single-fibre spectra. The excess of outside-in quenching relative to inside-out quenching in post-mergers suggests that AGNs are not the dominant quenching mechanism in these galaxies, but that processes from the disc (gas inflows/consumption and stellar feedback) play a more important role.},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/stad1473},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
number = 1,
volume = 523,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Tue May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2023},
month = {Tue May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2023}
}

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Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies
journal, February 2005

  • Di Matteo, Tiziana; Springel, Volker; Hernquist, Lars
  • Nature, Vol. 433, Issue 7026
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature03335

SDSS-IV MaNGA: spatial resolved properties of kinematically misaligned galaxies
journal, February 2022

  • Xu, Haitong; Chen, Yanmei; Shi, Yong
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 511, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac354

H i Observations of Major-merger Pairs at z = 0: Atomic Gas and Star Formation
journal, July 2018

  • Zuo, Pei; Xu, Cong K.; Yun, Min S.
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol. 237, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aabd30

SDSS-IV/MaNGA: SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE
journal, December 2015

  • Yan, Renbin; Tremonti, Christy; Bershady, Matthew A.
  • The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 151, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/0004-6256/151/1/8

Breaking the hierarchy of galaxy formation
journal, August 2006


K+A Galaxies as the Aftermath of Gas-Rich Mergers: Simulating the Evolution of Galaxies as seen by Spectroscopic Surveys
journal, October 2011

  • Snyder, Gregory F.; Cox, Thomas J.; Hayward, Christopher C.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 741, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/77

H i-MaNGA: H i follow-up for the MaNGA survey
journal, July 2019

  • Masters, Karen L.; Stark, David V.; Pace, Zachary J.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 488, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1889

Observational evidence for AGN feedback in early-type galaxies
journal, December 2007


Quantifying the Bimodal Color‐Magnitude Distribution of Galaxies
journal, January 2004

  • Baldry, Ivan K.; Glazebrook, Karl; Brinkmann, Jon
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 600, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1086/380092

The SWIRE-VVDS-CFHTLS surveys: stellar mass assembly over the last 10 Gyr. Evidence for a major build up of the red sequence between z = 2 and z = 1
journal, September 2007


Comparison of stellar populations in simulated and real post-starburst galaxies in MaNGA
journal, August 2020

  • Zheng, Yirui; Wild, Vivienne; Lahén, Natalia
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 498, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2358

Cold gas and star formation in a merging galaxy sequence
journal, October 2000


Are All Post-starbursts Mergers? HST Reveals Hidden Disturbances in the Majority of PSBs
journal, October 2021

  • Sazonova, Elizaveta; Alatalo, Katherine; Rowlands, Kate
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 919, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0f7f

The origins of post-starburst galaxies at z < 0.05
journal, March 2018

  • Pawlik, M. M.; Taj Aldeen, L.; Wild, V.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 477, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty589

Both starvation and outflows drive galaxy quenching
journal, November 2019

  • Trussler, James; Maiolino, Roberto; Maraston, Claudia
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 491, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3286

The State of the Molecular Gas in Post-starburst Galaxies
journal, January 2023

  • French, K. Decker; Smercina, Adam; Rowlands, Kate
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 942, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aca46e

SDSS-IV MaNGA: identification of active galactic nuclei in optical integral field unit surveys
journal, October 2017

  • Wylezalek, Dominika; Zakamska, Nadia L.; Greene, Jenny E.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 474, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2784

Bursty stellar populations and obscured active galactic nuclei in galaxy bulges
journal, October 2007


Strangulation as the primary mechanism for shutting down star formation in galaxies
journal, May 2015


Star Formation in NGC 5194 (M51a). II. The Spatially Resolved Star Formation Law
journal, December 2007

  • Kennicutt, Jr., Robert C.; Calzetti, Daniela; Walter, Fabian
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 671, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1086/522300

Interacting galaxies in the nearby Universe: only moderate increase of star formation
journal, October 2015

  • Knapen, Johan H.; Cisternas, Mauricio; Querejeta, Miguel
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 454, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2135

On the H i Content of MaNGA Major Merger Pairs
journal, July 2022


AEGIS: Enhancement of Dust-enshrouded Star Formation in Close Galaxy Pairs and Merging Galaxies up to z ~ 1
journal, April 2007

  • Lin, Lihwai; Koo, David C.; Weiner, Benjamin J.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 660, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1086/517919

The Discovery of 1000 km s[FORMULA][F][SUP]-1[/SUP][/F][/FORMULA] Outflows in Massive Poststarburst Galaxies at [FORMULA][F]z=0.6[/F][/FORMULA]
journal, June 2007

  • Tremonti, Christy A.; Moustakas, John; Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 663, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1086/520083

The physical properties of star-forming galaxies in the low-redshift Universe
journal, July 2004


The Imacs Cluster Building Survey. ii. Spectral Evolution of Galaxies in the Epoch of Cluster Assembly
journal, May 2013

  • Dressler, Alan; Oemler, Augustus; Poggianti, Bianca M.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 770, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/770/1/62

Semi-empirical analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies - III. How to distinguish AGN hosts
journal, September 2006


Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey – VIII. The observational properties of post-merger galaxies
journal, September 2013

  • Ellison, Sara L.; Mendel, J. Trevor; Patton, David R.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 435, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt1562

Hγ and Hδ Absorption Features in Stars and Stellar Populations
journal, August 1997

  • Worthey, Guy; Ottaviani, D. L.
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol. 111, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1086/313021

Evidence of ongoing AGN-driven feedback in a quiescent post-starburst E+A galaxy
journal, May 2017

  • Baron, Dalya; Netzer, Hagai; Poznanski, Dovi
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 470, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1329

Galaxy mergers can rapidly shut down star formation
journal, September 2022

  • Ellison, Sara L.; Wilkinson, Scott; Woo, Joanna
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Vol. 517, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slac109

HI, HII, and R-Band Observations of a Galactic Merger Sequence
journal, February 1996

  • Hibbard, J. E.; van Gorkom, J. H.
  • The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 111
  • DOI: 10.1086/117815

SDSS-IV MaNGA-resolved Star Formation and Molecular Gas Properties of Green Valley Galaxies: A First Look with ALMA and MaNGA
journal, December 2017

  • Lin, Lihwai; Belfiore, Francesco; Pan, Hsi-An
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 851, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa96ae

The merger fraction of post-starburst galaxies in UNIONS
journal, September 2022

  • Wilkinson, Scott; Ellison, Sara L.; Bottrell, Connor
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 516, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1962

Some Die Filthy Rich: The Diverse Molecular Gas Contents of Post-starburst Galaxies Probed by Dust Absorption
journal, September 2020


A Catalog of Detailed Visual Morphological Classifications for 14,034 Galaxies in the Sloan Digital sky Survey
journal, February 2010

  • Nair, Preethi B.; Abraham, Roberto G.
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol. 186, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/186/2/427

Galaxy Mergers with Adaptive mesh Refinement: star Formation and hot gas Outflow
journal, March 2009


The star Formation Efficiency in Nearby Galaxies: Measuring Where gas Forms Stars Effectively
journal, November 2008


The gas content of peculiar galaxies: Strongly interacting systems
journal, July 2004


Observational Evidence of Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback
journal, September 2012


The Starburst-AGN connection: quenching the fire and feeding the monster
journal, October 2015


SDSS-IV MaNGA: the impact of diffuse ionized gas on emission-line ratios, interpretation of diagnostic diagrams and gas metallicity measurements
journal, December 2016

  • Zhang, Kai; Yan, Renbin; Bundy, Kevin
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 466, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw3308

The neutral gas content of post-merger galaxies
journal, February 2015

  • Ellison, Sara L.; Fertig, Derek; Rosenberg, Jessica L.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 448, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu2744

The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
journal, October 2004

  • Tremonti, Christy A.; Heckman, Timothy M.; Kauffmann, Guinevere
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 613, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1086/423264

The Broadband Optical Properties of Galaxies with Redshifts 0.02 <  z  < 0.22
journal, September 2003

  • Blanton, Michael R.; Hogg, David W.; Bahcall, Neta A.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 594, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1086/375528

Mapping galaxy encounters in numerical simulations: the spatial extent of induced star formation
journal, February 2015

  • Moreno, Jorge; Torrey, Paul; Ellison, Sara L.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 448, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv094