The GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey - I. Gas fraction scaling relations of massive galaxies and first data release
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We introduce the GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey (GASS), an on-going large programme that is gathering high quality H I-line spectra using the Arecibo radio telescope for an unbiased sample of ∼1000 galaxies with stellar masses greater than 10 10 M and redshifts 0.025 < z < 0.05, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic and Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) imaging surveys.The galaxies are observed until detected or until a low gas mass fraction limit (1.5-5 per cent) is reached.This paper presents the first Data Release, consisting of ∼20 per cent of the final GASS sample.We use this data set to explore the main scaling relations of the H I gas fraction with galaxy structure and NUVr colour.A large fraction (∼60 per cent) of the galaxies in our sample are detected in H I. Even at stellar masses above 10 11 M , the detected fraction does not fall below ∼40 per cent.We find that the atomic gas fraction M H I /M decreases strongly with stellar mass, stellar surface mass density and NUVr colour, but is only weakly correlated with the galaxy bulge-to-disc ratio (as measured by the concentration index of the r-band light).We also find that the fraction of galaxies with significant (more than a few per cent) H I decreases sharply above a characteristic stellar surface mass density of 10 8.5 M kpc -2 .The fraction of gas-rich galaxies decreases much
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Low-mass galaxies are likely to be gas-rich.
“Given low-mass galaxies are likely to be gas-rich (Catinella et al. 2010)”
From Properties of barred galaxies in the MaNGA galaxy survey (2019) · cites this paper as Catinella et al. 2010
Section 7.3 reports that the fraction of galaxies with significant H I gas decreases as stellar mass increases, supporting the claim for lower-mass galaxies within the survey. However, GASS studies massive galaxies; this result does not establish that low-mass galaxies generally are gas-rich. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Catinella, B., Schiminovich, D., Kauffmann, G., Fabello, S., Wang, J., Hummels, C., Lemonias, J., Moran, S. M., Wu, R., Giovanelli, R., Haynes, M. P., Heckman, T. M., Basu-Zych, A. R., Blanton, M. R., Brinchmann, J., Budavári, T., Gonçalves, T., Johnson, B. D., Kennicutt, R. C., Madore, B. F., Martin, C. D., Rich, M. R., Tacconi, L. J., Thilker, D. A., Wild, V., & Wyder, T. K.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (DE)
- Columbia University (US)
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- New York University (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
- Leiden University (NL)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- University of Arizona (US)
- Carnegie Institution for Science (US)
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (DE)
- Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (FR)
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- Venue
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2010-02-22
- Volume
- 403
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 683-708
- ISSN
- 0035-8711 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2146374955
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- 15.66
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- journal article
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- en
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- National Science Foundation (0607007)
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Brinson Foundation
- Princeton University
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- University of Pittsburgh
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/H00243X/1)
- U.S. Naval Observatory
- Fermilab
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Keywords
- void fraction, massive galaxies, stellar mass, galaxy structure, gas-rich galaxies, galaxy evolution
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